MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gnabgib | 2025-10-16 13:18:56+00:00
Discussion (487 points, 5 months ago, 438 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020832

Related Super Wood (2018) (78+78 points, 23+46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466660
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-16 13:19:20+00:00
I don’t think it’s that I’m avoiding politics…

It’s that I know the day-to-day headlines from DC are mostly noise, and do not inform in the same way that ESPN talking head analysts do not inform about football.

To understand the state of American politics and of the world, I have news sources I trust. Hacker News will never be one of them. Neither will Reddit. Nor will Facebook.

I don’t want HN to turn into another outrage-bait pseudo-news commentary site. Look at the front page of Reddit (it’s atrociously bad) to see how far this forum could fall.

I flagged this article. If you want to talk about daily political news with other internet people, there are myriad options: WSJ, NYT, and Washington Post all have comment sections. Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and BlueSky and Instagram and Threads all have comment sections. YouTube has comments. Blogs have comments.

Why do people insist that keeping HN free of politics is tantamount to being blissfully ignorant of world affairs? And why do people insist on turning HN into Reddit v2?
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-10-16 13:19:29+00:00
Sovereign cloud might theoretically mean sovereign control over data.

Does absolutely jack shit about the blocs trade deficit in the cloud services space though. Hundreds of billions of euros being sent abroad every year.

Without some kind of collective trade policy [1] sovereign cloud initiatives will continue to be a waste of time for everyone involved (including engineers). Also if you see the phrase Gaia-X ... run.

1. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-europe...
by a-dub | 2025-10-16 13:19:47+00:00
> Torvalds seems to disagree with you.

i don't really care for mindless appeals to authority. make your own arguments and defend them or don't bother.

this gpu driver looks pretty cool though. looks like there's much more to the rust compatibility layer in the asahi tree and it is pretty cool that they were able to ship so quickly. i'd be curious how kernel rust compares to user space rust with respect to bloat. (user rust is pretty bad in that regard, imo)
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-16 13:20:03+00:00
I'm saying the features in PowerToys as a whole are. It includes weird things like a hotkey to crop a live thumbnail out of another window, or to force any window to float always on top, bring up a small thumbnail of all of your screens and click anywhere to teleport the mouse cursor.

Most people shouldn't have a hotkey to lock the active window on top of everything else. If they accidentally press it without knowing what they did, then they have a window stuck in the way and can't even get to The Google to ask it how to unstick it because they can't switch to their web browser window.

And yeah, there are also some features like Peek (the quick preview thing) that would make sense as being pulled out of PowerToys and included as native Windows features, but then they'd get fucked up by whoever is making all the godawful decisions about Windows development lately so I'm glad they haven't. If Peek were part of Windows they'd do something dumb like implement it as "Show this file in Edge" instead. Compared to PowerToys where apparently the developers have been tasked with making something good that people would want to use.
by lunias | 2025-10-16 13:20:10+00:00
> There was a half wall of skibidi toilet merch

Pretty crazy... My hypothesis is that it's popular because it feels more authentic and grassroots than most things being foisted upon them. It has surreal comedy and doesn't take itself seriously; both traits that are in extremely low supply in the recent / current zeitgeist. It was not designed by a committee pre-conception to appeal to the most-profitable possible audience. It is now however, produced by a studio which has just partnered with the Creative Artists Agency (a major Hollywood agency). We'll see if they ruin the vibe or ride off into the sunset akin to Minecraft.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-16 13:20:55+00:00
You have a very simple tax situation. Many people do not.

In the US, if you just have wage/salary income and an investment account, and you lived the entire year in one state, your taxes are also very simple. You can fill everything out yourself in one evening, or pay $100 to do it with tax preparation software.

But things can rapidly get complicated. Did you move from one state to another during the year? Do you live in one state but work for an employer in a different state? Are there any credits or deductions you're eligible for? Or god forbid you live abroad, at which point you're dealing with double-taxation treaties and the like.
by rixed | 2025-10-16 13:21:06+00:00
e-waste is very much linked with over-production, of which any particular product taken in isolation, be it iphone or tomatoes, is of course insignificant, the issue being the economy at large not iphones or Apple.

I don't know what's your point exactly? I was close to believe that this near perfect mix of naive quotation from Apple PR BS, computation of tons of minerals required to build a phone to the 5th decimal, and the lackadaisical insulting remarks, was some refined form of humor. But given we are on HN, you might just be this kind of engineer who can't see the forest for the tree.

So, assuming you are just inapropriately expressing a genuine concern that I might be mislead into believing that refraining oneself from buying any more phones is going to slow our society spiraling down into chaos, rest assured: I'm not believing this. My posture is all about principles, and holds for an iphone like for any of the many useless things a normal, modern life wants us to consume routinely, because I believe one should try to do the right thing no matter what, regardless of the odds of success, because proceeding otherwise requires to define success, an end goal, and that's a circular impossibility. Yes, as you can see, I'm with you on the spectrum. :-)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-16 13:21:32+00:00
I am torn, as someone who is learning Spanish and should be at a strong A1 [1] by the end of the year, I would be horrified to think about posting something in a public forum based on my Spanish speaking ability.

On the other hand, I’ve had enough conversations with Spanish speakers in Florida like at my barbershop and a local bar in a tourist area who speak limited English and I would much rather have real conversations between my broken Spanish and their broken English than listen to or read AI Slop.

[1] according to this scale, I’m past A1 into A2.1 category now. But I still feel like I’m A1

https://berlitz-istanbul.com/en/spanish-levels/
by basisword | 2025-10-16 13:21:46+00:00
"We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems..."

I dread to think where society is going to be in 10-15 years. We've had a generation or two raised thinking porn == sex and the next generation will all be in romantic relationships with ChatGPT. Businesses have just given up on having any social responsibility whatsoever.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-16 13:22:41+00:00
> Mail.app on iOS does not have a "share sheet." This makes it impossible to "do" anything with an email message, like send it to a todo app.

You can’t directly share the mail message, but you can “share” selected text or you can use the “print” option to generate a PDF of the message and “share” that instead. Not very discoverable but might cover at least some of what you want to do.

Also not sure if it’s new with iOS 26 but for the contacts thing you can at least skip the “leave messages and search for the contact in the contacts app” part. There’s button in the contact info that will take you directly to the contact in the contacts app. It does feel silly that you can’t share direct from the card in messages though.
by rekoil | 2025-10-16 13:22:49+00:00
Right, in the nginx example above, someone has setup a secondary tool to provide certs at the location referenced, and is also handling renewal of them.

Also, if I want to add another domain that should be accepted and reverse proxied to my application, in Caddy I just do this:

example.com wp.example.com caddyfreakingrules.example.com { root * /var/www/wordpress php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }

Suddenly not only does my Wordpress site respond on example.com, but also wp.example.com, and caddyfreakingrules.example.com, Caddy will fetch and automatically rotate certs for all three domains, and Caddy will auto-redirect from http to https on all three domains. (Does the ngnix example actually do that?)

Another thing, does nginx with the above configuration automatically load new certs if the ones that were there when the process spawned have since expired? Because not only does Caddy automatically renew the certs, it is handled transparently and there's zero downtime (provided nothing changes about the DNS pointers of course).

Caddy is freaking awesome!

Bonus, if this were your Caddyfile (the entire thing, this is all that's needed!):

{ admin off auto_https prefer_wildcard email hostmaster@example.com cert_issuer acme { dir https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory resolvers 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 dns cloudflare {env.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN} } ocsp_stapling off } example.com wp.example.com caddyfreakingrules.example.com { root * /var/www/wordpress php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server } # This is simply to trigger generation of the wildcard cert without # responding with the Wordpress application on all of the domains. *.example.com { respond "This is not the app you're looking for" 404 }

Then you'll disable the unauthenticated JSON API on localhost:2019 (which is a good security practice, this is my only gripe with Caddy, this API shouldn't be enabled by default), tell Caddy how to use the DNS-01 ACME resolver against Cloudflare (requires a plugin to Caddy, there are loads for many DNS providers), and then tell Caddy to use appropriate wildcard certs if it has generated them (which for *.example.com it will have).

The result of which is that Caddy will only generate one cert for the above 3 sites, and Let's Encrypt won't leak the existance of the wp.example.com and caddyfreakingrules.example.com domains via certificate transparency.
by einrealist | 2025-10-16 13:23:02+00:00
The commercial use permissions look murky to me. But I'm not in the legal department.

What's more important is trust. What's to stop them from changing the licence again after evaluating the impact of the first change? Liquibase has collected "anonymous" metrics by default since version 4.30 (do they consider an IP address and timestamp as PII?). As soon as I saw that, I anticipated this scenario. It was not really a surprise. They have a way to analyse the impact. Now, I am reassessing the risks.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-16 13:23:09+00:00
> the users won't enjoy software freedom with that result

That's the part I was talking about.

So I don't know why you started your post with "No."

> I'm pretty fine with this.

Cool. And I'm fine with some other restrictions. So we're agreeing that being fine with a restriction doesn't necessarily mean anyone has "lost the direction" of free software? And instead we can talk about the specific dangers of a restriction without reflexive rejection?
by elevation | 2025-10-16 13:23:30+00:00
After a recent post[0] suggesting the federal tax code was already online in machine readable form, my first thought was "could I write my own US tax-filing software?" But the answer is still no.

Paying taxes doesn't mean just paying federal taxes. Users don't want free Federal taxes software if it means they'll have to re-renter all their information into different software for their State taxes -- especially when more than one state is involved, such as for people who cross state lines for work, or moved mid-year. A tax service is a massive value add.

The "free" software you get to do your federal taxes will be no threat to TurboTax until the states are required to publish their tax codes in the same machine readable format as the feds.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599567
by pdimitar | 2025-10-16 13:23:55+00:00
Eh, modern OS-es indeed have loads of problems still, of which non-transactional access to the filesystem is in my top three, but to put those problems on Rust is a bit uncharitable. It's not Rust's fault that zero kernel devs have the courage to finally start enforcing patterns that have proven themselves useful and safe for decades, in other areas outside of IT as well (i.e. in financial accounting).

Rust plucks the fruit it can reach and it mostly stays in its lane and it's trying to expand it here and there (like Rust in Linux and embedded). I too want one ultimate language and one ultimate kernel but I don't think you and I will live to see it. Maybe our grandchildren will not as well.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 13:24:33+00:00
I dunno, the founders could have also changed their frame of mind, and started the project without VC investments. AFAIK, the founding team worked at Docker before, a company that doesn't pay peanuts, so I'm sure they could have scraped together enough to bootstrap it initially.

But I understand the added zeros to the (maybe) future payout when you take VC funds is hard to ignore, I'm not blaming them for anything really.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-16 13:24:39+00:00
> Would you care to explain what you mean by "the bandwidth just isn't there"

VR needs to at least match the bleeding edge in graphics, which is desktop GPUs. Those desktop GPUs have large wattage and cooling demands. Therefore wireless VR headsets must use the mobile or laptop versions of those GPUs, which perform worse than the desktop equivalent. On top of this VR needs to draw the same scene twice (one for each eyeball). I cannot see how VR will ever overcome this with current hardware. They need to be able to put a desktop GPU in the wireless headset without needing to power it from AC, and thats just for starters because didnt Carmack say we need something like 240hz and 4k+ (for each eyeball) for indiscernible photo realism? Id say were maybe 10-20 years away from just having the GPU power to do this, let alone making software for it
by dylan604 | 2025-10-16 13:24:52+00:00
SMH, the rational people that have checked out and allowed the according to you, irrational, to take over government. I understand you in your position of being "rational" think those with differing opinions are nothing but a joke. You've make that clear to the rest of us, yet you fail to see it as a negative about yourself. The lack of empathy for those with opposing views is why we are in the state we are today. People just want to make themselves feel good about their own decisions by belittling everyone else. It's just gross.
by rufius | 2025-10-16 13:25:08+00:00
Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only familiar with the song mashups, not the web series.

Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. It’s just part of parenting and being a kid. My parents hated my love for the weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies.

Big shrug - no one should be surprised this portrays a non-narrative future. The future feels pretty chaotic and undirected to me as an adult. I can’t imagine how it feels to a 12 year old.
by basisword | 2025-10-16 13:25:12+00:00
Especially given this[1].

>> "ChatGPT is trained to direct people to seek professional help," such as the 988 suicide and crisis hotline in the US or the Samaritans in the UK.

>> The company acknowledged, however, that "there have been moments where our systems did not behave as intended in sensitive situations".

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgerwp7rdlvo
by Mouvelie | 2025-10-16 13:25:32+00:00
A curious thing happened with the link of the article :

Clicking on it brought me to a 404. I found afterwards that the "correct" article does not mention "darting" but "flickering", even in the url. Why are some people mentionning "darting" when it appears nowhere in the text except on HN ? Am I having a mandela effect ? /S
by thrance | 2025-10-16 13:25:48+00:00
The 18F team was doing remarkable work devoid of all profit motives, before it was gutted by this admin. Americans are missing out on a lot of QoL improvements based purely on the false belief that private is always better than public. In France, they're rolling out a new system where your taxes are filed fully automatically, and you get a PDF in your emails with a one page recap, telling you to only contact the admin if you feel like something is wrong with the recap.

Your take is the classic economist's "it works in practice, but does it work in theory?". Obviously tax filing works better when it's maintained by the government. You're severly underestimating the harmfulness of profiteering monopolies lobbying against any improvements and buying out the competition. Also, look at DOGE, with all the ruckus they made they just couldn't find that many inefficiencies. And for such "simple" software projects as a tax-filing platform, I just don't buy that private is better than public.
by niepiekm | 2025-10-16 13:26:16+00:00
Full quote is this: "The questions posed by AI are open to all of us. And they demand answers. A book that is written to challenge all readers, no matter your worldview, 2084 shows how the Christian worldview, properly understood, can provide evidence–based, credible answers that will bring you real hope for the future of humanity."

Does 'the Christian worldview' invalidate any conclusions the authors may present?
by codedokode | 2025-10-16 13:26:33+00:00
I don't think the DSL is any good. It looks weird (like a mix of CSS and classes), and it has a side effect of locking the user to a specific product.

In your article, you mention that an imperative code in Rust looks more complicated, but this can be fixed by adding an "object tree" syntax to Rust, that allows creating trees of objects and link them like this:

VBox margin=10: Label text=label_text Button label="OK" onclick=on_ok_clicked

This syntax could be used not only for UI, but for describing configuration, database tables and many other things. I think it would be better solution than a proprietary language.

Also I think it would be better if GUI could be drawn in the editor, it would allow to use lower paid developers without expensive computer science education for making UI.
by karel-3d | 2025-10-16 13:26:35+00:00
Maybe I'm too old, but... I thought Skibidi Toilet was kind-of funny 2 years ago, when it spiraled from a fun memey Gary's Mod shitpost into a full-on story, but then... it's kind of stuck there for 2 years?

It's kind of same-y, when I look into the latest episode. (Yes I am not at all caught up to the lore, and I don't want to.)

But hey it kind of fits Michael Bay storytelling style.
by microtherion | 2025-10-16 13:26:35+00:00
I seem to recall from past reading of the AppKit source code that one solution to (1) was to have version specific workarounds that worked for e.g. RecklessApp 39, but would no longer work for RecklessApp 40. I assume that the developers in question were informed of the fact, and now had every incentive to fix the problem.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-16 13:27:17+00:00
Windows allows third-party software (e.g., Stardock's suite of programs) to customize its GUI.

Linux has such customization options built in (e.g., Gnome/KDE GUI settings).

I couldn't find such third-party apps or inbuilt options for MacOS for my Mac Mini 2012. It's one of the reasons I stopped using the Mac Mini, but the main reason is that Apple made it too hard to swap the old HDD in the Mini to a new SSD I could purchase, and the Apple service center guys refused to do such upgrade even when I offered to pay them extra for it. There are YouTube DIY videos to do such SSD and RAM upgrade for the Mac Mini, but I was scared to brick the Mini attempting to do such upgrade myself.
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-16 13:27:25+00:00
"Proof coins" are extra shiny coins made for collectors. They polish the blank, polish the die, and then stamp it more than once. Blank areas of the coin have a practically mirror shine finish.

Here's a side-by-side comparison: https://www.govmint.com/learn/post/how-is-a-proof-coin-diffe...
by Aurornis | 2025-10-16 13:27:27+00:00
> What does rust have to do with thread safety and race conditions? Is rust going to synchronize shared memory access for me?

Rust’s strict ownership model enforces more correct handling of data that is shared or sent across threads.

> Speaking seriously, they surely meant data races, right? If so, what's preventing me from using C++ atomics to achieve the same thing?

C++ is not used in the Linux kernel.

You can write safe code in C++ or C if everything is attended to carefully and no mistakes are made by you or future maintainers who modify code. The benefit of Rust is that the compiler enforces it at a language level so you don’t have to rely on everyone touching the code avoiding mistakes or the disallowed behavior.
by the_snooze | 2025-10-16 13:27:36+00:00
It's a political challenge, not a technical one. There are constituencies that reap concentrated benefits from the current system (e.g., tax-filing services) while imposing disperse costs on everyone else. Also, there are those who believe that the IRS is out to get them, so filing your own taxes is more trustworthy than going with a government-issued pre-filled default. And that going through the motions makes the pain of paying taxes more salient, so you're more likely to complain about it.

If you look at it as a practical or technical challenge, you're addressing the wrong question.
by walkabout | 2025-10-16 13:27:43+00:00
I watched the first video a long time ago to see what the deal was, and reckoned it was just one of those silly, absurd videos that become well-known for whatever reason. The tradition of very stupid, absurd stuff taking off on the internet goes back to at least “Mr T Ate My Balls” and hell, I love the long-running, weird YouTube channel “How To Basic”, so, I didn’t mind it but thought that’s all there was to it.

But no. I eventually learned it was an hours-long series and gave it another try.

It’s a long, serialized silent film sci fi war epic told without intertitles. And damn, I was invested in it before long!

[edit] I am not joking that I cared more about and paid more attention to the long battle and infiltration mission near the end (at the time—I understand there’s more now?) than I care about or pay attention to at least half of the 30-45 minute final battles in Marvel movies. I would defend the series as outright better than, certainly, something like Quantumania.
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by hienyimba | 2025-10-16 13:28:57+00:00
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