MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-29 14:30:21+00:00
That is a very very weird spot that I would be limited to.

I can have my phone right now which has f-droid and download apps directly without requiring any other device anywhere as long as I have internet access to download the apk or I have the apk

With adb, I would need to have another specific device with me which can get real uncomfortable/ be a real breaker for a lot of times.

On top of my mind, I see myself being in the metro downloading games on f-droid to see the state of open source games, I couldn't imagine myself having a laptop in that time, and neither did I have a laptop. I just had a pc back then.

Also a huge % of people who are using f-droid right now would just not do things like adb etc. which are a huge breaker I suppose and in the end it is a huge net negative for the community/ecosystem/still goes against the right to run as I had mentioned.

But I also didn't know that adb was still enabled, I had actually thought that you genuinely couldn't run any app except google's developer registration AT ALL.

but this is also a slippery slope and what prevents them from blocking that too. unless we fight against this, it sets a really really bad precedent for them to follow/essentially dictate my hardware in the future.
by hedora | 2025-09-29 14:30:39+00:00
If you dig up a sufficiently old landfill you’ll find pristine newspapers.

The idea that you can coat much more resilient stuff in PFAS and label it “biodegradable” is at least as big a scam as California’s $0.10 “reusable” bags, or mixed stream recycling.

I’m for taking each use of plastic, by global volume, and then banning them, in order.

We should probably start with fishing nets.

Alternatively, the industry should need to produce 200% as much post-consumer recycled plastic made from the same grade as they’re manufacturing. This would act as a tax, strongly encouraging investment in more sustainable materials. Maybe drop that to 150% if the plastic in the product is 100% recycled.
by paraknight | 2025-09-29 14:30:41+00:00
I haven't dug into all the sources, but I think there's a potential confounder here, or maybe even reverse causality. The author seems to assume causation when the studies only indicate correlation. E.g. the first link says "chronic loneliness increases mortality risk" but the actual source says "actual and perceived social isolation are both associated with increased risk for early mortality".

So for example, it's possible that if you already have chronic illness, a disability, or any other kind of health issues, you're more likely to have higher social isolation and therefore be more lonely, in addition to having a higher mortality risk. There's an outside variable (your health) that is correlated with both (loneliness and mortality), but that doesn't necessarily mean that loneliness causes mortality. If this were the case, we could defend claims like "autism increases mortality", because we already know that autism increases social isolation.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-09-29 14:30:44+00:00
The problem is not being filmed, when the recording is used in small circles. The problem is when it's published for the world to see.

As a rule of thumb, for my children at school, I refuse any use of their image if it's not for something that was already possible in the eighties.

Publishing school party pictures and videos for the whole world to see was impossible in the 80s, I thus don't allow it and if it happens, it's an invasion of their private life (as per Belgian law at least).

Hanging on the school walls some pictures of the classes, or children, doing some activities: that's OK, it could already be done in the 80s and might be useful for the school community. Publishing these in a printed yearbook: I accept. Publishing it on the Internet in electronic format: this was not possible in the 80s, thus I refuse.

I think this time strikes a nice balance for everyone involved.

By the way, in Belgium, you are allowed to film in public places, but not to misuse the image of others if it's disrespecting their private life, unless for legal requirements.
by beepbopboopp | 2025-09-29 14:30:48+00:00
I want to start by saying I have no skin in the game here. While not perfect, Saudi has very clearly moved "Westernly" on many ideas, most notably social and economic ones. It can even be argued that their recent moves in that direction have made it near impossible for the other large economy companies to move too far the other way. Th

At what point does the narrative about their investments on the larger stage become less pejorative?
by ngrilly | 2025-09-29 14:31:26+00:00
Full agree. Value types are underrated. That's one of the best things about C# and Go. They are increasing performance (with contiguous memory) and reducing GC pressure. I also believe that dynamically typed languages like Python would gain a lot by introducing a form of value types/unboxed values. For example, Cinder, Meta's internal version of CPython, supports what they call "static classes": https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder?tab=readme-ov-fi....
by akho | 2025-09-29 14:32:08+00:00
> How’s it frustrating?

I was saying that this part of your previous comment:

> just powerful enough I wouldn’t worry about general tasks being frustrating.

is not true. From experience with pi 5. It was not powerful enough to avoid frustrating an 8-yo. Too many educational resources use the web, and modern browsers are what they are. Maybe this 500+, with an nvme drive, is better, but I wouldn't bet on it.

> how’s it stopping people who prefer the n100 route?

It isn't stopping anyone from anything. This was my advice in case you somehow acquire "a kid between 10-18ish". Don't use overpriced ultra-niche devices unless you have a very clear scenario.

The Pi x00s are targeted at a certain nostalgic parent demographic, but do not, in my limited experience, impress, excite, or interest actual kids. The magic in c64 or apple ii was not in its form factor.

> The negativity about a $200 Linux computer just baffles me. Nobody’s forcing it on you.

You were saying that it's not overpriced for what it is. I said that you can get more performant devices cheaper. That's not negativity, that's conversation. You can say you still like this device for other reasons. Or say "hmm, maybe". Or not say anything at all.

Also, I'm very positive on sub-200 Linux computers, and own many. Including multiple Pis (main series boards and 400 are gathering dust, Zeros are cool as an airplay receiver and laser cutter operator), and several n100 boxes.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-29 14:32:37+00:00
But they don't necessarily care about the same 20%.

Another thing worth considering is that your users won't actually know what features they are going to get until after they've used the application. Users will install your app not based on what's in the app but based on what they think is going to be in the app after they install it. That's an important distinction. All that hard work you are doing on features won't actually pay off until after you convince people to use the app.

This is especially important when you are trying to make an MVP. Lack of features is almost never the problem that prevents users from installing and staying in your app. Usually the actual issues are with your messaging, marketing, etc. Or maybe your app doesn't do anything that actually interests users. Whatever it is, your feature set probably has nothing to do with it. Adding more features won't solve these issues either. This sounds simple but I've seen companies get this wrong.

The simplest MVP is simply trying to get users to sign up before you even have anything implemented. It's a common pattern to validate ideas.

The best confirmation that your messaging is right is users getting disappointed after they sign up. That's still bad but now at least you know that at least the messaging is right and that you can convince people that what your selling is worth having.

This of course leads to another issue: launching your app before it is a proper MVP for whatever your messaging promises. If you promise lots of things that aren't actually there, you are probably setting people up to be disappointed at least somewhat.

A related point here is that many features are nice to haves that are hard to monetize because they aren't that essential. Especially with SAAS applications there are usually a lot of nice to haves that people don't actually want to pay for. Treating your customer wishes as requirements is going to need a lot of scrutiny. Do they actually value what they get? Would they pay for it? Does it solve some important pain point? Etc. It's more important to understand why they ask for stuff than to exactly deliver what they ask for.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-29 14:33:08+00:00
That fear is very real, and I've noticed it on my team at work. Our (internal) help desk ticket work load has increased quite a bit over the past ~5 years or so, even though our user base hasn't changed much.

People are even afraid to do basic troubleshooting out of fear of breaking something and not being able to easily rollback to the point that something as simple changing the sleep settings on a computer results in a help desk ticket.
by timr | 2025-09-29 14:33:20+00:00
You missed some universal ones that are both necessary, and a total pain:

- Teams & Fine-grained Permissions

- Audit logging

- SOC 2/3 compliance

- Data wiping / retention / data policy management

- Reporting

- Cookie law crap (GDPR & CCPA)

- Myriad forms of custom product tiers & billing arrangements

I'd put these above several of the items on your list, and in my mind, they fit into the category of "things a developer calls 'bloat', that are actually necessary for enterprise sales".
by fidotron | 2025-09-29 14:33:23+00:00
Yeah, I worked there too and share this sentiment:

> I respect this company a lot, even though they always seem to do things that embitter the gaming community against them.

What I saw, more often than not, was most of the company consisted of the biggest genuine fans of their own products, and it was a few well placed ultra cynical bad apples that persisted in causing such enormous antagonism.
by serial_dev | 2025-09-29 14:33:57+00:00
I get that for whistleblowers, journalists, investigators, ... I don't think it's relevant for a birthday party with children.

If it's me, I'm leaving the party. If it's my children attending, I'm strongly recommending them to leave the party (or just leave with them, depending on their age). Live-streaming a birthday party of children is obnoxious behavior that should not be tolerated.
by thrwo47294738 | 2025-09-29 14:34:20+00:00
Honest question: why not charge a fee per submission or per review?

Or if the problem is bad papers, a fee that is returned unless it’s a universal strong reject.

Or if you don’t want to miss the best papers, a fee only for resubmitted papers?

Or a fee that is returned if your paper is strong accept?

Or a fee that is returned if your paper is accepted.

There’s some model that has to be fair (not a financial burden to those writing good papers) and will limit the rate of submissions.

Thoughts?
by fullstop | 2025-09-29 14:34:27+00:00
Before getting tied up with bureaucratic nonsense my daughter was looking at starting a "borrow a grandma / grandpa" club at her university. The idea was to connect students with elderly people who are lonely, and they could have tea / coffee together. The elderly get to be social with a younger generation, and the younger generation gets to understand the struggles that a lot of elderly people face.

I think that the university was concerned with liability. I still think that it's a good idea.
by corytheboyd | 2025-09-29 14:35:02+00:00
> Though you have to watch out for folks that are using the AI to answer your questions.

Heh I do think that happened once (that I was aware of), but it was on a topic I knew a lot about, and it fell apart after layer one. Still, pretty lame, I’d much prefer a “I don’t know,” which I usually say if they start guessing.
by piva00 | 2025-09-29 14:35:05+00:00
Still plenty rich in comparison to the rest of the world while providing richer lives to common people than most places in the USA can provide to their citizens.

Leaning on GDP as this all-encompassing metric is rather absurd, GDP was adopted because it's an easy metric to calculate, not because it provides the most insights on how life is at some place on Earth.
by keyringlight | 2025-09-29 14:35:19+00:00
I'd say Bioware has been through a rough time for over a decade, between pulling in new directions to avoid being just a factory that spits out sequels and being pushed into whatever area the business/owner side wanted, but after clearing their plate by shipping and drawing a line under Dragon Age I think they need to prove themselves.

Apparently they're working as support for other studios while they do pre-production on the next Mass Effect, and that game needs to walk the line between staying true to the identity of the old games and bringing in new entrants. They're an established operating studio, but I'm not sure that counts for much when the mega publishers can shut down and start studios on a whim, they need to justify staying around whether that's because they make games that sell or because having a workforce in Canada is worthwhile.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-29 14:35:33+00:00
Being a 1970's child that grew up with games alongside the industry, nowadays I mostly play retrogaming, retrogaming inspired, or digital versions of board games.

The quest for realism without gameplay of many AAA games, with exorbitant prices, and GB sized textures, is not something I care about.

I may spend more time playing something with Atari 2600 graphics, and enticing gameplay than caring about latest COD.

I would be busy for hours playing Laser Squad, Quazatron, ATF,....
by lbhdc | 2025-09-29 14:36:02+00:00
I appreciate your point, and don't necessarily disagree. However, I think it is rough out there even for ivy graduates.

We have an intern from an Ivy (not MIT) that isn't getting an offer simply because my company doesn't want to hire in the US right now. They are great to work with, knowledgeable, but have no future here. They have been shopping around, and a lot of people on the team have been trying to find a place for them to go in their network, but no one is biting.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-29 14:36:24+00:00
>I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on?

Not every thing has to be recorded.

It is like all those runners and cyclists who log and share all their runs/rides on Strava without even taking the time to figure out if it really serves a purpose other than a vain attention seeking.
by BeauNer | 2025-09-29 14:36:33+00:00
Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion buyout by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, marking the largest all-cash sponsor take-private deal ever. Shareholders will receive $210 per share, a 25 percent premium over EA's unaffected price, and once the transaction closes the company will be delisted from public markets. EA CEO Andrew Wilson will remain in charge, with the group arguing that private ownership will allow the publisher to innovate faster and expand its global footprint.

The deal, however, is already sparking controversy. PIF, a sovereign wealth fund controlled by the Saudi government, will effectively gain control of one of the most influential names in gaming. While investors stand to profit, many gamers and industry watchers are concerned about how Saudi ownership could shape EA's creative direction, monetization strategies, and role in esports. With regulatory approvals still pending, the takeover raises difficult questions about the intersection of gaming, politics, and global soft power.
by amluto | 2025-09-29 14:36:42+00:00
> Acausality within consumers is the only upheld invariant: a consumer will not see any elements prior to the last element it has seen.

This is simply not true. A standard multi-consumer queue is ordered on the consumer side so long as consumers synchronize with each other. This could be as simple as one consumer setting a global flag after receiving message A and another consumer observing that flag before receiving message B. A lockless bag will not have this property.

Similarly, any of these queues have the nice property that, even if no one synchronizes anything, they’re fair: even under heavy load such that the queue never comes close to emptying, every push attempt will be fairly serviced by a pop without any other synchronization needed.

Attempting to relax either of these could be problematic, especially as a drop-in replacement of the data structure. I suspect that quite a lot of software that uses queues pushes special tokens to indicate changes of global state, and safety and correctness may be violated by reordering. For example, an MPMC system could have a producer push a special “I’m done” token when it’s all done, and the consumers could collectively count the “I’m done” tokens and assume (correctly on a standard MPMC queue) that no more messages will be in the queue once one “I’m done” per producer have been globally seen. If those tokens come out a bag too early, then a different synchronization mechanism would be needed.
Show HN: Telegram bot that notifies you when your GitHub repo gets a new star
by 0xfurai | 2025-09-29 14:36:46+00:00
I built a small side project: Telegram GitHub Stars Bot. @gh_stars_bot It’s a Telegram bot that pings you in real time when someone stars your repo on GitHub.

Why?

GitHub stars are one of the simplest signals of interest/traction, but unless you’re constantly refreshing your repo page, you miss the dopamine hit . This bot solves that by dropping the notification straight into Telegram.

What it does - Tracks new stars on any public repo - Sends real-time Telegram notifications - Lets you subscribe to multiple repos per chat - Shows bot/repo stats - Respects GitHub API rate limits and supports access control

Repo

https://github.com/0xfurai/gh-telegram-stars-bot
by hansvm | 2025-09-29 14:36:59+00:00
At one SaaS I worked at, I spent a day or two on a foolhardy initiative to analyze our users based on the subset of features they actively used (hoping to reign in the complexity of the product to a few core archetypes we could design for, ideally eliminating some of the more annoying features on the way). The results weren't any better than a weighted random choice. Beyond the login page (and even that had a few customization options), every single person really did have a different 20% they cared about.
by codethief | 2025-09-29 14:37:13+00:00
Hi sausagefeet! I'm a bit late to the party but maybe you'll still see my message.

First of all: Very cool project! I have spent the last couple months studying this problem space and arrived at the exact same conclusions as you. So Stategraph would be very interesting to us. However, we use Pulumi (with Azure blob storage as "DIY storage backend", i.e. rather similar to a TF state file) or are in the process of migrating to it. Do you think it would be feasible to write a storage backend (or a "meta" provider) for Pulumi which uses Stategraph behind the scenes?
by dbspin | 2025-09-29 14:37:36+00:00
I'd cite that as an example of the tyranny of diminished expectations. To be clear - I was criticising not providing named recognition. Of course providing some recognition is better than none. Perhaps you're right, perhaps the engineer involved can leverage this in interviews (or perhaps not, it might be difficult to prove / DNA'd etc), but you're giving the CEO the benefit of the doubt here.

I very strongly agree all creative workers should receive fair recognition (and compensation) for their work. I disagree with directionality as a moral framework. Doing something similar to the right thing is not necessarily doing the right thing. In this case my immediate assumption would be that the CEO is boasting about their anonymous hardworking impassioned employees as a way of 'glazing' the company, rather than shielding them from public criticism. It's impossible to know, but CEOs are not generally known to be good and ethical people. Larian may well be exceptional in this regard, but giving the benefit of the doubt to CEOs in general is a poor heuristic.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-09-29 14:37:42+00:00
I maintain my own link meta archive. Just because I know that it will stay, but I am aware of link rot. I know also that internet archive exists, and also I know that it works painfully slow.

I want to be able to at least browse headlines and titles about Jeffrey Epstein after 20 years, when they start erasing all history about him.

Links:

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2025 - Year 2025

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024 - Year 2024

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - Year 2023

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2022 - Year 2022

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2021 - Year 2021
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-29 14:38:03+00:00
> Why is it required that he be something other than a "mediocrity" in philosophy and theology?

Because as a general rule, if you're going to engage in commentary of a subject matter, you should know what you're talking about. Many people, including many scientists (certainly among the vocal ones), fail to mind the bounds of their narrow domain of expertise and tread unwittingly into philosophical territory, all the while believing their views are scientific in nature. This happens all the time with materialism, which is not a metaphysical position entailed by science, but nonetheless is often presented as if it were and sold to the public as a package deal. Sagan was certainly guilty of that, that and his whiggish view of history.
by mothballed | 2025-09-29 14:38:25+00:00
It's a result of the law and the state taking the place of morality and ethics. If it is against the law it is bad and wrong. If it is legal it is OK and good.

A large component of society has no particular code of ethics, religion, or internal moral framework. End result is if it's legal I can do it, and I shouldn't feel bad for doing so.
by devjab | 2025-09-29 14:38:40+00:00
Taste is subjective, but as someone who have played: Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Mass Effect, Neverwinter Nights, MDK2, Shattered Steel, Jade Empire, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Command & Conquer: Generals 2, Anthem on their release dates, I'd rank them in that order. So to me Mass Effect 2 wasn't one of their best games, but it was also not one of their worst.

Mass Effect 2 is the primary reason I've only played Mass Effect 3 once, because I just can't get myself to go through 2 again despite having replayed Mass Effect 1 several times. I don't think it's a terrible game, on the technical side it improved so many things, but I just don't like the story. To be fair, Dragon Age and Anthem were the only ones that really dissapointed me.
by rtp4me | 2025-09-29 14:38:40+00:00
I am looking forward to testing this feature on our DBs running in Azure (on our own VMs - not hosted by Azure). We heavily use ZFS for compression (5:1 to 8:1) and tend to do lots of sequential scans. ZFS can hit about 150MB/sec on large scans, but with the new async-io feature and worker queues, I am hoping we can double or triple our seq scan performance. Time for testing!
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-09-29 14:38:47+00:00
First of all they didn't

Here's a reminder of what the word 'Semitic' means:

"Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples"

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