MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdasdf | 2025-11-25 16:55:19+00:00
>You're 'technically correct' but the total amount of land being created is so small as to be meaningless in a global sense.

By that argument we don't even need to create any land at all. There is plenty of empty or nearly empty land all over the world. It may not be as desirable as specific places, but i can assure you the cost to make large swathes of land inhabitable by humans is comparatively low.
by dmix | 2025-11-25 16:55:30+00:00
Sounds like they put zero effort into simplifying those rules the first time around.

Now in the new project they put together a committee to attempt it

> The main objective of this committee also includes simplifying the pay rules for public servants, in order to reduce the complexity of the development of Phoenix's replacement. This complexity of the current pay rules is a result of "negotiated rules for pay and benefits over 60 years that are specific to each of over 80 occupational groups in the public service." making it difficult to develop a single solution which can handle each occupational groups specific needs.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-25 16:55:52+00:00
I get what you’re saying here, and you’re right that other UIs will be a big deal in the near future… but I don’t think it’s fair to say “just” textboxes.

This is HN. A lot of us work remotely. Speaking for myself, I much prefer to communicate via Slack (“just a textbox”) over jumping into a video call. This is especially true with technical topics, as text is both more dense and far more clear than speech in almost all cases.
by echelon | 2025-11-25 16:56:17+00:00
> Launch Partners

Wow, the Krea relationship soured? These are both a16z companies and they've worked on private model development before. Krea.1 was supposed to be something to compete with Midjourney aesthetics and get away from the plastic-y Flux models with artificial skin tones, weird chins, etc.

This list of partners includes all of Krea's competitors: HiggsField (current aggregator leader), Freepik, "Open"Art, ElevenLabs (which now has an aggregator product), Leonardo.ai, Lightricks, etc. but Krea is absent. Really strange omission.

I wonder what happened.
by ggamecrazy | 2025-11-25 16:56:19+00:00
Be careful with thermal paper; they are notoriously full of BPA/BPE/BPS[1]. It's fine to handle them once in a while but don't make habit of it.

BPA/BPE/BPS-free thermal paper is harder to find than one might think.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
by fragmede | 2025-11-25 16:56:41+00:00
The iTunes music store sold music for your iPod, but we'd be ignoring history if we didn't at least acknowledge that was also the era of Napster, Limewire, Kazaa, and DCC. Pirate Bay, and later, Waffles.fm. Metallica sued Napster in 2000, the first ipod was released in 2001. iPod people laughed at the end of record companies and the RIAA while pretending to work with them. We all know that's not how it ended though.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-25 16:56:55+00:00
In this case. It's hard to make a firm rule because you can construct sentences with both words in them that aren't wrong-sounding, because the same word can be used in subtly grammatically different ways.

A good rule of thumb is to phrase the sentence as a question and see if it sounds correct. "What does it look like?" is fine. "How does it look?" is fine. "How does it look like?" does not. In the question "Like how?", "like" is more akin to "I said, like, what do you want me to do?" - I'm no linguist, but they do have a term for that use.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-25 16:57:02+00:00
Windows 11 usability is garbage compared to Windows 10. Windows 10 already had multiple desktops, docking(which does need app to augment), sandboxing, and the start menu worked. Further win 10 does not gimp the OS if not activated, doesn't require an online account, and has an identical update mechanism to win11.

There is nothing superior or even functionally 'new' in Windows 11 besides compute burning eye candy and embedded backdoored encryption

If Windows 7 had multi core enhancement, driver downloading, and updated libraries it would still be a superior OS from a weight of resources perspective.
by prewett | 2025-11-25 16:57:05+00:00
I was pretty unimpressed with _SQPR_. It's a nice survey, but she keeps saying things like "this list of consuls since the kings can't possibly be right". Ancient people apparently could not maintain a straightforward list, despite the thousands of miles of roads and aqueducts, the domes that people could figure out how to replicate until the 1600s, etc. This was the book where I realized that I am fed up with the modern hermeneutic of skepticism, or put another way, the modern historian's smug sense of superiority. They weren't stupid, and they wrote what they did for a reason (which might not be the reason you wished they had), and in any case they are all the evidence there is.
by anthonypasq | 2025-11-25 16:57:15+00:00
you cannot possibly do any higher level of analysis of any subject if you dont even know the base facts. its the equivalent of saying you dont need to know your times tables to do physics. Like, theoretically its possible to look up 4x6 every time you need to do arithmetic but why would you not just memorize it.

If you dont even know that the american civil war ended in 1865 how could you do any meaningful analysis on its downstream implications or causes and its relationship to other events.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-25 16:57:24+00:00
Really? How many handcuffs were clapped in the Too Big To Fail 2008 financial crisis? Why we think other large corporations with infinite funds would ever face consequences? This forum is funny in how when discussing the failures of tech seem to think it it is isolated from the rest of the corporate world, yet when discussing non-tech corporations are constantly lamenting that the corporate veil of protection is impenetrable.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-25 16:57:33+00:00
The mechanism is usually that the SSD controller requires that some work be done before your read - for example rewriting some access tables to record 'hot' data.

That work can't be done because there is no free blocks. However, no space can be freed up because every spare writable block is bad or is in some other unusable state.

The drive is therefore dead - it will enumerate, but neither read nor write anything.
by slfnflctd | 2025-11-25 16:57:39+00:00
I feel like we need both. There are mental/emotional experiences I have on the regular which there is no point in trying to communicate to someone else but still bring me great benefit. We need to value our alone time, absolutely.

We also ultimately derive pretty much everything we most value in life from our interactions with other lives, which is why I think it's so important to develop high-trust relationships with at least one or two other people so we can continue to grapple with the fact that we all have different perspectives, weaknesses and strengths and can usually learn more and get significantly more things done when we cooperate than when we're running solo. Which requires trust.

YMMV, of course. Some people can go build a cabin in the woods and live off the land and spend all their free time meditating and be perfectly happy. But that's not most of us. And even those people eventually get too old to keep taking care of themselves.
Ask HN: Have you used an LLM for grief support?
by mettakindness | 2025-11-25 16:57:48+00:00
My wife of 14 years recently told me she wants to end our marriage. One of the main reasons is that she has felt overwhelmed in a long‑term caregiving role: I have generalized anxiety disorder, and although I’ve been in counseling for years (EMDR, family‑systems work), take an SSRI, meditate daily, and avoid alcohol/drugs, I still sometimes panic when I think I might upset someone. I’m actively working on it, but this news has been devastating.

Emotionally, it feels similar to grief after a major loss. I've been crying a lot, have little appetite, and feel physically sick I'm in touch with friends and my therapist, but I've also been turning to LLMs for supplemental support, and suprisingly, it has been very helpful. It's strange to feel comforted by a machine, but it has helped me emotionally.

I'm curious how others see this.

Have you used an LLM for grief processing or therapy? What was helpful, what wasn't, and what risks are there?

I'm not treating it as a replacement for friends or a professional counselor, just wondering whether LLMs can be safely used as a supplement during a painful period?
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-25 16:58:04+00:00
> To me the solution is: Ban homework. All projects, essays, tests, etc are done at school on air-gapped machines or written by hand.

Rather: don't grade homework. Make the homework rather the preparation that if you did it seriously will prepare you for the test (and if you didn't do it seriously, you won't have the skills that are necessary to pass the test).
by bstsb | 2025-11-25 16:58:11+00:00
disclaimer: slightly biased as i've made USD from Roblox

it's really interesting to me seeing the debate around age verification from both sides. many Roblox developers and users seems to think that it's the end of the platform:

> Awesome! We love mandatory identity checks and age verification on every major social platform. Nobody needs privacy online. Thank you Roblox.

> No just no. This won’t work, this is too enforcing on the users and greatly invades our privacy

and then on the other side we have people saying it's a token gesture that doesn't go far enough:

> It could have adopted age verification before a wave of state legislation signaled that it would soon become mandatory anyway

my personal view on the matter is that, while age verification certainly reduces privacy, it was basically the only option left for Roblox to pursue - it's a move that absolutely will reduce child abuse on their platforms, and make it safer for kids to play online.

they also have one of the best privacy policies for age verification around.

(for context, they delete facial geometry immediately and store IDs for 30 days maximum. one alternative, Persona, used to hold IDs for up to six years, and currently have no set time limit on how long they keep other personal information)
by Pet_Ant | 2025-11-25 16:58:14+00:00
Physical play is nigh impossible. It means getting other kid's parents to let them out. And then you need to spend your full-time supervising them. Can't just let them out with their bikes on the streets.

I think the problem is that either you can give children freedom to explore the world, or you can make them accountable for their actions. Can't have both, and parents will protect their kids by not letting them get into trouble.
by grep_name | 2025-11-25 16:58:16+00:00
Interesting, I have never been diagnosed with anxiety beyond 'well ADHD and anxiety go together, ADHD medication should help' and then a kind of shrug when it made things worse. All these things are possible and are food for thought (I am not saying it definitely is that either). This is kind of US-medicine specific, but everyone I know who is being treated for anxiety is being treated via methods I'm not interested in unfortunately.

> For these people, it’s almost more physiological than psychological.

This stands out to me. I have lifted weights in the past, have not been well physically conditioned in cardio activity since I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 22. Cardio tends to cause my blood sugar to become unpredictable (or at least you have to actually be really rigid in maintaining your exercise patterns to keep things predictable). Maybe a bit of biking or running would do me some good. What would you do?
by api | 2025-11-25 16:58:34+00:00
I’ve come to see this as a general rule: trash maximizes engagement.

By trash I basically mean either porn or gambling. By porn I don’t just mean the sexual kind but also political rage porn, etc. By gambling I mean anything that exploits the kinds of dopamine hooks that a slot machine exploits. There are many variations of these things but those are the basic forms.

Those are the kinds of things you get if you optimize for engagement.

You also get more predators and trolls because those are the kinds of people who create the most engaging content.

This isn’t new. It’s been known since mass media was invented. “If it bleeds it leads,” the P.T. Barnum principle of “any publicity is good publicity,” and so on.

What I think is new is the degree of individualized hyper optimization two way digital platforms allow. They let us turn this so far up that apps on a little pocket computer can start rivaling cigarettes for addictive qualities and psychological harm.
by iteria | 2025-11-25 16:58:50+00:00
Here's the thing, my parents did forbid me: by denying me access. Kids have way, way more access to the internet than I ever did. When I was a kid, the only computer was in a communal area ans needed explicit permission by virtue of mandating that no one be using the phone. And then when I was older and we had broadband, it was still banned by virtue that my parents didn't think it was great for me to spend all my time on the computer.

My kid on the other hand, has orders of magnitude more exposure to the internet than I did. And it's far more private. Any chat I had with anyone was viewable by my parents by simply walking into the room. My kid has a private device she has 24/7 access too. The calculus is so much different and I say this as someone who is fairly lax in home much screen time my kid has and what she is allowed to view.
by saghm | 2025-11-25 16:58:51+00:00
To avoid splitting the discussion by responding directly to your comment above, since I have thoughts about this one as well: I've written Rust professionally since 2019, which doesn't have inheritance, so I don't use it at all. I guess my point is that I don't miss having inheritance as a tool in my everyday coding, and I actively prefer not having it available in Rust.

In terms of what you're saying here, the extra verbosity is not really something that either bothers me or is impossible to work around in the context of Rust at least. The standard library in Rust has a trait called `Deref` that lets you automatically delegate method calls without needing to specify the target (which is more than sufficient unless you're trying to emulate multiple inheritance, and I consider not providing support for anything like that a feature rather than a shortcoming).

If I were extremely bothered by the need do do `a.po.x` in the example you give, I'd be able to write code like this:

struct Point { x: i32, y: i32, } struct ThingWithPoint { po: Point, } impl Deref for ThingWithPoint { type Target = Point; fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target { &self.po } } fn something(a: &mut ThingWithPoint, b: ThingWithPoint) { a.x = b.x * 2; }

Does implementing `Deref` require a bit more code than saying something like `ThingWithPoint: Point` as part of the type definition? Yes (although arguably that has as much to do with how Rust defines methods as part of `impl` blocks outside of the type definition, so defining a method that isn't part of a trait would still be a slightly more verbose, and it's not really something that I particularly have an issue with). Do I find that I'm unhappy with needing to be explicit about this sort of thing rather than having the language provide an extremely terse syntax for inheritance? Absolutely not; the extra syntax convenience is just that, a convenience, and in practice I find it's just as likely to make things more confusing if used too often than it is to make things easier to understand. More to the point, there's absolutely no reason that makes sense to me why the convenience of syntax needs to be coupled with a feature that actually changes the semantics of the type where I want that convenience; as comment I originally replied to stated, inheritance tries to address two very different concerns, and I feel pretty strongly that ends up being more trouble than it's worth compared to just having language features that address them separately.
by fragmede | 2025-11-25 16:58:55+00:00
GNU disagrees.

> Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.

> Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-11-25 16:59:04+00:00
exactly. you specify types for function parameters and structs and let the language do it's thing. it's a bit of a niche to specify a type within a function...

There is a reason the multiple methods detailed above exist. Mostly for random iterator syntax. Such as summing an array or calling collect on an iterator. Most Rust devs probably don't use all of these syntax in a single year or maybe even their careers.
by int_19h | 2025-11-25 16:59:14+00:00
You don't know what it's geared for until you try. Like I said, GPT-4 could consistently encode and decode even fairly long base64 sequences. I remember once asking it for an SVG image, and it responded with HTML that had an <img> tag in it with a data URL embedding the image - and it worked exactly as it should.

You can argue whether that is a meaningful use of model capacity, and sure, I agree that this is exactly the kind of stuff tool use is for. But nevertheless the bar was set.
by scottlamb | 2025-11-25 16:59:34+00:00
> The WebKit post explicitly talks about how you just need two bits to describe the lock state.

It describes the algorithm but not how a caller of the Rust `parking_lot` crate could take advantage of this.

> Not impossible. One way to do this is to just use parking_lot directly.

By "just use parking_lot directly", I think you're talking about reimplementing the parking lot algorithm or using the C++ `WTF::ParkingLot` implementation? But not actually using the existing Rust crate called `parking_lot` described in the cuongle.dev article? That's confusingly put, and nextaccountic's question is certainly Rust-specific and likely expecting an answer relating to this particular crate. At the least, "does this use unsafe" would certainly be true with an implementation from scratch or when using FFI into C++.

I hear that this algorithm and the C++ implementation are your invention, and all due respect for that. I'm also hearing that you are not familiar with this Rust implementation. It does not offer the main benefit you're describing. `parking_lot::RawMutex` is a one-byte type; that six bits within it are unused is true but something callers can not take advantage of. Worse, `parking_lot::Mutex<InnerFoo>` in practice is often a full word larger than `InnerFoo` due to alignment padding. As such, there's little benefit over a simpler futex-based approach.
by AmazingTurtle | 2025-11-25 16:59:48+00:00
I ran "family guy themed cyberpunk 2077 ingame screenshot, peter griffin as main character, third person view, view of character from the back" on both nano banana pro and bfl flux 2 pro. The results were staggering. The google model aligned better with the cyberpunk ingame scene, flux was too "realistic"
by G3rn0ti | 2025-11-25 16:59:48+00:00
While I agree with you, I think, having cognition is not black and white. There are animals with great cognition skills especially among predators. Our brains are essentially anticipation machines capable of predicting the future — a trait uniquely advantageous when hunting other animals. We just happen to have specialized on this trait to the extreme (and otherwise lack good sensory organs or impressive innate weapons).

Whenever this topic comes up I have to think about this octopus who escaped an aquarium. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inky_(octopus)
by mock-possum | 2025-11-25 16:59:59+00:00
just another surface for predators to access underage targets. I guess one thing with Minecraft specifically is there’s a veneer of positive / educational content to smuggle that access beneath - schools have lessons that include Minecraft play, you don’t get that with Fortnite or Roblox, so it seems more ‘innocent.’

Fortnite is about killing eachother, Roblox is about literally anything, Minecraft is about… well, mining and crafting, mostly.

But really, with mods, it can be just as ‘anything’ as Roblox, only with possibly less scrutiny.

Idk. I love Minecraft, for the record. It’s just the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the popular online game that provides access to kids gets the creeps.
by luckys | 2025-11-25 17:00:02+00:00
I use Fedora Workstation. It's boring and less customizable than other distros out of the box, but I like it like that. I pretty much just add the extension 'dash to panel' and call it a day.

Microsoft has their own plans for where they want to go with Windows and it certainly is not catering to their users. The same could be said from most big companies I guess -- all about lock-in, value extraction, planned obsolescence. I see Valve/Steam as one of the few exceptions, probably because they are not publicly traded.
by gpm | 2025-11-25 17:00:08+00:00
This is like complaining that in C you can write

a->b (a->b) (*a).b ((*a).b)

Being able to use disambiguated syntaxes, and being able to add extra brackets, isn't an issue.

PS. The formatting tooling normalizes your second and third example to the same syntax. Personally I think it ought to normalize both of them to the first syntax as well, but it's not particularly surprising that it doesn't because they aren't things anyone ever writes.
by api | 2025-11-25 17:00:18+00:00
I do legit wonder about K abuse in this whole crowd.

Anyone hear any excerpts from Thiel’s Antichrist lectures? I’ve never been on the same page as him politically but this wasn’t “wow I really disagree” material. This was “are you… okay, man?” material. It was just askew and bizarre. I’m not a big Thunberg fan either but I cannot replicate the thought process that would lead to mentioning her as a potential Antichrist prototype. And that wasn’t even the weirdest thing, just the easiest to explain.

One thing I learned way back in college: if someone seems like they are on drugs, they may be on drugs.

Either that or these guys are in some weird echo chambers.
by yannickburky | 2025-11-25 17:00:37+00:00
We rewrote a large part of the code to make it more reliable and faster. I suggest downloading version 1.4, which just came out, to see for yourself (even if a few fixes related to Liquid Glass still need to be fixed ... by Apple). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
by supportengineer | 2025-11-25 17:00:41+00:00
That sounds like me when my parents made me go to bed instead of watching "The A-Team" or "Knight Rider".

Broadcast TV (UHF/VHF) was exclusive timed events which gave everyone FOMO, at least until the VCR became commonplace and affordable.

That gave you the ability to time-shift, as long as you could figure out how to set your VCR clock.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-25 17:01:02+00:00
This sounds like it's fun. However, I have to ask, why should the linux world cater to supporting 30 year old systems? Just because it scratches an itch?

You can grab a $150 NUC which will run circles around this dual pentium pro system while also using a faction of the power.

You obviously have to do a lot of extra work, including having a second system, just to keep this old system running. More work than it'd take to migrate to a new CPU.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/KAMRUI-AK1PLUS-Processor-Computer-Eth...