MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-06 13:01:04+00:00
N == 1, but I used to live in a block of flats with three truck driver families. All three marriages collapsed over their fathers' frequent absence from home.

You can say that they would have collapsed over something else if they stayed at home, but this is what the people themselves told me.

Driving to Spain and back takes two weeks. After two weeks of his absence "I felt like a young widow already", said Hana, the youngest of the wives.
by sham1 | 2025-12-06 13:01:12+00:00
I personally run Fedora Kinoite (the KDE equivalent of Fedora Silveblue) and Emacs works fine for me. I ended up installing it as a sysext[0] and it works just fine. I did also use it at one point both in a toolbox container and a flatpak, but it always felt a bit flaky there.

But honestly, since Emacs is so core to my personal workflow, I think that it's fine to use a system extension for it. Alternatively it could be layered on, which would also of course work. After that, interacting with the containers is of course just using TRAMP to "connect" to them, and that of course works just fine.

[0]: <https://github.com/fedora-sysexts/fedora> & <https://fedora-sysexts.github.io/fedora/>
by em-bee | 2025-12-06 13:01:19+00:00
you are missing the point. addressing people concerns doesn't mean conceding that they are right about the cause of those concerns. it means listening to them and work with them to find the actual root causes and then fix those. it means taking people seriously with the fact that they have concerns and not ignore them.

ignoring people because you consider their concerns illegitimate doesn't wok when they make up more than 50% of the voters. it doesn't even work when they make up more than say 20% of the voters.

but as i keep repeating, addressing concerns means educating people, not letting them have their way.
by cs702 | 2025-12-06 13:01:34+00:00
I just looked briefly at the data provided by the NHTSA, and what I see is a jump after the pandemic, followed by declines in 2022 and 2023, contradicting the OP:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/crash-data-systems/fatality-analysis-r...

https://highways.dot.gov/safety/learn-safety/roadway-safety-...
by monerozcash | 2025-12-06 13:01:48+00:00
The typical solutions deployed by some European bigcos are:

1) only bring burner devices

2) have your devices travel separately using some courier service

Yeah, they can still request your social media profiles and whatnot. You are not particularly likely to be denied entry because you don't have your normal devices with you, this is not very uncommon these days.

Of course it's better to be able to say that your employer requires you to do this, so it's probably good to ask your boss to write up such a policy. Otherwise "why?" could be a pretty uncomfortable question.
Show HN: The Port Augusta Times – "All the news that's fit to generate"
by gabriel666smith | 2025-12-06 13:02:06+00:00
I have been having a lot of fun getting GPT-OSS-20b (at temp=2.0, Top K = 100) to generate newspaper articles for local newspapers, then asking it to generate the content of articles I want to read.

The natural extension seemed like taking this extremely seriously, so this was a fun & quick Saturday morning project. I'm having a lot of fun clicking around and thought I'd share, in case anyone wants to know what is going on in Port Augusta.
by wobfan | 2025-12-06 13:02:39+00:00
You're comparing apples to oranges.

Switching the ecosystem from something like Shopify to some other shop software requires a lot of manual work, and some of the stuff won't even be transferable 1:1.

Fixing some issue with your WordPress installation will require a person who can google and knows a little stuff about webservers, and maybe containers, and will usually go pretty fast, as WordPress is open source and runs almost half the internet, and almost every problem that will come up will have been solved in some StackOverflow thread or GitHub issue.

Usually though, if you run WordPress and you're not doing a lot of hacky stuff, you will not encounter problems. Vendors shutting you down, increasing their pricing, or shutting down vital features in their software, happens regularly though. And if it happens, shit hits the fan.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-12-06 13:02:57+00:00
Check out this fully self-hosted solution that was posted on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081188

After the article I set it up myself, it took me around a day I would say. It supports exactly what you're asking for, although it's not a comprehensive tutorial so you'll need to figure some things out on your own.

Full disclosure I ended up turning it off only 2 days later because it was causing too many issues with networking and I suck at networking-related things, but it was great while it was working. I plan on setting it up again in the near future.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-06 13:03:40+00:00
"But since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, the universe cannot be, and could never be, a simulation."

The same may apply to "intelligence" --- aka AGI.

As far as I know, there is no proof that AGI can be produced or simulated by a binary logic algorithm running on a finite computer.

Hence, some people support the idea of "emergence" --- aka alchemy, aka PFM --- Pure Friggin Magic.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-06 13:03:53+00:00
That's a webpage with an ad being viewed in the browser app.

It isn't part of the "cover screen" (home screen) where the Samsung ads show up.

https://9to5google.com/samsung-smart-fridge-ads-how-to-turn-...

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10007562/

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173339.
by neomantra | 2025-12-06 13:04:21+00:00
Next up: <blink> tags on fridge triggers seizures

Back in the day we asked webmasters to run their web sites through Bobby for accessibility checks.

I am curious if any LLM work like this is being done. If it were really a smart fridge, it would moderate its users content appropriately. Eg I don’t want haram ads, don’t freak me out, I’m color blind.
by kaoD | 2025-12-06 13:04:35+00:00
It's not "the internet". It is "this internet".

Back in the 90s early 00s the internet made us mesh together because each one of us there was a specific person. We had forum signatures and every single post was clearly made by a person, for a person.

Then social media took over and relegated every single person into a tiny unidentifiable avatar next to a non-prominent name, not unlike NPCs in CRPGs.

In turn this has been exploited by the powers that be to ensure the social glue gets even weaker: a society barely held together won't revolt. There's only one thing left to do: productivity, productivity, productivity.

The political opponent is no longer a person. Just a nameless, faceless NPC (personifying everything that's wrong) spawned there to be defeated and collect their social loot tokens.

But I might just be an old fart rambling about the good, old days.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-12-06 13:04:42+00:00
> If this was open sourced, it had the potential to severely change the software/IT industry.

As an engineering undergrad I had a similar feeling about Matlab & Mathematica.

Matlab especially had 'tool boxes' that you bought as add-ons to do specific engineering calcs and simulations and it was great, but I almost always found myself recreating things in python just because it felt slightly more sane to handle data and glue code.

Pandas and Matplotlib and SciPy all used via an ipython notebook were almost a replacement.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-06 13:05:12+00:00
> And I'm being generous when I say "pretty": I have never encountered it in any job or even in academia. People know of it. They just don't use it for work.

To my knowledge, at least in academia, Wolfram (Mathematica) seems to be used quite a bit by physicists. Also in some areas of mathematics it is used (but many mathematicians seems to prefer Maple). Concerning mathematical research, I want to mention that by now also some open-source (and often more specialized) CASs seem to have become more widespread, such as SageMath, SymPy, Macaulay2, GP/PARI or GAP.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-12-06 13:06:46+00:00
Chicagoland here. We have a pet theory that covid changed how people drive. From where I sit, it is not just semis ( though those will have the biggest impact should something happen ). That said, just yesterday I was dodging ice balls falling from massive semi ( my only real question was how... was it just getting on the road or something? )
Show HN: I built SharpSkill because I was frustrated of my Tech interviews
by Enjoyooor | 2025-12-06 13:07:01+00:00
Hey,

My name is Benjamin and as many developers, I was tired to not succeed my technical interviews, for any reasons.

I made SharpSkill in order to change that.

Real Use Case, flashcards & interview simulators.

One goal : Destroy the next technical interviews.

Open to any feedbacks.
by bumby | 2025-12-06 13:07:22+00:00
You’re saying finding the people most incentivized by money is the feature we should be optimizing for?

If you select those people, what’s to keep them from creating a system that gives them ever more amounts of money, to the detriment of their constituents?

Maybe a better system for selecting civil servants is…I dunno…a system that optimizes for that “service” part? It’s shocking how in the last few decades we’ve convinced ourselves that money is the only filter that motivates people and is the inherent driver of all human action.
by thanzex | 2025-12-06 13:07:30+00:00
I really don't understand this take. A script that installs all required dependencies is fine if and only if you are dedicating a machine to immich. It probably requires some version of node, with possibly hidden dependencies on some python, it uses ffmpeg, so all related libraries and executables need to be there. You then have a couple separate DBs, all communicating together. Let's not talk about updates! What if you're skipping versions? Now your "simple install script" becomes a fragile behemoth. I would NOT consider this if it was non docker-native. Plus, I don't have a server with enough resources for a lot of VMs, with all of their overhead and complications, just to have one per service. Nowadays there are many ways to run a container not just the original docker.com software, and you can do that on pretty much any platform. Even Android now!
by reedlaw | 2025-12-06 13:07:43+00:00
Although Immich does backup from your phone, I don't see it as a viable backup solution. Git-annex, Unison, and Syncthing are much better at keeping files synchronized across devices. Immich will create its own copies of photos and transcode videos for playback on the web. That may be fine if you have enough storage space, but for me it makes the phone backup useless. I suppose you could use a git-annex special remote directory as an Immich external library.
by throwawaysleep | 2025-12-06 13:08:17+00:00
The problem with accessibility is the need to think about it at all. It doesn't matter how easy it is to implement as the problem first and foremost is the mental and organizational bandwidth consumes.

Perfect accessibility on the web as it stands requires every dev to be working on it. Especially in a world of AI, efforts on this would be better spent on AI agents that replace screenreaders.
by RobotToaster | 2025-12-06 13:08:37+00:00
It's worth noting the UK already commissioned a review that was published this year, that showed ADHD is in fact under-recognised here[0]. I can only assume they're commissioning a new one because that one gave the "wrong" answer.

For a long time ADHD was ignored or dismissed in the UK as an "americanitis", so it's no surprise that there's a backlog of people who weren't diagnosed in childhood.

[0] https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/report-of-the-independe...
by mrmckizzle | 2025-12-06 13:08:46+00:00
My dad retired from truck driving right before the covid lockdowns (2020). The regulations were a massive painpoint. During the Obama's last term they passed in strict time tracking regulations and forced everyone to have GPS trackers on their trucks to enforce the time tracking.

Due to this my dad had to drive a higher average speed of ~65-70mph to cover the distances required and not use up his available hours.

Before he'd drive slower 55-65 ave mph for longer hours and take frequent breaks.

Regulations are fine, but when you make them too strict it makes it difficult for new drivers to join and usually it's easier to be part of a corperation than an owner-operator (my dad).
by mettamage | 2025-12-06 13:09:00+00:00
Hmm to feel a bit elevated makes sense. I also have that with one glass of alcohol at certain times. Heart rate goes up, things get a bit more intense. It's a nice vibe if you're open to it. It's also a bit subtle.

For me what I've noticed: 2 cups hits the spot, but I always tend to drink more, around 4 cups. On the 3rd cup my mind gets jittery. It's not so much my body or anything and I don't experience the jitters strongly but at the same time I feel a stronger focus while noticing that stronger focus isn't getting anything extra done. Hence I call it mind jitters.

But I can imagine that at 2 cups people are genuinely just a bit elevated in certain ways.
by everfrustrated | 2025-12-06 13:09:06+00:00
On modern AWS instance types so much is offloaded to dedicated hardware that the only shared (noisy) components between VMs is memory bandwidth and higher levels of CPU cache (and I think graviton doesn't even share CPU cache now)

I would suspect your performance difference is mostly likely showing that on metal you are sharing the same software wider so not polluting caches as much as a vm neighbour running unrelated software.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-06 13:09:09+00:00
I don’t think life is generally worse than 20 years ago. Sure some things are tougher and it depends on your class how much you feel the stress - but looking at most metrics like child mortality, literacy, starvation and people dying in armed conflicts those improved compared to 20 years ago. Sure for some there is a recent change (most notably war in Europe and genocide in Gaza) - but overall it’s still positive.

That might not be true for the USA but overall it is.

What I think is a big cause for my generation (gen-x) is that we were promised this “perfect” harmonious world beginning of the 90s/00s with all kinds of tech marvels and no more wars and oppression and freedom and abundance for everyone.

Waking up to the reality of the human condition hasn’t been easy for that generation.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-06 13:09:14+00:00
> in a distributed system of transactions where availability is guaranteed, performance is evaluated horizontally, change is frequent and easy,

Isn't that the situation inside a CPU across its multiple cores? Data is replicated (into caches) in a distributed system of transactions, because each core uses its own L2 cache with which it interacts, and has to be sent back to main memory for consistence. Works amazing.

Another even more complex system: a multi CPU motherboard supporting NUMA access: 2 CPUs coordinate their multiple cores to send over RAM from the other CPU. I have one of these "distributed systems" at home, works amazing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access
by alexfoo | 2025-12-06 13:09:58+00:00
> The day-to-day impact of being diagnosed is practically non-existant for me.

Yeah, as the old adage goes: with an ADH?D diagnosis you get to try drugs like lisdex or methylphenidate (or the non-stim options if those aren't suitable), but with an Autism/ASD diagnosis you get some pamphlets, coffee morning invites and a reading list.

I don't have a formal diagnosis but my child does and that made me read lots on the subject. Authors like Eliza Fricker, Ellie Middleton, Pete Wharmby amongst others.

It's opened my eyes to many other related aspects, specifically Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) and Pathalogical Demand Avoidance (PDA) and how those play into both ADH?D and ASD. In reading about them I've worked out just how much they apply to my-undiagnosed-self and how understanding the triggers and recognising the early behaviour has allowed me to adapt to minimise their impact.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-06 13:10:32+00:00
> applied GRABAdo1.0, a GPCR-based sensor for adenosine

At first the intro was:

> Using genetically encoded adenosine sensors

And I did not know what was meant with that. Lateron this became more clear - GPCR is a common motif for membrane-based receptor systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_protein-coupled_receptor

So, saying it is "genetically encoded" xyz, means absolutely NOTHING at all, because all the other receptors based on GPCR (see the wikipedia article) are ALSO "genetically encoded". After all some stretch of DNA yields mRNA which in turn is translated into the corresponding aminoacid sequence (= protein), if we ignore splicing and so forth to simplify this (and then transport into the membrane). This is supposed to be a scientific article though - why do they use such a strange terminology e. g. "genetically encoded"? I mean, this follows by simple logic unless it was made completely artificially. Lateron in the article it is more clear, but it is strange that they use those words in the summary-intro part. It almost seems to me as if they wanted to integrate certain keywords as buzzwords or to rank an article higher. I don't quite like that.

Contrast this to Watson and Crick from 1953:

"It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material."

It is probably one of the most famous intro lines, e. g. the "It has not escaped our notice" since it was so casual. (And they built their insights on data of others, so it wasn't just Watson and Crick to have made the discovery; not even only Franklin etc.. but several more that should have been credited with it. Watson and Crick's main achivement here was more that they built it together into a simple, cohesive overview and explanation model. If I recall correctly, Linus Pauling also came close but proposed three helices.)
by W4G1 | 2025-12-06 13:11:28+00:00
Interesting. Are you talking about the latency to spawn new workers, or getting data from the main thread to the worker? To give you an idea, this library uses a lazily initialized thread pool (thread-per-core by default), where tasks are shared between workers (like the Tokio library in Rust). This means workers only need to be initialized once, and passing data via structured clone is usually very fast and optimized in most engines. Better yet is to use ArrayBuffer or SharedArrayBuffer, which can be transferred or shared between threads without any serialization overhead.
by omnimus | 2025-12-06 13:11:28+00:00
The catch with immutable linux is that it can be hard or undesirable to install some core parts like window managers or docker.

So much better approach is to get most of what you prefer by picking right distro. On the other hand ublue makes it very upproachable to make such distros (even yourself). Thats why there are so many of them.
by leoc | 2025-12-06 13:12:17+00:00
The first demonstrator here is Timothy E. Johnson, not Ivan Sutherland. Johnson did the "Sketchpad III" work extending Sketchpad into 3D which is demonstrated from 11:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o&t=690s . Then Larry Roberts appears to demonstrate his own work on hidden-line removal, which is shown from 14:42 https://youtu.be/6orsmFndx_o?t=882 .

See https://tx-2.github.io/videos#sketchpad for more video, including appearances by Sutherland himself. https://tx-2.github.io/ is an active effort to get Sketchpad running again on a new TX-2 emulator.
by strictfp | 2025-12-06 13:13:31+00:00
I've seen work environments that are chaotic, and people are expected to deliver things that they can't deliver without navigating and taming the chaos to do their bidding.

If course that's stressful. You can't expect individuals to tame the organization.

I think some parts of IT have deteriorated into anarchy with tyrannic leadership.

Sure, you can have anarchy. But then don't expect any particular timelines.

You can hire armies of people. But then don't expect one corner of the org to be able to deliver something that involves talking to everyone.

You can't have the cake and eat it too.
by pixelpoet | 2025-12-06 13:13:44+00:00
If I decide to write messages 1m away from my keyboard using a golf club, the onus is on me to not produce gibberish; I can't suddenly cry that that the computer failed to magically / psychically produce the actual intended text without any extra effort on my part to correct the keystrokes I mashed by accident.

I'm the one with the eyeballs and intent, simple as that.

> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

- Charles Babbage
by H8crilA | 2025-12-06 13:14:11+00:00
BTW, there's research that shows that schizotypy (schizotypal/schizophrenia) is sort of the opposite of autism. You have to squint your eyes a bit, for example both of these neurotypes involve social difficulties, like the subjective feeling of being alien in the world (known as Anderssein in German psychiatry). However if you peel off the social layer then the remaining autistic features become anti-correlated with the remaining schizotypal features on the scale of the population. There are also some decent theories that suggest this should be the case - for example in the predictive coding theory it is believed that autistic brains over-weigh sensory inputs over their model of the world, whereas schizotypal brains over-weigh their model of the world over the sensory inputs. Or the Big Five traits, openness to experience is usually low in autism and high in schizophrenia.
by Zak | 2025-12-06 13:14:33+00:00
As far as I know, the effect of linking to GPL code hasn't actually been tested in court.

The license is intended to impose obligations in the case of linking, but dynamic linking does not make a copy of the library at build time; it just generates enough metadata for the program to call the library. One might reasonably argue that no derivative work is created by dynamic linking, or that it is only created when the end user runs it.

EULAs are enforceable because the program is copied into RAM at runtime (a bad precedent, I think), but the GPL is not a EULA and only imposes requirements on distributors, not end users.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-12-06 13:14:37+00:00
Their edits on YouTube shorts are hideous but at least it is 100% obvious that artificial edits were applied.

I have a funny attitude towards Google: I am a big privacy nut, have read the principle books on privacy, etc. That said, usually running all Google web properties in DuckDuckGo web browser, I tweak my privacy settings, etc. and then still use Google properties.

YouTube is probably the highest value Google property for me (despite Gemini use, love using Google Cloud Platform, etc.)

I find that the availability of an infinite number of Qi Gong exercise videos, philosophy, tiny bit of politics, science, and nature videos that is it almost infinitely better than HBO, Netflix, etc. I am a paid subscriber to all these services so I am comparing Apples to Apples here.

I do hate spending 10 seconds opening a video and realizing that it was created artificially, but I immediately stop watching it so the overhead isn’t too bad.

One new feature I really like is if I am watching a long philosophy or science video, I paste the URI into Gemini and ask for a summary and to use what Gemini knows about me to suggest ways the material jives with my specific interests. After watching a long video it is very much worth my time getting a summary and comments that also pull in other references.

Sorry for the noisy reply here, but I am saying to use Google properties mindfully, balancing pros and cons, and just use the parts that are useful and only open up sharing private information when you get something tangible for it.