MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 02:12:10+00:00
It is my own frustration with "Blueskyism" [1] that has gotten me to plan out the work that would get those statistics, that is, build something that can look at emotionally negative people's profiles so I don't have to. Haven't done it because... well, I'm always taking photos or developing photos or posting photos or posting here.

But yeah, I one of those strange liminal figures that won't ever put his head up to be counted around the University because it would be trouble. If I meet a professor in the hallway and start asking questions pretty soon it is... "You're not a civilian are you?" Grad students frustrate me because the kid who works on density functional calculations for metal organic frameworks can't answer "how do you make a MOF?" which got me to go home and look up the answer which is really simple, "mix the ingredients and bake in the oven"

In those few areas where I really am an expert in something it is frustrating as hell to deal with communities that don't recognize it, it's one reason why I never played the game for stack overflow -- for a lot of subjects my opinion is mid, but in cases where I've fought hard to get the right answer I'm not going to play a game I don't want to play on a site to get to post it.

A lot of people at my Uni are really stuck up: my current nexus of frustration is in sports photography where nobody with any actual authority in sports or communications at my Uni wants to acknowledge my work because my camera is my only press pass. I know I am going to get some recognition of some kind some day because I keep working at it and I wind up meeting some of the players and assistant coaches and the people from the alumni associations who put on the tailgates and as much as I appreciate it when sports comm does things I know are hard I know I can be there sometimes where they aren't getting results in my own way.

[1] if the “Blueskyist” really wants things to get better politically (maybe they don’t) they are the ones who need to understand the case against it
by pyuser583 | 2025-09-25 02:12:14+00:00
Narrator is portraying poor suburbs, and wealthy inner cities. That’s not often the case.

Suburbs are often wealthier, healthier, etc.

During my life, I’ve watched this gradually change. “Inner cities” was a euphemism. You don’t want to live in a euphemism. Now wealthy residents often live in luxury condos downtown.

But the video is talking about how suburbs are impoverishing, while inner cities wealth building. That’s a bit much.

The author also talks about lot about “car dependency.” I’ve also watched cars become exponentially more expensive. This began when the government began buying up used cars - a deliberate policy.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-25 02:13:08+00:00
While I mostly agree its a matter of jargon, the original author never calls their camera a DSLR.

Also yes while yes many cameras do not have moving shutters, they still operate with an electronic shutter which just like a moving one does have various limitations.

I'd argue though to many a photographer, calling any ILC or sufficiently costly camera a DSLR is akin to a post calling an android phone a linux phone. To the layperson the nuance between ubuntu's kernel or a pixel's doesnt matter to them, however to the intended audiences it sure does.
by hattmall | 2025-09-25 02:13:21+00:00
That's interesting, but it's almost the opposite for me. I get way drunker in a bar because the environment is inviting and it's easier to order another drink at the bar than to get up and get it myself. The bartender typically sees when you are getting low and offers another drink.

I would also spend way more money on gambling when at a location to do so. The desire to bet on sports on my phone is really low because it's boring so I won't do more than enough to make a game interesting.

When I used to have to make an effort to get things that are now legal but previously illegal I would be much more compelled to make that effort to avoid having to do it in the future when I wanted the thing. Which inevitably would lead to more doing of the thing. Now that I know I can get it anytime I don't actually care about it.
by dhosek | 2025-09-25 02:14:57+00:00
Proper scale makes the visualization impractical. I wrote about this with respect to a US map showing mountains on my mailing list: https://dahosek.substack.com/p/one-million-stories

“any accurate depiction of elevation would be indistinguishable from a flat map at that scale. The coast-to-coast measure of the US is a bit under 3000 miles, while the highest elevation in the continental US is a bit under 4½ miles above sea level, so in a 1000-pixel map, that would translate to a 1–2 pixel height for Mt Whitney which is the highest point in the contiguous United States.”

and also

“the difference in elevation between Everest and the Marianas Trench is less than the bulging of the earth from its rotation. And that amount is less than you might guess. If we scale the earth down to a diameter of one foot (which would be bigger than my childhood globe), the bulge would be 0.04in or roughly 1mm. Good luck distinguishing your oblate spheroid from a sphere with those numbers.”
by cocoricamo | 2025-09-25 02:15:04+00:00
Because people are idiots and assholes. There are a bunch of radicalized idiots in FLOSS that want to impose their world view on everyone else and then have the balls to call anyone who disagrees fascist, nazi, or whatever term they can come up with.

It's like when they were adding caveats to licenses in the vein of "if you believe this or that then you cannot use my software because you're trash" (paraphrasing, but similar enough).

It's time we end up this shit. FLOSS is supposed to be about contribution and building something that's useful for all of us regardless of our political leaning. Instead we have assholes poisoning the well and idiots that follow them thinking that the monster they're creating is not going to eat them if they clap hard enough.

This comment will probably get flagged but whatever.
by nvlled | 2025-09-25 02:16:03+00:00
> The unintuitive part is that this works in the first place and doesn't throw an error

What the hell? So you do agree that it's unintuitive but the supporting points you keep giving are completely, utterly tangential. That's what I have been saying all this time, that it's unintuitive, what you are even disagreeing with me for? The analogy?

I repeat this once again, I made the analogy to simplify and make it clear because some responses seems to miss it. I've already addressed your points, but you keep giving back the same supposed rebuttal, different words but same meaning. Nothing about what you say invalidates the analogy.

> But if you know about this unintuitive feature and are relying on it instead of accessing the fields by their fully qualified names, then you should already have a gnawing feeling that asks you "what happens when there are conflicts?" (and the answer is - it does the intuitive thing)

If you are deeply aware of the quirks, intuition no longer applies. You rely on intuition when you are in an unfamiliar situation. So again, nothing what you said just now supports any of your argument, whatever it is.
by dang | 2025-09-25 02:16:10+00:00
Please don't spam the threads with massive lists. It's enough to link to the information.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to show, other than that YC funds a lot of startups and a lot of them are working in AI, which is what you'd expect during any major tech wave.

In fact, YC funds so many startups that your list is actually misleadingly short, unless you meant to argue that AI startups are a low percentage.
by jashmota | 2025-09-25 02:17:58+00:00
The way I think about this - we should not have multi screens. Human field of vision is 60 degrees for central and about 120 degrees binocular. The bucket of the excavator is way narrower than this which means actual task doesn't require wide vision.

So if we are able to have really good autonomous safety layers to ensure safe movements, and dynamically resize remote teleop windows, you'd make the operator more efficient. So while we stream 360 degree view, we get creative in how we show it.

That's on the vision side. We also stream engine audio, and do haptic feedback.

Takeuchi are interesting! Rare ones to have blades even on bigger sizes - is that why you got one?
by riemannzeta | 2025-09-25 02:19:13+00:00
I agree with your first and second sentences completely -- but as to the "holy grail"...

Isn't Bitcoin (or Ethereum, or Solana, or whatever your L1 favorite is) itself the "internet-native stable coin" we want, except for their lack of stability? In other words, if we didn't have a need to exchange into local currency, what remaining need would there be except for lower price volatility?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-09-25 02:20:46+00:00
> From that source: "Near the scene at Hortman's home, authorities say they found an SUV made to look like those used by law enforcement. Inside they found fliers for a local anti-Trump "No Kings" rally scheduled for Saturday and a notebook with names of other lawmakers."

If only there were some way to put together a murder list of leftists and collected information about where groups of leftists were gathering.

> It seems pretty clear he's attacking 'traitors' to his cause.

You're so close. Let's now imagine all the causes that the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ-rights Trump supporter might have.
by syed_qutub3 | 2025-09-25 02:20:49+00:00
Thinking out loud: The emissions are extremely weak. And so it COULD be epiphenomenal... but even as a side effect, the mechanism is still biochemically meaningful. I don't want to suggest consciousness or "life force" activity (Occam's razor suggests biochemical activity), but nonetheless, this opens up the need for deeper mechanistic understandings.
by dangus | 2025-09-25 02:21:54+00:00
In terms of rates of smoking, it is going well. Australia has the second lowest smoking rate of any country where women smoking isn’t taboo. (I.e., the only countries with lower smoking rates are New Zealand and a short list of countries where it’s culturally unacceptable for women to smoke.

While the article you linked points out that illicit tobacco sales make up a large percentage of the market, it’s a much smaller market. You might as well tell us that most guns sold in Japan are illegal, and therefore Japan has a bigger problem with guns than America.
by hattmall | 2025-09-25 02:22:38+00:00
It's pretty easy, we draw that line at things that are psychology designed to be exploitative. Well, I mean, we DON'T draw the line, but we should. Skiing carries risk but it generally provides participants enjoyment. There aren't companies that exploit psychological quirks to compel people to ski continuously even when they actively state they don't want to. Even alcohol companies don't generate their revenue on exploiting behavior patterns to compel more drinking.

Gambling and Social media do exactly that. In fact social media has purposely adopted the exact same patterns of gambling to make it so that "scrolling" IS gambling, but it's time and enjoyment instead of money. They don't just show you what you want all the time, they induce FOMO by only occasionally offering rewarding content, which results in compulsive usage.
by ludicity | 2025-09-25 02:23:06+00:00
Tecto AI is my favourite, as it forms the "AI for AI" ouroboros. Outrove also sounds confusing, because doesn't Salesforce already purport to have their own native AI features? And when I look them up, it seems they're just AI for recruiting, which is also what VoiceOS purports to do.

Looking up the founders is fascinating too. So many of them seem to have graduated and immediately started trailing what appear to be a string of back-to-back failed businesses, rarely with more than a year of staying power per attempt. It's hard to tell if that's "failing quickly" (desirable) or "frantically trying to get-rich-quick" (undesirable and what I run into in Melbourne most often).
by wowczarek | 2025-09-25 02:23:13+00:00
Text selector issue aside, even though this seems to be the leading narrative here, this user's problem is the language rather than text selection; they only need text selection to work around it. The site in question could simply generate translations, you know, like, make those algos do some work they are good at. Amongst all the other platforms, Airbnb does it, even for your chat with the host, which I often find amusing when chatting with a fellow speaker of my mother tongue via English. Anyhow, the technology is there.
by snackbroken | 2025-09-25 02:23:52+00:00
Someone who thinks Jerry Pallotta's "Who would win?" books are a good example of science communication directed at children should not be taken seriously. I'd go into why, but here's an actual zoologist doing a much better (and entertaining) job of it than I could: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgtE7_5uJ2p5Oeied2x4L...
by dang | 2025-09-25 02:23:56+00:00
You can't attack another user like that here.

Since you've continued to break the site guidelines right after we asked you to stop, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by gomox | 2025-09-25 02:24:22+00:00
Yeah, I was waiting for an actual 9 headed hydra of crap, featuring:

* a whole page of sponsored-yet-indistinguishable-from-organic results

* a confidently incorrect AI snippet

* the below-the-fold top organic results being all content spam

* the first actually relevant result from a reputable source being then paywalled with a "you ran out of stories for this month" overlay on a website I have never browsed in a year

* the 2nd actually relevant result prompting a "login with google" overlay with prefilled identity that gets clicked by accident 20% of the time

* all of the above in a Chrome browser, requiring a quadruple opt-out before allowing you to use GMail without also starting a browser-wide session to keep track of your every keystroke

* or alternatively an app based mobile interface where links can't be copied and pasted to prevent loss of tracking

* something with AMP

This is not even close to everything that is wrong, if anything it should be called "barely the tip of the iceberg of everything that is wrong".

In their defense it does feature a bunch of other invisible things (lack of cached results, lack of direct links you can obtain with a right click, etc)
by loneboat | 2025-09-25 02:24:23+00:00
Fair point, but I'd argue that "Google informed [you] of a perfectly viable alternative that might be cheaper" isn't what happened. What happened is "Google offered you Honda first, for no other reason than Honda paid them money to do so".

If you squint they may look like the same thing, but their subtle difference is important. One is a tool suggesting "Hey I see you're trying to do A, but I think B might also fit your needs", and the other is "You want A? Ok, I'll eventually point you towards A, but only after you consume this message from our sponsor."

Google's not genuinely thinking "Hey this will help the user more!" and building that into their tool - it's an ad platform that mimics being helpful, in the name of growing profits.

(That's fine for them to do btw; They're a company and they need to make money somehow.)
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-09-25 02:24:41+00:00
Linux is free as-in freedom. Linux is not zero-cost: it has taken tens of billions of dollars of investment from thousands of organisations over three decades - and countless volunteer hours - to make it what it is today; that the wider community gets Linux security patches and feature updates for free is a side-effect of the GPL license coupled with the low marginal cost of reproducing software once-written. I’m here to remind people that the bulk of Linux’ codebase was not written for free as an act of charity.

What I’m saying is that, hypothetically, if the entire business-world suddenly ditched Linux overnight and went back to IBM and Burrows like it’s the 1960s again again (and let’s pretend Android isn’t a thing either) then no-one would be funding significant Linux dev/eng work, and as much as we value the hacker-spirit of unpaid community/volunteer projects, I feel it isn’t enough to keep Linux viable and secure (especially in high-visibility, high-exposure scenarios like desktops and internet-facing services).
by hilsdev | 2025-09-25 02:24:53+00:00
To be pedantic for the people still reading this, curious enough to go further without falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

The reflex mirror in a (D)SLR directs the image up through the viewfinder prism to the eyepiece. This mirror flips upwards just before the shutter opens. This mechanic action has a decent bit of inertia and can cause blurring in some extreme cases.

Mirrorless refers to digital cameras where the sensor operates the digital viewfinder, so like an SLR “you get what you see”. For rangefinders and TLRs, your view is offset from the picture lens, so if you’re really trying to nail a composition and not “fix it in post” SLRs and mirrorless offer an advantage, which is part of why they became so predominant.
by glimshe | 2025-09-25 02:25:58+00:00
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I've heard people here asking for curbs on H1Bs for years because of not only abuses, but also engineers who come with a ton of experience as entry-level hires. I know this very well, I was one of these engineers. I was a senior software developer from overseas hired on H1B at the same level/pay of US college hires. I'm a citizen now.

Now that Trump is trying to do something about it, I start seeing a flood of negative posts. We need to decide what we want.
by tmtvl | 2025-09-25 02:26:55+00:00
If a service is only available through an app from either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store then use of that service is dependent on acceptance of either Alphabet's Terms Of Service, or worse, Apple's TOS. Considering these two organisations play fast and loose with universal human rights and have been fined multiple times for consumer-hostile behaviour... well, I'd say that consumer protection organisations should really do something about this.
by geuis | 2025-09-25 02:28:15+00:00
Because I was alive back then:

This was the venture funding "we're a startup era". And Google succeeded eventually.

But in that era making money didn't matter. It was just about grabbing market space. And oh boy did they succeed.

But all bills become due eventually. Stock holders start demanding continuing increasing profit and that eventually leads to the downfall of any good product.
by zeroq | 2025-09-25 02:28:17+00:00
One of my "sales pitches" is "I can find answers online, I know kung-fu".

I've been using internet since '98, and I somehow developed this elusive skill of knowing how to navigate all these ads, seo farms, paid content, murky websites, and getting straight to the answer, no matter what the question was.

For a long time I didn't thought of that as a special power. I thought it was natural, like driving a car, or speaking English. And I occasionally got surprised seeing someone trying to find something online and spending minutes, if not hours to get to the right place.

Last couple of years I found it to be way, way harder. And it's noticeably getting worse almost on a daily basis right now.

Recently I've tried perplexity and it was absolutely amazing. I know this may sound like a sales pitch, but I was really blown away by the user experience. Except it sometimes says "results cannot be found or I am not suppose to show them to you". Well, fair game, I wouldn't be able to find these results on google either.

I've seen a lot of change in the industry last 30 years, things we took for granted or thought would stay there forever. I genuinely think Google is finished as a search engine for the web. The only problem is that we don't have a solid contender yet. Perplexity is close tho.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-25 02:28:18+00:00
>Did my life got ruined by this? Well I'm an IT engineer

Seeing you were on dialup, how board where you on dec 31, 1999?

Me, I was up watching the systems work great, missing all the cool parties guzzling caffeine for 3 days. But it made managers happy for me to be there. If I tried that now, I would end up in the grave.
by trhway | 2025-09-25 02:28:49+00:00
When i first time 35 years ago in Siberia saw an excavator driving itself toward me without driver, i was struck like by lightning and first moment attributed it to hangover. Next moment though i saw the driver walking along the road looking for mushrooms and understood that the deep tracks in the unpaved road are like rails so that the excavator just moves along these tracks. Couple years later (this time another part of the country - a low populated part of the St.Petersburg region) my friends who were vacationing in a remote village there saw one day a large tractor passing on its own through that village, and next day guys came asking whether anybody saw a tractor without driver - the guys were drinking and details of how the tractor got away weren't clear though ...
by dang | 2025-09-25 02:29:23+00:00
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Jared's description about why YC is doing this now seems clear. If you know more or better, you're welcome to make a substantive argument. But please don't use this site for shallow putdowns—it's not what it's for.
by alanh | 2025-09-25 02:29:27+00:00
Curious, I asked Grok:

> Is there controversy over the true inventor of the telephone?Yes, there is controversy over the true inventor of the telephone. While Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited, several inventors and researchers argue for recognition based on their contributions:

> Antonio Meucci: An Italian inventor who filed a patent caveat for a "voice communication apparatus" in 1871, five years before Bell's patent. Meucci's device, the "teletrofono," could transmit voice over a wire. Due to financial hardship, Meucci couldn't renew his caveat, and Bell was granted the patent in 1876. In 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution (H.Res. 269) recognizing Meucci's contributions, stating he demonstrated a working device earlier, though it didn't officially credit him as the inventor. Some still argue Meucci deserves primary credit.

> Elisha Gray: An American engineer who filed a patent caveat for a telephone-like device on the same day as Bell, February 14, 1876. Bell's patent was filed hours earlier, leading to disputes. Some claim Bell may have had access to Gray’s ideas through patent office connections, though no definitive evidence supports this. Gray later challenged Bell’s patent but lost in court.

> Philipp Reis: A German inventor who developed a device called the "Reis telephone" in 1861, capable of transmitting music and some speech. While it was less practical for clear voice communication, some argue it was a precursor to the telephone.
by dwd | 2025-09-25 02:29:49+00:00
India very recently banned sports betting due to the affect it is having on society - particularly due to gambling on cricket which has been a problem for years.

Here's a list of cricketers that have been banned over the years. Many were even the captain of their respective team:

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

The list also doesn't include players like Ricky Ponting, Mark Waugh and Shane Warne who got away with a fine from the ACB.