MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-09-04 16:56:52+00:00
I'd disagree that it's the same thing.

With AI content scraping, the people whose content was ingested aren't getting paid. That part does align to paywalls.

But there's more in the AI content situation. The scraped content is repackaged without any credit being given to the people who made the content. In most cases, the models trained on the content are intended to be monetized, and there is no intent to share revenue with the people who made the content.

When I bypass a paywall, there is no particular expectation that I'm going to take the content, modify it, and display / sell it as my own. In the vast majority of cases, someone reads some free content and moves on. The damage to the site or publication is limited to the unpaid viewing.

AI content scraping absolutely comes with an expectation that the content will be modified, presented, and sold. The damage goes beyond the unpaid viewing of the content.
by tempfile | 2025-09-04 16:56:56+00:00
But what does that have to do with your comment? "a sure fire way to wind them up and get your collar felt" is more about being hassled by police, not really what power relation you have to the executive branch of the government.

Also it is not really true that "free speech" and "freedom from consequences of your speech" are separate. Protecting free speech literally means protection from consequences, if there are no consequences then there's nothing to protect you from.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-04 16:57:52+00:00
Mitigation strategies start to look a lot different when you have a better sense of adjusted capability. I expected it to be something I felt when I started a task, or how I felt about starting tasks— like if you’re stronger it’s easy to sense that you can pick up heavier objects, and picking up heavy things doesn’t feel as burdensome. That’s not what it was like for me. It still feels just as shitty and annoying to do things I don’t want to do, but once you realize how much better you are at staying on task and doing the work to completion, and doing things that might have been a cognitive challenge before, giving up/avoidance doesn’t feel like the only choice anymore.
by iainctduncan | 2025-09-04 16:58:34+00:00
This reminds me of something... I'm a jazz musician when not being a coder, and have studied and taught from/to a lot of players. One thing advanced improvisors notice is that the student is very frequently not a good judge – in the moment – of what is making them better. Doing long term analytics tests (as the author did) works, but knowing how well something is working while you're doing it? not so much. Very, very frequently that which feels productive isn't, and that which feels painful and slow is.

Just spit balling here, but it sure feels similar.
by Lanolderen | 2025-09-04 16:58:46+00:00
Depends on where you want to draw the line.. I definitely prefer teams where you don't have to play oral minesweeper all day. It just results in everyone being obviously two faced.. If I do something very stupid, it's fine to snap and call me a dickhead, as long as we keep getting along the other 99% of the time. It's even fine to do it lovingly when I'm doing minor stupid activities. Of course there are limits but for me it's very far from 'do it once and I'm running to HR'
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-09-04 16:58:46+00:00
Welcome to crypto project number 206701341. At least that is how many are listed on CoinMarketCap:

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/number-of-cryptocurrencies-...

Bitcoin is decentralized because the sun distributes energy somewhat evenly across the globe.

The other 206701340 crypto projects, including this one, are decentralized because ... ?

From the very sparse info on the page, it seems this project does what so many other chains do to make payments faster and cheaper: They log them on a database that is synchronized across only a few computers.

In other words: I can't find any info on that page explaining how they plan to achieve decentralization.
by egeres | 2025-09-04 16:59:27+00:00
I'm probably being naive, but I feel surprised that in 2025, a platform like Steam (which has existed for well over 2 decades and has around 70M DAU) is having this type of issues. I don't want to downplay the complex engineering behind scale and massive surges of demand, but it's not like it's their first rodeo. What seems to be blocking users from getting the game is accepting payments, nothing computationally complex per se IMO
by bogwog | 2025-09-04 16:59:50+00:00
Man, I love GNUStep. I haven't done anything serious with it, but I did play around with it for a while and enjoyed every second. I event went all-in on WindowMaker for a couple of months lol. It really opened my eyes to how awesome Objective-C is as a language, and almost made me want to become an iOS/Mac developer.

Etoile is dead afaik, but there are some people making another GNUStep-based DE called Gershwin (https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop) for GhostBSD.
by HaroldPD | 2025-09-04 17:01:15+00:00
Avoiding 'Decorating Cards' appears to be your unique selling point, as it is the most prominent headline text on your website and mentioned twice in your text here.

The meaning of this is obvious to you, while being obscure for me. Perhaps have a link within your site to expand on the meaning of 'Decorating Cards'. ( I assume it is prettifying. Perhaps it is initial card creation, or bulk loading. Perhaps it is includes other steps. ) Describe how your software is superior to putting minimal effort into using default anki cards with text and images.
by godelski | 2025-09-04 17:01:30+00:00
Let me introduce to you one of X's former staff members arguing that there is no such thing as deep knowledge or expertise[0]

I would love to tell you that I don't meet many people working in AI that share this sentiment, but I'd be lying.

And just for fun, here's a downvoted comment of mine, despite my follow-up comments that evidence my point being upvoted[1] (I got a bit pissed in that last one). The point here is that most people don't want to hear the truth. They are just glossing over things. But I think the two biggest things I've learned from the modern AI movement is: 1) gradient descent and scale are far more powerful than I though, 2) I now understand how used car salesmen are so effective on even people I once thought smart. People love their sycophants...

I swear, we're going to make AGI not by making the AI smarter but by making the people dumber...

[0] https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1836415592162554121

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122931
by scottbez1 | 2025-09-04 17:01:49+00:00
Having no expectation of privacy in public used to be a reasonable stance when there was a real time+money cost to extended surveillance, which meant that you still had a moderate amount of privacy unless someone was willing to personally target you and spend significant resources.

You either had to have a cop or a PI tail you, or spend time and effort talking to neighbors and acquaintances collecting information and correlating it, and it was much harder to do so secretly.

Technology has reduced the cost of surveillance by several orders of magnitude, and although the premise is unchanged - that you've never had privacy in public - the practical impact has changed in an extremely disturbing way.

I think we're long overdue to rethink and strengthen privacy protections in public in the US. Technological limits, and policy limits on specific implementations are better than nothing, but it's clear to me that surveillance will continue to get cheaper and thus your effective privacy in public will continue to erode until a culture and legal shift in public privacy expectations. I'm not optimistic about that.
by password4321 | 2025-09-04 17:01:50+00:00
Can anyone point me to how to build Rust programs on no-longer-supported Intel MacOS versions (edit: eg. v10.12, looks like that's the current cutoff for tier 2)?

I also wanted zig for ncdu2.

I admit I haven't looked too hard, macports has most of what I need still covered. It's always a sad day on my older hardware when I don't have brew auto-update disabled and a MacOS version goes out of support.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-04 17:01:56+00:00
EU:

Electric cars are the cleanest—and getting cleaner faster than expected

https://theicct.org/pr-electric-cars-getting-cleaner-faster/

USA:

A cradle-to-grave analysis from the University of Michigan has shown that battery electric vehicles have lower lifetime greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids in every county in the contiguous U.S.

https://news.umich.edu/evs-reduce-climate-pollution-but-by-h...
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-04 17:02:01+00:00
When you put something on a pedestal it almost always eventually gets co-opted by people who's goals are not noble enough to build a pedestal themselves and who are seeking a ready made pedestal from which to spew their garbage.

Of all the demographics who should understand this, you'd think that people complaining about the failure of all the other institutions would be high on the list.
by greenpizza13 | 2025-09-04 17:02:56+00:00
It's the sequel to an indie darling widely viewed as among the best (or the best) metroidvanias. On top of that, the game has been in development for 6+ years, so long that the release has become a meme. See r/SilkSong. The hype for this is remarkable and people have been counting the hours since it was announced 2 weeks ago.

People trust Team Cherry to deliver a commensurate experience to Hollow Knight, which stands as many peoples' favorite games of all time.

This kind of hype comes rarely, and it's very specific to this specific game.
by ethagknight | 2025-09-04 17:03:01+00:00
Unless the big data centers are entering into mandatory load reduction during high strain on the system, then theres going to be an increased cost to the little buyers.

The tradeoff is that Utilities can upgrade their systems and improve uptime thanks to the higher base load. It's up to the utils to negotiate well against the big data players.. good luck on that with politicians breathing down your neck to secure a big win.
by ajford | 2025-09-04 17:03:54+00:00
I elected for LASIK as my near-sighted prescription was severe enough that I could only see about 6-8 inches in front of my eyes without my glasses.

Also, I could only get my prescription filled in high-index lenses as the normal lenses would be too thick for nearly any glasses shop to order and grind. And had been that way for at least a decade by the time I opted for LASIK.

Poor control of my eye reflexes meant that even after over a year of trying I still couldn't reliably wear contacts, and was a highly stressful part of my day when I managed to get them on.

I had a family friend that went for LASIK very early on (late 2000s iirc) and had a horrible outcome losing sight in one eye, and a couple of friends in college that had amazing outcomes, so I had seen both sides. Ultimately, the LASIK operation was a very quick and pleasant operation for me, and the results were beyond my expectations. Nearly a decade later, my eyesight is still fine though I think I'm starting to see some blurring at middle distances that wasn't there a couple years ago. Did get some strong starbursts at night for a couple of years but I've either gotten used to them or they've faded.

After wearing glasses for around 20 years of my life, I love the freedom of no longer wearing them.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-04 17:04:09+00:00
New York originally banned ChatGPT

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/new-york-city-public-...

Then reverseed the ban

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/chatgpt-ban-dropped-new-york-ci...
by observationist | 2025-09-04 17:04:13+00:00
If it reduces friction and lets processors handle more transactions, eliminates pressure points subject to third party interference, scams, and political/ideological fuckery, and if it performs as well or better than before from the consumer perspective, then it's a win. Ostensibly decentralized systems like this allow the processor to defer responsibility for any given transaction in particular, so vendors and consumers are harder to particularly target; Stripe can't be maneuvered into "debanking" efforts, or at least, can't as easily as has been the case with controversial adult performers and products and political and other people who've suffered under the old paradigm.

That says nothing of political idiocy which will surely follow as new levers are tested, but payment processors are in the business of making money, and ostensibly want as many transactions to happen as possible, regardless of origin or the particulars of any sale.

They shouldn't be gatekeeping goods and services for legal transactions, and I'd be willing to bet most of them absolutely don't want to be in that position.

I imagine there's also a chargeback scam reduction and accountability benefit to this, which reduces losses, and ostensibly prices.

There's a surveillance and privacy hit, but it's not like the systems currently being used aren't completely compromised and surveilled already, so maybe this adds some accountability at that level as well.
by gjm11 | 2025-09-04 17:04:14+00:00
I think there's less to this than meets the eye.

Previously, on https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/:

"We've set a goal to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations and value chain by 2030." and, in a table later, "Reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions by 2030. Invest in nature-based and technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize our remaining emissions." and "Run on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where we operate by 2030."

Now, in their 2025 Environmental Report at https://sustainability.google/reports/google-2025-environmen...:

"We aim to run on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where we operate by 2030." and "We aim to reduce absolute, combined scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 emissions by 50% from a 2019 base year by 2030." (They also restate the thing about "to neutralize our remaining emissions" a bit later in the document.)

Exactly the same stated goals, just written in a different place. There's more hedging around it now: they call it a "moonshot" and say that they might not manage it, but they never actually promised to do it before.
by pdonis | 2025-09-04 17:04:51+00:00
No, not money. The problem is not that Google, Amazon, etc. can buy special privileges from the government; the problem is that the government has them for sale. It's government power that's the root of the problem, not money. If the government didn't have the power to give out such special privileges (which comes from the power to issue regulations that all businesses must obey), it wouldn't matter how much money Google or Amazon or anyone else had.

In other words, what's "compelling action" here is the government, and its power to do that is not based on money. But since the government is run by humans, who can be bought, the government's power to compel things ends up being for sale. And even if you magically took away all that money from Google and Amazon and spread it around evenly, that would just mean government favors would get curried in other ways. (Plus the fact that, even if you spread the money around evenly once, it wouldn't stay that way.)
by Pfhortune | 2025-09-04 17:05:09+00:00
It has been so tragic to see the unforced downfall of this company. Arc is such an amazing browser that really did some new and interesting things. They clearly have some phenomenal talent on the team, having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking!

And they threw it away to work on (probably) the CEO's new fixation and threw Arc away like an old toy. And now they're selling to Atlassian and I would bet money, will just evaporate. Nothing they ever built will mean anything to Atlassian in the long term. Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser.
by evilDagmar | 2025-09-04 17:05:11+00:00
This is completely missing the point.

Until there's a substantial number of driverless cars on the roads, LPR systems will always equate to tracking people. You might as well argue that exposing geospatial data about cell phone movements is fine because cell phones aren't people.

These systems, when abused, amount to warrantless monitoring of civilians over long periods of time. A judge can not and will not order someone's movements to be tracked over the last six months. They can facilitate someone's movements going forward to be monitored for a specific period of time.

...and these systems are always abused. To the degree that if you've put an RFP out there for a LPR system that disposes of the scan data after 30 days, suddenly no one wants to submit a proposal.

Abuse is pretty much the default state unless there are hard guardrails against it. That knucklehead in Millersville was pretty obviously using FINCEN data to go looking up the life details of people his political party didn't like, probably because the only safeguard was that someone had to enter a relevant case number to show that the search was legal. Lo and behold a regular audit being performed by the TBI resulted in a near immediate lockout of Millersville from their system and a warranted search of said knucklehead's residence because of "irregularities". It's not hard to figure out what was going on there.

It took months to get the LPR system in Mt. Juliet, TN to actually start disposing of the scanned data, and we've already seen reports of LPR systems being abused by ICE/CBP to search for people all over the nation. What's currently holding up Nashville getting such a system? I'm pretty sure it's the data destruction policy, because the state-level government is being run by people who think such Orwellian surveillance is just dandy.
by vunderba | 2025-09-04 17:05:13+00:00
To add another bit of feedback - it seems like a lot of people in the comments don't understand the value of variations so OP you'll want to show an actual case study example immediately.

Here is one to demonstrate:

Variation 1: This famous escape-artist was born in 1874 and died in 1926. Variation 2: What famous magician born in 1874 passed away of peritonitis 52 years later? Answer: Harry Houdini

Variations ARE the SAME CARD. They're just a means of "rephrasing" the question to break your brain from its ruthless pattern matching ability.

Answering any variation causes the next review time for THIS CONSOLIDATED CARD to get pushed back.

I achieve a similar variation system in my own flashcards but use javascript + Anki to accomplish it.
by Bjartr | 2025-09-04 17:05:26+00:00
What makes a meal stand out amongst others made with the same ingredients? Game design is a thing that requires careful balance to produce an engaging and satisfying experience both moment to moment and over course of the whole game. Think how difficult it is to make a truly great movie, only now put the camera in the hands of any random person for it's duration and keep it great.

Many games do well at a few aspects, but few hit it out of the park across the board.

Hollow Knight managed something pretty close to that. It's a creative feat that required not only excellence in storytelling, art, music, and interaction design, asking others, but also excellence in blending then together to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

The studio that did that is releasing a new game in the same vein and people want more of that established track record of excellence.
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by freedomben | 2025-09-04 17:05:53+00:00
Agree completely. The luck aspect kinda wrecked minesweeper for me. It's a super fun simple game, but after spending a lot of effort logic-ing my way through it, only to have to take a 50/50 or worse guess toward the end and have it blow me up, is deeply unsatisfying. When it comes at the beginning (that first block can be a bomb after all) it's not too bad, but at the end isn't cool
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-04 17:06:08+00:00
That's because it's a big question. You can make a browser like Dillo, but it won't be able to run web-based banking software. You can make a browser like Konquerer, but it won't be able to use Netflix, or reliably get past Cloudflare walls. So, I'd say… yeah, browser developers are effectively mandated to follow standards – except that (as I said before) it's impossible for an unauthorised developer to implement the full WHATWG spec.
by mahirsaid | 2025-09-04 17:06:23+00:00
Blockchain is such a useful and needed technology for mass adoption, yet so redundant to have in the US because of how much side-eye treatment it gets. Blockchain makes more sense to have here than anywhere else in the world. blockchain does not need to handle high transaction rate the same as visa or MasterCard protocols. There needs to be micro workers that can handle transactions in real-time in Blockchain methodology should be reserved for when recording these transactions. The whole point to have Blockchain is to maintain integrity and security, there is no need for this technology to do small tasks when something else can do that more efficient and successfully, When making this technology efficient, you tend to lose the essence of what that technology is representing in the first place IMO.