MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arp242 | 2025-09-27 21:59:34+00:00
This sounds useful in case you're the only survivor of a nuclear war and finally have time enough at last to read all the books you want, but end up breaking your glasses.

While I would not be surprised at all there's something to this, things like "improve and enhance our vision and brain function, at any age, along with it our sleep, balance, attention, and our cognitive and mental health" kind of set off my bullshit detector a bit. That seems way too many conditions to fix "with one easy trick!"

Things like "go out and have a walk" also exposes you to fresh air, and even mild exercise can make you feel better for all sorts of reasons. Is it really primarily about the vision system as the article says? Not so clear to me. This sounds a bit too much of a tunnel-visioned viewpoint.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-27 22:00:54+00:00
It would be interesting to see a tablet sized dual mode device where the OS and user apps could seamlessly switch back and forth between a 100% touch mode UI and a 100% precision pointing mode UI without restarting or losing data.

It would mean a lot more work for developers though if your app needs two different UI designs.

One issue that sticks out is that touch controls of a usable size just take up so much more screen space.

Also, look at how many years it took Microsoft to provide touch friendly access to the Windows control panels.
by antoniojtorres | 2025-09-27 22:02:47+00:00
I’ve noticed this anxiety on steam reviews too, people seem to stress out if there isn’t a continuous growth of a game’s player base, like there’s a totality that we all need to be striving for, even in a federated space, even in a game’s player base, otherwise any shrinking indicates a spiral. Not that they aren’t real (the spirals) but there’s an aspect of putting the cart before the horse here.
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 22:02:52+00:00
It’s not that more CO2 is bad it’s that the rate of change is faster than any time in the geologic history of earth. And every mass extinction including the dinosaurs involved abrupt changes to CO2 levels. Every living thing is made out of carbon that came from CO2. Every scientist studying climate change knows this. But every organism on this planet evolved for ice age like conditions and in the span of 200 years we turned the earth’s thermostat from Ice Age to Hot House
by ChuckMcM | 2025-09-27 22:03:18+00:00
> Are people really this oblivious ...

Yes, yes they are. The vector of "I've been using this package and giving it full permissions for like forever and it has never been a problem." oblivious. One must understand the two-step here:

Step 1) Use someone else's package that solves your problem and doesn't have any issues. Yay you're doing DRY and saving time and effort!

Step 2) The package you got is now corrupted but you don't have any tools to checking to see if you're application is doing anything sus.

The alternative is that you audit every release and look at every change on every file. So suddenly your DRY because a weekly/monthly audit exercise for every single imported package that changes. Use three packages, that's three audit schedules. Use ten? That's ten audit schedules. It's stupid because if you actually used this alternative you'd be spending all of your time just auditing packages and 90+% of the time not finding anything to complain about.

So the ACTUAL alternative, is write your own damn code. You wrote it so you know how it works, and when you change it you know what you changed. And unless you are the bad guy, exploits don't "magically appear" in your code. Vulnerabilities will appear in your code if you don't do code reviews, but remember actualizing this stuff requires both knowing about the bug and exploiting it in the wild, you may end up coding in something that could be exploited but you are unlikely then to use your own vulnerability.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-27 22:03:45+00:00
Fires are part of a natural short-term Carbon cycle at around 5 years on average. These events have little impact on global climate change, and highlights the absurdity of planting trees for carbon credits.

Long-term carbon cycles last about 30000 years, and the majority of climate change is driven from burning old carbon sources deep in the earths crust.

Fossil oil is incredibly useful stuff, and it is wasteful burning it as fuel. Something to consider between the floods, fires, droughts, and contrarians. lol =3
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 22:04:11+00:00
I think it's less about what hardware integrators want more what Apple doesn't want. Apple tries to be as soup to nuts about their solution as possible, they don't want to piece that out to give some of the margin of the best pieces to a 3rd party trying to compete with them instead. Anything they could pay is just from revenue Apple could already target directly and keep all of to themselves.
by cyanydeez | 2025-09-27 22:04:39+00:00
Are people just aching to constantly blame poor people for moral and ethical failings, and not the grifters who prey on them?

Yes. People definitely blame victims all the time. There's no way LLMs, their proprietors, designers could be practicing dark patterns, marketing gimmicks and security shortcuts to convince people to shot these guns as often as possible...even when, they point them at their foot.

This grift is deep and wide and you may want to re-evaluate why everyone is so keen to always blame victims for technology, society, and business marketing.
by godelski | 2025-09-27 22:04:47+00:00
> we all do, collectively, as a society

I agree. But at the same time do you not recognize that collectively, as a society, Nazis decided to attack Jews, trans, disabled, and others? It's not an easy game to play and I think that's what most people here are trying to convey. In the end very few people think they themselves are evil.

> there is actually a categorical difference between advocating the persecution of minorities, and advocating the persecution of nazis.

This line is clear to you, but think harder. Abstract just a little and you can see. You program so I am confident you can handle abstraction. (if you can't program, well you're probably on the wrong forum)

Have you ever listened to the right wing talking points these days? I'm not saying you need to believe them, but "know your enemy". They are justifying their hate of minorities by making claims that those people are attacking them. They frame it as self-defense, not offense. It is absolutely critical to understand this, because that's how they have brought people to their side. It is the same way the Nazis did. But again, think carefully, were no one to actually act on said beliefs then how do you know? If you make a "preemptive strike" then you only empower their claims of acting in self-defense. Even if you can justify your "preemptive strike" as a self-defense measure too!

I think you are oversimplifying the problem because you are relying far too much on the obviousness of Nazis being evil. But if you make that mistake you'll have missed the important lesson of how the Nazis gained power and got support from so many people. If you truly believe that evil is trivial to identify then you'll have to conclude that the entire country of Germany one day decided that they wanted to be evil and then the next day they didn't. The ability to flip such a switch would be gravely concerning in of itself, and if unique to Germany then should you not conclude that they should not exist because they have such capacity for evil?

OR you can believe that things are more complicated. That evil creeps and infests. It disguises itself as good, tells you half lies so you have truth to found yourself on (even if that truth is distorted). That the road to Hell is paved by good intentions and that evil can be created by good men trying to do good things.

This is an underlying philosophy to those that acknowledge Turnkey Tyranny. And I say acknowledge, not believe, because look around you. Do you not see these leaders abusing their authoritarian powers? Look at the origins of many of those powers, especially with Trump. They don't all come from right wingers who were playing some long game. He's exploited powers brought in by Biden, Obama, and Clinton, just as he's exploiting powers brought in by Bush, Bush, and Regan.

Evil loves to convince people that everything is simple and evil is clearly identifiable. Why would it not? Do you really believe the snake isn't going to be a snake?
by hammock | 2025-09-27 22:05:15+00:00
What is the temporal resolution of the ice cores or whatever else is being used to measure when the last “hot house” periods were? Because today we are measuring CO2 with minute-level resolution. But I feel like an ice core might be a year at best, probably much worse. Which if I’m right would mean we really don’t know how fast or slow we entered into the last hot period (the rate)
by lomase | 2025-09-27 22:05:39+00:00
Can you name some of those good games you play on IOS?

Btw Steam is not the only place to buy games. In fact I was playing games on PC for 20 years before Steam was released.

Anyway, I will start with just a few amazing PC games:

Sim City 2000, Tomb Raider, Doom, Doom2, Duke Nuken, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, Half Life, Half Life 2, LoL, Dota, Flight Simulator, Deus Ex, The Witcher 3, Counter Strike, Hades, Factorio, Minecraft, Opus Magnus, Disco Elysium, Crusader Kings, Overwatch, Diablo 2, Civilization III, Baldurs Gate 3, Bioshock, Rimworld, Brogue, Drawf Fortres, Tarkov, Arma...

And the list goes on and on and on...
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-27 22:06:26+00:00
Only around 10% of Apple’s revenue is the Mac and every estimate is 70% of those are laptops. The AppleTV is far behind in market share for media center devices or whatever you call Roku, Fire sticks etc.

You can already stream from your iPhone via AirPlay to at least Roku sticks/TVs and I assume others. The number of people who want to use an iPhone as a full computer is miniscule.
by throwaway89201 | 2025-09-27 22:06:39+00:00
> Russia has long had a mining presence on Svalbard

Not only a mining presence [1]: "After the war, the Soviet Union proposed common Norwegian and Soviet administration and military defence of Svalbard. This was rejected in 1947 by Norway, which two years later joined NATO. The Soviet Union retained high civilian activity on Svalbard, in part to ensure that the archipelago was not used by NATO."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#Second_World_War
by Aurornis | 2025-09-27 22:07:04+00:00
There have been numerous attempts at dockable phones over the years.

> The biggest hurdle standing in the way is that making a single one of iPhone/iPad/Mac too powerful (in terms of usability, not just raw processing power) will take away sales from the other two.

No it won’t. Nobody is cross-shopping a full size laptop with screen and keyboard or a phone with a tiny screen and no keyboard.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-27 22:07:05+00:00
> Typescript is unsound: since it just erases types, an untyped library that a typed component is using might return something the typed component isn’t expecting leading you to get a type error in typed code. Gradually typed python variants typically are better, though they usually just inspect the shape of the data and don’t check that eg every element in a list is correctly typed as well

This is not typically what is meant by soundness. Most gradual type systems erase types (see also Python, Ruby, Elixir), and provide ways of overriding the type system's inference and forcing a certain expression to be typed a certain way, even if that type cannot be proven by the type checker.

What makes TypeScript unsound is that, even if you don't override the type checker at all, there are certain expressions and constructs that will produce no compile-time error but will produce a runtime error. This is a deliberate choice by the TypeScript team to make the type checker less correct, but simpler to use and adopt. The Flow type checker took the opposite approach and was sound, but was occasionally harder to use.

I believe most type checkers in other languages tend to hew closer to the TypeScript approach, and favour being intuitive to use over being completely sound. However, they do work in the same way of being compile-time constructs only, and not affecting runtime at all. Python is slightly exceptional here in that the type annotations are available as metadata at runtime, but are not used for type checking unless the user explicitly checks them at runtime. There are a couple of runtime libraries that add decorators that automatically do this runtime type checking, but (a) their usage is fairly rare, and (b) their presence does not change how the type checker behaves at all.
by pengaru | 2025-09-27 22:07:35+00:00
In environments like home where it's acceptable, I prefer to use my laptop sitting on the floor.

I find it stimulates repositioning often, preventing staying in one configuration for too long. It also compels me to get up and walk around occasionally, which is a hell of a lot more work than just standing still - sitting on the floor and getting up from floor level, multiple times. Go do some burpees then tell me about your standing desk afterwards.

It also helps retain a child-like level of flexibility.
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 22:08:06+00:00
The misconception here is that the carbon in the Bakken is locked up geologically and essentially removed the biosphere’s carbon cycle but the Amazon is not. Even if the entire Amazon rainforest were to burn it wouldn’t change that. The problem with fossil fuels is that we are added sequestered to our biosphere at rates it cannot adapt to.

So while absolute terms are less it isn’t the same and we should be worried about what OP is discussing
by decafninja | 2025-09-27 22:08:23+00:00
Both my father and father in law retired recently. They’ve done financially pretty well in life - not super rich, but they can live loose a bit.

Both were recently in the market for new cars. As a car enthusiast, I told them to YOLO and buy something like a 911.

But no, they got a staid huge BMW sedan and a staid huge Benz SUV respectively, despite neither of them ever likely to use the back seats at all.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-09-27 22:08:39+00:00
I would say that it is the most complete typesetting system out there that I know about¹

It is not the optimal system that could possibly be created. for many reasons.

However as people design new typesetting systems or various kinds, and they make it the priority for it to be simple. Then usually over time users become restless because the markup langauge misses a typesetting feature they would like.

And we wee a plethora of markup forks of all sorts that include one set of typesetting additional features that the authors deemed nessescary.

The more you devlelop an alternative typesetting system, eventually you will need features that are all already included in TeX. and they are included because they were needed in an advanced typesetting system that would give people the tool needed to highly polished outputs.

But TeX is not a system for the masses, nor was it ever meant to be.

¹(There may be systems just as good used by print media)
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-27 22:09:23+00:00
Deploying computer programs isn't that hard. What you actually need to run is pretty straight forward. Depend on glibc, copypaste all your other shared lib dependencies and plop them in RPATH. Pretend `/lib` is locked at initial install. Remove `/usr/lib` from the path and include everything.

Docker was made because Linux sucks at running computer programs. Which is a very silly thing to be bad at. But here we are.

What has happened in more recent years is that CMake sucks ass so people have been abusing Docker and now Nix as build system. Blech.

The speaker does get it right at the end. A Bazel/Buck2 type solution is correct. An actual build system. They're abusing Nix and adding more layers to provide better caching. Sure, I guess.

If you step back and look at the final output of what needs to be produced and deployed it's not all that complicated. Especially if you get rid of the super complicated package dependency graph resolution step and simply vendor the versions of the packages you want. Which everyone should do, and a company like Anthropic should definitely do.
by beeburrt | 2025-09-27 22:09:40+00:00
Not kooky to the (very real) people who these kinds of things are happening to. Ask me how I know.

That's the problem with pages such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking where the author(s) try to make it sound like a mass-delusion, a mental health issue.

These are actual events, happening to actual American citizens everyday. And then, to top it off, we treat them like they're insane. It's wrong.

The problem is that some of the information about these events is dis-information which makes the entire thing seem made-up. It's not.

I am a gang-stalking victim. I am not delusional or insane.
by tylerchilds | 2025-09-27 22:09:45+00:00
It isn’t too late.

The word “war” has meaning.

The executive is saying “war” and “portland” in the same sentence.

We the people can invoke treason— the commander in chief said the word and an American city.

Those two things are treason.

This isn’t hard. We just need to STAND UP.

It isn’t like we need to say anything.

Quite literally a mass formation of people to represent, “all of your generals that represent your digital social presence are documented pedophiles, just stop.”
by daemonologist | 2025-09-27 22:09:55+00:00
System ONNX might be quite nice for Windows applications, provided the backends are actually reliable on most systems. AMD currently has three options for example (ROCm, MIGraphX, and Vitis), and I've never gotten any of them to work. (Although MIGraphX looks to be no longer marked as experimental so maybe I should give it another try.)
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-27 22:10:48+00:00
When the iPhone was introduced, the worldwide penetration of cell phones was already 1 billion. Jobs said he wanted to sell 10 million or 1% of the market during the first year.

The iPad and the Mac combined is 20% of Apple’s revenue. People buy iPads because they want a larger screen.

I mean you can carry around a portable USB C monitor and plug it into your iPhone today. I have one that gets power and video from one USB cord for my laptop. But most people don’t want to do that.
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 22:11:44+00:00
The Amazon rainforest is not an ecosystem that burns. It’s not adapted to it and it effectively destroys it permanently on a human time scale. It requires wet conditions that are fostered by trees and heavy organic forest litter like leaves. Even if a fire in the Amazon only burns the ground litter it will kill the that part of the forest because the trees have adapted to those leaves being there.

The Amazon rainforest is close to a tipping point at which point it will almost entirely die off and convert to Savanah. And if you think fossil fuels are incredibly useful wait till you learn how useful a stable climate has been
by wuschel | 2025-09-27 22:11:57+00:00
I did not look toe matter up in detail, but I am astonished as well in regard to this development. A grab for control over basic devices and a mass robbing of the commons.

There is no strong political pushback from the parties/voters to this large scale collective theft of IP by cooperations, is there?

I would expect some sort of taxation and redistribution to the content creators like there is with music content etc.
by freedomben | 2025-09-27 22:12:22+00:00
Damn dude, I (truly) feel for you. It's increasingly rare for me too, but it's so healing. If you're comfortable sharing, whereabouts do you live? What are your political inclinations? (The latter I ask because it radically influences what you find funny, not because it matters otherwise).

With no context, I highly recommend finding a comedy club near you and having a few drinks. It might take several attempts though so don't give up
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 22:13:25+00:00
This is what they are saying - the power is there, but iOS severely gets in the way of interacting with it properly any time you step out of the box of "touch first Apple approved mobile experiences". It'd be awesome if one device could be my phone and laptop instead of trying to make do with the screen share on two completely separate systems.

The iPads even more so, as some literally have the same kinds of hardware as a MacBook already (minus the keyboard detaches).
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-27 22:13:59+00:00
> All of them?

"~all" stands for approximately all, but maybe this mnemonic is less known than I thought. I'll try to avoid using it in the future.

> I know there are many discoveries that fit the pattern you're pointing out, but I wouldn't go as far as to say all I wouldn't go as far as to say all, or even the majority of them do.

I'm yet to encounter one that does not fit this pattern. As far as I can recall, for every discovery I've learned about, eventually[0] I've also learned it was made independently by others within few years; in some cases, the well-known case wasn't even the first of many, just the one that coined the name for some reason. Politics, geography, better formulation, better promotion, etc.

Related, but not the same - I'm also yet to encounter a discovery that took a great conceptual leap to arrive at. In every case I can think of, the core insight was quite obvious once enough prerequisite information was available[1], and pretty much happened on schedule. Sometimes the same person was involved in discovering the last missing pieces and then connecting them, but that's still a case of research being iterative.

It goes beyond science, too. You've probably seen Burke's Connections[2] (if not, I very strongly recommend it); it demonstrates clearly that technological advancement only happens[3] when all necessary pieces are there: scientific knowledge, necessary technology and right socioeconomic conditions.

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[0] - Sometimes it would be immediately, like in my teenage years, when reading a book about some mathematicians that went into the drama of who stole who's proof or took credit for the others' work (quite dramatic that book was). Sometimes it would be later on - years, even a decade later - when a book or a Wikipedia article about some breakthrough gave me more historical context than I expected. I eventually noticed the pattern; since then, I sometimes search for extra context immediately upon learning something.

[1] - Hindsight is 20/20, I know.

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...

[3] - I.e. actually sticks around - think steam engine in ancient Rome vs. Industrial Revolution.