MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-09-10 16:36:20+00:00
Ultimately it comes down to the utter lack of accountability we've had for decades. Our system has been rotting, the elites claim everything is fine as they look at the numbers, especially their own numbers, go up up up. The average person's frustrations have built up to the point that people just want to see other people hurt for a semblance of accountability. See the outpouring of support for Luigi.

So then along comes a new demagogue, covers his face in orange makeup to signal he's not part of that elite ingroup, talks like he's mentally handicapped to make it seem like he lacks the capacity to lie, and claims to care about the plights of the common person. All the things that politicians previously wouldn't talk about, rightly or wrongly. "This one is different, and he really hears us!". But then rather than any sort of reform, he merely directs that anger at other powerless scapegoats - a series of revolving spectacles that leave supporters with no time for it to set in just how much they're being had, or the wide trail of societal damage in his wake.

I keep waiting for even half these people who claim to care about the Constitution and individual liberty to realize how their country is being mortally wounded. How every day they waffle and continue give this societal arsonist a pass, how much worse off our country will be. But being eternally hopeful that people will come around to seeing the truth is one of my personal flaws. So the cynical part of me is just waiting for Trump to start supporting gun control again.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-10 16:36:33+00:00
This is a cool project, and I hope he has fun with it.

I've daydreamed about how I'd create my own search engine so, so many times. But I always run into an impassable wall: The internet now isn't at all the same as the internet in 1999.

Discovery isn't really that useful. If you find someone's self-hosted blog about dinosaurs, it probably hasn't been updated since 2004, all the links and images are broken, and it's just thoroughly upstaged by Wikipedia and the Smithsonian. Sure, it's fun to find these quirky sites, but they aren't as valuable as they once were.

We've basically come full circle to the AOL model, where there are "hubs" of content that cater to specific categories. YouTube has ALL the long-form essays. Tiktok has ALL the humorous videos. Medium has ALL the opinion pieces. Reddit has ALL the flame wars. Mayo Clinic has ALL the drug side-effects. Amazon has ALL the shopping. Ebay has ALL the collectables.

None of these big companies want nasty little web crawlers poking and prodding their site. But they accept Google crawlers, because Google brings them users. Are they going to be that friendly to your crawler?

Of course, I still dream. Maybe a hub-based internet needs a hub-aware search engine?
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 16:36:37+00:00
> There are so very many opportunities for a better surface transport system than buses. Dynamic routing and scheduling, capacity somewhere between a city bus and a taxi, and potentially better economies of scale all make this far more appealing than what exists today.

Anyone who knows something about transit already knows this is false. the idea has been tried and failed for hundreds of years. What people want is predictable transit that is there when they want to go and gets people places in a reasonable amount of time. Nobody cares about other stops.

People hate dynamic routing because it means they never arrive at the same time and in turn they can't use transit at all unless they plan to arrive way too early. Most trips are time sensitive, that isn't just the trip time, but also they have to be someplace at a specific time.

People hate dynamic scheduling because it means they can't take spontaneous trips. They can't be late for their planned trip. They will miss the bus once in a while because something didn't go to plan.

What people want is predictable routes that run so often they don't need to look at a schedule. They can figure out how to navigate it. Places people want to be will figure out those routes and location where it is easy to get to.

Okay, what people really want is Star Trek style teleportation. The point is to be someplace fast, not the journey. This is impossible though, so we compromise. the best compromise for transit is frequent systems that run predictable routes.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-10 16:36:39+00:00
> I could watch an hour long fast paced video just fine, but watching a slow paced show, or reading a book is so much more difficult.

Attention and concentration are skills that can be trained, so not all is lost. I was feeling like I was losing my focus about a decade ago and decided that every morning I'd wake up and read a novel for 30 minutes or so. Within a few weeks you'll notice the difference.
by mulmen | 2025-09-10 16:36:46+00:00
> Shouldn't we trust that the execs

No.

> can see productivity metrics that aren't available to the public

I am an employee of a company claiming my productivity is higher in the office. Nobody has ever shown me anything even remotely resembling a productivity metric. They haven’t even tried.

Productivity metrics are a holy grail. If any company created one that works they’d be bragging about it endlessly to shareholders and correlating it with the enormous profits they’d be generating.

If they have one that works I’d like to see it so I can use it to measure changes in my daily habits and further increase my productivity.

Since they can’t articulate this metric at all I can only conclude that it doesn’t exist.

With how contentious RTO has been why haven’t the advocates published data on how big of a boost it has been to their KPIs?

> Unless you think all RTO is a conspiracy.

It’s possible RTO is just regular old incompetence. No need for conspiracy theories.
by kshacker | 2025-09-10 16:36:58+00:00
I am traveling to India and unfortunately "our services are not available in your country or region". And a few months back we were all singing "oh wen ji" (really badly paraphrased) on RedNote when TikTok was already down pending reinstatement by Trump.

Point being TikTok js a winner in a slice of the population. I just stopped following the bunch of Indian folks even though they had an Instagram or reel account because I just could not get used to it. Similarly I followed a few people on rednote but promptly abandoned it when TT came back. So maybe TT won. But look at it from the other side. People in India and China don't follow what I follow. And there are billions of those.

TikTok is an awesome platform but not yet a "too big to fail" like YouTube I guess

Edit. But I get the point of 60 second media winning. Nowadays I am just unable to focus on a tv show. Or I am watching a show with some digression (Reddit, tiktok) in my hand. Theaters is the only place I am unable to do so and that's the only place I now enjoy movies I guess.
by paulnpace | 2025-09-10 16:37:27+00:00
I now see their development vehicles all over the valley, whereas previously if I was near the Strip that's the only region I would see them in.

This valley has congestion issues pretty much all day everywhere, plus a traffic light management protocol that results in very long light cycles.

Many of us when coming to a red light where there are multiple lanes and traffic is light, will make a point to not stop in the right lane when there is no right turn only lane. This is so people who are making a right turn can make a right on red instead of waiting for a green.

Zoox does not do this.

Sometimes there is not quite enough space between vehicles to get into a lane while cars are stopped at a light, such as getting into a left turn lane. Often, some light taps on the horn (or even just sitting with the turn signal) will result in drivers pushing up tight to let you into the left turn lane.

Zoox does not do this.

Zoox will change lanes many times for no apparent reason, making drivers think it is turning right or left at the next intersection, but it does not turn.

As best I can tell, Zoox has issues with pedestrians. I think that the operator (in the test vehicle) takes over when pedestrians are present, because so far I always see them operating the steering wheel when there are pedestrians.

As a driver, I don't like any of the automated drivers because I feel there is a thing that can do serious damage and nobody is accountable. These are all owned by corporations whose sole accountability will be financial, nothing more, while drivers are held to both financial a punitive accountability.

Further, these are all mega-conglomerates for whom there is no real regard for the destruction their property causes. They are politically connected, so will never lose their operating license. The are funded by the largest investors mankind has ever known. Nobody in these organizations has any respect for morals or ethics, instead fostering a system that promotes psychopaths.

I don't want them here. I haven't spoken to anyone who lives here that wants them here.
by chrisweekly | 2025-09-10 16:37:58+00:00
Interesting take. I respectfully differ. IIRC, Feynman said something akin to my POV:

Brains are for thinking. Documents / PKM systems / tools are for remembering.

IOW: take notes, write things down.

FWIW I have a degree in cognitive psychology (psychobiology, neuroanatomy, human perception) and am an amateur neuroscientist. Somewhat familiar w/ the brain. :)
by streptomycin | 2025-09-10 16:38:12+00:00
I can't imagine that a book written by a misogynistic author with explicit themes of female submission to male authority obtained by use or threats of physical violence would be particularly appealing to women in general

Are you familiar with romance novels? Which gender do you think is reading stuff like https://www.amazon.com/Morning-Glory-Milking-Cambric-Creek-e...
by AlienRobot | 2025-09-10 16:39:00+00:00
The problem is that video quality increased to meet availability.

In the past 480p would be okay. Now everyone wants 4k.

In fact, in the past IMAGES were normal. Imgur was an image website. Now everything is about short videos. Even memes are now videos.

I'm pretty sure if we make Internet faster and storage cheaper, we'll also invent a new sort of media to waste that speed and storage.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-10 16:39:07+00:00
:eyeroll:

I use logs and printf. But printf is a tool of last resort, not first. Debugging consideration #1 is “attach debugger”.

I think the root issue is that most people on HN are Linux bash jockeys and Linux doesn’t have a good debugger. GDB/LLDB CLI are poop. Hopefully RadDebugger is good someday. RadDbg and Superluminal would go a long long way to improving the poor Linux dev environment.
by mmh0000 | 2025-09-10 16:39:28+00:00
Tarsnap seems very expensive.

I'm backing up about 8TiB of data nightly using BorgBackup[0] + InterServer[1] and pay $240/yr.

This gives me differential encrypted rotating backups that are 100% mine and do not lock me into any specific storage vendor.

[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[1] https://www.interserver.net/storage/
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-10 16:39:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVdR8mJrds

The Making of Vampire Survivors by noclip.

Vintage inspired with the game choice, not straight vintage, but noclip is one of the best doing game documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmcbShMFNY

The Story of Thief & Looking Glass Studios, also by noclip.

As vintage as they come.
by danenania | 2025-09-10 16:39:39+00:00
I'd actually say that you end up needing to think more in the first example.

Because as soon as you realize that the output doesn't do exactly what you need, or has a bug, or needs to be extended (and has gotten beyond the complexity that AI can successfully update), you now need to read and deeply understand a bunch of code that you didn't write before you can move forward.

I think it can actually be fine to do this, just to see what gets generated as part of the brainstorming process, but you need to be willing to immediately delete all the code. If you find yourself reading through thousands of lines of AI-generated code, trying to understand what it's doing, it's likely that you're wasting a lot of time.

The final prompt/spec should be so clear and detailed that 100% of the generated code is as immediately comprehensible as if you'd written it yourself. If that's not the case, delete everything and return to planning mode.
by mattnewton | 2025-09-10 16:39:51+00:00
The criticism is more that the money on football doesn’t show up in test scores, not that it harms test scores, and the believe that their tax dollars would be better spent on something that does contribute to test scores. (Reasonable people can disagree about that)

Texans scored highly on Texas state tests, but generally below the national average on national tests like the SAT https://legacyonlineschool.com/blog/texas-sat-score.html I don’t think Texas can be used to make the arguments either way here.
by googlryas | 2025-09-10 16:39:53+00:00
I think you need to make the judgement if a long video is long because it's worth it and needs to be that long, or because it's padded for some reason. When I come across a padded video that I still want to consume for some reason, I usually just paste the url into gemini and ask for a tl;dr and get a few paragraphs to read summarizing the video.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-10 16:40:26+00:00
I agree with all of that.

What I was getting to WRT to the GP's post about how charter schools kick out under performing students in order to "prove" that the public school system is inferior.

I'm trying to determine how he distinguishes between kids that are kicked out to make the school look better and kids that are kicked out because they are disruptive.

I already know how to do that (cameras, etc), I'm just wondering why he doesn't consider that school that kicks kids out might be kicking out disruptive kids.
by cvoss | 2025-09-10 16:40:41+00:00
Try going a whole day (like a Saturday) without consuming any digital media. It can be a challenging experience, but totally worth it, even if just once, to feel what it's like to not be tied to such things. I found it very relaxing and freeing.

No YT, FB, IG, TT, or TV for sure. For an extra challenge, try no music (except what you can make yourself) or news (including HN). You'll find yourself grabbing your phone only to immediately put it down again.

No need to force yourself to read or go for a walk or whatever. Do whatever you feel like all day, just not the digital things.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 16:40:48+00:00
They just need the school board to cave to the constant annoyance. The community only shows up when the bad decision is imminent (or, often, has already passed) because they cannot treat this issue as their only #1 priority, as a small group can.

What the school board did here is sneak out of the battle, which would continue long after community says "no" once.
by beardyw | 2025-09-10 16:41:09+00:00
There is a long answer, but in the main the sound you get finally goes though an analogue amplifier. There is no way to know what volume it uses. Controls say quieter or louder, but not how loud loud is. For example for earphones loud is comparatively quiet. So it's hard to know what you could do, Bluetooth volume would mean nothing.
by jerf | 2025-09-10 16:41:11+00:00
Try the video speed adjustments. Most sites offer 2x now. Up to 4x is getting around, and that's generally going to be past what most people can understand for speech, even with practice. I do a lot of YouTube long-form content but I do a lot of it at 2x or even 2.5x. There's also a lot of such things that are effectively podcasts with irrelevant video backgrounds, or only rarely relevant video, so you can do something else entirely while listening.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-10 16:41:12+00:00
The next largest category of natural disaster fatalities after tropical storms in the US is heat waves. The insurance companies aren't stopping writing polices in places that have heat waves, that's most of the country.

Next after heat waves is severe storms. Same thing. Then winter storms. Same thing.

Insurance companies are avoiding a couple particular types of natural disaster that have the capacity for massive property damage at a single point in time in a concentrated area, mainly tropical storms and wildfires. Those natural disasters just don't cause many deaths in the US.

Tens of millions of people live in those areas. If you're going to talk about "the resulting depressions, financial issues, etc." you might want to give some consideration to tens of millions of people being forced to move, to risk going uninsured, or losing their homes.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-10 16:41:32+00:00
Theory and hypothesis are not interchangeable. Hypothesis precedes theory. Always. Had he said "theories" he would be saying something completely different. It's another stage of scientific process altogether. In order: Hypothesis, empirical observation, theory, demonstration, new theoretical stage or field.

The bizarre CS idea of using "plain English" as a propagandic thrust to infantilize complex scientific theory is suspect. Let's eschew the idea. "Plain English" is Orwellian dumbing down.

There is a general agreement which links ontogeny and phylogeny, details working memory, its relationship to the allocortex, and subsequent episodic memory. So the neural correlates have been worked out.

The working memory and episodic memory papers in the last few years have isolated the correlates, we a have a fairly empirical neurobiological description of memory function and process.

What we're lacking now are the molecular mechanisms.
by rorylaitila | 2025-09-10 16:42:03+00:00
Yeah I think this is what I've tried to articulate to people that you've summed up well with "You've compressed all your thinking work, back-to-back, and you're just doing hard thing after hard thing" - Most of the bottleneck with any system design is the hard things, the unknown things, the unintended-consequences things. The AIs don't help you much with that.

There is a certain amount of regular work that I don't want to automate away, even though maybe I can. That regular work keeps me in the domain. It leads to epiphany's in regards to the hard problems. It adds time and something to do in between the hard problems.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-10 16:42:04+00:00
Esim vs Physical Sim Card Analysis: By using Apple’s cellular specifications page (https://www.apple.com/iphone/cellular/) to identify model numbers and supported bands, and then checking SIM card options in the comparison tool (https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/) for each iPhone 17 model number within a single regional Apple store, you can see which versions still include physical SIM trays and which bands they support. Pulling this information into ChatGPT makes the conclusion clear: unlike the iPhone 16, where the Canadian model number was the best choice for users who needed a SIM tray and broad U.S. band support (covering everything except mmWave), the iPhone 17 lineup in Canada is now eSIM-only. That means Canada no longer offers a model number with both a SIM tray and full U.S. carrier compatibility. The only remaining options with physical SIM trays are the non-air European and Chinese model numbers. These versions do support Verizon fully (aside from mmWave which is mostly useless anyways), but they omit key bands needed for AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S. Becoming harder and harder to travel as China is adding esim, but will only allow phones actually purchased in China on a non tourist plan and any Chinese esim will not work the moment you leave the country while a physical sim will.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-10 16:42:14+00:00
It's interesting to note that Vance's assertion he grew up in poverty has been challenged. My assertion was that his position as a white middle class kid from suburban Cincinnati taking golf lessons does not necessarily make him the best person to speak from first hand knowledge about the effects of poverty on educational attainment. I'm also fairly certain that Vance did not wander the streets of Middletown, feral and unparented. My understanding is that he was raised by his grand-parents, not that he lived with the chaos of his mother's situation.

Also... great deflecting.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 16:42:31+00:00
> can you not appreciate how such cloying fandom (or apparent fandom) can kind of be, in a way, almost nauseating for someone and just move on?

No, I really can't.

I'm not into most sports. That doesn't make those games' fans nauseous. They've found something they love. I don't get their particular attachment. But that doesn't make it dumb, must less disgusting--I can empathise with their joy because I, too, have found things which delight me.

I can articulate, respectfully, why I think their games are dumb. But I can also recognise that's a subjective opinion about aesthetics.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 16:42:33+00:00
> But these physical exhibits require maintenance, and I was dismayed to see that several are in bad repair; some of them weren’t even working anymore, some seemed worn out, or didn’t seem well-designed to begin with.

To be fair, that's what I remember children's museums being like in the 1980s as well. A significant number of exhibits would be temporarily out of order on any given day.

I don't think screens are responsible for that. Maintaining physical exhibits that can survive constant physical contact with kids is hard.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 16:42:41+00:00
> You can obtain the service account's password, and the service account may be provisioned with more privileges than the user's account that you compromised.

It's wild to me that this could happen just from solving the puzzle that allows the user's account to use the user's privileges (only) on the service... ?

> In most cases, this means that if you can derive the service account password, you can forge TGS tickets that claim to be associated with arbitrary domain users.

Since it's cryptographic signing, wouldn't this require reversing the hash? Does any valid inverse of the hash work, or only the actual password that happened to get hashed?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-10 16:43:00+00:00
So it's a blog from some guy with no background in genetics. Your definition is correct, as is your statement that it's not genetic causality. But to discuss heritability you need to understand the most typical, and reliable, way it's assessed. That would immediately clarify to you why lipstick wearing (or your accent) is not heritable, yet the number of digits you have (at least at birth) most certainly is. Here [1] is Wiki's take. You can also pick up any textbook on genetics.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-10 16:43:05+00:00
On prem is ~1.5B in revenue for them. They're making a bet that their financials will improve if enough of that revenue moves to cloud spend even if they lose some folks who want or must have on prem. If you can't grow the TAM, you force the growth apparently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45177972 by u/eastbound
by bogtog | 2025-09-10 16:43:09+00:00
> At the same time, YouTube videos are getting longer, and people are watching more YouTube videos on TVs than on mobile devices

I assume this is a replacement for TV/streaming. Cases were you previously would've wanted a 10-minute YouTube video are becoming cases where you watch 30-60 second ones. Cases where you previously wanted a 20+ minute Netlfix show are becoming ones where you turn to long YouTube videos
by Tenoke | 2025-09-10 16:43:09+00:00
Exactly this tho with more than just 2 categories. You find more than ever optimized for the 60s category, that's true, and you do get longform silos - but those include one silo of channels that clock around 10m, as well as another in the hour+ podcasts case.

The main new takeaway is that the shortform category is bigger and more important than previously imagined but hardly the sole winner.