MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sparrish | 2025-09-10 15:23:57+00:00
I think the truth is we have too many farmers and instead of letting the market decide which ones continue and which ones fold, we subsidise to keep them all going. It's been happening for decades and needs to change. It'll be a painful change but necessary for a healthy farm market where the farmers that remain can produce plenty and get good prices for their crops.

I did some computer work for a large family farm in north east Colorado. A letter from the state was framed and hanging next to the desk. It showed a list of family-owned farms in the state and how many sections (640 acre lots - 1 mile square) each farm had in CRP (Conservation Reserve Program), which is the state of Colorado paying farmers not to farm, and how much money they received. This family farm was at the top of the list, receiving millions of dollars each year to not farm.

I have no pity for the American farmer.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 15:24:12+00:00
It looks like the news feed data is external, not part of training, same as the character sheet data (at least according to the diagram). This makes sense from a design perspective as then you don't need to retrain the model each time the news changes.

When an unplanned result is worth qualifying as poor taste instead of humorous is a debate unlikely to be resolved on HN, but it doesn't need to be to explain why the author bothered to include it when documenting their experience.
by Fraterkes | 2025-09-10 15:24:42+00:00
I don’t think you need to be able to clone yourself to raise a child with broadly similar values to yourself. My point is that I don’t think you can simultaneously argue that the older generations were raised in a way that was succesful at making them responsible individuals (in ways kids these days aren’t) and that that same generation is systematically failing at passing on responsibility to their children. Which leads me to believe these generational differences in responsibility don’t really exist
by jerf | 2025-09-10 15:25:11+00:00
There's a number of little games and a major mod for Skyrim that implements this. I've spent a bit of time playing with the Skyrim mod.

There are some significant issues with it at the moment. One is that you have to train on vast swathes of text to get an LLM, and it's difficult after the fact to remove things after the fact. If you cooperate with the AI and stay "in Skyrim" with what you say to them it works out OK, but if you don't cooperate it becomes clear that Skyrim NPCs know something about Taylor Swift and Fox News, just to name two examples. LLMs in their current form basically can't solve this.

The LLMs are also prone to writing checks the game can't cash. It's neat that the NPCs started talking about a perfectly plausible dungeon adventure they went on in a location that doesn't exist, but "felt" perfectly Skyrim-esque, but there's clearly some non-optimal aspects about that too. And again, this is basically not solvable with LLMs as they are currently constituted.

Really slick experiences with this I think will require a generational change in AI technology. The Mantella mod is fun and all but it would be hard to sell that at scale right now as a gaming experience.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-10 15:25:22+00:00
People keep talking about education cost. By and large, this isn't a cost issue. The lowest performing schools get the most funding per student, and while school boards and teacher's unions always are going to advocate for more money spent on education, spending in the US isn't low objectively or based on per-pupil averages elsewhere.

The issue is who is ultimately in charge of students and who is responsible for raising them (which should be the same thing, but doesn't have to be), making this ultimately a control issue.

Certain people want to use the school system to raise children based on their own moral system because they could be learning the "wrong" thing at home, and other people want the schools to defer to parents' wishes. Most people want their kid to get a good education and otherwise be left alone by teachers and administrators, but that group gets very little attention.

At the end of the day, parents are legally responsible for their children, and unless that is changed, schools play an important but secondary role in caring for and raising them. Until that is widely accepted or changed, conflict will continue.
by gertop | 2025-09-10 15:25:22+00:00
> find out what/when apps are running

How do you do that on Android? You can inspect the manifest to see some triggers, but an app can set more triggers when it first launches.

Task managers have been killed by Google about 10 years ago and it's impossible to see that's running in real time.

If you enable developer mode you can kind of see a partial list of what's currently running I guess, is that what you're talking about?
by adamrezich | 2025-09-10 15:25:28+00:00
Phase was such a cool game! I spent a lot of time playing it in high school, both with my music library and with music my friends and I made. Only a couple years ago would I learn that Jon Blow was one of its programmers!

https://www.mobygames.com/game/30917/phase/credits/ipod-clas...
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 15:25:47+00:00
> I was quite careful to say "Northern Europe" because there are some very touristy places that attract criminals who specifically prey on tourists.

Okay, but then why can’t we Americans just exclude the bad parts of America and only allow you to compare to the good parts?

Why must every America-Europe comparison be about the worst case American cities (usually taken from headlines) but only compared to a select subset of European locations?
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-10 15:25:57+00:00
> However there are large parts of math that are useless in the real world and we don't need to each at all.

The way I see it is thus: life is objectively pointless. There is no god and time will erase everything anyone ever builds one way or another. Human life is predicated on doing work to survive, but that isn't the point of life. Instead of asking how we can only do what is useful, we should be asking how we can do more and more useless stuff while still providing for our bodily needs. Show me a mathematician working on pure math and I see a person at the absolute peak of human potential. I do not resent the mathematician. On the contrary, I aspire to their place. I guess you see one and you think they are useless and should be writing code for an ad company somewhere.

What a dogshit world.
by conductr | 2025-09-10 15:26:31+00:00
No, I haven’t. I guess the feel isn’t my most important feature. I usually buy the latest high end model but keep it for a while. Using a 12 pro still and it’s already starting to feel sluggish so I might upgrade to this 17 version, it’s different enough to spark my interest but I think I’ll need to hold the Air before deciding if I like it. It looks comically out of proportion in the marketing pictures. I also don’t use cases and I feel like this is begging for one.
by iCeGaming | 2025-09-10 15:26:38+00:00
I built a small MVP that flips the traditional hiring process: instead of developers applying to jobs, companies apply directly to developers.

Developers create a free profile by pasting their LinkedIn URL — no resume uploads or endless form-filling. Companies pay a monthly subscription to browse the talent pool and send direct job applications to the developers they want to hire.

The idea is to make the experience less painful for developers and shift the effort (and cost) to the companies. There’s also a planned "Pro" tier for companies with extra features like analytics and hiring pipeline tools.

Here's a working preview: https://preview--pitch-forward.lovable.app/

Would love feedback:

Do you think this could actually help fix some of the broken hiring process?

What are the biggest pitfalls you see in reversing the model?
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-10 15:26:40+00:00
FTA: "While the pandemic had an outsize impact on student achievement, experts said falling scores are part of a longer arc in education that cannot be attributed solely to COVID-19, school closures and related issues such as heightened absenteeism. Educators said potential underlying factors include children’s increased screen time, shortened attention spans and a decline in reading longer-form writing both in and out of school."
by watwut | 2025-09-10 15:27:03+00:00
> kids who will be successful in life learn to read at home before starting formal schooling

What I did read was that early reading is not important to anything of importance, at best it can be a proxy to filter out neglected kids. Whether the kid can learn at that point is a question of brain development and you as a parent wont achieve nothing by trying to force it.
by pavon | 2025-09-10 15:27:03+00:00
As an outsider it seems like MS has been much more proactive at moving away from insecure crypto in other places. For example, there was a while where every Windows release would disable some old insecure part of the SMB/CIFS protocol by default while still allowing it to be enabled for backwards compatibility if necessary.

Are they doing the same for AD? From the article it sounds like it falls back to RC4 automatically out of the box. That is something they should have started migrating away from at least a decade ago - gradually, with options for backwards compatibility to support their customers - but the fact that it is enabled by default in 2025 seems insane.
by wltr | 2025-09-10 15:27:13+00:00
But that’s not like it’s an extra battery, it’s a gizmo that charges your original battery all the time, isn’t it? So technically it doesn’t make your battery bigger, but akin to keeping your phone on charge all the time. I expect it would just help you destroy that original battery, that is difficult and expensive to replace. Add some extra marketing, let them believe it’s some magical device, and kindly push them into buying a new phone when their battery dead.

I want a think iPhone with week-long battery life and the battery being easily serviceable, replaceable and ideally some unified standard one that I can buy from any decent vendor. That would be great to have. I hope we’ll come there eventually, since today phones could serve till they physically dead. If you make batteries easily serviceable, plus no software cripple with planned obsolescence.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-10 15:27:20+00:00
Because who are the profit driven CEOs (are there any other CEOs?) sell their buildings to? The value of their building affects the profit via the depreciation expense. Which is to say the more buildings you have for RTO the bigger the expense-and thus the lower the profit for the profit maximizing CEOs.

From a profit only perspective RTO makes sense only if the cities gave businesses tax breaks tied to business occupancy (the city’s math is they will get some of these taxes back when employees go and spend money in the city). And maybe cities are threatening to stop these taxes back until RTO.

In Microsoft’s case though people only spend some money at the cafeteria-because there is nothing else to spend money on their campus. How big could that tax break could be?

This RTO request from Microsoft does not make much sense.
by Insanity | 2025-09-10 15:27:30+00:00
I'm not sure it's a hot take. I don't learn as easily from video as I do from text, but I seem to have curated my video recommendations to videos that I do like to watch as 'infotainment'.

e.g, Veritasium is a channel I quite like for their longer 'mini-documentary' like videos. And then there are just entertainment channels like Linus Tech Tips.

Not _everything_ has to be micro-optimized in my life, so I don't mind occasionally just sitting in the sofa watching a video that could have been a 3 minute blog :)
by BrawnyBadger53 | 2025-09-10 15:27:37+00:00
I'm in the exact same position down to the Pixel 7 pro. It feels like my options are either to move to graphene os or move to iOS. But grapheneos seems like it'll cause headaches that I am not that interested in dealing with, however my wish to escape vertical integration which plagues tech ecosystems still tempts me.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 15:27:44+00:00
> the LEGO trap of claiming that ‘the yellow doesn’t specify any specific race so it can represent any of them!’ Which maybe held water right up until they wanted to make a Lando Calrissian minifigure

Your analysis is ahistorical.

A simple image search shows that LEGO figures were not, in fact, all yellow all the time, e.g. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.brothers-brick.com/... In fact, Lando's own colour varies across editions. You might also have pointed out that they didn't make Yoda yellow, either.

More importantly: the earlier figures, when they were "yellow", were definitely more subtle shades that could more realistically represent "white people", who were overwhelmingly the original audience (since the toy was invented in Denmark, and we're talking about a period long before the modern political sensibilities around "diversity and inclusion"). It seems clear to me that there was a goal of something like realism for a long time, and that goal continues with licensed figures. Skin tones are just kinda hard to do in most artistic media.

That history also predates Unicode emoji. If anything, LEGO has settled on a specific shade of yellow for "generic" people because of the ubiquity of emoji.

> The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.

My experience strongly indicates that white people overwhelmingly "were fine being yellow", and that there are two clear reasons for it:

* They suspect that not-white people who choose a colour are trying to make a point of their not-white status for political or ideological reasons, often in a context where there's no good reason for it to matter

* They worry that if they choose the "white" skin tone that they'll be perceived as trying to make the same point about being white, and furthermore that doing so may attract strong negative attention, in the form of rhetoric about "white supremacy".

My experience also strongly indicates that both these ideas are entirely reasonable to hold. In practice, the "dark" skin tones are an option that not-white people have to draw attention to themselves (and they often choose not to); the one "light" skin tone is only every used ironically to make a political point. It's well understood that people with a specific range of skin appearance are, for historical reasons specific to one part of the world (which is not where emoji originally come from), not permitted to take "pride" (whatever that means, when referring to something you can't meaningfully change about yourself) in the fact of having that skin appearance, while everyone else is.

And of course, hardly anyone would be comfortable using emojis that deliberately misrepresent their own skin tone, except by "choosing" yellow — because yellow is seen as the default, by everyone. (Because it also structurally is, the way Unicode works, and the way that emoji-selection UIs work. People will commonly see the yellow versions as a failure or refusal to choose, rather than as a choice.)
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-10 15:27:49+00:00
First time I saw this, I didn't realize these were other people cursors, I really though the point was to be an annoyance (some people actually do this!). I thought the movement was random, and that it was a way to make it harder for people to see their actual cursor.

The country flags make it much more clear. Still an annoyance, but now I get it, and I am more than amused than annoyed now.

Anyways, it doesn't work for me on Firefox 128.11.0esr, Debian 11 (yes, outdated, I know, but still in LTS), I had to use Chrome/ium for the cursors to show.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 15:27:52+00:00
People also ignore how these football stadiums are financed. Some with public bonds, others with private agreements with outside organizations. (Looking at you, Flower Mound.)

You're always beholden to the person who pays the bills. If your football stadium is paid for by public funds, you're beholden to the voter (by way of elected representatives.) If your football stadium was paid for by the local Ford dealership who asks for a cut of concessions, well... you give them a cut of the concessions.

People in North Texas seem to trust corporations more than they trust local governments. I think that's because they're familiar with whom they elect to office. The local corporations might be run by sociopathic dorks, but at least they're SUCCESSFUL sociopathic dorks. And while it might seem that I'm dissing North Texans... I'm really not. We may be on the road to neo-feudalism, but at least they know what side their bread is buttered on.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-10 15:28:01+00:00
It isn't a feature, at least not for users. I strongly suspect youtube's autotranslate has more to do with regulatory compliance and content moderation. Rather than having people who speak X/Y/Z languages, they want each every video to be translated into English by default so they can be feed more easily into the the system that vets content. Having translated and non-translated copies floating around is probably seen as a needless complication.

Once a monopoly has been established, the next step is to actively make the product worse in order to either reduce costs or push users towards premium features.
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 15:28:09+00:00
> The effect is most likely to occur when there are no obvious reasons for performing the task. Because expending effort to perform a useless or unenjoyable task, or experiencing unpleasant consequences in doing so, is cognitively inconsistent (see cognitive dissonance), people are assumed to shift their evaluations of the task in a positive direction to restore consistency.

I’m not following you.

https://dictionary.apa.org/effort-justification
by brushfoot | 2025-09-10 15:28:09+00:00
Thank you for implying I'm one in a million, but this just underscores why I avoid ecosystems like Node in favor of more top-down ones like .NET.

When a lone developer is untrained and doesn't follow best practices, as happened here, the community rushes to their defense on the grounds of empathy: "We would ALL make this mistake." But what if we wouldn't? What if we're trained and have certain safety protocols and procedures that we hold ourselves to?

This is why, at the end of the day, I run my company on a more centralized ecosystem, for all its warts. At least there's the promise of standard practices and procedures and training, whether it's always perfectly fulfilled or not. With a community-driven ecosystem, you don't have that: You're relying on the standards of the community, a vague and nebulous group that doesn't necessarily have any security sense, as you rightly pointed out. I realize not everyone has the luxury of making that choice due to career/financial constraints.
by atoav | 2025-09-10 15:28:11+00:00
We are on our third run of tapes now (50 each). Chrome-Oxide tapes can sound surprisingly good.

Our main reason is that people want to buy music at gigs and just offering solitary paper sheets with download codes doesn't really work. A tape is tangible and (for our audience) sexier than CDs and with the download code included many buy the tape even without having a suitable playback device as you observed as well.

For musicians tapes have the advantage that you can totally DIY them much easier and with less up-front cost than vinyl. And they rake less space and weigh less.

Vinyl starts to get economic after after 150 or 200 pieces depending on the pressing plant.
by jitl | 2025-09-10 15:28:12+00:00
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-index-only-s...

This is why Postgres b-tree indexes offer CREATE INDEX (indexCol1, indexCol2, ...) INCLUDE (includeCol1, includeCol2, ...). With INCLUDE, the index will directly store the listed additional columns, so if your query does `SELECT includeCol1 WHERE indexCol1 = X AND indexCol2 > Y`, you avoid needing to look up the entire row in the heap, because includeCol1 is stored in the index already. This is called a "covering index" because the index itself covers all the data necessary to answer the query, and you get an "index only scan" in your query plan.

The downside to creating covering indexes is that it's more work for Postgres to go update all the INCLUDE values in all your covering indexes at write time, so you are trading write speed for increased read speed.

I think it's quite typical to see this in SQL databases. SQLite behaves the same way for indexes; the exception is that if you create a WITHOUT ROWID table, then the table itself is sorted by primary key instead of by ROWID, so you get at most 1 index that maps directly to the row value. (sqlite docs: https://sqlite.org/withoutrowid.html)
by sensanaty | 2025-09-10 15:28:12+00:00
I mean sure, if you take a surface-level look at things that is true, but the Dutch government has spent a lot of time, money and effort into actually thinking about their urban design and how they tackle building their cities for the quality of life of its inhabitants, rather than the QoL of its inhabitant's cars. It helps, of course, that it's a flat country, but just being flat isn't enough, it takes deliberate planning and good choices being made at the governmental level.

What's the excuse with cities like Oulu in Finland, which isn't flat and is covered in snow more often than it is dry? Despite those 2 potentially huge issues, they still have incredible cycling infrastructure. Or Switzerland, where in my experience in at least Geneva and Bern the cycling infrastructure was also superb despite the mountainous terrain? No one's saying you need a cross-country bicycle highway, as long as the dense urban centers have good bike infrastructure it's more than enough.

Also I didn't even mention bikes in the comment you were replying to, I was talking about public transport like trains, trams and buses. Again, Switzerland despite being extremely mountainous has a world-class rail system that literally cuts through massive mountains.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-09-10 15:28:23+00:00
only in theory and that's not gonna be happening

this is the same happening with software and game industry

because free market forces people to raise the bar every year, the requirement of apps and games never met. its only goes up

human would never be satisfied, boundary would be push further

that's why we have 12gb or 16gb ram for smartphone right now only for system + apps

and now we must accommodate for local LLM too??? it would only goes up, people would demand smarter and smarter model

frontier model today would deem unusable(dumb) in 5 years

example: people literally screaming in agony when Antrophic quantized their model
by arcfour | 2025-09-10 15:28:27+00:00
> Another is (perhaps founded) anxiety about their child needing to have a way to communicate to the outside world in an emergency situation like a school shooting.

Yes, a situation less likely to happen than being struck by lightning. Very founded!

Not to mention you can just, I dunno, borrow anyone else's phone and have one or two phone numbers memorized? Assuming if they are in an emergency and alone they are not going to be saved by a phone.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-10 15:29:30+00:00
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I use Backblaze B2 myself for most of my general purpose backup needs. It's actually $6/month, I believe.

Tarsnap fills but one niche in my overall system. It's a very important niche for which I haven't found any other providers who do anything similar (keyfiles, prepaid, borderline anonymous etc), but it's not where I store the vast majority of my stuff.

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