MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by autoexec | 2025-11-11 17:17:10+00:00
> occasionally we hear about how that means there will be time for other things that we want to do, but it kind of seems like AI is already doing all of the things that we want to do.

That's been the promise of every technology. Computers were supposed to make us so productive that that we could all work less and spend time with our families or whatever. Instead productivity went through the roof freeing most people to do even more work for our masters who started demanding more from us even outside the office while real wages stagnated. AI isn't going to make our lives any more carefree than any other technology. It'll just make a small number of extremely wealthy people even richer.

Thankfully, what passes for AI these days is pretty shitty at doing even basic tasks and so it'll be a while before we're all replaced. In the meantime, expect disruptions as companies experiment with letting staff go and replacing them with AI, get disappointed in the results, and hire people back at lower wages. Also expect a lot of companies you depend on to screw you over because their stupid AI did something it shouldn't have and suddenly it's your problem to deal with.
by Balgair | 2025-11-11 17:17:18+00:00
The image machine for him really is something.

Buffet is a bigamist. By all intents and purposes he lived with two wives. The legal status was not that of bigamy, to be clear. He married his other wife after his first wife died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

The personal section here is not exactly false, but is a great example of how one should not trust Wikipedia outright. A careful reading of it shows his lifelong relationships/marriage with two women at the same time.

Look, I'm not going to yuck his yum. Do whatever you want man. But the homely aww shucks image is very intentional. And very much against his actual life choices. Homespun he ain't.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-11 17:17:54+00:00
A reporter from The Globe and Mail, Nathan Vanderklippe, did a deep dive into the measles outbreak in New Brunswick/Ontario/Alberta/Texas.

see https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-measles-outbre...

or non-paywalled version

https://web.archive.org/web/20250922034906/https://www.thegl...

or if you want to watch/listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU4uTK5abQ
by kragen | 2025-11-11 17:18:21+00:00
Windows didn't exist in 01985. I mean, Microsoft did release a product by that name at the end of the year, but it wasn't an operating system.

I remember that in 01998 or 01999 I asked Andrew Tanenbaum, a different European CS professor, what he thought about Linux. His impression was still that it was some kind of hobbyist project for people who (paraphrasing here and reading between the lines) couldn't afford a real computer. So I suspect that, even when Caml became OCaml, its developers saw Linux as belonging to the same crowd as Microsoft Windows, rather than to the systems they were used to.

But even that Windows/Unix OS dichotomy didn't exist when the programming language was designed. They might have been thinking about Unix vs. VMS, or Unix vs. GCOS, or Unix vs. Oberon, or BSD vs. System V, but definitely not Linux vs. Windows.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-11 17:18:49+00:00
The SanDisk Extreme Pro is the best I've found for USB sticks (not to be confused with the "Extreme Go" which looks very similar and sucks). Just be aware that there are a lot of knockoffs, so be careful of where you source and test the speed of a large file copy (along with checksumming the contents) right after purchasing. The real drives always have a metal enclosure as well, which helps.
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-11 17:19:40+00:00
>You’re making the claim. Show me.

The fact that you are unaware of it means you've got your head-in-the-sand.

"Calling on Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19, Biden said, “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit and you’re not going to die.”"

Are those facts?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/politics/fact-check-biden-cnn...
by joshuamorton | 2025-11-11 17:19:56+00:00
The counterargument to this is pretty straightforward: what is being done in Midway blitz isn't democratic and is bordering on autocratic. We have a responsibility not to normalize and acquiesce to a transition to an undemocratic system.

Keep in mind these laws weren't enforced in this way for the past 50 years. It's difficult to accept that this was just democratic party disinterest in enforcing them. It really seems like no one wanted to.
by dahart | 2025-11-11 17:20:44+00:00
There is US precedent for training being deemed not fair use. https://www.dglaw.com/court-rules-ai-training-on-copyrighted...

Why wouldn’t training be illegal? It’s illegal for me to acquire and watch movies or listen to songs without paying for them*. If consuming copyrighted material isn’t fair use, then it doesn’t make sense that AI training would be fair use.

* I hope it’s obvious but I feel compelled to qualify that, of course, I’m talking about downloading (for example torrenting) media, and not about borrowing from the library or being gifted a DVD, CD, book or whatever, and not listening/watching one time with friends. People have been successfully prosecuted for consuming copyrighted material, and that’s what I’m referring to.
by AJ007 | 2025-11-11 17:21:07+00:00
Also easy to forget how much negative sentiment, on the opposite political side, there was prior to the vaccine being approved. The NYT had an article on how it would take 10 years for the vaccine to be developed and approved! Operation Warp Speed was a project from the first Trump administration. One could rationally blame Trump for the vaccine skepticism. It's arguable it never would have been rush approved if it had been someone else in the White House!

I wish I had cataloged all of the stuff I read and listened to in 2020. There are things where the references are basically impossible to find. All of it mainstream news sources. There was concern expressed in 2020 that the covid vaccine could trigger resistance to other existing vaccines, and that's exactly what happened.

Also worth name dropping one of the most interesting books I've ever read: _The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection_. Apparently so obscure that Amazon tries to auto correct the search.
by jmb99 | 2025-11-11 17:21:37+00:00
I think the "real" problem is not matching shutter speed to frame rate. With 24fps you have to make a strong choice - either the shutter speed is 1/24s or 1/48s, or any panning movement is going to look like absolute garbage. But, with 60+fps, even if your shutter speed is incredible fast, motion will still look decent, because there's enough frames being shown that the motion isn't jerky - it looks unnatural, just harder to put your finger on why (whereas 24fps at 1/1000s looks unnatural for obvious reasons - the entire picture jerks when you're panning).

The solution is 60fps at 1/60s. Panning looks pretty natural again, as does most other motion, and you get clarity for fast-moving objects. You can play around with different framerates, but imo anything more than 1/120s (180 degree shutter in film speak) will start severely degrading the watch experience.

I've been doing a good bit of filming of cars at autocross and road course circuits the past two years, and I've received a number of compliments on the smoothness and clarity of the footage - "how does that video out of your dslr [note: it's a Lumix G9 mirrorless] look so good" is a common one. The answer is 60fps, 1/60s shutter, and lots of in-body and in-lens stabilization so my by-hand tracking shots aren't wildly swinging around. At 24/25/30fps everything either degrades into a blurry mess, or is too choppy to be enjoyable, but at 60fps and 1/500s or 1/1000s, it looks like a (crappy) video game.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-11 17:21:41+00:00
While I think it’s a troll account, it is technically true that the rules around unsafe Rust are a little harder to get exactly right to avoid UB because you still have to uphold the much larger surface area of rules in safe Rust without any of the compiler help. C++ by contrast of course has fewer such rules and they’re easier to reason about but of course there’s no compiler warning when you violate them.

On the other hand that line of argument is kind of weak sauce because the vast majority of bugs aren’t in complicated recursive data structures. And you can always implement doubly-linked list in pure safe rust just with slightly more overhead by using Rc/Arc if you wanted guarantees (and you can also verify the unsafe implementation using Miri which is a significantly strong runtime checker than c++ where you only have ASAN/UBSAN)
by ericmcer | 2025-11-11 17:21:45+00:00
It's also hard to trust due to alienation. Currently society has this rigid demand for conformity that is fueled by social media/internet shame culture.

We continually see people online who step outside the line and are torn down by downvotes, comments, etc. And these cultural viewpoints lack all nuance so you are forced to either shove yourself into the box wholly or be ridiculed. Even if you are 90% onboard with the popular viewpoint, you cannot let that questioning 10% show. The end result is a bunch of people wandering around with their secret "bad" thoughts being driven further against whatever populist issue they should be jumping into next.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-11 17:22:05+00:00
"But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow like cancer ..."

Larger screens are better for advertising

Maybe there are more eyeballs on mobile than on larger form factors

Mobile OS are, with few exceptions, exclusively corporate-controlled. The corporations controlling the OS are enagaged in advertising services

Might make sense for them to try to increase mobile use for more tasks. Perhaps increasing screen size will help

I still have an old iPhone 4. Is it still possible to jailbreak and install some old software for experimentation. I'm not interested in using it to access Apple servers. All computers I own access the web through a TLS forward proxy. I see no advertising
by egypturnash | 2025-11-11 17:22:12+00:00
I am pretty sure the sign should read "you have to be at least this much of a nerd to buy this keyboard" :)

Or maybe "you must be at least this far down the rabbit hole".

If you're a total keyboard nerd then you will have formed Opinions on which switches you like based on the sound they make and the feeling when you hit them. Follow a keyboard nerd community like /r/mechanicalkeyboards or /r/keebgirlies and you will see people constantly posting videos of them typing on their new keyboards to show off its "creamy thock" sound. There's like a few dozen different switches out there and some keyboard nerd shops will sell you a little block of a bunch of different switches with keys on them solely for you to poke them a lot and decide what you like. Or you could just take the default option.

If you're a total keyboard nerd then you'll have a copy of the QMK source set up so you can make edits and shoot it to your keyboard with one keypress. Or an even more esoteric open-source keyboard firmware package because you have Opinions about that too.

Picking keycaps is easy: what color do you want them to be? Do you want a few extra keycaps in a contrasting color to mark the home row, WASD, various shift keys? Keys with astrological symbols, abstract designs, or cartoon characters instead of letters? If you're a total keyboard nerd you are probably fine with keycaps with no letters on them because you have a complex setup with a lot of layers. Maybe you want to go even deeper down the rabbit hole and buy a transparent acrylic key with a little sculpture in it. Maybe you care about the shape of the keys, too. There's a bunch of different possible profiles for the tops of keys, because that contributes to the feel too and some people like to have Opinions about this.

It's a really deep rabbit hole!
by MandieD | 2025-11-11 17:22:22+00:00
I used to joke that I made some of the most expensive socks in the world: 20 hours per pair, and I’m a run-of-the-mill IT ops person in western Europe - do the math.

I have decided to up the cost by taking up fleece processing and hand spinning. Even on the wheel, it takes another twenty hours to clean, comb, and spin enough wool for a pair of socks.

If I were doing this for income, I’d definitely get faster at all the steps.

As I pick up more of the steps in making clothes, it’s mind-boggling how cheap even “luxury” clothes like the 500 EUR pants discussed above, much less my sturdy midrange jeans (Tom Tailor, 60 EUR, pockets that hold an iPhone 13 mini, even in a ladies’ cut), are.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-11 17:22:34+00:00
I didn't mean that to be demeaning at all. I seriously urge you to implement that vision even as a bootstrapped side project to your main gig. If you want to "build something (you're) proud to sign (your) name on", chances are whatever you build will display that authenticity, which will either resonate with customers or not. People love authenticity, perhaps customers not so much. The market can be brutal and just because something is "better" or more genuine does not necessarily equate to revenue. You have already started a big part of your story, explaining why your vision is "better". Go ahead and implement something incorporating that vision, explaining its advantages to the market. At the end of the day, you will at the very least feel true to your self. A job may not give you that.
by efreak | 2025-11-11 17:22:45+00:00
I've seen a number of websites that don't like being in windowed mode on desktop, and the very occasional website that doesn't like my tablet (which has a custom width/dp size set). I always assumed they were related to media queries that were set incorrectly, as zooming or resisting the window (or on my tablet, toggling desktop view) nearly always fixes it.

Then there's the websites that have a menubar or other UI floating on top of the content it takes you to (this is far more common, and incredibly frustrating as I'm usually using either a toc or a search function and unable to see the content I'm looking for at all)
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-11 17:22:46+00:00
Your weight requirements are more restrictive than your size requirements. GSMArena's phone finder found foldable or rugged phones which satisfied size but not weight. And Unihertz phones appear well known where small phones are discussed but are not in GSMArena's database for some reason. The Unihertz Jelly Star satisfied your requirements. But the screen is smaller than the 1st iPhone's even.
by creer | 2025-11-11 17:22:50+00:00
> Draw 50

For me, "draw 50" series is about letting loose, NOT about skill. On the contrary, it's about exploring the space of all the different ways a prompt can be worked with in an UN-literal manner. Overall drawing facility will improve merely as a byproduct. The ability to be whimsical and exploit drawing flaws, erm, deliberately, is the real prize.

Different from "limbering up" exercizes like drawing your hand - where you do one at the beginning of a session just because it gets you started and in the flow without having to think or pick a "real" topic. (A similar idea is to leave some already decided work mid-done: when you arrive in the morning you can work on that and limber up and do something useful without having to think clearly yet.)

Different from thumbnails which are about picking a direction.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-11-11 17:23:14+00:00
The field has become absurdly and unrecognizably shitty (for me) so I retired at my earliest opportunity. If I was any younger I don't know how I could keep going with how the job is expected to be practiced now and how the net effect the field is having on society has gone so deeply underwater.

I still like to code for personal projects, but while I was happy to work for others for 25 years, I don't see myself compatible with it anymore.
by pron | 2025-11-11 17:23:58+00:00
I don't think it's true there was far less choice in 1995. Around that time (a few years later) I was working on a project that was half Ada half C++, and there were a few more exotic choices around. Aside from those, and C, there were still projects in the company back then written in Fortran and even in Jovial. At university, I learnt Esterel for formally-verified embedded software. And that's not even touching on the higher level space, where VB, Delphi, some Smalltalk, and a large selection of other "RAD tools" were being used (my first summer job was on what today would be called an ERP system written in a language called Business Basic). At university, the language I was taught at intro to compsi was Scheme (that was also the embedded-scrpting language we used at work). We were also taught ML and a bit of Haskell.

It's true that not many languages that seemed a reasonable choice at the time survived to this day as reasonable choices.
by kelseydh | 2025-11-11 17:24:09+00:00
Thanks for reaching out. I shared this benchmarking script with your team when we tested Tigerbeetle, but this is it again: https://gist.github.com/KelseyDH/c5cec31519f4420e195114dc9c8...

Was there something wrong with our test of the individual transactions in our Go script that caused the drop in transaction performance we observed?
by atmavatar | 2025-11-11 17:24:17+00:00
The reason for the reaction is that the random facebook and youtube posts aren't held to the same standard as government and scientific sources.

The moment some people see a single slip up from the latter, they distrust them forever, but you can show study after study debunking autism links, for example, and those same people either disregard the evidence or merely move the goal posts.

In other words: these people are intellectually dishonest. They start with a conclusion and will contort or discard any facts that threaten said conclusion.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-11 17:24:21+00:00
I'd say anxiety is a symptom of mental health problem like having a cough -- the underlying cause can be very different in people.

Since I was little I suffered from terrible schizotypal anxiety which somehow cleared up completely in middle age [1] I never got along with a person I knew who had panic disorder despite trying hard: some if it is that my anxiety makes me move towards dangerous things (I've been seen going into a building when the fire alarm was on) and his anxiety makes him want to banish every possible source of anxiety from his life but the more he does that the more fragile it gets.

[1] I don't know if it was Gabapentin, or a few years of attempting business developer, or meeting my "evil twin" or discovering my schizotypy or just getting old enough that I don't give a fuck.
by leoh | 2025-11-11 17:24:24+00:00
You are being a jerk. I don’t know what year you were born but the phrase “sell out” in the 90s would align perfectly with what I’m talking about here. I think he’s a sellout because he’s quite a jerk and going around making money on Khyber without properly releasing the source code per GPL.

So in my view he IS a sellout. You’re entitled to your view but don’t go around telling me or others they’re wrong, thank you.
Show HN: I built a tool that lets you ask questions on previous World Cups
by eportet | 2025-11-11 17:24:30+00:00
I built a tool that lets you ask questions about all previous World Cups! The dataset includes info on teams, players, matches, groups, and tournaments. You can just ask questions in plain English and get responses sourced by data.

The dataset was curated by Fjelstul and is available at https://github.com/jfjelstul/worldcup

To play with it login and click "Select a data source" and choose "FIFA World Cup" (we're experimenting with a few others too).

It's early and probably a bit buggy. I'd appreciate feedback on the UX, bugs, and what questions you'd want it to handle better. Happy to share details on data sources, parsing, and how I translate queries under the hood.

If you want to kick the tires, try prompts like: "How did Argentina perform vs France across their last three World Cups?" "Show me Messi's assists in knockout rounds (2010–2022, extra time included)" "Have any goalkeepers scored in the world cup?"

Or choose one of the generated questions that show up when you select the dataset.
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 17:24:35+00:00
hey, thanks for the follow up question dzonga!

To answer your first one, we're past ideation and are actively building the data room now. We have the financial data in-house for a large number of listings, this is about writing the code to present it in a secure and dynamic way.

As for where the data comes from, there are two main paths:

- The vast majority of our listings come from direct partnerships with brokerages. We integrate with their systems to sync their inventory, so the data is professionally vetted before it even gets to us.

- For the smaller number of 'For Sale By Owner' listings, it's a manual process for now. We check and reach out to verify the numbers, and we always connect the owner with a professional broker to help guide them, which adds another layer of validation.

So a good rule of thumb on the platform right now, if you see a broker on the listing, they've vetted thoroughly the data.

It's in our roadmap to automate the process for sell by owner case so that we can hook directly integrate with accounting / tax / hr software and present live numbers.

lots of work to do but making good progress!
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-11-11 17:24:45+00:00
This sort of reminds me of the Numworks, except this feels a bit more artisan (and expensive).

In high school, my friends got onto the Numworks bandwagon, and we even used them on the SATs and AP tests (they were explicitly allowed). To be fair, this is before Numworks locked down their calculators and the alternative firmwares (Omega) died off, but maybe there are jailbreaks now and things are as they were before.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-11 17:25:03+00:00
> What were these "lies"? Lying requires an intent to deceive

“In early 2020, Fauci and other public health officials advised against mask use by the general public, citing both doubts about efficacy and a need to preserve limited supplies for healthcare workers” [1]. That second part brings it close to a lie. (There was no need to advise against mask use.)

America fucked up thrice: the mask misinformation in March, talking down the lab-release hypothesis (which would have motivated right-wing nutters into being less selfish), and not regulating local jurisdictions who took specific measures (e.g. no public outdoor gatherings in San Francisco, or vaccine mandates in open-air venues in New York).

Otherwise, we did pretty well. And I’m sceptical someone willing to put their family and community at risk would see things differently if any of the above changed.

[1] https://case.hks.harvard.edu/a-noble-lie-dr-anthony-fauci-an...
by scosman | 2025-11-11 17:25:12+00:00
They made it, it didn't sell well. Last I checked zero Android manufacturers were still creating high quality small phones (<5.5"). The Android community has resorted to petitions like https://smallandroidphone.com

Some people definitely want it, but when not even one Android manufacturer will create a model when they can get 100% market share, it looks like there isn't enough demand.