MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jkukul | 2025-10-29 04:41:43+00:00
I don't understand why your comment is downvoted.

The comment you're replying to is tainted with the survivorship bias. We see successful companies that got government funding, but not the opposite. Maybe we'd have more innovation and competition without government picking these specific winners.

Ironically, one of the companies you mentioned (Apple) now operates in an environment with very little competition and regularly faces antitrust claims.

Government picking winners may actually reduce competition in the long run. The key difference: when private money picks wrong, it's their loss. When government picks wrong, it's taxpayer money.
by strken | 2025-10-29 04:42:14+00:00
It looks cyclical to me. The materialism of the postwar era led into the civil rights movement of the late 60s and 70s, which turned into the materialistic 80s, which was rejected by the countercultural late 90s and 2000s, after which there was a slight deviation in which transgression rather than anti-materialism was rejected, and now we're back to materialism.

My guess is that in a decade or two society will elevate an ideology that directly opposes material wealth again. If nobody has any damn money then they can't exactly use wealth as a measure of worth.
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-29 04:42:58+00:00
Fory also compress integers using varint or zigzag encoding. The size are basically same:

| data type | data size | fory | protobuf |

| --------------- | --------- | ------- | -------- |

| simple-struct | small | 21 | 19 |

| simple-struct | medium | 70 | 66 |

| simple-struct | large | 220 | 216 |

| simple-list | small | 36 | 16 |

| simple-list | medium | 802 | 543 |

| simple-list | large | 14512 | 12876 |

| simple-map | small | 33 | 36 |

| simple-map | medium | 795 | 1182 |

| simple-map | large | 17893 | 21746 |

| person | small | 122 | 118 |

| person | medium | 873 | 948 |

| person | large | 7531 | 7865 |

| company | small | 191 | 182 |

| company | medium | 9118 | 9950 |

| company | large | 748105 | 782485 |

| e-commerce-data | small | 750 | 737 |

| e-commerce-data | medium | 53275 | 58025 |

| e-commerce-data | large | 1079358 | 1166878 |

| system-data | small | 311 | 315 |

| system-data | medium | 24301 | 26161 |

| system-data | large | 450031 | 479988 |
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 04:43:53+00:00
In my own lived experience, every person I have met IRL who is dismissive of the Vision Pro has never actually used it seriously for more than a handful of minutes. People I know who have swear by spatial computing being the next UI/UX revolution.

I own an AVP, and I agree. Now I bought it secondhand for half the price, so I acknowledge that necessarily means there is at least one counterparty out there who disagrees.

Using the AVP for one work day, once I got the right fit and optical inserts, was such an eye opener. It’s like using an ultraportable laptop after living an entire life with large CRT monitors & desktop rigs tied to an actual desk. An experience, btw, which also lived through. It just radially opened my eyes to fresh new possibilities and interaction mechanisms I never before thought possible.

But at $3.5k? No sane company exec could have been serious in thinking that would take off.
by jibal | 2025-10-29 04:44:21+00:00
P.S. I'm not confusing anything and not forgetting any context, and then I get slammed with an absurd strawman, "politics should be based on mathematical axiomatic truth"--not remotely anything I said. Gawd but some people are rude.

The fact remains that absolute truth exists ... "delusional" seems to have no idea what the word "truth" even means.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-29 04:44:45+00:00
Obviously there’s a line to draw somewhere so that your code doesn’t end up looking like a YouTube comment section or have half of its API with Spanish names. And if by style you mean that overly “clever” or dense code without detailed comments and formatting for readability ought to made digestible by those who lack context about the why/what of it, or that “dangerous” or unsafe practices like rust’s unsafe/python’s exec/C++ UB ought to be only permitted in exceptional situations, sure.

Everything else is so inconsequential that it truly pains me to see people spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars of their time having to indent, comment, or space things in a certain way just to get CI to pass or merge a PR.

I don’t give a fuck that Jeff wants to use 4-space tabs and I cannot tell you how much I resent spending tens of thousands of dollars of Google’s time pleasing the fucking Go linter or trying to figure out errors like “ERROR: const/var” that I can’t turn off because some master artisan truly finds it meaningful and important to make me declare const blocks before var blocks, and their OCPD and fulltime bikeshedding is more important than whatever actual work I’m trying to do to get them paid.
by lovelearning | 2025-10-29 04:45:07+00:00
I have coded some apps that are customized for my mother's usage and accessibility. I plan on coding some more. I need to install them on just 2 phones - my own for testing and my mother's.

As of now, I can create APKs of my apps and install them on my mother's phone by unchecking the "prevent apps from other sources" option.

Even after going through so many articles, I still don't know unambiguously whether I can continue this workflow in future, or I'll need Google's approval to install on just our own 2 family phones.

There's a failure in communications here from both sides.

Ambiguity suits Google perfectly fine.

But it's counterproductive to its opponents because every dev who's confused will remain a fence-sitter rather than an ally, even if only motivated by personal inconvenience rather than any principled stand.

I doubt I'm the only Android dev who's confused. I hope at least f-droid communicates more clearly the consequences of this policy to all types of developers and deployment scenarios.
by twothreeone | 2025-10-29 04:45:32+00:00
FWIW, thank you and the team for all the hard work. Me and my family use it to install, discover, and try out many of the genuinely useful and really cool, high-quality Apps on our de-Googled devices and truly appreciate it. I could never imagine using that ad-ridden, user-tracking, scam-infested, filth-flinging abomination they call Play "Store". The only thing that's worse is GCM - you don't even see it's there as a regular user.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-29 04:46:29+00:00
I think it is useful to differentiate between transgressive and "deviance" in the sense it was used in TFA.

Punk was primarily transgressive from my POV (growing up in London as punk exploded there). It concerned itself with rule breaking, norms breaking and generally doing things you weren't supposed to do, all just for the sake of doing those things, and mostly because life fucking sucked.

The way "deviance" is used in TFA seems much more related to people making non-transgressive but neverthless uncommon choices, closer to ideas about statistical distributions ("standard deviation") than the sort of scream of anger that drove punk forward.

I should probably view that even though I don't like much if any real punk for its aesthetics, I think it was and is a really good thing, particularly in terms of its focus on a DIY model which spread beyond just music.
by myfirstacc7234 | 2025-10-29 04:47:45+00:00
Created my first account to comment on this post. I'm considering the switch but I use emulators like BlueStacks or MuMu to play mobile games with gpu acceleration. The alternative on Linux is supposed to be Waydroid but I've heard the support for gpu acceleration with Nvidia cards like my 2070 is not there yet. Does anyone have some experiences for this use case?
by ghm2180 | 2025-10-29 04:47:51+00:00
Google is SEOed a lot. And while apartment sevile is a subset where Google is probably very good. For many things it gives me very bad results e.g. searching for affordable haircut always gives me a yelp link(there is a yelp link for ever adjective + physical storefront SMB).

That being said I've never really come across on what are some good general ways to Google to give me good results.

I know some tricks e.g. Filetype:PDF , use scholar for academic search, use "site:...". smth like "site:reddit.com/r/Washington quiet cafe" for most things people would want to do in a city, because people generally ask about those things on community forums.

But I have a poor time with dev related queries because 1/2 the time it's seo'd content and when I don't know enough about a subject, LLMs generally gives me a lot of lines of inquiries(be careful of X and also consider Y) that I would not bother to ask cause I don't know what I don't know.
by arjie | 2025-10-29 04:48:32+00:00
I have this fondness for the old-school web of blogs and so on. And I thought perhaps that this decline of deviance was the reason for the perceived dip in blogs. But now I think it's actually different. All of us from then were the early adopters of this stuff. We were never going to be a lot. It's just that previously there were a thousand (metaphorically) of us with nine hundred of us like what we were, and now there are a billion with nine hundred of us like what we were, and the rest are what they were but now they're here.

I have this belief: if you don't know where the artist went, it's probably because you were a groupie rather than an artist and they eventually tired of you. After all, right now in San Francisco there are people like those in the circle of Aella (of Sankey chart fame) who had a "birthday gangbang" where each man had some limited time with her and then had to go to a fluffer. One of those fluffers married one of the men she met there.

This is beyond strange to me, but not in a disparaging way. It's just out of my zone of familiarity in a way where I feel I would not know what being in these people's presence is like. So I think the strange people are just finding the other strange people and enjoying their time together rather than what they would previously do: entice some normies to strangeness.

I also think many of these things have various causes. Apartment buildings have the same shape everywhere because they are all designed by committee and have the same schools of thought dictating "breaking up the massing" and all that. But even in that world, in the NIMBY capital of the world, there is a building like Mira SF which is pretty damned cool!
by gnabgib | 2025-10-29 04:48:51+00:00
Discussion (23 points, 6 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740161

Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says (35 points, 15 hours ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733030
by stathibus | 2025-10-29 04:49:15+00:00
The leap is not really there yet and it's cheap because you are the product. The robot will be a massive headache, will work poorly for most tasks, frequently break and require maintenance. In exchange for $500/mo and providing those test hours in a novel environment and the data that goes with it, you get to have a robot in your house that occasionally does something right. The bet being made here is that they can turn that data hose into a useful robot before this poor customer experience tanks their brand.
by oasisbob | 2025-10-29 04:50:25+00:00
Regardless of the strengths of this, I can't read this slop. A third of the way in, and:

> Instead of expecting the client to know the server's public key in advance, the server might just send its public key during the TLS handshake. But how does the client know that the public key actually belongs to the server? This is the job of a certificate.

Are you kidding me? You don't know your audience on an article at the nexus of certificate transparency and post-quantum cryptography well-enough to understand that this introduction to PKI isn't required?

Know your audience. Turning over your voice to an AI doesn't do that for you. It will waste everyone's time on thousands of words of vapid nonsense.
by leephillips | 2025-10-29 04:50:42+00:00
I’m not criticizing the non-paying users. But I wouldn’t go so far as to call those who pay when they don’t have to “suckers”. I don’t think I’m a sucker for tipping people when I don’t have to, or for dropping money in a street musician’s hat. I’m happy to pay for what I’ve received, when I can.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 04:50:54+00:00
Even without copyable keys, if your friends and family can be tricked into pasting their plain text keys into a scam site, they can be tricked into pasting their encrypted keys and their associated password to a scam site.

The point of encryption at rest is to protect your data if your device is accessed by a third party. Not from user action.
by vel0city | 2025-10-29 04:50:55+00:00
Demand for networking equipment has only increased since their invention and never gone down, much less "to zero".

I'm sure that same phrase was echoed at Nortel and more offices in the 90s.

It's all hot stuff until you have a few billion dollars worth of inventory manufactured that you can barely give away for a million dollars one day. Sure it's not zero, but you're still pretty fucked in the end.
by hansvm | 2025-10-29 04:52:08+00:00
Yep, my description was mostly negative (I personally hate it because I don't think that way), but I was serious about it just being a mismatch of expectations. There's nothing written in stone about the MacOS method being wrong, and it's nice that it works better for some people. UI is partly objective and partly subjective, and this particular point definitely falls on the subjective end of the spectrum.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 04:52:42+00:00
Never owned an apple device myself, but honestly I just want the existing tech to start coming down in cost. I grabbed a fordable this year and it's great. It was very much not worth $2200 though (and that was before tarriffs), so I grabbed a used 2YO model for $800 or so.

I'm already salavating at the thought of a fordable tablet in any form. But not at the thought of paying $3000 for one with current pricing.
by cameldrv | 2025-10-29 04:52:57+00:00
It's a lot more than that. The U.S. online ad market is something like $400-500 billion, so that's about $100/mo per person. The problem is that some people are worth a lot more to advertise to than others. Someone who uses the internet a lot and has a lot of disposable income might be more like $500+ a month.
by jkukul | 2025-10-29 04:53:15+00:00
this! it favors established business with legal teams and (maybe more importantly) with connections.

The EU is also great at creating a heavy regulatory environment. Which entrenches existing incumbents. So the EU creates barriers that favor big companies, then tries to fix it with grants that... also favor big companies.

And then everyone's surprised that there's no innovation in Europe.

From all the world's companies worth over 100B$ there's only one European company - SAP, founded 50 years ago. [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corpora...
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 04:53:31+00:00
The M5 is a huge upgrade over the M4 for local inference. They advertise 400% and there is reason to believe this isn’t a totally BS number. They redo the GPU cores to avoid having to emulate certain operations at the core inner loop of LLM inference.

I have an M4 and it is plenty fast enough. But honestly the local models are just not anywhere near the hosted models in quality, due to the lower parameter count, so I haven’t had much success yet.
by kumarvvr | 2025-10-29 04:54:18+00:00
As it seems now, they are into producing silicon that does massive parallel calculations, and variants on it thereof.

To me, that seems to be a requirement for the computing industry for a long time.

And, they seemed to have amassed enough capital to comfortably pivot to the next great thing that requires similar calculations.

I think this is their super power.

The next logical step would be to get into CPUs, to become a fully integrated computing solutions provider.
by hattmall | 2025-10-29 04:54:33+00:00
Realistically it's much more likely that someone in the US would be telling this story vs someone from Norway.

Norway has only 50k births a year. The US has 3.6 Million, and >40% of those are 100% free to Medicaid recipients. So 1.4 million each year, meaning a story like this is about 28 times more likely to be told from someone in the US than Norway.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-29 04:54:46+00:00
I'll offer a counter-anecdote and suggest this advice isn't necessarily ironclad. I've used the same pair of $20 headphones for decades (replacing them with the same model when they die), or else laptop/TV speakers. A couple of years ago I got $200 headphones included with a new phone purchase. The $200 headphones were amazing. I got to listen to all of my favorite music with a new perspective. But I still use the $20 ones on a daily basis because the $200 ones hurt my ears with prolonged usage. The $20 ones are fine. The nice ones didn't diminish my enjoyment of them at all. And every now and then I break out the $200 ones for a treat.

Just don't become a snob. I think people tie their identity to the expensive junk they purchase and develop a sense of ego around it, of being better than the peasants, and that's why they become unable to enjoy the "lesser" experience.
by dataflow | 2025-10-29 04:55:02+00:00
I see, wow. That's such a frustrating lack of clarity on Google's part and (consequently?) those responding to the blog post...

As far as I now, historically, "sideloading" has always meant "installing from some mechanism other than the Play Store", and everyone has been referring to adb-based installations as "sideloading" as long as I can remember (example [1]). If Google or others don't call using adb sideloading, then I have no idea what they would call it, and I'm thoroughly confused.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-sideload-apps-android-...
by treetalker | 2025-10-29 04:55:40+00:00
Think of all activities as repeated cycles, and consider the last step of every cycle to be resetting / restocking / refilling / setting up / preparing for the next cycle. (As opposed to how most people think of it: beginning activities by doing the initial set-up.)

This has at least two benefits. First, it ensures follow-through (completion of what most people consider to be the last action). And second, it lowers the activation energy to start the next cycle.

Examples:

- "You kill it, you fill it." When I make a cup of instant coffee and then the electric kettle is almost empty, I refill the kettle and start heating the water again before I grab my cup and return to my home office. As a result, the kettle is always full of hot water when I go back for another cup, and I don't have to go through the aggravation of refilling it and waiting around for it to heat up before I grab my next cup. (And refilling at the end is easier because I've already started doing the activity.)

- Putting a new roll of toilet paper on the spindle. Likewise, if the replacement roll is the last one under the sink, restocking rolls under the sink after finishing in the bathroom. And if the package of rolls is almost empty after I restock the rolls under the sink, I immediately add TP to my grocery list.

- Clearing my desk at the end of the work day and setting up my initial work materials for the morning.

---

Another simple but great habit: using take-off and landing points at key places around the house to optimize in-home logistics and to avoid losing or spending time searching for things. I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220059

Pair with the evergreen "A place for everything, and everything in its place."
by lelanthran | 2025-10-29 04:57:13+00:00
> I'm curious, where do you live that denies a child a life saving surgery just because insurance won't cover it? Because in the US there's laws against that.

Maybe I'm just too skeptical, but

a) This is a very new account with exactly 1 other posting 3 months ago, and

b) They don't refer to their child with any sort of gender. They even used slightly awkward sentence construction just to avoid gender. Few parents think of their child as an "it".

So either this is a sleeper bot, or the surgery in question was gender reassignment.

Or this poster routinely refers to their child as an "it", not a "he" or a "her".
by AnasMalas | 2025-10-29 04:57:20+00:00
It is as easy as 123, just a couple of clicks, and its all explained on the GitHub. However, unless you're committing to a 0.6 mm PCB, I wouldn't really use this on a keyboard, especially a full size one. The board really is not rigid at those sizes at that thickness. Weigh a tradeoffs and use it if it works for you!
by Daneel_ | 2025-10-29 04:58:09+00:00
I use google and ChatGPT for totally different reasons - ChatGPT is generally far better for unknown topics, which google is better if I know exactly what I’m after.

If I’m trying to learn about a topic (for example, how a cone brake works in a 4WD winch), then ChatGPT gives me a great overview with “ Can you explain what a cone brake is and how it works, in the context of 4WD winches?” while google, with the search “4wd winch cone brake function explained”, turns up a handful of videos covering winches (not specifically cone brakes) and some pages that mention them without detailing their function. ChatGPT wins here.

If I were trying to book a flight I’d never dream of even trying to use ChatGPT. That sort of use case is a non-starter for me.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-29 04:58:18+00:00
How did that work, do you suppose?

How does one connect a lamp to 3-phase power?

Are/were there 3-phase fluorescent tubes available?

Or are we relying on the spinny-thing that is to be observed to somehow be illuminated by all three phases, with three lamps or fixtures, simultaneously? Without such malarcky as shadows or inverse-square to muddy our vision?

Or maybe a multiplicity of single fixtures with 3 tubes -- one tube per each phase?

And even then: Doesn't it still strobe somewhat at (50*3*2)=300 or (60*3*2)=360Hz, instead of the 100- or 120-Hz that a shop lit by a single phase might provide?

(LEDs are out-of-scope of this question, of course: Line-voltage LED lamps can have integrated electronics and can therefore have diode elements that are driven by things that approach [or even achieve] DC, which changes the rules.

And, of course: Incandescent lamps have enough persistence that stroboscopic effects are generally not an issue with a human eye.)
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-29 04:58:33+00:00
"Scientists analysed physical activity records from more than 80,000 people and found that the risk of heart disease fell 30% in women who clocked up 250 minutes of exercise each week. In contrast, men needed to reach 530 minutes, or nearly nine hours, a week to see the same effect."

Does anyone have further research on the limits of exercise health benefits? Previously I've only understood running as largely tapering off benefits past ~300 minutes or 30 miles / week, and more than that is just speed, really. Don't want to put an extra 4 hours a week of time into something for just race times.
by not_kurt_godel | 2025-10-29 04:58:40+00:00
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/03/10/every-da...

> Every Day 10,000 People Die Due To Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels

> The NBER study found that “the switch from nuclear power to fossil fuel-fired production resulted in substantial increases in global and local air pollution emissions.” A key reason for the increased air pollution was that “lost nuclear production was replaced by electricity production from coal- and gas-fired sources in Germany as well as electricity imports from surrounding countries.”

> The study concluded that “the phase-out resulted in more than 1,100 additional deaths per year” due to excess mortality from the consequences of increased air pollution. Since 2011 that totals more than 10,000 deaths, far more than all deaths attributable to nuclear power in history.