MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by allturtles | 2025-09-18 20:12:27+00:00
You're saying that believing in democracy means believing in electoral dictatorship: whoever is elected president can do whatever they want. But that isn't supposed to be the U.S. form of government. In fact such a form of government would obviously be self-defeating: the first dictator elected would use his unlimited power to prevent anyone else from being elected.

Today's AstralCodexTen is very relevant: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defining-defending-democrac....
by squigz | 2025-09-18 20:12:34+00:00
It's not really a matter of it entirely solving the issue. As the other commenter is trying to stress, these are 2 separate issues, even if 1 underpins the other. We can and should try to solve for both. The thing is, 1 is a heck of a lot easier to solve. So why wouldn't we?

I don't think the position of "Having more accurate pop culture depictions of mental health issues and disabilities would enable better understanding from non-disabled people" is an entirely crazy one, and you haven't really made any arguments as to why we shouldn't do that.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-18 20:12:35+00:00
Out of curiosity, will you be facilitating them exporting their chat history? Like obviously you see that this wasn’t just a billing error, this was extortion under threat of losing eleven years worth of data.

If you see this massive screwup as just a price issue that can be fixed by lowering their bill, you’ve missed what’s happened here. Your company has entirely obliterated any trust here, and the way to fix this is to acknowledge that and do everything necessary to help them migrate their data to a place where you aren’t holding a gun to their heads.
by Martin_Silenus | 2025-09-18 20:12:48+00:00
Yeah, sure, I've heard that before... master/slave, black/white lists... and now, north/south. I wonder what they'll come up with now to explain reading from left to right (don't even think about the majority of right-handed writers, that would ruin the fun).

".snoitnevnoc fo yticilpmis eht dnihneb noitnetni neddih a eb ot dnuob si erehT"
by Dunedan | 2025-09-18 20:12:58+00:00
I'm not sure usability is moving in the right direction with KDE. Over the past years, more and more applications started to hide menus by default, sometimes adding hamburger menus instead.

There is also a "new way" (I believe QtQuick-based) for applications to create popups, which results in them not being separate windows anymore. System Settings makes prominent use of them for example and those popups just behave entirely different than one is used to. As far as I know it's not even possible to navigate these popups with the keyboard.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-18 20:13:46+00:00
I get the philosophical idea of challenging our default assumptions and remember people who are’t right in the middle of our conventional map. Good thing to do, sure.

But, the fact that Africa and South America are pointy on their southern sides makes these kind of maps look awkward and bad IMO. It is like adjusting a paragraph so that the extra white space is in the first, instead of the last, line. Or putting the shortest line of a multi line function definition at the top, instead of the bottom.

We’ve all seen ragged-right and ragged-left typesetting, but never ragged-top.
by wofo | 2025-09-18 20:13:48+00:00
Thanks for the kind words :)

This sounds like the kind of question for Daniel himself to chime in, since he has the best overview of the language's design and vision. He's not super active on HN, but I'll give him a heads up! Otherwise feel free to join our Zulip (https://kson-org.zulipchat.com) and we can chat over there.
by blooalien | 2025-09-18 20:14:21+00:00
> That seems like a pretty low bar, is there any window manager that doesn’t have that sort of basic configurability?

I heard rumours that Win 11 was makin' folks jump through hoops to move the taskbar anywhere other than left or right along the bottom. Personally, I ain't used Windows since Win 7; (The last really decent / tolerable Windows), and even back then I was already dual-booting with Linux.
by netsharc | 2025-09-18 20:14:27+00:00
A really smart fridge would remember what you put in it and remind you to eat that avocado before it goes bad. Or tell you maybe skip buying the salad, 80% of the salad you bought have spoiled languished in the fridge and ended up in the trash. Or it can suggest recipes from its contents plus what the crowdsourced data shows someone of your profile likes.

But nah, smart means it can show ads...
by notemap | 2025-09-18 20:14:30+00:00
Don't trust it. Problem B required an algorithm to run for inputs up to N ~ 200, and a clever graph theory lemma, before succumbing to pattern matching / law of larger numbers. Claiming that there's a pattern for N < 20 seems like classic AI slop.

EDIT: Just submitted it, WA. Yeah.

Problems are hard enough where consumer models can't solve all 12 problems.
by EGreg | 2025-09-18 20:15:01+00:00
Don't y'all see?

Every other day a story comes out about a centralized platform either:

1) Extorting for money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

2) Canceling accounts: https://www.eff.org/pages/when-knowing-someone-meta-only-way...

3) Has their algorithms choose what you see and hear: https://x.com/i/grok/share/NwPcWVxZiHQytvGs8MONRdpCi

4) Deplatforms you anytime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming

5) Demonetizes you, after taking over half to begin with: https://podcastle.ai/blog/how-much-money-do-youtubers-make-p...

6) Allows governments easy surveillance and even hacking your account: https://natlawreview.com/article/even-hacking-field-governme...

7) Sends your information to advertisers, etc. etc.

8) Makes everyone increasingly depressed, angry and distrustful of others https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

Now I ask you, why do people put up with this, especially content creators with large audiences?

Because they have no viable open alternative that they can host easily themselves.

And why is that? Here is what it would look like if they did: https://qbix.com/community.pdf

I think it's because just like in Web3, the incentives of Web2 are to make a lot of money for your early stage investors, the VCs, and very few choose not to sell out after they hit the critical mass and get massive centralized power and network effects. I've seen "indieweb" come and go, "decentralizedweb.net" is down but they used to have TimBL speaking at it. I've seen Diaspora come out 13 years ago and sadly one of the founders killed himself. I've seen Mastodon, which Trump's team forked to make Truth Social (one of the few deplatformed guys who actually got his own platform, had to spend millions on it).

Why do you think there is no good alternative to Big Tech, the way that, say, at least the Incredible Burger is an alternative for people who want to opt of meat?
by marktani | 2025-09-18 20:15:09+00:00
In Japan, physical maps like in parks and city information booths are oriented to be aligned with the actual geography. Meaning, north on the map points to actual north.

Made me think of how much more accurate the end to end process of putting up that map has to be vs. maps oriented by "north is up".

Just imagine the map needs to be moved by 10m and rotated around for some last minute restructuring of the park before finalizing the project.

Anyway, it was fun to read these maps and think about how many assumptions we carry around that are shaped by objects around us we use daily.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 20:15:47+00:00
Curious what HN makes of this statement from Trump:

> He added: “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — that license, they’re not allowed to do that. They’re an arm of the Democrat Party.”

On the one hand, it sounds like a massive violation of civil liberties to revoke licenses based on journalistic criticism. On the other hand, if there is one-sided coverage, when does that cross the line into something resembling campaign financing, where the rules are different? And leaving out licensed situations like TV, what about online journalism. Is there some strict test that separates journalism from election spending?
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-18 20:15:51+00:00
First of all for the FCC to get involved is a shocking level of political interference in media coverage. It's one thing for ABC to do it because it's afraid of ratings or whatever, but the FCC should only get involve if there is some regulatory or legal issue.

Second, look how Trump is pressuring the networks to get rid of other media personalities who are unfavorable to him:

> “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “That leaves Jimmy (Fallon) and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!”

We have a serious problem.
by zhyder | 2025-09-18 20:16:28+00:00
Plug for our https://uphop.ai/app : it's for adult learning / corporate training. We break down a desired job skill into small chunks, and engage the user with practice & give nuanced feedback. And of course like chatbots make it easy for user to ask more questions or go on tangents.

Would appreciate feedback!

There's a bit of overlap with Learn Your Way I guess. I'm not sure users need to toggle between alternate formats of the same instruction though. Instead the instruction itself should be as multi-modal as possible, and offer flexibility to ask questions... which even gemini.google.com offers so I'm not sure this is a net improvement over that.
by tadfisher | 2025-09-18 20:16:33+00:00
I like the hamburger menus, because they are usually one-level deep and contain very few items.

I cannot tell you how many times I want to go into an app's settings, and it takes longer than 20 seconds; some have it in File, some in Edit, others in random menus like "Tools". Further still, the damned menu item itself could be named Settings, Preferences, Options, whatever. Even further, looking at Gimp here, Preferences is one of 25 menu items that I need to scan through. This is not good UX, this is Stockholm Syndrome.

Contrast with Gnome apps: Hamburger -> Preferences, invariably, never takes longer than three seconds to find it.
by loughnane | 2025-09-18 20:17:07+00:00
Most books have little to say and you can, in fact, get most of what it has to offer in one reading. It’s worth your while to find the books that reveal more to you on each reread, especially rereads at different points in your life. The books that do this for a lot of people over a few generations are, to a first approximation, what we call “classics”

Of course there’s still the challenge of identifying which books are classics. And of course there’s value in reading non-classics——whether you’re reading for entertainment or for wisdom. Still, we’ve got limited time and I’ll more often gamble my reading hour on a classic than something new.
by twelvechairs | 2025-09-18 20:17:14+00:00
North was established earlier by European sailors as the north star is visible in the sky and is hugely useful for navigation, divining latitude etc. in the northern hemisphere. The coincidence of the north star and magnetic north as major navigational tools was really too hard to ignore.

Printing press and maps really started following the sailors and navigators knowledge and needs, where previously it was often religious or political (east at top facing jerusalem or 'oriented')
by johnnymellor | 2025-09-18 20:17:20+00:00
This would be useful in Chrome for Android (which doesn't yet have this feature built-in), but activating bookmarklets on Android (via https://paul.kinlan.me/use-bookmarklets-on-chrome-on-android...) clears the text selection. So instead I've put together an alternative bookmarklet that lets you select the text to link to after activating the bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/johnmellor/ef5ecf555f28b324b045e0c93...
by jackdoe | 2025-09-18 20:17:25+00:00
I suggest the people working on those features watch Neil Postman's "The Surrender of Culture to Technology": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrv7DIHllE

Part of me is actually excited for the acceleration of the end of the web, I even wrote https://punkx.org/jackdoe/zero.txt few days ago in frustration.

The sooner it ends the better.

I really don't want to see "summarization" tokens of other people's tokens.
by mort96 | 2025-09-18 20:17:44+00:00
> If you end up with bits that hash to 0xabc123 and I end up with bits that hash to 0x456def and we both think we installed fooapp version 7.8.9, there's nothing about the version number that tells us which one of us has been hacked.

If this happens, then either the NPM registry has been compromised or my system's 'npm' program or your system's 'npm' program has been compromised.

If the discrepancy is due to one of us running a malicious 'npm', then that malicious 'npm' CLI program could've just not flagged the signature mismatch, so specifying a hash doesn't help us anything.

If both of us are using a non-compromised 'npm' program, and the NPM registry isn't compromised, then we will never be in a situation where my "fooapp version 7.8.9" and your "fooapp version 7.8.9" differs. If a malicious actor compromises an account with publish access for the fooapp package, then all the malicious actor can do is publish a new "fooapp version 7.8.10" that has malware. That's what has happened in every single one of these high profile NPM hacks. You can't retroactively change old versions of your own packages. So to protect against this kind of attack (which, again, means every single NPM hack to date), just not auto-upgrading between minor versions is enough.

To protect against a compromised NPM registry, I agree that we should have package checksums living in our git repositories. But NPM already has that: the package-lock.json contains checksums. I don't understand what it would give us to have that checksum in the package.json instead of the package-lock.json.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-18 20:17:44+00:00
This is pretty much the case for non-abortion, non-political situations, too. For example, MMI, a small watch company out of Singapore, had their Facebook page removed in the middle of one of their Kickstarter campaigns earlier this year.

To anyone on the outside, it's not clear at all if (a) there really was some kind of issue that consumers would want to know about, or (b) their page shouldn't have been removed to begin with.

It's not only (I'm sure) annoying to the company, which, being small, has responded in a relatively circumspect way, but annoying as a consumer because it's not very easy to interpret the signal.

In the same ballpark, but reverse, my news feed always has one or two posts from maybe fake groups that have seemingly AI-written stories that carefully mention the Tedoo app, and FB is all too happy to let that slide no matter how many times I report it as spam...
by MisterTea | 2025-09-18 20:18:29+00:00
Well not thrown away, but discarded as tailings. Otherwise, that would be quite the garbage pail and matching truck to collect it! :-D

Though it doesn't address the issue of waste from the refining process which currently looks like this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...
by tsunamifury | 2025-09-18 20:18:31+00:00
First, I would suggest your mentality is a bit... funny as you're saying you want to learn but NOT LIKE THAT.

But as someone who did HCI at Berkeley/Stanford and teach it currently, it is a LOT more technical and heuristic driven than just 'designerlyness"

So you know, do it, but like also... try to branch out and learn too.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-18 20:18:36+00:00
There's certain books that I've been rereading for decades.

Right now, I'm getting to the end of Glen Cook's The Black Company series (11 books). I've read it many times, but I keep on enjoying it, each time, as if it's the first time.

I do not get the same from movies or shows. I have a few favorites that I watch over, but not usually more than once.

It's just not the same.
by fl0ki | 2025-09-18 20:18:57+00:00
As someone who does not use Stage Manager, I don't find that the other ways macOS has become more like iOS were, to me, bad ways. The most notable changes I find were that the Settings app became far more organized and consistent, and the Control Center has tons of convenient shortcuts with a very high level of customization.

In fact, Control Center is currently less customizable than iOS because you've been able to fully rearrange the controls on iOS for an entire year now. If anything, it could stand to be more like iOS in that regard, though it's not a huge deal either way.

I don't particularly use widgets much either, but I never felt their inclusion was a net negative, they're just not as useful as other interfaces already available on macOS.

One thing I'll definitely cede though: having some "macOS" apps actually be iOS apps, like Home, is weird not just because the UI design is unusual but also because there's been no attempt to make standard desktop hotkeys work, not even Esc.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 20:19:23+00:00
Four of the eight cores have matrix accelerators. If you are using the full 2 TOPS of accelerated performance, you have four more otherwise symmetric cores free to run regular workloads, otherwise you have eight. I'd rather have this setup than 4 regular cores and a separate asymmetric accelerator that provides 2 TOPS to matrix/tensor calculations but otherwise sits idle.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-18 20:19:37+00:00
The article (press release?) left me extremely baffled about the paper's contribution. (The title is… obvious? I'd worked it out a priori, and I don't even work in this field!) The paper's "eLife assessment" (apparently a form of peer review) cleared it up: https://elifesciences.org/articles/99602

> These conclusions could largely have been predicted by extrapolating from previous findings in the field, but nevertheless demonstrating them directly is a fundamental advance.

The contribution of this paper is a dataset and a methodology, which the abstract describes:

> Here, we investigate sex-biased gene expression and micro-evolutionary patterns of these genes in populations of subspecies and species of wild mice (genus Mus) that were raised under controlled conditions. […] Comparison with data from humans shows mostly fewer sex-biased genes compared to mice and strongly overlapping SBI distributions between the somatic organs of the sexes. We conclude that adult individuals are composed of a mosaic spectrum of sex characteristics in their somatic tissues that should not be cumulated into a simple binary classification.

which seems a clearer description, more appropriate to layfolk, than the article. The article also claims:

> This also means: mouse models are of very limited use when applied to sex-specific medicine in humans.

which the paper doesn't say. The paper does say:

> The fast evolution of sex-biased expression is also a warning sign that mouse models may not be suitable for developing gender-specific medicinal treatments for humans, especially in view of the fact that humans have a much less sex-biased transcriptome than mice.

(That doesn't mean the article's claim isn't true, but press release articles shouldn't draw conclusions not present in their source material!) We're well outside my domain of expertise, but the paper says:

> All of the SBI distributions are more or less overlapping between males and females, including breast tissue, similar to that in mouse.

and we know that most sexual dimorphism in humans is governed by the endocrine system (including in breast tissue), and that isn't necessarily directly linked to gene expression (though it often is); so I suspect there are actually plenty of ways in which mouse models can be usefully applied to sex-specific medicine in humans. What they have done here is described a limitation (or, I suppose, a family of limitations), not concluded that the limitations are "very". Indeed, the final sentence of the conclusion is:

> It will therefore be interesting in the future to focus on their roles in generating the differences between the somatic sexual phenotypes in given species.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-18 20:20:24+00:00
HN has a general rule against posts about politics that occasionally gets ignored for particularly noteworthy events.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-18 20:20:35+00:00
> Fascism and Authoritarianism is defeated by satire and mockery.

Napoleon shut down all the newspapers that criticized him. He was only undone by Waterloo (actually mostly by his own folly of trying to invade Russia ...)

I don't think there's any record of Authoritarianism being defeated by satire, if for no other reason than the authoritarians shut the satire down.

Looks like it's time for an American _Solidarność_
by jcul | 2025-09-18 20:20:47+00:00
My (limited) understanding is that cephfs, RGW (S3), RBD (block device) are all different things using the same underlying RADOS storage.

You can't mount and access RGW S3 objects as cephfs or anything, they are completely separate (not counting things like goofys, s3fs etc.), even if both are on the same rados cluster.

Not sure if TernFS differs there, would be kind of nice to have the option of both kinds of access to the same data.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-18 20:21:45+00:00
In my STEM degree I was forced to take an ethics class, if I wanted the degree. One thing that stood out to me in that class was how we were exposed to many schools of ethics, and looking at the limitations of each one. Specifically, when one train of thought didn't have any limitation to it.

When you regurgitate this, it lacks an explanation on what the limitations would be, what wouldn't be accepted rule of engagement, based on the same rationale.

"it's a densely populated place with civilians everywhere, except we arbitrarily decided that every male over the age of 15 is not a civilian, so we'll bomb and bulldoze the surface level and not find any of the tunnels whatsoever, because the opponent is so different!"

isn't Israel supposed to have the highest concentration of PhD's anywhere? this is cognitively negligent
by einpoklum | 2025-09-18 20:21:52+00:00
1. Much of this suggestion has nothing to do with AI. Offering learners alternative forms of media for a subject is interesting and probably useful, regardless.

2. About the AI part: Let's remember that at the other end of these bells and whistles there is a huge amount of expended electricity, and sprawling sever farm infrastructure. That's the hidden cost. For now, it might seem like someone else is footing the bill, but that will not last for very long - and in fact, it already starting not to last. See:

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-data-centers-why-electric-bill-s...

A typical US household is paying a 26 USD "AI tax" this year through its electricity bill.
by jmward01 | 2025-09-18 20:22:09+00:00
I have a friend that grew up near this and he has told me repeatedly that many of the locals are very against it since they believe it takes ranching (their jobs and the local economy) away from the area. It is interesting when this much land, or this much of any resource, is involved how many and how big the secondary consequences can be. That being said, we have to have this kind of thing, but it should be more of a national or at least state wide effort to help make those impacted whole. The US national parks system has proven to be one of the best investments the US ever made. It is too bad that as a country we barely recognize the value to the point that private efforts like this one become needed.