MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zurfer | 2025-11-07 20:37:03+00:00
You're right, I didn't produce evidence in my comment. Smoking and lung cancer are more clear cut than social media problems in general.

The effects of social media are more complex and nuanced than smoking. There are a lot of studies that show that social media has a negative effect on mental well being. When someones dies of loneliness or birth rates collapse and young people have less sex than ever, social media is never the only cause and might not even be the main reason, but it seems to play an important role.

Also, I don't think all social media is bad. I do love these discussions on HN even or especially when we don't agree, but tiktok and similar services have a lot of bad incentives with regards to user well being.
by pembrook | 2025-11-07 20:38:17+00:00
Bans that don't make sense at an individual level do not suddenly make sense at a community level. This is terrible "we'll make it up on volume" logic.

It's also the justification used for some of the dumbest laws in history.

Think about what level of enforcement is going to be required for this (National IDs tied to online activity), and then think about the fact that Denmark is one of the main governments pushing chat control. Now start to think about how, once this tracking/enforcement scheme is created, that it might be expanded to things outside the scope of this law.

Like communism, this idea sounds good in theory, but is going to turn into an authoritarian nightmare in practice.
by rcbdev | 2025-11-07 20:38:21+00:00
In Austria the Internet, like the postal service, is a Universal Service ("Universaldienst"). As such, any completely unserviced citizen can petition the current Finance Minister to decree an ISP of his choice - usually A1, which is the privatized form of our former public office for postal services and telegraphs - to service their area. The costs of facilitating the servicing of this area are covered by all active ISPs of a certain size operating in Austria.

Telecommunications law in Europe is a very interesting thing.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-11-07 20:38:28+00:00
> If a straight stretch of road has 4 intersections with stop lights for cross traffic, and one of those lights is green for 20 seconds for the straight road and green for 40 seconds for the cross traffic, then the end-to-end throughput of that road (ignoring turns on/off for the sake of simplicity) is 1/3 of its hourly capacity, or 600 cars per hour. Widening the road won’t fix that intersection.

I don't see how the intersection affects road-widening calculations at all. Doubling the lanes will double the throughput, to 1200 cars per hour. We weren't expecting widening the road to also eliminate red lights.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-07 20:39:03+00:00
The direct semantics of JSX are "transform this syntax into this nested sequence of function calls and this layout of arguments". That's been the case since nearly the beginning. The only real semantics "fights"/"changes"/"React-specifics" you can see in the compiler options in Babel and Typescript: what the function is named and how do you import it. Enough other libraries that aren't React use JSX that it is easy to see what the generic approach looks and find ideas for runtime configuration of "jsx function name" and an import strategy that isn't just "import these hardcoded names from these hardcoded React modules".
by pbalau | 2025-11-07 20:39:25+00:00
There is an extra thing that the people complaining about the compilation step in react are missing: using c++, for example, if you find an issue, you have to fix the issue, rebuild the thing, then run the thing and *do all the steps required to get your state to duplicate the issue*, just to check you fixed the issue. With react and the other js inspired frameworks and adjacent tooling, you just have to save the file.
by energy123 | 2025-11-07 20:39:59+00:00
There were also moral panics about teenage smoking, cannabis and alcohol.

There's three outcomes here, sorted from worst to best

- Kid uses social media, which is bad for kid due to social media.

- Kid doesn't use social media and everyone else does, which is bad for kid due to ostracism

- No kids use social media, which is best for kid because they don't get ostracized.

What you're saying here is to just settle for the middle option which is not as bad as the worst option but is still bad.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-07 20:40:01+00:00
Nah, we don't have that luxury anymore. I mean in a vacuum of data yes sure it's a physical possibility. But we have polls of public opinion and those polled express concern for their lives and story so far.

There is no simple binary choice. Inequality has been growing for decades. We've been discussing the unfairness the entire time. No revolutions.
by kqr | 2025-11-07 20:40:16+00:00
There's a "signpost fast travel" mod that lets you teleport to any town mentioned on signposts as long as you have visited it before, while paying a small fee for an imaginary guide. That's a decent compromise, given how tricky actual real-time pathfinding can be in Morrowind.

(Otherwise my favourite system comes from Daggerfall Unity, where there is a mod that lets your character automatically, in real time, follow roads until the next fork/intersection. With an option for time compression that really hits the sweet spot of being explicit travel without being tedious.)
by teamonkey | 2025-11-07 20:40:51+00:00
Being a classically-trained musician and understanding music theory - or even the physics of how sound waves are received by the ear and brain - doesn’t prevent you from composing works of art.

A framework like this does, however, help you make better artistic choices. It helps to identify why something isn’t having the impact you thought it should and gives you some insight on how to fix it. It also helps you to deconstruct other works and understand why they do or do not work.
by the8472 | 2025-11-07 20:41:29+00:00
Doesn't help. Some accounts are old and may not be in my current PW DB. Or they were memorized, or forgotten.

If the thing suggests the EMAIL (+ associated password) has been compromised for some unknown account then to do a risk assessment I would have find which account it belongs to, not which currently-in-use passwords match the same datasets.

Those are different queries, providing different bits of information.
by ge96 | 2025-11-07 20:41:32+00:00
Funny I've been trying to quit reddit and I'm just like "what do I do with my time" I usually have two windows: reddit on the left and YT on the right. I work 7 days a week and haven't made anything for myself code/hardware wise in a while.

I think of this concept living second hand through other people's lives (social media) it's not living your own
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-07 20:41:58+00:00
> derailed into EEE threads the way HN is constantly getting derailed into enshittification threads

And yet in hindsight, this seems to have been a pretty accurate way of looking at developments.

Anyway, there’s a difference between chit-chat that is just inane posting of the same old memes, and long-form-text chit-chat where people occasionally learn something new. IRC is no substitute, as long-form text isn’t part of the culture and some channels discourage social activity entirely. Reddit is enshittified and, because the standard input device is a phone screen, so hostile to long-form text that posting just a couple of solid paragraphs marks you out as a weirdo who will get downvoted.

You like business news, but IMO that’s the worst part of HN. For a site based on “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity”, most people who are working hard to develop a startup simply don’t have the leisure time for a wide range of interests. That’s why posts on the humanities here often draw some less-than-informed responses, even though many nerds would see them as important a part of the life of the mind as hacking computers.
by skhameneh | 2025-11-07 20:42:09+00:00
The very first thing I saw from Apple that, IMO, Jobs would have vehemently stopped was the two-toned back on the iPhone 5.

That said, the iOS 26 release is abysmal. The only redeeming thing for me has been the enhancements to Stage Manager, everything else with the UI/UX is such a mess that every day it seems like I'm discovering something new in the realm of awful design. And this isn't limited to minor nitpicks, there are major CTAs that are essentially "black on black" and practically not visible below 50% screen brightness and not acceptably visible at max brightness. Just last night I noticed the browser tabs will render full color content behind the text. It's so bad I've been considering cataloging screenshots and writing about it, because some of it's laughably bad.
by echelon | 2025-11-07 20:42:10+00:00
This is native English and quite colloquial. It's been used in widespread use in newspapers and in the media since forever.

From just recently:

> James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

> ‘90s rapper dead at 51: ‘He went out in style’

> Anthony Jackson, Master of the Electric Bass, Is Dead at 73

> Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103

> Ace Frehley, a Founding Member of Kiss, Is Dead at 74

> Ruth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101

> Soo Catwoman, ‘the Female Face of Punk,’ Is Dead at 70

More famous headlines:

> Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100 [1]

> Nancy Reagan, Former First Lady, Is Dead At Age 94 [2]

> Dick Cheney Is Dead at 84 [3]

> Ozzy Osbourne Is Dead At 76 Years Old, Just Weeks After The Final Black Sabbath Concert [4]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/us/politics/jimmy-carter-...

[2] https://www.scrippsnews.com/obituaries/nancy-reagan-former-f...

[3] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/dick-cheney-dies

[4] https://uproxx.com/indie/ozzy-osbourne-dead-76/
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-07 20:42:18+00:00
I, too, was a really great parent before having children.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-goes-viral-for-tweeting-fr...

> Dorothy, who runs an Ariana Grande fan account, was suffering through a typical teenage nightmare: Her mom took away her phone. But the resourceful teen didn't let that stop her from communicating with her followers. First, she started using Twitter on her Nintendo DS, a handheld video game device.

> Sometime after finding her DS, it was taken again, so Dorothy started tweeting from yet another connected device: her fridge. "My mom uses it to google recipes for baking so I just googled Twitter," she told CBS News.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-07 20:42:35+00:00
I think what Steve added to Apple more than anything was being the biggest asshole in the room who was willing to point at a fellow high-up person and tell them their idea sucked ass, and you may be surprised to read what comes next, I think that's critical to a good product line. There are numerous problems caused by having too many stakeholders, too many cooks in the kitchen if you will, steering your given ship, and sometimes exactly what you need is one guy who knows damn well what needs to be made, and isn't afraid to tell you to take a hike if you want to die on the hill in question.

That all being said, he got it wrong a lot too. You have the good decisions: the original Macs, the iPhone, banning Flash from iOS, backing Pixar, demanding the iPad Mini be better before it goes to market, etc. But he got it wrong a lot too: the Apple III, very strict App Store policies, not replaceable batteries in the iPhone which would eventually infect every Apple product, and I'm sure there's plenty more.

The one thing though that prevents me from truly looking up to him though is he was, by all accounts, an absolute fucking asshole to work for. I appreciate a man with a vision absolutely, as should be evident, but there's also something to be said for being able to navigate those difficult conversations with class and kindness, even when you need to tell someone their idea sucks ass, you can do it in such a way where they don't want to quit outright. And those failings were mirrored in Jobs' personal life, too. Dude just had no fucking ability to People at all.

So yeah. Complicated guy. I think he represents both the best and worst of what can happen when you empower one person with a lot of good ideas- and some bad- to lead a company. I think it's broadly a good thing; and I also think if I worked under him, I probably would've ended up knocking a tooth of his out.
by chankstein38 | 2025-11-07 20:42:41+00:00
I don't understand why car-based things can have ads or updates that popup or things like that. My car (2024 Subaru) + Android Auto is so restrictive that I can't even type a search query into the screen while I'm parked, I have to speak to it. Yet, while I was out grocery shopping the other day the thing popped up multiple times asking me if I wanted to start an update "That would require you to turn your car off for 5-10 minutes"

It popped up a second time as I SLOWED DOWN at a red light. I didn't even come to a complete stop but apparently that was "stopped" enough for it to pop up.

Not to mention while you're using Google Maps the whole time it's popping up asking "Is that cop still there? Is there still construction?" and they're looking for you to click on a button on the car's screen that indicates yes/no. However, when I'm parked at a rest area trying to look for the nearest cracker barrel it'll start navigating me automatically to one that's 45min in the wrong direction instead of just letting me pick which one I want to go to.

And now, ads will show in Apple Maps? Ah yeah, when I'm driving is definitely the best time to distract me for your own greed!

It's asinine. Obviously the "Safety features" are just performative. Probably so they can force us to have a mic enabled or something. It's bs.
by oxcidized | 2025-11-07 20:42:42+00:00
> That's small enough to run well on ~$5,000 of hardware...

Honestly curious where you got this number. Unless you're talking about extremely small quants. Even just a Q4 quant gguf is ~130GB. Am I missing out on a relatively cheap way to run models well that are this large?

I suppose you might be referring to a Mac Studio, but (while I don't have one to be a primary source of information) it seems like there is some argument to be made on whether they run models "well"?
by radley | 2025-11-07 20:42:57+00:00
Uhm, is crossing?? Mate, you're going to have to reverse direction and travel back about eight years to find that line.

I feel like most of this is Microsoft's fault. As MS lowers the bar for what's acceptable on Windows, Apple just has to be somewhat-obviously better.

Additionally, Google's ad-driven economy set a low bar with Android, but that platform has always been that way. Together, those platforms make it really easy for Apple to posture as being considerate.
by spankalee | 2025-11-07 20:43:12+00:00
I don't know... ads in maps is very, very different from ads in the OS.

Users buy the OS with the computer, and Apple doesn't incur any extra cost from users using it (maybe cloud-based AI will change this though?), and it doesn't require additional payments. Meanwhile, services like iCloud+ do require payment.

Maps is a service, like iCloud, but users have been trained to expect it for free, with basically every other maps provider using ads to fund it. I suspect that most users think that ads are a better user experience than not using it at all because they won't pay $9.99/month for maps.

Maps is also a search engine, and ads are the primary way to fund search engines. I guarantee that if Apple every launches iSearch they will eventually fund it with ads.
by zafka | 2025-11-07 20:43:30+00:00
Thanks for your data points. They are quite encouraging. I was blessed with the ability to remember way more information that most of my peers. Now that I have lost some of that ability, I still retain quite a bit, with slower retrieval times usually. Over all, I really have no room to complain. ( although I still do). The skill I value the most though is finding those connections you speak of. I currently don't have a feel for how that has changed, but I think I am still good to go in that department.
by genr234 | 2025-11-07 20:43:56+00:00
"free stuff? is this a scam?" well no, hack club (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) is launching a game jam/event where you collect prizes for spending hours coding your game. it doesn't matter if you never touched game dev before or if you're already an experienced dev — every hour spent still counts. it’s called Milkyway, and it’s basically a game jam inside a digital world. you earn in-game coins as you work on your project, then trade them for real prizes — things like Steam gift cards, 3D Printers, or even a Steam Deck/Nintendo Switch/You Name It. you get your own little digital room you can decorate and visit other people’s rooms in, the community is awesome so interacting with other people is actually very fun! and if you really go all out, you can earn yourself an all-inclusive (food, accommodation and flight stipends available!) trip to Overglade, a jam-within-a-jam happening in Singapore.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-07 20:44:08+00:00
I am an individual who doesn't like just being one of a group, so I have never joined a union, but I support some union actions at my employer and so I too go on strike (and thus don't get paid) if I agree with the cause of their action. It can be simultaneously true that unions aren't perfect and that unionisation is better than not.

Indeed that's par for the course, there's plenty to dislike about democracy, but the alternatives we've tried are worse for example.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-07 20:44:32+00:00
Sure. Ideally CS programs would be more than the trade schools they are today. When I was in school, the "CS Program" was a specialization in the math department. I was already in a Physics program when they created a "Computer Science & Engineering" degree. And I remember both the Math and CSE degrees being pretty decent. But that was back in the day when people took CS related courses because they were interested in computers, not because they wanted to get a super high paying job for a FANG company.

Maybe you're right. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it think deep thoughts about parsing.
by tootie | 2025-11-07 20:45:04+00:00
I see the crux of this post is that they gave a lot of valuable advice to someone who was, at the time, inexperienced. Surely you can acquire sage advice without giving up equity by just hiring someone with experience. And they'd be onboard full-time instead of 15 minutes a quarter. It seems to me the biggest value is the obvious one. That they give you money.

And sorry for opening a political can of worms, but I wouldn't touch anything that touches Andreesen with a 10 foot pole at this point. He's taken a serious heel turn and is openly endorsing Fascism.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-07 20:45:06+00:00
I'm very glad I was able to start my career in startup world where titles don't mean anything and the prevailing attitude was roll up your sleeves and figure it out. No one else is going to solve it. Within my first five years I was doing everything from terminating network cables to managing servers to app development from the database to the various front ends (web and native, later mobile). I've built always on kiosk software. Fitness devices for medical study. I've built device firmware. I've built ML models. And no one ever told me that's not my job.

You're able to learn and grow an incredible amount in environments that don't lock you out of work based on the shape of the cog that the company hired for.
by mdhb | 2025-11-07 20:45:09+00:00
I suspect this may not feel super helpful at first but I thought it worth mentioning, my first reaction to something like that was strongly negative and my guard went up immediately, it’s quite a weird dynamic that you’re stepping into of people who by the nature of their relationship have known each other their entire lives and you’re trying to talk to one on behalf of the other about a topic that requires a bunch of trust despite neither of the people in this scenario knowing you.

None of that is personal obviously just the gut reaction I got reading that initially. I suspect maybe nobody has mentioned it before and it might be helpful to hear on the assumption that others feel similar.

I don’t know how this changes for people who are less sure how to have that conversation and I suspect the fact that I’m a real life security person might have something to do with it.

Edit: I just saw the website after this and I get what you’re doing and can see how maybe it makes sense for some but I’d never recommend this to my own parents, I don’t think sticking an AI in the middle of all of their personal communications is the right answer and I’d have a lot of questions about how that data gets used to be honest.

Again, nothing personal but there’s just no possible universe where I’m setting something up so that every personal message I ever send my parents again is getting silently sucked up into some random company’s cloud to be read and analyzed and then paying them money for that. One of the things I actually had to show them was how to disable that kind of shit on their Gmail accounts for example.
by kwanbix | 2025-11-07 20:45:14+00:00
The difference is that the company had to risk manufacturing cartridges, distributing them, etc. If the game didn't sell, you ended up with lots of money lost.

Steam is much much easier for Valve.

I am not saying it has a value, but 30% seems a lot.

Of course, in the end that 30% we end up paying it ourselves.
by chankstein38 | 2025-11-07 20:45:46+00:00
Speaking simply to your comment because I'm not aware enough of their behaviors myself, wouldn't the 12-digit profits and a high Fortune 500 listing potentially be enough to make Steve say "We have enough honestly" obviously that's not the norm, most companies just seem to find any way to extract every ounce of our souls but I thought that was where Apple was supposed to differ, at least under Steve.

I honestly don't know this is just a question.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 20:45:55+00:00
> then my tests become integration test behemoths.

There are no consistent definitions found in the world of testing, but I assume integration here means entry into some kind of third-party system that you don't have immediate control over? That seems to be how it is most commonly used. And that's exactly one of the places you'd benefit from enabling multiple implementations, even if testing wasn't in the picture. There are many reasons why you don't want to couple your application to these integrations. The benefits found under test are a manifestation of the very same, not some unique situation.
by amboar | 2025-11-07 20:46:30+00:00
As I haven't seen a link to it in the comments yet: A while back Hillel Wayne put some effort into resolving the question of "Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?" with the crossover project: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-project/

The conclusion he drew was that there's less difference than you might expect between software development and "traditional" engineering disciplines and that it's reasonable to consider software engineering a real engineering discipline.
by dekhn | 2025-11-07 20:46:41+00:00
The best I've read is "The Eighth Day Of Creation" (which is amazing book beyond the part that covers the elucidation of the structure of DNA). He references multiple internal data sources that establish the process by which Gosling's photo made it to Watson and Crick. Of all the accounts I've read, it seems to be the most factual. I think it's also worth reading Watson's account ("The Double Helix") and the book that originally brought the most attention to the treatment of Franklin ("Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA")

I believe this article has some updated results: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/rosalind-franklin... and it appears there was an earlier book before Dark Lady, referenced here: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/21/archives/rosalind-frankli...