MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2025-11-24 09:25:04+00:00
This. It is insane the amount of pushing behind these products. I'm expecting my ballpoint pen to start prompting me to write nicer using AI any time now.

And the worst thing is not only is it being pushed, it is being pushed at the expense of UI/UX. No, Google, I don't need 'help to write' or 'to summarize this document'. I can read and write just fine. And the worst thing of all is that you can't turn it off because they'll just move it around every other week.
by kamaal | 2025-11-24 09:25:18+00:00
>>Why are women considered to be people who "wont contribute anything back"?

Not women in specific, but India has a huge informal economy sector, where payments, salaries, spending are done outside of the tax system. Most people who take these buses work in that economy. So you end up enabling that part of the economy. At the expense of people paying taxes. It wouldn't be any different, if men got free rides as well.

>>But also, why are women specifically traveling for free? What was the original argument?

Women as a vote bank, has been a growing trend in Indian politics. In a lot of states far more generous perks are given to women. For eg- https://cleartax.in/s/ladli-behna-yojana

By offering these perks, you are basically buying votes from 50% of the net voting population. So a lot of states offer these perks.
by pesro | 2025-11-24 09:25:43+00:00
I sometimes wonder if I have ADHD or something, but I’d only score myself 1 / 6 on this test. “Trouble wrapping up the final details of a project” describes me perfectly, but I wouldn’t say I’m in the grey for any of the others.

Maybe that’s because I’ve developed coping mechanisms though. I don’t miss appointments because I scrupulously write everything down, and I don’t fidget with things sitting down because I don’t put myself in positions where I can’t get up and walk around.
by dmcc7897 | 2025-11-24 09:25:46+00:00
In terms of capacity, it’s excellent.

In terms of size - I don’t know what they were thinking. I’m considering doing a 3D scan of the charger shape and trying to make my own. I’m sure every customer will compare it to the AirPod case. It’s small enough to throw in my laptop bag, but I won’t be keeping it in my jeans pocket anytime soon.
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by atomicnature | 2025-11-24 09:26:01+00:00
Willful ignorance is a different process. Consider a food analogy.

Of the food we take - cells accept a % of it as nutrients and such, rest is discarded as waste. The cells know how to get this job done - it's a very complex process for sure.

I think it's the same with information content - a % actually is useful for making life happen - whereas the rest should ideally be discarded because it is meaningless from a life perspective. The mind just knows what's important most of the time.

In this case - willful ignorance would be something like intermittent fasting or regulating food intake carefully, since it is a conscious process.

The former process is unconscious and operates at the "cell level" whereas the latter is a conscious process that operates at the "whole-being" level.
by XorNot | 2025-11-24 09:26:08+00:00
Conversely efficiency is a lot less important if it unlocks capability you otherwise don't have at all.

Antimatter is a unique element: nothing else can do what it does. The game changer would be producing industrially useful amounts for further experimentation.

(Antimatter chemistry would be incredibly interesting and quite possibly a practical way to actually use antimatter - shoot the beam into a reaction or solid matrix to do interesting reactions due to the electronic properties before it annihilates).
by Chrizzby | 2025-11-24 09:26:29+00:00
It’s obviously easier to start a venture when you already have a clear idea in mind. But in reality, a lot of people that want to be founders are the opposite: they’re eager to start something new, and only then go looking for a real problem to solve.

I’ve been asked many times by friends: “I want to build a startup, but I don’t know what problem to solve.”

Yes, there are ideas and complaints scattered across Reddit, Twitter, forums, etc., but there doesn’t seem to be one focused place where pain points and solutions directly meet.

So I built a small MVP: https://www.solvemypainpoint.com/

SolveMyPainPoint lets you: • Submit a pain point in a structured way (what’s the problem, how painful, which category). • See if others share the same issue and how they experience it. • Add or discover existing solutions/products when they exist. • Spot unsolved problems that might be worth building for.

It’s a scrappy side project (white-coat MVP, far from perfect), but I’d love feedback from both people with real frustrations and builders looking for something useful to work on.

If you have a pain point you keep ranting about, please try submitting it. And if you’re a builder, I’d really appreciate thoughts on what would make this genuinely valuable for you (better discovery, tags, subscriptions to topics, etc.).

Happy to answer any questions and very open to criticism and feature suggestions.

Many thanks!
by SllX | 2025-11-24 09:26:39+00:00
Right now there is no non-violent path to achieving that because Taiwan intends to violently and militarily resist if it comes to that. Probably with the aid of America, although I’m a lot less certain of that than 5 year ago, and it’s looking like it’s a lot more likely to be with the aid of Japan as well.

Also a success by the PRC would still result in the political destruction of the Republic of China and the subjugation of its people.
by t8sr | 2025-11-24 09:27:39+00:00
Two things:

1. I basically agree with everything you say, I only think the limit should be ~50-100% higher. Not 10x, but 1.5-2x.

2. For some reason, concise writing is the hardest thing to teach and demand consistently. I think a part of is that people try to hide incompetence behind a word salad, but also I think non-native speakers use more words than they need. It gets to a point where you either have to become everyone's English teacher or accept some amount of word salad.
by g0ran | 2025-11-24 09:28:09+00:00
"In 2025, Garmin announced that they would end their certification for ANT+ devices, blaming changes in wireless communication regulations. This is likely to lead to future devices dropping ANT+ support in favour of BLE."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_(network)

I believe that's what the author was referring to when describing it as failed, but yes, this could've been worded better.
by ArnoVW | 2025-11-24 09:28:13+00:00
Not sure what we are arguing here.

So we have established that the original point "the boss that you work for has power over you" is unfortunate but logical.

We have also established that a social safety net is a good thing, have agreed that it cannot be the role of individuals, and that we have delegated that to the state.

In the case of Australia, your example, it is actually a very sober system. There is no unemployment insurance like there is in Europe. In France or the Netherlands, if you lose your job and it is not your own doing, for two years your income level is sort of maintained (generally ~70%). Not in Australiaa. In Australia, if you lose your job, you go straight to the "JobSeeker Allowment", which is a fraction of minimum income. There are conditions to this allowment: you have to be registered as a job seeker, develop a job plan, apply to a set number of jobs or do a set number of trainings, volonteering, etc. So again, force is being used to get you to work, and if you do not comply, you lose (part of) your (already sober) rights. This is basically the same "basic income" that exists in many western societies.

And so now we're talking about university fees, which is another thing altogether. But OK, let's discuss university. There are two main ways that this is organised. Either the state subsidises basic secondary education, so that entry-level schools are (almost) free (generally still one months income per year, or thereabout). Generally this means that "better" schools are private and have annual tuition costs of upwards of a year of wages. This is for example the case in France.

In other systems, the state provides you a student loan. You may or may not have to pay interest over the capital sum, but it is still a loan. In some countries you don't have to pay back the loan if you finish the education. For example, in the Netherlands it is a loan, but it becomes a gift if you finish the education "on time".

In your example, Australia, is a "income‑contingent loan system". Repayments start once your income passes a threshold. The amount never becomes a gift, though if you never cross the threshhold the debt disappears when you die (well, your children pay it out of your inheritence, if something is left).

So, again, no free money: there are strings attached to incite people to work.

I'm not saying that this gives me great pleasure, just that this seems logical, since without extrinsic motivation it seems likely that a big set of economic activities would not be possible, for lack of manpower. Some day we may have a society of abundance, à la Star Trek, where money does not matter. But we are not currently in that society, because we do not have unlimited resources and energy?
by adastra22 | 2025-11-24 09:28:19+00:00
Yeah it's just a data store. I wish it was end-to-end encrypted, but otherwise it works pretty well as a drop-in replacement for YNAB. At least as well as you can expect in a browser -- I miss the quick-entry button in the YNAB 4 app, but that's harder to pull off here.

It is also open-source btw: https://github.com/financier-io/financier
by beardyw | 2025-11-24 09:29:07+00:00
Mostasem A Dalloul, a journalist working in Gaza, also came under fire from the Israeli Foreign Ministry when it accused him of spreading fake news after X’s new featured flagged him to Poland.

Dalloul responded to the claims by posting a video of himself Saturday mocking the allegations as he walked around a destroyed neighborhood asking if such a scenery exists in the middle of Poland.

X notes that the country or region flagged on an account “may not be accurate and can change periodically.”
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-24 09:29:37+00:00
That sounds like a bit of a lazy response. Everybody is complaining about Apple, but they are still 10 years ahead of all competition on some features, and 20-30 years ahead of competition on other features.

I'll mention what I personally think they should do in sheer innovation, which has the potential to have a larger impact than their A and M chips: A device with an e-paper display. E-Ink is almost there for black and white. Maybe Apple is the only company who can pull it off? That would be an enormous difference and benefit for consumers, who could better use their devices outdoors and in well-lit environments instead of gloomy offices.
by cybrox | 2025-11-24 09:30:49+00:00
I think there is value in knowing a term for the symptoms one might experience because it provides the ability to connect with like-minded people and potentially look into useful strategies to mitigate those symptoms, if they become problematic.

However, I do strongly agree with you that setting a boundary to "normal" and therefore implying these states to be abnormal and something that needs to be fixed is not helpful. We should be able to label a wide spectrum of neurological wiring quirks without nudging people towards changing them, unless it actually negatively impacts their ability to live a fulfilling life.
by gnubison | 2025-11-24 09:30:50+00:00
iOS repeated “learns” new words that I use that are misspellings of real words (because I mistype things in a predictable way). It becomes so convinced that it will autocorrect the real word into the typo. And knowing how the keyboard works, I wouldn’t be surprised if it enlarges the touch targets for the typo once it thinks I meant to use the typo.

The cause is obvious: Apple is training on what I type, not what I send. Apple does not consider that I actually care about the accuracy of what I send and will fix errors; perhaps they optimize for people who are careless enough to send typoed messages, yet niche enough to commonly use words not in the default dictionary.

It is infuriating that I have ~50 manual corrections telling Apple to leave words alone and correct certain typos to the real words.
by simonask | 2025-11-24 09:30:57+00:00
It's interesting to read this from someone who more at a more advanced stage of life, but I also wonder if there is a built-in assumption around diagnoses and treatments being potentially negative.

I think people seek out these diagnoses because they are struggling to cope with modern life in one way or another. I don't think its only a matter of attitudes ("everything must be treated"), but also the fact that the world is different. In other words, there could be two solutions: Medication/treatment to make life easier for the individual, or fix the world such that it can accommodate the arguably natural variance among individuals.

We're choosing the former, because the latter is just so, so difficult. But I think a world exists where the needs of currently medicated people with mild degrees of ADHD could thrive without any medication, and it sounds like a softer, more colorful world.
by kossamums | 2025-11-24 09:30:59+00:00
Grok 4 replied with this correct response:

Working on it...

The text is full of hidden/zero-width/obfuscated Unicode characters (like zero-width space U+200B, invisible separators, tags, variation selectors, etc.) that are used to bypass filters or just to troll.

After stripping all the invisible and non-printing junk, the actual visible message is:

*What*

That's it. The rest is just noise.
by elondaits | 2025-11-24 09:31:25+00:00
For over one decade now, maybe two, seemingly every big (or mid?) budget movie Hollywood has produced is based on existing IP: a comic book, novel, previous movie, TV show, or even non fiction article. I’ve been surprised many times by movies which seem original but are actually based on a French comic, or some other semi-obscure (internationally) source.

That tells me that ideas aren’t free. There’s a value to a fully cooked, ready to wear, tried and tested ideas.

As a second point, many good Hollywood pitches remain in development hell, unable to get a satisfying script, or a “second act that works”.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-24 09:31:39+00:00
> Nothing you've written challenges that Apparently your reading comprehension is low

> You don't know anything about it at all. It could be Ebola, it could be a total nothing buger.

Except that’s just not true. You’re just inventing scenarios to scare yourself and others. Covid is a respiratory coronavirus, they are extremely thoroughly studied and well understood. We didn’t “know nothing” about it. That’s just a total fabrication that you invented because you’ve been thoroughly trounced in this debate.

> What do you do in response?

For the last time, TARGETED PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.

> Do you stay open and infect your populace, or do you lock down?

False dichotomy, see above paragraph where I once again spoonfeed you basic common sense.

Locking down is the extreme position, and should require an extreme amount of evidence advocating for it.

Don’t bother responding. You’ve made zero interesting points, and rely solely on sensational rhetoric, accusations, false dichotomy, straw men, and ad hominem. There isn’t an ounce of logic or maturity in any of your comments. Thus, I’ve grown bored of walloping you.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-24 09:31:43+00:00
Would you say the same if it were as physical disability? If you were born without hands and had slowly learnt how to do everything required in everyday life via an adaptation, would you reject a prosthetic if it were available?

We know people with ADHD are able to manage. The real test is always, after they try medication, is their life easier or not. A lot of people who were adamant they were managing just fine before the meds report afterwards they didn't realize how much effort they were putting in on a day to day basis just to manage themselves.

And this is not some general trend towards overmedicalization. As the article pointed out, there are precisely two psychiatric drugs that have this statistically significant an effect.
by fragmede | 2025-11-24 09:32:22+00:00
Where it leads us, is to people with ADHD suffering less. Which, I don't know about you, but making fewer people suffer and for people to suffer less are basically the two driving motivations for life, so I'm in favor of it.

You're older, so you grew up in a different time, and you found your place in the world. The treatment means finishing projects, not needing to wait until the last minute to do something in order to do it. It means less stress and unecessary anxiety. It's helping people reach their potential, and not fall into the cracks.
by atoav | 2025-11-24 09:33:31+00:00
People who make these statements may or may not be ego driven. Not: everybody who says one of these sentences is 100% ego driven.

There are valid reasons to suggest use or avoidance of a tool, but there are also ego driven reasons. And everybody who has worked in any organizational context knows that. That guy may suggest to use Excel for a job that he knows require databases, but he is a wizard in Excel and hates to work with databases for some reason. So the ego driven part here is to instead of considering the needs of the project, he considers his own needs and potentially pushes them more than would be good.

Or the guy who says we should never use $X because he had been bitten by a thing programmed with $X in a hot summer night in the late 90s and he hasn't had a look at $X ever since. While it is okay to phrase such bad experiences, insisting on it for a whole team without real rational reasons or proper research can again be ego driven.

Or the person that just wants to suggest a new tool so they look as if they contributed without even having tested the tool themselves. The reason for the suggestion isn't that it would help the project, but one of gaining social capital.

Note that many of these people wouldn't even be aware of that, to themselves they would have perfectly fine reasons why they said what they said.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-24 09:33:32+00:00
While it may be true that cost advantages are in that specific quartz, it is not some irreplaceable product. It absolutely would be possible to use other quartz, which would require more processing and increase costs.

Do you have any actual examples of things which could not be in sourced into Europe? I am very aware that for many reasons, among them costs, semiconductor fabrication is spread globally. But is there an actual reason why it would be impossible to have every single one of these pieces in some capacity in Europe?

Europe is continually moving further apart politically from both the US and China. Relying on the US for supplies and betting on Chinese, Taiwanese peace seems increasingly foolish. How can Europe secure itself in such an environment, without its own semiconductor supply chain?
by mg | 2025-11-24 09:33:48+00:00
8.6 MB - wow!

There must be way more in there than just running Python code.

I once implemented a small subset of PHP in PHP (just enough to run the code I wanted it to run) and it took me 320 lines of code. The file (gloriously named php.php) was less than 10k in size.

Still, loading 8.7 MB is kinda ok. It takes about 2s on my pretty normal home connection.

Indeed, https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html loads a wasm that is 8.7 MB.

It also loads "python_stdlib.zip" which is 2.42 MB. Maybe that is the whole standard lib in compressed form? I wonder why they publish a zip. Browsers natively support all kinds of nice compression.

I guess there are leaner implementations than CPython?

https://pyscript.net loads a file "mircopython.wasm" that is 434 KB.
by sshine | 2025-11-24 09:33:58+00:00
> unless fixing a bug requires a significant refactor/rewrite, I can’t imagine spending more than a day on one

Race conditions in 3rd party services during / affected by very long builds and with poor metrics and almost no documentation. They only show up sometimes, and you have to wait for it to reoccur. Add to this a domain you’re not familiar with, and your ability to debug needs to be established first.

Stack two or three of these on top of each other and you have days of figuring out what’s going on, mostly waiting for builds, speculating how to improve debug output.

After resolving, don’t write any integration tests that might catch regressions, because you already spent enough time fixing it, and this needs to get replaced soon anyway (timeline: unknown).
by ArnoVW | 2025-11-24 09:34:34+00:00
We were talking about a boss who made passive aggressive remarks. And that it was unfair that people could not stop working. I just pointed out that the responsibility of the social protection could not fall on the shoulders of individual employers.

We have created trade unions, works councils and labor laws to protect against the most egregious abuses of power. Many countries have a social safety net. All of these are good things.

I just don't see how one can argue in good faith that "not working" (the original point) should be a human right, guaranteed by society without any condition. On a macro-economic level how would that work?
by businessmate | 2025-11-24 09:34:36+00:00
The FT reported that AIG, Great American and WR Berkley have asked US regulators for permission to restrict cover for AI related losses. This is not an adjustment at the edges. It is the first public sign that insurers view AI as a source of correlated misstatements that could trigger simultaneous claims across many organisations. That is the scenario D&O frameworks are least able to absorb.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-24 09:35:20+00:00
> However, I do strongly agree with you that setting a boundary to "normal" and therefore implying these states to be abnormal and something that needs to be fixed is not helpful. We should be able to label a wide spectrum of neurological wiring quirks without nudging people towards changing them, unless it actually negatively impacts their ability to live a fulfilling life.

Except I don't buy this framing that the two are in conflict. The more general awareness there is in the general population around neurodiversity, simultaneously the less shame there is about medicating and also, the greater willingness there is to accommodate each person's individual diversity.

Accomodations initially rolled out for diagnosed neurodiverse people: Like being able to control the lighting in your workspace, or being issued noise cancelling headphones no questions asked, also benefit neurotypical people who are also on the further end of the bell curve for things like that.
by devnull3 | 2025-11-24 09:35:25+00:00
There is a fundamental trade off between (1) Memory Safety (2) Zero cost abstraction/Performance (3) Ease of use

Rust attempts to solve this trifecta and that is where the complexity arises. If the problem at hand does not need async, then Rust has done commendable progress in dealing with the above trade-offs.

Async is in Rust can be hard because the problem it is trying to solve is hard.

All the above may be fine but when it comes to choosing the language in practice we need to think of trade-offs and guarantees that are suitable for problem at hand.

There is a reason why C++ reigns supreme in HFT and Gaming as memory safety is not super critical.

Disclaimer: I like Rust.