MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mettamage | 2025-11-22 23:06:25+00:00
I think I've met (or trying to meet) 5000 to 10000 women over my lifetime. I've been on 100 dates at least. While I was in relationships, I tried my best and hardest and tried to get it down to a science when the breakup would come as to why that is the case.

Oh, and learning to be playful by unleashing my inner silly goose.

For relationships, what works for me:

* Similar personalities. I can now intuitively see people who have a similar HEXACO to me in 2 minutes. Note, not everyone that has a similar HEXACO to me I can see, but a subset of them. I've never been wrong (I only did this twice). I'm high in openness, and it's easy to see other people high in openness. Then seeing how the other dimensions fall out is quite predictable.

* Same coping style

* Secure attachment style

* Ability to be reasonable, pragmatic and emotionally intelligent in ways that I characterize those terms
by t_mann | 2025-11-22 23:06:34+00:00
What I don't get, all this data is reported by your machine - why isn't there a tool/browser fork that allows spoofing a (fairly) complete realistic profile, with some sane presets like Edge/W11/Thinkpad or Safari/macOS/M4? Is it too complex, would it break too much, or am I just unaware?
by espdev | 2025-11-22 23:06:53+00:00
There is a common problem with Realtek ALC3306 on Linux (Kernel Bug 213159). This affects many Lenovo laptop models. For example, my fairly old Legion S7 15IMH5 laptop also does not work.

I'm not willing to pay $1000 for a fix (it's easier for me to buy a new laptop that will work with Linux), but $100 is probably okay. :)
by netsharc | 2025-11-22 23:07:23+00:00
Oh god, do we really want to have the smells of sex when watching porn?

On the other hand, I see an opportunity even without tech: porn star perfume collabs: Spray some Gukki Bloom and press play on that video to smell what the star was wearing on the day.

But I guess high-end perfume brands don't want to be associated with actors of the flesh.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-22 23:07:56+00:00
Yes I know about that theory. But it has problems.

When the US was founded, half of the states were slavers, the other half free. Guess which half prospered? The free North! Which stagnated? The slave South.

Did you know that the Slave South was unable to supply their troops? They were largely barefoot. The reason they were in Pennsylvania was to raid a shoe factory (but got smashed at Gettysburg instead). Towns and cities and industry sprouted up all over in the free North, not so much in the South.

The Civil War resulted in burning the South to the ground. Poof!

As for natural resources, why is resource-rich S. America mired in poverty? Why did the Indian nations never industrialize, and remained poor? Why did resource-poor Japan become super rich after being burned to the ground in WW2? Why did resource-rich Russia never become prosperous? Why did zero-resource Taiwan become a wealthy powerhouse? Why is resource rich Africa still stuck in poverty?

There is no connection between resource rich and prosperity.
by wahern | 2025-11-22 23:08:23+00:00
The best way to start cooking is probably with a knife, cutting board, an 8" or 10" skillet, and a small saucepan (i.e. little soup pot). There are pans that can work as the last two, but it helps to be able to have two pans at hand, e.g. for making rice while cooking the protein and/or vegetables, even if all you have is a single burner. And none have to be fancy. A cheap soft wood cutting board helps your cheap knife stay sharper for longer.

Outside baking, that's basically all you need, at least if you're alone. Cooking for two or especially a family is when you need more equipment as time savers and for variability, e.g. mandolin, pressure cooker, etc.

I'd venture to say this is how many people have learned to cook, and even how many avid cookers continue to cook.

If you're starting out, canned food and pasta is definitely your friend, not to mention cheap. You can start to learn to cook by boiling a pot of water for your instant Ramen, and frying an egg to toss into the bowl. Or just soft boil an egg in the boiling water and set side before doing the Ramen in the same water. Building meals around something packaged and precooked is useful and can help save money (outside beans and rice, fresh ingredients are sadly often more expensive than what you can cobble together from pantry staples).
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 23:09:29+00:00
In addition to the sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012832, German(y) wasn't a state back than but a much larger common cultural term. People living in different parts of Europe would understand themself to be German, even if they wouldn't be considered to be now by their ancestry. It was simply the cultural lingua franca of Central Europe at that time, the countries were smaller and quite numerous. People used to speak German in the same way as they now speak English.

I think the mobility at that time is underestimated, it was very common to relocate to a place where the innovation happens and the other great minds were. It was more common to tour through Europe as part of the Education, than it is now. Sure a journey would take a week instead of a few hours, but you also don't relocate every day.
by polalavik | 2025-11-22 23:09:40+00:00
yung leans interview on nyt popcast is good https://youtu.be/p1FF3r6raSc?si=Yq4kxIuQCUkW8IBr also his doc on Noisey years back was really good https://youtu.be/6wgFliyJ4Bk?si=B1DdlOQZH9NBsve1
by wiskinator | 2025-11-22 23:10:18+00:00
Oh hey, it’s the history of Indigenous people in North America (especially Canada and the USA) repeating itself in Greenland.

Make a biased test, call it impartial, then use it to ruin the lives of people who don’t meet some perceived standard.

Tell me how does reciting the alphabet backwards in a foreign language tongue mean one is a good parent?
by mettamage | 2025-11-22 23:11:02+00:00
On Tinder, after autoswiping 100k to 200K profiles :')

I wish I had the exact stats but I just got some crappy JS code from some Github website, edited it a bit and within 10 minutes the swiper was swiping. I'd then go meticulously go through every "match" (looking at photo's, reading the bio's, all of it) because if you only have around 250 "matches" each month (for each 50K women I swiped right on auto pilot), you can actually take the time. I unmatched a lot of them and was left with my real matches.

I met her in Valencia. She was on vacation and I was digital nomadding at the time. She asked me on a date and I was really tired and really didn't want to go because of it. But I remember thinking "you have to shoot all your shots and take all your chances." I'm so happy I did, she made me forget I was tired in a heartbeat and we were goofing around for the whole 3 hours, to the point where I realized I hadn't even asked one normal question and didn't know much about her haha (and vice versa). I love conversations like that, just fun vibes.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-22 23:14:42+00:00
My feelings are the same. Firefox is barely alive, and what little sustains it is goodwill and people not wanting to deal with Google more than is needed. Yet they keep on eating into their goodwill and do seemingly nothing to build it back up again (unless introducing AI features is somehow supposed to be that). Every bad feature implemented could have been a bug that got fixed instead, or effort to push back against Google. And yet they consistently opt to put their effort into features that push people away from them, and don't put that effort into things that would at least retain the people they already have. It's a lose-lose situation.
by dale_glass | 2025-11-22 23:15:22+00:00
The bubble if any is an investment bubble. If somebody likes using LLMs for summaries, or generating pictures or such things, that's not going anywhere. Stable Diffusion and Llama are sticking around regardless of any economical developments.

So if somebody finds Mozilla's embedded LLM summary functionality useful, they're not going to suddenly change their mind just because some stock crashed.

The main danger I guess would be long term, if things crash at the point where they're almost useful but not quite there. Then Mozilla would be left with a functionality that's not as good as it could be and with little hope of improvement because they build on others' work and don't make their own models.
by wtallis | 2025-11-22 23:16:00+00:00
Based on historical trends, that's never going to happen for any workloads where single-thread performance or power efficiency matter. If you're doing something where latency doesn't matter but throughput does, then old server processors with high core counts are often a reasonable option, if you can tolerate them being hot and loud. But once we reached the point where HEDT processors could no longer offer any benefits for gaming, the HEDT market shrank drastically and there isn't much left to distinguish the HEDT customer base from the traditional workstation customers.
by kxrm | 2025-11-22 23:16:05+00:00
So there seems to be some confusion around fingerprinting related to identifying characteristics and tracking. These are two different things. Setting your timezone to UTC, masks that one characteristic of your "identity". But there are better signals for location than timezone, like GeoIP. Same with hiding capabilities. All this does is make the web harder for you but it doesn't make your untrackable. Trackability comes from a combination of factors both within and out of your browser's control. If you share your IP with a family of 4, and you go changing your request headers you are only making yourself MORE trackable. The fact that one request comes across with UTC as a timezone and others come back with EST or other timezones, means I now can track a single user on this single IP. This is made worse if you and your family are using different browsers or different devices.

So what do we care about? If you care about being untrackable, then you have a couple of options, rotate VPNs, or cycle your public facing IP often. Additionally, every request you make MUST change up the request headers. You could cycle between 50 different sets of headers. Combine these two and you will likely be very hard to fingerprint.

If you only care about being identified, use Tor + the Tor browser which makes A LOT of traffic look identical.
by lxgr | 2025-11-22 23:16:31+00:00
> The response from the Firefox community has not just been overwhelmingly negative, it is universally negative as far as I can tell.

Insofar as I count as part of the Firefox community as a long-time user and infrequent bug reporter: I want useful, non-creepy AI features in my main browser, or it's probably not going to remain my main browser for too long.

Of course I also want them to be fully optional, but I have no reason to believe that they would be anything but.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-22 23:16:35+00:00
Measuring methods are also very different. I've had this argument before here.

Looking at the population of greater Melbourne has you looking at suburbs like Werribee, Frankston, Boronia, etc., which everyone would consider as a part of Melbourne (suburbs, outer, but very much a part of the core).

On the flip side, the "Seattle Metropolitan Area" consists of:

Mt Rainier. Bainbridge Island. Glacier Peak in Mt Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. Mt Vernon. Olympia. North Bend.

No Western Washingtonian is calling any of those locations "a suburb of Seattle".
Pursue Idea (Non-AI Related), but Have No Idea Where to Start?
by Ozernix | 2025-11-22 23:17:24+00:00
So...

I'm a new grad from a basic public uni. Some good experience under my belt (internships). But don't really have a huge network or group of people I can help iterate on my idea. I've built an MVP, showed it to some of the smartest people I know and have gotten a unanimous "This isn't shit, and actually provides value to developers."

But... I'm not sure where to go from here, It's an idea I built out of frustration with work and a way to just simplify my work flow handling distributed systems. I have no clue really what it entails really brining my idea to life. I think it has a good chance of being something that is acquired rather than standing alone. Again, though unsure what to do as it's just me, a fresh new grad, whose basically showing their shiny new toy to everyone I know.

project idea: visual monitoring for distributed systems, combines are your transaction into one place and provides feedback on better traceability for systems.

Looking for some general advice, I honestly just want to see where this goes lol.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-22 23:18:27+00:00
> So, where does the 2x price hike come from if not supply/demand?

It absolutely is supply/demand. Well, mostly demand, since supply is essentially fixed over shorter time spans. My point is that "cost per square mm [of wafer]" is too much of a simplification, given that it depends mostly on the specific production line and also ignores a lot of the stuff going on down the line. You can use to look at one fab making one specific product in isolation, but it's completely useless to compare between them or when looking at the entire industry.

It's a bit like saying the cost of cars is per gram of metal used. Sure, you can come up with some number, but what is it really useful for?
by __loam | 2025-11-22 23:18:43+00:00
Microsoft is saying they're generating 30% of their code now and there's clearly been a lot of stability issues with Windows 11 recently that they've publicly acknowledged. It's not hard to tell a story that involves layoffs, increased pressure to ship more code, AI tools, and software quality issues. You can make subtle jabs about your peers as much as you want but that isn't going to change public perception when you ship garbage.
by nickledave | 2025-11-22 23:18:58+00:00
Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language "that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown".

The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST. It literally has directives, roles, structural semantics, etc. It just doesn't have the unlearnable syntax of rST and the so-called governance of docutils (the de facto rST parser) (see e.g. discussion on https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8039 and linking issues)
Show HN: TriView Explorer – Multi-pane file explorer for deep folders
by triview | 2025-11-22 23:19:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TriView Explorer, a lightweight Windows file manager designed to make deep directory navigation easier.

I often work with multi-level project folders, and Windows Explorer made me open one folder after another, or juggle multiple windows just to see where I was. Existing alternatives focus on tabs or dual-pane layouts, but none showed Level1 / Level2 / Level3 / Deep at the same time.

TriView's approach:

4 fixed panels (L1/L2/L3/Deep)

Per-panel sorting (Name / Recent / Modified)

Grouped Favorites

Drag-and-drop between panels

Undo for file ops (Plus)

Last session restore

Fast, minimal UI (PyQt6)

The goal isn’t to replace Explorer entirely, but to reduce friction for people who navigate structured directory trees dozens of times a day — developers, analysts, sysadmins, researchers, and anyone with deep project folders.

Download (Free + Plus): https://triview.gumroad.com/l/triview_explorer_free

I’d appreciate any feedback — UI clarity, missing workflows, performance notes, or edge cases. Thanks!
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-22 23:20:07+00:00
My point is that the primary content at the top of the page has a byline. It's already vouched for, somewhat, by the reputation of the domain, or publication, or author. We have an idea of whether to spend our time investigating further. By contrast my rando comment (or yours) has nothing to recommend it but some opaque username. That's why I (and I'm betting most people) will scroll right past the "autistic weirdo"'s wall of text. And why I personally choose to try not to write that text.
by lxgr | 2025-11-22 23:20:12+00:00
Same here. I find it useful, and it doesn't feel like it took several engineering years to build, diluting Mozilla's focus from "just building a browser".

Actually, whenever I hear people argue that that's all Mozilla should ever be doing, I wonder if they really mean a HTML and Javascript engine? While that's important, browsers are more than that; the chrome matters too.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-22 23:20:41+00:00
You are only looking at 2020 and posting a source from 2021. Now look at 2021, 2022 and 2023. That’s the whole point. Sweden had slightly more excess mortality the first year especially amongst the elderly but they ended up doing similar or slightly better than their neighbours if you look at the whole pandemic.

They did significantly better on other metrics however like youth mental health and education.

I posted a ton of sources in another comment.

It’s not that surprising anyway. It’s not like Sweden did a weird and surprising experiment. They just stuck to the already existing plans designed to contain influenza while everyone else freaked out after Imperial College published their dubious models and started acting irrationally.
by tzs | 2025-11-22 23:21:27+00:00
I don't think the app will let you start a second order before you've picked up your first order, although I've never specifically tried it.

I once had the app fail to realize I had picked up my order and I was unable to do new orders. I ended up deleting the app and reinstalling it and then I could order again. That was a few years ago, though, and they've changed the app several time since, so maybe I shouldn't assume that an order still awaiting pickup blocks new orders.

Maybe I'll try it next time I want to use points and a deal at the same time and see if you can order while another order is still in progress. If that still isn't allowed, I should probably then try placing the second order on a different device (one on iPhone, one on iPad for instance) to see if the limitation is because an instance of the app can only handle one order or because some account limitation is the problem.

If that doesn't work, two devices logged into different accounts would be the next thing to try--that's got to work. I'm using "Login with Apple" for my McD account. I could make a new McD account using "Login with Google".
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-22 23:21:36+00:00
Oh yeah. He's been telling us for decades how technology will be used to oppress people. I guess he had the experience of how things turned out with UNIX, and knew first hand how hard he had to work to even have a chance at undermining them. What he did at a time was build something from scratch which was compatible with the UNIX interface. These days I would call that a lost battle.

Imagine if you said: I'm going to undermine facebook by building another social network which will be Free software, and will be compatible with facebook. I'll federate facebook whether they like it or not, and I'll do that by reverse engineering how facebook servers talk to each other. That wouldn't work because it takes you huge effort to pull off, and it takes facebook zero effort to change the interface in a tiny way that breaks everythign for you. (Ok the analogy isn't perfect, but hopefully you get the idea of diminishing something's value by forcefully opening it up)

But he hugely contributed to win a battle like this in the late 80s, then Linus Torvalds came in and finished the job in 1991 or so. RMS doesn't get the credit or even appreciation he deserves. I think he's one of the most tragic figures in the history of computers.
by sdqali | 2025-11-22 23:21:42+00:00
My old blog posts come up in the first page of search results for niche topics a lot, and it is very satisfying when someone reaches out to say that they benefited from it.

On a side note, after writing frequently for ~12 years, I didn't write anything for the next 6. This discussion came at the right time - it nudged me to publish two posts yesterday.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 23:21:45+00:00
> God you bore me. I'm not interested in having a discussion on the philosophy of art here.

You are not, but he is and made his comment in this spirit.

> Just say he's your favorite musician so far and be done with it.

Saying someone is your favorite X and someone is the greatest X are different things, you can think of someone as the greatest X and not like them (unlikely but possible).

When you say about a technical concept of your expertice, that X is the best way to do Y, it does not preclude, that there isn't a better way to be invented, or that exists elsewhere, that you just are not aware of. The same is true here.

I honestly can agree with lordleft. In addition he [Bach] is also (jokingly) called the fifth evangelist, at least in Germany. Not sure, if this remark is known elsewhere.
by MillironX | 2025-11-22 23:22:18+00:00
I've started experimenting with Typst for a few documents, and here's my stack:

- Zed editor with Typst plugin

- Tinymist LSP settings turned on to render on save in Zed, see https://code.millironx.com/millironx/nix-dotfiles/src/commit...

- Okular open to the output document. Okular refreshes the document when changed on disk.

It's not as polished as say, LaTeX Workshop in VSCode, but it gets the job done.
by wtallis | 2025-11-22 23:22:28+00:00
If carrying around a little bit of x86 compatibility baggage had enough die size cost to matter for Apple, then Intel and AMD would be pushing much harder to reduce their comparative mountain of x86 compatibility baggage.

In reality, the costs of design changes and validation and updating software to not rely on a newly-deprecated hardware feature can easily outweigh the potential per-chip cost savings of eliminating an instruction or two from a CPU core.
by jameslk | 2025-11-22 23:23:10+00:00
The steel man of your argument sounds like:

If we let states have more power, they may enact good or bad policies that others cannot as easily enjoy or escape because of their financial or family standings prevent them from moving. National policies allow everyone to benefit from good policies.

While this is true, the reality frequently seems to be that no bold policy is made or maintained due to polarization or perceived risk. Isolating policies to places willing to try them out is a better outcome. If the policy seems valuable, more states will adopt it

And if you have bad policies nationally, it’s even harder for those less privileged to escape them due to things like immigration laws, costs, language barrier, xenophobia, etc
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-22 23:23:32+00:00
Their Wikipedia page says that headcount is flat to increasing over the last 10 years.

The coop structure is a result of their bankruptcy in 2024. As I understand, this was the proposal that didn't involve any layoffs and it was chosen by the bankruptcy court. They also got a large de facto subsidy. The fact that they have run out of money again so quickly (the root of the article) is quite worrying to say the least.

None of that changes anything to the points of my previous comment.
by listenallyall | 2025-11-22 23:23:37+00:00
That's like asking "why would one car crash that lasted a few seconds change your driving habits for years?" - or perhaps your entire outlook on life, the consequences of not appreciating the things around you in the moment, the realization that life is fleeting, that maybe "getting to work on time" shouldn't be as high a priority as it once was, etc, etc. All it takes is one major shake-up for people to be changed, often for life.