MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cxr | 2025-09-14 16:51:47+00:00
> The more you do this for other people, the more they will be glad to see you.

That's not a given. That's the rational response on their end, but not only is no one perfectly rational, but some people are very, very irrational.

It can sometimes[1][2] be the case that the best option is to be among those who don't attract any attention at all.

Separately:

The spiraling described in this post is worth consideration, but equally worthy are the odd disparities in professional life (or life in general) and the negative consequences that aren't the result of internal forces like paralyzing self-doubt.

Consider an article that starts just like this one, except it focuses on the different consequences experienced by Dawn who is regularly forgiven for things like tardiness and mistakes in her work in contrast to more severe outcomes for Hila, who after arriving late—perhaps for the first time, even—is perceived to be fucking up because that's in her irresponsible nature[3]—even if a sober, objective analysis would reveal that Hila is actually exceeding the expectations one would have for any employee (and her transgressions are well behind the line of courtesy that is extended to Dawn)—for no other reason than Hila being younger or newer to the company.

This can result in a similar spiral of defeat, but it's a kind of defeat by external forces rather than self-defeat.

1. Depending on your environment/experience, you could even say "very often"

2. See also <https://hn.algolia.com/?query=copenhagen%20strikes%20again&t...>

3. See also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error>
by yndoendo | 2025-09-14 16:52:39+00:00
When producing cross-platform software I find creating it on Linux first to be the most cost effective. Porting it to macOS has the least resistance. Windows is where it cost more time and code to release.

macOS, Linux, and BSD treat CMD and GUI applications the same while Windows separates applications. Window's two type of application approach brakes the ability to use STDIN and STDOUT for logging and other useful means. Simple debugging of `./app > app.log` does not work on Windows with `app.exe > app.log` with GUI applications. The Windows variant needs a specialized logging system and more boilerplate code.

Windows also has one of the worst automation system when it comes to solution deployment. One needs to create custom mouse and keyboard emulation scripts to automate the installation of 3rd party applications when their installer does not support silent mode. AutoIT helps me with this greatly.
by walterbell | 2025-09-14 16:53:21+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240304#45241147

To represent one million in finance, the abbreviation “MM” is widely used. This notation originates from “mille mille,” meaning “thousand thousands” in Latin, equating to one million. This clarity makes “MM” a preferred choice in financial statements and reports.
by jug | 2025-09-14 16:53:21+00:00
I initially found this project kind of fun, almost like an art project. But realistically, it’s easier to just use the web. Nothing about the web implies heaviness. If you want a minimalist website with no photos, you are absolutely free to make one, and you’re also free to use e.g. Lynx/w3m/elinks browsers to browse the modern web or the subset that renders well on it. Way, way more websites will look awesome on these in text mode than the content available on Gemini.
by alganet | 2025-09-14 16:53:28+00:00
That's a stretch. It's like saying the right to repair movement has a bonus of making cheaper phones because it introduces a point in which manufacturers can compete.

It's a long set of stretches, actually. People are just using the idea to either side with Wordpress or not, without understanding what it is. It leads to the misinterpretation of what free software is about (which I don't need to explain, since no one is actually interested in it here).
by johnisgood | 2025-09-14 16:53:41+00:00
What else can you tell me about Spectrum OS? Is it actively maintained? Is it usable? How does it compare to Qubes OS?

Also what do you think about Subgraph OS[1]? Although I think it is not maintained anymore, or is it?

[1] https://subgraph.com/img/sgos.png (old image which I remembered it by) (https://web.archive.org/web/20241206072718/https://subgraph....)
by y0eswddl | 2025-09-14 16:53:56+00:00
"most often" is the key point here - can you even remember all the times that people have given you advice in your life in general? I'd be very surprised if you took every piece of advice offered to you all the time.

Essentially a person has to be already seeking and open to the advice in order to receive it. And if they are ready to receive it then they'll likely hear it and do something with it. But more often than not, people hear advice and then continue to do what they were going to do in the first place.

This kind of ties into the "do you want me to listen or do you want advice?" discourse we've had over the years
by Theodores | 2025-09-14 16:54:30+00:00
To complete the test, the website needs an HTML page that is mostly SVG. I think that might stand a chance of getting into the main search results rather than just the image search.

Also of interest for me would be whether SVG description markup gets picked up in the index.

To complete the search of possibilities, having the SVG generated by Javascript on page load would be of interest, for example, with some JSON object of data that then gets parsed to plot some SVG images.

Your SVG graphs are very neat and nobody caring is a feature not a bug. If they were blurry PNGs then people might notice but nobody notices 'perfection', just defects.

I noticed you were using 'NASA numbers' in your SVGs. Six decimal places for each point on a path is a level of precision that you can cut down with SVGOMG or using the export features from Inkscape. I like to go for integers when possible in SVG.

The thing with SVG is that the levels of optimisation go on forever. For example, I would set the viewbox coordinates so that (0, 0) is where the graph starts. Nobody would ever notice or care about that, but it would be something I would have to do.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-09-14 16:54:38+00:00
A few years back I updated my site[1] so all of the UI graphics (e.g., logos, icons in the menus) are SVG sprites baked into the HTML. It resulted in a lot fewer requests per page, lower overall page size, and sharp navigation on any device at any resolution. It works great, though it was a lot of initial work to get it working.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com
by crazygringo | 2025-09-14 16:55:03+00:00
> but I think it is better to look at what is happening from the perspective of of commerce. Anthropic is a business... I suspect the real move here is simply, as it so often is, to hype the product — basically by saying, hey, look at how smart our product is, it’s so smart we need to give it rights.

Exactly this. It's not true, but it's a clever marketing move.
by manithree | 2025-09-14 16:55:04+00:00
Having lived through all this, I highly recommend "The Crazy Ones" blog from Gareth Edwards. https://every.to/the-crazy-ones

The blog on Don Estridge covers IBM's place in PC history in fascinating and extensive detail.

Mr. Edwards also reminded me what a debt Linux users owe to Rod Canion for making the gang of 9 and open hardware a reality.
by WD-42 | 2025-09-14 16:55:32+00:00
Zig really is amenable to OS development. And so is RISC-V. I started this same exercise except with x86 first. I quickly got annoyed with all the legacy boilerplate required. RISC-v doesn’t have any of that. It’s so much faster to get up and running. Here’s my bad zig: https://github.com/Fingel/aeros-v
by mrweasel | 2025-09-14 16:55:33+00:00
I obviously don't know, but I could easily imagine that Apples legal team has flagged it as a potential risk and the cost of keep the certification up to date is minimal, compared to some imagined risk. Safer to pay the fee, and not having to worry about someone at Apple accidentally calling macOS a Unix system in public.

Also, Apple is a huge company, there's the question of who's going to make the call the not update a certification that's negligible within the scope of macOS development. Better to not be that person and just rubberstamp the invoice from The Open Group. If management disagree, they can make the call, but they won't because the cost is to small for them to deal with.
by deergomoo | 2025-09-14 16:55:58+00:00
The difference is you still need to express creativity in your use of GarageBand and iMovie. There is nothing creative about typing "give me a picture of x doing y" into a form field.

Also, "democratizing"? Please. We're just entrenching more power into the small handful of companies who have been able to raise and set fire to unfathomable amounts of capital. Many of these tools may be free or cheap to use today, but there is nothing for the commons here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-14 16:56:44+00:00
> thats problem with 'good theft', its still amora

You may have meant immoral. But amoral puts it better.

From the perspective of common heritage, it’s better at the British Museum. From the perspective of ethnonational self determination, it should be returned to its origin even if that means its destruction.

I personally tend towards the latter for newer artefacts and the former for older ones. (The logic for the people living somewhere today having exclusive domain over something made millennia earlier falls apart if the present occupants may be barely more related to those forerunners than someone on another continent.)
by mikewarot | 2025-09-14 16:57:38+00:00
Ugh... missed the 2 hour window.

Initially I was focused on the training and memory requirements, but as I thought about it while doing other things, it occurred to me that the same things that work for LLMs should work with your idea.

Use an autoencoder to try to reduce the dimensionality of the data, while preserving as much information as possible. This gains you orders of magnitude data compression while remaining useful, and reducing compute requirements for the next steps by that amount squared.

Once the autoencoder is sufficiently effective, then you can try to predict the next state at some point in the future. If you have any tagging data, then you can do the whole gradient descent, repeat for a trillion iterations thing.

The thing is, trillions of cycles aren't really a barrier these days. Start with deliberately small systems, and work up.

Good luck!
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-14 16:57:47+00:00
> The reason corn syrup is demonized is because it is cheap, enabling lots of foods to pack sugar without much cost.

This !

The OP made a bad point using coke as an example.

The actual point is the HFCS and the fact that HFCS is used extensively in the US, often in places you would not expect it.

In bread products for example its common to find HFCS in it in the US.

The Europeans rarely put any form of sugar in their bread doughs unless they are explicitly baking a sweet product. And even then, the concentration is lower.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-14 16:57:56+00:00
Naive outsider here...

The "single naked" titling is a bit misleading, since there are hundreds of these challenging current theory.

But how often are those we do see are replicated in the so-call smear of lensing? Does this instance (QSO1) presenting 3 times create more analysis opportunities?

E.g., the 7.3-hour observation that produced higher-resolution data that checked out as a vortex of hydrogen: would we expect to see the same features in all three images (modulo lensing transforms)?

Reading that preprint (at [1]), it seemed they only used 1 of 3 (image A).

[1] preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21748
by janalsncm | 2025-09-14 16:58:07+00:00
> There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data for hungry experimental models were treated as afterthoughts.

Those things were afterthoughts because for the most part the experimental methods sucked compared to the real thing. If we were in mid 2016 and your LSTM was barely stringing together coherent sentences, it was a curiosity but not a serious competitor to StackOverflow.

I say this not because I don’t think law/ethics are important in the abstract, but because they only became relevant after significant technological improvement.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-14 16:59:01+00:00
I think you misunderstand me. I’m not saying that unsafe should be the first thing you reach for. But if you can’t find an easy way to express it safely, and the only path visible is a time costly refactor, it can still be the most cost effective approach and shouldn’t be ignored.

Even ignoring the practicality approach, there’s a reason you see it in things like crossbeam or zerocopy - not everything worthwhile expressing can even be expressed in purely safe code wether because of performance or purely because the ownership lifetime cannot be understood due to the limitations of the borrow checker even when it is indeed safe code.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-14 16:59:21+00:00
> With the advent of choicejacking I don't think I want to trust permission dialogs anymore.

So you're using a version of Android patched to remove all permissions? After all, in your threat model all apps can get permission to use the microphone and camera, make phone calls, access fine-grained location information, read and write files at will, etc. Frankly, I'm not sure what they'd get out of root at this point.

> IMO if you have the UI layer able to grant root access at all, even with requiring re-authentication, it still already has root access itself and is therefore not sandboxed.

Likewise, surely this applies to any permission system, and every other permission. The system UI controls every other permission in the system; if we assume it compromised, then everything else is already lost.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-14 16:59:28+00:00
If they went in blind, they chose to.

Not giving enough of a shit to learn about… in some cases, seemingly anything, doesn’t mean you get to later claim “oh I didn’t want this, how could I have known?”

I’ve given a lot of leeway on that stuff over my life, and after this last election, that’s over. Anyone who doesn’t get it at this point has raised stupidity to such an art form that they’ve achieved immorality. That’s aside from the ones who just outright want bad things to happen, which is a lot of people.
by GrzegorzWidla | 2025-09-14 16:59:29+00:00
But I need my phone daily. I can’t log in to my client’s servers without 2FA, can’t make payments, can’t do many things that are super important.

I found Jomo app perfect instead. I blocked all apps and websites that are distracting or promote doom scrolling behavior in me. Once I went through a detox I’ve allowed them in the evenings for 15 minutes only when conditions are met (I’ve exercised and walked 10k steps etc.). I generally don’t have desire to use them then but I might have messages from my friends or I might want to publish something myself.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-14 17:00:14+00:00
You want statistics? Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240145.

This does not imply what I said though, it just confirms that more guns does not imply more gun violence.

You did not leave an answer to "If people (thieves, criminals) think "this guy may have a gun", then others are less likely to rob him to avoid getting shot." though.

You wanted to know the mentality behind it, and this is the mentality behind it, so now you know why people say and believe these things. As I previously have said, this probably cannot be universally applied to all countries, but it theoretically could be, especially if we consider the fact that "more guns -> more gun violence" is just simply not true. I have a feeling it is a cultural thing. How come Serbia (among other countries) have lots of guns yet no firearm-related violence? Many other countries have much less guns per 100 people (as per statistics), yet gun violence is through the roof. We have to look at it from many different aspects. We need ask ourselves "why?" or "why that is?", what are the differences? What are the cultural differences?

Just to be sure, I am not in favor of guns, but I do believe in that guns can be a deterrent in some places at the very least, and we know that more guns do not lead to more firearm-related homicides, so theoretically it could work in some or many places. I do not know much about Serbia. I wonder how come they have lots of guns yet barely any related crimes.
by hedora | 2025-09-14 17:00:51+00:00
Yeah, but we’re doing great at avoiding mad cow disease recalls.

Every time a sample comes up positive, we cut the sample percentage by an order of magnitude.

Problem solved.

See also: Tainted meat from Boar’s Head.

We also have the “nitrate free” and “uncured” labels, which means the nitrate (pink curing salt) is called “celery salt” in the ingredient list, and the manufacturer is exempt from federal caps on the amount they added. (Celery salt is the same exact chemical, but with a different production process.)
by shigawire | 2025-09-14 17:01:57+00:00
>that they think that the harm is being exaggerated and that the actual, non-exaggerated degree of harm does not justify putting restrictions on business and commerce

I struggle to find a topic where they don't think this. It seems the burden of "proof" is too high. They don't believe in risks to health, the environment, climate, or even functional democracy itself. They think all are fake and profit is more important.
by electric_muse | 2025-09-14 17:02:40+00:00
Yeah I thought a lot about this.

I was super hesitant at first but thought that this might be the most accepting place of any. For the most part, my comments were getting tons of upvotes and replies and so I thought “wow this is furthering the conversation. I should keep going!”

I wasn’t outsourcing the entire process after all. I moved from asking it to rephrase things I wrote (I’m sure plenty of people use grammarly and the like) to asking it to give me some drafts with a specific opinion and viewpoint, and then I would edit to my liking.

Anyway, this totally blew up and now I regret it. But it was an interesting ride because it really opened some interesting questions about the fact that these were some of the comments I made that the community upvoted the most, which to me is a sign of contributing value.
by kbrkbr | 2025-09-14 17:03:22+00:00
I think it's rather the choice we are given at this moment in history. But I may be wrong.

If you abstract away any other problems and boil it down to environment, health and work protections on the one hand, and restriction of unlimited immigration from countries with very different sets of values no matter the sociological developments that will likely follow you can only choose one.

I just tried to summarize what we hear and see from voters in analyses as fairly as I could, not present my own opinion. If that did not work out, let me know.

But in this case you choose the one problem that appears bigger or makes you more angry probably.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-14 17:03:28+00:00
Sounds good, but grandma will need to disable SIP, run a few commands using sudo, and add a root account from the recovery system. It's Unix in the same way Windows 2000 was POSIX compliant, you just need to reconfigure the default system.

The Linux desktop is widely used all across the world in the form of ChromeOS and, if you count touch screen devices, Android.
by 47282847 | 2025-09-14 17:04:58+00:00
I generally agree but in my experience it becomes more complex when you cognitively decide on one thing (to assume the best), but don’t feel it. How you feel influences how it’s going to happen in major and in subtle ways. Your return friendliness may be received as snarky or sarcasm, or at least detected as insincere, to give one example.
by MaxRegret | 2025-09-14 17:05:26+00:00
It turns out the acidic environment in most beverages inverts the sucrose in cane sugar to form a 50:50 mix of fructose and glucose. In the end, the fructose/glucose ratio in cane-sugar-sweetened drinks becomes similar to high-fructose corn syrup, which is about 55:42. And the reaction is quick: about half the sucrose gets inverted in about three weeks. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
by alephnerd | 2025-09-14 17:06:00+00:00
1. The kind that is looking at visiting Thailand as a cheap way to booze, party, smoke weed, and do other stuff. They do not spend enough money to move the needle economically in a country where the majority of the economy is connected to automotive and electronics manufacturing

2. The kind that try to reside in Thailand long term but don't want to file for immigration, so using various loopholes like the "Visa dash" or paying for Thai language classes with no attendance or requirements to attend the class. Lots of drop shippers are doing this and are dodging incorporation taxes in Thailand

3. The kind that come to only train Muay Thai or BJJ, but don't contribute to the rest of the economy (I'm guilty of this). Living and training exclusive at a Fairtex or a Sityodong isn't percolating capital in the rest of Thailand.

All 3 of these types of expats and tourists are barely spending $500/mo in Thailand after rent or hotel spend, and simply don't contribute to the Thai economy to the same degree the other sectors of the economy are. The only reason those 3 types of tourists are tolerated is because the businesses they patronize are overwhelmingly owned by local politicians and give them pocket change, but aren't actually useful from an economic perspective, because it has depressed wages, and exacerbated organized crime.

Heritage and upscale tourism is a separate story, because the premiums that can be demanded and the wages and skills needed incentivize upskilling as well as building a white money local ecosystem.
by giardini | 2025-09-14 17:06:13+00:00
The libraries in the schools I attended were primarily used to detain misbehaving students in quiet. The public library was much larger and was indeed worthwhile as a library per se. But our school libraries were small and poorly funded. That was fine: they still served a useful purpose.

It appears that today's school libraries and libraries in general have become a means for activist liberal political groups to introduce children to political/social ideas that, perhaps, those children are not yet prepared to deal with (YMMV). As a child I went to the public library for science and they had it in spades. Nowadays the science is still there but the librarians would rather you read something else.

My inclination is to de-fund any organization that pursues a political/social agenda by taking control of established institutions of government (schools, libraries, etc.). If necessary, I would de-fund the institution being abused.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-14 17:06:47+00:00
This went out the window as a viable approach when McConnell stole a Supreme Court seat. We’re at minimum-two justices being on the take, post a coup attempt with the leader of said attempt back in the Oval Office, and Republicans have already declared intent to gerrymander their way to victory with no roadblocks to that in sight. And this is not an exhaustive list of ailments.

You can’t go in with legal gloves and no hitting below the belt et c. while your opponent is bare-knuckle and going for nut shots and headlocks. You’ll just get your ass kicked, every time, no matter how morally pure you feel about it.

Meanwhile, fixing gerrymandering almost certainly means getting Republican votes to do so. The only way to do that, in this environment, is going to be to make them believe their odds are better without gerrymandering, than with it. That means using it against them, until it’s made illegal.