MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by readthenotes1 | 2025-12-06 23:23:21+00:00
I agree; however, I also disagree: the culture and systems in which people live do affect their behavior, and the boomers moved their youth in a different world than the youth of today and that did affect them as a group and how they could express their natural pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth
by nkmnz | 2025-12-06 23:23:22+00:00
I've spoken to many people in the past 10 years or so who were in a crisis/burnout/depression or however they personally labelled their situation with varying degrees of bad mood, depressed affect, and reduced energy. Every single one of them had a mask they had been wearing for a very long time, and which was hugely mentally draining on them. Most of them wore the mask especially when interacting with themselves, interestingly. Some of them self-identified as neuro-atypical (with or without professional diagnosis), others didn't. Some of them identified their situation as a co-morbidity of being atypical, others as a result of it, or as a pure coincidence. It's not clear to me whether the masks themselves and/or the current inability to wear them were a reason, a symptom, or just a coincidence of said situations and/or the subjective or objective atypicalliness. But whenever I hear that masking has such a huge drain on people with ADHD/autism I wonder about the questions of cause and effect, the question of correlation and causation, and the question of (self-)selection bias. It's really a mess and it's very difficult to make sense of any of that. But mostly, I feel that discussing ways how society could reduce the pressure to mask might be more beneficial to everyone than finding the perfect definitions for groups of people who have an accepted reason to be drained by their masking, while others must still endure because their masking is not socially or medically recognized as unnecessary suffering.

p.s.: hope you're doing better now.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-06 23:23:23+00:00
> Your high sat scores won't prevent you from puking at the sight of corpses or diseases.

Which only applies to a minority of people, and even that minority of people could still become an orthodontist. Likewise, if your SAT scores are 800 math and 450 verbal then that's quite uncommon and you probably shouldn't try to be a lawyer but you could still be a quant, and if you have certain medical conditions then you can't be a commercial airline pilot but you could still be a dermatologist.

It doesn't matter if every individual engineer has every individual option available to them when the overwhelming majority of engineers have a significant variety of alternatives.

> There's way more to performing in medicine that sat scores.

There is way more to performing in <anything> than <any individual thing>. But we use these things as proxies because they're designed and intended to be proxies and they're the thing for which data is available if data is the thing you want to inspect.
Show HN: Online version of Teeko, of Guy L. Steele fame
by ptramo | 2025-12-06 23:23:28+00:00
John Scarne invented the game in the 1950s (an improved variation of his 1945 Teko). Guy L. Steele solved it in 1998. A draft of teeko.cc launched in 2021. Today it got a UI revamp and bots.
by tcoff91 | 2025-12-06 23:24:30+00:00
I know how to do everything in git that I can do in jj but the thing is I would never bother doing most of these workflows with git because it’s way more of a pain in the ass than with jj. I work with version control in a totally different way now because how easy jj makes it to edit the graph.

Within a day of switching I was fully up to speed with jj and I never see myself going back. I use colocated repos so I can still use git tools in my editor for blaming and viewing file history.

Sure even rebasing a complex tree in git can be done by creating an octopus merge of all leaf nodes and rebasing with preserve merges but like that’s such a pain.
by oscaracso | 2025-12-06 23:25:03+00:00
You have not assessed the facts critically. The argument in favor of glyphosate's safety is that, as the herbicidal action is the result of disrupting an amino acid synthesis pathway that in animals does not exist, it is therefore harmless to animals. This argument is already fallacious: all it does is establish the mechanism by which it is harmful to plants. These studies evidence that glyphosate is harmful to animals and investigate the mechanisms underlying the harm. The fact that these experimental conditions are not the same conditions under which glyphosate is consumed in the food chain does not make it bad science, because science is concerned with knowledge that generalizes (e.g. biological mechanisms and pathways) and these mechanisms cannot be gleaned by reproducing the conditions already in place.

The comparison with vitamins is not relevant, and to bring it up suggests you are not thinking clearly.
by isthatafact | 2025-12-06 23:27:04+00:00
Freedom from ads seems like a fundamental human right, and necessary for freedom of thought. "Unskippable" ads seem incompatible with freedom of thought.

> "Users should have choice & control."

Given that people currently are not able to choose to be free from advertisements in any practical way, even if abstaining from luxuries, some sort of severe regulation seems necessary.
Ask HN: What is the Bootstrap/Tailwind equivalent for SwiftUI?
by takinola | 2025-12-06 23:27:24+00:00
I am starting to learn to build iOS apps with SwitftUI. However, my design skills are minimal at best. Is there a design framework that helps non-designers build reasonably good looking apps (similar to how Bootstrap and Tailwind helped web devs)? If not, what has worked for you to create decent looking apps?
by bronlund | 2025-12-06 23:27:31+00:00
I appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me. I think I'm just a little fed up about the whole concept since a lot of series are just like this. Making fun of stupid people is an honest thing I guess, but mostly it just seems kind of forced.

Me having just seen 5 minutes of it, could be wrong, but the impression I got was that the satire wasn't social criticism or directed towards the powers at be, as I think satire should be, but towards the little guy. Which I just don't think is that funny.

You mention the movie Falling Down, but at no time during this, did I feel anything but sympathy for the main character. In contrast to The Chair Company, which made me develop a real antipathy for the main character in just the first 5 minutes.
by tcmart14 | 2025-12-06 23:28:20+00:00
There are some good stuff on the software side that people mention, but a big one is the driver support. We would need device makers to upstream support so there is less worrying about reverse engineering or needing to run modified ROMs based on old builds. Or just publish specs on the hardware that is enough for implementation. Sure, you can buy a specific phone and run a de-googled android or linux, but that only really works for the hobbyist who wants to spend time doing this. Which makes it difficult to create a market that encourages developers of software to port their software or write new software. With out being able to broadly support devices, most people are gonna be better off running Google's android.
by vunderba | 2025-12-06 23:28:33+00:00
Thanks for the heads up. I just checked the site through several browsers and proxying through a VPN. There's no typo and it properly links to:

https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image

Screenshot of site with network tools open to indicate link

https://imgur.com/a/FZDz0K2

EDIT: It's possible that this issue might have existed in an old cached version. I'll purge the cache just to make sure.
by efreak | 2025-12-06 23:28:34+00:00
So the US government can't punish you for speaking, and they can't punish someone else for speaking on your behalf. They can, however, punish you for speaking in exchange for money, speaking words you don't believe (advertising, lying). They can punish you for trying to brainwash people (the difference between advertising and propaganda is who is speaking and what they get from it, and why). They can punish you for forcing others to listen to your words (my neighbor playing music at night). They can punish you for making unfair deals. Most of this is not usually applied to private speech, but the right to free speech does not prevent it. You cannot be punished for attempting to speak in general, however there are absolutely limits.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-06 23:28:41+00:00
Looking at the source code or copy-item (assuming the author is using a recent version of PowerShell) at https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/Mic... which calls https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/Sys..., there seems to be quite a bit of (non-OS) logic that takes place before copying across the network. Copying many small files probably triggers some overhead there.

Then, when the copying happens, this seems to be the code that actually copies the file, at least when copying from remote to local, using the default file system provider: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/Sys...

Unless I've taken a wrong turn following the many abstraction layers, this file copy seems to involve connecting to a remote server and exchanging the file contents over a base64 stream (?) using nothing but a standard OutputStream to write the contents.

This means that whatever performance improvements Microsoft may have stuffed into their native network filesystem copy operations doesn't seem to get triggered. The impact will probably differ depending on if you're copying Windows-to-Windows or SAMBA-to-Windows or Windows-to-SAMBA.

I'm no PowerShell guru, but if you can write a (C#?) cmdlet to invoke https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi... with a properly prepared https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi... rather than use the native Copy-Item, I expect you'd get the exact same performance you'd get on Windows Explorer.

However, the other measurements do show some rather weird slowdowns for basic filesystem operations over SFTP or WSL2. I think there's more at play there, as I've never seen sftp not reach at least a gigabit given enough time for the window sizes to grow. I think the NAS itself may not be very powerful/powerful enough to support many operations per second, limiting the output for other copy tools.

As an alternative, Windows contains an NFS client that can be tuned to be quite fast, which should have minimal performance overhead on Linux if kernel-NFS is available.
by baranul | 2025-12-06 23:29:04+00:00
Mr. dang, is there some other secret guidelines, stealth censorship, or are only certain languages allowed to be discussed? Post that are submitted are shadow banned or hidden for unknown reasons? Please explain.

Examples:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177518

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177449

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177449
by nkmnz | 2025-12-06 23:29:11+00:00
Very good questions. Some part of the answer might come down to your identify. Do you identify as an anxious person or a person with anxiety? The question would become even more interesting if you'd be taking a drug: is a person treating their depression successfully with an antidepressant still a depressed person? Or a person with depression? Do you have high blood pressure if you don't have high blood pressure due to meds?
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-06 23:29:57+00:00
These are delicate issues. Not least because research value takes an unpredictably (default long) time to harvest. Here's an agricultural example, which exposes some of the same. Might not be better than the above though it could move the discussion: vanilla farming

-guy discovers manual pollination, unable to capture value in his lifetime.

-people don't starve when they can't have vanilla in their soft serve, but it's still one of the more expensive spices.

-lawlessness means farmers often lose harvests to thiefs.

-Ongoing research to automate pollination (& move production to more developed polities) but I don't think the status quo is going to budge in the coming decades, mostly because the end users always get their supply
by colechristensen | 2025-12-06 23:30:32+00:00
I can build fully functional applications without writing a single line of code with Claude. In my free time. On a weekend. I'm going to release one of them pretty soon. A toddler being able to do this instead of an industry veteran isn't that compelling. Avoiding the few pitfalls of the LLM getting stuck and taking a while to get out isn't that valuable.

>Good enough? There's no such thing.

This is just wrong. Maybe you can't imagine good enough, I can. And I think "better" is going to start getting diminishing returns as the velocity of improvements I expect to slow and the value of improvements are going to become less meaningful. The "cost" of a LLM making mistakes is already pretty low, cutting it in half is better, sure, but it's so low already I don't particularly care if it gets some multiple more rare.
by sublinear | 2025-12-06 23:30:40+00:00
People focus too much on the new and not enough on the rest. Of course what's new is going to seem fake because it is. Nobody has figured it out yet. The rest never changed or has improved significantly.

Anyone older than about 30 who takes a few minutes to reflect on all the little details of daily life could probably come up with a surprisingly long list of annoying little inconveniences they no longer have to deal with. Beyond that we've had decades worth of casually raising the bar for what is considered common sense and polite. These are the "real" things we take for granted.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-06 23:30:47+00:00
That's not how population genetics work.

Almost every European-descended person has ancestry from Kings and peasants alike. Even the very recent Oliver Cromwell has way more than 20k living descendants in the UK. If you have any substantial English ancestry, there is a Plantagenet somewhere in your family tree to a mathematical certainty.

On the continent, and in other aristocratic societies like Dynastic-era China, things are much the same. If Qin Shihuang's progeny weren't all put to the sword, just about every Han Chinese person is descended from Qin Shihuang.

Read about the "identical ancestors point". Past that point, every individual alive is either: (1) ancestor of everyone alive today, or (2) ancestor of no one alive today.
by hirvi74 | 2025-12-06 23:30:53+00:00
> has anyone here gotten diagnosed and medicated in adulthood

Yes.

> and found it made a meaningful difference specifically for self-directed, long-term projects?

No.

I was dx'd in my early twenties and have been treated for over a decade. I would say there is a minor improvement in some areas, but it's not like I became some radically different person. I'm still highly dysfunctional in a lot of domains.

I would say medication provides me a better ability to focus on tasks, but that is about it. Of course, if you start medication, you will likely become a radically different person during the 'honeymoon phase', but if you are like me, there will be a reversion to the mean.
by palata | 2025-12-06 23:32:28+00:00
I don't know it for sure, but I think it wasn't working until a recent update (like 6 months ago). Also an unintuitive thing is that the location permission has to be given to the app "all the time", and I think I had to manually go into the settings to set it up.

I think that the forum posts may be old, and/or a bunch of them may come from users who did not know that they had to set the location permission this way (which admittedly is unintuitive for photo syncing).
by stragies | 2025-12-06 23:32:32+00:00
The manual, as OP said, does not offer any explanation, why the device might show up with an additional MAC/IP at the upstream switch port, and which services it might offer. OP sounds knowledgeable enough to be able to exclude the possibility, that the additional MAC/IP could be from one of the PCs, like e.g. when playing with VMs using an internal bridge in the Hypervisor.

Maybe the device has a bigger "cousin" device, that includes "control via APP", and this feature was not properly/fully disabled on this one.
by api | 2025-12-06 23:32:38+00:00
Romanticizing the past is hot again right now, and kind of comes in two political flavors: trads and neo-monarchists on the right, and greens and anarcho-primitivists on the left (whom I consider to be left-trads).

It’s always important to repeat the PSA that this is always survivorship bias and mythologizing. The past was very often much harder and worse than the present. When it wasn’t worse, it was just different. People back then faced existential angst, fear about the future, depression, and alienation just like we do. There were wars, crazy or idiotic politicians, popular delusions, plagues, depressions, atrocities, and all the rest.

That’s not to say that all things always get better, or that they get better in a straight line or in an orderly fashion. History is a mess. I’m talking about romanticizing the past to the point of imagining a lost golden age. That is bullshit.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-06 23:33:30+00:00
I think you may have a misperception regarding how widespread "altered states" already are among academics, arists, and executives.

The "western world" may paint a certain picture in its most formal self-depictions, but it doesn't take much looking to find the folk depictions of both drugs and extreme physical practices in the productive lives and the "best and brightest". And if you know enough people in those circles yourself, you knkw what's going on.

The dam broke open on those stories in the 1960's but you can find more or less them coded in the cinema, radio, and literary tales from long before that.
by throaway1988111 | 2025-12-06 23:33:56+00:00
Im a 4.0 GPA student with no history of ever asking for or needing extra time for tests.

I had an ADHD assessment after my mom was diagnosed (she is typical type, forgets everything), and they diagnosed me, and gave the following official recommendations:

"Patient must be provided with extra time for all tests & assignments as he cannot focus due to ADHD."

I never said I needed anything like this. In fact, I said the opposite. I would typically be one of the first to finish, because I had studied appropriately!
by sipofwater | 2025-12-06 23:34:34+00:00
NFS server on an Android smartphone without root access: "Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS)" at https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d99621... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)

* Kodi has an NFS client, "Downloads for Android": https://kodi.tv/download/android/

* VLC for Android, Android TV and ChromeOS, "Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) and servers (UPnP, DLNA)": https://github.com/videolan/vlc-android , https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

* "NFS Clients VLC & KODI on Android TV": https://www.hallergard.com/Blog/NFS_Android.html

* "exportfs Command: Tutorial & Examples" "Manage and display NFS exported file systems on a Linux server": https://cleveruptime.com/docs/commands/exportfs

* "NFS Security: Identifying and Exploiting Misconfigurations": https://www.hvs-consulting.de/en/blog/nfs-security-identifyi... (www.hvs-consulting.de/en/blog/nfs-security-identifying-and-exploiting-misconfigurations)
by zbentley | 2025-12-06 23:34:49+00:00
> Rubyists vs. Pythonistas isn't any better.

Eh, in different ways. Ruby people often felt a little smug/over-emotive about how much joy using their tool could bring programmers. TFA is spot on about Perl: Perl folks often felt cliquish, arrogant, defensive. Python people are at times patronizing or overly dismissive.

And in all of those communities the biggest difference was how many people in the community had those dysfunctions, versus the rest—the vast majority of each language’s users who were using it, sharing techniques or code, answering questions about it without being jerks.

Where Perl fell down for me was that its community and people I knew who used it had a much higher chance of evidencing those crappy behaviors. More bad apples—not many in the grander scheme, but enough more to be noticed.
by palata | 2025-12-06 23:35:03+00:00
The Nextcloud app has been running and syncing in the background on 3 iPhones for like 6 months, so they managed to make that work relatively well.

My issue is other bugs that make it painful, including the fact that I cannot trust that Nextcloud will eventually upload the whole photo gallery (it seems like some files regularly get "locked" w.r.t. "webdav", for some reason, and this never resolves).
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-06 23:36:48+00:00
I'm definitely aware of this.

This is a very very far stretch from saying your family was royalty. Though i do guess you are technically correct. Forgive me, your highness. lol

Let me add that you've delineated a technicality with no real consequence to my argument. If anything supporting my argument by suggesting that makes anyone proper royalty.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-06 23:37:29+00:00
The author raises valid points, to which I agree.

Something I would add is that when we look back at how _rich_ people lived, looking at the lavish parties with fancy clothes, we miss the huge amount of labour that was needed to make that happen (and thus why only the billionaires of the day could afford to ponce about in new clothes and have fine food like ice cream on demand in summer.)

However we don't have those constraints of requiring a team of 40, plus 90 hectares of land, an ice house and town of artisans to hold a house party with a four course meal, chocolate, fresh fruit, the best cuts of meat and fresh lettuce in winter.

_we_ can have that luxury, to the point where it is mundane.

look at the kitchens needed to service henry the 8th:

https://www.nakedkitchens.com/blog/henry-viiis-55-room-kitch...

and compare that to the kitchens needed to service something like an office block (for example Meta's london office serves 3 meals a day for ~2k people, fits in 100m2)
by delichon | 2025-12-06 23:38:14+00:00
Back in 2025 before cheap bots, our grandparents endured lives of servitude. They spent an enormous amount of time doing simple chores like folding clothes, driving, programming, washing and dusting, grooming themselves. They had to walk their own dogs and play with their own children. They sometimes even had to cook their own food, directly over fire. "Hygiene" was a primitive joke. A full day's work usually wasn't even enough to buy a single new car. They wrote checks to the government, rather than the other way around. Life was brutal, desperate and short.
by YesBox | 2025-12-06 23:38:46+00:00
Im a encryption noob. Less than a noob. But something I've been wondering about is how can homomorphic computing be opaque/unencryptable?

If you are able to monitor what happens to encrypted data being processed by an LLM, could you not match that with the same patterns created by unencrypted data?

Real simple example, let's say I have a program that sums numbers. One sends the data to an LLM or w/e unencrypted, the other encrypted.

Wouldn't the same part of the LLM/compute machine "light up" so to speak?
by tolerance | 2025-12-06 23:40:20+00:00
> I’ll never forget a quote from a BBC documentary (Ruth Goodman I think): ”While victorian science cautioned that weight lifting is bad for women, the women working their kitchens tossed around 100lb pots every day”

What would the modern day iteration of that quote be like?

A woman on a brisk walk through the park mid-afternoon staying on top of the tracked metrics stored on her Apple Watch to offset the time spent sitting at her desk job while another woman lives relatively stationery sitting in traffic at the off-ramp waiting to pull into Erewhon to fulfill the walking woman’s Instacart order.