MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelanthran | 2025-09-20 09:13:05+00:00
> Violence about having an exclusive mate could be a purely cultural construct, reinforced from childhood.

"Could be" is not "probably is".

All the observable evidence points to "fighting for mates being purely instinctual".

The opposite, is in fact, true: not engaging in violence for mates is, in fact, purely a cultural construct.

Culture enforces that, via laws, norms, etc.
by Sophira | 2025-09-20 09:17:07+00:00
> (mostly, I've never had a download NOT work, on the rare occasion I grab one)

A lot of the reason for that is because yt-dlp explicitly makes it easy for you to update it, so I would imagine that many frontends will do so automatically - something which is becoming more necessary as time goes on, as YouTube and yt-dip play cat and mouse with each other.

Unfortunately, lately, yt-dip has had to disable by default the downloading of certain formats that it was formerly able to access by pretending to be the YouTube iOS client, because they were erroring too often. There are alternatives, of course, but those ones were pretty good.

A lot of what you see in yt-dlp is because of the immense amount of work that the developers put in in order to keep it working. Despite that it now allows for downloading from many more sites than it originally was developed for, they're still not going to give up YouTube support (as long as it still allows DRM-free versions) without a fight.

Once YouTube moves to completely DRM'd videos, however, that may have to be when yt-dlp retires support for YouTube, because yt-dlp very deliberately does not bypass DRM. I'd imagine the name would change at that point.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-20 09:17:54+00:00
> In general, I think people are way too casual about media of all kinds silently disappearing when you're not looking.

I used to be obsessed with this.

The way I saw it was the universe took billions of years of concerted effort to generate a random number that represents a unique file such as an interesting video or image. It would be such a shame if all that effort was invalidated due to bullshit YouTube reasons or copyright nonsense or link rot or whatever.

So I started hoarding this data. I started buying hardware and designing a home data center with ZFS and hundreds of terabytes to hold it all. I started downloading things I never actually gave a shit about just because they were rare and I wanted to preserve them.

I think getting married cured me of this. Now it's all moments that will be lost to time, like tears in the rain.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-20 09:19:21+00:00
> Google's Android customers, in contrast, were lied to

They were, but I think for most users this is a sort of technical lie that they don't really care about, like if a restaurant says you can choose one of these four side dishes and when you ask for the onion rings they say they're out. I'm often hair-raisingly stunned at how little concern, or even awareness, people have about issues of privacy and user control.

> Everyone should have spoken up when they first started moving necessary developer APIs into the Play Store.

No, people needed to speak up long before then. They needed to speak up as soon as the iOS/Android duopoly began to emerge, as soon as advertising began to shift to Facebook, as soon as brick-and-mortar video rental stores started to close, and a million other things like that. The issue is that we have allowed a small number of companies to control too much infrastructure that too many people depend on too much. With that power they will find a way to screw us. If it wasn't this it would have been something else, and if there are workarounds or walkbacks on this it will still be something else later. The only way forward is wholesale dismantling of the system that has led to this. Unfortunately a lot of people would rather have convenience.
by andriesm | 2025-09-20 09:20:16+00:00
Yes many of us are surprised at negativity at Grok.

Grok is a top contender for me.

I also use 5 LLMs in parallel everyday, but my default stack is Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT, Claude - same as OP but I most often switch out Perplexity for Gemini. (DeepSeek with search has become my perplexity replacement usually)

Most of my questions don't hit topics prone to trigger safety blocks, in this case I find gemini surprisingly strong, but for difficult things Grok often wins.

Gemini and Grok and Claude benefit a lot whenever they supplement their knowledge with on demand searches rather than just quick reasoning. Ask a deep insight question on Gemini Pro without making it research and you will discover the hallucinations, logical conclusions that contradict actual known facts etc. Same with Grok. Claude Code CLI when going in circles, remind it to google for more information to break it out.

Grok one shotted a replacement algorithm of several hundred lines of code to replace a part of an operational transform library that had a bug for the last 5 revisions. It passed all my tests. Base grok 4 Model wasn't even optimised for code at that time. Color me impressed!
by elktown | 2025-09-20 09:21:45+00:00
This thread is a poignant example of why I think tech folks might be one of the most gullible crowds out there - despite being perceived as smart. It's like a perfect storm of attributes and incentives. So here we are, completely preoccupied with picking apart details and effects of visa programs for a blatantly obvious kiss-the-ring initiative that couldn't care less about that.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-20 09:22:37+00:00
Yes, but all these things will have bad long-term effects. The short-term effect would be payment into the federal budget and increase in local employment.

Even with tariffs, the initial effect was to increase purchases before the tariffs hit. Later the companies started eating from their margins instead of increasing prices right away. So it all resulted in increased economic activity and then increased tax payments into the federal government. However, because this is tax on consumption, it will eventually reduce business profits and personal wealth of the consumers. Meanwhile, Trump can claim that the economy is booming and he is collecting huge tax revenues without any negative effects.
by brainless | 2025-09-20 09:24:42+00:00
This may boost remote jobs.

I have worked for many US based startups, all remotely. Timezone difference (I am in India) is a big issue unless the company is very well structured to work asynchronously.

Companies hiring top talent may still hire with a $100K additional charge but even at $250K - 400K salaries, this is a lot of additional cost.
by the_why_of_y | 2025-09-20 09:25:11+00:00
Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and within 24 hours changed the policy to allow posting the story.

And here we are 5 years later and people still bring it up.
by freehorse | 2025-09-20 09:25:25+00:00
> most users use third party community plugins

Is this true? Is there any source about how many obsidian users use third party plugins? For once I don't. Moreover, obsidian by default runs in "restricted mode" which does not allow for community plugins. You have to specifically enable it to be able to install community plugins, hence I assume somebody who does that understands the risks involved. How many people even get into enabling that?

For me it is not even about security firstmost, the whole appeal of markdown is simplicity and interoperability. The more I depend on "plugins" the more I am locked in into this specific platform.
by Qiu_Zhanxuan | 2025-09-20 09:25:30+00:00
When Nazi Germany was occupying the rest of Europe, it also labelled any inside movement of resistance as Terrorism. International law recognizes both occupation and colonization as crimes. Labeling and merging the Palestinians into a single entity called "the terrorists" is a lazy attempt to deny the legitimate claim for freedom and self-determination of an indigenous populations.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-20 09:25:36+00:00
I've been focused on writing software the last couple of weeks. What is obsidian again? I can't find a simple "what is obsidian?" FAQ on their site. Is it a browser or a node replacement like deno? Or an AI library? Clearly obsidian has plugins, but what are they in service of?

If it's a browser, they should have something on their web site that says "obsidian is a really cool browser." I think there are a lot of people out there who are ignoring the hype-train and it would do the community a service if they just started with answering that simple question. I mean sure, I get it, it's a "sharpen your thinking app," but I'm not sure what that means.
by akumetsu | 2025-09-20 09:25:42+00:00
I was unemployed for 6 months after my first job after college stopped abruptly due to bankruptcy & corruption of upper management. Ended up going back to university to get a grad degree on top, then spent 5 months unemployed after that. Ended up joining a small startup some friends were building, wasn't much fun. Left after a year, spend another 8 months unemployed then landed my dream job through dumb luck. In all of those periods, I tried to cope via lots of applications or lost myself in spirals of reduced social contacts and lots of video games. Worked on some personal tech projects, dabbled in robotics, tried to help write a book... I am very happy with and grateful for where I am right now. At the same time, reading the posts here brought back strong emotions & memories. My heart goes out to all of you searching, don't let it get to you! You are all valuable human beings, and life always involves some element of luck. Plus all of recruiting is very dehumanising and degrading, no-one should be ghosted, ignored or lied to on this scale. Things get better eventually and it's ok to feel down and powerless, just remember you are not alone in this!
by da-x | 2025-09-20 09:26:00+00:00
There are various hardware singletons that need to be managed for this to work properly. This raises many questions.

Which of the kernel does the PCI enumeration, for instance, and how it is determined which kernel gets ownership over a PCI device? How about ACPI? Serial ports?

How does this architecture transfers ownership over RAM between each kernel, or is it a fixed configuration? How about NUMA-awareness? (Likely you would want to partition systems so that RAM is along with the CPUs of the same NUMA node).

Looks to me that one kernel would need to be have 'hypervisor'-like behavior in order to divvy up resources to other kernels. I think PVM (https://lwn.net/Articles/963718/) would be a preferred solution in this case, because the software stack of managing hypervisor resources can already be reused with it.
by nabla9 | 2025-09-20 09:26:55+00:00
I actually have ProtonVPN works fine. But if that's problem for you:

1. You can use VPN only when you need to use it.

2. "split tunnening" You can configure VPN to be used only for some programs, like those you use torrenting programs.

3. You can build your own mini-PC/RasPi "TV box" with VPN, storage for programming, connected to television. I wonder if there is not already ready software package for that.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-20 09:28:42+00:00
It's some evil genius market segmentation on behalf of Pyrex management.

This sort of thing subverts the usefulness of trademarks. You buy from a traditionally upright company, but they just bait-and-switch you on the strength of their trademark and you might as well have bought any product labelled as pyrex.

This is why I like the concept of an "origin mark" that links to a full record of the whole supply chain for the product. Companies already have that information, exposing it makes buyers able to make [more] rational decisions and then capitalism can actually work to improve products.

That said, using the same trademark for different products in this way should invalidate the trademark (maybe UK TMA1994 S3 can be used in this way??).
by bob1029 | 2025-09-20 09:28:43+00:00
Classical noise is only unpredictable if you are lacking the necessary physical information to make an accurate prediction. Otherwise, it is always predictable.

Quantum noise is not based in any kind of physical information in the same way. It is intrinsically random. The "randomness" isn't merely a side effect of a bunch of physical phenomena. You cannot compromise a QRNG even if you had perfect knowledge of the state of every particle in the system over time.

https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/technology-blog/certifie...
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-20 09:28:59+00:00
The first link's narrator blew the whistle to industry regulators on practices unethical by non-vegan standards, something that is only possible if you're on the ground. The second link quotes an interview:

> Basically, I'm an animal lover. I don't take any pleasure in what we're doing, but if I can do it as quietly and professionally as possible, then I think we've achieved something.

I was not at all referring to 'the "I need a job" type of pragmatism' (which would not be moral pragmatism for a vegan); rather, doing a job that involves killing animals in such a way that your presence reduces the marginal harm could be seen as defensible to a vegan.
by bhuvandesai | 2025-09-20 09:29:15+00:00
This is super. I tried signing up, and it worked,an app would be better. But when I was researching about PMF topics for B2C on Youtube, I always got distracted with other of my personal recommendations it keeps throwing. This allowed me review around 6 videos focused only b2c PMF. Absolutely apt for me in this case. Thanks for building this.
by MichaelRo | 2025-09-20 09:31:01+00:00
>> By EOY I had to sell my house, figured I could use the (significant) profits to buy time or I could travel and make the time a little more enjoyable, so I set out to explore most of Europe thinking, well I'll for sure find a job before I run out of money!

Very reckless finance management, so I wonder if this correlates with not finding a "managerial" job.

First, "set out to explore Europe" immediately says "expenses". Without an income, that's teenager-level mentality.

Secondly, unless the house was still on mortgage, definitely it's cheaper to live on your own property and only scrap money for bills and food than paying rent on top of those. Also, and I'm not generalizing here, but people in general have parents / relatives. If times were that tough, I would retreat to my parent's house and rent the city apartment, that definitely buys me time.

And last but not least ... there are blue-collar jobs out there as a last resort. A friend of mine who lost his QA job, couldn't find anything else so he apprenticed as an electrician and now has got a license and works as such. Says he makes about the same as previously. There's "stacking the shelves at Lidl" also, not paying much but at least you're making something. And if you're willing to put up with the hard physical work and risk of accidents, there's always decent-paying construction jobs.

I'd say 2-3 months of looking are acceptable. After 6 months, some "plan B" needs to kick in, including the very mentally difficult idea of letting go of the past. You may have been a managing director but for the moment, the only option could be Lidl employee.
by throwawaydbb | 2025-09-20 09:32:42+00:00
Except that I (and I believe it will apply to many folks similar to myself) working for US company branches located in the EU for a decade, on the staff/EM positions, with education to qualify also for O1 - will not put my life and my family’s life to be the subject of sudden immigration changes.

What’s stopping them from doing the same for L1/O1 folks and locking them in with days’ notice?

Few of my US colleagues that I know are now abroad, and I cannot fathom how they took the news.
by foogazi | 2025-09-20 09:33:04+00:00
Anything we wanted without a budget

All streaming services New tech devices New family car Last minute travel was on Costco Eating out when we wanted to

just normal stuff bleeding us out without constraint - but could fortunately be reined in

Didn’t commit to fancy house, private schools or in general a long term expensive lifestyle

Edit:

Buying “the best” of things: The best coffee grinder, espresso machine, robot vacuum, sports equipment, stuff
by its-kostya | 2025-09-20 09:35:25+00:00
Code review is part of the job, but one of the least enjoyable parts. Developers like _writing_ and that gives the most job satisfaction. AI tools are helpful, but inherently increases the amount of code we have to review with more scrutiny than my colleagues because of how unpredictable - yet convincing - it can be. Why did we create tools that do the fun part and increase the non-fun part? Where are the "code-review" agents at?
by kfrzcode | 2025-09-20 09:36:26+00:00
I refuse to enter into joinder with this discussion, but for the record:

The all-caps name, PYREX, is the de jure, natural bakeware, created of the land (borosilicate). It has inherent, unalienable rights to withstand thermal shock. It is a true vessel.

The lowercase name, Pyrex, is the corporate fiction, the STRAWMAN created under the maritime law of commerce. It is a mere vessel in name only, subject to the whims and defects of its corporate creators. By purchasing it, you are unknowingly consenting to be governed by their rules of catastrophic failure.

Do not be deceived by their fraudulent conveyance. I do not consent to being a party to this contract. I am a free man, traveling upon the land with my original, common-law PYREX.
by saberience | 2025-09-20 09:37:19+00:00
One, Zuck probably practiced for days for this moment and just managed 30 words per minute (which is slow, 1 word per two seconds is really bad).

Two, just try doing this now, moving your hand around like its writing with a pen and see how it feels (without holding a pen). It's super uncomfortable and feels really weird and also looks really weird.

People are really sensitive to looking weird and feeling weird and especially being singled out for being weird or looking weird. Also, there is a huge subset of society now who will not buy anything made by Meta. I think this product is doomed to failure honestly. Happy to eat my words when I see the subway filled with people wearing this dystopian specs.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-20 09:38:32+00:00
> Remote work from Europe is harder in this regard, and from India... would be night shifts only.

I do not mind working all day until I pass out, and I do not mind adjusting my life to a different timezone as long as I get paid enough, and considering that USD > HUF, it is probably a no-brainer.

So yeah, hire me for full remote! Unfortunately traveling is out of the question due to disability.
by Recursing | 2025-09-20 09:38:43+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-09-20 09:39:37+00:00
The idea would be that you would pay that employee at above market rates, so they wouldn't ditch you on day one because you pay them more than any of their other alternatives.

Right now, the H1B system is used to bring over cheap labor, willing to work for compensation and conditions worse than native labor. This is not the stated goal of the program, the idea was to bring over highly skilled labor doing jobs that no-one native is able to. The system detailed above is supposed to be a way to change it from how it currently is to what it was supposed to be.
by pta2002 | 2025-09-20 09:40:55+00:00
Go to literally any private tracker and you’ll find that the vast, vast majority of pirates just do it for free, mostly because they like doing it. And I guarantee you’ll be able to find basically everything, including TV shows, and if you can’t it’s usually a request away.

Mostly the only expense the pirates have is the cost of the media itself, so subscription for the streaming service or the cost of Blu-rays or movie rental.
by arccy | 2025-09-20 09:41:35+00:00
Only if you stick to the lowest level constructs.

Example with Terraform HCL: if everything was just declared as plain resources, you can modify them trivially. But HCL has functions, so people try to DRY their code by declaring some custom input variable, running maps/filters/reshaping it until it's unrecognizable and them generating a dynamic set of resources out of it. There's no way a program can work through the reverse of all the input reshaping logic to e.g. add another resource without knowledge of the custom input structure.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-09-20 09:41:43+00:00
This blog gets posted often but the content is usually lousy. Lots of specious assertions about the nature of software development that really give off a "I totally have this figured out" vibe. I can't help but feel that anyone who feels so about this young industry that changes so rapidly and is so badly performed at so many places, is yet to summit Mt. Stupid.
by saaaaaam | 2025-09-20 09:41:59+00:00
Why do anything yourself? I love cooking. It takes me hours. I could order the same thing from a delivery service or go eat at a restaurant and not have to wash up pots and pans afterwards.

But the process of going and visiting shops, selecting ingredients, chopping, slicing, stirring, searing, seasoning, getting things wrong, getting things right and then sitting down to eat something that I’ve cooked is far more satisfying than ordering in.
by airobus | 2025-09-20 09:43:48+00:00
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by sublinear | 2025-09-20 09:44:12+00:00
> If you’re a nitpicky code reviewer, I think you will struggle to use AI tooling effectively. [...] Likewise, if you’re a rubber-stamp code reviewer, you’re probably going to put too much trust in the AI tooling.

So in other words, if you are good at code review you are also good enough at writing code that you will be better off writing it yourself for projects you will be responsible for maintaining long term. This is true for almost all of them if you work at a sane place or actually care about your personal projects. Writing code for you is not a chore and you can write it as fluently and quickly as anything else.

Your time "using AI" is much better spent filling in the blanks when you're unfamiliar with a certain tool or need to discover a new one. In short, you just need a few google searches a day... just like it ever was.

I will admit that modern LLMs have made life easier here. AI summaries on search engines have indeed improved to the point where I almost always get my answer and I no longer get hung up meat-parsing poorly written docs or get nerd-sniped pondering irrelevant information.
by johanyc | 2025-09-20 09:44:20+00:00
They are not directly affected when applying for h1b but think about it what this means to both employers and students. It's a signal that immigration policy can change on a whim. For employers, hiring foreigners has always been cumbersome and now it's even worse due to the uncertainty. For students who starts working on h1b, you are in "immigration jail" in the US for years