MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 01jonny01 | 2025-09-19 13:24:15+00:00
A lot of heat here, but there are two separate issues getting conflated:

Attribution mechanism: YouTube's public "view" appears to come from a client endpoint distinct from ad/monetization events. EasyList recently started blocking on of those endpoints that will naturally drop public views from desktop users with blockers, even if the video still streams. That's not a shadow change by YouTube so much as an external filter change.

Metric design: Having one ambiguous "view" counter that's used for everything (social proof, discovery, sponsor decks) guarantees drama when any attribution channel breaks.

If YouTube wants less speculation and paranoia on this issue, the fix isn’t "evade EasyList", but to separate metrics. I think plays should be public and keep monetized views in the Studio.

Source: I've done lots of testing on skipvids.com whilst using ad blockers and I can confirm they can effect view count
by hdctambien | 2025-09-19 13:24:37+00:00
To be fair, the applications of geometry that most people might end up using in real life are going to be boring to a 15 year old.

How many paving stones do I need to buy for the walkway I'm building in my backyard?

How far from the top of the roof should I start attaching this gutter so that I still have roof to nail it to 30 feet later?

How big of a ladder do I need to get to that branch I want to cut down in that tall tree?

Will I be able to get this couch up the stairs, around the corner, and through the door?
by bluedino | 2025-09-19 13:24:49+00:00
It's weird how certain things have remained the same, or even cheaper when accounting for inflation.

I've bought an $899 MacBook Air. I've bought a $229 65" TV. $20 handheld emulator. A lot of tools and random things from Amazon are still the same price.

But the house I bought was double what the one was in 2018. The car I haven't bought would be up 50%. Insurance costs are way up. Phone bill is the same.

Groceries are way up in general, certain things like meat basically doubled but Yogurt and cheese is still about the same price. Junk food like soda, cookies, and chips are double (thankfully I don't buy much). Potatoes, onions, peppers are still the same price.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-19 13:25:43+00:00
Until the day the machine has been UEFI-flagged to require online connectivity regardless. Yes, that's a thing, and the flag's been lurking in the UEFI since Windows 10 1809, even. Intune/Windows Autopilot leverages it for out-of-the-box MDM enforcement.

https://oofhours.com/2019/08/17/requiring-a-network-connecti...
by JohnFen | 2025-09-19 13:25:46+00:00
This struck me too. Starbucks sells an optional luxury good, and when money is tight, optional luxury goods are (or should be) the first things people jettison.

When I've been broke, I wouldn't have even considered buying anything that Starbucks (or similar) sells. I'm buying less of actual necessities such as food, and the price of one latte can buy several meals worth of basic foodstuffs. Even if I decide to splurge and buy an occasional fancy coffee drink, I'd be getting it from a place that makes better ones than Starbucks.

But I suspect he's using "cash-strapped" in the sense of "a temporary cash-flow problem" when most normal people will interpret the term as meaning "actually broke".
by triceratops | 2025-09-19 13:25:58+00:00
> Solar charged vehicles, such as with a Tesla powerwall

Paying tens of thousands to avoid a few cents per gallon doesn't immediately strike me as a great deal.

"According to Caltrans, Californians with gas-powered vehicles pay about $300 a year in state gas taxes."[1]

This is a tiny minority of EV drivers.

> Doesn’t really work out in road repair costs

For that matter did the gasoline tax ever fully cover repair costs when EVs weren't around? I always had the impression that funds were needed from other sources too. It's interesting to see so many people get religion about "making drivers pay their fair share" after EVs became popular.

> By weight and by tire count

Even better!

1. https://abc7.com/post/california-looks-eliminate-gas-tax-rep...
by stemonteduro | 2025-09-19 13:26:28+00:00
Yeah, I know that first you find a problem with people who suffer from it and then you build the product, but as I said this was my first attempt and I started right away because I already had an MVP requested by a friend who needed to track IG profiles for work (he’s a journalist).

I already have the book (it’s called “Partire Leggeri” in italian), I’ll move it up on my reading list right away. Thanks!
by enraged_camel | 2025-09-19 13:26:29+00:00
>> It takes an immense amount of effort to implement the functionality of a component library and make sure all components work well together, from a design (colors, sizes, etc.) and behavior (animations, states like disabled, etc.) perspective.

>> It’s best to build on top of a good component library, and not develop your own.

This, so much this. Suffering greatly at work right now because my predecessor decided to go with ShadCN as opposed to using a full-blown, fully-featured component library. Their reasoning: it's better to have "lego blocks" with which we can build our own components because that would give us full control.

Yeah, no. In 99% of cases, you ain't gonna need that level of granularity. Just take something that exists and tweak it until it looks the way you want.
by davydm | 2025-09-19 13:26:48+00:00
I don't see how replacing uses of classes with selection by id is an improvement - it achieves the same result, but now that "class" can only be used in one place - might as well have used inline styles if css classes are "so bad". Also, you now can't make partial styles, or styles that are only _slightly_ different, eg

textarea { color: red; }

textarea.disabled { color: gray; }

Aiming for full semantic html and applying styles at the tag level _is_ good, but this seems like a not-very-useful refactor which has only made the code more rigid /2c
by Jackson__ | 2025-09-19 13:27:18+00:00
This appears to be a classic vision fail on the VLM's part. Which is entirely unsurprising for anyone who has used open VLMs for anything except ""benchmarks"" in the past two god damn years. The field is in a truly embarrassing state, where they pride themselves how it can solve equations off a blackboard, yet couldn't even accurately read a d20 dice roll among many other things. I've tried (and failed) to have VLMs accurately caption images for such a long time, yet anytime I check on the output it is blindingly clear that these models are awful at actually _seeing things_.
by kalberg6429 | 2025-09-19 13:27:50+00:00
That is one of the most grotesque whitewashes of Zionist terrorism I have ever read. You are trying to rewrite a story of Zionist terrorism and colonial succession into a heartwarming family drama.

The idea that Zionists were just a colony "looking to Britain for guidance" is an understatement. They were a de facto rival colonial project that used terror to expel the British, the Zionists even ironically described the British as occupiers of Palestine.[0] The Zionists weren't looking for "guidance," they were busy planting bombs[1]. Your claim that it was "never personal" and there was "no hate" is a disgusting lie. Tell that to the families of the British sergeants the Irgun hanged and booby-trapped. Tell that to the scores of British officials murdered in the King David Hotel bombing. It was a vicious Zionist terror campaign, and pretending otherwise is obscene.

Finally, your "convenient proxy" explanation sanitizes the ugly truth. The West didn't ally with Israel despite its history of terrorism, but they allied with it because of it. Israel's violent founding proved it could be a ruthless and effective enforcer for Western imperial interests. That is the real foundation of your "special relationship."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231029055310/ojp.gov/ncjrs/vir...
by skydhash | 2025-09-19 13:28:11+00:00
I think the only place left for consistency are Emacs, TUI (but 256 colors and 24 bit enthusiasts are encroaching that), desktop environments like GNOME and KDE.

The most sensible approach is one by mpv. Ship the core logic of your app in a bundle/library. And everyone can build the environment specific UI for that.
by ur-whale | 2025-09-19 13:28:20+00:00
Was this on an electric or a gas stove?

Now if we're cooking with gas (as the east Germans use to say in the 80's), that generates quite some PM2.5 in an of itself.

Also, anyone cooking eggs without getting to the Maillard reaction (or for that matter, with oil instead of butter) should never again legally allowed to approach a frying pan :D
by gonational | 2025-09-19 13:28:20+00:00
One of the biggest beefs I have with AI in the workplace is that LLM coding does not discourage large piles of code, since the output is instantaneous. Instead of having to type out 1400 lines of gibberish, the LLM will do this for you in an instant, instead of you having to think through the problem and come up with 175 lines of code that achieve the same result in a cleaner and more efficient way.
by breppp | 2025-09-19 13:28:30+00:00
I am merely stating a fact, the poster above tried to say that the Irgun had popular support, that is false. The population was socialist, that is a fact

While your representation of what happened in Altalena is so overly post-colonialist it almost reads like satire.

You keep failing to address my original argument, while trying to show any keyword I write is some part of a post-colonial masterplan straight out of the first paper of a humanities bachelor dorm room.

Don't you think Palestinians have a terrorist organization problem, currently? Do you think they can do something about it?
by floydnoel | 2025-09-19 13:28:47+00:00
Unfortunately not, I used that advice for three brand-new purchased Honda’s: a Fit, a Cr-V, and an Odyssey Touring Elite Minivan. The CRV was the last Honda I will ever buy. Honda stuffed too many computers into the car and it would kill the battery after one day. This is when I was traveling for work, making the vehicle useless. Honda dealer said “that’s how they all are now, because of the electronics the battery dies every few days” and they even claimed that they go around charging up all the vehicles on the lot with a portable battery charger every day because of it! Absolutely a lemon brand now. These companies just have a huge disrespect for software and quality in technology.
by JeremyNT | 2025-09-19 13:28:49+00:00
She does explicitly go on to say "by Hollywood standards"

I honestly saw it was $15million and figured that's a bargain for the estate of one of the most esteemed directors of his generation. Relative to his level of fame and respect, his monetary assets do seem low.

But then this certainly matches the public perception of Lynch. He made the things that he wanted to make, not the things that were guaranteed to sell. I'm sure commercial success was important to him, but there were lots of paths he could have taken that would have lead to a lot more.
by nevinera | 2025-09-19 13:29:25+00:00
I think you're right, but I suspect the root here is one of legal liability - if rubycentral is operating as a nonprofit that hosts _a recurring attack vector on other companies_, they'll have legal obligations to secure that service against those attacks. I assume they are continuously deploying out of that repository, and took the simplest route to controlling the attack vectors?

I'm not sure how anyone familiar with open-source communities would fail to predict the backlash though. They really should have forked the repository and switched the deployments over to their downstream fork (if I'm right about the root cause here).

(I'm mostly thinking in terms of supply-chain attacks, like this one: https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/08/25/rubygems-security-respo...)
by igleria | 2025-09-19 13:29:43+00:00
When time came for my incapacitated-by-stroke father to move after we sold the family house to his new apartment, he did exactly this:

> they want to evaluate every single item

I almost gave up on him and only resumed when he was literally crying for me to come back. Did not regret coming back.

When he died 5 years later, my poor mother needed WEEKS to throw away all the useless shit he had accumulated in his apartment. Then I did regret not being harsher on him, but he was mentally and physically ill.

To anyone reading this: You are not the only one being hurt when you are a hoarder. Let people help you.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-09-19 13:30:07+00:00
That, presumably, is an electronic/computerized feature, not mechanical. So if the car is damaged enough to not have electricity, or that board was damaged in whatever caused the airbags to deploy, then the doors won't automatically unlock.

Given the kinds of things that could make an airbag go off, I wouldn't bet on that feature working when needed.
by Cyykratahk | 2025-09-19 13:30:20+00:00
There is some help text when clicking on the current goal amount:

> If an organiser turns on automated goal setting, GoFundMe adjusts their goal automatically based on the fundraiser’s characteristics and performance. You can see the goal history if GoFundMe has ever made automatic updates.

> To help the organiser reach their goal, we start them at a lower goal and adjust it as donations come in.
by sarchertech | 2025-09-19 13:30:27+00:00
> they are some of the worst corporate actors in the history of the world. And that is not an exaggeration.

I think that’s an exaggeration. The bar is pretty high (low). The history of the world has The East India Company, The Dutch East India Company, other companies transporting and selling slaves, the various companies that helped carry out The Holocaust, companies directly involved in other genocides, companies directly benefiting from and helping to enforce apartheid, companies pushing opioids, cigarette companies, mining companies etc…
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-19 13:31:12+00:00
Mostly sarcasm (you already get North from Earth's rotation on its axis and don't need the Sun), but fixing "up" on a map (so that it doesn't rotate as you move around) makes sense, and agreeing with general mathematical convention is convenient so that we don't need to teach more exceptions. If we're going to flip the sign of something it should be electric charge.
by eviks | 2025-09-19 13:32:18+00:00
Oh, sure, those are indeed major fails in all of the OSes - no guides and no easy way to find anything about fundamental operations (it should be easier than googling).

But these are separate issues. For example, even with the scrollbars there can be a change between two behaviors: click on the empty bar jumps to that % or jumps by 1 page. And one can be a click and another a Shift-Click - where in the OS would you discover that??? And the scrollbar width - can only find a registry hack to restore that from some tech article/blog post/ etc, nothing in that waste of the Win 11 Settings app.
by Antibabelic | 2025-09-19 13:32:55+00:00
Overuse of rule of three, cliches like "This was not X. It was Y." and similar, obligatory bulleted list, overall overly grandiose. None of these are a smoking gun, but the smell is definitely here. AI detection tools also confirm my suspicions. I don't have a horse in the race in regards to the content, since I'm not a Ruby developer, I would just prefer to not see AI-written comments on HN. If this is so important, you can take the time to type it out yourself.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-19 13:33:15+00:00
It is significant though?

The suggested board is powered by USB, that's 5V 500mA, so, 2.5W. Let's say the tube is run at the recommended 380V, at 2.5W, that's a current of 6.5mA, which is barely painful, and not dangerous. I guess that with that power, if the circuit really wanted to hurt you, it could boost the voltage in the 50-100V range for a ~30mA shock, which is definitely painful and the start of what is considered dangerous. Electric safety is complicated, there is so much to take into account: current, voltage, frequency, location, presence of water, etc... Skin resistance is far from constant.

Maybe it could do more if it disregards the 500mA USB limit to the full 1.2A that the Flipper Zero can deliver, or with capacitors, but it doesn't seem to have enough of them for a significant power reserve. If it could do that, I would also worry about plugging it to my Flipper Zero or to anything of value out of fear of damaging it, as it would have to be of pretty terrible design, but well, that's AliExpress after all.
by vladms | 2025-09-19 13:33:18+00:00
I don't know the distribution of people using left or right across the world and how it is determined. It might be even close to 50% everywhere in early infancy, but once one "main direction" emerged at society level (by luck - like there were 4 people writing in that direction versus 2 in the other), maybe everybody is "pushed" in that direction.

Anyhow it's a matter of trade-offs and each society ended up with different ones - I mean direction I find least controversial, think of Chinese and Ancient Egyptian scripts that are logographic - why did they end up with that?

We can also analyze if some convention makes sense or not and why, even if the initial decision was taken for the "wrong" (or some irrational) reasons (ex: the village priest heard a voice).
by bmartin13 | 2025-09-19 13:33:23+00:00
Using words like "jumped" in headlines exactly why NPR is continuing to lose public trust. The data is super easy to find. CPI rose slightly last month, and the overall trend looks to have stabilized. I believe the FED targets for ~ 3% inflation.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
by LarryMade2 | 2025-09-19 13:33:24+00:00
There is not really one solution - you need to answer some specific needs to help determine the best fit.

What do you want as output?

Do you want it web based?

Do you want it to run on which platforms? (important if it's iOS and Android)

Are there any language specific features you want to use? (i.e. mapping may want to use PostreSQL)

What devices do you want it to run on? and are those devices disconnected from the internet?

Game oriented (high-end gaming?)?

User-Friendly to install.update?

Integrates with say Microsoft AD?

Open source with a large potential community?

These answers will help whittle down the choices. One language might do most of that stuff but not as good as picking the right tools for the job. (which also includes the ones you really like to work with - which is a major point)

Then pick one and start - If it doesn't work out, switch. One of my favorite mantras: "stop shopping - start doing".
by mfer | 2025-09-19 13:33:40+00:00
There is a lot missing from the articles on this whole space. The farmers are getting squeezed for things like profits. For example...

1. Seed prices - there is a lot of patented GMO stuff in circulation and pricing around that.

2. Farm equipment - bigger equipment, more sensors and computers, higher costs (even around fixing things)

It would be great if there was some investigative reporting that covered all the angles.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-19 13:35:10+00:00
> Even more concerning is the idea that contributor access could become contingent on employment status or ideological alignment. Whether someone is employed by Ruby Central - or holds left-leaning, right-leaning, or apolitical views - should have no bearing on their ability to contribute to open source. Merit, dedication, and community trust must remain the foundation.

Is there any evidence of this? It's not in the PDF.

Also, this comment is clearly AI and more importantly, it affects the quality. Ex: "It's time we demand that the institutions claiming to represent us act accordingly." It seems "the institutions" have been representing them fine until now, why "it's time"? "This was not a misunderstanding. It was a hostile takeover"..."This was a hostile takeover" (or "is", it's still ongoing). "The recent actions taken by Ruby Central - [list]...Ruby Central's actions - [different list]"...the comment tries to explain what Ruby Central has done and what the maintainers demand, but it's vague and disorganized; the linked PDF is better.
by tzury | 2025-09-19 13:35:13+00:00
Google's strategic execution with Gemini over the last two quarters has been impressive. Its deep integration into core products—from the consumer-facing Workspace and Search to developer platforms like Google Cloud and Colab—demonstrates a cohesive, ecosystem-wide approach.

This period marks Google's transition from a preparatory phase to an aggressive market push, which is thus far yielding significant momentum.

This contrasts with the apparent friction in the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, where long-term strategic alignment seems uncertain. Furthermore, there's a growing perception that competitors like Anthropic are achieving superior performance in specialized domains like software engineering. This suggests OpenAI's current model, which appears heavily focused on optimizing its existing architecture, may be approaching diminishing returns on genuine innovation.
by evertedsphere | 2025-09-19 13:35:22+00:00
It's not an attack on an idea.

It's pointing out that the person who posted something couldn't be bothered to actually write it themselves. The "content" is the prompt, which is of course never shared because it's probably so trite that it's not going to get anyone's interest unless it's stochastically decompressed into a large amount of text.

Like the sibling commenter, I do not write Ruby and do not care about this conflict apart from a general interest in supply chain stuff. I'm merely tired of the constant encroachment of obvious LLM prose in HN submissions and (albeit less commonly) in comments.
by fphilipe | 2025-09-19 13:36:02+00:00
In addition to making the link look shady, it adds considerable lag to opening the link.

I'm using Finicky[1] on Mac to rewrite the URL by extracting the original URL from the query params[2].

1: https://github.com/johnste/finicky

2: https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/31e3d18fe5f51b2fd8...
by byroot | 2025-09-19 13:36:09+00:00
> What we've witnessed over the past week

Who is "we"? And what did they witness?

All we got right now is one side of the story.

It is indeed surprising such change wouldn't be immediately followed by a public announcement, but they've been founding and managing RubyGems for a very long time now, so it's not even clear to me how this can be a "takeover".

I'll happily join with my pitchfork if it turns out this is indeed a malevolent move, but until I've read their side of the story, I'd rather wait and see.

Edit: 35 minutes later, here we go: https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-the-stewardship-o...
by arghwhat | 2025-09-19 13:36:30+00:00
Yay for third-party email services that From: be a no-reply address from an entirely different company (and therefore only authenticity validation for that company), and a Reply-To: to some obscure mailbox from the supposed sender. I'm sure that makes perfect sense to most people.

> So the rule of "don't click links in emails" is the only foolproof rule.

The only truly foolproof rule is "don't open emails". Also helps a lot on mental health and associated expenditures!
by eviks | 2025-09-19 13:36:38+00:00
Yes they can (tm)!

Consider the latest UI disaster - Apple with liquid glass making stuff worse in the most fundamental way - decreasing readability. Doing worse was extra cost, so yeah, in many cases companies can just do things better by not wasting the design money and spending part of it on actual design improvements. No need to bring up the myth of the huge 50% savings when using a single menu everywhere, there is no way it costs that much (neither does having different padding values per platform)!