MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-11-22 11:38:44+00:00
I do get it if gifted kid programs in music only does Classical, but no jazz (especially in US would consider this a bit odd), but Maths and Science are purely European cultural inventions now, WTF? Is this a troll? You go blaming others from racist just ending up saying something incredibly racist yourself?

Honesrly, read on some history of mathematics and science. We ”Europeans” did not invent them. No single culture did.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-22 11:39:06+00:00
I think the only way is to give up a bit of freedom for the person's best interested AND societies.

This never works though because once you decide to do this, it is abused. So to prevent abuse, you use law enforcement. What I mean is that we decided freedom is more important than forcing treatment. And since there are no other levers, law enforcement is left to deal with the problem.
by themafia | 2025-11-22 11:40:10+00:00
Berlin and Los Angeles _city_ both have 3.8 million residents. The greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area has 18 million residents. The greater Berlin Metropolitan area has 6 million residents.

It's not only dense but the scale is far larger than most European cities. Only Asian and South American cities outclass the insanity that is LA. Until you've been there it's hard to appreciate the scope of it.
Show HN: CursorBird – Flap some wings while Cursor's agent is generating code
by iamnoamg | 2025-11-22 11:41:03+00:00
Hi HN! Creator of CursorBird here. I've recently built and published a fun side project I think you might enjoy: It's a simple Cursor extension that lets you play a flappy bird clone while the agents are running. It uses Cursor's hook system to detect agent activity: the game automatically opens when an agent starts working and closes when all agents finish. Press Tab to flap. 100% open source.

Repo: https://github.com/i-am-noamg/cursorbird

Install: https://open-vsx.org/extension/cursorbird/cursor-bird or from Cursor's extensions search

It started as a funny idea but turns out it does a pretty good job with keeping me from constantly doomscrolling every time I have to wait for the agent to finish its task.

Let me know what you think!
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-22 11:41:16+00:00
The euro being undervalued is a relative statement. It’s undervalued for Germany in the sense that considering Germany current policies and trade balance, an equivalent German only currency would be considerably stronger. That’s a significant part of how Germany remains competitive despite investing so little in their productivity.

Conversely, it’s extremely overvalued for the economy of the periphery. If you look at their trade balance and policies, their own currency would be far weaker. Paradoxically this would be a boon for them. Sure it would impact their ability to import but it would make their exports far cheaper in relative terms.

Adding country with economy pulling down the value of the euro is therefore extremely advantageous to Germany at the expense of the periphery. This is by design. A currency union can’t work without transfers.

That’s why it’s extremely unfair to impose the euro as part of the criteria for joining and why you see country like Poland doing its best to not join. Sadly, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy are stuck in. I personally can’t refrain from strongly resenting the union every time I see someone from the advantaged core pretending to be morally virtuous while being the direct beneficiary of one of the most unfair transfer setup since decolonisation and pretend the south should just go with austerity which is the exact reverse of what’s actually needed (investment and devaluation).

I somehow understand how we got there and the weight the completely botched unification of Germany in 1990 carries in it. It doesn’t really make the pill easier to swallow.
by isoprophlex | 2025-11-22 11:41:18+00:00
Yes, it's indeed very over the top and one-dimensional. However, I've been iterating on this system prompt since the early early days of chatgpt.com, and I find that I can't really chat with AI systems in their "grey", dry mode anymore.

On their default behavior they try too hard to make me like them, which I find intolerable. "You're absolutely right!" for some reason drives me insane; getting "lmaaoooo my bad fam i dun goofed" twenty times a day is equally annoying in terms of models being confidently wrong, but somehow the lazy shitbag attitude pisses me off less than the goody two shoes energy.

And if they're low on crazyness and you force them to be crisp and emotionless like a wikipedia article, I notice that I tend to trust them more... even though again the tendency to bullshit is unchanged, still there.

Somehow this really works for me.

Also when coding it makes it very clear which bits I haven't inspected yet because the comments and variable names will be super nsfw, thus keeping me on my toes as to not accidentally submit PRs filled with "unfuck_json()" functions.
by gizajob | 2025-11-22 11:42:21+00:00
We can prove humans are conscious. You're the proof, and so am I. It's not a property that has to be constructed from proofs, but one of the certainties that makes all the rest of your universe possible.

But people think that just because they can intellectually try to negate it out of existence and fail to reconstruct it from proofs or descriptions, then it can't be proven and thus may or may not even exist.
by trueismywork | 2025-11-22 11:43:20+00:00
A land value tax (LVT) is a tax on the unimproved value of land only, while a traditional property tax is levied on the combined value of both the land and any structures or improvements on it . Consequently, LVT taxes the land's community-created value, which is not the result of the owner's labor, and does not tax improvements like a house. This encourages development because it disincentivizes property owners from letting vacant land sit idle and penalizes land speculation.
by graemep | 2025-11-22 11:44:38+00:00
The other difference (and I think a more important one) is that they take a longer term view of the business, rather than next year's bonus and options vesting. A hired CEO will probably not still be there in a few years time.

> or publicly traded companies, even a majority stake only makes them powerful on paper, because the 49% selling would shatter their paper net worth.

That threat is limited because the other shareholders do not want to reduce the value of their investment either. Look at what a firm of Musk has on Tesla with something like a 15% stake.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-22 11:45:17+00:00
> Depression is caused by laziness and anxiety by hopelessness.

While pizzafeelsright gets heavily downvoted, I think their may be some (dark) truth behind it: if you weren't lazy, you would sommit suicide instead of living a depressed life. :-(

I also have a feeling that there might be another (dark) truth behind the link between anxiety and hopelessness.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-11-22 11:45:49+00:00
The BBS scene was much more accountable. I mean, I met some weird dudes on there and consumed some weird stuff, but at the end of the day it was a local community, and everything was traced back to real people.

I tried to sign up as “Roger Rabbit”, who was 21, and therefore gain some access to a particular mov that was popular at the time. It was then that I learned two things:

- The sysop can talk to you directly!

- The sysop can see your phone number and knows Roger is that kid that signed up ages ago…

Met the sysop in real life some years later and he had thought the whole thing was pretty funny.

The point is that this was a local community; and the internet just doesn’t work like that.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-22 11:46:06+00:00
Linux (the kernel) is also open source and doesn't suffer from the fragmentation problem. It's pretty much unique to the Linux desktop because there are too many cooks involved.

But even if there's only one cook, it could be worse (if that cook is the gnome team). At least with multiple cooks we can pick kde instead of gnome.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 11:46:12+00:00
> "Take interests"? If by that you mean in education, then this is false.

No.

> because Jews were permitted to issue loans with interest to non-Jews

Exactly, what I was saying, so you did get it.

> And not all Jews were rich, either. This is an exaggeration.

I did not say that. What I stated was that the rich educated were disproportionally (secular) Jews.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-22 11:46:35+00:00
Not well known but this was actually the second Brexit referendum. The original decision to join the EU wasn't decided by a referendum at all, a Labour government just did it, despite the profound constitutional implications. So there was no argument for requiring a higher threshold to leave than the join. Arguably leaving would not have required a referendum at all, given that joining didn't.

But when people cried foul about this move in 1973, Labour agreed to hold a referendum on leaving it again, which was held in 1975 and won by Remain. Unfortunately, the way they won was by misleading the public. They claimed the European Economic Community (as it was known at the time) was purely about building a free trade zone, with no political unification goals. Official leaflets sent to households said no federal "United States of Europe" was intended. The Leave campaign pointed out that it wasn't true and the EEC wanted to take over political power in Europe.

The Leave campaign were honest. The EEC later rebranded to the EU, and took over many powers that had nothing to do with free trade. This is one reason why a common comment heard from older people back in 2016 was "I voted Remain in 1975 and I'm voting Leave now, for the same reasons".
by spectralista | 2025-11-22 11:47:56+00:00
I worry that it is not a valid perspective and that the bubble dynamics are being driven exactly by this sentiment.

We are pricing in the hollywood version of AI we don't have as if it is the internet.

I communicated with people exactly like what I am doing right now in this post on usenet in 1995. Message boards by 1997. The internet bubble wasn't based on some wild virtual reality version of the internet that hadn't been invented yet.

It is a categorically different process at work here. This bubble is far more insane and speculative since we don't have what we are pricing in. We don't even really know what we are pricing in besides some vague notation of an inevitable "AGI".
by 15155 | 2025-11-22 11:48:02+00:00
> I can still make a book like that in my basement. People do this as a hobby now. You can still build chips like that in your garage. People do this as a hobby now.

You can absolutely manufacture a convincingly-professional, current-generation book in your basement with a practically-small capital investment.

You cannot manufacture a convincingly-professional chip (being generous: feature size and process technology from the last two decades) in your basement without a 6-7 figure capital expenditure, and even then - good luck.
by tflol | 2025-11-22 11:49:08+00:00
> My kids go to a ordinary public school. They are very bright, cautious, and thoughtful, and generally pretty happy and upbeat. There is a strong correlation between academic intelligence and mental illness. Being depressed to the point of being suicidal and having a sunny disposition are not mutually exclusive at all.

If my parents said this to me the moment I realized what I was on and that I had to deal with coming off of it late in life I would be beside myself.

I'd probably also look up the doctor that encouraged my parents to put their seven year old on SSRIs so I could warn friends.

These huge lists of side effects are haunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine

If my parents were like "uh well I had virtually no symptoms" I'd lose my mind!

Life sucks, I'm depressed all the time, kids are depressed all the time. There's material everywhere explaining a decline in general mental health. I'm happy and lucky that when my parents (or the one that was paying attention, who was certainly also depressed) noticed I was depressed or sad during a few events, some long lasting, they asked me about it, listened to me, and did their best to give me advice instead of giving up when I was seven and giving me drugs.

Remember when replying, this post has all been about myself, a victim of depression.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-22 11:49:54+00:00
Enabling kids to make pornographic images out of blocks is not the same thing as enabling pedophiles to make pornographic images out of kids.

Mythic Quest - TTP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew

>You give the public a shovel, they dig dicks. You give them a pen, they draw dicks. You give them some clay...

>Definitely going to sculpt dicks.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-22 11:49:56+00:00
> Would be interesting to see how much Tim really generated de-novo, but in general I disagree that he "invented" the world wide web as such.

Eh? What do you mean it would be interesting to see? It's well-documented. Not controversial or hidden.

The HTTP protocol yes. But also the browser/editor app, WorldWideWeb, a web server for it, and the URL scheme, are literal Berners-Lee inventions. HTML may be an SGML language but it's his SGML language.

He's not claiming and nobody is claiming he invented hypertext (he would say Ted Nelson and Alan Kay).

He absolutely invented the fundamentals of the end-to-end web technology as we use it. There was no functioning internet open-hypermedia system before 1990. It's just not in question and it's kind of disingenuous to imply he didn't do much.

(Defining down "invent" in this way is also disingenuous to all inventors, who all do their work in the context of prior art)
by themafia | 2025-11-22 11:50:04+00:00
They do have GPS dart launchers and other systems. They're fairly unreliable. It's difficult for the lead driver in a chase to deploy accurately and cars are typically dirty enough to make most adhesives ineffective particularly when deployed at highway speeds.

A hoodie is enough to defeat the drone surveillance, and regardless of what facial recognition technology you use, a jury still has to buy the output of that system.

For drones with less than a 6 foot wingspan that don't require a runway you've got maybe 30 minutes of flight time at a top speed of 30 miles per hour. So unless you know where they're going already you're not going to be able to effectively deploy it in the time necessary to capture them and you can't loiter long enough to track them with infrared.

The helicopter is an insurance policy. When you have a bunch of marked units doing twice the speed limit on a long enough chase they're going to hit something. Those crashes are devastating and lead to eye watering settlement amounts. The helicopter can safely chase most vehicles at almost any speed and the risk of them crashing with any civilian or even civilian property is effectively zero.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-22 11:51:54+00:00
I don't think it's that simple. It's my opinion that YC doesn't need much buzz, except within this very community. Since they own the venue, they get the benefit.

I think that a goal is to "cultivate" a startup community. Get nerds and tech bros together, and some synergy is bound to happen.

I'm not trying to start anything up, but I do enjoy the community. I'm not really what YC is looking for, but I suspect they like me, more than an LLM.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-22 11:52:56+00:00
I think this really mischaracterizes the modern poor, especially in developed countries. It's not uncommon to see poor families with things like recent model phones worth hundreds of dollars, designer clothing/shoes, and the like. In many ways these are the sort of traps that keep people in poverty. Or referencing this article itself, apparently they decided to go eat at McDonalds and managed to spend $20 on two coffees and one coke. I mean that'd break the budget of just about anybody outside of well into the upper edge of middle class.

And a pressure cooker is not a luxury, nor is it something that's outside anybody's price range. On Amazon it looks like they start around $20. And the whole point is that it takes basically 0 time, and saves a ton of money, and even time, relative to things like eating outside the house.
by ojosilva | 2025-11-22 11:53:15+00:00
Around that time in the video what I see is a journalist that did not do his homework, as he crumbled under the CEO's snarky "do you know this research company went out of business?" - he should just started to read the report findings and ask if they are true [1] or popped out the 16 public arrests [2] tied to Roblox in the US of A.

Both journalists were VERY agreeable and were like trying not to pick a fight. Want to talk about the fun stuff Mr CEO? There's no fun when so many kids are being systematically harassed by evil adults in the platform.

[1] https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/

[2] https://thebearcave.substack.com/p/problems-at-roblox-rblx-4
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-11-22 11:53:18+00:00
Difficult to say without knowing what part of the world history of literature was covered, but it is somewhat difficult not to somehow discuss Marx in some way, since the anti-capitalist socialism has politically been a large factor shaping the major modernist art movements as a response eother for or against. But if it was say modernist literature and there was jo TS Eliot’s conservatism, it would strike me a bit odd.

Leftist academic thought has however had huge influence on modern art movements. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out why that might be.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-22 11:53:25+00:00
I mean you can already do exactly that with zigbee after buying a zigbee usb connector which are extremely cheap.

I know because that’s what I have been doing for the past five years.

But to be fair my setup is now mostly IKEA so I guess I could go back to a bridge and stop having to maintain my stuff at some point.
by bmacho | 2025-11-22 11:53:43+00:00
A lot of people say that lightweight desktops/distros help. Probably GNOME/KDE unnecessarily use your SSD, network, GPU and other resources even when you are idle, compared to using a minimal WM and only starting the daemons you actually need.

I personally never tested it, and I can't find definite benchmarks that confirm and measure the waste.
by wonger_ | 2025-11-22 11:54:25+00:00
Looks like rotoscoping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping.

The closest you would get is maybe an edge detection filter. Or AI rotoscoping: https://pld.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1h9wjdv/have_any_ai_ro.... Or maybe EbSynth, as demoed by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo

But it never looks as nice as the hand-drawn way.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-22 11:54:31+00:00
"Drug addicts and mentally ill people can be down-on-their luck. That somebody is mentally ill or have an addiction does not mean that society should discard them."

This line of thinking (IMO) is both manipulative and harmful. At some point we need to realize that we are enabling and not helping.

You really want to help both the person and the society that they are part of, you need tough decisions that will not be easy or fun.
by yurishimo | 2025-11-22 11:54:41+00:00
Personally, I find their contact sensors (the tall-ish thin ones) to be quite unreliable. I live in a modest home with plenty of zigbee devices as repeaters nearby and the contact sensors often stop reporting at random. I’ll pop it off the door, click repair on my coordinator and then hit the reset switch on the sensor; back online.

I like them because they can use rechargeable AAA batteries but if I still have to touch them every few weeks to repair, I’d rather switch to a different brand that is more reliable and uses less ideal battery formats.

That said, the newish Inspelling plugs in the EU market are fantastic. They report reliably, can handle larger loads, and cost about €10. For that price, it’s hard to complain that they are a bit larger than other options.
by spectralista | 2025-11-22 11:56:06+00:00
I have and to quote Wittgenstein all this is like saying the machine has a toothache.

It is just complete nonsense.

No one believes a pocket calculator is thinking just because it produces the correct output.

To believe the LLM is thinking you have to find the demarcation between the pocket calculator and the LLM. Good luck with that.
by CrulesAll | 2025-11-22 11:56:18+00:00
"What are you going to do about it." is the new mantra of the oligopolies. These institutions, both private and public sector, are now so big, they get away with things like this all the time. It's only when the big dogs fight that they change. Mussolini(a piece of sh*t, I know) said something similar about the League of Nations(precursor to UN). It works when robins and swallows quarrel, it fails when Eagles are involved.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-22 11:56:44+00:00
For those who DID think "I wonder what my 'when I was a kid' will be about when I'm old" what kind of things did you guess it'd be and what did it actually end up being?

I'm only in my 30s but I was thinking recently "when I'm retired I feel like I'm going to be telling stories about how back in my day we had this thing called the filesystem and you'd just browse it directly..."
by DLion | 2025-11-22 11:57:29+00:00
There are so many benefits around having a personal blog that I'm surprised about reading all these negative comments.

I started blogging about tech and security when I was 13/14 years old in my native language. Then, when I felt more mature, I switched to a new blog where English was the main language. I started improving my language skills, getting some donation from kind strangers for my blog posts and using it as a self-branding forever running-side project.

Now, 20 years later I still have my personal blog and I still write about tech, but only recently I created some "personal related" tabs, like the "/now" page, enriching it every month or having a more personal about page. Why? Because I like going to a blog a see that behind that address there is a real person with emotions and dreams, it's like entering in their home and have a look around.

1. Improve your language skills

2. Self-branding

3. Memorize better topics you care about

4. Share what you learned with others

About LLM, I don't care if they scrape my blog, I use LLMs every day, and if some stuff I write helps to enrich an LLM with a positive impact I would be more than happy to let it happens, the more we write, the less fake-news and low-quality content would ingest and used.
by zkmon | 2025-11-22 11:57:30+00:00
It would be interesting to see what calculations went into arriving at the number. They must have started with a large number that should be distributed to all students. Where did that large number come from? Some fund allocated for this kind of purpose? Some ransom that was demanded by the attackers, putting a value on the data? Some psychological tests that determined $30 is enough to keep the young folks from rebellion while not affecting future prospects for the university?
by Yodel0914 | 2025-11-22 11:57:46+00:00
I do a similar thing on the investment side. I did play with this app to see if it would give me anything that my spreadsheet doesn’t, but I’m not really seeing it

On the spending/budgeting side, I could see the use of day-to-day tracking. I import my credit card transactions into gnucash weekly - if I didn’t already have a good workflow set up I could see the use of something like this to help keep on top of things.