MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jMyles | 2025-11-11 18:17:51+00:00
Well, what prevents you from doing that right now? The threat that I'll call the cops on you? Is that really how we want the internet to work? It's sure as hell not how I want my music to be perceived - I can't fathom wanting the state to intervene because some kid listened to something I made without permission.

You are welcome to "steal" anything I've ever made if it pleases you. And encourage your friends to steal it from you. If this process keeps repeating, look me up and let's book a show in your area, and we'll play our music _and_ demo our source code _and_ get you all dancin' and trippin' and having a merry old time.
by kube-system | 2025-11-11 18:18:01+00:00
>The browser ultimately sends only what the webpage requests.

You've got 6 layers under your browser before that data is sent -- some of those are useful for fingerprinting. Also, browser behavior and feature sets are not and likely will never be 100% uniform.

> GDPR to make it illegal for browsers to track this information

Unfortunately the internet is global and people outside of the reach of those jurisdictions can just exist outside of the reach of those laws. Consider the existing landscape of malicious internet traffic and scams which are already illegal in almost every country -- they are still a widespread problem.
by Jeaye | 2025-11-11 18:18:38+00:00
Yeah, this isn't quite C++ interop on its own. It's C++ interop via C, which is an incredibly pertinent qualifier. Since we go through C, opaque pointers are needed for everything, we can't stack allocate C++ values, we need to write extern C wrappers for everything we want to do (like calling member fns), and we don't get any compile-time type/safety checking, due to the opaque pointers.

Direct C++ interop is doable, by embedding Clang into Zig and using its AST, but this is significantly more work and it needs to be done in the Zig compiler. As a Zig user, going through C is about as good as you can do, probably.
by blogus | 2025-11-11 18:19:18+00:00
I would think as a matter of practice AI companies would attempt to detect long strings that appeared frequently in their corpus and dedup them out. There isn’t any value in training over and over again on the same data, and the copyright danger of being able to exactly reproduce your training set is obvious. Perhaps they did it intentionally, using the ability to reproduce copyrighted material as a way to get customers early on, knowing they would have to pay a paltry fee for it later.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-11-11 18:19:50+00:00
That seems like a bad incentive. If someone had a debt to the IRS or a bad divorce and needed the extra money, do you want them to start taking moonshoots with their companies? You want them to do right by their companies not themselves.

Already with performance based compensation you have the problem with rewarding executives with the general market as opposed to their own performance. I mean, potentially Jensen Huang is terrible at his job and Nvidia is only making half of the money it should but the AI boom is covering for it.

100% performance means no one would man the ship of a failing company trying to correct the course.
by latexr | 2025-11-11 18:20:43+00:00
> In any case, "convince Tim Cook to defy the CCP" doesn't sound like a viable goal.

I agree. Good thing that is not what I’m doing. I have no illusions it’ll happen.

> If you're looking to improve things - maybe focus on pushing Tim to

The only way to improve things at Apple is to get Tim out of the CEO position and hope the replacement is better.

> or to ease back on the huge "SE => 16e" price increase for an entry-level iPhone?

I’m not going to waste my efforts on fighting a price change for a phone, especially not one I don’t even use nor want. If you care about that, you fight for it. You have my support, I won’t stand in your way or endlessly try to convince you it’s not worth it.
by bitwize | 2025-11-11 18:21:04+00:00
Brazil has what is known as the Felca law, which requires providers of app stores and "terminal operating systems" to do age verification and to provide secure auditable APIs that meet government standards for doing the same. Presumably, specific distros like Red Hat can go through a government approval process in order to be legal to distribute in Brazil, but without such certification and without providing such system-level APIs, a random distro like Debian will be illegal to distribute in Brazil.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-11 18:21:07+00:00
Sure. But often one of the two sides has an obvious agenda.

I thought of James Randi and "spoon bender", Uri Geller. I suppose if you're cynical enough you can presume that both are desperate for airtime, self-promotion and we should therefore be skeptical of both.

Randi though for me has much less to gain in exposing frauds.
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-11 18:21:10+00:00
> we shouldn’t shout “the vaccines are safe” so loudly that we can’t document and discuss real side effects and relative risks between competing solutions

When people say “vaccines are safe” they usually mean “vaccines are generally safe” but when people say “vaccines are not safe” they usually mean “all vaccines are not safe at all times”. Those two are very different opinions and you’re demanding accountability from the side that already willing to display it.
by kube-system | 2025-11-11 18:21:36+00:00
How would a warning fix the problem?

"Hi, I see you've read [x-y] amount of news of new this month, we're going to cut you off at [x]"

What's the correct value of x?

If [x] is greater than or equal to the total amount of news published, then scrapers need one account.

If [x] is less than the total amount of news published, then you have now made it so legitimate subscribers cannot read all of the news.

Also, you have made things easier for scrapers, because they can determine how many accounts they need by dividing the total amount by [x].
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 18:21:44+00:00
This feels like Reddit leaking over a little bit.

Let me remind you that this is a forum operated by a VC fund looking for people to give lots of money to so they can build billion dollar businesses. Those who succeed are routinely celebrated here, but actually discussing that money being spent rapidly becomes judgmental.

Hard to reconcile it being super cool to build an unicorn (a cute term we’ve come up with to describe billion dollar startups which have made their founders tremendously wealthy), but somewhat disgusting to actually have or spend that money.

News.ycombinator.com seems like the wrong place to complain about capitalism.

FWIW I don’t even get a Silicon Valley salary, am not in any way extraordinary, but have spent 10+ years building 100+ small online businesses out of which none have been particularly successful (but in total the little streams add up)
by jama211 | 2025-11-11 18:22:58+00:00
I genuinely find it hilarious that everyone has such a strong opinion about a random accessory. Seriously, who cares? Why is it that any company could make any random thing an everyone shrugs their shoulders and either likes it or ignores it but when apple makes something everyone’s knickers get in a twist?

Why do y’all care so much about something you’d just walk past and ignore in literally any other scenario?
by LunaSea | 2025-11-11 18:23:24+00:00
> Carmakers would have made giant losses because their production facilities become worthless overnight (and laid off swathes of people);

This is exactly what happened and is happening now. So 10 more years didn't prepare car maker better.

In fact the CEO of Stellantis was openly talking about how much of bad idea electric cars would be.

However, during those 10 years they managed to cheat on emissions measurements.

> it is quite likely that the whole industry would have picked the "wrong" technology to bet on, like fuel cells, synthetic fuel or even hydrogen combustion.

This also happened with so called bio-ethanol and Toyota's long standing and failed hydrogen bet.

> Compare how much pushback you get in the general population against costly pro-climate policy already

In Europe it's more a question of economics (like cost of electric cars for example) than a push back against pro-climate efforts themselves.
by grishka | 2025-11-11 18:23:35+00:00
But it somehow is enough to do that for things like the Mac Pro or the Mac Studio that are clearly niche products compared to the rest of the Mac lineup?

I'm not sure it's fair to compare cars to phones or other tech products. Phones are not very repairable these days, but even if you manage to keep a 15-year-old phone working, the unnecessarily ever-changing protocols, APIs, and standards will render it unusable for most practical purposes. So you're kinda forced to upgrade every now and then. A 15-year-old car though? It takes the same fuel and drives on the same roads as brand-new ones. And spare parts are most certainly still available.
by SllX | 2025-11-11 18:23:53+00:00
That and the design misattributions. Even going in blind, if you actually read the Newsroom post and find the Store page, you can figure out that this isn’t even an Apple product. It’s an ISSEY MIYAKE product. If you end up finding any of the Vogue articles, it says right in the article that this was a design project initiated by and done within ISSEY MIYAKE by an ISSEY MIYAKE team, with some input from Apple employees they (proactively) approached and talked to.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 18:23:53+00:00
Is getting something like this wrong why e.g. The Hobbit looked so damn weird? I didn't have a strong opinion on higher FPS films, and was even kinda excited about it, until I watched that in theaters. Not only did it have (to me, just a tiny bit of) the oft-complained-about "soap opera" effect due to the association of higher frame rates with cheap shot-on-video content—the main problem was that any time a character was moving it felt wrong, like a manually-cranked silent film playing back at inconsistent speeds. Often it looked like characters were moving at speed-walking rates when their affect and gait were calm and casual. Totally bizarre and ruined any amount of enjoyment I may have gotten out of it (other quality issues aside). That's not something I've noticed in other higher FPS content (the "soap opera" effect, yes; things looking subtly sped-up or slowed-down, no).

[EDIT] I mean, IIRC that was 48fps, not 60, so you'd think they'd get the shutter timing right, but man, something was wrong with it.
by solatic | 2025-11-11 18:24:15+00:00
Precisely.

People don't need to carry wallets anymore. No cash, no physical plastic credit card. It's little surprise that the purse will trend smaller as people need to carry less and less inside it.

Apple is hitting a revenue growth plateau, which means the time has come to expand into adjacent categories. In a world where people put their phones into purses, why not the purse? And at a Apple-brand price point to match?
by Phemist | 2025-11-11 18:24:15+00:00
Although strictly speaking it is wrongly spelled as you mentioned, you missed that "Game met je" means "to (play a) game with you (or someone)", which could contract to "gametje" as well (and a similar contraction for "gamepje" would be much more violent ;)). I think this makes "gametje" an excellent name for a party game platform!
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-11 18:24:16+00:00
Whoa there pardner, my first 'smartphone' victim was a Nokia NGage - hey, it ran Symbian and I got it for not that much - which I had in my front coat pocket while working in the forest. One relatively gentle collision with a branch sticking out from a tree and the plastic screen was cracked. As was the LCD underneath it. It was then I switched to the next big thing, a Qtek S200 (better known as HTC Prophet). It was cheap 'cause it was used in some experiment by the Swedish railways which seems to have failed. The thing was new, more or less, for 1/10th of the price. It had a plastic touch screen cover which I replaced twice 'cause it started to resemble frosted glass from use.
by Snild | 2025-11-11 18:24:33+00:00
A terminal maximized on my screen says:

~$ echo $((2 * LINES * COLUMNS)) triangles 34272 triangles

That's nothing for a modern GPU. For example, this benchmark[1] says to expect on the order of 10-800 million tri/s. At the low end of that, you'd have a frame time of 3.427ms -- 292 fps.

The original Playstation could do 180 000 textured polygons per second[2], so it could've managed ~5 fps. Of course, you wouldn't render that many chars at its available output resolutions anyway. :)

[1] https://github.com/ctsilva/triangle-rendering-benchmarks#:~:... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...
by cogman10 | 2025-11-11 18:24:47+00:00
What I don't like is that these things ignore the individual. Rather than dealing with "this is a nonverbal person, they likely have limited understanding" people that believe this garbage think "oh, this is a magic guru with super powers and wisdom beyond comprehension".

That becomes dangerous when it comes to watching these individuals. No, they really don't know to not play in the street. They don't know not to eat the berries. They aren't connected with animals and don't know some can hurt them.
by avar | 2025-11-11 18:25:13+00:00
Fascinating, I wasn't aware of that. They still offer an "AWS Snowball", which is 200 TB instead of 100 PB, but around the size of half a full size suitcase instead of a semi truck. You then ship that back and forth.

If you need 100 PB then moving 500 of those around seems a lot easier for everyone involved than managing a special snowflake truck.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-11 18:25:16+00:00
The problem, perhaps, is that it is rare to have the kind of greatness that conceives of a concept and serializes it to text and image in such a way that anyone could deserialize it and approach a semblance of the concept in the mind that conceived it. Perhaps many of us find ideas in ideaspace and many of us can transmit ideaspace shapes to the universal others losslessly but the intersection of the two is very small.

So we must live in the world where those of us who discover a point in ideaspace draw imperfect maps until the one who can draw a good map arrives at the same point. And perhaps some points aren't even well-mappable by the discoverers. And perhaps the communicator never realizes he has arrived at the point he was told about and so never speaks of it.

We fumble in the dark desert for an oasis. Unlucky universe to be in.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-11 18:25:37+00:00
I don't agree. I think that shame is an important social technology for things like vaccines and drunk driving, where there's really no rational basis for disagreement. I don't know any vaccine hesitant parents who encountered some clever argument that proved to them they need to vaccinate their kids, but I know multiple who overcame their hesitation because they understood that it was expected of them and they would be judged harshly otherwise.
by supermdguy | 2025-11-11 18:25:46+00:00
Really like the philosophy, and the UI looks clean. You mentioned grammar briefly, but I’m curious if you think that’s also a component that could be learned through the app? One thing that’s nice about Duolingo (despite its flaws) is that it progressively introduces new grammar concepts and uses them in the lessons. Would be cool to have something similar here.
by schiffern | 2025-11-11 18:26:06+00:00
Being convinced without the ability to explain the argument is troubling.

But more importantly, mainstream scientists have the "obvious agenda" (well documented by now) to avoid ridicule and mockery. So if you're willing to weaponize ridicule and mockery, you can successfully suppress scientific investigation into whatever areas you choose.

Let's not forget, the CIA invented the very term "conspiracy theory" to suppress investigation into illegal intelligence activities.
by IX-103 | 2025-11-11 18:27:03+00:00
To be fair, in that particular instance they were only welding the back door. They left the front door alone so that people could go out (at their assigned days and times). They got rid of the back door to make it so that community enforcement of these restrictions was possible.

At the level the epidemic reached in some area of China that may have been necessary to slow the flood, no different than rationing during famine.

I have some issues with China (corruption, nepotism, pervasive tracking), but this is not really one of them.
by creer | 2025-11-11 18:27:24+00:00
"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work." (see interesting shared history of the quote here https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/08/28/inspiration/ ).

Yeah, that doesn't mean we can't get lucky and run into the perfect circumstance. It means that when that circumstance happens, we'll be there ready to harvest it. Similarly, "the best camera is the one you carry".

And yes, these anti- magic formulas that dispell the idea of magic formula, are magic formulas.

> And when fortune smiles on them, they get positively giddy.

Yes! This is a great pleasure. Satisfaction. There is one series in particular I work on that operates like this. I'm just ready for it - don't even look for it, not anymore - but when I run into the "circumstance", that's a great feeling. And I'm ready for it.

In engineering or software there is still that idea of the back-burner stuff that does need to be done. This idea of staging or starting what needs to be done at the end of the previous day. So that you have something relatively mindless to get you launched the next morning. I also know that anti- "magic rule", even though it's one I have a hard time keeping to.
by dpark | 2025-11-11 18:27:57+00:00
> That's nonsensical, the price of using a service on a blockchain is essentially a floating value.

This is kind of a ridiculous response. The price of oil is also a floating value and yet it is not nonsensical to discuss the price of a barrel of oil.

Yes, the cost to store something on the bitcoin blockchain floats. Several sources indicate that roughly a dollar is a reasonable approximation currently. If you disagree I’d be interested in seeing your data.

> Last I checked, filecoin was a few cents per GB per month.

I don’t know a ton about filecoin but it seems like retrieving data is pretty cumbersome. It’s not clear that this would actually be useable for a Wikipedia reference archive.

> You can create a blockchain of kind hearted people to store Wikipedia as well, it's really up to you. But comparing apples and oranges makes no sense.

Blockchain for its own sake. Sure, you could create a custom blockchain. You could also just pay AWS for georeplicated blob storage and it would be way less complex.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-11 18:28:56+00:00
Apple is a tech company. Their last two tech products (Vision Pro and iPhone Air) were colossal and unexpected failures. The industry is holding it's breath.

We already know Apple can manufacture lifestyle products and market fashion to fashionable people - that's not the issue. We're starting to turn the corner on Apple's true desire to stop competing. They can't innovate like they used to with the iPad and the Apple Watch; the "new" Apple products today are expensive alternatives to superior products. Apple's most-lucrative investments are turning out to be the App Store and iCloud, software investments that have nothing to do with their hardware quality. So we're now in the awkward position of getting precisely zero innovative hardware and tons of useless and expensive bric-a-brak like iPhone Pockets and iPad laptop-cases to convince people the ecosystem doesn't need to compete to be fun.

On the one hand, yes, I am not the target audience for this in the same way I would ignore the Apple CPAP machine. On the other hand, this is setting a new low for Apple that hadn't been challenged since the polishing cloth debacle. Nothing here is innovative and it seems to confirm the industry's broader suspicion that Apple's business model is bankrupt.
by omgwtfbyobbq | 2025-11-11 18:29:04+00:00
As a robotaxi, yes. That's why Teslas rollout is relatively small/slow, has safety monitors, etc...

FSD, what most people use, is ADAS, even if it performs a lot of the driving tasks in many situations, and the driver needs to always be monitoring it, no exceptions.

The same applies to any ADAS. If it doesn't work for in a situation, the driver has to take over.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-11 18:29:07+00:00
> No, he does not. He has been a pillar of the community since the beginning, and well loved by many.

These are not mutually exclusive states. If anything, it has improved my esteem of PSL that they were willing to hold one of their "inner circle" up to scrutiny.

Even Linus Torvalds came around to the idea that he was a great software engineer and a mean individual to interact with. There's room for improvement in most if not all of us. I'm impressed at both Tim and the PSL for being able to disagree, go through a suspension, and come to terms. It's the kind of potential for growth that makes it a comfortable ecosystem to work in.

> The supposed "rule violations" include things that no reasonable person could actually object to

The problem with the "reasonable person" standard is that it's subjectivity masked in objectivity; we don't poll ten thousand people to decide what "reasonable" looks like. It's another term for "common sense," and... Common sense moves. Common sense said slavery was fine three hundred years ago. Common sense said homosexuality was an abomination sixty years ago. Common sense said you could be as awful to interact with as you wanted as long as you were making software people craved thirty years ago. We grow and change.
by montague27 | 2025-11-11 18:29:30+00:00
TL;DR: It's a Todo app I use personally every day. It solves my own problem and has taught me a lot about software development, design, and product management. While it's complete, it hasn't been publicly launched yet, and I'm struggling to decide on the next step.

I hadn't considered monetization until now since it started as a passion project. There’s a slim chance it could attract paying users (and maybe earn some pocket money), but at worst, I’ll remain its only user.

It doesn’t have fancy features, but they’re executed well enough to meet my workflow needs:

- Every todo list is text-based, allowing external work with .txt files. - Extremely responsive UX, as most data syncs locally. - Minute-level analytics to track time spent on tasks and projects.

If I decide to monetize it, it could provide valuable experience in running a business, though it might also become a significant time sink. I’d feel very proud if others used my work, but I know how competitive this field is, so that might not be realistic.

I’d greatly appreciate any recommendation or sugesstion! :)

Note: I'm based in Canada.
by Modified3019 | 2025-11-11 18:29:53+00:00
Dockcase makes enclosures with a capacitor that hold ~5 or 10 seconds of charge, and on power loss sends whatever the “get ready for shut down NOW” signal is to the contained drives. This obviously doesn’t help with unsynced data that the OS had not sent to the drive yet. I use one for a ventoy install, an another for a windows to go install. Windows on a usb stick is finicky to get recognized as bootable sometimes (likely a combination of hardware and software), but otherwise works well when it’s up.

https://www.dockcase.com/collections/ssd-enclosure

One thing to keep in mind is USB 3 ports often only output around 4.5 Watts, whereas some nvme m.2 drives want more than double that when writing. So it’s a good idea to choose a drive with lower active power requirements. The longer enclosures for dockcase have an extra usb-c port that more power can be supplied with