MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by umanwizard | 2025-11-20 18:06:06+00:00
> It only looks like this from the West, where the support for independent Taiwan is much higher than in Taiwan itself (not to speak of PRC where it's non-existent.) People in Taiwan don't perceive China as a different country (the way that French perceive Germany for example) but rather as a different (unfortunate) regime over the same nation.

I think this misses the point. It doesn't matter if 0% or 50% or 100% of people in Taiwan or anywhere else believe that Taiwan is legitimately independent. That has no bearing on whether it actually is, in practice.

An "Atlas of World History" should strive to portray who actually controls territory in the real world, regardless of whether that control is "recognized" or "legitimate". Otherwise it is an "Atlas of Political Thought" or "Atlas of International Law" or something else.

> With the current reality in east Ukraine/Georgia/Northern Cyprus/Israel-Palestine/Kosovo/etc.etc.etc.,

Yes exactly. For the same reasons, Crimea and various parts of East Ukraine should be labeled as part of Russia, East Jerusalem and places like Ari'el should be labeled as part of Israel, etc. This has nothing to do with whether I think any of those borders would be "legitimate" or "legal" or what percentage of the people who live there accept them.
by cs702 | 2025-11-20 18:06:07+00:00
There are a bunch of companies trying to make co-living mainstream again.

The largest one appears to be PadSplit (https://padsplit.com), claiming 27,000+ rooms nationwide.[a]

But I don't know if any these new co-living solutions work as advertised, or whether the companies providing them are actually making any money. Does anyone here know?

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[a] According to the company's own PR: https://www.prweb.com/releases/padsplit-recognized-on-the-de...
by enriquto | 2025-11-20 18:06:21+00:00
that's great!

The ~/.mozilla folder is one of the last remaining dotfiles in my home directory

$ ls -a ~ . .. .bashrc .mozilla .profile .ssh bak config local pro src

You can also be an xdg ninja if you want: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

Annoyingly, many programs hardcode ~/.config and ~/.local (instead of using XDG_CONFIG_HOME etc) and try to recreate them every time they run. This is a good indication to stop using these careless programs!
by potsandpans | 2025-11-20 18:06:50+00:00
I generally don't think that's it's good or just for a government to collude with manufacturers to track/trace it's citizens without consent or notice. And even if notice was given, I'd still be against it

The arguments put forward by people generally I don't find compelling -- for example, in this thread around protecting against counterfeit.

The "force" applied to address these concerns is totally out of proportion. Whenever these discussions happen, I feel like they descend into a general viewpoint, "if we could technically solve any possible crime, we should do everything in our power to solve it."

I'm against this viewpoint, and acknowledge that that means _some crime_ occurs. That's acceptable to me. I don't feel that society is correctly structured to "treat" crime appropriately, and technology has outpaced our ability to holistically address it.

Generally, I don't see (speaking for the US) the highest incarceration rate in the world to be a good thing, or being generally effective, and I don't believe that increasing that number will change outcomes.
by lutusp | 2025-11-20 18:07:02+00:00
> Are you using one of the 3D presets/random config or are you using a 2D preset?

Thanks! The 3D presets work, they provide good anaglyphic results. I didn't notice the presets option on my first visit.

So ... nice! Even with colors enabled, the 3D effect is clearly visible with red/cyan glasses.

Anyway, it's a nice online resource.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-20 18:07:06+00:00
No, this policy is currently kept based on our reason for immigration, to encourage diversity. We would lose that, and make immigration be basically for highly populous countries. That isn't why the USA has immigration. We don't have a system purely to get bodies in the country.

The USA is not the British Empire. The USA did away with preference for western Europeans and replaced it with a system for everyone. It pisses me off we are told we are being racist by... making sure all races get a chance to come here?
by marcodiego | 2025-11-20 18:07:07+00:00
Around 2008 I saw two girls, not too versed in technology, share a mp3 song over bluetooth. At the time I thought that if technology finally arrived at the point where "normal people" could be able to do things that required lots of technical knowledge just a few years ago then we were very close to a future where technology could be a giant enabler of powers to everyone.

I am really ashamed by how wrong I was and how WE allowed things to became so artificially limited.
by Qwertious | 2025-11-20 18:07:15+00:00
Eating out in the US being crazy expensive is somewhat of a self-causing problem.

When you have a big kitchen and eating out is expensive, you cook at home unless you have money to splash. When only money-splashers go to the restaurant, restaurants shift up-market and offer lots of choice instead of, say, one dish.

And also, when restaurants are expensive and so everyone is cooking at home, everyone starts requiring a home kitchen. When everyone requires/has a home kitchen, it doesn't make sense to shift down-market to cater to those without kitchens.

Go back in time 300+ years, and it was pretty common for urban residents to eat out daily. Not just because it saves housing space, but also because indoor fires were often banned to reduce the chance of the entire apartment block burning down. It was not universal, obviously, but it was pretty common.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-11-20 18:07:15+00:00
I'm not familiar with Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder but what makes you so sure that their point of view is unreasonable? It seems you agree that their viewpoint is opposing, which likely means their premise are different, so isn't it entirely possible that their conclusion is reasonable and logical when one starts from their position?

Also, there isn't one source that can represent the "conservative" viewpoint because there isn't one conservative viewpoint. There are many factions within the Republican party with sometimes shockingly different points of view. Just like the Democratic party representing the "liberal" agenda.

I could just as easily ask, where is the one source I go to get an understanding of the liberal agenda? (Just a rhetorical question, I actually don't follow the news and don't plan to.)
by jslabovitz | 2025-11-20 18:07:25+00:00
I think this vague term of 'use' isn't being very helpful here. Does that mean actively posting original content? Commenting? Liking? Sharing? Just scrolling/reading? Seems all those modes have a much different involvement, and likely quite different measures.

I don't use FB myself (in any mode), so this is second-hand... but my younger friends (< 30) use FB only as a necessary, lowest-common-denominator tool to keep in touch with less-close family/friends. It's low-effort ambient connection, not passionate interest or obsession. (I'm in a rural area with fairly low online/tech interest, which might affect things too.)
by SatvikBeri | 2025-11-20 18:07:33+00:00
A lot of interesting math can't be done in numpy, sadly. At that point you might be better off writing the initial version in Python and translating it to something else.

A friend of mine asked me to translate some (well-written) number theory code a while back, I got about a 250x speedup just doing a line by line translation from Python to Julia. But the problem was embarrassingly parallel, so I was able to slap on an extra 40x by tossing it on a big machine for a few hours for a total of 10,000x. My friend was very surprised – he was expecting around a 10x improvement.
by RobinL | 2025-11-20 18:07:33+00:00
Thanks - this worked for me (some errors, some success).

Last week I was making a birthday card for my son with the old model. The new model is dramatically better - I'm asking for an image in comic book style, prompted with some images of him.

With the previous model, the boy was descriptively similar (e.g. hair colour and style) but looked nothing like him. With this model it's recognisably him.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-20 18:07:42+00:00
What we did with Java (J/SAFE) was to add explicit methods to zero out sensitive info. It was a bit of a PITA because Java's never had consistent semantics about when final(ize,ly) methods were called. Later we added code to track which objects were allocated, but no longer needed, which also wasn't much fun.

Back in the Oak days Sun asked us (I was at RSADSI at the time) to review the language spec for security implications. Our big request was to add the "secure" storage specifier for data. The idea being a variable, const, whatever that was marked "secure" would be guaranteed not to be swapped out to disk (or one of a number of other system specific behaviors). But it was hard to find a concrete behavior that would work for all platforms they were targeting (mostly smaller systems at the time.)

My coworker Bob Baldwin had an existing relationship with Bill Joy and James Gosling (I'm assuming as part of the MIT mafia) so he led the meetings. Joy's response (or maybe Goslings, can't remember anymore) was "Language extension requests should be made on a kidney. Preferably a human kidney. Preferably yours. That way you'll think long and hard about it and you sure as hell won't submit 2."
by Lapsa | 2025-11-20 18:07:57+00:00
are you a doctor? I can tell you anecdotes of hearing never before heard person names and couple days later stumbling upon them (usually watching shows I routinely watch). or about the time voices took a Christmas holiday break the first year (my guess - clankers weren't fine tuned enough to run on their own). or that I led unintoxicated, stressless and healthy lifestyle yet the voices started suddenly as if somebody flipped a switch. point is - this is not my burden and shouldn't be. how do doctors rule out microwave auditory effect? aren't you worried that in the world we living in potentially anyone can mark somebody else as schizophrenic? cause if you don't - I might just as well affirm that any kind of sound takes place within you and hence makes you schizophrenic.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-11-20 18:08:08+00:00
So Rebble wants to benefit from code they didn't write (Pebble apps)... but also wants to prevent Pebble from benefiting from code Pebble didn't write (Rebble updates to Pebble apps)?

This seems a little silly, no? rent seeking behavior for maintaining code they didn't write to begin with?
by wat10000 | 2025-11-20 18:08:10+00:00
That doesn't seem like an adequate explanation. An HOA that only existed to maintain the stormwater plan and just collected small dues to maintain it would be almost completely unrecognizable compared to how actual HOAs function. Come to think of it, even my standard explanation of HOAs being prevalent because local government use them as a backdoor way to increase property taxes is inadequate, since an HOA that just maintains the roads and parks would also be pretty unrecognizable.

Maybe these explain why HOAs exist, but not why HOAs almost always have a big tangle of rules on top. Is there some regulation that explains that aspect?
by snek_case | 2025-11-20 18:08:17+00:00
I think it's because they're all trained on the same data (everything they could possibly scrape from the open web). The models tend to learn some kind of distribution of what is most likely for a given prompt. It tends to produce things that are very average looking, very "likely", but as a result also predictable and unoriginal.

If you want something that looks original, you have to come up with a more original prompt. Or we have to find a way to train these models to sample things that are less likely from their distribution? Find a way to mathematically describe what it means to be original.
by atonse | 2025-11-20 18:08:24+00:00
I'm literally a software engineer, and a business owner. I don't think about this in binary terms (replacement or not), but just like CMS's replaced the jobs of people that write HTML by hand to build websites, I think whole classes of software development will get democratized.

For example, I'm currently vibe coding an app that will be specific to our company, that helps me run all the aspects of our business and integrates with our systems (so it'll integrate with quickbooks for invoicing, etc), and help us track whether we have the right insurance across multiple contracts, will remind me about contract deadlines coming up, etc.

It's going to combine the information that's currently in about 10 different slightly out of sync spreadsheets, about 2 dozen google docs/drive files, and multiple external systems (Gusto, Quickbooks, email, etc).

Even though I could build all this manually (as a software developer), I'd never take the time to do it, because it takes away from client work. But now I can actually do it because the pace is 100x faster, and in the background while I'm doing client work.
by hypnagogicjerk | 2025-11-20 18:08:41+00:00
Side note, just for context, since there seem to be primarily video hobbyists responding to the OP:

Node based workflows are typical in NLE software. See Fusion & Color panels in Davinci Resole, Fusion (color grading), etc. Industry folks will take to this node based canvas with ease.

Great question @danishSuri1994
by jaggederest | 2025-11-20 18:09:14+00:00
The other alternative is like current state of the art 3d printing ceramics - you either replace some high percentage of the filament with clay and fire it as a post processing step and it burns off the plastic, or print a clay/water slurry directly and fire it after drying.

But I don't think we'd end up with the basalt being very filamentous.
by foresto | 2025-11-20 18:09:16+00:00
1. Generating a random key by default (but still allowing advanced users to prefer a passphrase) would solve your "secure enough" problem.

2. Better yet, a "secure enough" passphrase could be generated by default, à la Correct Horse Battery Staple. A user wouldn't be forced to choose one.

3. When adding an option, interface complexity can be avoided by simply not showing it by default, or by placing it off to the side in collapsed state where it doesn't draw attention.

4. If you're worried about people writing down a passphrase, you should be even more worried about a string of 50 random characters.

That last one is important. Nobody is going to memorize a random key, which means everyone has to write it to a file (or painstakingly write it on paper) for long term storage. When verifying remote devices, they also have to get the key to the other devices, so they are likely to use copy/paste, which will put it on at least two devices' clipboards, where it will be available for harvesting by nosy apps/websites or accidental pasting to random ones. They also have to figure out a way to transport the key from one device's clipboard to another, which might be email or SMS or some other insecure channel that they're accustomed to using. Or in the unlikely event that they choose paper, they have to painstakingly transcribe it again at the other end.

In other words, forcing the use of a random key does not increase security vs. a well-implemented passphrase system, but instead pushes responsibility for security out of the software and into the hands of people who aren't trained in it. Inviting more big mistakes.

A passphrase would avoid most of those exposure risks by not having to be written down or copy/pasted or sent through insecure channels. And with the right UI, it wouldn't be more complex to use or less secure.

Fortunately, Matrix supports passphrase-derived keys at the protocol level, so client developers who understand how to implement them well for humans can still do so. I hope Element's product managers will come around eventually.
by neilv | 2025-11-20 18:09:18+00:00
The coolest use of a gas plasma display I saw in person was at my teenage software engineering internship.

We had the coolest engineering workstation computers, Sun and almost everything else, with the huge CRTs... but strangely cooler, in a way, was the sysadmin's Ethernet diagnostics device.

IIRC, it was built atop a rebadged Toshiba laptop with orange gas plasma display, and included a glowing bar visual display for network traffic (packets? collisions?), with corresponding geiger counter sound effects.

A modern IPS LCD or OLED just wouldn't pair as nicely with the sound. (Analog gauges or Nixie tubes would work, though.)
by rconti | 2025-11-20 18:09:44+00:00
What does this have to do with System 7?

Operating systems have always used their own filesystems, and it persists to this day.

The only obvious exceptions that come to mind are iso9660 as a standard for CDs, and people generally go out of their way to use FAT/FAT32/whatever on USB keys and SD cards for compatibility with cameras or whatever device they're plugging the card into. But the latter is a choice users actively make to ensure the FS is compatible with the device, rather than a default.
by babypuncher | 2025-11-20 18:09:47+00:00
A file system and its files are a very simple abstraction that lets us organize these exact things.

I understand that some people get confused and overwhelmed by a directory structure, but I see that as an education problem, not a UX problem. I was taught all of this in elementary and middle school computer classes in the '90s and early '00s. Having this knowledge early on made me less afraid of my computer, made it feel less like a magical black box, and gave me the confidence to learn more complex topics on my own.

Computers become way more capable when the people using them understand fundamentals like directory structures and command line usage. I don't think either of these things are as difficult to learn as reading, writing, and arithmetic (especially if you already have a base level education in those three things).

If more "everyday people" just had a little bit more knowledge about these things, they would be able to do way more with their computers with less of a reliance on proprietary solutions that funnel them down whatever path makes someone else the most money.
by jampa | 2025-11-20 18:09:56+00:00
I used them. Compression is an issue in other protocols (sending via WhatsApp, for example). Another benefit is that photos sent by Airdrop get automatically backed up. It also works well in areas with poor internet connectivity. For example, some beaches have weak cellphone signals due to their surroundings, so when meeting friends, we generally use Airdrop.
by siffin | 2025-11-20 18:10:04+00:00
Seems like you're making a judgment based on your own experience, but as another commenter pointed out, it was wrong. There are plenty of us out there who would confirm, because people are too flawed to trust. Humans double/triple check, especially under higher stakes conditions (surgery).

Heck, humans are so flawed, they'll put the things in the wrong eye socket even knowing full well exactly where they should go - something a computer literally couldn't do.
by rcMgD2BwE72F | 2025-11-20 18:10:15+00:00
Of course, only because Apple and Google did everything in their power to prevent people sending files directly between devices. When you have a duopoly that splits the population in two parts and they can't send files between them, of course users will rely on messaging apps to share stuff.

Short story: I did a long trip across two continent with my wife. Me with an Android devices, her on iOS. We did backup our photos in our own private cloud but guess how we had to quick exchange photos while in the wild (no wifi and sometimes no network)? We couldn't. Because Google and Apple did everything so we couldn't.

Google wants to your data and fought for the cloud. Apple don't want Android users to easily partake in some data exchange with iOS users (you gotta buy your ticket to their jail). So sad you don't realize how backward that is.
by nickpp | 2025-11-20 18:10:50+00:00
> Define "small amount of privacy".

There is no universal measure for that, only each individual can answer the question for herself. GDPR is robbing people of that chance though.

> Is this a small amount

For me, yes. I already have a device in my pocket reporting my exact location to a private company at all times and I accepted that a long time ago.

> 96% of people opt-out

I bet they would chose very differently when the alternative is to pay or stop using the product. Just look how many people use privacy-destroying fidelity cards in supermarkets for some measly discounts.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-20 18:10:50+00:00
MTP is really, really bad. I have a better experience managing files on iOS devices using Linux than I do managing files on Android devices using macOS simply because available MTP implementations are so awful.

I know that read/write conflict concerns are what got USB Mass Storage mode removed from Android, but surely there's some way to resolve that. Like it wouldn't bother me a bit if Android just locked the device and put it in "file transfer mode" when it's mounted on a computer, similar to how iPods used to and how Kobo e-readers do now. It'd be worth the universal robust multi-platform support.
by kiitos | 2025-11-20 18:11:10+00:00
https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/grok-4-political-bias/

> Grok is more right leaning than most other AIs, but it's still left of center.

https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo/tree/main/examples/gr...

> Universal Left Bias: All major AI models (GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4, Grok 4) lean left of center

if every AI "leans left" then that should hopefully indicate to you that your notion of "center" is actually right-wing

or, as you said: reality has a left bias -- for sure!
by frankfrank13 | 2025-11-20 18:11:42+00:00
I meant that this event, like many events in American history, will be remembered through the lens of the party in power. At least for a long time. Only now are we beginning to understand Vietnam and Watergate, for example. I suspect the truth about Epstein will never come out, but what will come out will be made partisan by those releasing it, now or in the future.
by prasoonds | 2025-11-20 18:11:47+00:00
This is really cool! I suck at organizing my filesystem and I've lost track of how many times I had to find _that ONE_ PDF which I KNOW I have but cannot find! This would have solved that many times over.

However, at least for my use-case, this is a very infrequent problem. So, a monthly subscription and the security risk wouldn't be worth it. Though I'm certain there are people who work with files all day and for them, this might be god-send!
by Y_Y | 2025-11-20 18:11:50+00:00
I won't argue that the availability of payloans (or any other product) is a net positive for the rational consumer. I'd still be willing to bet that (ceteris paribus) a society like the ones we live in is better off without them than with.

(Coda: You might say that's impossible, and local loan sharks will spring up to meet the need. That's probably true, but at least those guys merely break your legs, rather than advertising incessantly on daytime tv.)
by throwworhtthrow | 2025-11-20 18:12:05+00:00
Try the PBS Kids app. The shows are consistently cast with good role-model children and adults, without being preachy. Many episodes show how to resolve mistakes, frustration, and conflict in beneficial ways.

In comparison, the behavior in the kids shows from other producers (Disney, Nickelodeon, etc.) sometimes presents nasty behavior and name-calling as either inevitable, or something that's "someone else's problem": the instigator, if they're punished at all, might suffer the wrath of an authority figure, or simply bad karma.

My intent when choosing shows is not to hide the existence of bad behavior from children, but to teach them how to deal with it.

(My children also read Calvin and Hobbes. And watch those less-wholesome shows. And binge-watch MrBeast when I'm not around...)