MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-11-13 08:04:13+00:00
Flagging almost always happens by users, and the mod team can only guess why users flag comments. In the only one still currently flagged (dead/grayed out just means people voted it too low) it's pretty obvious why - you can't just curse how stupid others are or the person you're responding to and expect it to be a valued comment brought to the top. (I didn't flag/downvote any of your comments).

3 of the current top 25 articles (at the time of this comment) are about something AI related (ChatGPT 5.1, Marble and JSX Tool). It's all relatively low volume, it's just never ending is the problem.
by specproc | 2025-11-13 08:04:15+00:00
A reasonable comment, unfairly downvoted.

That said, I do firmly agree with the parent: there is choice involved here, engineering decisions.

The Microsoft world is particularly bloated, as they insist on shoehorning in unwanted anti-features into their OS. Much more efficient operating systems (and ways of building a chat client) exist.

Jevon's paradox may describe a general tendency, but it's no excuse for awful software.
by utopiah | 2025-11-13 08:04:52+00:00
Eye tracking hardware and software specifically focus on low latency, e.g. FPGA close to the sensor. The resulting packets they send is also ridiculously small (e.g 2 numbers as x,y positions of the pupils) so ... I can see that happening.

Sure eyes move very VERY fast but if you do relatively small compute on dedicated hardware it can also go quite fast while remaining affordable.
by koalalorenzo | 2025-11-13 08:05:11+00:00
Probably they have a different experience! I love using helm but I feel I got used to go templates and sub charts done right. I use it at work a lot and at home on my homelab with no issues at all: I guess is the usual tab vs spaces.

The alternatives of helm are not that interesting to me: I still have nightmare when I had to use jsonnet and kustomize just for istio, with upgrade hell.

So I am sticking to helm as it feels way straight forward when you need to change just a few things from an upstream open source project: way fewer lines to maintain and change!
by imp0cat | 2025-11-13 08:05:22+00:00
There definitely is such setting, but I have no idea when it was introduced. S21 is an old phone (not to disparage it in any way).

Your Galaxy phone or tablet is configured by default to prevent the installation of apps from sources other than the Play Store and Galaxy Store.

https://www.samsung.com/ae/support/mobile-devices/how-to-ena...
by utopiah | 2025-11-13 08:06:42+00:00
> first standalone headset with an open ecosystem

What about the Lynx XR1? Running Android sure but officially rooted (details https://lynx.miraheze.org/wiki/Rooting_Process ) and with Linux proper (details https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lynx_R1_(lynx-r1) ) even though experimental.
by port11 | 2025-11-13 08:07:26+00:00
I don't disagree, but it makes for bad web development practices. Google Analytics is still the de facto king everywhere I've worked, but it's going to more often Safari and Firefox than other browsers due to tracking protections and users being more likely to run ad blockers. Then there's all the edge cases like Brave.

I don't remember the discrepancy that the study found, but it's significant.

So… we keep optimising for Chrome, as if that's the bulk of our audience. That makes things shittier for everybody else, and we think it's okay because they're such a small part of the group. This reminds me of a former client burning almost 9 million euros every year because they excluded IE6–8 from their reporting, yet they would account for 15% of the traffic.
by ENGNR | 2025-11-13 08:08:18+00:00
Yes! I rewound the video to double check

But honestly at this point I’m destined to buy a Steam Machine despite having a hefty Mac that could do gaming if only it were possible. Valve have been amazing about open computing and Apple are basically the enemy at this point.

It makes me wonder about what using steam machine for all computing might look like, as the new home of open computing and gaming.
by Muromec | 2025-11-13 08:09:09+00:00
I live in one of the countries where id is mandatory to have and to carry.

Not counting times when id was exchanged for another id, I believe I was asked to show the physical card maybe twice (in six years), one of those was for voting, the was in healthcare. Guess how white I am, lol.

Digital thingy zo, that needs button pressing every time I log into whatever government or goverment-related things.

So you are kind of right
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 08:09:09+00:00
Sure, but we're talking insane amounts of time unless it hits something head one. Even the electronics are still alive and in 2024 after a long break we managed to get signals back. It is anybody's guess at this point how long the craft will remain functional but it will take a long, long time (long after humanity will either have destroyed itself or has figured out how to overtake it) before it is 'a melted lump of metal'.

Look at the metal that we routinely dig up in the hostile environment known as 'Earth' and which wasn't particularly designed to be long lasting. Voyager is just that: designed to last for a really long time. At a minimum several millennia, though of course by that time the electronics will no longer function, and not because they no longer have power but simply because they have degraded due to their rather more sensitive nature than the rest of the craft.
by _ache_ | 2025-11-13 08:09:23+00:00
5 years ago, if someone told you about a commercial Linux gaming console. You were right to laugh.

Now, with IA cheating being the norm now, I think Valve has a real chance to add a microchip to "certify" its console and so playing Fornite (or over 3A) on it.

Will be a added value over a gaming PC, I don't think they will miss this opportunity for too long.
by ookblah | 2025-11-13 08:09:41+00:00
another subjective data point, took waymo multiple times in SF and also lyft when waymo was taking too long. honestly, waymo was better in every single way and it wasn't even close. the only comparison was "maybe" taking a black XL from the airport.

in no particular order, my problems w/ lyft:

1) driver trying to talk to you when you just want some quiet time

2) unclean/smelly car, have no idea if it's some econobox or actually decent

3) sometimes questionable driving, talking on the phone or talking to you or watching some youtube video or using their phone trying to grab the next fare

waymo i just get in, it takes me where i need to go and i get out, no fuss. maybe i'll eat my words if i get into some catastrophic situation, but honestly i'll take that over the "feeling" i get when i step into current ride shares.

people don't drink starbucks because it's the best coffee, they do it because it's consistent for the most part and that's what i want. i don't want to roll the damn dice everytime i call for a car.
by lIl-IIIl | 2025-11-13 08:10:07+00:00
Demographers can predict when people are going to die but they have no way to predict how many children they will have.

They have been getting it wrong for a long time, assuming that the gradual decrease in birthrate will stop, only to be proven wrong.

They can't just extrapolate assuming that birth rates will keep dropping since that would reduce the birthrate to 0. So they do the next best thing and assume it will stay constant.

But in reality, we just don't know which way it will go.
by port11 | 2025-11-13 08:10:10+00:00
I've bought a former partner very expensive earrings cheaper than this bag. What is riling people, I think, it's that we're being crunched by inflation and dwindling purchasing power, but here's a mass-market company putting out a bloatedly expensive accessory. Of course Prada is still out there, but most people aren't exposed to their product lines and pricing. I'd be just as pissed if McDonalds starts selling gold leaf burgers.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-13 08:10:55+00:00
Honestly I think you're mostly correct. The amount of people using WhatsApp on the desktop is probably rather limited, certainly in the scope of WhatsApp usage in general. Memory, while I feel that a gigabyte is way to much for what is essentially a chat app, it is virtual memory, so it's not as problematic as I'd like it to be.

The issue, I think, is who the desktop users are. They sales people, they are people who conduct business over WhatsApp. The buyers at a previous job uses whatever the sellers in Asia, eastern Europe and the middle east are using. A long time ago, that was mostly Skype, now it WhatsApp. There a huge benefit to having WhatsApp on your desktop, with easy copy/paste, Excel and everything you need to make the deals.

Maybe Meta doesn't believe you should do business over WhatsApp and don't wont to cater to that crowed.

I would love to see what a professional Windows application developer, if those are still around, could do with a native WhatsApp client. Using modern C++, or just C# and all the tooling provided by the platform, how small and functional could you actually make something like that.
by HelloUsername | 2025-11-13 08:11:37+00:00
One can always add those stylesheets themselves in their browser, or through the uBlock Origin extension. Otherwise (one of the many darkmode extensions) "Dark Reader" is available for Safari (macOS and iOS), Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox (Windows, macOS, Android). On iOS you can also use Firefox (or Brave) that has builtin darkmode for all websites.
by troupo | 2025-11-13 08:11:51+00:00
> It's a small feature which is immediately understandable by anyone coming straight from Java 1.2

You literally started with "Java takes a while to design a bigger feature that will replace several smaller ones' use cases".

But look, this small feature is not a one-off, and is actually useful because <arbitrary arguments>

> Meanwhile records arrived several versions ago

> Meanwhile C# has many many "one-off" features

Such one-off features like records and pattern-matching that C# also has? Or multiline strings that C# also has?

Or any other useful features directly impacting developer experience that you just dismiss out of hand because for some arbitrary reason you deem them "one-off" or small. Until they finally make their way into Java of course.
by MikeNotThePope | 2025-11-13 08:12:13+00:00
Transmeta did try to enter the server market. There was a company called RLX Technologies that wanted to use Crusoe chips in blade servers. I remember them demoing a 3U rack server w/ 24 blades in it. 1 CPU per blade.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLX_Technologies

RLX entering the market in 2002: https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/transmeta-1-ghz-crusoe-bo...

RLX exiting the market in 2005: https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/rlx_exits_blade_server_b...
by cirelli94 | 2025-11-13 08:12:41+00:00
> This system won't run FIFA, GTA Online, Battlefield, Valorant or CoD, it's a nonstarter for many.

That's largely known now but still a bummer. I wonder if anything will ever change in this area and if Valve will be able to pressure game editors or create an anti-cheat so good and for any platform to be able to change something.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-13 08:13:17+00:00
You are allowed to reduce your display brightness. I run my iPhone at the lowest possible setting at night (right now). Try it sometime. It might seem really dim at first but your eyes will adjust in a few minutes.

I think dark mode can be deceptive. Blazing hot white text on a pitch black oled background is like visual caffeine to me. I would not want to be staring at this if I was adjacent to bedtime.
by db48x | 2025-11-13 08:13:28+00:00
> just like any other news organization you could name

Excuse.

> Show me the media organization whose reporting on this issue is agreed to be unbiased by all relevant parties.

Excuse.

> it’s being blown out of all proportion

Excuse.

> the President […] is busy broadcasting libelous nonsense to his Twitter followers

Excuse.

> managed to find one or two legitimate grievances.

Wow, ok. Maybe you didn’t actually read the report?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/read-devastating...

The BBC has been pushing specific viewpoints for years, and burying any story or article that might contradict it or offer a competing viewpoint. A quote:

As virtually all shows had lost their own reporters, programme editors had to make requests to News if they wanted a correspondent to cover a story. I was told that time and time again the LGBTQ desk staffers would decline to cover any story raising difficult questions about the trans-debate. The allegation made to me was stark: that the desk had been captured by a small group of people promoting the Stonewall view of the debate and keeping other perspectives off-air. Individual programmes had come to lack their own reporters as a counterweight. What I was told chimed with what I saw for myself on BBC Online - that stories raising difficult questions about the ‘trans agenda’ were ignored even if they had been widely taken up and discussed across other media outlets. There was also a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories, usually news features, celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity.

You see? The BBC isn’t trustworthy. It’s literally not worth trusting anything they say. The Trump thing is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s the big obvious lie that everyone can see because it’s so easy to find the truth.

If the people who have resigned could point to even one action that they’ve taken to fix the BBC’s culture of unethical behavior then they would not have had to resign.
by oliwarner | 2025-11-13 08:13:28+00:00
Despite anyone's personal views, it's undeniable that corps favour a Free they can use as they wish. It's also fairly evident that they make this favour known through their culture. Brainwashing may be a bit far, but only just.

All for naught, I fear, while LLMs consume all and regurgitate license-free to vibe-coders everywhere.
by goku12 | 2025-11-13 08:13:37+00:00
> You are quite welcome to disagree with that stance, but please cut out the inflammatory language. It's not charitable towards others and it isn't healthy for good discussion.

It is no more inflammatory than the coordinated war that was waged against copyleft licenses on tech fora and social media for more than a decade before hackers started to realize en masse that it was all a ploy to extract free labor from them. There are legitimate uses for permissive licenses and I still use them for those. But the big players certainly pushed them well beyond those cases where they made any sense. More than enough evidence has since emerged that prove this to be the case.

It does no one any favors to deny the presence of bad actors and their malintent behind the utter mess we find ourselves in right now. I find it disturbing that whenever people express their frustration regarding this, there are attempts to shoot them down with accusations of inflammatory language, political correctness, etc. But the truth is that the big players have caused far far more damage than any inflammatory citicism they face for it now. What's actually unhealthy for good discussion is the dystopian censorship of criticisms because the truth make some people uncomfortable. Every bit of harsh criticism they receive here is something they willfully and rightfully earned.
by Tepix | 2025-11-13 08:13:57+00:00
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by somenameforme | 2025-11-13 08:14:27+00:00
This is incorrect. Things are legal unless criminalized, and tumblers are not inherently illegal, and have plentiful legitimate uses. However, money laundering or offering a money laundering service is illegal and so using one in an effort to money launder, or facilitate such, would be illegal. It's akin to something like a jimmy bar. Owning or manufacturing/selling them is 100% legal, but they're going to be used pretty regularly for illegal purposes which is, rather tautologically, illegal. Similarly, intentionally selling them for illegal purposes would be illegal.
by bloqs | 2025-11-13 08:15:06+00:00
the desktop app allows the taskbar icon to have notification indicators. these work offline, so i can quickly and easily glance at the bottom of my screen to see if I have any messages. these can be read offline, with the taskbar updating still.

the desktop app is considerably faster and more responsive.

the deaktop app allows OS level shortcut keys

the desktop app is easier to work with when applying parameters in programs like excluding it from my VPN or for sandboxing or for isolating network traffic. Or for looking at how much space it takes up on disk. (im not a web developer), it doesnt cause any confusion or mistakes to be made as its logical separation in OS is clear, this is also faster

the desktop app has better keyboard shortcuts that dont collide with your browser, and the same with right click menus

I can easily video call from various PCs while still not trusting my browser with camera/mic permissions
by peterdn | 2025-11-13 08:15:07+00:00
Hah, yes, this is also how S21 works. But to still refute the OP's point: (1) it is in stock settings, you do not need to enable the developer settings menu via any arcane method. (2) When you tap on an APK in e.g. Google Drive or WhatsApp, Android "helpfully" forwards you straight to this settings page, allowing you to immediately toggle the "Install unknown apps" and installation will begin (there may be another "do you want to install this app" confirmation).

The point being that there is not a whole lot of friction in this flow -- one or two taps -- likely making it easy for scammers to coach victims to perform.

I agree that activating the developer settings menu is substantially more friction, and may arouse more suspicion in a victim, but [on many/most devices] is not currently required. I guess the original article is alluding to putting this kind of friction in place.
by cygx | 2025-11-13 08:15:20+00:00
Why is it useless? 'Compiler' denotes the general category, within which exist various sub-categories:

For example, a 'native compiler' outputs machine code for the host system, a 'cross compiler' outputs machine code for a different system, a 'bytecode compiler' outputs a custom binary format (e.g. VM instructions), and a 'transpiler' outputs source code. These distinctions are meaningful.
by hakFoo101 | 2025-11-13 08:16:23+00:00
your suggestion of "socialize childcare big-time" is tried in EU, countries like sweden offers the best support of families and yet are parley getting the numbers up without immigration, the root of the drop is the change of women role in society, finding a political sweet spot is required, if women get a salary from the government when they have more than 3 kids then it might encourage families to take the big step and the women to spend more time doing the real full time job of home care, also families needs help with bigger housing, logistics and home duties when they have more kids, normally that help came from the grandparents but it's not happening anymore because the average age of the grandparents is higher, and baby boomers and "older generations" are assholes by blocking the housing options for their kids, i can also suggest that a adults with no kids can get some money by hour from the government for helping families with many kids as it is also needed sometimes.

solve this: - Housing issues. - Income issues. - Care and time issues.

It's really alarming when governments see their society collapsing and do nothing, if you have such government, remove it, it's a stupid government.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-11-13 08:16:37+00:00
I disagree with your premise entirely and, frankly, I think it's ridiculous. I don't think you need to foresee all possible consequences to take action against what is likely, especially when you have evidence of active harm ready at hand. I also think you're failing to take into account the nature of LLMs as agents of harm: so far it has been very difficult for people to legally hold LLMs accountable for anything, even when those LLMs have encouraged suicidal ideation or physical harm of others, among other obviously bad things.

I believe there is a moral burden on the companies training these models to not deliberately train them to be sycophantic and to speak in an authoritative voice, and I think it would be reasonable to attempt to establish some regulations in that regard in an effort to protect those most prone to predation of this style. And I think we need to clarify the manner in which people can hold LLM-operating companies responsible for things their LLMs say — and, preferably, we should err on the side of more accountability rather than less.

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Also, I think in the case of "Someone who now receives bad mental health assistance might receive none whatsoever", any psychiatrist (any doctor, really) will point out that this is an incredibly flawed argument. It is often the case that bad mental health assistance is, in fact, worse than none. It's that whole "first, do no harm" thing, you know?
by zarzavat | 2025-11-13 08:16:44+00:00
If you don't look both ways when you cross the road, then you may get hit by a car. The solution is to pay attention.

It's acceptable to build a system where human error can lead to catastrophic consequences, even death. Every time you go outside you encounter many of these systems.

Not everything in life can be made 100% safe, but that's no reason to stop living.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-13 08:17:00+00:00
Sorry, no. You're wrong. It's extremely optimized. I get 60-100 FPS on a 3060. It's ridiculously optimized. If you're having issues, it's particular to your system for some reason.

I remember 2042 being significantly worse when it launched. I've also played almost every other AAA launch of recent years from Elden Ring to Borderlands 4. They all run worse than BF6, even now.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 08:17:18+00:00
> What's actually unhealthy for good discussion is the dystopian censorship of criticisms because the truth make some people uncomfortable

I think you're missing the point.

There are developers who prefer MIT not because they're a "big player" or "because truth make people uncomfortable", people simply have different preference for what the ideal license is for their project.

If you cannot deal with that, that sounds like a you problem, but judging by your comments, you're not exactly gonna re-evaluate with a different perspective, since you seem unable to understand others have different ideas and opinions than you.
by foldr | 2025-11-13 08:18:01+00:00
I addressed the other claims in the report in my original comment. Anyone who writes a report complaining about a ‘trans agenda’ clearly has more of an axe to grind than anyone at the BBC. Your last comment is bordering on a rant (e.g. the far out claim that “it’s literally not worth trusting anything that [the BBC] says”), so I will leave it here.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-11-13 08:18:31+00:00
Yes. My position is that it was irresponsible to publish these tools before figuring out safety first, and it is irresponsible to continue to offer LLMs that have been trained in an authoritative voice and to not actively seek to educate people on their shortcomings.

But, of course, such action would almost certainly result in a hit to the finances, so we can't have that.