MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hliyan | 2025-09-12 07:01:19+00:00
I write a lot of code myself and am usually against indiscriminate use of JS (so much so that I now recommend old fashioned server side templates over SPAs unless there is a good reason). But for this comment, I was donning my other hat: that of an executive with whom the decision to adopt (and pay for) a product usually rests. The bulk of a SaaS company's marketing budget goes to attracting and retaining the attention of such people, and ultimately getting them to pay. I feel this site does a good job of that without wasting my time.
by __padding | 2025-09-12 07:01:20+00:00
This is a pet peeve of mine - but with a phone with a small display (eg iPhone 12 mini) it feels like 1/3rd of the screen is taken up with ‘menu bars/banners’ between browser url bar/site nav bars/bottom banner i can’t dismiss about talking to an AI

This is even worse on pages like the about page where it feels like only 1/3rd of the screen is available for scrolling/reading text; it just feel totally hostile to browse.

“Please won’t someone think of the children” s/children/those of us with small hands and correspondingly small phone screens/
by acka | 2025-09-12 07:01:32+00:00
- I open the link in a mobile browser.

- A cookie banner fills 95% of the screen.

- No accept, deny, customize, or close button in sight, and no, I am not going to switch to desktop mode or adjust my text size to something submicroscopic just to dismiss a stupid cookie banner.

Sorry guys, but that means a hard pass from me. Let the downvotes rain, but it is what it is.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-12 07:02:11+00:00
That's only one possible scenario, but more realistic and actual is a regular power outage, like the one that hit Berlin the other day. (ok that was sabotage / someone started a fire, but you get what I mean).

In the Netherlands the power grid is at capacity, which effectively means new businesses are on a waiting list to get connected; they do that to try and prevent power outages, but it does imply (to me, a layperson) that it wouldn't take much for the grid to get overloaded and shut down. It happened a few years ago [0], with high-voltage cables getting so hot they started sagging etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9J5D8jzrRo
by lurk2 | 2025-09-12 07:02:25+00:00
> Unlike social media, few of these forums have mechanisms to "like" or upvote posts so there is no reward for posting just to attract attention, whether it be positive or negative.

I’m not convinced. 4chan doesn’t have any of these mechanisms, so the proxy just becomes the number of replies you receive. The chief benefit of forums is that they are smaller. This is good if the original base of users is good, and untenable if they are bad—and they usually are bad. I always hated forums when I was younger and was glad when Reddit killed them. Of course, Reddit brought its own problems, but even in the state it is in today I find it infinitely preferable to forums.
by matsemann | 2025-09-12 07:02:37+00:00
I work for an online grocer, and I really do think it's not really an issue due to two things for us:

* the amount of stock going through one fulfillment center instead of landing on shelves in smaller stores, means we never have old products laying around. The cucumber you get from us came in a few hours ago. The one in your store has been laying there for days and touched by many. 10 stores each need their own buffer to handle variable demand and thus overstock and get deliveries for certain products rarely. We don't. Our spoilage is so so low compared to traditional stores. * anyways, to alleviate the fears of ordering something that's about to expire, we guarantee x amount of days for perishable products.
by otterley | 2025-09-12 07:02:41+00:00
The Constitution does not forbid laws that require two-party consent to record a conversation. That’s what we’re talking about here.

The constitutional view of the 13th Amendment is that it withdrew from government the power to promulgate or enforce laws that allowed slavery to exist. If a slave escaped after the 13th Amendment passed, the government then lacked the power to assist the former slaveholder in capturing and returning him. Similarly, without the power to enforce property rights, there became effectively no property interest in a slave.
by croon | 2025-09-12 07:02:57+00:00
Arguably the initial post was meant to convey confidence and authority on the subject. When questioned you could either dive deeper and explain in more detail why x because of y (if so inclined), ignore it, or... do what they did.

No one owes anyone anything, but if you want to represent something; answering the question more in detail would have either closed the issue or raised more scrutiny, both of which are a good thing when trying to figure something out.

I don't have to trust someone to check their research and look at how they worked. If the work doesn't pass muster, likely the results don't either. Again, you can view it as entitlement, but if you're not going to bother backing up your claim, why make the claim to start with?
by bilekas | 2025-09-12 07:03:50+00:00
> We have all sorts of ad tech collecting huge profiles and yet where is the demonstrated harm?

It's simply down to lack of consent, other tech companies will do the same, after you agree to intentionally over complicated TOS'. And there are examples of collected analytical data being used for nefarious purposes, namely Cambridge Analytica comes to mind. This was collected without consent. Being manipulated and in cases outright lied to into something is being an injured party.

It is an unpopular opinion, but its because it should be. If verizon have a data breach and all that collected information about you is used without anyone even knowing. These things happen, correlating your banking information for example with your personal information happens all the time. A goldmine for social engineering.
by Sesse__ | 2025-09-12 07:05:05+00:00
It's confusing nomenclature, but Postgres' “heap” is not a heap (B-tree) data structure. It is just a bunch of blocks all on the same level, similar to how the “heap” in an operating system (as opposed to the stack) is.

Notably, you can have a Postgres table without a primary key at all, not even an implicit one.

> Based on the limited description of OrioleDB I understand it works like SQLite WITHOUT ROWID, actually storing the row tuple in the primary key b-tree, but I didn’t go read the code

This is my understanding of OrioleDB as well.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-12 07:05:30+00:00
The poor lifestyle statistics seem to be a property of Arctic life generally, it isn’t unique to Denmark or any country with Arctic settlements. Humans are adaptable enough to survive up there but they don’t really thrive.

That is pretty obviously the nature of the environment. You can’t blame Denmark for it being like that, it isn’t a function of resources delivered. No one has ever been able to convert any part of the polar regions into a glorious utopia.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-12 07:05:39+00:00
Typical meme comment with zero substance. The DMA is a competition-promoting regulation which will breed innovation as long as it's properly enforced.

Inventing a substandard product and using your market dominance in one area to ensure that nobody can compete with your substandard product is as far detached from innovation as you can possibly be. One size fits all solution with centrally planned development where one person knows best and competition isn't considered a driver of progress, isn't that a very communism-shaped approach to "innovation"?

I'm not even joking here and it's bizarre that I'm having to promote the good parts of free market capitalism to someone who claims to care about innovation.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-12 07:05:53+00:00
I mean war aside, the 3 day kit is always a good idea - power outages happen, freak weather events, supply chain issues, strikes, or even not feeling like going out which is very common.

As for the army vacation camp, I think it's good experience (same with scouting for example), although there's probably a huge recruitment angle there.

Personally I wouldn't mind a stint in the military, but at the same time I'm nearly 40 and not exactly fit if you catch my drift. That said, the military is also looking for a lot of reservists, people who do some jobs outside of their day job, some in IT security, base guarding, that kind of thing.
by luke-stanley | 2025-09-12 07:06:00+00:00
A hierarchical progress bar service is a cool idea in principle, for some tasks state is worth decoupling from process memory. I do note that the homepage example changes colour without real hierarchy shown though! Something worth noting, is that the hierarchy of an important task of some kind might not be known at the start. It's interesting to consider how to have a great developer UX for managing this. I'd probably want MCP support (or a boring OpenAPI). If someone can show in a few lines how a developer can have a messy process get meaningful hierarchy and progress added to it and it's child nodes, without being overly rigid or SaaS externality concerns, that would be really cool, it could perhaps help give feedback on some very intractable problems. People often don't realise that showing useful progress can easily be a really hard distributed systems problem that a lot of real life systems are bottlenecked by. It's interesting that LLMs might actually be able to help ask questions about progress to help better represent what progress should be shown as, asking about subproblems, helping guide the state with structured decision making etc.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-12 07:06:17+00:00
> And you can also implement that in the US without major constitutional changes.

In theory yes, but in practice I think we cannot. That is, the system you describe is allowable under the current constitution, but the path to realize it is not achievable under the current constitution, because the current constitution has led us into a dead-end which I don't think can be unblocked without wholesale reform.

> The original purpose of the Senate was to represent the states in the federal government

That was a bad idea. There is no reason for organs of government to be represented in other organs of government. That is the dead-end we've gotten into now, because the constitution does not actually give anyone any full-fledged rights (only restrictions on government action) and instead sets up a procedural game which has now reached a stable stalemate end-state characterized by gerrymandering, corporate money, etc. There is no way out because the constitution, in all its checks and balances, provides no direct mechanism for the citizenry to check or balance the legislature. This has enabled the creation of a nonrepresentative government with no way out.
by troupo | 2025-09-12 07:06:35+00:00
> that the law needs to be more specific, such as requiring browsers to work in coordination with website operators

1. The law isn't about browsers or websites. It equally applies to all tracking. E.g. in apps. Or in physical stores.

2. The world's largest advertising company could do all you describe. And they do work with websites. First by repackaging tracking through FLoC. Then by just simply repackaging tracking and calling it privacy: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1664682689591377923
by pembrook | 2025-09-12 07:07:39+00:00
Ahh yes. HN’s favorite debate.

Where people who’ve never started a company or spoken to a lawyer about GDPR, the ePrivacy directive, the schrems rulings, etc but just emotionally love idea of what they think it represents (but actually doesn’t), debate with normal sane people.

All I can say is, I’m getting really tired of this one guys.
by chvid | 2025-09-12 07:07:57+00:00
Do you think the US is going to build railroads in Greenland?!

Anyway the campaign for Greenland is ramping up. And it goes from all the way from weird social media posts, oddly timed attacks on Danish companies (Orsted), huge US "diplomatic" build up in Nuuk, weird "little green men", various statements of agression by Trump and surrogates. And there is a Danish campaign on other side with a silly number of visits by the PM and the king, lots of political wins for the Greenlanders, Danish military build up, French involvement etc.

Entertaining to follow and also with consequences in unrelated fields like tech.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-12 07:07:57+00:00
Consider that if you spend 9000USD on bandcamp you can pass the files on to your great grand children

I've been buying used CDs on ebay when I can get them for ~8USD per album, and buying FLAC/ALAC on bandcamp and qobuz for anything that's hard to find. A couple of albums that aren't streaming I had to pay 30-50 USD for a used CD, Ecstatic by Mos Def, Parabolic by Aoki Takamasa. It's kinda fun to find out what music is "rare" and what music is cheap.

Jellyfin + Finamp is a solid combo, and a flash modded iPod 4th gen (last one with a black and white screen) to play music in the car. It's a good feeling to know none of my albums will ever disappear. (To be sure, albums have disappeared from Qobuz, and now they have a message that says 'be sure to download after purchase !!')

iTunes 12.13 is actually a solid music player on Windows. Ripping CDs works great too. There's no iTunes that runs on the latest MacOS tho, since they supplanted it with "Apple Music". Kind of ironic, but Windows has always been bigger on backwards compatibility.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-12 07:09:18+00:00
Talk to people who read a lot.

There are people who actually "see" a full-ass movie in their head when they read.

These are also the people who get REALLY angry when some live-action casting choice isn't exactly like in the book. I just go "meh", because I kinda remember the main character had red hair and a scar and that's it. :D
by JackSlateur | 2025-09-12 07:09:24+00:00
See the many comments on HN about this

It took an expert and a whole team of software engineer to code "with IA" something well defined, well known, and with already lots of implementation in other languages

Glorious indeed, we have created a new kind of printer ! (irony inside)

(in conclusion, the above post from cloudflare is an ad)
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 07:09:56+00:00
Be that as it may, this is a political rally and not a moderated debate. People don't take these seriously because they're always engineered to drum up advertising over everything else. And that's okay! It's just clearly not a debate.

For whatever it's worth, there are liberal and neocon commentators who are hated for doing this same thing (and rightfully so).
by troupo | 2025-09-12 07:10:37+00:00
As we all know, tracking is only reliant on cookies. And not things like "storing your geolocation for 12 years" https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541

People ranting against cookie banners and GDPR literally never read the regulation itself and they literally never read what these banners are supposed to trick you into
by vaylian | 2025-09-12 07:11:11+00:00
What helix gives you is opinionated LSP support. With vim you first have to add some configuration and choose key bindings. I have used LSPs with vim before, but I wasn't sure which configuration makes the most sense. In addition, helix is optimized for discoverability: You get context menus for basic editing commands and LSP commands. This really helps with learning how to take advantage of the editor and the LSP features.
by digitalPhonix | 2025-09-12 07:11:45+00:00
> This is more of an iPhone / iOS feature which uses the airpods as the microphone and audio output.

Right, so why can’t I connect my non-apple Bluetooth mic + audio output and get the same functionality?

Either it’s an airpods thing and it should work airpods + any host device; or it’s an iPhone thing and should work with any iphone + audio device
by throw310822 | 2025-09-12 07:11:46+00:00
We're nowhere near that, but EU leaders keep hinting that there is a big war coming and we should all be prepared. In fact my impression, as a European, is that if any war is coming is because EU leadership are actively rooting for one and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension. This news is just one of the many examples of this.

The Ukraine- Russia war is a regional war that is happening outside our borders- all we should have done was to use diplomacy to make sure that our interests and good commercial relations with all sides were preserved.
by pembrook | 2025-09-12 07:12:09+00:00
GDPR has nothing to do with cookie banners first of all.

Also, literally how the process works is, any citizen of an EU country files a complaint, and you’re suddenly at risk for millions in fines and have to prove compliance to an incompetent non-technical person to stop the inquiries.

It’s easier to throw up a banner, hence why most lawyers recommend this regardless of what you’re doing.
by Jyaif | 2025-09-12 07:13:20+00:00
It's true that monopolies can invest on R&D like no one else can because they don't have to compete on price. Waymo probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for Google's absurd profit margin.

However:

1/ There are obvious downsides to the lack of competition.

2/ In this case, the proprietary protocol that AirPods use is not revolutionary R&D, to say the least! Any competent software engineer can create a new protocol superior to bluetooth if they can drop compatibility with bluetooth.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-12 07:13:47+00:00
He "tried" to commit a coup? If only. Maybe if he had actually tried it, there would have been an actual reason for this circus. Who knows, he might have actually succeeded and we wouldn't be living under a communist judiciary dictatorship right now.

The real coup was perpetrated by the supreme court itself. Judges have always been literal gods in this cursed land but at least there was a tiny veneer of civilization. It began in 2019 when some magazine ran a damning article on one of these judges. In response to that they launched a "fake news" inquisition where they were the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners against unspecified persons for wildcard crimes covering the whole brazilian territory. Thus began the escalating abuses of the court. They just kept usurping more and more powers until they started blatantly violating the constitution. You could literally read the words written on the constitution and watch them do the exact opposite. By now it's gotten to the point they have their own lifetime praetorian guard to protect them, and they have usurped numerous functions of the government. Not a single brazilian voted for these judges, yet they walk all over our senate and legislators by basically making things up as they go along.

Pity this "coup attempt" never actually materialized. More of a counter-coup really. It's just comical to watch Bolsonaro be judged for something he was too much of a coward to pull off. Dude was chilling in Florida while the judge-kings were sentencing everyone who ever supported him to 15+ years in prison for the "coup attempt".
by alternatex | 2025-09-12 07:14:32+00:00
Perhaps the amount of JavaScript used in a website is not a contributing factor into how usable a person finds it /s.

Honestly, you don't judge a back-end by how much code it's built with or what platform it's hosted on. I don't get the obsession people have with JavaScript used on websites. Websites with terrible UX often abuse JavaScript yes, but correlation != causation.
by mrob | 2025-09-12 07:15:48+00:00
It's much less important for VGA games than for console games. Most used 320x200 resolution, which was line-doubled to 320x400 then displayed on a monitor capable of at least 640x480, so you had distinct and moderately sharp pixels. The monitor was natively progressive scan, so you didn't get the exaggerated spacing between scan lines that you got on consoles using non-standard field timing to force 240p on a 480i TV. And the refresh rate at this resolution was 70Hz, but very few games ran at 70fps, so you lost most of the benefit of the low persistence of CRTs.
by musjleman | 2025-09-12 07:16:42+00:00
I'm pretty sure it's just a small mistake in the article on the exact syscall used to query the token information.

Checked a kernel from November 2024 vs a current one and from I can tell, this used to be the actual mechanism the exploit worked:

Thread #1 looping NtQueryInformationToken(TokenAccessInformation, InfoBuffer); Thread #2 looping Ptr = *(InfoBuffer + SidHashOffset); if (IsValidCanonicalKernelPtr(Ptr)) done
by nake89 | 2025-09-12 07:16:42+00:00
> What about if a person can't support their child at that time in their life and they don't have a support system to help them?

I think a pro-lifer would say that intentionally terminating a human being would still be wrong. I have a very hard time disagreeing with them on that.

> What if the birth will kill the mother? To my knowledge the vast majority of abortions are not because of this and all pro-lifers I know would be in favor of saving the mother. Most are for "convenience" and that is what pro-lifers are against. Again, I have a hard time disagreeing with them on this topic as well.
by maxbond | 2025-09-12 07:16:49+00:00
It's not doublethink any time there's a misnomer. It doesn't require an active effort of cognitive dissonance. It's not a manipulation or a conspiracy. You don't have to get the severance operation to use an FaaS offering.

Serverless eliminates the management of servers; the name is meaningful and directionally aligned with what the thing does, even if it can cause confusion when you first encounter the topic.

That doesn't mean it isn't a bad name. But it is not comparable to the Ministry of Plenty deliberately causing famine. "Famine" and "plenty" are directionally opposed and so require dissonance to maintain. "Serverless" and "abstracting resources provided by servers so that you can focus on application logic rather than managing physical or virtual machines" are not opposed and only require learning the terminology. There's no active, ongoing effort to deliberately maintain cognitive dissonance.

Unless you find yourself in a situation where you have that queasy feeling of being gaslit or having to actively push thoughts out of your head to continue operating under premises you know are false, no, it is not doublethink.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-12 07:17:13+00:00
Sure but Paris at 3.8 is twice that of San Francisco at 1.7 so SF is so much better and that’s with the stricter definition of counting deaths after 20 weeks as infants instead of excluding all younger than 22 weeks gestation like France does. It’s why I live here and had my child here.

https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/serie/001745304

https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/294/infant-mortality/table#fm...
by Tor3 | 2025-09-12 07:17:23+00:00
I read an interview with a bunch of different young people. They all basically said "I just click 'yes' or 'accept' automatically". It sounded like they all believed that this was something they had to do in order to get to the content.

Bad implementation of the EU law indeed, as another comment said. It fails the purpose completely and just create more problems for nearly everyone.