MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajkjk | 2025-10-12 19:05:06+00:00
I read somewhere that domesticated dogs are to some degree bred to stay in their "childlike" state, so in a way they act like wolf puppies that never get older. Probably different breeds have different degrees of this. But anyway, I wonder if there is supposed to be some counterbalancing "maturity" or "responsibility" impulse that would cause them to decide not to do the thing, but since that has been bred out / disabled, they just run on impulse forever.

Incidentally I feel this way also: like I never fully grew up, and I easily regress to being trapped in a childlike state where I'll e.g. play video games all day. To snap out of it I have to "remember" to be an adult, like it's easily forgotten especially if my daily life doesn't ask me to have any serious responsibilities. maybe dogs don't have any responsibilities so they have no reason to stop playing.
by jleyank | 2025-10-12 19:05:15+00:00
All levers of the government, as I understand it, are controlled by the President's party. This would seem to suggest that the normal mechanism of passing laws and budgets would be straightforward, eliminating the need to rule by decree. As this does not seem to be happening, it suggests the US government is inoperative with all control ceded legally or otherwise to the executive.

Hence my decree comment.
by acdha | 2025-10-12 19:05:23+00:00
> This current administration is trying to prevent the kinds of authoritarian excesses and illegal acts that occurred under BHO and JRB from ever happening again.

It’s telling that you didn’t mention these alleged excesses or explain your argument that concentrating power in the executive while removing safeguards somehow prevents future abuse. Without a coherent argument and supporting evidence, it’s hard to see how this will lead to a useful conversation.
by louwrentius | 2025-10-12 19:06:12+00:00
I think Wireguard is awesome and I use it exclusively.

That said, when traveling - on hotel wifi - for internet to work, TCP port 443 is always open, thus OpenVPN will always work if you run it on that port.

For Wireguard, there isn’t a reliable always-open UDP port. Port 123 or 53 could work sometimes, but it’s not as guaranteed.

For any other application though, Wireguard would be my first choice.
by lambertsimnel | 2025-10-12 19:08:36+00:00
> For example, if I love Obscure Artist A, and 90% of my songs are Obscure Artist A, then Obscure Artist A should get 90% of my $15 or whatever subscription fee (minus Spotify's cut). But instead, Spotify says "Obscure Artist A only had .000001% of total plays, so they only get .000001% of total revenue" - it ends up being a better payout for the big names but a worse deal for all the smaller artists.

Why would the former pay obscure artists more? Are non-paying users more likely to listen to mainstream artists? Or do fans of obscure artists just play fewer songs each? Is ad revenue shared in the same proportions, but just lower per user? Is revenue really shared on the basis of plays, rather then playing time? If so, and if obscure artists make longer songs, does that contribute to their lack of revenue?
by immibis | 2025-10-12 19:08:38+00:00
UN law isn't really a thing. I see this misconception a lot, that people think the UN is some kind of international law. The reality is that the UN is a debating forum, subordinate to everything else that exists. Countries used to bomb each other a lot. The hope with the UN is that, instead of countries bombing each other, sometimes they will merely yell at each other, agree on who would be able to outbomb the other, not actually bomb anyone, and then lives will be saved. Actual violence is replaced by words and consensus. The Security Council permanent members are countries that you cannot possibly hope to outbomb, because they have nukes (well, the list is somewhat outdated), which is why they have veto power. A veto is the verbal replacement for launching a nuke. You (as a leader of a country) are free to defy a veto - the UN won't come after you, since it's not the law. But you should expect the vetoing country to nuke you or something equivalent, for real. You can also expect no other country to help you - they basically already agreed to that, by agreeing to the rule that lets nuke countries issue vetos.
by wiether | 2025-10-12 19:08:40+00:00
The basic setup is the GPS highlighting the path you're supposed to follow.

You don't have to keep looking at it: a quick glance when you're coming to an intersection, to know if you have to slow down and get ready to turn or just keep going.

As other said, it can also provide additional features like warning you about cars coming from behind or reminders to eat/drink.

And contrary to some other comments, it's not another screen asking for your attention. Setup correctly, it's just a map that refresh itself and follows you. Allowing you to focus only on your sensations, instead of having to think about where you are, where you're going...

Finally, cue sheets are nice, but even if you don't care about being "lost" or having to find your way by yourself, you'll probably end up on bad roads with lots of traffic. Meanwhile, if you're just following precisely a nice route going only on quiet roads/paths, you won't end up in bad situations and you'll find your ride more enjoyable.
by whycome | 2025-10-12 19:08:48+00:00
It's also dismissive of a million different types of art and expression that don't have the benefit of this type of platform. Art and its value is always intertwined with artist. Is art diminished when it's known that the artist did it only to get paid?

I want universal basic income just so the most artistic and interesting of us can go and try cool innovative stuff without fear of death.
by righthand | 2025-10-12 19:09:03+00:00
Well in the case of the first Alien movie, the whole thing is a left-then-right metaphor about conception, birth, motherhood, and gender roles in biology. If you were alive when it originally came out you wouldn’t know that Ripley is the true lead of the film (a now commonly known fact about the franchise). This idea plays off of scifi with male leads. The film then does A LOT to foreshadow Ripley as the lead and mother figure. So in the case of Alien it was a statement on traditional science fiction films. The Queen was added later in the sequels on an evolution of the birth theme.

A queen in Alien universe doesn’t operate like ants do. She is just the largest most vicious female amongst the brood.
by dash2 | 2025-10-12 19:09:10+00:00
I haven't read the actual research, but as described this has the problem that maybe the IQ differences cause the educational differences. In other words, the researchers find that identical twins reared apart with different levels of education have bigger IQ differences than other identical twins reared apart. But how do we know that's not just selection? Some identical twins are (just randomly) very different in IQ. Those ones get sent to very different schools. Nothing to see.

The article mentions that the researchers gathered data on educational systems, catholic schools etc. so maybe they get round this.
by sudo712 | 2025-10-12 19:09:15+00:00
I love the idea, and thanks for doing this. I would like to create free apps too just for the heck of it but one of the biggest issues I find with creating free app store apps is that, regardless of whether you are charging money or not, you need to keep feeding Apple $100 per year, which is excruciating, especially for countries where the developer population is much higher and the income disparity is high. Since the Play Store only charges 25$ ish and one time, it is much more feasible to do it on the Play Store, hence the availability of such apps is more on Play Store.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-12 19:09:21+00:00
Maybe, but not by default. But games as a rule don't give you the option to change this, so you're stuck with that one game and that one program using My Documents as a dumping ground without your consent, and now My Documents is no longer really your folder any more, at which point people make a folder on their desktop or whereever else called My Documents But For Real This Time or whatever.
by BrouteMinou | 2025-10-12 19:09:57+00:00
Compare PC for PC, not some kind of handheld-device-you-decided-to-pick-just-for-your-sake-of-argumenting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giois6VtLPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAfrarQDBIQ

Even freaking Phoronix, which is quite "pro linux"

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia2022-windows11-linux

Let's stop the gaslighting here, it doesn't work with me.

Thank you, have a good day.
by nxpnsv | 2025-10-12 19:10:05+00:00
1. hx is fast to start, and fast to use, it looks pretty too 2. the defaults are pretty good, i added a few bits and bobs, but customizing hx is not a way of life for me. emacs and neovim had me stuck in endless improvement loops... 3. tui works great on remote servers, it is nice to have the same setup on my mac, linux, and server. sure other editors does that too but also hx. 4. i got all the lsp i need. arguably getting my languages.toml setup was more fiddly than I wanted. In practice I found getting the setup right on other editors also was a bit of a chrore though.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-12 19:10:05+00:00
> The Open Source ecosystem is a bit weird in that your system can be as reliable or not as you want

I'm going to dig into this a little. This feels like shifting responsibility onto the user when things don't go well. E.g. comparing the platonic ideal of Linux when analyzing practical options. I make lots of mistakes in all aspects of my life. I know historically, and projecting into the future that I will get into trouble with Linux, so I don't daily-drive it. Yes, there are always ways to fix things when a system gets in a bad state, but there is a time and effort cost to this.

Saying it's my fault for breaking it doesn't help restore the system. e.g. "Should have used the LTS release", "Should have only installed software from the package manager", "Shouldn't have used sudo", "Shouldn't have edited a system file without knowing what you're doing". If I was doing those things, it probably seemed like the best of available options, e.g. the only way to make a certain piece of hardware or software work.
by pols45 | 2025-10-12 19:10:54+00:00
Private Hudson arc is the main show -

"I'm ready, man. Check it out. I am the ultimate badass. State of the badass art. You do not want to fuck with me"

"Well, that's great. That's just fuckin' great, man! Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now, man!"

"That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over!"

"What do you mean they cut the power? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals man!"

"They're coming outta the walls! They're coming outta the goddamn walls! Let's book!"
by mattmanser | 2025-10-12 19:11:28+00:00
I feel there's a third reason.

When I see a pro-AI person insisting that they are fully automated, I often scour their recent comments to find code or git repos they have shared. You find something every now and again.

My thinking is that I want to use this stuff, but don't find the agentic AI at all effective. I must be doing something wrong! So I should learn from the real world success of others.

A regular pattern is they say they're using vibe coding for complex problems. You check, and they're trivial features.

One egregious example was a basic randomizer to pick a string from a predetermined set, and save that value into an existing table to re-use later.

To me that's a trivial feature, a 15-30 minute task in a codebase I'm familiar with.

For this extremely AI bullish developer it was described as a major feature. The prompts were timestamped and it took them 1/2 day using coding agents.

They were sharing their .claude folder. It had 50 odd md files in it. I sampled a bunch of them and most of them boiled down to:

'You are an expert [dev/QA/architect/PM/tester]. Ultrathink. Be good'.

Worse, I looked at their linkedin, and on paper they looked experienced. Seeing their code, they were not.

There's a subset of the "fully automated" coders who are just bad. They are incapable of judging how bad AI code is. But vocally, and often aggressively, advocate for it.

Some are good, but I just can't replicate their success. And they're clearly also still hand-writing a lot of the code.
by poolhead45 | 2025-10-12 19:11:36+00:00
Abstraction is at the core of programming. I get your point — but obsessive adherence to baroque complexity has rarely been the M.O. of computer science in rational circles. More often, an elegant simplification that captures the essence has sufficed.

That said, perhaps something like this would be more thematically appropriate:

'O Master of sublime name and great power, O Saturn: Cold, Sterile, Mournful, Pernicious; Sage and Solitary, Impenetrable and Sure; Thou who knowest no joy, bringest prosperity or ruin, deceivest wisely, judgest truly— I conjure thee, Supreme Father, by thy bounty and ancient cunning, to do as I ask: print("hello world")'
by brandall10 | 2025-10-12 19:11:36+00:00
I grew up with a cocker spaniel obsessed with tennis balls to the point of covering his food with them and letting it rot. Looking into his eyes conveyed no emotion and he didn't seem to care much for affection. He was a tennis ball tracking machine.

There was nothing you could do to satiate his desire. If you gave in to a catch session, you could throw it 100 times, he would start coughing/convulsing from exhaustion, yet still drop a ball at your feet begging you to throw it. You could probably have killed him with it.

If no one was playing catch with him he would spend hours scouring the neighborhood for balls hidden in bushes. At one point I believe he had over 20 balls piling up in various places in our backyard. We would regularly take his balls away so he only had a couple, but more would magically appear.

We did have a little fun with this. My dad would use him as a tennis practice 'partner'. And we built a tennis ball cannon powered by M80s (note: this was mid-80s in the SFV when/where things like bottle rockets and blow guns were legal).

I've had to put down quite a few animals, and he was the only one were there was no sadness, only relief when his time came, esp. after 15 long years of having to pander to this obsessive behavior.

My belief is animals experience something similar to autism, and he was as far along the spectrum as possible, to the point where the only thing that defined him was his working instinct. That million years of mind-meld evolution w/ humans? Simply not there.
by creakingstairs | 2025-10-12 19:12:34+00:00
Meh (ctrl alt shift) and hyper (ctrl alt shift cmd). And I bind caps lock to meh on long press and esc on tap.

This gives me plenty of easily reachable hot keys. Eg I can switch between spaces with meh + number. I have terminal hot window bound to meh + space. Moving focus between windows is meh + hjlk.
by nemo44x | 2025-10-12 19:12:44+00:00
I guess it depends on the topic. Flat Earthers - yeah I’d agree. Until someone comes up with compelling evidence. But those people have no real power - no ability to set policy based on their belief. Just cranks and harmless.

But it’s not fair to cherry pick such an obvious straw man. There’s a million current examples that are much better. Covid origins which were summarily and aggressively rejected as unorthodox for example. A ton of climate science, etc. No one is an authority on truth. Requires consensus over painfully long times.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-12 19:12:50+00:00
> Ukraine - Trump all but openly supports Russia. Democrats dont.

What is different in Ukraine now vs under Biden? The war hasn't ended. We haven't stopped supplying Ukraine.

The US was always going to support Ukraine no matter who was in office at the time the war started. The only reason you heard noise from the Republicans against it was because Russia invaded when Biden was in office. That's literally it.

> NATO - Trump and republicans are intentionally trying to dismantle it. Democrats dont.

How exactly? Trump has forced NATO members to spend more on their military (~2% GDP, as per the NATO charter). NATO expansion into the former Warsaw bloc countries began under Clinton, continued under Bush and kept going under Obama. There's no difference here.

> Russia - Republicans admire what Russia stands for. Democrats dont.

I don't really care about rhetoric. People say things. It doesn't mean a lot. Not compared to what they do anyway. It's a bit like Erdogan in Turkey waving his fist in the air saying "I'm so mad at you, Israel". Is he actually? No. Turkey could collapse Israel's economy overnight if they really wanted to.

> Just because they are not in complete extreme does not mean they are the same. And they were definitely not creating the "you can arrest people on their skin color alone" philosophy conservatives use.

Assuming we have elections again and assuming Democrats try to win a presidential election (they did not try to win 2024) and assuming we get another Democratic administration, watch what they roll back of Republican policy. Historically, it's been very little.

Remember Trump's 2017 tax cuts? What of that got rolled back? The Democrats held the House, Senate and the White House for Biden's first 2 years. They could've claimed they needed to to pay for COVID economic relief.

Bush created ICE in 2003. Remember how Obama disbanded ICE? Oh wait, Biden disbanded ICE? Oh wait... And it's not like disbanding ICE is a new idea. It's not.

The job of the Democrats is to use the idea of defending institutions as an excuse to do nothing.
by reify | 2025-10-12 19:13:05+00:00
The irony of uploading a paywalled link.

Knowing full well that only those who can afford the cost can read it.

Its not as if the news cannot be found at a thousand other websites and is most probably lifted and copied from other sources.

I used to pay for the news when I was working. I used to buy the guardian every day when it was 50p, to read on the 90 minute journey by train into the city.

fucked if I am going to pay some copy and paste merchant.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-10-12 19:13:20+00:00
This is a really fun 16 minute listen to how this precise dog behaviour is exploited to eradicate rats on Lord Howe Island.

They search specifically for dogs obsessed with ball chasing and turn them into rat hunting dogs.

There's funny bit where they talk about finding a dog that had learned how to use the tennis ball firing machine and spent all day chasing a tennis ball and putting it back in the machine which fires the tennis ball in a never ending loop.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/scienceshow/dogs-help...
by mihaaly | 2025-10-12 19:13:22+00:00
I wish they gave more attention to the many bugs.

One is the many many years old renaming trouble, renaming a file in Windows Explorer inside the OneDrive sometimes select all while I am alread typing extension to the end of the file name, clearing everything with the following keystroke, either resulting in something stupid saved on Enter if I do not realise what is happening (and being mad not remembering what the original name was), or just have to cancel and restart the renaming. Very frequent and annoying.

But a ... lets call it funny, so a funny trouble I recently discovered is that file name completely fine with Wndows is incompatible with OneDrive, OneDriva mandates me to "change the filename! change it!" (with different words but the same tone). What the f! Microsoft is not compatible with itself? : D What a clusterfuck. It is fairly new, I believe there are spaces in fron of the file name that is generated with some software I am trying, I don't care that much, nonessential, but very comedic. I have too much difficulty with using Windows to care with all the trouble and spend any time on those, I work around those, I increasingly give no f. (my work mandates Windows, ah!)

I also seen some sort of message box when a certain software tried to automatically open a newly created file in OneDrive, something like this: "The file http://sharepoint.blablabl/bla/bla/newly_created_file.ext" cannot be found. Whaaaat?! I work with a desktiop only software, it does not even care about internet connection. Saving the file to an ordinary folder works great, opens automatically. Sounds like at some point querying the full path of the file produces an internet address? Again, I give no sht to this crp that much to go ino and investigate and diagnose this hundredths of bug, just to have fruitless conversation a very understanding and very useless support guy or a forum audience suggesting how should I wrap my life around the stupidity of Windows.
by projectazorian | 2025-10-12 19:13:43+00:00
> Even if it was legal, cocaine would be impossible to get that cheap, unless some DNA editing is done to make yeast shit it out maybe.

Not as cheap as sugar, but probably as cheap as coffee. Coca and coffee grow in the same climates, and in recent years the cartels have bred varieties of coca that grow outside of the traditional climate as well. Imagine what modern agribusiness would be capable of.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-10-12 19:13:57+00:00
That would train higher reflexes in the drivers. I drove in Rome, Italy, for 8 years and another 7 years in Canada. While Rome is far more dangerous because of the stuff that happens on the road, the drivers are way more ready to avoid incidents. I have no idea if this is better or worse,just giving my perspective.

I find driving in Canada very relaxing,but it often puts all my senses to sleep,which is scary.

Also nobody shoulder check left when turning left in Canada (Vancouver). That's a 100% kill of a scooter in Rome,because the swirvle between the cars.
by HankB99 | 2025-10-12 19:14:33+00:00
Our kids have a Rottweiler that loves to chase a ball, Bring it back and then dare us to try to take it away from her. She can drop if convinced. Or I have a second ball that is more interesting, causing her to drop the other ball. She can hold two balls in her mouth so I have to wait for her to drop the first ball before I throw.

She also has a large (about 1 food diameter) ball that can't possibly fit in her mouth and I can kick that at which point she'll drop the little ball and try to get the big one in her mouth.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 19:14:36+00:00
Does he own his life? How can a thing own itself? Did he obtain this life or was his life giving to him by his parents? If he was created by his parents do his parents own his life?

Are we even sure that our life ends when we die? I’ve had to have someone come back and tell me one way or the other.

I think we are so certain of things that once you really start thinking about them that certain you can disappear quickly.
by JimBlackwood | 2025-10-12 19:15:05+00:00
For a breed that is partly bred to flush out game, throwing a ball is incredibly adrenaline inducing and will not tire them out - they’ll just keep going till they fall down. Working cockers are one of the breeds susceptible to exercise induced collapse, albeit rare it shows how insanely motivated they are.

To get them tired, you need to chill them out and have them use their brain and/or nose.

Maybe try some sniffing games, sit down during the walk and have them just take in the environment, do some obedience that makes them think, or throw their food in the grass and have them figure it out.
by close04 | 2025-10-12 19:15:33+00:00
After setting up an Android phone for someone recently, I think it's stuffed with dark patterns. The amount of times that OS was pushing me to enable or opt-out from syncing different things to their cloud and generally sabotage the privacy via various settings was staggering.

Windows is certainly on the same path but I'm not sure how far ahead or behind they are in the competition to screw their users over with these dark patterns. They only have to trick you once.