MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mslt | 2025-11-22 05:54:40+00:00
Hi OP! I’ll share what I mentioned below in hopes of a response from you directly, because I’m genuinely curious to hear what you think:

Seems like people should be of whatever age we consider mature before they start capturing intimate data about themselves on random platforms. If we don’t think you’re able to understand the risks of pursuing your reproductive impulses, do we think you can measure the risks of sharing data about those impulses on a platform you don’t control?

Local data or not, if I were the steward of a marketplace I’d use that position to create this kind of teaching moment for pre-developed consumers. If young people had been warned since the mid 2000s of how much of their intimacy they were handing over to Meta, ByteDance, etc. before they started, the world would certainly be better off.
by stackghost | 2025-11-22 05:55:09+00:00
>Matrix algebra is the language of symmetry and transformation, and the fact that a followed by b differs from b followed by a is no surprise; to expect the two transformations to coincide is to seek symmetry in the wrong place — like judging a dog’s beauty by whether its tail resembles its head.

The way I've always explained this to non-algebra people is to imagine driving in a city downtown. If you're at an intersection and you turn right, then left at the next intersection, you'll end up at a completely different spot than if you were to instead turn left and then right.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-11-22 05:57:04+00:00
I always liked semver. Never have I liked just churning version numbers. It tells you exactly what a release is. Dont even need to look at release notes (which some doesnt have).

It helps a lot with these dev cycles.

Recently, I saw even EmberJS moved away from it. I still think they could've done it without leaving semver. Maybe I'm wrong.
by rasz | 2025-11-22 05:57:07+00:00
I also went hardcore hotswap route when uploading my first xbox launcher, followed by eeprom dump and decoding password from that. There are other hardcore methods available:

- sniffing IDE bus with Logic Analyzer https://hackaday.com/2011/04/28/ide-bus-sniffing-and-hard-dr...

- reading password directly from locked drive HPA (service area) using MHDD https://hackaday.com/2011/02/18/hard-drive-password-recovery... yes its stored in plaintext

Nowadays the second method is conveniently build into FATXplorer as a one click action https://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com/2024/05/31/fatxplorer-3-0...
by dyauspitr | 2025-11-22 05:57:14+00:00
No, this is just the definition of excuses. It’s very cheap and easy to cook and everyone in many parts of the world cook after 10 hour work days. It’s not the end of the world or really even optional if you want to be cost-effective and healthy. There’s only so much blame you can shift to society because this is staunchly within the realm of personal control.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-22 05:58:09+00:00
You can read it (illegally) here:

https://www.zipcomic.com/superman-1939-issue-1

And I dare say, someone spending 9 million clams on this comic book is more than likely going to have it sitting in a very UV-protected vault somewhere ..

EDIT: Sorry - I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com is infringing the copyright - adding this note to point that out, but I will maintain my original link as intended. Better to read it on DC Universe Infinite, if you have access, or maybe it’s available through Libby or Hoopla library apps.
by ksec | 2025-11-22 05:58:48+00:00
My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or something ). I also dont like subscription, and it has nothing to do with subscription fatigue, it is just the way I manage my money since before Youtube or Netflix took off.

And so far I haven't seen any viable options. And right now I use HN comments as more like a blog post.
by jjude | 2025-11-22 05:59:19+00:00
I have been blogging since 2003. My reasons,learning, and rewards and why I still blog:

- It is a personal blog = 1st audience is me. Best self-improvement investment I made - I blog for my present self: I blog about what I read, what I'm thinking about a topic, what I learned etc. But also I blog for my future self: the trends I'm noticing, how I should prepare and I am preparing - Since it is a personal blog, sometimes I blog about books I read, sermons I preach, technical notes. All mixed up. - This year got about 40k YTD traffic, which is not bad for a personal blog. Highest traffic came for my post on openwebui.

Benefits I've seen: - I am not selling anything or running ads. So there are no first order monetization - Since I blog about topics that matter to me (career, tech trends), I already have a clear thinking on those topics. So when they come up for discussions, I am able to speak clearly and with depth. That has landed me in promotions, faster career growth, coaching opportunities, and more - People share my blog post when certain topics come up for discussion. This has increased my influence and their respect towards me.

If you are interested to see how my blog has changed over time, I have kept a changelog: https://www.jjude.com/changelog/
by jongjong | 2025-11-22 05:59:48+00:00
Good article. I think the combination of information asymmetries and the fact that a lot of people have bad taste both play a large part. If you produce something of a quality which is above your target customers' perceptual capabilities, then you will lose because your costs will be too high relative to your competition.

This also creates a perverse incentive to use the media to condition your customers to have bad taste.
by soiltype | 2025-11-22 06:00:34+00:00
I'm sorry to be harsh, but honest question - What's the purpose of using AI to create toy software that already exists (eg. YouTube downloader)? Normally the purpose would be to learn how to create that type of software, but that's presumably being skipped.

Similarly... what's the point of blogging if you're not writing it yourself? This post is very long, but seems to basically just be riffing on the title over and over, at least by the 3rd graph. If you're not explaining anything and readers aren't receiving anything - what's it for?

I really am asking with curiosity even though it's probably clear I have an opinion on this endeavor. There must be a reason you've paid money to do all this!
by Rohansi | 2025-11-22 06:01:57+00:00
Yes, the Nvidia GPU in the Switch 2 is more powerful. But not the ARM CPU.

The existence of Nvidia DLSS (upscaling and frame generation) alone is a huge advantage over the Steam Deck, too. The Deck can't use DLSS because it's Nvidia only, AMD FSR isn't as good, and the latest FSR isn't even supported (officially) on the SoC.
by anovikov | 2025-11-22 06:02:53+00:00
Agree with this line of thinking, however with dating sites, i just don't agree. They are working as designed because their paying users are men who want to hook up, competing for a very small number of very picky women just because fewer women want to hook up and those who do, can usually do it without using apps. It's just simply a market asymmetry of supply and demand. And Tinder is explicitly not about relationships.
by hapless | 2025-11-22 06:03:02+00:00
Well, no, because Apple categorizes all of these things separately. The world is not subject to MPAA notions about "Sex" or "Violence" -- rather, Apple splits those up into "does this app have any sex" or "does this app have any violence"

The author has a problem because what he is selling is an app to track sexual activity in explicit detail, which is a huge privacy invasion, and Apple's normal screens are rather good at noticing that

The author of this post is trying to sell an app that is not explicitly prohibited by Apple guidelines, but it is offensive to pretty much anyone who looks at it
by holden_nelson | 2025-11-22 06:05:31+00:00
I’m thoroughly impressed with how you handled the comments in this subthread. As someone who was on and off antidepressants for years, I can say confidently that for every one person spewing vitriol and judgement at you for your parenting decision, there was someone else solemnly nodding and sending love to you and your family. People just don’t fucking get it unless they get it. Best of luck to you.
by silisili | 2025-11-22 06:07:29+00:00
It's pretty hilarious because your comment is exactly their goal.

McDonald's is laser focused on low income customers. They do not want to compete in the middle income space, as they don't visit as often and there's ton more(and better) competition.

Their CEO has been blunt about this recently, and trying to find ways to get low-income customers back. Dire straits ahead for them, they've priced themselves into a place they don't want to be nor will they be able to succeed in.
by valzevul | 2025-11-22 06:08:39+00:00
Hey! I don’t disagree that people of any age should think twice before putting personal data (intimate or not) into any platform.

My point wasn’t about lowering the age rating. The issue is that Apple doesn’t have a real category for this kind of wellbeing at all. The age gate itself is sensible, but what’s funny is why it exists. It’s not "because we carefully considered how to protect teens’ data", it’s "because in 2009 the Store was drowning in farting apps, and we’ve been patching around that ever since."
by nine_k | 2025-11-22 06:08:49+00:00
Sphere's surface grows as radius squared, but volume grows as radius cubed. Hence a small terrarium will quickly freeze, and a huge terrarium will eventually fry. There is an optimal size for a terrarium, given its orbit, that keeps its internal temperature within the habitable range.

Also it would need many more plants than animals. I would rather go with an aquarium.
by mdip | 2025-11-22 06:08:59+00:00
I appreciate you sharing -- specifically because my kids were Home Schooled until High School and attend Public High School, now.

I feel the same way about the value of early-years Home School and mainstream High School. Mom and I had agreed that we'd let them pick once they hit High School. That coincided with the end of the COVID lockdowns, so being lonely like everyone else, they picked Public School. Prior to COVID, I'd have put money on them remaining Home Schooled.

I did exactly the same things with my kids with regard to advanced math/science topics. Actual "sit down and learn time" was spent 80% on Math/Science and 20% on everything else. And I've found some things benefit being introduced way younger. Things like the theory of relativity are "accepted as fact" more easily when they don't stand in the face of 15-years of observation. It can be understood with cartoons and when the topic is studied -- in depth -- later, they're not having to start from "how, on Earth, does that make any sense?!"
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-22 06:09:31+00:00
> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

It's gimmicky and it seems the only people "impressed" or "mindblown" with AI content are boomers on Facebook.

Any time I see some obviously AI generated content, whether it be some LinkedIn-influencer type or some blog spam that got well ranked on SEO, I'm immediately disgusted. The internet is eating itself.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-22 06:10:59+00:00
I wouldn't be so sure. I've seen analyses making the case that this new phase is unlike previous cycles and DRAM makers will be far less willing to invest significantly in new capacity, especially into consumer DRAM over more enterprise DRAM or HBM (and even there there's still a significant risk of the AI bubble popping). The shortage could last a decade. Right now DRAM makers are benefiting to an extreme degree since they can basically demand any price for what they're making now, reducing the incentive even more.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-s...
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-22 06:11:24+00:00
Sorry .. I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com was illegal .. I’d assumed the copyright had expired[0], and checking on DC Universe Infinite isn’t possible, since it’s geolocked and I’m not in a country deemed worthy of it. It’s probably available in Libby or Hoopla, legally.

[0] It’s still copyrighted, although it seems that will expire in a decade or so, though. I guess I’ll read it then.
by stickfigure | 2025-11-22 06:12:14+00:00
I work with CHP helicopters as part of our fire district's rescue team. We pull a half dozen people a year off of one of the local trails (sometimes as "recovery"). Most of these are via helicopter. There are two helos for a huge area - Yolo county down to Santa Cruz county. By acreage it's a lot bigger than LA.

My point is, two small helicopters are more than enough to do that job as a side-gig from all the other CHP work they do.

Also, Cal Fire has its own air wing. LAPD helicopters are not equipped for firefighting.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-22 06:12:38+00:00
No, a wafer is very much not a wafer. DRAM processes are very different from making logic*. You don't just make memory in your fab today and logic tomorrow. But even when you stay in your lane, the industry operates on very long cycles and needs scale to function at any reasonable price at all. You don't just dust off your backyard fab to make the odd bit of memory whenever it is convenient.

Nobody is going to do anything if they can't be sure that they'll be able to run the fab they built for a long time and sell most of what they make. Conversely fabs don't tend to idle a lot. Sometimes they're only built if their capacity is essentially sold already. Given how massive the AI bubble is looking right now, I personally wouldn't expect anyone to make a gamble building a new fab.

* Someone explained this at length on here a while ago, but I can't seem to find their comment. Should've favorited it.
by jrflowers | 2025-11-22 06:15:39+00:00
> Hi, OP here. Not sure what else to add beyond the first paragraph of the article:

I would imagine that the confusion arose because they read past that sentence. You wrote that you don’t mind that the app you specifically made for adults to use got the rating that it did and then sort of talk about how you don’t find the rating system to be rational.

I couldn’t tell if the subject of this article is “I think my intimacy tracking app shouldn’t have an adult rating because a user could use it for general wellbeing” or “I don’t like Fortnite”
by ackfoobar | 2025-11-22 06:16:48+00:00
Just for the record, another one of his PRs was torn to shreds.

> some core developers (who are compiler developers by trade) are actually experimenting with and using these same tools too, but haven't suddenly turned into 13kLoC PR-opening AI superheroes.

>> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author?

> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369
by isodev | 2025-11-22 06:17:03+00:00
Loved the post. I think Apple has always been a little too prudish. This was fine when they were the smaller phone maker. Now today, both as a developer and a consumer you’re forced to consider Apple and their limits.

I remember when all dating apps had to move away from nudity without obscure hacks via the web. The entire conversation about sexual health and sexuality is now political and unfortunately for teens, their access to it is severely limited by old white prudish people who can’t even imagine a relationship with more than 2 people.

It’s never about protecting children though, that’s just a good buzzword they both Apple and politicians use that resonates with their audience without too much explanation. It gives a good feeling of effective policy even if it isn’t. It’s like “wokeness”, the “problem with immigration” and now … age verification.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-11-22 06:17:12+00:00
> If I were to google something and see the AI overview parroting my blog post, sort of almost kind of paraphrasing my words and shoving the link to my actual blog off the phone screen entirely, I think I would personally travel to google headquarters and start swinging a baseball bat.

This is the only sensible reaction to the abuses that huge tech companies are dumping onto society.

I do agree half heartedly with what you are saying. Making our own stuff and seeking out human-made stuff is more important than ever

It's just demoralizing because it is now also more difficult than ever. It should be the norm, not the exception imo and to me the future looks bleak and soulless.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-11-22 06:17:24+00:00
Have you not noticed the domain of the submitted article? Others are way, way ahead on that already.

(Including the submitter. In their comment history is "Tip: You can sell used server RAM or desktop modules through BuySellRam to recover value from old hardware." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800881 and all of the submissions of this domain are from this user: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buysellram.com )
by aniforprez | 2025-11-22 06:17:31+00:00
Are you saying it is "explicit" in that it is explicitly stating itself as such or that it contains explicit content? Because the former is honest and the latter seems to be untrue. Also you are replying to every comment here calling the author of the article a "disgusting pervert" and accusing them of a lot of things and I'm not sure it's adding anything to the conversation. It's a harmless journalling app
by hapless | 2025-11-22 06:19:43+00:00
It is, quite literally, a diary for your sexual activity

Condoms, lubes, and intimate apparel are not threats to children. If you found children buying condoms, lubes, or intimate apparel at unusually high rates, that would be very alarming. But, normally, they are purchasing these products for very lazy adults.

There is 0 use case for a person under the age of majority to use this application. It is only usable by a person being abused.

Precisely 0 adults have charged children with the mission of f... blogging sexual activity.
by nbardy | 2025-11-22 06:20:07+00:00
This is so not a problem.

After a long stretch of I just ask codex to: Audit the code base and event changes and describe the data model and all related and possibly overlapping functions.

Plan a new redesign that is simpler, has less code, more reuse and cleaner design,

Execute the refactor Review the code and asses new code and reaudit

… repeat

You can queue these up in codex and it will just go about its way reducing your tech debt way faster than an engineer could.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-22 06:20:15+00:00
> The competition for the best teachers should be fierce.

Our nation needs something on the order of millions of teachers. Competition for the best teachers would work great, if you needed exactly 1 extraordinary teacher. Or even if you needed a dozen. But when you need 40 teachers or more per school district... you're going to end up with alot of mediocre teachers, and more than a few godawful ones.

And, I suspect, that the thing not even extraordinary teachers can do is give a shit. Some teachers give a shit about some students, a few give a shit about many/most students, but even those few will falter in a career that lasts long enough.

Any why do they even want this silver bullet anyway, as impossible as it is? Why would you want a trillion dollar boondoggle that can't possibly ever work? The answer for that is downright frightening.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-22 06:20:29+00:00
Per HN's Comment Guidelines, I'd assume that Josh meant sorting students by both physical age and subject skill levels. The physical/emotional differences between 2nd graders and HS kids are obvious enough.

OTOH, one of my grandmothers spent her education career in a one room school house, teaching all subjects to grades 1-8. With the right social context, it can work very well.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-22 06:20:48+00:00
The article seems to perpetuate one of those age old myths that NAT has something to do with protection.

Yes, in a very superficial sense, you can't literally route a packet over the internet backwards to a host behind NAT without matching a state entry or explicit port forwarding. But implementing NAT on it's own says nothing about the behavior of your router firewall with regards to receiving Martians, or with regards to whether the router firewall itself accepts connections and if the router firewall itself isn't running some service which causes exposure.

To actually protect things behind NAT you still need firewall rules and you can keep those rules even when you are not using NAT. Thus those rules, and by extension the protection, are separable from the concept of NAT.

This is the kind of weird argument that has caused a lot of people who hadn't ever used IPv6 to avoid trying it.
by lightveil | 2025-11-22 06:23:11+00:00
the problem I always have with starting a personal blog is that-I want to write about my projects, but I also want to write about introspective life things. And I'm always fearful that introspective life things would detract (perhaps significantly, if they are too revealing) from employers/etc looking at me as a potential hire. This is not so much about politics (I don't find a strident need to blog about my political opinions (yet?)), but just writing about friends, life events, what I thinka bout those, etc.

I've thought about two potential ways of getting around this:

1. Maintain two separate blogs, one professional, one personal, make the personal blog pseudonymous, and put all the things I don't want employers to see over there. This seems fine, but also feels like too much work in practice? (perhaps the work is just of selecting where to put the post after I'm done writing it, though.) 2. Maintain one blog, and not care about market hire or anything like that. This...would work, but I'm not sure about potential bad effects because of this. I could just choose to write completely pseudonymously instead. I'm not sure.
by brenainn | 2025-11-22 06:24:42+00:00
My 64gb DDR5 kit started having stability issues running XMP a few weeks out of warranty. I bought it two years ago. Looked into replacing it and the same kit is now double the price. Bumping the voltage a bit and having better cooling gets it through memtest thankfully. The fun of building your own computer is pretty much gone for me these days.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 06:25:00+00:00
> Depression is caused by laziness and anxiety by hopelessness.

Others have responded to the depression/laziness part -- I was wondering if you could clarify what you mean by anxiety being caused by hopelessness? To my way of thinking hopelessness and depression have a lot of overlap, but anxiety not so much... It's more like a feeling of dread.
by paulddraper | 2025-11-22 06:25:35+00:00
> Silk–the app I’m talking about, almost reluctantly–is a wellbeing journal in the most boring sense possible.

Brother, the App Store listing is literally “Silk — Intimacy and Health Log.” Followed by the screenshots titled “Pleasure Patterns,” “Love Without Limits,” and “Spice Library.”

That is not — as you say — “a wellbeing journal in the most boring possible sense.”
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-22 06:26:59+00:00
>Let's take a trivial example. Person A is depressed because he is unhappy that he doesn't make enough money to travel and buy nice cars. Now take all the people who are unhappy that they cannot afford to travel and buy nice cars. Most will not be depressed - they will merely be unhappy about it.

These two words are semantically the same in your context. Unhappy = depressed. Unless you can define something measurable, and if you did in the comment above I can't find it.

I suspect there is something measurable, but I don't see very much attempt at discerning what that is. And without it, this conversation is pointless.