MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-08-15 16:02:44+00:00
Ideally websites wouldn’t specify a font at all, other than cases where that’s a necessary part of the design.

The capability is nice to have—for example, if your website is a coding tutorial website, and you have interspersed code examples and prose, put the code examples in a fixed width font. But it is over-used. For example, why do sites pick serif vs non-serif? Leave it up to my browser.
by rustystump | 2025-08-15 16:02:51+00:00
He, like Elon and others, has become a victim of success and being chronically online. There is no room for anything other than rote agreement with his pov. This makes taking anything he says seriously difficult as it is clear his ideas no longer get a priming pass by dissenting views from his inner circle.

Ycs rep overall has become damaged from his and others behavior which is unfortunate.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-15 16:02:57+00:00
Someone, whether employed or married, being at home every day to faff about boiling and ironing and starching may not explain why people wanted to do that, but it helps explain why it was possible.

Much as I actually do quite like wearing a nice shirt to work, ironing the damn thing plus pressing trousers and running about having suits dry cleaned in the window the laundry is open and I'm not at work is a hassle and if I'm not prepared to do it if I don't actually have to, I'm certainly not going to make my (also full time working) spouse do it for me.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-15 16:03:03+00:00
Cool, but that's not why people buy things. I don't buy a bike for the pleasure of getting to repair it when I inevitably eat shit on a gravel road.

While you're busy ordering parts for your Prusa and taking it apart, people just buy another A1 or P1P for basically nothing. While you're spending 5 hours trying to stabilise your printing plate and ensuring your nozzle isn't vomiting out super melted <weird filament you got>, the bambulabs go haha printing goes brrr thanks for feeding me shale oil it'll work great. If you're 3d printing enough that your printer breaks, you are 100% making enough money to just eat the costs of another printer.
by kbaker | 2025-08-15 16:03:03+00:00
Seems like this is close to the Uncanny Valley effect.

LLM intelligence is in the spot where it is simultaneously genius-level but also just misses the mark a tiny bit, which really sticks out for those who have been around humans their whole lives.

I feel that, just like more modern CGI, this will slowly fade with certain techniques and you just won't notice it when talking to or interacting with AI.

Just like in his post during the whole Matrix discussion.

> "When I asked for examples, it suggested the Matrix and even gave me the “Summary” and “Shortening” text, which I then used here word for word. "

He switches in AI-written text and I bet you were reading along just the same until he pointed it out.

This is our future now I guess.
by jonahx | 2025-08-15 16:03:09+00:00
I think we're talking about two different things.

I'm talking about relationships you have with real people in your life. Avoiding large threats is evolutionarily more important than taking advantage of good opportunities. So if someone does something bad to you -- lies, steals, betrays, physically hurts -- that will generally make a bigger impact, and be remembered longer by you, than nice, helpful, or otherwise positive things they did.

I think you have in mind someone like Jobs, who was known for being an asshole but also for exceptional accomplishments, and in cases like that it is true that history will remember the accomplishments. But historical figures like Jobs are unbelievable statistical outliers. In your entire life you likely won't have substantial personal dealings with anyone of comparable historical legacy. And by the way, I'd guess that for most who had personal dealings with Jobs and were treated badly that the abuse will personally be a more salient memory than his success, even if they are able to acknowledge the greatness of his achievements.
by alias_neo | 2025-08-15 16:03:50+00:00
This gives me a silly idea for an "accessibility" mode, where absolutely everything on the page is invisible to sighted people, but clearly, and perfectly readable to screen readers etc.

I did some professional services work years ago, very early in my career for a public-sector client that wanted accessibility features given absolute care and attention.

It really gave me some perspective and I've tried to be conscious of it ever since; though I'm purely back-end nowadays so it doesn't apply as much.
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by kalleboo | 2025-08-15 16:04:30+00:00
I'm not from somewhere where any of this is relevant so I was really curious why the comment you are replying to was downvoted into gray in 7 minutes (is Lyme disease a contentious issue??) and was ready to post a reply asking why but refreshed before I posted it.

I saw your comment and did a web search and the first hit was a US Centre for Disease Control page that says "A vaccine for Lyme disease is not currently available, the only vaccine previously marketed in the United States was discontinued by the manufacturer"

I'm more confused than ever. Can people stop vagueposting assuming everyone knows everything and just start saying what they mean?
by johnisgood | 2025-08-15 16:04:59+00:00
> You have not posted any data indicating otherwise.

False. I have. See below.

> The Crime Survey data shows that crime in London, and the rest of the UK, has generally decreased over the past ten years

Your own source contradicts your claim.

The latest ONS "Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2025" bulletin-the most recent data available shows headline crime rose to 9.4 million incidents, a 7% increase from the previous year (8.8 million). This is the opposite of the decrease you're claiming.

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The crimes affecting daily safety have surged:

- Fraud: +31% (4.2 million incidents-highest since records began in 2017)

- Shoplifting: +20% (530,643 offences-highest since 2003)

- Theft from person: +15% (151,220 offences-also record highs)

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You're conflating timeframes.

Yes, the 10-year trend shows overall decreases, but the ONS explicitly states there have been "increases across some crime types in the latest reporting period." The current trend shows London getting less safe, not more.

These aren't abstract statistics - fraud, shoplifting, and theft from the person are exactly the crimes that make London feel unsafe day-to-day. While homicides (-6%) fell slightly, that's a low-volume crime compared to millions of property offences hitting residents.

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So... your own data source proves crime is rising in the categories that matter most for everyday safety.

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PS. with regarding to:

> and then it turns out that you don't even live in London, people are going to wonder how you ended up holding such strong opinions on crime in London.

We have the internet. I can communicate with Londoners, visit regularly, read local London news sources, follow Metropolitan Police crime statistics, and so forth. The list is quite long.

By your logic, crime researchers, policy analysts, journalists, and statisticians could only study cities where they personally reside.

Your attempt to dismiss the data by questioning my location rather than addressing the statistics themselves suggests you're more interested in ad hominem attacks than substantive discussion.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-15 16:05:21+00:00
But we must admit that Switzerland does not actually have high speed rail at all. So asking how it would build High Speed 2 is a bit of a misleading question. Swiss rail runs on time but slowly, this suits the Swiss culture which is much less centralized around big megacities than the UK so there's less need to do long commutes at high speed.

The article does agree that Switzerland wouldn't have built HS2 to begin with, and the point about continuous development over occasional megaprojects is a good one. But it goes off the rails when it starts saying like

"They'd have identified core intercity links that are far too slow: typically not to/from London, but some of the second-tier city connections that are extraordinarily slow:"

The UK doesn't need these things. What it needs is much more capacity in and out of the center of London. That's where people actually need to go and go fast. The author seems to think that British transport planners are inexplicably stupid but the depressing reality of British transport is that it's dominated by the problem of moving people in and out of the center of London at peak times. Economically nothing else generates a return on investment and there's nothing the planners can do about that. Swiss planners would reach the same conclusion.

Given that there's already a lot of physical rail going in and out, and there's no good way to add more or expand stations due to the insanely high value of the land around them, that means increasing speeds on existing lines or massive tunnelling projects. Hence, Crossrail and High Speed Rail 2.

Switzerland has a unique solution to this problem of people wanting to work in city centers. It just ignores it! Zurich is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in, and sometimes literally the most expensive, whilst also having a big living space problem. It got that way because the Swiss refuse to do any of the following:

- Increase urban density.

- Make trains fast.

- Build more parking.

- Allow a free housing market so workers can move in. (Zurich is run by socialists who buy up tons of housing to stop "rich" people from renting it, which then makes what little remains even more expensive for everyone else).

This strategy kills the cities and makes life worse for the people who actually generate the economic value, who find their high salaries barely stretch to even a student-sized apartment and for whom an 11km commute takes 30 minutes.
by n4r9 | 2025-08-15 16:05:27+00:00
> women themselves voted against it

Do you have a source for this? According to Wikipedia,

> An earlier referendum on women's suffrage was held on 1 February 1959 and was rejected by the majority (67%) of Switzerland's men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-15 16:06:06+00:00
My current strategy is account hopping and ad blocking. I pay for Amazon Prime but I'm happy to pay less and have Firefox clean out the ads. I've cancelled my Netflix subscription for the third time. I'm soon going to re-enable Apple TV; probably for 1 or 2 months. And apparently HBO Max and Disney+ are now finally entering the German market. I will never pay for all of those at the same time. The more this market fragments, the smaller the pie gets for all of them.

What baffles me in this market is that there is all this unmonetized content that remains exclusively locked up in archives that is still very watchable earning almost next to nothing. The notion of cross licensing content between these networks seems controversial.

Take Game of Thrones for example. Exclusive to HBO. Some people in Germany may or may not have pirated that back in the day. Because HBO was not available in that market and there was no way to watch that legally even though world+dog was talking about that. Now it's old news of course. But Germany is probably full of people that might have payed for watching that when it wasn't old news yet. There are decades worth of high value series that you can buy (in some cases) but not stream. And I bet sales aren't all that great. Judging from the lack of marketing.

In the same way the BBC is sitting on decades of quality content. Same for most public broadcasters. Very hard to get your hands on any of it. Why are there no multi billion deals with Amazon, Netflix, Apple TV, etc. being closed about that content. Netflix is back filling their catalog with cheap Korean action movies and other filler crap instead. And they are cutting the budgets of the exclusive content that made them big.

Another example is that movie studios have been publishing 3D blockbuster movies for about 15 years now. These are almost all very expensive movies that only ran for a short time in cinemas. 3D only kicked off with the first Avatar movie. None of the big streamers offer any 3D content whatsoever. What's wrong with content publishers that they are allowing a good investment to go to waste like that? It's not a technical problem. TV makers have been trying to flog 3D tvs for ages. But without any content (not counting obsolete things like blue ray) there never was a reason to buy those.
by croes | 2025-08-15 16:06:08+00:00
All the small things that affect the climate pile up.

> Water evaporates constantly in from soil, plants, and water bodies - most notably from the ocean itself, which is how ~babby~ precipitation is formed.

And CO2 is constantly released too. The point are the additional released greenhouse gases

BTW we kind of boycott sunlight, it’s called sunscreen
by nine_k | 2025-08-15 16:06:53+00:00
(Repeating for umpteenth time:) I wish patent fees were exponential. Pay $10 the first year, $40 the second year, $160 the third year,.. $10,485,760 the tenth year, etc. The patent expires and goes to public domain the first year when the fee has not been not paid.

This way there'd be enough time to commercialize an invention for basically peanuts, so the small guy won't be dissuaded from doing so. OTOH holding on a patent for a very long time would only be possible if it brings gobs of money, end even so, only for a reasonably limited time, because on 15th year the fee would be $10,737,418,240.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-15 16:07:07+00:00
For horses, the electric fence is a psychological barrier. You understand the shock doesn't do real tissue damage, but they don't. [1] If they value freedom and learn that you can crash through the fence and feel just a moment of pain they will crash through the fence.

[1] I did find out though, that the fence really hurt a lot more when I was standing in a puddle with cracked rubber boots. I imagine it hurts more if you're heavy, well grounded, and standing on four big hooves with metal shoes.
by VLM | 2025-08-15 16:07:16+00:00
Socioeconomic class issue to assume attractive clothes are "scorching" in the summer. They are not.

If your family can only afford one buttondown shirt, one tie, and one pair of nice pants you buy the winter weight because its far more durable (will last years or decades) and you will SWEAT in the summer.

If you can afford summer weight stuff, I own plenty of silky light button down shirts that are far more comfortable and flattering to my body than a thick heavy soggy cotton graphics art lower class tee shirt.

Staying "cool" used to mean being rich, or rich enough to own finer fabrics.

There is also a long term generational shift from people were thin and aspired to look good in "thin" clothes, to people are fat and aspire to look good in "thin" clothes, to now people are fat and don't even bother making an effort anymore. Or putting in any effort at all (clean, no holes, not smelly) that puts them in a high enough class that going even fancier is wasted effort if they already look better than 99% of people they'll run into.
by ravenstine | 2025-08-15 16:07:19+00:00
My understanding is that motor coordination is a mostly separate issue from attention regulation and task completion, so it would make sense that a stimulant would address focus and impulsivity (as well as suicidality and criminality by proxy of those) but not clumsiness. Also, one can have ADHD without being clumsy, but being clumsy alone does not quality for ADHD.

I could be completely wrong, but hopefully that explains my take better. I'd be happy for someone to correct me.
by InitialLastName | 2025-08-15 16:07:24+00:00
In a less "everyone is s**" take than siblings, this could be a number of biases:

- Availability/survival bias: People took fewer pictures in the past and were more likely to be taking those pictures on special occasions (when they were dressed nicely).

- Now that we live in a world of generational fashion, the previous generation's "casual" wear becomes the next generation's "dressy" (read: stodgy) wear.

- People owned less clothing, had less access to varied clothing, and laundry processes were harsh, so they wore sturdier (and heavier) clothing that more easily supported "dressing well".

- "Back in my day, people conformed" isn't exactly a novel take.
by porphyra | 2025-08-15 16:09:01+00:00
Chinese government subsidies aside, mass produced 3D printers are always going to enjoy the economies of scale that are difficult to replicate with kits. Prusa printers are awesome pieces of engineering, but sometimes you can just get equally good results for a fraction of the price, in a much more user-friendly "plug and play" fashion, once you have a million of them rolling out of a factory instead of 10,000 kits full of 3D printed parts.
by latexr | 2025-08-15 16:09:20+00:00
They did define it, and its opposite, over several posts when relevant for the specific point. For example (emphasis mine):

> (…) many outfits in the past looked great because they conferred distinctive shapes — a boxier shirt, fuller pants, short shorts, etc. (…)

> (…) the man in the white t-shirt and fuller legged pants looks better than the man in the blue polo because the higher rise pants lends better proportions.

> (…) I think McQueen looks better here because the t-shirt on the right is just too long. (…)

> (…) their trousers often drape well because they are cut from heavier wool fabrics. (…)

There are more, but I think those get the point across.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-15 16:09:25+00:00
Except the ones who founded the EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuman#World_War_II

Note how softly it is put on Wikipedia, what he did, today. He "was in charge of refugees", not even mentioning the tiny little detail that he was in charge of refugees during the Nazi takeover of France. What he did was help the Nazis detain and deport tens of thousands of French citizens, as well letting cripples and mentally ill people, including children, freeze and starve to death (and worse). Yes he betrayed the Nazis afterwards, before the end of the war, and was let in government ... because there were a lot of Nazi collaborators and actual Nazis left in the postwar French government who were needed to rebuild France and needed to be reassured they wouldn't be hunted down like they deserved.

He is also the closest thing we have to the founder of the EU.

Oh and if you think this is the only EU leader that could be criticized for past decisions, including for killing their own countrymen, guess again.
by Jaepa | 2025-08-15 16:09:35+00:00
Conclusion for those who read the title and read it as an implied negative effect on use.

> Drug treatment for ADHD was associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, and criminality but not accidental injuries when considering first event rate. The risk reductions were more pronounced for recurrent events, with reduced rates for all five outcomes. This target trial emulation study using national register data provides evidence that is representative of patients in routine clinical settings.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-15 16:09:40+00:00
It was a “policy” decision that had nothing to do with the law.

I would think it was just as crazy if the committee had language around they must have an equal number of Black and White members and if one person was a biracial …

If they had a committee focused on women’s health issues surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, should they include transgender women?

What happens in the case where they want equal representation if my mom had a Black father and White mother and my dad had an Hispanic father and Japanese mother?

But from a real politick angle, this was dumb and cringy knowing the mood of the majority of Americans. The job is to win elections. Bill Clinton invented the “Sister Souljah” moment and Obama followed suit by distancing himself from the Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson wing of the party.

A lot of moderate Democrats and Republicans who have no issue respecting anyone for whatever life they decide to live, find that the left has gone too far.

As much as I distrust the police and the entire justice system for instance, I thought the phrase “defund the police” went too far and I understood the point they were making underneath.

It’s the same with enforced (he/him) labels on everyone and having to be really sure you aren’t accused of being some type of “ist” because you only speak in “heteronormative terms”.

If (hypothetical) you want to call out your preferred pronouns, go for it and I’ll respect them.
by hollow-moe | 2025-08-15 16:10:03+00:00
Economic incentives, we already have a system of low/high hours with different prices to motivate people to run their big appliances at times of low usage. There's usually a window during the day and another in the middle of the night. But why implement this whole system when OEMs already connect their devices to your wifi and can force you to use an app to setup custom running times...
by game_the0ry | 2025-08-15 16:10:04+00:00
> Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse.

Yeah, this is how I meant it.

In the case of Sig, it was probably cost-cutting, product management by committee, corner-cutting due to tight business reqs, or some combo of the above.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-15 16:10:21+00:00
Unfortunately what people say they believe doesn't really matter. These decisions are so subjective that nobody can ever prove good or bad intent. And having nice intentions isn't worth much, what matters is outcomes.

The outcome here was the dam was blocked despite being nearly fully constructed, the decision was objected to by the developers who said it was nonsense, the dam builders were correct and the taxonomists were wrong. 100% bad outcome: everyone loses.

Unfortunately it's what you'd expect from a system that allows people who have no incentive to say yes overrule anything they don't like, because if later it's revealed they were wrong they can just say "whoopsie, well who is really to say what is true anyway, times change etc". There's no accountability.
by lettergram | 2025-08-15 16:10:47+00:00
For what it's worth, I run a company in the space --

I 100% agree with you and luckily I think with AI this will rapidly change. The USPTO is bringing on as many AI tools as possible, as fast as they can. Similarly, we've built a product that can invalidate patents at scale, conduct prior art searches in 15 minutes what used to take weeks and thousands of dollars --

https://search.ipcopilot.ai/

We and others in the space are rapidly gaining traction, so I suspect it's only a matter of time. I should also mention there are whole networks out there battling patent trolls (LOT Network) and others working on open source, etc.
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