MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-21 11:18:16+00:00
I respect Dennis Ritchie's accomplishments too, but that doesn't mean I want to encode his username as a retired unix username, and in free software projects it's possible for anyone in principle to remove that line of code and rebuild the OS.

I also think that, as important as Unix was for the history of computing, it's also outdated in a lot of ways that I think are holding back computing. We should be reconsidering the use of C to write an operating system at all, as well as the concept of a username in the traditional Unix sense. My ideal operating system wouldn't have `useradd.c` as a concept to begin with.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 11:18:24+00:00
> you're not allowed to buy a contract in Slovakia and then move to Denmark.

You'd be surprised: I picked up a French SIM when I was on holiday there years ago on a very competitive package (including on roaming)... it's still working and I have been living full-time abroad.

Is it "allowed"? Probably not. What are they gonna do about it, cut me off? Well godspeed and thanks for the years of cheap data.
by Loughla | 2025-11-21 11:18:24+00:00
Growing up on a farm taught me that animals are absolutely able to think and learn. Not in the same way as humans, but I'm fully convinced there are degrees of consciousness.

Watching new calves play in spring meadows is one of the most purely joyful things you can ever see. They have best friends and will avoid playing with other calves until their friend comes to play with them.
by joshuaissac | 2025-11-21 11:18:50+00:00
Until reading this thread, I had no idea that iPhones did not support Bluetooth for file transfer. I had expected comments like "we can do this with an entry-level phone via Bluetooth already".

On the other hand, with the ubiquity of always-on Internet access and cheap data plans, in most situations where Bluetooth would have been used, I now see WhatsApp being used instead.
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-21 11:20:34+00:00
The Honda I drove as a teen could be significantly disassembled with a 10mm and a couple screwdrivers.

I rear ended someone with a tow hitch, busted the rad an AC condenser and the shop wanted $300 to fix it (tells you how old I am).

I replaced them myself and I still remember the list of tools I needed - slot screwdriver, cross screwdriver, pliers, 10mm socket on an extension on a ratchet.That's it.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-11-21 11:20:54+00:00
I have updated and tried to run something. There are apparently three-chunk ids and two-chunk ids. two-chunk ids work. Three-chunk ids don't.

atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/reddit-grab

I cannot install this one to Proxmox VE, for instance

UPD. Query tag fails, but fetch is successful if I write "latest" tag
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-21 11:21:08+00:00
1) Hence why i put “quitting” in quotes, I certainly still use YouTube,

2) but even as such I don’t consider HN to be a social media platform. It’s more of an RSS feed/forum + comments. Sure it’s a social media platform in the clinical definition. But there are no dark patterns AFAICT, no explicit advertisements to support funding, no corporate-powered psy-op campaigns to sway public opinion.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 11:21:23+00:00
> Ideally it wouldn’t need to be enforced at all, because companies would comply with it

The non-compliance is a result of the lack of enforcement. If it went into effect and a few fines were handed down the next day for non-compliant consent flows, you can bet everyone else would quickly go into compliance.

But that effectively never happened, and the probability of getting fined for a non-compliant consent flow appears to be less than winning the lottery, so of course everyone just ignores the regulation.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-21 11:21:35+00:00
> No, if that was my position, you would've found out by me saying that was my position.

That was the contrary to the thing you were originally incredulous about.

> Why would they have such an incentive?

Why would members of the government have a structural incentive to pass laws at the behest of special interests? Because they get money for it.

> It really isn't. Its expensive to test cars, and its also necessary for safety.

If it's worth more to the public than it costs then the public should pay for it. If it isn't worth more than it costs then it shouldn't be done. Why would either of these be a problem?

> Yes, which get codified as regulation.

If the bank takes your money and loses it at the casino, they're going to be in trouble, and they're supposed to be in trouble.

If the bank takes your money and it's all still in the vault and was never at any risk, but the government wants to punish them for letting you open an account in the name of your dog, or for not filing enough suspicious activity reports even if it requires filing them against innocent people, the government is wrong and the bank should not be in trouble for that.

> Again, if my argument was something you would find out.

Apparently I wouldn't, because there are only three options and you're not revealing which one you believe. Is it:

a) an unfunded mandate

b) not mandated

c) the government is funding it

That is the entire solution space, it has to be at least one of those, so which one is your position?
by torginus | 2025-11-21 11:22:22+00:00
It's not like before Thalidomide companies were just cool with putting baby-mutating pills on the market. There were existing regulations, and concerned voices, but those were ignored or silenced. Even after concrete proof of harm was obtained, the medication was continued to be sold in some places.

Diesel is another one of these stories - with dieselgate being Act 2 of the whole diesel scam - diesel was pushed as clean because it performed better on traditional tests of environmental impact gasoline was subjected to.

Any chemist with half a brain would've told you that's because it produces different combustion products, which are in turn, not measured.

Dieselgate was merely an attempt to continue the scam which shouldn't have been started in the first place.

And strict regulation more often than not, favors the established players who don't have to comply with it - example is housing, where construction of new housing is subject to rules old houses are not needed to comply with - artificially limiting the ability to solve the housing crisis while pushing up prices.

Various emissions and safety regulations in the auto industry were also basically straight up scams - they drove buyers towards more complex and less reliable, but more expensive to repair cars, and unfairly favored large vehicles which had an easier time complying with them.

The various driver assist safety systems were also found to not lower accident rates to justify their existence - and are universally hated by drivers everywhere.

Many people nowadays express the sentiment that they'd rather keep their old car around and drive it into the ground before purchasing a new one for these reasons.
by ponyous | 2025-11-21 11:22:44+00:00
There was quite a bit of interest in the 3D modeling data when Gemini 3 was released[0]. So I have decided to write about my findings.

It's the first time ever I am submitting a link to my AI 3D Modeling software (even if it's just a blog post), so I would appreciate any feedback - or request for other data you may want to see.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968426
by lesuorac | 2025-11-21 11:23:06+00:00
But I'm never at exactly 1 atm plus the government dumps copious amounts of salt so water never actually freezes at 0°C plus so long as I memorize that 32°F is freezing it's exactly the same as memorizing 0°C is freezing.

I would say the nice thing about the metric system is as long as you convert into a base unit (i.e. Meters, Seconds, etc) then you can easily convert stuff around. But you can't! Metric uses Kilograms not Grams all the time for things like Force (Kg *m/s^2). So I still have the same problem as imperial units ...

It's just whatever your familiar with.
Show HN: Gempix2 – A Cheap, Fast AI Image Generation API for Developers
by bingbing123 | 2025-11-21 11:23:20+00:00
I built Gempix2, a minimal AI image generation service with a cheap, straightforward API for developers who don’t want to pay OpenAI / Midjourney level pricing.

Why I built this

A lot of devs just need a reliable and inexpensive API to generate: • product images • marketing visuals • anime / portrait styles • automation workflow assets (Zapier / n8n / Python scripts)

But most services are either too expensive, rate-limited, or complicated for simple scripting. So I built a smaller alternative.

What’s different • Very cheap per-image (affordable for indie projects + bulk use) • Fast generation • Simple REST API • No watermark • No weird rate limits • Supports realistic, anime, product, and artistic styles I built Gempix2, a minimal AI image generation service with a cheap, straightforward API for developers who don’t want to pay OpenAI / Midjourney level pricing.

https://gempix2.us/ (API docs available on the site — if you want I can write a clean Swagger/OpenAPI version.)

Why I built this

A lot of devs just need a reliable and inexpensive API to generate: • product images • marketing visuals • anime / portrait styles • automation workflow assets (Zapier / n8n / Python scripts)

But most services are either too expensive, rate-limited, or complicated for simple scripting. So I built a smaller alternative.

What’s different • Very cheap per-image (affordable for indie projects + bulk use) • Fast generation • Simple REST API • No watermark • No weird rate limits • Supports realistic, anime, product, and artistic styles I built Gempix2, a minimal AI image generation service with a cheap, straightforward API for developers who don’t want to pay OpenAI / Midjourney level pricing.

https://gempix2.us/ (API docs available on the site — if you want I can write a clean Swagger/OpenAPI version.)

Why I built this

A lot of devs just need a reliable and inexpensive API to generate: • product images • marketing visuals • anime / portrait styles • automation workflow assets (Zapier / n8n / Python scripts)

But most services are either too expensive, rate-limited, or complicated for simple scripting. So I built a smaller alternative.

What’s different • Very cheap per-image (affordable for indie projects + bulk use) • Fast generation • Simple REST API • No watermark • No weird rate limits • Supports realistic, anime, product, and artistic styles
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 11:24:41+00:00
> Apple doesn't fuck around - they've kicked Meta and Epic without blinking an eye.

Sorry what?

Everyone lies on those "privacy nutrition labels" on the App Store listings and gets away with it, and everyone is free to embed dozens of analytics/tracking SDKs in their app that track the user by fingerprinting and IP address.

Apple doesn't care. If Apple cared, they could simply say that all apps must comply with the laws of the locale they are distributed in - which they do for things like copyright infringement, etc - and thus ban Meta and most their competitors all the way back in 2018 when the GDPR went into effect. But they didn't.
by purple_turtle | 2025-11-21 11:25:20+00:00
Less regulation is a good target.

Just not sole one.

Harm reduction (a good reason for regulation) also needs to be balanced with it.

But piles of regulation have costs - both in reduction of competitiveness, increasing expenses, reducing willingness of people to follow and support it and so on.

Regulation is bad, just it is often less bad than alternatives.

But reducing amount of regulation is a good goal.

Otherwise you end in situation where you need lawyer to understand anything, you are not allowed to throw torn socks into garbage and general population applauds people breaking law and happily support it.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-21 11:25:37+00:00
While an individual license is 25¢ [0], $25MM is a somewhat sizeable amount of money for any company.

However, I'd personally accept to be able to buy my own license and enable the hardware a-la Raspberry Pi fashion.

Moreover, this is done on more expensive, business notebooks as well, which are both more expensive and used by the people who knows about this stuff.

The executives who made these decisions are not the most informed or the most brilliant, I assume.

[0]: https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/hevc-vvc/#license-fees
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-11-21 11:25:48+00:00
Hi there, At the top of the website, you should be able to choose euros or dollars and the VAT rate. When people become customers and create a full customer account, we ask them to choose between euros or dollars, and then using the customer's location from their account, we automatically apply the correct VAT. So customers see the correct price on the interface where customers create their orders. But you may have to set it manually on the website. --Katie
by duskdozer | 2025-11-21 11:26:36+00:00
"x/100 chance of y winning" for a single event just doesn't really have much meaning or value. if it predicted a 99/100 chance of a Harris victory, Trump winning is still compatible with that model. and despite the presumed urge to say it was inaccurate, it in fact could have been exactly right, but simply that the rare outcome happened. if it instead was predicting a vote share of 99% to 1%, then yeah you could consider that a poor model
by maccard | 2025-11-21 11:27:07+00:00
I could have written 4x the amount on Right to Roam, but I didn't. My point is that it changes how landowners treat their land and access by default. They could provide gates and come after people for not respecting their land, but instead they (usually) provide alternative access which actually delivers the spirit of the law - a right to roam.

I'm Irish, living in Scotland, and it's just unbelieveable the difference it makes. Here [0] is a perfect example of a situation that this solves. Murder Hole beach (in the same ish area) has similar issues, the farmer who owned the field that you accessed it kept a bull in that field.

[0] https://www.donegaldaily.com/2017/06/22/fury-as-access-shut-...
by DrScientist | 2025-11-21 11:27:11+00:00
20 different British Prime ministers went to a single school ( high school I think in US terms ) - Eton.

The way you get into Eton is largely via money and social connections - not excellence ( though it's a good school ).

What's interesting is that 18 of those were before 1964. Then there was a gap of ~50 years, and then we got 2 in quick succession recently.

So social mobility ( and the idea of a meritocracy ) flourished for a bit, but we've gone in reverse recently.

I see the same happening in the US - Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer, Trump is a billioniare, Hilary ( the almost president ) was the wife of previous president, George W Bush was the son of a previous President.

One of the problems is that many successful people now seem to believe it's all down to them, and therefore the world can be split into the deserving and undeserving.

That's simply not true - life is more complex than that - and sure talent and hardwork matter - and matter a lot - but Jeff Bezos isn't worth ( measured in output ) ~1 million times more than his average employee - there is nothing Amazon has created that wouldn't have happened anyway without Jeff - he didn't invent online shopping or cloud computing - though he did execute very very well.

And let me be clear Jeff is very good at his job and deserves to reap the benefit of that - but ~250 billion in one persons hands isn't proportionate - he's not worth that, and he has spent some of that putting Katy Perry into space - I'd argue not the best use of the worlds resources.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-21 11:27:39+00:00
> need to decide some exact scale at which surveillance becomes illegal and under which it is legal

Surveillance of specified individuals should be allowed, but just random surveillance of the public should be declared illegal except for very particular events and purposes (e.g. searching people for entry to a music gig). If there is public surveillance in an area, it should be made clear with signs etc unless it's for the express purpose of locating specified individuals (e.g. tracking a criminal's movements on public transport).
by nephihaha | 2025-11-21 11:27:46+00:00
Marxists claim to be scientific in their thinking and yet treat Marx as some infallible prophet. The idea that all of history is "class struggle" is obvious bunkum, especially considering that for tens of thousands of years of our history we barely had anything resembling a class structure. Even within recorded history there are multiple other factors. The emergence of AI and transhumanism also mounts a challenge to Marxist orthodoxy, as you cannot have a true proletariat when jobs are automated and people are being turned into cyborgs.
by nicolaslem | 2025-11-21 11:27:47+00:00
What percentage of iOS users use a midi keyboard with their devices? 0.01%?

My desktop audio interface plugs right in an iPhone (USB-C to C), no hub or dongle needed, and provides audio in/out, 5-pins midi in/out, microphone preamp, etc.

If it comes to the flexibility of improvising a jam session with inexpensive gear, we are in a much better place today than 10 years ago when phones had headphone jacks. And I say that as someone who uses wired headphones extensively and carries a 3.5mm dongle everywhere.
by rPlayer6554 | 2025-11-21 11:27:49+00:00
*This does not seem like a censorship measure.* It seems like it requires OSs to give parents an easy way to filter porn.

I struggle with porn addiction. When I really fall back into it I act out 5-10 times a day. I can’t stop even if I want to. It distracts from work and from my real life relationships and girlfriend.

Everyone on HN loves to rag on social media because it’s so toxic. What about porn? If social media makes it easy to compare my “boring” life with “beautiful” influencer lives, why wouldn’t porn make my normal girlfriend and normal sex seem boring. Part of that is how young I found porn when my brain was still developing and forming how it processed sex and relationships. Porn makes me feel so depressed.

I am sure other people handle porn and social media better than me. And that’s ok, I respect that. *But even if you think porn is ok as an adult, can’t you see why adults should be able to have more control over what their kids see.* Yes if they are motivated kids will find it - I learned a lot of the engineering skills I have now getting around my parents blocker. *Not every kid is that good and this might help many.* If it’s not required to be on in the OS, what’s the harm?

P.S. if you struggle with something similar to me, look up SA, SAA, or SLAA.
by ksec | 2025-11-21 11:28:07+00:00
Ironically Firefox is currently at its best and most competitive since its inception. But people lost trust in Mozilla, not Firefox and there is no easy way to earn it back.

I am looking forward to Ladybird, I guess for old folks like us it is the second time we are trying to dethrone the incumbent. But this time around it will be so much harder because Google isn't sitting still like Microsoft did with IE.
by stonecharioteer | 2025-11-21 11:29:06+00:00
> Doesn't this require the environment to be owned by root? Doesn't it make more sense to leave things that are in /opt as root-owned anyway? (Or at least, change them back after running the installation as an unprivileged user.)

I changed the permissions so everyone can run the binary.

You _can_ use a venv. I prefer a dedicated environment for this. I've been using Mise-en-place lately, it's great.

> Will any random greeter program just naturally pick up the contents of /usr/share/xsessions, then?

Yep. Your login manager will pick it up.

> So does it just ignore all your other dotfiles? Can I safely just try this out regardless of my usual WM/DE choices?

Yeah, you can. It's self-contained. I even setup ansible-based dotfile installation in https://GitHub.com/stonecharioteer/distributed-dotfiles.

While qtile doesn't care about the python version, I do. I've grown wary of environment clobbering, it's an issue that Python has had, one that even Ruby does better than it, I've discovered. I like isolating these, helps debug a lot. Now I have added more shortcuts to my config using Rofi scripts, I can see the Qtile log, access, the dunst notification history and other stuff easily with rofi. Give Qtile a go if you've been looking for a Tiling Window Manager. It's married to the Qtile Bar, though, but the Bar can do almost everything.
by eitland | 2025-11-21 11:30:20+00:00
Are you serious?

It is rather obvious why a software designer want to know how a piece of software is used and also to know it over time. If number of cancelled screenshots increases (or decreases) compared to general usage of the screenshot feature it might give an early indication that a recent change was bad (or good).

As long as it only logs counters like this and not who I am or any of my data or who I am I actually want them to log it and if it was disabled and there was an easy way to enable it I would do it.

The problem is that they have:

- a history of not being completely honest (unlike certain other actors who have a history of being actively dishonest)

- no easy way for people to choose what they send

- and a number of other problems, for example what I suspect is that they ignore actual users seemingly in favour of what their ux designers and developers think a user should want. (And that seems to always be dumbing down, "simplifying" and making it more like Chrome.)
by throw_m239339 | 2025-11-21 11:31:17+00:00
Making people live in slums/shacks isn't a solution to the western "homeless crisis".

This website has been often prone to "social justice" recently, I'm amazed somebody can get away with such an idiotic comment without being flagged to hell.

Houses are "carefully planed" because you don't want poor people to die in them due to poor construction, carbon monoxide when they need heat during winter, or a fire that would spread to other houses due to cheap materials, that's why,you know, the stuff that happens regularly in third world slums, but you can't fathom that fact.
by imtringued | 2025-11-21 11:31:47+00:00
>For people who are fans of this system, I genuinely want to understand how one overcomes the common sense, humanitarian centric rejection of corpo speak like this. Is it about just drinking the koolaid?

Economists don't work in the real world economy so they have no clue or idea what these things even mean. They work for the Fed, a central bank or in academia. Sometimes and only sometimes do they work for banks or as quants, but then they usually make enough money to never have to question the system. Bankers usually have MBAs that specialize in banking and finance. They don't need to understand economics, they need to understand how the businesses they allocate capital towards function.

Economists are insulated from the real economy, because economists are redundant to the real economy and I'm not saying that to denigrate economists, it's what economists tell each other all day in their research.

Purely theoretically speaking, they say free markets are self regulating and stabilizing and efficient. You don't need economists to steward or study the economy according to economics itself.

Weirdly enough, economists aren't historians either. They don't teach how economies have been run in the past, they just presume some sort of proto-market economy and that market economies have existed since the dawn of time.