MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-11-06 14:53:03+00:00
> The meaning of a word is what most people say it is.

Interesting. Most people say that "gift" is a present. A much smaller set of people — those who speak German — say it is poison. That could lead to some awkwardness (even death). Luckily that's not how it actually works. That idea is logically flawed in so many ways.

> including non-owners whose job is cultivation on a farm.

Okay. Why, then, do you believe people are so concerned about the soybean farmers collecting a fixed wage? It is not like low soybean prices means anything to them. They get paid either way. Why would there be consideration for a bailout be extended to them on top?

> The speaker has failed to convey their meaning in their head, into words.

A rambling speaker may lose sight of what they were trying to say as the growing combination of words start to pile on, but a single word is highly unlikely to lose the intent. If you intended "foo" to mean one thing when you said it, you are still likely to consider "foo" to mean the same thing when you revisit what you produced a few minutes later. So, no, this is not true in any meaningful sense. The meaning is encoded just fine.

Third-party consumers may misinterpret it, sure, but that's their problem. It wasn't produced for them anyway.

> Your insistence that your attacks on other posters are okay because you typed them onto your screen is unfortunate.

"Okay" is found nowhere in said comment. Rather, it explains that what you claim is impossible. A computer screen cannot attack you. It goes on to speculate on what you did experience and that remains the most likely explanation.

> Please consult the HN guidelines on the matter

I see nothing in there about summoning a computer screen to launch an attack, I'm afraid. It is very possible that we do not have a shared understanding of words here (we've already established that as being so elsewhere). Your usage holds force, of course. You are the producer in this case. But that does mean I am in the position of being the consumer misinterpreting it, possibly.
by kyoob | 2025-11-06 14:53:11+00:00
From a game-theory perspective, if players rush the field with AI-generated content because it's where all the advantages are this year, then there's going to be room on the margins for trust-signaling players to advance themselves with more obviously handspun stuff. Basically, a firm handshake and an office right down the street. Lunches and golf.

The real question to ask in this gold rush might be what kind of shovels we can sell to this corner of hand shakers and lunchers. A human-verifiable reputation market? Like Yelp but for "these are real people and I was able to talk to an actual human." Or diners and golf carts, if you're not into abstractions.
by _-_-__-_-_- | 2025-11-06 14:53:13+00:00
I’m not intelligent. I’m average. But, I’m considered successful and live comfortably for a North American. I have a few university degrees, with secure long term work in my field, an affordable home, a dependable car and all the trappings of middle class life.

Am I happy? I spent my young adult years hoping that happiness would arrive after finishing university, buying a new car, supporting myself financially, starting a career, getting married… it’s less of a “moving goal-post problem” and more a existential “what’s the larger point to life” and “what impact do I actually want to make”.

Having happiness as this ever elusive goal was more an errant wish than something measurably achievable.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-06 14:53:25+00:00
You keep saying “the woke left’s” identity politics as the Trump administration uses the government to enforce right wing identity politics and stifle free speech. Do you also find that objectionable? Or do you think this is purely a problem on the left?

My guess is the only difference is you agree with conservative identity politics and not liberal identity politics, so one is seen as “natural and normal” and the other seems “manufactured and forced on people.” I could be wrong, but that is generally my experience in these conversations.
by credit_guy | 2025-11-06 14:53:31+00:00
I know it's very unpopular on HN to give the benefit of the doubt to either OpenAI or to the US Government. I'll do it anyway, torpedoes be damned.

First, the $1T number seems to be completely pulled out of thin air. There were recent speculations that OpenAI is working on an IPO at the level of $1T, but obviously this has nothing to do with US loan guarantees of $1T. The talk about US loan guarantees originated with the WSJ interview of the OpenAI CFO, Sarah Friar. She was very clear that she can't give any details, because nothing is concrete yet. She did not mention any numbers, at all. The $1T is pure speculation, based on nothing.

Second, Sarah Friar mentioned that the US Government is very receptive to the entire sector, and OpenAI is always consulted. But OpenAI is not lobbying the government for loan guarantees for themselves only. If there are any such loan guarantees (which is very likely), they'll be for AI investments in the US in general, so, for example, Anthropic and Google will also benefit (and probably Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Oracle, Amazon, Meta, etc).

Third, Sarah Friar used the word "backstop", instead of loan guarantees. This might sound like a synonym, but I don't think it is. She emphasized that the financing will be organized by the private industry; the government backstop is there to facilitate that. How could such a backstop look, so it is most efficient for both the taxpayers and for the investors (most of which are also taxpayers)? It could be some first loss tranches in some pools of loans, for example the first 10%. This way, the industry can raise $10BN, while the government is on the hook for only $1BN. Even more likely, the government will provide second loss backstop (the technical term is a "mezzanine tranch"). For example, they'll absorb the losses between 5% and 15% in a loan portfolio. The first loss will be absorbed by some speculative investors, who will be compensated by a very generous yield.

I also expect that new loans will only be raised if old loans perform well. Overall, I don't expect the US government to be on the hook for $1T at any given time, and I would be surprised if they'll be on the hook for much more than $1 BN at any given time.
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-06 14:53:34+00:00
Sounds to me like they were having trouble scraping Google, and didn’t want to allocate the man power to stay on top of it.

The main problem is that Google desperately wants you to run their JavaScript. They implemented a JS requirement a few months ago, but you could still pretend to be the Lynx web browser and then not be served any JS. Then a little bit ago they removed Lynx support, so that stopped working. There were a few other things you could pretend to be that still worked though, like an old iPod I believe. Then those were blocked as well, but currently there is still at least one user agent string that works.

Some of this I learned about from a proxy called 4get.ca. The guy who runs it is clever and has the energy (for now) to keep the Google scraper working. The caveat though is that he has a somewhat crude and demented sense of humor.

Even if all the user agents are blocked, I worked with him a bit on an alternative bypass which is a bit slow, and is based on my article in the most recent issue of 2600 Magazine (Autumn 2025 if you want to read it). If need be I can probably make it faster. He also has a bunch of Google CSE api keys and makes that available as a user selectable option.

It isn’t a meta-search engine because it doesn’t mix results together from different sources and re-rank them, it’s just a proxy, but as a proxy it’s pretty good.
by wouldbecouldbe | 2025-11-06 14:53:40+00:00
Yeah intelligent people are good problem solvers & they naturally assume you can solve your way to happiness by a thought, plan, new goal, idea etc. Where it's mostly about letting go & living.

We often also get attached to ways of operating that brought success in certain fields of life. Often subtly tying their self-worth & safety to this identity. This is hardest to see often, these subtle identities we create to navigate life. They help in certain ways, but then also limit us in others. If we become more aware of these patterns, we can keep them when useful, and take them less serious when they are limiting.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-06 14:53:41+00:00
That's not what "world-model" means: see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/world_model. Your [2] is equivocating in an attempt to misrepresent the state-of-the-art. Genie 3 is technically impressive, don't get me wrong, but it's strictly inferior to procedural generation techniques from the 20th century, physics simulation techniques from the 20th century, and PlayStation 2-era graphics engines. (Have you seen the character models in the 2001 PS2 port of Half-Life? That's good enough.)
by neonsunset | 2025-11-06 14:54:20+00:00
If anything, the Mono runtime is what prevents heavier (ab)use of SIMD types in the standard library, or at least it causes additional required effort to make it not regress in performance since it's nowhere near as capable as CoreCLR.

You can find the overview of relevant high-level types here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/simd

For low-level types and historical context: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-hardware-intr...
by gwd | 2025-11-06 14:54:20+00:00
"The Market for Lemons" has always been a thing. If the user can't immediately distinguish between "Looks good at first and is good all the way through" and "Looks good and gets crappier as you go along", then both will be forced by the market to charge the same amount; but the latter one can afford to do it at a price the former can't afford.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-11-06 14:54:21+00:00
We need PageRank like algorithm for "Trust / Human Content" to be applied directly to the source of such content. E.g. following all three channels are AI made. But all these content can be liked to an advanced AI version of audio based videos of Wikiarticles. If a video is providing just a summary based on established historical facts, even though it is AI based, how is it different than refering a thesaurus or dictionary? Aren't such videos making "knowledge" accessible.

FINAL Financial hours of U.S.A. just before the 1929 crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxiSOlvKUlA&t=1008s

The Volcker Shock: When the Fed Broke the Economy to Save the Dollar (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTvgL2XtHsw

How Inflation Makes the Rich Richer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDnlYQsbQ_c
by kalli | 2025-11-06 14:54:45+00:00
If you click a club its region and country should be in its detail panel underneath their logo. The region and country filters should show you just the clubs in the given region/country.

Demographic analysis would have been interesting I agree, but I didn't know of a good data source for that and it's hard to parse from line up data (especially in places one isn't familiar with)
by oblio | 2025-11-06 14:55:21+00:00
> How can infinite AI content be strictly awful if it forces us to fix issues with our trust and reward systems?

You're assuming they can be fixed.

> But damned if we don't have an interesting and engaging problem on our hands right now. There's got to be some people out there who love digging in to complicated problems.

I'm sure the peasants during Holomodor also thought: "wow, what an interesting problem to solve".
by whycombinetor | 2025-11-06 14:55:36+00:00
I recently asked grok-code-fast-1 to read the SST OpenTUI readme and docs (gave it the github link), and to write an implementation plan for an OpenTUI usage mode for my Rust CLI stdin/stdout app. It fetched the readme. Fetched a couple more doc pages. Response begins "Sure, here's the plan: I'll write a TUI using the Rust package Ratatui..."
by cgriswald | 2025-11-06 14:55:46+00:00
Anything sounds good if you oversell its advantages and undersell its disadvantages.

I find pods messy (they can stick together and break open) and powder simpler. Powder I store in a glass container and pour directly from that; never have to touch it directly. Occasionally I’ll have to push a bit of lose powder into the sink during transfer from box to container.

Powder is cheaper. Sure I save pennies per load but I don’t know why I would waste pennies.

Pods are overdosed for my washer and water and leave residue. I don’t want to use more of them. Powder lets me dose a load with much more precision anyway.
by taeric | 2025-11-06 14:56:00+00:00
Totally fair. I had meant that to be only concerning complicated assembly. Either some of the more obscure instructions or SIMD, in general.

I think my more general idea, that I was vaguely grasping towards, is that the style of programming that produces optimal assembly is already a different style than most people use. Certainly a different one than most people talk about using.

And fair on the CSV points. I definitely meant that to be in numeric heavy CSV files. Strings are a whole other beast. I put https://taeric.github.io/challenging-my-filesize-intuition.h... together a few years ago when I had this discussion at work the last time.
by jabroni_salad | 2025-11-06 14:56:27+00:00
Before buying any IOT devices, see if you can download the firmware from the manufacturer's website. If you can't, do not buy that product.

I like Shelly's doodads. They are easy to work with, you can flash their firmware with an alternative if you want (Tasamota is popular). They have a decent onboard scheduler and the only app you need is a web browser pointed at its IP address. They don't need internet access.
by scosman | 2025-11-06 14:57:00+00:00
I suggest the SenseAir sensors. They don't seem as susceptible to fakes, and auto calibrate when exposed to fresh air. Supported by ESP home so build is simple.

Any evidence the Ikea sensor are actual CO2 censors and not just cheap "eCO2" sensors? Lots of the "CO2" censors our there are just cheap VOC censors with an calculation to estimate CO2.
by burntsushi | 2025-11-06 14:57:27+00:00
> Given the “blazingly fast” branding, I too would have thought this would be in stable Rust by now.

It's the exact opposite. It's the portable SIMD abstraction that isn't stable yet. But the vendor specific SIMD intrinsics have been stable for quite some time already (x86-64 for many years for example). And indeed, those are necessary for some cases.

ripgrep wouldn't be as fast as it was if it weren't possible to use SIMD on stable Rust.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-11-06 14:57:44+00:00
Definitely will not be buying Matter stuff. Way too complicated, doesn't address the real problems in smarthome technology.

I usually take my smart devices with me when I move. It's a pretty expensive thing to leave behind for a new owner that probably won't use it anyways. If someone offered me extra to leave them I might and then I'd also leave a manual.
by _the_inflator | 2025-11-06 14:57:58+00:00
It didn't help documentation at all. I had to work with auth0 for example and their documentation is such a bloat, that I am already prototyping with better-auth.

No structure, outdated stuff marked as "preview" from 2023/2024, wikipedia like in depth articles about everything but not for simple questions like: how to implement a backend for frontend.

You find fragments and pieces of information here and there - but no guidance at all. Settings hidden behind tabs etc.

A nightmare.

No sane developer would have done such a mess, because of time constraints and bloat. You see and experience first hand, that the few gems are from the trenches, with spelling mistakes etc.

Bloat for SEO, the mess for devs.
by bluGill | 2025-11-06 14:58:03+00:00
> In Ye Olden Days, you go to the blacksmith, and buy some horseshoes. You expect the things to work, they are simple enough that you can do a cursory check and at least see if they are plausibly shaped, and then you put them on your horse and they either work or they don’t

Nit: that is not how it worked. You took your horse to the blacksmith and he (almost always he - blacksmiths benefit from testosterone even if we ignore the rampant sexism) make shoes to fit. You knew it was good because the horse could still walk (if the blacksmith messes up that puts a nail in their flesh instead of the hoof and the horse won't walk for a few days while it heals). In 1600 he made the shoes right there for the horse, in 1800 he bought factory made horseshoes and adjusted them. Either way you never see the horseshoes until they are one the horse and your check is only that the horse can still walk.
by mayaschirmann | 2025-11-06 14:58:14+00:00
We built Ray Security to fix one of the biggest gaps in cybersecurity: data overexposure. Most company data is never used but stays exposed. Ray Security predicts which data will be used, automatically adjusts permissions, and detects abnormal access in real time. We’d love feedback from the community on our approach and architecture. https://raysecurity.io/platform/
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-06 14:58:17+00:00
My friend, you didn't say they were wrong, and didn't point out why they were wrong. You got hung up on the trees and completely missed the forest. This is absolutely a critical discourse failure indicative of 202x problems in and of itself.

Putting away pedantry and word lawyering, stopping any attempt to trap a person so that their core thesis can be ignored, and actually discussing the core statement (in this case that 100 years isn't so long that we'd forget the details) is indicative of healthy engagement and good faith discussion. That's what we should encourage. As soon as you can put together some statements about the 100 year thesis, you're fine by me.

But for now I'm done reiterating my point and we should put this behind us.
by exabrial | 2025-11-06 14:58:23+00:00
I'm not investing in any smart home products unless:

* I can fully control them without the cloud on a non-internet connected network

* I can either pay for updates, or they have free updates for at least 12 years, ideally 15

If a hurricane or tornado strikes, or some dictator tries to tell me what I can and can't do, my devices need to remain under my command.
by leviathant | 2025-11-06 14:59:19+00:00
It boggles my mind when, despite my general avoidance of advertising online, I see the language being used. Call me old fashioned, but "viral" is a bad thing to me. "Addictive" is a bad thing. "Tricks" are bad! But this is the language being used to attract customers, and I suppose it works well enough.
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by pgedge_postgres | 2025-11-06 14:59:38+00:00
We just introduced support for the only vendor-neutral, cloud-neutral, CNCF Sandbox approved PostgreSQL operator (CloudNativePG) within pgEdge container deployments. Still 100% open-source PostgreSQL, hopefully easier to set up. :-)

Please let us know what you think about the deployment process using the Helm chart, we'd love feedback on how the developer experience could be improved.
by Brybry | 2025-11-06 14:59:58+00:00
For Win 10, I set this up a while ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy but the key was the `taskbar.grouping.useprofile true` setting. I think after that's set Firefox and Windows did some AUMID shenanigans on profile launch.

I just made a new profile as a test and this is what I did:

...firefox.exe" -P -> create a new profile (ie. "newprofilename") about:config set `taskbar.grouping.useprofile = true` (when I originally did this for many profiles I believe I copied prefs.js that already had it set) close and reopen that profile instance. I used ...firefox.exe" -P "newprofilename" but any method of launching the profile should work. It should now be in a separate taskbar group. Pin that new group to taskbar. Also modify its shortcut target to add -P "newprofilename" Now you're done.

Normally I also renamed the pinned shortcut to something sane and then I changed the icon. I took the normal Firefox icon (I think w/ GIMP) and just messed with the colors via saturation or something so it was easy to tell the difference. I remember changing the shortcut icon had some headache but I sadly didn't write notes.

Also, I didn't set grouping.useprofile on all my profiles, just the profiles I wanted separately pinned on my taskbar. My default profile is pinned normally without grouping.useprofile set.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-11-06 15:00:28+00:00
Neil deGrasse Tyson said a quote expressing a concern about the future impact of AI on information credibility.

The exact quote is: "I foresee the day where AI become so good at making a deep fake that the people who believed fake news as true will no longer think their fake news is true because they'll think their fake news was faked by AI."
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-06 15:00:44+00:00
He’s literally just giving his opinion. There’s nothing to argue against. He doesn’t provide much if any evidence for his claims and heavily relies on his “authority” on the subject to present them. Climate science largely disagrees.

One of the funnier points in this word salad is when he casually dismisses AMOC collapse without giving any real reason why then “trust me bro.”

What pragmatism?
by IshKebab | 2025-11-06 15:00:50+00:00
I strongly disagree with this. Obviously Rust hasn't had the decades of life that C/C++ has to give you weird niche libraries, but at this point the Rust crate ecosystem is huge and you have to go fairly niche before you find something where there simply isn't a Rust option. Usually you find something and it's a lot nicer than the C option.

GUI is kind of unique because it's a really hard problem - both a ton of work and also a bit awkward to make ergonomic in Rust.

> last updated 1-3 years ago

That's way too low a bar. I bet most of these niche C libraries that don't have Rust equivalents are similarly slow-moving.

GNU Make regularly goes 4 years without a release but it's still alive.
by thedougd | 2025-11-06 15:00:54+00:00
I really wish wall switches and dimmers were included in the first drop. I've long been in the market for affordable Matter over Thread switches with a matte white finish from a reliable vendor.

They need to cover all the categories too (single, multi-pole, dimmer, and maybe fan speed) so I know I won't end up with a hodge podge of brands and looks.

I'll keep holding out.
by microtonal | 2025-11-06 15:00:56+00:00
Or if you want something more of an appliance, some other Hubs with Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread + Matter support are: Homey Pro, Homey Bridge, Aeotec SmartThings Hub, and Hubitat.

I only have experience with the first three (besides Home Assistant) and they work very well (though the SmartThings hub is somewhat limited when it comes to device support, graphing, etc.).

I should also mention that with Homey Bridge the dashboard is in their cloud, though the Zigbee/Z-Wave devices are fully local. Homey Pro is also local. (I think they have a Homey Pro Mini in the US now.)
by kalli | 2025-11-06 15:00:59+00:00
Author here, this is good to know.! I tried to spotcheck the regions and countries, but wasn't familiar with all of them so didn't want to make assumptions (and didn't make time to research them thoroughly). Not sure if/how I could try to correct that.

> This is the kind of "lore" that's impossible to catch from raw data.

Agreed this project definitely banged up against those sorts of walls a few times. Still think it's worth trying, hopefully the information offered one can find outweighs any distortions it introduces. Maybe something that should have been explicitly acknowledged in the piece.

> I like the Essential Mix visualisation even more! It's such a shame most of the other ones appear dead due to API changes.

Thanks, happy to hear that. I keep meaning to go back to the essential mix one, get new data and apply some of the stuff I've learned since!