MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-19 09:54:12+00:00
The media should definitely report on those. I would love to see those millions on the streets protesting. Sadly, lately that does not seem to be happening. Did you see that Guardian press guy interviewing people in Tel Aviv[1]? He had trouble even finding one person, who would openly state, that they feel bad for all the Palestinian civilians now suffering.

If they exist, then please show me those millions protesting. That would improve my image of the Israeli civilian population from "most don't care because it is not them suffering" to "there definitely is a sizable portion who does care and wants to be heard and seen".

[1]: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=nMyyVaiY4V8k
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-09-19 09:56:28+00:00
> Remote work, in particular, has helped with this. Work fewer hours, for less money

Honestly, this sounds like an armchair fantasy.

It sounds great on paper– tech jobs pay $150K, so just find a remote job and work half-time. Boom, less taxes and you still have $5K/mo plus tons of time!

IME though, 99% of jobs want to own you full-time. There are almost no roles where you can be part-time. The other alternative, independent contractor or Upwork, is also very difficult to start, even if you have good experience and skills.
by donatj | 2025-09-19 09:57:59+00:00
I ran Linux for a time in the late aughts and came to prefer Gnome to KDE at the time because it just felt more polished. I switched to macOS for many years now, but recently started playing with Linux again on a Thinkpad I got a deal on. Modern Gnome feels unreasonably uncomfigurable without extra tooling, and even with it the options I want are difficult to make work correctly.

I want my window controls on the left, and I want global menu. This was pretty standard and reliable in Gnome ten-fifteen years ago but now both options barely work. What the heck happened. Both of these worked pretty flawlessly in Unity. I'm still pissed at Ubuntu for killing it.
by Tarq0n | 2025-09-19 09:58:51+00:00
The discomfort visible in many commenter's reactions is telling, even if it isn't a good vs bad dichotomy.

The fact of the matter is that any data visualization brings with it some advantages and drawbacks. This can be projection, orientation or centering related. Acknowledging these drawbacks can be useful, and so is trying out alternative representations of the data every so often.

One thing I think can be acknowledged is that the poor job traditional maps do of representing Africa has affected policy towards countries in the continent for the worse. For instance misguided infrastructure projects.
by noduerme | 2025-09-19 09:58:53+00:00
Websites were still mostly selling goods and services in 2001. Not giving away hot takes and hallicinated summaries in exchange for eyeballs. In other words, after stuff like pets.com collapsed, people still found it useful to have pet food delivered, and the business model evolved. LLMs, on the other hand, don't seem to have a lot of public appeal. Most of the use cases are being shoved down the public's throat. Their appeal is to corporations as cost saving replacements for workers. But an AI bubble bursting would look like corporations rolling back their exuberance for the AI craze. What's already only speculatively profitable and requires enormous capex would probably become too toxic for anyone to try again for a generation.
by digitalbase | 2025-09-19 10:00:23+00:00
I think this is a real problem of "an open network". Disgusting people will find the network and abuse it.

There is a very insightful thread on nostr about it -> https://asknostr.site/question/note1lhvk3kkmaev6qzlpzzns69vw...

The top voted answer was

> Relays have to become more whitelisted and less open, and clients have to implement outbox model and stop relying on 2 or 3 big relays, then we can just stop worrying about this.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 10:00:29+00:00
I enjoyed both write-ups, but I think there's a common misconception that resources are infinite because it's a big company.

"Notice the false dichotomy: “important” or not, as if only important bugs can or should be fixed. That’s a great way for smaller bugs to pile up and eventually become a mountain."

But... if every small bug is fixed, huge bugs can be introduced. Big teams writing software have many more hurdles to successfully release even a bugfix. Resources must be prioritized, and I'd rather a company be honest about the limitations than promise to fix every "thing" a developer finds that doesn't do exactly what they think it should.

In reality, what does a company do when they become so large that it would be a poor use of resources to have a developer respond and investigate every suggestion or small bug as if it was an important matter? How do the actually-important things get addressed?

I think the issue here is just a part of reality. You can encourage an environment like the Microsoft forums where you'll get a useless incoherent response to your post within minutes, the Google method where contacting them is a game unless you're somehow connecting with AdWords sales, or the Apple method where it's extremely easy to connect with a person by phone, in person, or electronically... but unimportant/non-priority requests aren't going to get any traction.

Personally, I'll always take the last option where contacting a human is not only possible, it is easily accomplished in a business day.

I have had excellent support from Apple when I have had pressing issues. But I also understand I'm a power user with an eye for QA - a rolling software release that met my high standards would be overkill for most people and be economically unfeasible for a even a gigantic for-profit company.

Suggesting big numbers like Google's quarterly revenue has any bearing on the organization's ability to address bugs in their myriad of releases tells me this can be boiled down as "man shakes fist at cloud" (pun intended)
by johnisgood | 2025-09-19 10:00:52+00:00
> The problem arises since computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, but interpreting words of this kind requires considerable ability to interpret a wide range of contexts, possibly across many cultures, which is an extremely difficult task.

Humans have issues with such tasks, too, apparently. Hence their push to change IT terminology, e.g. master -> main git branch.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-19 10:01:26+00:00
He said, "The MAGA Gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"

Which is repeating the lie that Robinson is right wing. 100% false. He deserved to be fired for saying this, because it is delusional misinformation.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-19 10:02:28+00:00
> Until just a few centuries ago most of the world population was split between Europe (West) and East Asia (East).

An outright majority of the world’s population was, and still is, in Asia, so I'm not sure what this split between is supposed to refer to. If you mean Europe was #2 behind Asi, that was true until the 1980s if the Americas are counted as one continent, otherwise the 1990s when Africa took the #2 spot, not “a couple centuries ago”.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-19 10:02:58+00:00
Most of this post seems like maybe a good intro to lambda calculus, but also endless pointless visualization of nesting depth, which makes me wonder what the point of the post is. The probably invented term "ruliology" is not even explained anywhere, and I am not going to jump through all the other posts tagged with that word, to maybe somewhere find a definition of it.

The post would have benefited from explaining what will be found clearly in an initial paragraph, instead of endlessly meandering. As it is now, it feels like wanting to find anything spectacular, but actually finding nothing. Well, except for made up term "ruliology" that is not defined.
by whstl | 2025-09-19 10:03:47+00:00
Companies are definitely not saving money here.

They're actually spending a shit-ton of money on designer-hours and developer-hours in order to have everything custom, but still with a subpar experience.

It's similar to accessibility: a huge chunk of free off-the-shelf options are more accessible compared to the non-accessible chimeric design system of most modern web apps and sites.
by sak5sk | 2025-09-19 10:04:09+00:00
Network effects are difficult to replicate. You need lots of users to get a few solid consistent "content" creators. You need even more users to get the content that YOU like. So, it just amounts to having more users. Some might say it's impossible to replicate some existing social platform like X, and that may be true - but at the end of the day, you can vote with your attention and can contribute in ways you would like your space to be, so if you like say... log cabin content, then you can create it yourself and start amassing a log cabin enthusiast audience who will then start sharing their passion for log cabins.
by roenxi | 2025-09-19 10:06:00+00:00
That seems like a difficult position to make coherent. The comment seems to start by arguing that government spending should increase as much as is reasonably possible because it draws resources away from billionaires.

Then the second half seems to be a complaint that increasing government spending has created a resource for billionaires to draw from to enrich themselves.

It seems that if you believe the first, the second is hard to complain about. There is a social contract that the billionaires must fund [yea much] government. They are. If they then pay a little extra tax and it goes in a circular loop back to them, which is weird but I'm not sure how you are arguing it to be a problem - clearly under this frame they are going to be worse off than when they started, so they have been taxed some amount. The question is whether that amount is reasonable or not, I suppose. But that has nothing to do with whether they have a custom of a ceremonial handing of some billionaire money to the government to be handed back to the billionaire on top of their taxes.
by rahen | 2025-09-19 10:06:06+00:00
For some, it’s the sheer grandeur and architectural splendor. Strasbourg, Chartres, Cologne or Rouen Cathedrals, with their scale and delicate designs, often stand out.

For others, it’s the spiritual resonance of a place. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela has stirred something deeper within, but maybe that was just me. I experienced the same with Lourdes and Le Puy-en-Velay in France because they carried something that felt "sacred" and transformative, not only from the buildings but the actual place.

Then there are those who value historical or religious authority. Cathedrals like St. Peter’s in Rome or the Papal Palace in Avignon have that kind of symbolic weight, and I assume some would favor them over the more "profane" work of Gaudi.
by sak5sk | 2025-09-19 10:07:14+00:00
Yeah, it takes people to get good content worth paying attention to but if everyone says "it's dead" then it will remain dead. But if people voted with attention and said "yeah, it's kind of dead, but if I hang out here and my friends join, then it will be less dead and people will notice and also join..." You basically create the future you want.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-19 10:09:02+00:00
> if it were a _genocide_, you'd expect Israel to be equally targeting Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel proper

Genocide does not require equal effort in all areas subject to the perpetrators influence; both the required intent and the required actions that define genocide can coincide with taking opportunistic advantage of available political pretexts to try to retain support of, say, a third-party country with a UNSC veto that uses that veto to protect the perpetrator from consequences, but might not do so in the absence of some kind of palatable pretext for a sufficient segment of the third-party state’s population.

Genocide requires particular kinds of evil, it doesn't require stupid.
by danparsonson | 2025-09-19 10:09:18+00:00
Well OK, but that's just the same thing with extra steps.

The point I'm making is that there are large cross-cutting concerns that shouldn't be sliced up by feature, but rather that the features should arise out of the composition of the cross-cutting concerns.

A single user story commonly requires the holy trinity of UI, 'business logic' and data storage, and my contention is that it's more efficient and robust to build those three layers out holistically rather than try to assemble them from the fragments required for all the user stories.
by matrss | 2025-09-19 10:09:45+00:00
But if you define "up" as the direction opposite to where gravity pulls things (which very much makes sense) then there is no possible situation in which north being up would be correct either. A compass needle never points up. You are mounting a map of something horizontal onto a vertical surface, it is just as correct - or depending on the alignment of the wall arguably even more correct - to put east up. You can only ever get at most two directions correct, after all.
by uncircle | 2025-09-19 10:10:12+00:00
> The important piece missing from both of these comments IMHO, is that sunburns are the problematic piece.

Then the problem is light skin tone, and the advice to wear sunscreen always, only applies to them, hence my doubts.

I do not get sunburnt if I go buy groceries or if I spend 1 hour outside, like most ethnicities on Earth; yet if I dare question the dogma of sunscreen, I get downvoted, which makes me wonder if it's at all rational. It boggles my mind how it has become a kind of innocent yet taboo argument on the (English-speaking) internet.

Just google it. I mean, there's plenty of articles that say you need to wear it even if you plan to stay indoors all day. WTF.
by digitalbase | 2025-09-19 10:13:52+00:00
Discoverability is a huge challenge in any decentralized social protocol.

We've been talking a lot about this problem in nostr which can't be summarised in a quick HN comment but gathered some threads if you're really interested

https://asknostr.site/question/note1es989rjaccw82gpp705u462y... https://asknostr.site/question/note12dp9ewpngxejq8w9s6699k5z... https://asknostr.site/question/note1cp5cw366g7q9c2txvtrws0h7... https://asknostr.site/question/note1zqjk556quu6rvyetzvhdv7p3... https://asknostr.site/question/note1ss842g38wafwcfexd78gx0sc...
by johannes1234321 | 2025-09-19 10:14:34+00:00
We are seeing the counter proof right now. Search in itself isn't sustainable. The concept is challenged by GenAI-based approaches.

Of course they are not a 1:1 replacement, but for the first time we see Google's model being challenged and them having to defend, which they do by trying to drive competition of by integrating genai into their products. Once the competition is gone, they can reconsider.
by danparsonson | 2025-09-19 10:17:26+00:00
That's the point though, thinking of delivery in terms of slices of business value naturally leads one to break application development along those lines. It's very convenient for the stakeholders to see progress mapped out like that, but it tends to lead to fragile and poorly-architected systems that are difficult to change in the future (and therefore not lower-case A agile).
by blauditore | 2025-09-19 10:18:40+00:00
Note that good-looking doesn't necessarily translate into well-usable. The examples of alignment and icon weight are more on the side of aesthetics. If there's too much consistency, e.g. everything aligned in the same color with same weight and similar icons, it gets hard to quickly orient on the page and find things. This seems to be a common oversight, even by large companies.

Visual "breaks", such as color changes, spaces, or variation in contrast can help a lot (and still look good). A good example are paragraphs in text: A large chunk of text is more difficult to go through, or re-discover some section, than one divided into paragraphs.
by Attrecomet | 2025-09-19 10:18:41+00:00
In fact, the symlink thing is exactly how we distribute the common ssh config as an included file within the team. The config is part of the infrastructure repo, and everyone gets a current version whenever they pull afresh.

I'm also not sure why version control on ssh config should be a problem, unless previous poster confuses version control and "send everything to the cloud".
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-19 10:19:11+00:00
"Accounts" in this case are just a public/private key pair. You can host your own relay (and nobody will hear what you have to say unless they subscribe to it), but you can use the same public key ("account") on any nostr relay. You can broadcast your posts to all relays, or just some, or just your own, depending on how you feel.

You can, in theory, generate a new key for every post if you want to. The relays don't care.

This is something Mastodon etc. lacks (accounts are tied to servers, so you can't move your self-hosted Mastodon to your self-hosted Akkomo without keeping Mastodon running, and you can't move from one instance to another if your instance admin doesn't let you).

On the other hand, the complete lack of account recovery, even for sysadmins, is something many people will have an issue with.
by rollcat | 2025-09-19 10:19:48+00:00
Doesn't help that all of the major decentralized protocols have been very effectively undermined and pushed aside.

GTalk first de-federated (weakening XMPP as a whole), then killed XMPP support completely. Reader effectively killed RSS for casual users. Email has been swallowed whole by the oligopoly of GMail+Yahoo+Outlook+iCloud+etc; spam is a real problem, so if you're self-hosting your email, you kinda expect to be blocked by default by the large networks.

Existing, corporate-backed efforts are "open-washing" their services.

Signal is supposed to be using an open protocol, but IIRC won't even let you join their network if you use an alt client.

Following Twitter's demise, Bluesky popped up, and promised federation. I didn't check in a while - did it happen yet?

Actually open networks? Mastodon took off like crazy, but everyone tried to register on the "main", biggest instance - we got bamboozled so hard, we can't even comprehend what "decentralized" is actually supposed to mean.

ActivityPub as a protocol? Ted Unangst decided to build his own client from the spec, and was constantly running into Mastodonisms. <https://flak.tedunangst.com/search?q=activitypub>

Matrix? It has effectively one client (Element) that isn't a security disaster. <https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-ol...>

Anything left, worth of anyone's attention?
by troupo | 2025-09-19 10:19:55+00:00
> privacy was taken very seriously by all employees, we never collected data without explicit consent and never used it for anything but what the user granted permissions for.

Except when you literally trick people into providing their data: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1664682689591377923 by pretending that your dark patterns are "explicit consent"

Or except when you literally trick people into providing their data by connecting totally unrelated services https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1908951546869498085 and you don't stop until the person gives up and submits to you.

Except when your own support explicitly says that your behaviour is tracked across completely unrelated Google services: https://x.com/TeamYouTube/status/1849952594992435493

Except when you literally sign people into user accounts automatically with most data collection options turned on.

Except...
by Cordiali | 2025-09-19 10:20:00+00:00
Whenever I read some of these design articles, I usually see this same glaring issue. Without any distinction, they'll present together a grab bag of objective facts, best practices, and simple conventions.

There's nothing objective about using ctrl+s for save, but it's an obvious best practice. So not following can be considered bad design fairly uncontroversially.

The two you mentioned are obviously not in that category. I take issue with the logo one especially, because I find the style of the "bad design" better and more functional.

>[...] I’m probably the only one who noticed that it’s calmer.

Ugh.
by mort96 | 2025-09-19 10:20:56+00:00
> Conclusion: Buy AMD. Excellent Linux support with in-tree drivers.

Funnily, AMD's in-tree drivers are kind of a pain in the ass. For up to a year after a new GPU is released, you have to deal with using mesa and kernel packages from outside your distro.. While if you buy a brand new nVidia card, you just install the latest release of the proprietary drivers and it'll work.

Linux's driver model really is not kind to new hardware releases.

Of course, I still buy AMD because Nvidia's drivers really aren't very good. But that first half a year was not pleasant last time I got a relatively recently released (as in, released half a year earlier) AMD card.
by reitanuki | 2025-09-19 10:21:51+00:00
Side-note: Depending on what you're after, you can navigate to `sftp://` (and `fish://`) URLs in Dolphin & most KDE (Qt?) applications directly, you don't need to use a sshfs mount, and this way it doesn't stall (or screw up system sleep, which is another problem I have with sshfs mounts).

Somehow or another, if you open a file in Dolphin on one of these network addresses in a non-KDE application, it seems to pass it through using a FUSE filesystem, which does work somewhat but not 100% in my experience (I don't really know how this works or remember when it falls down). The terminal view in Dolphin also `cd`s to this virtual directory.

Of course, if you really really wanted the sshfs mount for some reason, then this workaround doesn't help you.
by avdelazeri | 2025-09-19 10:21:59+00:00
I abandoned Windows over 10 years ago, when a mandatory Windows 10 update rewrote by UEFI partition and messed up my dual boot setup. It took me an entire evening to fix, at which point I swore that no machine owned by me would ever run Windows again.

The more I hear about Windows 11 makes me think I really dodged a bullet there.
by digitalbase | 2025-09-19 10:22:23+00:00
My approach for bringing them down is working on better systems/UX than what the closed-silos currently offer...And we have a long way to go.

But...Nostr (and other decentralised social media protocols) can offer things the existing platforms can not do: interoperability.

Imagine the people you follow to be the same from FB, to strava, to spotify... Imagine the content (signed notes) you make are available on different clients/platforms

That UX, perhaps for use-cases and projects we can't imagine today will be so much better than what we have today. I've tasted a little bit of just that switching between my Nostr twitter-like client (Primal/Yakihonne) and the Podcast app (foundtain.fm). It blew my mind.

This opens use cases the existing platforms can only dream about.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 10:22:27+00:00
It's weird that my 1990s credit card statements had Kagi charges and my 2025 cc statement also has Kagi charges... for completely unrelated reasons.

I don't know how people find anything useful on the web if they're just using Google & Bing these days. Kagi is awesome, and I use this a lot.
by gwd | 2025-09-19 10:22:47+00:00
Don't know much about Nostr, but wondered re the spam problem, if it would make sense to introduce the idea of proof-of-work for the identities? A quick search shows that the have optional PoW proposals for notes (i.e., individual posts), but I didn't see anything about PoW for identities.

People could spend $1, or $5, or $50 of compute for an identity, and others could use the cost of the identity as a filter. Having a $5 ID put on a blacklist would make poor behavior of any sort more costly.
by DanielHB | 2025-09-19 10:24:31+00:00
I was actually thinking that when my child finishes college the best thing I could do is to co-found a startup with them so they can get some proper work experience. As a generalist IT and knowledgeable business person I can probably help them with most things they could want to work on as long as it fits the startup model.

This kind of experience would be more valuable than buying them a home. Probably cheaper too.