MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asnyder | 2025-08-03 13:24:32+00:00
Opening up one's device does not void the warranty in the US. We have the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which forbids this, despite manufactures trying to groom us otherwise with those void if removed or broken stickers.

Most recently, FTC started to raise awareness and crack down on some abuse: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/....

Will take a long time to de-program and by that time nothing will be replaceable to matter due to industries march towards preventing repair altogether.
by roenxi | 2025-08-03 13:24:43+00:00
> Big Tech is especially good at this (its arguably far more their speciality than technology is).

Well, yes. But that does seem to gloss over the important part which is how they do it - hiring lobbyists and influencing the official regulators. If the frame is that someone is going to be the most powerful force in the market then sure, but the government setting it to be a particular body by fiat just creates a ripe target for corruption.

The history of the tech industry has been one of where if left to their own devices coders would create a thriving and tolerant software ecosystem and the main thing stopping them has been IP law. And a secondary thing stopping them has been government pressure (there has been a bit of a spasm recently because of the aftereffects of, effectively, systems set up to support things like Operation Choke Point, for example).

Assuming some semblance of the rule of law, Google & friends ultimately can't stop someone competing with them unless the government is active in the space the space too. More formal regulation is probably just going to cement their position further.
by rusk | 2025-08-03 13:24:46+00:00
Wikipedia is indeed fine, but it’s been pushed way down the search rankings.

In my day the answers Google would give you would be one and the same with Wikipedia pretty much.

Wikipedia has had its credibility attacked unfairly in my opinion, probably because it flies in the face of post truth.

Anyway, Wikipedia link is a perfectly appropriate response in my opinion but the snark is not.
by fcpguru | 2025-08-03 13:25:03+00:00
Firefox (Mozilla) could be sued by youtube if they allow this. But yt-dlp is open-source code, maintained by a loose group of contributors around the world, hosted on GitHub. No central office, no paid service, no ad revenue. If GitHub takes it down (due to a DMCA request), someone will re-upload it in hours. This decentralization makes lawsuits costly and potentially ineffective.
by swamp-agr | 2025-08-03 13:25:28+00:00
Anti-spam bot plugin for messengers:

- MVP version for Telegram (since spamming is a part of their business model, it feels natural to start with it)

- More precisely, data pipeline for weights and measurements for word frequencies. Think of it as small-language models.

- More precisely, it is about morphological analysis of words across different languages. Unlike Meta with regex-based dictionaries[0], I am porting rule-based morphology analysis python library[1] into target programming language.

- More precisely, right now it is about understanding DAWG data structure by porting it from C++[2] to Haskell[3].

- Instead of introducing FFI I wanted to become more comfortable with LLMs, I am trying to approach their internals (or my possibly wrong vision of their internals) by building small language model based on a corpus of thousands of spam messages.

Links:

[0] duckling: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/duckling

[1] pymorphy2: https://github.com/pymorphy2/pymorphy2

[2] dawgdic/C++: https://code.google.com/archive/p/dawgdic/

[3] dawgdic/Haskell (work-in-progress): https://github.com/swamp-agr/dawgdic
by 9rx | 2025-08-03 13:25:50+00:00
> Given the fact that they're subsidised, I doubt that they're the most competitive crops.

Every crop is subsidized.

> Competitive crops don't need to be subsidised.

Then no crop is competitive, so what is this alternative product that you are picturing? Stones? Who is going to buy those stones?

> then why has the demolition of USAID caused them economic harm?

John Deere's stock price is basically at its highest point ever. What economic harm are you talking about? When they are warning of imminent bankruptcy, then we can talk about there being economic harm. Some people sitting around complaining about something being different isn't real economic harm, just talk. Actions speak louder than words.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-03 13:25:56+00:00
I'm not high IQ low EQ. At least not high IQ. But I do think society is better when it has the capacity to laugh at it's own absurdities. Which also means mocking the establishment as well. In some ways I feel that what happened with the anti vaxx stuff was a serious lack of skepticism about the vaccines, and suppression of the more comical position: these have been rushed and might not be great but it's what we've got and it's probably better than getting COVID.
by thebigspacefuck | 2025-08-03 13:26:21+00:00
Motion control were found to cause higher injury rates than either neutral/stability in this study https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/45/9/715

Matches my own experience, first season of cross country in HS I had neutral shoes and they were perfect, went back for new shoes next season and they put me in motion control shoes which gave me instant knee pain.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-03 13:26:51+00:00
In my country, we are allowed an half an hour break that is not deducible from your work time. It is expected that you need to take breaks in a 8h or 8h24 shift and you are free to decide if you want to take one long one or several shorter ones. Also going into the bathroom is not deducted, even if one day you need 15 minutes to take a proper dump or another day you have stomach issues and need to go more often.

bottom line: YMMV. check your local laws and/or collective agreements.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-03 13:27:08+00:00
I don't understand claims like "AI will solve ___"

Loneliness can't be solved, it can be reduced but you'll never make it such that people just can't be lonely. Think about it, if you can live in a busy city surrounded by potential friends and still be lonely, why will it be different with AIs?

The same goes for cancer, energy, etc. Those are problems we can find ways to mitigate or make less scarce but we can't "solve" either.
by bityard | 2025-08-03 13:27:09+00:00
In the US, the only common use of the word "overtime" implies three things:

1. Working outside of your normal shift hours or days on a non-routine basis to meet some deadline or specific business goal.

2. Working overtime is not generally voluntary on the part of the employee.

3. However, most companies acknowledge that overtime is an unwanted burden on the part of the employee and thus usually compensate overtime at a higher hourly rate. This is partially a reward for putting up with that burden, and also discourages managers from assigning overtime on a regular basis.

One of the reasons companies are hiring a higher percentage of their workforce on salary is that they can ask them to work longer hours and occasional weekends without the downside of paying them more.
Ask HN: I think I might have a brand new idea of internet revolution
by YSummary | 2025-08-03 13:28:53+00:00
I think I have a brand new idea of internet revolution, but someone might had thought about this and gave up or still working on it? Here is the idea—if one can build up a Youtube Summary platform, which might be named YSummary and it use AI to browse each and every youtube clips and come up with a 1 or 2 line digest, with the http link(s) next to it. And this YSummary can be categorized into sections like Sports, Politics, International, US, Europe, Asia, Business, Science, PC, internet, medicine, health,… Then any subscriber just need to join it with an amount near 1 ~ 5 US$ per year and save lots of time in surfing the YT and click a clip wasting 26 minutes and learned that the clip can be said in 3 minutes. He can just browse the summary in 2 seconds to learn what’s new today around the world. Should he gets interested in that clip, he can then decides to spend the time to watch it. If anyone completes this project, he can expect up to 50 millions subscribers globally within 1 month. Ans this person will be listed as Man of the Year by TIME magazine and beat the founders of FB/IG/Yahoo/X/Google. Want to hear your opinions. Thanks
by starttoaster | 2025-08-03 13:29:01+00:00
I think everyone knows and silently understands that the people responding/emoji-ing in those channels all day every day are doing so at the cost of work output, and that there are a lot of people working that aren't typing away about the last audiobook they listened to. I think you've created a stressful situation out of something that isn't inherently stressing.
by reactordev | 2025-08-03 13:30:30+00:00
This is why I highly suggest every once in a while go on a cruise. Specifically a cruise. You’re trapped on the boat. Forced to face the moment, forced to let it go, and party until you get back to reality.

Positive vibes where you have no choice but to shed the stress. It’s worth it. Even a cruise to no where for 5 days.
by resoluteteeth | 2025-08-03 13:31:05+00:00
> You might get the random ultra woke person who makes it impossible for others to have a conversation because they're just waiting to be triggered by anything anyone else says and find a way to spin every comment into an offence.

> If anyone brings up politics then the meetup is over, at least for me.

> I brought up the population issue in a light way (Japan's population is declining), something like making the joke that they didn't help Japan's population decline. He replied something like "anyone who tells you there's an underpopulation issue is lying. The planet has 8 billion people which is way too many". And that was when I knew I wasn't going to continue the conversation.

You brought up an intensely political issue (population decline), they responded, and then you got mad at them and felt like they brought up a political issue?

It sounds like you are doing exactly the thing you are complaining about "ultra woke" people doing.
by tim333 | 2025-08-03 13:32:28+00:00
Yeah, I think from some study in the UK road engineering is one of the cheapest ways to save lives. I think it was about £200k / life. The UK has a decades history of road safety design and the like - I think you can't do these things that quickly. Like it's easy to design a road well on paper but hard to change it once you've built it.

I saw them change the design on the Costa del Sol - the main traffic used to go through town centers - dangerous and slow. Now the town centers are mostly blocked off apart from local access and the traffic goes on a newly built motorway - much better, but it took a lot of construction work.
by Mawr | 2025-08-03 13:32:34+00:00
> So in other words, your city made it extremely inconvenient to use anything BUT bikes to get around. Which is exactly my point.

No, most cities worldwide are designed to make using anything but a car to get around extremely inconvenient. Best seen in the US.

> I guess you have zero kids, and your country has a collapsing population?

Is there anything about kids in particular that makes them unable to walk and/or bike?

The really young kids go into strollers and bike/cargo bike seats.

> My neighborhood just got bikelaned. Now I have a traffic jam outside of my house half of the day, delaying thousands of people for at least 10 minutes every _day_. The local bus now takes 10 minutes more on average for the roundtrip. And all that for 30 meters of bike lanes.

A narrowing of a single traffic lane on a 30m stretch causes all that? That's obviously untrue.

> And all that for 30 meters of bike lanes. That is almost entirely unused because it ends up against the bottom of a steep hill.

Yeah a bike path that's not connected to a bike path network is of zero use. But then Rome wasn't built in a day was it?
by mattmcknight | 2025-08-03 13:32:58+00:00
They were independent the whole time and it wasn't considered a success. I suppose IPO is an indicator they might stay independent longer. Now that they are in the public markets even Adobe can buy a few shares. I just don't feel like the IPO event has brought any particular benefits to the consumer and Khan is incorrectly looking at post IPO stock price bounce as some kind of financial indicator that it was a better deal for the company.
by jalapenos | 2025-08-03 13:32:59+00:00
One thing I don't get, given all the talk that the US healthcare system is like it is "because capitalism" - is why doesn't supply increase given the sky high costs?

You'd think with the insane money the system is gouging out of people, every man and his dog would be trying to get a bite?

Also sounds like buying insurance isn't enough there, you'd have to buy some kind of insurer management service to deal with all the bullshit required to claim
by danielbln | 2025-08-03 13:33:43+00:00
That's what I do. I used to use Opus for the dumbest stuff, writing commits and such, but now that' all subagent business that run on Sonnet (or even Haiku sometimes). Same for running tests, executing services, docker etc. All Sonnet subagents. Positive side effect: my Opus allotment lasts a lot longer.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-08-03 13:33:47+00:00
At work? Sure. Especially infront of your boss. If your friend is a bad cook, do you critique their cooking? Or politely eat some and next time come just for coffee? When you need some government permit, and the person there is playing solitaire, do you say that they're lazy aloud and risk your form "getting lost"? If there's a group of young men playing loud music on a bus, do you tell them that they're idiots, who don't care about other people around them? What about if you have controversial political opinions and work at a workplace where most people there don't agree with them, do you say them aloud? What about at college, if you think your professor is an idiot, even if true, would you say it aloud (before you pass that subject of course)?

Yes, most people don't say what they think in person.

But on the internet, you can say that your boss is an idiot, that the company produces crap products, that you eat before visining a friend, that the government worker at XY office is incompetent and lazy, that peopl playing loud music in public are idiots, that men should have legalized paper abortions, and that the professor has no idea what he's teaching, because his knowledge was outdated in the 80s when he got his tenure. All of that because you can be ghusto here and not "John Smith" with your real name and anyone being able to google you. Or more realistically, even if you're alloed to use nicknames but have to register with your real name, you'll never be able to safely critique the government, because they'll always be able to get your data.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-08-03 13:33:49+00:00
This is why I had to footnote what I (didn't) mean by "overtime". The overtime I'm referring to does not meet any of your 3 implications -- it is entirely voluntary and self-administered by the employee. If there is a better term for it, I would like to use it. And yes, it is only feasible for salaried employees, not hourly-paid.
by topspin | 2025-08-03 13:34:13+00:00
I'm not an artist, so perhaps perspective is the wrong term. Depth could be what I have in mind. In the first drawing, on the left, there are parts of the two cat's both above and below parts of the stag. The tail on the cat on the right is elegantly draped over the cats legs. The few deviations from realistic proportions are deliberate: the exaggerated antlers, for example, are done to fill space.

You could engrave that scene into the receiver of a hunting rifle today and it would be admired.
by anovikov | 2025-08-03 13:34:41+00:00
1XBet is one of the biggest employers here in Cyprus where it is headquartered. They employ the best people and their office is in the best in town, shiny seafront building. One of the biggest taxpayers here too, the top #1 being PornHub. Founders are on the wanted list in Russia but the thing continues to operate.

Virtually all business that operates here is forex (both legal and illegal, while legal makes so little money it's usually just a front for the illegal), illegal trading, betting, "dating" (fake one of course), porn, webcams, outright scam/fraud, and services that facilitate all this like anonymisation, hosting, creation of plausible Facebook profiles to buy ads (literally a large company occupies whole building that does just that, accounts are $1000 a pop and if they don't lie, you'll on average be able to buy $20K worth of ads before they shut you down), chargeback-proof payment provision, and yes of course, also crypto and crypto-related scams (although i have no idea what that is if whole industry is a scam).

Out of more legit ones, there are gaming companies, i see a lot of people who work as addictiveness enhancers or how are they called.

Come over here, this is the place to be.
by mystraline | 2025-08-03 13:35:01+00:00
From the article:

> consumers hate metered billing. they'd rather overpay for unlimited than get surprised by a bill.

Yes and no.

Take Amazon. You think your costs are known and WHAMMO surprise bill. Why do you get a surprise bill? Because you cannot say 'Turn shit off at X money per month'. Can't do it. Not an option.

All of these 'Surprise Net 30' offerings are the same. You think you're getting a stable price until GOTAHCA.

Now, metered billing can actually be good, when the user knows exactly where they stand on the metering AND can set maximums so their budget doesn't go over.

Taken realistically, as an AI company, you provide a 'used tokens/total tokens' bar graph, tokens per response, and estimated amount of responses before exceeding.

Again, don't surprise the user. But that's an anathema to companies who want to hide tokens to dollars, the same way gambling companies obfuscate 'corporate bux' to USD.
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 13:35:23+00:00
Figma's market capitalization as of the close on Friday is 59 billion and change. Adobe offered 20 billion.

Because the shares were sold to the public and now trade at three times what the absolute ceiling on their value would have been, and because everything from early options to later stage RSU equity comp structures will now convert at the full market valuation, the preference ladder and ratchets and all the other ways you can get Windsurf'd as an early employee (sometimes even a founder!) don't kick in, so the rank-and-file equity holder is rich now too.

Future founders now have another well-heeled public suitor.

If you even remotely believe in Hacker News style "tech startups make people rich and this is good" stuff, then this is a grand-slam home run win by any measure.

Maybe time to re-evaluate what you think of Lina Khan's policy agenda in light of data on the outcomes? It's of course possible there is some other data point you have in mind where it went poorly and you keep your opinion. But if that opinion was of the bland "regulation is bad for tech startup people trying to get rich" variety, seems maybe time for a re-think?
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-03 13:35:29+00:00
The good thing about this process its it means such a handbook functions as documentation for humans too, if properly written.

Claude is actually quite good at reading project documentation and code comments and acting on them. So it's also useful for encouraging project authors to write such documentation.

I'm now old enough that I need such breadcrumbs around the code to get context anyways. I won't remember why I did things without them.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-08-03 13:35:56+00:00
both. I live in a world with certain rules & regulations - and so my experiences and individually derived opinions are based on this. There is no possibility for me here to, for example, make experiences and derive individual opinions, like "experienced it on my own, so by that I came to the conclusion...". The handguns and weapons are simply not allowed.

The comparisons to other countries regulations & rules I learn from media coverage, let me derive an individual opinion. This opinion can be contradicted and revised by experiences I may make in the future. For now, I think - it's better not to posses a gun. Even I think it's a lot of fun to go on a shooting-range without years of certifications, which are needed, if you want to do it here. Also, not possessing a gun let the policemen be relaxed on this topic and not to start shooting because of the fear "it might be a gun, one reaches for in the pocket.", for example.

"as an European" is just to express that "I live in a different world with other rules and so my thinking is based on that". It's not an offense. Its rather a framing in the start of an discussions, so each participant already knows the positions and can adjust the discussion-style/arguments/...

Why do you feel strange? You're given the information about your discussion partner upfront and don't have to do the work of finding out, with a possible discussion-breaking argument? How can I do otherwise? Not mentioning it at all would do it, but then I may have to explain why I think like that and not the other way.. You care to explain your view on this, my friend? :)
by nec4b | 2025-08-03 13:36:29+00:00
>> about inequality in communist countries- these countries had much less inequality than western countries.

Maybe some, while others had much higher inequality. E.g. Tito lived like a king. Not only did he amass huge private fortune, he also used state owned means for his private pleasure. I think it was very similar for Ceausescu and other dictators.
by foretoldfeline | 2025-08-03 13:36:49+00:00
GNU Shepherd itself doesn't implement sandboxing, but you can use the least-authority-wrapper to do namespaces. There are other tools to do more comphrensive sandboxing, which Shepherd can use, e.g. nsjail.

least-authority-wrapper: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/src/commit/e3fbaeee1386fd447f...
by b112 | 2025-08-03 13:36:56+00:00
Even softer changes due to climate change are worrisome.

Imagine if ocean currents shifted, which keep Northern California up into BC warmer, and the UK and other parts of Europe warmer.

That's a lot of farmland changed.

The inverse could happen too. Instead of no longer bringing warm water to those coasts, cold water currents could arrive. You could have snow in Norhern California for most of the year, even while the rest of the planet warms.

So many variables.

Canada has immense amounts of bog thawing, and bog/swamp is very fertile land. But it's still further North, which means short growing seasons, and too much sun for some plants per day.

We should be creating crops which can handle those conditions, even if just through normal breeding.

Ah well.
by g8oz | 2025-08-03 13:37:35+00:00
Various western think tanks have been wringing their hands about the impact on farmers stemming from Taliban poppy prohibition efforts. Where was the concern when this was a Western priority?

The Taliban has achieved what a $8 billion 15+ year American-led effort failed to do.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-losing-war-drugs-afghanistan-rep...
by nip | 2025-08-03 13:38:18+00:00
We do something similar that we call « Office a la Zoom »:

Two times a week, the weekly standup is extended by an hour, from 15min to 1h15.

People are welcome to jump in and out of that open zoom that acts as a water cooler corner: any topic goes, from work to personal hobbies, etc

We’re fully remote (US / EMEA / APAC)
by HPsquared | 2025-08-03 13:38:19+00:00
It's balance of forces. The population didn't rise forever, it won't fall forever. Even at 50% replacement that takes decades to manifest. The current conditions (overcrowding and a feeling of 'stress' in the population) are temporary. And besides, what problem is it if there's half as many people in the country 50 years from now? It's more space for everyone else. The Black Death is a historic example; living standards improved drastically after the population fell a bit.