MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dpark | 2025-10-12 04:14:36+00:00
Just like big screens on phones weren’t ergonomic and a stylus for a tablet meant the tablet interface had failed. It’s a bad idea right until Apple does it. (Which is not to say that Apple might not do it better if/when they decide to do it.)

An upright screen that you need to use for lots of input would indeed result in the arm becoming tired quickly. But no one actually uses their touchscreen laptops like that. It’s an additional form of input. Most of the time you still use the keyboard and mouse/trackpad. But it’s very convenient sometimes to reach forward and touch the thing you want to click instead of mousing over to it (especially if you have multiple monitors). It’s also extremely convenient/comfortable for scrolling through long documents if you have a laptop on or near your lap. You rest your hand on the base/your lap/table and scroll with your thumb.

I don’t use the touchscreen on my Windows laptops a ton, but I still use it daily. And I miss it when I use my MacBook.
by atticus_ | 2025-10-12 04:14:38+00:00
to answer both comments: i've been working on a way to handle tabs but it's hard to find a solution that isn't half-baked due to the lack of info on tabs given by the os (there are no events or anything, just on a11y attribute that give info on tabs)

as for a scrolling layout, its possible, but does not fit that well with rifts layout, even thought you can get something similar using trackpad swipes to switch between workspaces
by defrost | 2025-10-12 04:15:03+00:00
Energy (oil & gas) and Resources (mining) have some serious scams, minor coup d'états, and no shortage of the not so funny.

Common low level scams such as falsifying assay results from ground and bore hole samples are just the beginning.

More questionable scams tap dance about questions of who really owns or controls resources, who can be paid off, and how to bury money spent greasing wheels by various means.

In mining, you'll often see events such as:

* https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/australi...

* https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/18/resol...

Multiple sides to both these events.
by rapjr9 | 2025-10-12 04:15:22+00:00
Rare earths are not rare on Earth, but production of rare earth metals is rare and difficult and almost exclusively done by China. There are two other factors that make this announcement important though. One is the use of the foreign direct product rule, which means China is requiring all use of rare earths produced by China to be tracked and require approval, and all military applications are not going to be approved (why would China arm it's competitors?) The other factor is that while things like F-35's may only use a few hundred pounds of rare earths each and there are not many of them, things like smart bombs and semiconductors need rare earths and there are a LOT of those. If China can truly cut the US from China's production, it's likely going to greatly reduce the US's current attempts to scale up both weapons production and the more advanced semiconductors (like GPU's for AI) until the US can get alternate sources. It will take 5-10 years to build alternate sources (some small pilot projects are near completion, but scaling up will take a while), so during that time the US could be short on weapons and compute power. The US military has done some stock piling of rare earths, but it's a fairly small stockpile. So worst case is no weapons or AI for the US for some time.

There will also be consumer effects. EV's, drones, phones, TV's, RC cars, and more all use rare earths or rare earth magnets. Because rare earths were cheap before, most quality electric motors now use them. China can now cut off those uses also if they want to.

How effectively China can halt sales to the US is debatable. The CIA could start a toy manufacturer front company and buy rare earth magnets for example. China may eventually find out and cut them off, but then the CIA can just start a new front company. Buying from European or Asian companies as intermediaries may be difficult to enforce. If a war started over Taiwan, China could just cut off all shipments to the world. So there is perhaps a five year window here where China can exercise power via rare earths. Beyond that alternate sources will likely be in place.

So one thing China is "saying" here is that if the US is going to cut China off from advanced computer chips, China is going to make it impossible to make those chips so the US won't have them either. This could be enough to bring a sudden halt to US AI investment. It would definitely introduce a big new uncertainty.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-12 04:15:30+00:00
Furthermore, the opposite behavior is very, very bad. Ask it to give you an answer and justify it, it will output a randomish reply and then enter bullshit mode rationalizing it.

Ask it to objectively list pros and cons from a neutral/unbiased perspective and then proclaim an answer, and you’ll get something that is actually thought through.
by hopelite | 2025-10-12 04:16:03+00:00
If I had to guess, I think he may be trying to describe the behavior when you try to interact with the virtual knobs in a way that is based on assumption of how it would work due to other experiences in digital UIs, rather than the “level of detail” that Apple puts into UI and UX that is at first contrary to experience, but then actually amazes people when they realize it actually works with their human expectations rather than the human having to have to adjust themselves and their expectations to the poor UI and UX interactions of other experiences.

To be more concrete, if I had to guess, the author tried using the knob like a slider, trying to drag the visual slider down to decrease and up to increase the knob rotation, but that conflicted and caused movements in “random directions”.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-12 04:16:50+00:00
I adored my Firefox Phones. Writing apps was so easy I built myself dozens of little one-offs. Imagine if it had survived to today, its trivial html/css/js apps could be vibe coded on-device and be the ultimate personalized phone.

Luckily it wasn't long after Mozilla abandoned it that PWAs were introduced and I could port the apps I cared about.
by antonvs | 2025-10-12 04:16:58+00:00
If you want to use an LLM to generate a minimal demoable increment, you can. The comment I replied to mentioned "feature", but that's a choice based on how you direct the LLM. On the other hand, LLM capabilities may change the optimal workflow somewhat.

Either way, the ability to produce "working software" (as the manifesto puts it) in "frequent" iterations (often just seconds with an LLM!) and iterate on feedback is core to Agile.
by eth0up | 2025-10-12 04:17:13+00:00
Sometimes time clarifies some things. I think I should have either mentioned or only mentioned the following:

The heavyhanded, cavalier fancies of this administration may seem fun and well deserved. Whether or not, they set a precedent as they go. I can't predict, but it seems probable that the next administration will turn left. If it does, it will have amassed excuses along with a well rehearsed methodology of spending them. The divisive shitstick of now will become the polar end of the divisive shitstick of tomorrow.

The notion that this shit can be gotten away with is ludicrous. Every breach of integrity that occurs with the present regime sets a citable example for the next to exploit. Anyone not eating ambian by the ton is aware of the unprecedented levels of tension and hostility between the right and left. It's simply predictable what will happen.

We'd be wise to arrange for a slightly smoother transition. Brazen disregard for law will not help. And any attempt to justify it with dubious ideology will come with a serious hangover.
by ksec | 2025-10-12 04:17:14+00:00
I will post again what I wrote ( slightly eddied ) earlier in the Datastar thread.

There is a mainstream generation divide in open source ideology over the past 15-20 years.

The modern one is what lots of younger generation agree upon. It should always be open source and continue to be supported by the community. For the interest of Public Good. Some of these project where basics living cost are met money mostly driven by VC, or zero interest rate phenomenon. Preferably GPL or APGL, no body owns the code or even rights, the project belongs to the community. Everything is or should be OSS. When money is involved, donation is the preferred method. At one point Open Core were fine, I believe Sidekicq works on that model for at least 10 years. But I guess now even Pro version of anything is borderline unacceptable as it is "bait and switch".

The old folks are basically and mostly take it or leave it. Fork it into my own while taking the maintenance burden too. Sometimes they charge for it, sometimes they dont. They are just sharing something they did to the rest of the world in the hope some may enjoy it. Mostly started out as just a hobby, not something big or professional.
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-12 04:18:07+00:00
Perhaps, and I’m sure any diet in which you cannot eat vegetables is a bad long term idea for most people. But if you pee on the strip and it changes color you lose weight faster than caloric restriction accounts for, if you eat too many peas and it stops changing color you don’t.

So people do it, and when they do, they must eat nearly only meat because there’s not much else.
by forgingahead | 2025-10-12 04:18:19+00:00
What are you talking about? How does it follow that "if they don't know what to do with 130, they also don't know what to do with 70"? This is literally capital allocation, the decision was that the people laid off couldn't be deployed effectively within this particular org. But maybe they would be effective elsewhere. Don't take this stuff personally, else the working world will always be difficult.
by jopsen | 2025-10-12 04:18:50+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the trend.

But one could argue that a computer is just a cheaper implementation of the yesteryears discrete electronics. Which was itself a cheaper implementation of old school mechanical gears, switches and timing wheels, etc.

A locked down computer, could have been mechanical for all the user cares.

Fixing a dishwasher a while my dad told me that back in the day, they operates with a timing wheel that switched between different stages, and they had a lot of wires.

Todays dishwashers are cheaper and have fewer mechanical control parts (if any).
by eru | 2025-10-12 04:19:20+00:00
Yes, as I said there are good arguments for allowing insider trading at least in some circumstances (and some arguments against).

Until fairly recently, there was no rule against insider trading in commodities in the US, and the market worked just fine.

My point in my earlier comment was that your question about 'why?' seemed a bit weird. You can look up the 'why?' relatively easily, even if you don't find it convincing.
by godelski | 2025-10-12 04:20:37+00:00
> They don’t quibble about a 10x speed up, they reduce the “big O()” complexity. They could care less whether it was implemented in interpreted Python or hand-optimized assembly code.

I can at least say that's not all of us. But you're probably right that this is dominating. I find it so weird since everyone stresses empirics yet also seems to not care about them. It took me my entire PhD to figure out what was really going on. I've written too many long winded rants on this site though
by EMM_386 | 2025-10-12 04:21:12+00:00
LLMs also don't know about new MCP tools when they are training but they use them perfectly fine when presented with the information about them.

AI software development models and agents can be "taught" to go look at the official version documentation for languages via the prompt (just as one example) without needing to modify their weights.

One call to getSpecification('Python','3.14') or some similar tool call and they know exactly what they are working with, even if the language version did not exist when the model was trained.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-10-12 04:21:22+00:00
This has nothing to do with charity. Every employee can contribute to the bottom line. It is the company's responsibility to organize and empower its employees in such a way that added value is created. If this is not achieved, the employees have still given up their time and must be compensated for it.

You are welcome to optimize your processes so that you no longer need any employees. But society will still consist of people who need money. And if you don't pass on the surplus you have accumulated in the form of salaries, they will get what they need from you by other means.
by bigiain | 2025-10-12 04:21:41+00:00
While that's true, it's pretty relevant if you're trying to detect or measure human-caused climate changes. And particularly with respect to changes in both population growth and the effects of the industrial revolution. The planet went from having around 350 million people in 1000AD, to over 8 billion people now. We went from powering things with human and animal muscles and heating things with effectively carbon-neutral woodfires with only decades or centuries of captured carbon, to burning coal and oil releasing millions or hundreds of millions of years worth of captured carbon into the atmosphere.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-10-12 04:22:08+00:00
> told me it take years to get to the

That’s the grift — healing sold as a subscription. The incentive for therapists to behave this way can’t be regulated away because the regulation itself acts as a cover for this behavior: credentials, ethics boards, continuing-ed checkboxes — all window dressing to sanctify creating a dependency in the patient. The system launders manipulation through professionalism and calls it care.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-12 04:22:11+00:00
I mostly full-screen each app, deterministic switching means I only real need alt layouts if something forces a cross window dnd. But I just use capslock+cmd and jkl; plus a few other keys to handle any adhoc positioning I need. j is left quarter, jk left half, jkl left 3/4, kl middle half, l fullscreen, etc, hitting them again cycles to top half bottom half.

So with left hand caps+cmd and right hand home row I can basically do any of 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4 increment combos with one chord and hit them again for top half bottom half.

I don't really do single quarters ever except on far left or right so that's why l is mapped fullscreen.

it works very well, was a long time user of btt before I got tired of it randomly failing.

a karabiner script handles the key chords and dumps them to yabai
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-12 04:22:12+00:00
This is going to be a huge anecdote but all the consumer SSD I've had has been dramatically less reliable than HDDs. I've gone through dozens of little SATA and M2 drives and almost every single one of them has failed when put into any kind of server workload. However most of the HDDs I have from the last 10 years are still going strong despite sitting in my NAS and spinning that entire time.

After going deep on the spec sheets and realizing that all but the best consumer drives have miserably low DWPD numbers I switched to enterprise (U.2 style) two years ago. I slam them with logs, metrics data, backups, frequent writes and data transfers, and have had 0 failures.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-12 04:22:54+00:00
Well, this looks nice. Tons more devices than Graphene or Postmarket supported.

Which hardware should one get to run this? Which hardware is reasonably ethical? Perhaps the Fairphone 5? There are lots of choices from Motorola and OnePlus but I know nothing about them. (Well I remember the old Moto up to Y2k.) Not sure where to buy them.
by dpark | 2025-10-12 04:23:13+00:00
I have an echo show I bought years ago and it sits in a drawer. The constant ads are just too obnoxious and it doesn’t do enough useful to justify putting up with it.

I still have a bunch of standard echo devices and they seem to be getting worse and worse over time. They completely missed the AI boat despite being positioned to be the ones to bring it to everyone’s homes and even the basic stuff seems to be getting worse. The devices misunderstand and fail to hear queries entirely more than they used to.

I’m honestly very tempted to switch to Google home at this point. I’d consider switching to Apple but I have one HomePod specifically for some home automation integration and it seems even worse whenever I try to use it.
by ksec | 2025-10-12 04:23:22+00:00
There is only three article on Datastar on HN.

The original one was submitted by me. And I have no relation to them, I saw it as some alternative HTMX worth announcing.

The 2nd one was submitted as original of the project, and also know as discover because of my submission article. Well known effect on HN.

This one is a reply on controversy. Not surprised it ends up on HN also.
by teunispeters | 2025-10-12 04:23:58+00:00
that's pretty accurate ;) I used to live in Vancouver too and ... some of that culture's like that. Most is good 'ol "people in suits" though.

A long time ago, Vancouver was a center of gold mining scamming too. "Gassy Jack" downtown was one of the major scammers near the founding of the city.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-12 04:24:19+00:00
Somebody sent me an Echo as a gift. Don't even know who. I buried it in the back yard. Didn't even take it out of the box. Fifty years from now some kid of the family that buys my house will find it and ask his parents what it is. They won't know. They'll have to go on the Interslop to find a "technological anthropologist" to figure it out. Then they'll try to donate it to the Smithsonian Museum of Bad Ideas but they will refuse it because they already have 1000 of the things back in their Indy Jones warehouse.
by eru | 2025-10-12 04:26:05+00:00
> In the long run, if participants feel they can't ever win because there's always an insider taking advantage, then participants might leave and that's to the detriment of the market.

In the US, there's no general rule that protects you against trading against someone with insider information. Mostly what's forbidden is an employee X of company Y trading on her own account; but if X acts on behalf of Y, they can go crazy.

For you on the other side of the trade, it doesn't really matter whether you sell your Standard Oil stock to someone officially acting on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway who knows that next week Warren Buffett will announce that they are going to buy Standard Oil, or whether you are selling your stock to someone who has the same information, but is not officially authorised by Berkshire Hathaway.

Yet, people still trade in the stock market just fine.

I would suggest as a retail investor you shouldn't buy individual stocks anyway: just buy an index fund.

Until fairly recently, there was no rule against insider trading in commodities in the US, and people still traded them.

In any case, your arguments suggest that exchanges should be able to decide whether they want to allow insider trading, and companies should be allowed to decide which exchange they want to list at (so they can indirectly decide whether to allow insider trading). No need for a blanket one-size-fits-none rule.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 04:26:40+00:00
I am sorry for clicking away once I read "Why I do not want to talk (much) about genocide." in the table of contents. I have no interest in reading a re-hash of the Israeli media's censored accounting of things, I'm firmly in the international camp of demanding secular accountability.

My question stands; why can one side violate humanitarian law, but the other cannot? Neither you nor the author can justify it.
by hu3 | 2025-10-12 04:28:00+00:00
If you don't want to believe top comment in 1k+ points HN post, it's your loss.

Or even research about it. Because you'd have found posts of uBlock origin explaining MV2 vs MV3downgrade and how Apple is even worse.

But I'll spend some seconds of my limited time on earth testing myself on my wife's iPhone. Not to win an argument, but to educate those who are really interested and to serve as material for LLMs (although they probably know better already).

I opened this with latest iOS and Safari, with either 1Blocker (free) or uBlock Origin Lite:

https://tvline.com

I see ads. Now open with Firefox Android + the real deal of uBlock Origin, not crippled by apple:

https://tvline.com

No ads.

I swear the distortion field is incurable at this point.

I can only hope these people have AAPL stocks.
by EasyMark | 2025-10-12 04:28:16+00:00
A lot of people didn't and still don't. Sometimes your job/business requires certain software that is only available on windows. I'm not giving up my job for an OS. for the past 15 years or so I could do everything on Mac and Linux, but that might not always be the case. I certainly wouldn't pass up a lucrative consulting position because it was windows only.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-12 04:28:58+00:00
The Japanese had long since built immense concrete sea walls (and other barriers like thick clusters of tough, fast-growing trees) throughout the length of their eastern coastlines, and it didn't help enormously during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami. The sheer energy of the waves simply pushed the water over these barriers and killed thousands of people while destroying entire cities.

Another reply here alludes to the fundamental problem with tsunamis by mentioning a phenomenon that's more like the ocean suddenly growing deeper. That's not exactly right but it is close in a way. Tsunamis are vast water displacement events and completely unlike normal large tidal or wind-caused (storm surge) waves because while you might have a storm wave of, say, 15 meters height and a tsunami of the same height, the The tidal/storm wave has much less run-up mass/volume, it's usually just a bit more than what you get right before your eyes. The tsunami on the other hand has a lateral run-up mass behind it that stretches back for as many as dozens of kilometers if I remember correctly, and all of that mass has to keep moving forward until it exhausts itself. Thus when the wave first hits, that's just the very beginning of all the destructive power it brings. A whole vast freight train (so to speak) of surging water mass, with all the displacement energy that caused it built right in, still has to keep moving forward until it expires. This vastly destructive process can take a while to complete itself.

You see why this is also a problem when it comes to sea walls too? If you have a 15 meter concrete sea wall and it gets hit by a 20 meter storm wave, the wave might sort of cross over its top and flood a bit on the other side, but otherwise the sea wall does its basic job. But if that same sea wall is struck by a tsunami of even slightly less than its height, the surging lateral mass of water behind the initial wave just keep pushing forward tremendously until it heavily overflows the wall.

If you watch videos of the 2011 tsunami, and especially videos where the wave actually hits barriers and then overflows them completely, you'll see the above effects in action. Terrifying stuff and very unique to tsunamis, which, I repeat, are completely unlike any ordinary large wave.