MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by growthwtf | 2025-09-26 01:03:32+00:00
You all need to stop being so pessimistic. This is a great idea.

Want PBS to stick around? Make it so anybody who's sticking on chat GPT gets great answers from PBS and every time ChatGPT scrapes it, PBS gets money.

Is it extremely difficult? Obviously. Will it work? Probably not, very few things do. Is it a great thing that some folks are doing it and trying to make it work so that we can have a functional media ecosystem in a post-social-media age? Absolutely.
by sigilis | 2025-09-26 01:03:38+00:00
“Do this or else we’ll make our products less attractive by not making an effort to comply with your law” does not seem like a really compelling “or else”.

iPhone mirroring was cute when I first tried it, but now when I click on a notification on my laptop and it tries to open the mirroring application I am annoyed. It’s the tiniest version of my phone and takes a while to come up, if it doesn’t fail for some reason. I should turn it off.

The other features they mention aren’t very compelling. I’m in the Netherlands now with a US Apple account so I can use them, but don’t care to.
by Mawr | 2025-09-26 01:03:45+00:00
> There is a major difference between Western Europe and the US: The former has a population density of 184 people per sq km, whereas in the continental US it's 43 per sq km.

Wrong, the population density of a country is irrelevant. People aren't uniformly distributed over an entire country's area. A low density usually means a country is big and has a lot of nearly deserted areas, which is true of the US.

> Moreover, the major cities in the US have more distance between them.

Yet another simple average that has no bearing on anything relevant. NYC is far away from San Francisco? No shit.

> The result is that even if you increase the density in some US city, the people in the surrounding areas will still need cars, and then will come to the city in their cars because it's the only city within reasonable distance of them.

Yeah, that's literally the same everywhere else in the world. Therefore, the argument is moot.

> The subset of the US where that isn't the case is basically the New York Metro Area.

Obviously untrue.

> If you draw a 250 mile radius around Rotterdam, it contains Paris, London, Frankfurt and the entire countries of Belgium and Luxembourg. If you draw a 250 mile radius around Portland, Oregon, the only major city is Seattle some 175 miles away and mostly it contains a lot of trees.

Yay, cherry picking! In any case, now explain why despite sufficient density existing in a lot of places in the US there's 0 investment into mass transit there either? It's almost like density is not relevant at all when it comes to the US, weird.

> And then even though they're the sort of people who like mass transit and build it, the large majority of people there still don't use it.

Uhuh, "the sort of people". Let me make one thing clear. There is no place in the US that has any sort of a half workable mass transit solution, with maaaybe NYC as the sole exception as something that can maaaaybe aspire to be half as good as your average European city. So if you're telling me Portland, Oregon built mass transit, then your idea of mass transit is very different from what that actually means.
by luxuryballs | 2025-09-26 01:03:46+00:00
I think there’s been this sudden realization that the media can’t be trusted (for good reason) but people have been so long trusting the news that now they can’t accept the true reality which is NOT KNOWING THINGS and so they go to the internet to fulfill the addiction to a false feeling of knowing what’s going on and think “this must be true instead” but really we all need to accept that we just can’t know things to the extent that the media claimed they had the answers for, and that’s a healthy and good thing to embrace.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-26 01:04:01+00:00
> At leasr other platforms like X let you reserve a name for free

Yeah, because they want you to feed them content. They want your "engagement". They'll ban your free name just as easily as they handed it out to you too.

It usually takes court orders for domains to be censored. Quite the contrast to the corporations that reserve the right to ban you for any and all reasons including no reason.

> persistent fees to keep your name

Yeah, about 10 dollars a year.

I'm not deluded at all. I also pay the government their taxes every year. If I don't, they will litetally take away the house I live in which is worth several orders of magnitude more money.

We do what we can.
by deadbabe | 2025-09-26 01:04:06+00:00
The funny thing is I’ve never seen a Starbucks so packed that there is no where to sit if you just want to drink coffee and scroll on your phone or talk to someone.

And yet, there’s definitely times where there’s too many people to find a good place to sit and work for a few hours.

Starbucks understands this tension and seems to create sitting areas that are designed for both types of individuals.

Unlike indie coffeeshops which have the same kind of seating for every customer and says fuck you to remote workers if they linger too long.

This is why I just keep going to Starbucks. It’s a rare example of a big corp being less hostile to customers than equivalent small businesses.
by techblueberry | 2025-09-26 01:05:05+00:00
It’s kind of interesting that this occurs that at the same time tech leaders are basically telling us, we don’t need institutions, look we have ai instead of universities, tech will solve all of your problems. I don’t actually think there’s a conspiracy here, but like, instead of journalists raising the standards of tech, tech lowered the standards of journalists, and made us all sensationalist microbloggers.

And yet I wonder with the acceptance of tech and the downfall of institutions… isn’t one of the things people are nostalgic for or made the past so great was basically institutions?
by craftkiller | 2025-09-26 01:05:36+00:00
Yes, if ZFS (CDDL) was integrated into Linux (GPL) then the GPL would need to apply to the CDDL files, which causes a conflict because the CDDL is not compatible with the GPL.

This isn't a problem integrating MIT code into a GPL project, because MIT's requirements are a subset of the GPL's requirements so the combined project being under the GPL is no problem. (Going the other way by integrating GPL code into an MIT project is technically also possible, but it would covert that project to a GPL project so most MIT projects would be resistant to this.)

This isn't a problem combining MIT and CDDL because both lack the GPL's virality. They can happily coexist in the same project, leaving each other alone.

(obligatory: I am not a lawyer)
by aranelsurion | 2025-09-26 01:06:55+00:00
> Apple can stop selling hardware and continue selling service

For a few more years until their former customers move on to competitor's walled garden and become their customers.

> starve said governments of significant yearly iPhone + case purchase VAT

I can't believe any government seriously feeling the lack of VAT from iPhone sales. That's tiny, even for tiny countries in the EU.

Not to mention lack of iPhone sales don't equal lack of Smartphone sales, and grey markets would make an already pricy product even pricier and less desirable because of lack of support, warranty etc.

Other brands will sell, and VAT will be collected.
by hashim | 2025-09-26 01:07:26+00:00
The distinction is consent, and it's a pretty big one, because it's the difference between Microsoft sharing it among their services (they don't need to sell it to themselves) for the reasons outlined in the EULAs, and companies that aren't Microsoft using it for whatever reason they want. You can be assured they're following the EULAs because the consequences of not doing so would make them vulnerable to millions if not billions in fines if only one sufficiently motivated individual, like an ex-employee, leaked the evidence. More targeted (i.e. relevant) ads are really not the evil many make them out to be. Ads in a paid product are also not quite evil, but they are incredibly idiotic and a step backwards. Either way, makes no difference to me because at this rate it seems my next OS will be a Windows-like Linux distro anyway.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-26 01:08:13+00:00
"To be honest, the internet was worse without Cloudflare, so as long as they provide a good service for their customers, I'm fine with it."

Cloudflare not only blocking IA but asking for money on behalf of the website operator, as a "service"

https://web.archive.org/web/20250920180605if_/https://www.th...
by jordwest | 2025-09-26 01:08:16+00:00
Thank you for saying this. This drove me up the wall everywhere I worked that had those arbitrary ~300 line rules as all that happened was code review devolved into "I don't like this code pattern, use another code pattern". While the larger architectural ideas that actually became problematic were rarely reviewed since they weren't obvious when split across 5 PRs often with different reviewers.

Honestly I think it would be far more effective to just review a paragraph and maybe a diagram that explains "here's how I think I'm going to tackle this problem" and forget about line-by-line code review entirely. Other than for training juniors, I don't think there's much long term value in "I think you should use an anonymous function here instead of a named function".

The kinds of things that are usually brought up in code review are not what contributes to real long term technical debt, because a function name or code formatting can be changed in an instant, while larger architectural decisions cannot.

The other thing I noticed is that even when an architectural issue is obvious, there's a tendency to not want to change it because so much of the work has already been done in preparing the PR for review. If you point out a flaw in an architectural decision, it's not unusual for the person to reasonably say "I've just put together a chain of 5 PRs and now you're asking me to rewrite everything?"
by rustystump | 2025-09-26 01:08:46+00:00
Perhaps Americanized isnt the right term. Fundamentally, there is something at play where the more “known” the less magical the brain is. That is, it doesnt have to think outside the box because the box is seemingly fully explored.

Why do hard thing when everyone says hard thing is too hard. What if there was no everyone? Is thing that hard?

I dont think original thinking is going to go away but i do think it will be owned by those who control the all thing which absorbs it from the mass of information.
by axiolite | 2025-09-26 01:09:08+00:00
> if intel's compilers and architecture had been stellar and provided a x5 or x10 improvement it would have caught on.

That sounds like DEC Alpha to me, yet Alpha didn't take over the world. "Proprietary architecture" is a bad word, not something you want to base your future on. Without the Intel/AMD competition, x86 wouldn't have dominated for all these years.
by text0404 | 2025-09-26 01:09:35+00:00
Sure. Crappy headline. I was going to post the NYT one ("Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data: Members of a Senate panel described a haphazard working and living environment that involved transferring sensitive information to servers 'without any verified security controls'") but it was paywalled. Less bait I suppose but it's still pretty damning.
by gyomu | 2025-09-26 01:09:54+00:00
You are a hydraulic system. You are composed of interlinked pipes within which the pressure rises and lowers in order to produce all your thoughts and actions.

You are a chemical soup. Your body is a closed system of proteins and amino acids reacting with each other, driving behavior in order to sustain the reactions.

You are an electric grid. A system of interconnected wires where electric impulses respond to one another in a synchronized manner, from which your life force is derived.
by TheDong | 2025-09-26 01:09:56+00:00
I assume you're vegan?

The amount of plastic in any single consumer device is negligible compared to companies and norms.

If we wanted to save earth, we need to target corporations and norms, not make snarky comments about individual's consumerist behaviors.

Though as I under it it's already too late and we're just figuring out how to live in comfort in an environment getting more and more damaged.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-26 01:10:05+00:00
Below $200 laptops are way worse than what people imagine.

Too many people look at ads, see something that looks like a laptop, and assume it's just a "no thrill" machine that mostly works. I've heard so many "how bad can it be?" hot takes as they've never used anything at that price.

※refurbished is another story, here we're talking about a new and under guarantee device so that wouldn't compare.
by ajross | 2025-09-26 01:10:19+00:00
Both are likely true. It's easy to wave it away in hindsight, but there was genuine energy and excitement about the architecture in its early days. And while the first chips were late and on behind-the-cutting-edge processes they were actually very performant (FPU numbers were world-beating, even -- parallel VLIW dispatch really helped here).

Lots of people loved Itanium and wanted to see it succeed. But surely the business folks had their own ideas too.
by chasil | 2025-09-26 01:10:29+00:00
Unfortunately, NT for Alpha only ran in a 32-bit address space.

"The 64-bit versions of Windows NT were originally intended to run on Itanium and DEC Alpha; the latter was used internally at Microsoft during early development of 64-bit Windows. This continued for some time after Microsoft publicly announced that it was cancelling plans to ship 64-bit Windows for Alpha. Because of this, Alpha versions of Windows NT are 32-bit only."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#64-bit_platforms
by selcuka | 2025-09-26 01:10:59+00:00
For the record, I agree with you. I was just pointing out that "quantum effects being non-deterministic" is not a universally agreed fact.

Ironically, the Copehhagen interpretation is the relatively easier one to grasp. Other interpretations, such as Many Worlds, make it much more complicated. Can we really speak of free will if we actually make every decision that we possibly could?
by 542458 | 2025-09-26 01:11:27+00:00
That's the site owner demanding payment via cloudflare, not cloudflare unilaterally deciding to charge money (as far as I can tell at least).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Looks like The Verge either set up an excessively tight pay-per-crawl policy or doesn't want IA scraping their stuff.
by rapind | 2025-09-26 01:11:50+00:00
> In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.

Just the other day I was complaining that no one knows how to use a slide rule anymore...

Also C++ is producing bytecode that's hot garbage. It's like no one understands assembly anymore...

Even simple tools are often misused (like hammering a screw). Sometimes they are extremely useful in right hands though. I think we'll discover that the actual writing of code isn't as meaningful as thinking about code.
by gbraad | 2025-09-26 01:12:13+00:00
It never mentioned the release of the x86_64 'emulator' by AMD to prepare and test your 64bit development. Or even the Opteron. Feels like it is more story how the author perceived it than an actual timeline

Edit: Looked it up, it is called AMD SimNow! Originally released in 2000. I clearly remember www.x86-64.org existed for this
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-26 01:15:18+00:00
Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity or stupidity. Plus, the enormous culpability and history of megacorps platforming genocidal memetic contagions by failing to moderate hate responsibly. Myanmar for one. Megacorps will continue to obey in advance and roll out the red carpet for totalitarian regimes unless the people organize and boycott until they yield because these corporations have zero integrity and simply drift whichever way the wind blows towards the path of least resistance and most short-term profits.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-26 01:15:27+00:00
The actual words from Apple quoted in the article:

>The DMA should be repealed while a more appropriate fit for purpose legislative instrument is put in place... Despite our concerns with the DMA, teams across Apple are spending thousands of hours to bring new features to the European Union while meeting the law’s requirements. But it’s become clear that we can’t solve every problem the DMA creates.

The headline could just have easily said "Apple Requests" or "Apple Suggests".

I doubt it would make waves if Apple expressed the same opinion about some US legislation. Is Apple allowed to have an opinion about legislation in other countries where it operates?
by user3939382 | 2025-09-26 01:15:37+00:00
They do however have the right idea. Document sharing and applications are completely different things that require different architectures. I like their start with Gemini though I’d bring over non video images and CSS3, html5 tags that make html more intuitive. I’d just strip the browser way way down back basically to what it was with some enhancements and lessons learned. The application part is much more complex though I’m working on it and will share my research if when ready.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-26 01:16:30+00:00
But that isn't new. Housing has been unaffordable for anybody who wasn't alive in the '70 for at least 15 years now. Healthcare has been a clusterfluck that it's been a major talking point in at least six consecutive presidential elections.

As far as the data presented in the chart goes, 'Happiness' is shown steadily climbing for a few years before '23, then it takes a massive dip in '23 then in '24 it declines but at a significantly slower rate than '23. Unless the way they measure 'happiness' is inaccurate and unreliable (in which case this whole article is garbage) there has to be an event that correlates with that.
by mjg59 | 2025-09-26 01:16:45+00:00
It's difficult, because the certification page is part of the PDF so obviously can't include a hash or signature of itself. And you can't just rely on a hash since someone could tamper with the file and just update the hash. A well defined way to extract the signed payload would work, but their design doesn't currently involve any cryptography so it would be a pretty wholescale redesign.
by collingreen | 2025-09-26 01:16:55+00:00
What is the point of this kind of reply? To try to diminish the impression of the severity? To distract? To just make reading the contents slightly worse for everyone?

It's so clearly not the point of the db in the article that there is no chance anyone reads this and thinks it is the same thing the article is referencing. Is this just really low quality trolling?
by pfraze | 2025-09-26 01:17:14+00:00
The specific policy is "We allow consensual adult sexual content, including fictional depictions, when appropriately labeled and subject to appropriate age restrictions. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions."

I can understand why artists who enjoy the non-con kink dislike this policy, but I think people can also appreciate where this policy comes from. I can also understand why other NSFW artists are anxious that they need to indicate consent, but there is, unfortunately, some amount of judgment that the moderation team has to make on whether something is violative noncon.
by extra88 | 2025-09-26 01:18:03+00:00
What makes for good alt text depends on the author's intent by including the image, an LLM can't know that.

Authors can often use an LLM to save time by outputting an initial draft an author can fix.

Readers can also use their own LLM as a supplement, to ask it questions about details in an image that wouldn't be in the alt text. LLMs will get things wrong but are generally good enough for such supplementary use.
by defrost | 2025-09-26 01:18:30+00:00
That depends entirely upon a definition of computer Vs calculator and upon the distinction between "invented" (conceived) vs "assembled and working".

ENIAC (1945) wasn't assembled to for cryptography, nor was the Difference Engine (1820s) designed for that purpose.

Between these the Polish Bomba's (1938) were adapted from other designs to break Enigma codes but lacked features of general purpose computers like ENIAC.

Tommy Flowers' Colossus (1943–1945) was a rolling series of adaptions and upgrades purposed for cryptography but programmed via switches and plugs rather than a stored program and lacked ability to modify programs on the fly.
by lmm | 2025-09-26 01:19:01+00:00
The problem is that you have model everything in a lossy way to make that work. If you want to say that 2 green apples plus 2 red apples equals 4 apples, you have to just say that you have 2 apples plus 2 apples, and you can't then go back and ask what colour your apples are. Whereas in homotopy type theory you can say a red apple is equivalent to a green apple, and that equivalence is a mathematical object you can manipulate in nice ways, but if you ever need to go back and work with the colour again it's still there.
by jborean93 | 2025-09-26 01:19:23+00:00
No idea if the POSIX subsystem used NTFS or some other filesystem but if it was NTFS it probably just used the same reparse data buffer. It's just that Windows only added a symlink buffer structure in Vista/2008. You can manually use the same data buffer in older Windows versions it just won't know what to do with them just like all the other reparse data structures.
by strictnein | 2025-09-26 01:20:10+00:00
I'm just going to believe, for no good reason in particular, that it's actually an alien probe sent to watch our planet after the detection of particles from the nuclear detonations that started in the 1940s. And yes, this is very much influenced by Star Trek and the detection of our first warp drive by the Vulcan's flying by our solar system.
by ajross | 2025-09-26 01:20:13+00:00
FWIW, the headline is spun. Apple is providing feedback for the law via a routine legislative process. But yeah, they hate the law and they want it repealed, and they said so.

I mean, I think they're wrong. But that said... what's the argument here? Apple shouldn't be allowed to say that they hate a law that they actually hate? Apple should absolutely feel entitled ("emboldened" even) to express their opinions. That's the whole point about civil discourse, no?
by exogenousdata | 2025-09-26 01:20:24+00:00
GPT-4 got me seriously considering making a product for school-age kids w/ ADHD. It’d be a physical device (like a StarTrek communicator). That listens during your day and keeps track of a) things you say that you’ll do or b) tasks that other people ask you to do. Then it compiles those tasks and attempts to be basically a secretary. It can also plug into your email, texts & school assignments.

The privacy implications are horrifying. But if done right, you’re taking about a kind of digital ‘executive function’ that could help a lot of kids that struggle with things like prioritization and time blindness.
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-26 01:20:39+00:00
I guess it depends on who the Monarchy is. It was like asking, do you really think you will be treated better under Augustus or the Senate? I bet back then a lot of people would want the Monarchy — after all Augustus won and the Roman Empire was born.

In general we consider democracy > monarchy because good monarchies are rare and far between, so democracy is the least bad option.

And no, I don’t think Trump could be Augustus. Augustus and Caesar beat their enemies and cut them down like chicken. We are more civilized now, but I don’t think Trump is willing and can do enough sweeping. It is only by sweeping away the old aristocratic that the new ones can building a new Empire.