MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2025-11-20 16:48:39+00:00
Bearing in mind that my lived experience is entirely subjective, and that your mileage may vary accordingly:

I find that when people associate money with happiness, what they fail to observe is that they actually want the presumed stability such money would afford them, at their current lifestyle. Failing to acknowledge and plan around that leads to “lifestyle creep” as income rises, which simply perpetuates the same grievances they currently have around instability or insecurity, just with higher price tags and consequences for failure. I strongly suspect that billionaires engage in wealth and asset hoarding for this very reason: a terror of status, security, and stability collapse.

Once I let go of lifestyle creep and found contentment and gratuity in what I had, I began realizing that stability is shockingly affordable even under modern policies and economics. Releasing yourself from this forced societal obligation to “Keep Up with the Jones’” is a key step towards objectively reflecting on your life as it’s lived, and identifying what’s of genuine import to you. Only by doing that do you find what is actually needed for personal fulfillment, and thus, happiness.
by itake | 2025-11-20 16:48:43+00:00
The standard of living in China is bad for most people. IMHO, they need to expand in order to provide the same lifestyle as offered in the USA.

This has the energy of "Why are we building rockets to the moon, when there are homeless people in San Francisco"-vibes?"

> give generous UBI to each and every person

Have you seen the movie Wall-e? I don't think society should strive to outsource all labor to AI and robots, nor is that the final end-state of building robots and AI.
by iLemming | 2025-11-20 16:49:05+00:00
Are you saying that getting two different compile-to-JS languages to interoperate is messy and you have to go through multiple transpilation layers to make them talk to each other?

The Clojurescript way isn't about transpiling between different compile-to-JS languages. It's simpler: write once in Clojure, compile to both JVM and JS directly. No intermediate language chains needed. And you are free to use whatever js and java libs directly.

Yes, sure - valid point about Haxe, you're right, it actually did this before Clojurescript or even before Node existed. IIRC Haxe could compile a single codebase to multiple targets. That multi-target approach tho required writing in a lowest-common-denominator lang. Cljs practical in the sense that you get the full power of Clojure on the JVM side and reasonable JS semantics on front-end - without compromise. Haxe often meant sacrificing language features to stay compatible across all targets.

Clojurescript is surprisingly pragmatic in that sense and works well. The downside - you can use Cljs on its own, but it truly shines when paired with Clojure, but JVM, despite being amazing piece of tech has a marketing problem - people hear JVM and immediately think Java.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-11-20 16:49:06+00:00
I had never heard of techrights before. It seems to have a lot of angry/nasty articles. There's a huge amount of paranoia and hatred towards big tech. A lot of personal attacks against individuals and his former employer. I find myself questioning whether the authors are entirely sane.

Can anyone confirm whether it is (or was?) really a respectable/serious free software site?
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-20 16:49:28+00:00
UTF-8 is a text format with no BOM. Just like ASCII doesn't support a BOM. The BOM is a UTF-16 or UTF-32 thing, so "UTF-8 with BOM" is a binary file that happens to contain some UTF-8 strings as well. Since it's not a text file, it makes sense that utilities expecting text files don't handle it.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-20 16:49:36+00:00
These kinds of housing are not compatible with current tenant laws. In order to cover this zone of the market you need the ability to boot bad actors. If you can’t do that, you get massive adverse selection as your decent but poor people leave and you are left with the bad poor. Eventually you get this Dead Sea Effect where your stuff is all busted.

All landlords know this, which is why the pod living people are pretty selective about only getting techies.
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-11-20 16:49:47+00:00
I am not talking about hiding wealth. How do you find all of a person's wealth in a principled way? There isn't a central clearinghouse of this information.

People can own houses, factories, &c, in indirect ways, or in other jurisdictions, and these are all basically legal and make it hard to say what, exactly, people own.

The easiest people to tax are people whose inflows are simple wage income, who own a house and a car in their own country, and don't have a business. In other words, ordinary people. They make up a bulk of the financial activity in a country and the bulk of the tax revenues (most of the time).

It is easy to imagine that the way to capture greater tax revenue from wealthy people is simply to scale this system up -- tax the wealthy people more on their income, their expensive car, &c. However, wealthy people are also wealthy in structurally different ways from ordinary people.
by abdusco | 2025-11-20 16:50:53+00:00
I had to remind myself what that was about

> The Xbox One reveal disaster in 2013 stemmed from controversial policies that were widely rejected by consumers, primarily the mandatory 24-hour online check-in (effectively an "always-online" requirement) and severe restrictions on used games. Compounded by a primary focus on TV and media features over gaming, and a higher price tag of $499 with a mandatory Kinect, the policies caused a massive public backlash. This allowed the PlayStation 4 to successfully position itself as the consumer-friendly gaming option, ultimately forcing Microsoft to reverse all the controversial DRM policies before the console's launch.
by btown | 2025-11-20 16:51:03+00:00
OpenAI is just a wrapper around NVIDIA, which is just a wrapper around TSMC, which is just a wrapper around ASML, which is just a wrapper around Zeiss optics, which is just a wrapper around EUV photons, which are just wrappers around quarks, which are just wrappers around quantum fields...

A Large Language Model is just a Large Hadron Model with better marketing.
by CrazyStat | 2025-11-20 16:51:49+00:00
Colonoscopies, involving inserting instruments into the body, are definitely an invasive medical procedure.

> An invasive procedure is one where purposeful/deliberate access to the body is gained via an incision, percutaneous puncture, where instrumentation is used in addition to the puncture needle, or instrumentation via a natural orifice. It begins when entry to the body is gained and ends when the instrument is removed, and/or the skin is closed. Invasive procedures are performed by trained healthcare professionals using instruments, which include, but are not limited to, endoscopes, catheters, scalpels, scissors, devices and tubes.

[1], emphasis added.

> A medical procedure that invades (enters) the body, usually by cutting or puncturing the skin or by inserting instruments into the body.

[2], emphasis added

> An invasive procedure is one in which the body is "invaded", or entered by a needle, tube, device, or scope.

[3], emphasis added

Is it a big deal? Maybe not to you, maybe to other people. Is it better than a much cheaper (and not invasive) FOBT? Questionable.

NordICC [4] found an 18% reduction in colon cancer incidence after 10 years with a colonoscopy screening program, but no statistically significant reduction in mortality (either colon cancer or all-cause). Hardcastle et al. [5] found no reduction in colon cancer incidence but a 15% reduction in colon cancer mortality after 7.8 years with a FOBT screening program.

Everyone's gungho about evidence-based medicine until the evidence fails to support their preferred procedures.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6678000/

[2] https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

[3] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002384.htm

[4] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208375

[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8942775/
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by sinpor1 | 2025-11-20 16:52:28+00:00
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by fancyfredbot | 2025-11-20 16:53:14+00:00
Dr Garrett is chiefly accused of an online campaign of material which is (variously) criminal, illegal or offensive. The criminal matters alleged include cybercrime, hate crime, blackmail, issuing threats of violence or death, and matters adjacent to terrorism. Other illegal matters alleged include defamation, harassment and online abuse. Offensive matters alleged include material that is variously racist, antisemitic, misogynist, homophobic or otherwise hateful or discriminatory, sexually incontinent, or drugs-related. Dr Garrett is alleged to have waged this campaign through the medium of IRC ‘sockpuppet’ accounts – accounts under pseudonymous user nicknames intended to be a vehicle for distributing material anonymously and deniably.

You can see the harassment they were recieving here. There was some pretty vile stuff directed at Rianne in particular.

https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/08/11/Garrett_Committing...
by Avamander | 2025-11-20 16:53:56+00:00
I think most people are okay with software such as OpenSSH keeping its long-existing conventions. In the same way I don't think a lot of people mind ".bashrc" being where it is. It's manageable if there's just a few and they're well-known.

However this "exemption" does not and should not apply to anything newer. Things like Cargo, Snap, Steam, Jupyter, Ghidra, Gradle, none of those should be putting their stuff (especially temporary junk) directly and unsegmented into $HOME.

At some point I had more than 50 different dotfiles and dotfolders in my $HOME. It was unwieldy and nasty to look at. I couldn't even figure out what created some of those files because they were so generic.

Plain $HOME as the dumping ground simply does not scale beyond a select few.
by epolanski | 2025-11-20 16:54:07+00:00
Maybe, maybe not.

China is a decade ahead of the rest of the world in different kind of use cases (think their super apps or payments).

TikTok is the most popular social media app out there, and it's chinese.

They are also tremendously competitive in AI despite all the limitations they encounter.

Honestly I think that the last century should be a clear statement that protectionism, sanctions and closeness is a failure whose bills are paid by tax payers.

We've been bailing out and protecting non competitive industries (which have further incentives *not* to invest due to protectionism they benefit from) for decades.

When Trump 1 put high taxes on dishwashers and house appliances it hasn't really pushed US companies to do better, it just allowed them to raise the prices and do very little.

But the fact that some countries play dirty (see China and their industrial espionage and lack of respect of patents and intellectual property), while others are obsessed with being #1 even if it means pursuing that via bullying methods have pushed us in this very negative scenario I don't see how can we leave us behind unless we get a new generation of brighter leaders.

Sadly, that's not how you win consensus and elections today.
by xvilka | 2025-11-20 16:54:10+00:00
We don't have proper interplanetary time standard yet[1][2][3]. That should be a first big milestone to achieve standardized networking with all space objects at least in the Sol system.

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/chapte...

[2] https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-updates/2024/...

[3] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5540/has-an-interp...
by LunaSea | 2025-11-20 16:54:14+00:00
> No one needs to deduplicate over a longer period than a few minutes, or a single session. If you need that, then you're doing something shady. If a user visits your site, clicks a few things, leaves and comes back two hours later, you don't need know if it's the same person or not.

Sure you do if for example you want to know how many unique users browse your site per day or month. Which is one of the most commonly requested and used metrics.

> So just take IP address, browser details, your domain name, and a random ID you stick in a 30 minute session cookie.

That looks a lot like a unique identifier which does require a user's consent and a cookie banner.

> Now you have token valid for 30 minutes you can use for deduplication but no way of tying it back to particular user (after 30 minutes)

The EU Court of Justice has ruled in the past that hashed personal data is still personal data.

> And yes, if the user changes browser preferences, then they will get a new hash, but who cares?

It will also happen after 30 minutes have passed which will happen all the time.

> Not rocket science.

And yet your solution is illegal according to the GDPR and does still not fulfil the basic requirement of returning the number of unique users per day or month.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 16:54:28+00:00
> I don't think it will be easy to just remove it.

No, but model training technology is out in the open, so it will continue to be possible to train models and build model toolchains that just don't incorporate watermarking at all, which is what any motivated actor seeking to mislead will do; the only thing watermarking will do is train people to accept its absence as a sign of reliability, increasing the effectiveness of fakes by motivated bad actors.
by snerbles | 2025-11-20 16:55:21+00:00
> Not only that, but it has been a poorly communicated and documented ride as many in this comment section can attest.

The guides are written for cryptographic infrastructure nerds and not regular normal users that have a habit of forgetting their own passwords after six months. Not to mention the fact that the Element UI tends to churn a lot.

I didn't even know that they deprecated creating new passphrases, and that's what I was telling my users to do!
by iso1631 | 2025-11-20 16:55:31+00:00
These are in the UK as HMOs and widely used, and are known for a lot of abuse by landlords. They have stemmed part of the population problem but they still rise to massive costs. Even 20 years ago I knew the bottom of the bracket were not just sharing those one rooms, but even time-sharing beds - you'd have 4 people sharing a room with 3 beds in.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-20 16:55:41+00:00
This just reminds me of the people who whine about Betamax (or CCS) being better.

FWIW: Technology Connections did a teardown of why Betamax wasn't better than VHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA&list=PLv0jwu7G_D...

And the whole series if you actually enjoy watching these things: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFUrcyMYAkUP...
by umanwizard | 2025-11-20 16:56:11+00:00
> the world maps in both PRC and ROC show one China, not two

That is irrelevant. The map is not the territory. They are two countries in reality; that is, they operate as two separate sovereign countries in every practical way, regardless of what legal fictions are maintained for political reasons.

This atlas is presumably supposed to be about reality, not about legal fictions.

(BTW: North Korea and South Korea officially claimed to be one country until very recently, and South Korea still does. But every map in the outside world shows them as two. Why should China and Taiwan be treated differently?)
by mandevil | 2025-11-20 16:56:27+00:00
I'm currently working through the Complete Calvin and Hobbes with my 9 year old, and he had these jabs at commercialism throughout, though it might have been sharper towards the end, but he was already jaded by art in 1985 as a 27 year old.

He had dreamed of being a cartoonist from childhood (when he was 8 he wrote Charles Shulz of Peanuts who wrote him back and it changed his life). He had actually majored in Political Science at Kenyon College (class of '80) because he thought that political cartooning was going to be his route in. It was not. He was a political cartoonist at the Cincinnati Post briefly before they fired him, then he worked for an ad agency and freelanced a bit before Universal Press Syndicate signed him on for Calvin and Hobbes. But, even at 27 when he started working for UPS, he understood the pressure of the professional art world and was cynical about it.

Apparently he lived a miserable life for the last few years of his work. He had been injured in a bike accident and it terrified him that he would be injured in such a way that he could no longer draw (1) so he basically stopped going out, stopped doing anything that could possibly harm his ability to earn money, stopped doing anything that might bring joy to his life. He lived a recluse for several years, before deciding to just quit, then he and his wife Melissa adopted a child and gave her a good life.

1: Bill Mauldin, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who created Willie and Joe, was the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times when, in 1991, he crushed his right hand attaching a snow-plow to his truck, and he had to retire. I think that incident is what inspired this fear, the timelines match up. But of course, Watterson is famously private and so this is conjecture.
by programjames | 2025-11-20 16:56:45+00:00
> And in those other cases? You have a rigorous definition of comedy?

There's surely more to comedy than subverting expectations. Someone else who cares more about comedy in particular can figure that out for themself, but surely I gave enough of the general idea to make it clear how you could go about measuring the intelligence necessary for comedy.

> A story is believed because a listener "wants" to believe it. Some listeners have more or less complex criteria for acceptance.

Yeah, that's the sense of "better" I was going for. I could have been more clear here, so I'm glad you figured out what I meant.

> Couldn't I say the same about your use of Introspective? Surely a more detailed phrase exists to describe what you mean.

It was a not-so-kind way of saying, "don't point at vague ideas to obscure what you really mean and make it difficult for others to understand what you mean to keep your opinion unassailable."

> Why exactly do you say this skill [resolving conflicts] is not intelligence-based?

Most people have more time to think than they actually use during conflicts, so I expect most of the time conflicts come from people preferring to not think than because they lack the ability. That or a fundamental value difference (you want my food, I want my food).
by simonw | 2025-11-20 16:57:36+00:00
In case anyone missed Max's Nano Banana prompting guide, it's absolutely the definitive manual for prompting the original Nano Banana... and I tried some of the prompts in there against Nano Banana Pro and found it to be very applicable to the new model as well.

https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/#hello-nan...

My recreations of those pancake batter skulls using Nano Banana Pro: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/#tryin...
by mring33621 | 2025-11-20 16:57:50+00:00
I don't really have a dog in this fight, other than once having a Taiwanese friend in 3rd grade.

But, I think all this gearing up for war is not good for anyone. I'm pretty sure the world, overall, would be better off to accept that Taiwan will become part of greater China and to negotiate a peaceful plan for cultural, economic and infrastructure integration.
by Jaiden333 | 2025-11-20 16:57:53+00:00
I really wish model performance messaging and benchmarks were more focused on perfecting short, iterative tasks instead of long-running work.

As a startup founder and engineer, I'm not constrained by the number of 10000+ line diff, 0->1 demos I can ship. I'm constrained by quality of the 100 -> 101, tight 150 line feature additions / code cleanups I can write.

It feels like the demos, funding, and hype all want to sell me entire PR rewrites, but what I need is the best possible iterative work model that will keep me in the loop.

I still use codex - but I use codex incredibly iteratively (give it very narrowly scoped tasks, and I watch it like a hawk, giving tons of feedback). I don't use it because of its ability to code for 24 hours. I use it because when I give it those narrowly scoped tasks, it is better at writing good code than any other model. (Because of its latency, I have 2-4 of these conversations going on at the same time).

But there is a lot of friction the codex product + model adds to this process. I have to prompt aggressively to override whatever "be extremely precise" prompting the model gets natively so that it doesn't send me 20+ bullet points of extraordinarily dense prose on every message. I have to carefully manage its handling of testing; it will widen any DI + keep massive amounts of legacy code to make sure functionality changes don't break old tests (rather than updating them) and to make sure any difficult tests can have their primary challenges mocked away.

In general, codex doesn't feel like an amazing tool that I have sitting at my right hand. It feels like a teenage genius who has been designed to do tasks autonomously, and who I constantly have to monitor and rein in.