MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-10 16:50:53+00:00
> We recognize that promoting safety for young people is a shared responsibility, and we support the idea of collective action to protect children from online risks.

> South Dakota and Wyoming have also passed online safety laws that impose requirements on services like ours. These are very similar to the requirements of the UK Online Safety Act. So, as we did in the UK, we’ll enable Kids Web Services’ (KWS) age verification solution for users in these states.

Disappointed to see them bend the knee. Don’t these verification requirements force everyone, not just kids, to lose anonymity? How can this be constitutional in America given the first and fourth amendment?
by TheLadyParadox | 2025-09-10 16:51:19+00:00
The Weekly Knowledge Audit Training Your Brain; Not Outsourcing It

Weekly Knowledge Audit: Training My Own Brain Model

Every Friday, I take 15 minutes. I write down:

Micro-insights: When X happens, try Y Emotional awareness: a conversation that felt harder than it should have Plans for the future: things I want to remember before my brain fades

No polish; just raw notes, bullet points, and margin scribbles. I've slowly started seeing this as "training my own brain model" rather than planning. My journal is the dataset.
by low_tech_punk | 2025-09-10 16:51:35+00:00
This piece reminds me of another article musing on the necessity of manual memory: https://numinous.productions/ttft/#how-important-is-memory.

That article articulated the reason slightly differently, arguing you need to hold multiple concepts in your head at the same time in order to develop original ideas.

Still, I'm not sure you have to remember everything, but I agree you have to remember the foundational things at the right abstraction layer, upon which you are trying to synthesize something new.
by contagiousflow | 2025-09-10 16:51:50+00:00
Let me make a comparison.

If your manager says your performance is based on lines of code, you will be incentivized to write lots and lots of code. Does lots and lots of code mean you are being productive and making good software? Sometimes yes! Sometimes heaps of code means you are being ultraproductive and making amazing software. It could also mean you are writing much more code than you need to, introducing new bugs, not thinking about generalizing patterns, creating technical debt, making a worse UX, all of which I'm guessing you would agree are important to software engineering. But none of those things are going to matter in the lines of code metric.

So yes, sometimes having metrics for performance are worse than imperfect. Sometimes they are antithetical to the supposed goals. Student time is a zero sum game, and having a large portion of a crucial time in their development spent cramming for one metric is not going to have good outcomes for a society, only good outcomes for a metric.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-10 16:51:53+00:00
The drivers in my country emigrated to Switzerland.

I jest, but it's true that my city of 650k souls is in a dire need of around 100 bus/tram drivers and that many emigrated to rich countries which provide an overall better standard of work/living.

Personally for minor errands I cycle because I can't rely on public transport and neither can anyone else, so there's traffic congestion everywhere. I'm not happy with this, but I don't really have other options.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-10 16:52:02+00:00
I understand the motivation but this mindset has failure modes of its own: I'm noticing an increasing number of longform YouTube essay channels adding tons of unnecessary padding to increase the runtime. They don't all do this-- to pick a random example, I think Defunctland videos are exactly as long as they need to be-- but a bunch of the smaller ones do. Ultimately there's no metric shortcut for actual quality.
by trinix912 | 2025-09-10 16:52:34+00:00
> So I think we're seeing more of a bifurcation: in-depth longform videos are becoming 30, 40, 60, even 90 minutes long, whereas anything shorter than 10 minutes is being compressed to 30-60 seconds.

Could it be that the shorter videos that are now 30-60 seconds present the same information as they did when they were ~10min, just without all extra prologue, epilogue, and sponsor inserts? Wasn't one of the reasons they were ~10min in the first place simply to get monetized better?
by brightprogramer | 2025-09-10 16:52:54+00:00
Ok I'm saying this for the last time so I'll over-explain so everyone can follow the idea properly.

Not all people can pronounce names correctly. In a language some names are easier to pronounce if you take away a few letters. Some may find using Sid as short form for Siddharth, because it's just easier.

Now from my childhood, some friends used to pronounce my name differently. I noticed that they don't use the 'h' in Mishra, so I started using 'Misra' instead. They found it easier to pronounce and I felt connected more. Those who could pronounce it correctly, still used Misra because it's just easier and sounds more personal. Friends and loved ones do that. It's also sometimes called as a nickname, where you give other names to a loved one.

Now, it also just happens that my native language has the same root word for Misra and Mishra aaaand they mean the same! It essentially means a mixture of different things.

Now even if all this this reason does not sound good to you, just ignore it. It is my project, my name. I can pronounce however I want, with whatever spelling I want. A project is named by it's maintainer. I can name it exactly MISRA and still be happy with it because it's my project, I'm the maintainer.

I did mention that this is not related to the MISRA standard because I felt like users should know and not confuse it with my library.

I tried to ignore this matter but people over internet just keep poking you saying you're dishonest. Please don't bother yourself with the name of things, just use it if you need it otherwise ignore it. It's an advice for life. Name of things does not matter, it's what they do and achieve. I've put honest work into this library and I won't accept someone sitting behind a screen just say that I'm dishonest, I'm purposefully choosing this name. It is my name, I chose it, names clash in this world at least. Two entities can have same name but of different origin and use case.

Thanks for reading this if you read it till here.
by jdlyga | 2025-09-10 16:52:54+00:00
Like anything, remote vs in-person work is multifaceted

1) For experienced high performers, remote work definitely increases productivity. They're much likely to work longer hours and get more done when they're not in the office.

2) For people who are on the low end or need more guidance, it's more likely for them to slip or get left behind with remote work.

3) It takes longer to onboard new hires working remotely.

4) There's more barriers to cross-team collaboration working remotely. You don't have that natural bumping into each other in the office and unintentional communication that you do on Slack or Teams.

5) Remote work allows you to pull from a much greater talent pool, and you don't have to spend money on office space. This is really beneficial for startups.

6) For larger companies, remote work is excellent for teams that need to support a live product 24/7 since you can pull from many different time zones.

7) For managers and senior leadership, your meetings are all on zoom. And they're all back to back. The natural food or bathroom breaks you get working in an office don't exist. And they're more likely to exist later into the night.

This all leads to high performers picking up a lot more of the team's slack. They tend to thrive. Meanwhile, there's a certain percentage of staff that aren't doing a lot or are struggling. Managers are totally overloaded with meetings and don't have much time to give direct support. And because these are the decision makers, they're more likely to be in favor of RTO.

What I expect to happen with RTO is that junior staff and new hires will pick up more work (hopefully), the meeting burden on managers will be me more reasonable, and there will be better collaboration. But the high performers who teams rely on will be unhappy, will get less done, and are more likely to leave. Productivity will dip at first, and there might be a brain drain. It might be a good decision longer term. But there are tradeoffs any way you do it.
by simonw | 2025-09-10 16:53:28+00:00
Wow this is dangerous. I wonder how many people are going to turn this on without understanding the full scope of the risks it opens them up to.

It comes with plenty of warnings, but we all know how much attention people pay to those. I'm confident that the majority of people messing around with things like MCP still don't fully understand how prompt injection attacks work and why they are such a significant threat.
by layer8 | 2025-09-10 16:53:33+00:00
Indeed, I skimmed a bit and misread “unable to break” to mean that you wanted a line-break opportunity but the renderer didn’t allow for it when a letter is directly following an em dash. But it’s the other way around, you want a line break in the source after an em dash to not translate into a space in the rendering. This would likewise be possible to handle by regex replacement as a pre-rendering step.

More generally, I see markup languages and the details of how they are rendered as largely orthogonal. You don’t necessarily need to invent a different markup language in order to adjust the rendering.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 16:53:47+00:00
I still don't understand what's wrong with Han unification now that we have variation selectors, as well as... those characters that describe ways of laying out CJK character components relative to each other (I know I've seen these, but I have absolutely no idea what they're called and can't for the life of me figure out how to search for them).

(I think they should have unified Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, too, with variation selectors to disambiguate the overlaps. Yes, including special cases like the Greek question mark and Cyrillic multiocular O.)
by cesaref | 2025-09-10 16:53:48+00:00
There are exceptions - here in the UK we have the RI: https://www.rigb.org/

The Christmas lectures are probably the most famous thing they do, and these have definitely moved in a more 'child' focussed direction. If you were attending the Christmas lectures in the 1850s however, the audience would have been middle class victorioans, and you'd have had Michael Faraday telling you about electricity, forces, chemistry etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution_Christmas_Le...

I would recommend attending one of their lectures if you happen to find yourself in London, just to be in the building, and to sit in the lecture theatre!
by mvdwoord | 2025-09-10 16:54:09+00:00
My intuition, which is of course woefully inadequate in this area, says there is a ton of accuracy to be gained, and I feel also a lot of offloading and therefore pruning or better use for the rest of the parameters...

Anyway,. let me refresh my page, as I am sure while typing this some new model architecture is dropping. ;)
by embeng4096 | 2025-09-10 16:54:26+00:00
Note the phrase “sweet and steamy” from the subtitle of the very book you link. Tyrant had sexual content, yes - sweetness, steaminess and romance? Not really

Edit: the subtext I’m speaking of is of submission and domination through implicit or explicit coercion. I’m not speaking of sub/dom with connotations of mutual enjoyment and consent, as can be the case in real or fictional situations of romance in general or even specific kinks like BDSM. I may be called sexist for this but my perception is that women can and do enjoy the latter (as the popularity of books like you linked imply) and greatly dislike the former
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-10 16:54:27+00:00
I'm not sure which way you're going with this, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art, down the street from the Franklin Institute, isn't specifically geared towards adults and has lots of programming specifically for kids. Seeing Rubens' Prometheus Bound there as a child as part of such a program left me in awe. I remember the feeling to this day. Every time I go, I see families with young children or even just groups of teens there.

The Philadelphia Zoo also has events planned specifically for adults. My girlfriend and I went to one a few months ago. I'm not sure what specifically about the Philadelphia zoo, the Bronx zoo, the Shedd aquarium, etc. is for specifically geared towards kids, though.
by smegger001 | 2025-09-10 16:55:06+00:00
my cheap budget android smart phone has a removable battery micro sd headphone jack, the ads well that a function of what apps i chose to install, firefox with a adblocker and beig selective on my apps a i encounter minimal ads, thrid party apps well i have F-droid open source app repository (and at one point installed the amazon app store on my last phone) all i needed to do was check a box on a system settings menu. the IR blaster i do admit i haven't had on a phone/tablet in year but even in 2014 that wasn't common and my tv's streaming stick has a Bluetooth/WiFi remote app.

surveillance is mostly done a network level so not something my phone can do much about other than use tor enabled apps
by vkou | 2025-09-10 16:55:07+00:00
> Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time

Everyone loves driving until they have to:

* Pay through the nose for parking.

* Pay through the nose for tolls.

* Pay through the nose for gas, maintenance, insurance.

* Replace a car that they can't afford to keep running.

* Are stuck in endless traffic hell that them and all the other drivers on the road have created.

* Are seriously injured or killed by a reckless/drunk/idiot/inattentive/unlucky driver.

----

The first bullet point in particular drives people into a frothing rage. Drivers, as a group, are incredibly and irrationally entitled to free storage of their cars on public/private space.

The last bullet point is far more likely to happen to you in a car, than you are to be assaulted on a bus or train. Across my immediate family, I can count three serious crashes (Only one of which the family member in question was at fault for). None of us have ever been assaulted on public transit, and we've taken a lot of it.

If my direct connection bus came back - or at least bus frequency were increased - (Thanks, budget cuts, for adding a 10-25 minute transfer to my downtown to downtown commute), my car would once again be collecting dust in the garage.

People take transit when its relatively fast and gets them to where they need to go. That's the primary driver for ridership.
by i7l | 2025-09-10 16:55:16+00:00
I believe there are two reasons.

First, there have been so many recent scandals, people are tired or unable to focus on yet another scandal, no matter how egregious.

Second, it appears as if almost all the rich and/or powerful are involved somehow, so it's nearly impossible to stop or fight it, so why bother?! Get rid of one paedophile only to help another gain power.
by dole | 2025-09-10 16:55:38+00:00
Command Palette is the Mac/Linux style app picker that's nice and bloated and does what hitting the Windows key and Start Menu search should've done in 98SE. I've got it bound to Win+Shift+Space but it's laggy and dumb enough (doesn't learn what I'm always searching for and running??) to where I don't bother. My money's still on it eventually replacing the Windows key binding.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 16:55:39+00:00
This is pretty cool, I can see this being useful when I need to run a one-off remotely. Not sure about attaching a running program then detaching again, or mirroring... I wouldn't mind being able to SSH to my desktop and manipulate say the running Discord client, or similar.

Another similar thing that I'd been meaning to look into is the RDP remote apps stuff.
by zdw | 2025-09-10 16:55:47+00:00
If you have a change to visit the Tokyo Science Museum, it's quite good in this respect - it has a lot of interactive displays, many of which are very hands on, and some are application based - focused on how the science concepts are used in industry (with some occasional corporate tie-ins, which weren't too over the top). It's fairly kid focused, as others have mentioned - most of your competition for seeing the exhibits will be school student groups.

Incidentally, the building is featured near the end of the Shin Godzilla movie.
by Redster | 2025-09-10 16:55:47+00:00
Since switching to Linux in 2023, Text Extractor is actually the thing I miss most. Text Extractor was a joy to use. While I have found equivalents for most of the PowerToys on Linux, the PowerToys did a great job and it was one of my favorite pieces of software.

For any Linux users reading this, is there a Text Extractor equivalent that I'm missing? I've tried Normcap, Frog, textsnatch...
by Frozen_Flame | 2025-09-10 16:56:06+00:00
It's disappointing to see but it feels as if to keep a futuristic theme and to provide almost an "edutainment" environment that a museum feels as though it must implement screens to keep up with the times. I think this might almost be comparable to how places like McDonalds that had themed play areas for kids have been wiped away. We aren't really designing many places where kids can be kids and when we do, we try to put more screens in there to connect with a younger technology savvy generation?
by derefr | 2025-09-10 16:56:10+00:00
Who said anything about the product's purpose? Excessive use of the term "AI" is a decision of marketing departments, and happens entirely downstream of product design.

The same product could be produced five years ago or today, and the one produced five years ago would not be described as having "AI features", while the one produced today would.

(You can check for yourself: look at the online product listing for any mature "smart" device that got a new rev in the last three years. The Clapper would be described as an "AI" device today.)
by momojo | 2025-09-10 16:56:35+00:00
This excites me. Everyone wants to learn a new language, no one wants to slog. But I'd pay money to play Grim Fandango, and get the chance to ask "What does Morte mean?" and have the LLM, in real-time, tutor me. And if I get bored, I can game on, business as usual.

But just give the AI a list of words I currently know, and it can slowly slip in more and more vocabulary, and maybe full sentences.
by jtuple | 2025-09-10 16:56:42+00:00
> I am in my 30s

Now I'm kinda curious what age cohort is most likely to be Reddit memers

Do you think 30s is peak Reddit, yet you manged to be a lucky outlier? Or that peak Reddit skews older/younger and you're of a lucky age?

As an older Millennial in my 40s, I see this a lot in my 35-43 friend group. And always figured peak Reddit was younger Millennials (now in their 30s).

Might depend on what subs I suppose.
by LastMuel | 2025-09-10 16:56:43+00:00
Objectively they are not profitable. If you count gas taxes that are collected, we're only covering about a quarter of the cost to maintain them.

Roads are not generating direct revenue, which is how you determine profit. There's no model where roads are profitable.

Additionally, we've been moving goods and services by rail for approximately two centuries in the United States - long before a car was on a road. Roads are not a requirement to move goods around.
by kragen | 2025-09-10 16:57:39+00:00
Okay, so, I wrote a program http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/leafcalls.py to list the leaf functions with the number of calls to each, and totaled up the results. Assuming I didn't fuck up the analysis, which is never a good bet, here it is:

<table> <tr><th>PID <th>Program <th>Instructions <th>Calls <th>Leaf calls <th>Functions <th>Leaf functions <tr><td>2603407 <th>Emacs <td>18,278,190,938 <td>328,734,692 <td>100,779,209 <td>16,875 <td>4,523 <tr><td>2611631 <th>Emacs <td>10,444,575,778 <td>176,576,759 <td> 59,334,998 <td>16,262 <td>4,470 <tr><td>2612835 <th>Emacs <td>10,453,593,569 <td>176,931,778 <td> 59,425,409 <td>16,422 <td>4,483 <tr><td>2622964 <th>ls -l <td> 28,770,079 <td> 362,597 <td> 154,386 <td> 520 <td> 218 <tr><td>2623998 <th>PARI/GP <td> 19,265,853 <td> 52,633 <td> 19,983 <td> 828 <td> 346 <tr><td>2624712 <th>Numpy <td> 356,605,939 <td> 4,040,096 <td> 952,628 <td> 4,366 <td>1,259 <tr><td>2627189 <th>Minetest<td>62,476,314,644 <td>708,735,071 <td>354,140,648 <td>22,318 <td>5,556 </table>

I did look at the output file listing the leaf functions and it is at least not obviously wrong.

So, if this is right, typically almost half of all calls are calls to leaf functions (functions that never call another function), although my Emacs and Numpy runs have only about a third and a fourth of their calls being leaf calls. All of these numbers are surprisingly low to me; I would have expected the answer to be more like two thirds to three fourths.

There's an optimization I've applied sometimes the opportunity for which wouldn't show up here: on a leaf call that returns before it calls any other subroutines, you can sometimes avoid doing all the foofaraw for a non-leaf call by delaying it until after you know that you're in a non-leaf case. This isn't always a pure win, though, and I've never seen a compiler do it. The call graph output by callgrind only has subroutine granularity, so, absent any alternative, I'm only counting calls as leaf calls if they are calls to a leaf subroutine, that is, a subroutine that never calls other subroutines.

I'm interested to hear if you have other stats!
by prophesi | 2025-09-10 16:57:47+00:00
If your Youtube video is 8 minutes or longer (and your channel is monetized), you're able to place midroll ads every minute or so to maximize ad revenue. Typically Youtube only serves a very small fraction of these midroll ads to each user; usually every 10 - 15 minutes. So 16min+ has been the sweet spot.

It's this ad incentive that has made long-form videos more popular on Youtube.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-10 16:58:08+00:00
When I was in 5th grade (I think?) we went to the nation's capitol as a field trip. My mom volunteered to be a chaperone, as a result over the following years, we would go back. We would go into every museum, if you get a room at the right hotel (I forget which one we stayed at back to back) you can walk to any and all the museums, you can spend all day in several different museums. I highly recommend anyone to take such a trip if you've never been to DC. The city is full of so much history that we all have been taught, its something else to see it in person.
by sedatk | 2025-09-10 16:58:54+00:00
Imagine if professional work setting had initially started by employing a dress code with a full body yellow suit and a yellow mask that hides your gender and skin color to “avoid discrimination” and whatnot. It was universal.

Then, imagine that after a while, that rule was found too restricting and people were allowed to wear their own clothes and do away with masks.

When people chose that, would that be considered drawing attention to their skimcolor or gender, or using their right as existing as the person that they are?
by mallowdram | 2025-09-10 16:58:59+00:00
Anyone who understands the development of intelligence and creativity is directly linked to the allocortex's ability to navigate freely, use vicarious trial and error, to invent novel short-cuts, built from both egocentric (landmark memories) and allocentric (extra body mapping) up until around the age of 16 in order to develop the basics of memory consolidation can take anecdotal evidence of kids that can't take a walk without a cellphone's help and extrapolate that these kids lack critical thinking skills.

It's elementary deduction from basic learning practices we've known since O'Keefe in 1973.