MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zaloog | 2025-11-05 22:32:24+00:00
Ive built a TUI which utilizes blueutil [0].

It displays inline and supports j/k navigation. Also wrote a short post about its creation [1].

[0]:https://github.com/Zaloog/blueutil-tui

[1]:https://zaloog.github.io/2025/02/26/tui-a-day.html
by convolvatron | 2025-11-05 22:32:52+00:00
And Brewster Kahle's notions about culture and information sharing start well before the Internet Archive. In theory one could pick and choose, but this is Brewster's life-long passion project. The man even outfitted a van with a printer and a binder to distribute physical books for free.

It's very strange to insist that he _not_ push the boundaries of copyright law for the common good. without that you wouldn't have had the Wayback machine in the first place.
by oblio | 2025-11-05 22:34:13+00:00
To be frank aspect ratios as the main measure are just silly.

Instead of 24" screen with a 16:9 ratio they should just be sold as 53 x 30cm.

Look at the silliness with folding displays where the difference in diagonal seems marginal until you open up a folding phone and realize that diagonals are just a silly way to measure things.
by fragmede | 2025-11-05 22:34:18+00:00
There is no "should". Everyone grieves differently. Whats right for GP commenter isn't necessarily right for you.

That said, what do you want to optimize for? Time spent grieving? Money spent on the funeral(s)? Money spent on therapy? Time spent in therapy? Lack of having to change as a person? Having to change as a person? Grieving "correctly"? (to reiterate from above there is no right way, but some people think if they're not doing it "right" there's something wrong with them.)

Just not killing yourself from the pain of it all in the next 5 years?

Honoring their lifes properly? Doing a good job of stepping into your new role in your family? Getting revenge for some transgression you can no longer tell them they did to you?
by octoberfranklin | 2025-11-05 22:34:57+00:00
That is not as common as you think, and will get less common as QUIC grows in popularity.

If you're really really desperate you can send UDP packets with fake TCP headers (i.e. you aren't actually doing any congestion control or retransmission) but you have to control both ends of the connection for that.

And there's ICMP.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-05 22:35:04+00:00
This is something I think all short form video platforms struggle with. I think I know why. Its because the difference in the UI. Basically, a user doesn't choose what to see next. On YouTube, you get dozens of next videos recommended on each view. On short form video, you get one. This causes clickbait to work a lot better for short form video. The problem with platforms like TikTok is more about UI than algorithm or the length of the videos.
by mindwok | 2025-11-05 22:35:48+00:00
100%. I’ve been neck deep over the past few months in developing a bunch of Windows applications, and it’s convinced me that never deprecating or removing anything in the name of backwards incompatibility is the wrong way. There’s a balance to be struck like anything, but leaving these things around means we continue to pay for them in perpetuity as new vulnerabilities are found or maintenance is required.
by igouy | 2025-11-05 22:35:59+00:00
For decades —

"When you use a browser to access a method, the system has to retrieve the source code for that method. Initially all the source code is found in the file we refer to as the sources file. … As you are evaluating expressions or making changes to class descriptions, your actions are logged onto an external file that we refer to as the changes file. If you change a method, the new source code is stored on the changes file, not back into the sources file. Thus the sources file is treated as shared and immutable; a private changes file must exist for each user."

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 458
by tuatoru | 2025-11-05 22:36:31+00:00
If there is any technological progress, people in 3000 will be so much wealthier than we are today that fixing any problems arising from climate change will be trivially easy for them.

That is, if there are any people in 3000. Nuclear war is still the number one problem. AI is a candidate for number two right now; the next decade should clarify things.
by throwup238 | 2025-11-05 22:36:43+00:00
> It seems anything that affects trait solving is very complicated and is more likely to have bugs or combine non-trivially with other trait-solving features.

Yep and this is why many features die or linger on forever. Getting the trait solving working correctly across types and soundly across lifetimes is complicated enough to have killed several features previously (like specialization/min_specialization). It was the reason async trait took so long and why GAT were so important.
by bnchrch | 2025-11-05 22:36:53+00:00
Today I asked to my homepod:

> "Hey Siri, whens the next Formula 1 race in Montreal"

and she responds with the same infuriating answer I typically get

> "Hmm, I found some interesting results on the web, I can show them to you if you ask again from your iPhone"

I don't care what pride Apple has to swallow, or if they have to layoff 10,000 people.

I just want my device ecosystem to be able to do what its competitors have been able to do for a decade, or what Ive been able to build myself for the last 3 years. A working and useful voice assistant.

At this point Im convinced Tim Cook could sit at a terminal himself and ship a better version of what Apple has in an afternoon.
by duped | 2025-11-05 22:37:44+00:00
std::arch::* intrinsics for SIMD are stable and you can use them today. The situation is only slightly worse than C/C++ because the rust compilers cares a lot about undefined behavior, so there's some safe-but-technically-unsafe/annoying cfg stuff to make sure the intrinsics are actually emitted as you intend.

There is nothing blocking high quality SIMD libraries on stable in Rust today. The bar for inclusion in std is just much higher than the rest of the ecosystem.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-05 22:38:18+00:00
> That said, I wonder what happens at safeway during a fire or shooter.

During a fire, the gate controller will have a fire alarm input on the terminal block wired to an output from the fire alarm system that will open the gate if the fire alarm system activates. All automatic doors/gates/card access doors and fire alarm systems work the same way, fail open on fire alarm signal.

If there was a duress button system at Safeway, a signal from that could be used to automatically open gates and doors as well during an active shooter incident, but afaik it’s not mandated by code like fire alarm door and gate releases are.

Some automatic sliding double doors actually are able to be pushed open, there’s a hidden hinge in the top that allows it to open up even if the double doors are closed.
by gowld | 2025-11-05 22:38:48+00:00
This (new) title is inaccurate.

The article says: "ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says", with a quote from OpenAI: “this is not a new change to our terms. ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional legal or medical advice, but it will continue to be a great resource to help people understand legal and health information.”
by Fraterkes | 2025-11-05 22:38:55+00:00
What I struggle with is that it’s hard to derive meaning from purpose when the best I can hope for is improving the lives of others until they are at the same level of comfort as me: struggling to find meaning and happiness.

We can all derive purpose from trying to improve eachothers lives, but if none of us end up happy, what makes that work actually meaningfull? At some point we need something that is good in and off itself. That’s what happiness is meant to be I think
by lr4444lr | 2025-11-05 22:38:55+00:00
Many people are not honest about how much they floss, and those who do often don't floss correctly. We have a well understood mechanism for how tooth decay and gingivitis happen, and it's clear clinically that flossing can address these more effectively than brushing alone can. Furthermore, the subjective reduction in bad breath means harmful oral bacteria are reduced, which could have benefits beyond oral health.
by vkou | 2025-11-05 22:39:08+00:00
Here in the US, the thirteenth amendment seems to think that a little slavery is cool.

As I understand it, much of the rest of the world has similar views, but I'm sure this varies a bit from country to country.

It's just that in the 21st century, we prefer to use some less-upsetting euphemism to refer to the practice domestically.
by losvedir | 2025-11-05 22:39:27+00:00
Thanks! Maybe I'm a little too sensitive to AI signals. I actually really love the story and content, but if it was AI generated I didn't know how much to actually believe it. I still don't know who you are, but it's probably less likely to be totally fabricated if a human is responsible for it. So, thanks, I'll give it another read.
by teknominds | 2025-11-05 22:39:31+00:00
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by TacticalCoder | 2025-11-05 22:39:59+00:00
There definitely is something like that in several EU countries: it's called Yoojo and there are people using it.

They've got local sites, per country:

https://yoojo.fr

https://yoojo.be

https://yoojo.lu

And there are electricians and plumbers who can fix (and install) HVAC.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-05 22:41:00+00:00
> How about if the builder of your house comes into your home via an access route unknown to you, and starts rearranging where things are placed, or where you and your wife are placed, etc. in order to maintain homogeneous layout?

I've seen this movie. Only, the twist was that the home was built 100+ years ago and the builder long since dead. The family living in the home currently had to resort to an exorcist.

Edit to say that the sarcasm is direct rebuttal with the preposterous nature of the hypothetical.
by crdrost | 2025-11-05 22:41:15+00:00
Yep! Lustig has a book, Metabolical, that goes into kind of a simple explanation of the underlying mechanism here, and it's roughly like this: fiber-rich foods contain a combination of soluble and insoluble fiber, the insoluble fiber basically forms a sort of "net" of chunks and strings and such that you can't digest, and the soluble fiber forms a "gel" which gets stuck in the net and traps other foods. This gel is infused with various enzymes to break down foods in the duodenum, and then passes to the first and second half of the "zig-zag" parts of the small intestine -- the jejunum and the ileum.

The combination of fibers then leads to a given packet of calories traveling further down the jejunum as it gets absorbed, which makes more of the bacteria living along the length of the intestine happy with you, as well as protecting from blood glucose spikes that come with concomitant "crashes".
by pksebben | 2025-11-05 22:41:42+00:00
Dissatisfying take: It's both true and untrue.

Your mindset absolutely has an influence on outcomes - how you come off to other people influences how they react to you and treat you. How you look at a problem influences whether you decide to engage with it, and how.

This exists in a gradient space - some things are more readily influenced in this way, others are not, a few are (nearly) completely untouched.

Existence, that is - the Universe, is a complex system. We know at least a few things about those:

- they behave in unintuitive ways. Attempting to predict the behavior of a complex system has an inverse relationship with the granularity and specificity of the prediction.

- the behavior of the whole is unrepresentable in the behavior of the constituent parts (you cannot drive an axle to work, unless it is part of a car)

- they are very resilient against attempts at control, but more susceptible to influence

- they can exhibit features like recursion, inertia, and attraction. Each of these has specific consequences for the behavior of the whole.

The relationship between outlook and outcome is bidirectional - one influences the other and vice versa. This structure has a high chance to exhibit recursive reinforcement, which is why I think we're used to seeing very optimistic and very pessimistic outlooks, with not so many 'middle-of-the-road' types. It does provide a lever to push, however, if one has the fortitude to push through the failures on the way to that tipping point.
by oofbey | 2025-11-05 22:42:16+00:00
+1 this.

Also, when I read about the language features which make Python intrinsically slow, generally I think "I never use that." e.g. operator overloading meaning you need to do all these pointer dereferences just to add two numbers together. Yes, I get that pytorch and numpy rely critically on these. But it makes me wonder...

Could you disable these language features on a module-by-module basis? That is, declare "in this sub-tree of the source code, there shalt be no monkey-patching, and no operator overloading" and therefore the compiler can do a better job. If anybody tries to do the disallowed stuff, then it's a RuntimeError. Would that work?
by testing22321 | 2025-11-05 22:42:19+00:00
Tariffs (government tax) on Chinese panels, corruption (companies bribing(lobbying) to get monopolies on installs) and more corruption ( power companies bribing to get guaranteed profits)

Based on comments here my 7.8kw rooftop solar in Canada was 3-5x cheaper than people pay in the US. It was $8k CAD ($5,660 usd) My Dad in Australia got a 10kw system fully installed for $5k AUD ($3,250 usd)
by xhrpost | 2025-11-05 22:42:26+00:00
I don't have access to the actual study but I wonder if they had access to any metrics for the individuals that could quantify the intensity of the insomnia. Chronic insomnia/sleep deprivation is already correlated with heart disease. Could it be that the people with worse insomnia were more likely to take melatonin but also more likely to have heart issues due to the insomnia alone?
by tamimio | 2025-11-05 22:42:38+00:00
So basically all white collar jobs are lobbying to gatekeep their profession even from AI, meanwhile the stupid engineers who made AI put zero effort to not shoot themselves in the foot, and now they are crying about low wages if they found a job in the first place.

AI could effectively do most legal and medical work, and you can make a human do the final decision-making if that's really the reason. In fact, I bet most lawyers and doctors are already using it in one way or another; after all, both are about reciting books and correlating things together. AI is definitely more efficient at that than any human. Meanwhile, the engineering work that requires critical thinking and deep understanding of the topic is allowed to be bombarded with all AI models. What about the cases where bad engineering will kill people? I am a firm believer that engineers are the most naive people who beg others to exploit them and treat them like shit. I don't even see administrative assistants crying about losing their jobs to AI; every other profession guards its workers, including blue collar, except the ‘smart’ engineers.
by chrismcb | 2025-11-05 22:42:46+00:00
Well, no. You can't just revoke a license. As far as owning the software in the device, I works would argue that you do own a copy of it. I'm sure there is some buried tos claiming you just own a license to run it, and I know this is still being litigated. But when the average person purchases someone their expectation is that they've purchased it, not licensed it.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-05 22:43:07+00:00
IANAL either, but I read it as using the service to provision medical advice since they only mentioned the service and not anyone else.

I asked the "expert" itself (ChatGPT), and apparently you can ask for medical advice, you just can't use the medical advice without consulting a medical professional:

Here are relevant excerpts from OpenAI’s terms and policies regarding medical advice and similar high-stakes usage:

From the Usage Policies (effective October 29 2025):

“You may not use our services for … provision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.”

Also: “You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making … medical … decisions about them.”

From the Service Terms:

“Our Services are not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws for any use of our Services in a medical or healthcare context.”

In plain terms, yes—the Terms of Use permit you to ask questions about medical topics, but they clearly state that the service cannot be used for personalized, licensed medical advice or treatment decisions without a qualified professional involved.
by ddxv | 2025-11-05 22:43:07+00:00
Mind blowing they couldn't get this to work. It's struck me lately that the models don't seem to matter anymore, they're all equally good.

The UX and integration with regular phone features is what makes the tool shine and by now there should be plenty of open source models and know how to create their own.

What is Google offering that Apple can't figure out on their own?

Maybe people don't personal assitant AI enough to justify the investment? My phone has probably 6 or 7 AI tools that have talking features that I don't ever explore.
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-05 22:44:00+00:00
Wait! It was not a typo. Serbia-Croatia is indeed a Schengen border (Croatia is in Schengen). My point was that there was anti-bus discrimination even at this low-security border.

At the supposed non-borders within the Schengen zone, police are increasingly present. Often they get on buses (and trains) just to check out the passengers, obviously looking for passengers with migrant profiles.

Two or three years ago I crossed the ultra-low-security Germany-Denmark border on a local bus. There was no border security but I overheard the driver making an intentional phone call to someone to say that he had a foreign tourist aboard. Schengen has not completely abolished borders, alas.
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by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-05 22:44:56+00:00
Australia banned phones in schools 1-2 years ago and it's been widely recognised as a huge success. I think banning social media like facebook/tiktok/etc for kids would be a huge benefit as well. Leaving just IM/group chats for kids to directly talk to each other without scrolling a feed of ragebait and ai slop.
by babypuncher | 2025-11-05 22:45:08+00:00
My concern is that it deflates any impetus to actually solve the problems of regulatory capture, profiteering, and other corruption.

Not everybody can afford the up front costs of installing solar + battery storage, plus replacement when the PV cells and batteries inevitably reach EoL. These people will be left behind on a decaying grid nobody with political capital wants to fix or at the mercy of landlords.

I really don't like this attitude we have in America where we realize "thing is broken" and advocate throwing it away instead of trying to fix it.
by samtheDamned | 2025-11-05 22:45:17+00:00
besides toomuchtodo's nicely made argument, I would like to point that that many "major" nations (I'm assuming that refers to mostly western countries, correct me if I'm wrong) were able to focus on committing to emissions because they gave their dirty work (ie: mass manufacturing, waste disposal, resource extraction) to other countries, especially China.
by numitus | 2025-11-05 22:45:21+00:00
Unfortunately, all such calculations are egocentric. People assume that everyone can use solar panels for 13 days 2 weeks, and when needed, we’ll just get electricity from the grid. But what they don’t take into account is that when there’s load today but none tomorrow, the grid becomes unstable. 2) This also increases costs. You might save electricity consumption in 14 times, but your expenses for grid electricity can increase in 14 times, because the grid still needs to be maintained — staff must be kept at power plants to ensure you can be supplied with 100% of your energy at any moment.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-05 22:45:23+00:00
Let's not assume things about age. I'm old enough to remember holding the stupid rabbit ears. Never liked the Andy Griffith show though. I've also spent plenty of nights sitting a fire with a bunch of nomads in the middle of nowhere.

It's not fundamentally different from media today. Audiobooks, Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, Disney movies, true crime media, etc. People don't choose these for lack of alternatives. They're activities people like (excepting the parents forced to watch Frozen for the thousandth time).

Strong oral storytelling cultures also have many, many stories available to them. It's not as tedious as syndicated TV was. Two examples of collections that survive to the modern day are the Jewish bible (old testament) and the Christian New Testament, each of which has dozens of stories you're likely familiar with no matter your religious background. They're not communicated solely through everyone sitting down around a campfire, and not every recitation is in the formal verbiage of the source material. Often recitation is associated with a calendar (e.g. the sermon schedules ministers follow in modern churches, or performed only at particular seasonal festivals). Different recitations are often performed in new ways to adjust things to the audience (e.g. referencing recent events) or with slight changes to keep things fresh. So on and so forth. It's a much richer world than you may be aware of.
by mrb | 2025-11-05 22:45:45+00:00
What an extremely confusing blog post! I don't understand why it seemingly presents profiles as a new feature? Firefox has had profiles for years. What the heck is new?

I had to click the other link https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management to understand that this is all about simple UI improvements to make it easier to work with existing profiles.

The blog post is more than confusing, it is misleading. HN should link to the support page instead of the blog post.