MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troad | 2025-12-28 16:54:56+00:00
I switched away from Ubuntu over this. I have no major beef with Snaps, I see the benefit of a containerised app distribution system, but hijacking common apt packages is completely unacceptable.

If Microsoft started silently redirecting third-party software installers to the Microsoft Store everyone would be rightly outraged, and Ubuntu hasn't copped nearly enough slack for this.
by andy99 | 2025-12-28 16:55:12+00:00
I had (the same) Samsung android phone from 2017-2025. I bought an iPhone, mainly because of privacy concerns (for which I consider apple to be the least bad mainstream option, not good).

But I couldn’t get over how bad the ux is compared to my 7 year old phone. Things like highlighting, autocorrect, placing the cursor where you want “just don’t work”, the setup is unintuitive, the hotspot doesn’t work half the time, there are bugs (like email not connecting) that based on my searches are prevalent and have no solution “did you try updating and restarting”. I really couldn’t believe how bad it is.

But evidently people really like them, and I imagine they could find things not to like about my old Samsung, so to each his own I guess.
by gmreads | 2025-12-28 16:56:32+00:00
Although I do understand the analogy being made here. But I suspect OP much like myself is hoping for concrete suggestions. To my mind argument is Software Jobs will shrink and only the very elites will be valuable aka the recent Meta's 10s of millions of offers. But for the rest of average Joes it will be harsh job market or even non existent. So what can the average programmer do , concretely.
by kace91 | 2025-12-28 16:56:39+00:00
>It sounds great to me. I travel regularly for work, and when doing so I work and sleep with no social life. I get as much work done as possible and then I go back to my house and family. I don’t need a big room or anything really, because I’m just there for work. They obviously don’t fit every use case.

Have you read the article? it doesn't focus on travellers, it focuses on workers returning to the city after work from home is disallowed.

It's ok to have budget accomodations for travellers, and I can see capsules being more private than a hostel, but this article could be easily reframed as 'people working in london can't afford basic living space in the city, yet businesses are forcing them into the city'. This is not something to glorify in a lifestyle column.
by tim-tday | 2025-12-28 16:56:49+00:00
Most physicists still believe that the speed of light is a universal speed limit which means that even if life does exist elsewhere in the universe we will never see it.

The furthest we will reach before our civilization destroys itself will be the next star system over, and that’s if we start working on it today and invest a significant portion of our resources into it. Neither of which seem likely.
by tasuki | 2025-12-28 16:57:00+00:00
Which version? I have a X1 Carbon from, uhh, 2017? It supports S3 sleep. I'd think about an upgrade, if only I wasn't worried about sleep issues. I run Debian if that makes any difference.

Actually now that I think about it, my visceral reaction is one of dread: a feeling the trouble will be more than the benefit of a new computer.
by mort96 | 2025-12-28 16:58:31+00:00
The worrying thing is that his departure seems in no way like a consequence of his terrible job. He wasn't squeezed out by upper management, he left because Meta made him a better offer. I'm sure Apple's software quality will go up now that he's gone and his replacement is allegedly liked by Apple's competent UX people who disliked Dye; but Cook clearly doesn't recognise the problems, lest he'd have planned to get rid of Dye by now.
by abustamam | 2025-12-28 16:58:46+00:00
Not OP but I used to be totally into productivity hacks and being on top of things, goal setting, habit tracking, everything.

I stopped when I realized I could just... Not, and still thrive in my life. Simplify my systems.

I set myself a goal to workout every morning. Sometimes I miss it because my infant daughter decides to wake up at 4am instead of 5am. I give myself grace.

We eat largely the same meals every day. Some cooked protein, some cooked veggies, and a grain (rice or pasta).

And I just have a regular routine at work where I work on work and also do explorative education for myself during breaks. Look into different frameworks, patterns, etc.

I didn't need to meticulously plan out every second of my day, month, year. I just needed systems that made things predictable. Sometimes I drop the ball and it's fine. I get back on the horse when I can.
by cubefox | 2025-12-28 16:59:48+00:00
I think the real promise of "set-theoretic type systems" comes when don't just have (untagged) unions, but also intersections (Foo & Bar) and complements/negations (!Foo). Currently there is no such language with negations, but once you have them, the type system is "functionally complete", and you can represent arbitrary Boolen combination of types. E.g. "Foo | (Bar & !Baz)". Which sounds pretty powerful, although the practical use is not yet quite clear.
by afavour | 2025-12-28 17:01:03+00:00
Yes, I think ossified social structures have a lot to do with it. You work up the chain of management and eventually you find the son of the Earl of Tossingham, who turns out to be completely ineffectual.

The US has avoided that fate up until this point but when I look at Larry Ellison’s son buying Paramount with dad’s money, the Trump juniors cashing in on their dads name, I do have a sense of history repeating itself.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-28 17:02:07+00:00
> the dystopian British government installed CCTV cameras everywhere.

Um. You realise the vast majority of the UK's CCTV cameras are owned by private citizens and organizations other than the government right? The only government owned camera I can think of within a mile of here is a traffic camera watching a river crossing. The government has about 300 cameras total in my entire city.
by goldsteinq | 2025-12-28 17:02:11+00:00
> If you want a suggestion for secure messaging, it's Signal/WhatsApp. If you want to LARP at security with a handful of other folks, GPG is a fine way to do that.

I want secure messaging, not encrypted SMS.
I want my messages to sync properly between arbitrary number of devices.
I want my messaging history to not be lost when I lose a device.
I want not losing my messaging history to not be a paid feature.
I want to not depend on a shady crypto company to send a message.
by stefanfisk | 2025-12-28 17:02:20+00:00
I’ve tried XFCE, i3, Pop Shell and plain Gnome.

But it doesn’t really matter, since the DE doesn’t determine how individual apps behave.

My baseline is OSX from decade ago OSX with native apps where everyone was following the Apple HIG so consistently that using a Java app felt like waking up in the twilight zone. macOS these days have fallen quite a bit from its UX glory days but there’s still quite a bit to go before it hits the level of Ubuntu or Windows.

On Linux it feels to me like every app exists in its own parallell dimension where you never know if even the basic laws of physics still apply.
by jchw | 2025-12-28 17:02:26+00:00
It would suffice to say I don't always agree with even some of the best in the field, and they don't always agree with each other, either. Anders Hejlsberg isn't exactly a random n00b when it comes to programming language design and still called the C# equivalent a "destructor", though it is now known as a finalizer in line with other programming languages. They are things that clean up resources at the end of the life of an object; the difference between GC'd languages and RAII languages is that in a GC'd runtime the lifespan of an object is non-deterministic. That may very well change the programming model, as it does in many other ways, but it doesn't make the two concepts "fundamentally different" by any means. They're certainly related concepts...
by kace91 | 2025-12-28 17:02:29+00:00
>You misread the story

Did I?

>Workers who moved out of London for remote work are under pressure to come back to the office in the city, and some are choosing to stay in Japanese-inspired sleeping pods

>in 2025, there’s been a sharp recall in remote work offerings with major companies enforcing return to office mandates in London from HSBC to JPMorgan, Amazon, Salesforce and John Lewis.
A typically dormitory with roughly a dozen capsules inside Zedwell Capsule Hotel.
A typically dormitory with roughly a dozen capsules inside Zedwell Capsule Hotel.
Sawdah Bhaimiya

>Zedwell’s Aziz said one of the hotel’s core demographics is young professionals and hybrid workers who are using Zedwell as a “base in the city” due to their flexible working patterns which require them to be in the office for a few days a week.

This is not travelling, it's moving workers half the week to the tube.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-28 17:02:52+00:00
Related:

Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind (228 points, 2024, 401 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757775

Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors? (105 points, 2024, 114 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951990

Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes (86 points, 2024, 89 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39887661

Aphantasia and Psychedelics (63 points, 3 months ago, 117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438296
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-28 17:03:23+00:00
I've had a similar problem in my personal development journey.

I haven't solved it, but my experience has lead me to believe that building in public and blogging/vlogging your journey (why you started and what you learned) is promising. That type of content drives brand and product hype via views/engagement, helps you filter ideas (if your vlog is getting no traction, maybe not a great product?) and avoids promotional post rules in a lot of communities.

My new years resolution is to dial in my content driven development pipeline.
by delusional | 2025-12-28 17:03:28+00:00
None of the problems highlighted in the blogpost or in the WSJ video are problems that are automatically solved "in a little while". They are in fact the same exact problems people had when using this shit for pretend sexting 4 years ago.

Excuse me if I find it incredibly irresponsibly to be plowing billions into what is essentially a bad LARPing machine, and then going: "well we certainly had fun".
How much would you pay for precise auto refactoring?
by hackerchoda | 2025-12-28 17:04:37+00:00
Companies with tens and hundreds of product lines and code bases, what do they do when they encounter a technical debt? Of course, they spend thousands of developer hours and fix the debt just to be spending the same amount of time next year.

But what if? there exists a tool that can do that for you in a precise, controlled and well-though out manner?

How much would your company pay?
by gametorch | 2025-12-28 17:04:45+00:00
> Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times.

It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year.

I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.
by shermantanktop | 2025-12-28 17:04:45+00:00
I’m in a senior position and just coming off a year where I intentionally focused on enabling others and making the collective group more effective. That meant more reactive (and less visible) work.

I got feedback that my contributions weren’t tangible and visible enough. I switched gears back to my previous mode (more proactive work) and all is well again.

Different work cultures treat this differently. At another company my enabling activities would have been valued more. But I do think being the glue in a group is usually undervalued.
by abustamam | 2025-12-28 17:04:50+00:00
In every React team I've been part of we've wanted to use as little react as possible and use native DOM apis when possible. React would be used purely for state management or interactivity.

I feel like teams that have used react enough learn that the less React you can use the better :) it's a great tool, but most teams use it because it's all they know and they don't know what they don't know about html.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 17:04:54+00:00
> After three months of strong feedback during beta-testing, I was disappointed when Tahoe was released on 15 September to see how little had been addressed

Now it was a while ago I left the Apple ecosystem as it became clear they didn't actually care about UX anymore, but did "strong feedback during beta-testing" ever actually result in any results? I remember doing something similar back in 2012-2013 sometime, and friends having similar feelings across the years, that it makes me think that Apple never really did any changes based on feedback receiving during the beta testing.

Has anyone here ever written something in via the traditional feedback forms/venues and actually had something changed before the final release? I even asked around my circle of acquaintances and even the ones 110% into the Apple ecosystem seem to never have noticed anything changed based on their feedback.
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-28 17:04:59+00:00
Do you a favour an try it :-)

If you somehow curate your YT account, the shit wont show up anymore (only new shit not banned already) and you will see one thing: A curated youtube feed is actually rather empty :-D

On some days, I really have to actually look precisely if there is something new at all: Im a subscriber of 30-35 technical/business channels - its very rare that i could "spend a whole day watching YT", because there is just not enough new stuff.

Before curating my account, I also had the impression that "its endless and not any sort of structure" - but it has.
by evanelias | 2025-12-28 17:05:06+00:00
Part of the background for this entire dispute is that prior to the OSI's founding, "open source" was a generic phrase which was broadly understood to just mean "the source code is available". See many documented cases in https://dieter.plaetinck.be/posts/open-source-undefined-part...

So it's a bit ironic to argue that terms cannot be redefined, when that's already what happened with "open source" and what got us here in the first place. If OSI had chosen a novel term (e.g. "Sourceware" was one option they considered), they would have been able to trademark it and avoid this entire multi-decade-long argument.
by rostislav_dugin | 2025-12-28 17:05:47+00:00
Databasus and WAL-G have completely different architectures. WAL-G is installed on the server with DB. Databasus connects to the database remotely.

WAL-G is about PITR backups, Databasus is about logical ones.

From one side, Databasus usually is slower when database is large.

From another side, it's much easier to use (especially when you have a lot of DBs).

In the future, I am considering implementing incremental backups and following a similar approach as WAL-G or pgBackRest do. But it will be one of options, not mandatory one
by kstrauser | 2025-12-28 17:05:52+00:00
That’s an important point and one I’ve thought about a bit. If a human reads my code, then the next time they have to write similar code of their own, mine might be kicking around in the back of their head as an example (or maybe a counterexample if they think my implementation was awful; that’s at least equally likely). I’ve learned to code by reading what others wrote. I mean, my first exposure to code was typing in games from the backs of magazines so all of that author’s work went through my brain and fingers on its way to the CPU.

So is there an essential difference if an AI is involved in the middle? I genuinely don’t know. It feels different, but I can’t defend my opinion other than that “it just is”.
by blfr | 2025-12-28 17:05:53+00:00
Sure but wasn't this always the case? People told stories. joked, bantered, preached, and flirted both to communicate on different levels and to entertain themselves and each other.

And so my Signal is solid 40% memes. Memes that someone carefully selected and sent me but still pure entertainment. No evil monopoly necessary to make it so.
by transcriptase | 2025-12-28 17:06:15+00:00
I’ve seen so many cases of cheaters online where even the most braindead of checks would neuter most cheats:

Are they moving faster than conceivably possible by a real player? Even the most basic (x2-x1)/t > twice the theoretical will catch people teleporting or speed hacking.

Is their KDR or any other performance metric outside 5 standard deviations from the mean?

Here’s one: is everyone they encounter reporting them for cheating along with one of the above? Do people leave their matches constantly?

Defining and detecting objectively impossible things is not impossible.
by mjevans | 2025-12-28 17:06:28+00:00
DRM is on my no list. I want my operating system to respect my freedoms and privacy.

I'm barely willing to tolerate Steam's default DRM a little. Those are 'just games' and that particular version doesn't try very hard, plus the rest of the package (network effect, servers, and a strongly customer friendly brand) combine to balance out the negatives. I'm generally hopeful that as things become classic Steam will either continue to maintain the access servers or release versions that work properly without them.

For static media, just give me a reasonable way to pay a reasonable fee for the use license and place to get an unencumbered official high fidelity copy to enjoy.

Paraphrased: 'Copyright infringement indicates a customer service failure.' At least with respect to anyone who'd have considered the purchase in the first place.
by butvacuum | 2025-12-28 17:06:33+00:00
fyi: the impact is an intentional decision. if your nerve endings are signaling something else(hot, cold, movement, etc), a needle prick can get blurred with the rest or ignored altogether. I suspect the bang/clag CGM applicators produce are much the same.

and, for me, its always been the needle moving around thats been mentally disturbing. digging around vecause they missed for the blood draw, trying to hold a large vaccination dose steady as it needs to be injected over 20seconds. So, I suspect the speed itself reduces discomfort.
by puildupO | 2025-12-28 17:06:46+00:00
Thanks, that explanation is clear. Two things I am still trying to picture in practice.

- For ""derived values from DOM on demand"", what do you do when the derived value is expensive or used in multiple places. Do you just accept recomputing, or do you have a pattern to keep it from turning into lots of repeated DOM reads.
-And for bigger interactions like table row selection, keyboard navigation, drag and drop, does your approach still model that as DOM attributes and queries, or do you keep a small in memory store for that kind of state.

The MutationObserver tips are useful too, scoping and attributeFilter feels like the difference between this being neat and this being a footgun. I will take a look at the repo and the book. Thanks
by foxygen | 2025-12-28 17:07:07+00:00
My MacOS has this insane bug where the cursor sometimes won't change to a pointer/loading/any other state on my second monitor. This is really bad, but even worse for me who writes websites for a living, and need to check that my CSS cursor pointer class actually worked. I can't count how many minutes I've lost refreshing my browser and double-checking my code. Now I just keep my browser on my primary monitor. I've found many other people with this bug on the internet, and it has been happening for YEARS. I honestly can't understand how a premium product aimed at developers can have something like this for YEARS without a fix. I'm moving away from MacOS, and might ditch my iPhone too as I won't have all the nice integration with MacOS anymore.

Fuck you, Apple.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 17:07:09+00:00
> The thing that amazes me most is that everyone on the teams responsible is probably using their Apple devices and running into these same bugs!

This is what surprises me the most to be honest. CarPlay seemingly still suffers from a (sometimes deadly) issue of covering the entire map on your dashboard with the avatar/number of the person calling, so if you're actively using it for navigation (since, you know, there is a map there and all) someone calling you is a highly stressful moment and more than not you need to hang up because otherwise the call is in the way.

I've had my iPhone 12 Mini for so many years now, and this is still an issue, the only conclusion I can take from this is that people at Apple actually all have Android phones.
by edwardtay | 2025-12-28 17:07:10+00:00
This is a fascinating glimpse into a world most people will never experience. A few questions if you're open to sharing:

1. How did the classification level affect everyday social interactions? Were there topics that were implicitly off-limits even within the city among residents?

2. You mentioned the zoo in the middle of the desert - what drove that decision? Was it purely for morale/quality of life, or were there other factors?

3. Looking back now with perspective, how do you think growing up in such a unique environment shaped your worldview compared to peers who grew up in "normal" Chinese cities?

Also really interested in hearing about the technical side if you're comfortable sharing - what was the general sentiment among the scientists and engineers about their work? Did they talk about it as "nation-building" or was it more pragmatic?

Looking forward to Part 2!
by edwardtay | 2025-12-28 17:08:19+00:00
This is really clean! Love the minimalist approach and the URL parameter configuration is elegant - no build step, no framework bloat, just vanilla JS.

A few thoughts/questions:

1. Have you considered adding keyboard navigation? Something like arrow keys to move between days, 'j/k' for week navigation, 't' to jump to today? Would fit nicely with the minimalist ethos.

2. The ?start_month parameter is interesting - do you use this to create different "views" for different contexts (work calendar, personal, etc.)?

3. Any thoughts on adding a simple data persistence layer? Even just localStorage for notes would be powerful while keeping it lightweight.

4. How do you handle the data file updates? Manual editing or do you have a simple script/workflow?

The Chinese calendar integration is a nice touch - are you targeting a specific audience or is that for personal use? Would be interesting to see similar presets for other calendar systems (Hebrew, Islamic, etc.) as optional query params.
by edwardtay | 2025-12-28 17:09:18+00:00
The metabolic competition angle is fascinating - it's elegant how this leverages the body's own resource allocation rather than trying to poison cancer cells directly.

A few questions about the mechanism:

1. How selective is this approach? Cancer cells are notoriously heterogeneous - do different cancer types or subtypes respond differently to this metabolic pressure?

2. The cold exposure converting white to beige fat is interesting, but what about the feasibility for actual patients? Sustained cold exposure seems difficult to maintain for someone already dealing with cancer treatment.

3. Has anyone looked at whether this could work synergistically with existing metabolic therapies like metformin or ketogenic diets? The metabolic stress combined with nutrient competition could be powerful.

4. What's the risk of adaptive resistance? Cancer cells are remarkably good at finding alternative metabolic pathways when stressed.

RIP to Nguyen - it's heartbreaking when promising researchers pass before seeing their work come to fruition. Hope the team continues this line of investigation.