MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheDong | 2026-01-02 06:04:45+00:00
I don't think it should be taken as obvious that authors profiting off old works is a deserved right or positive.

Game of Thrones was originally published in 1996, but the more recent books are more recent. I think that GRR Martin's books would be giving him sizeable profit, even if someone else were able to make GoT fanfiction in the same universe, and the GoT TV Series would still have to pay him to use the more recent copyrighted books, not just the settings and characters from the original.

There is already intrinsic value in having written the original work, and that intrinsic value will make you the best person to consult on a TV adaption or make sequels, even if the original work is public domain and in theory anyone could adapt it.

If an author makes something 20 years ago, doesn't build on the universe any more beyond that, and is unable to compete in their own universe they built against other authors once it goes public domain and becomes popular, well, then tough luck for the author.

Let's look at how this works for software: every piece of open-source software out there is something that in theory another company could take and sell as their own. Red Hat Linux is Open Source, so sure anyone can make their own... and yet Red Hat can sell consulting services and new versions of it because they're the only group with proper expertise there.

> limit the number of copyrights held by a particular entity

Entities are unfortunately quite easy to fake and difficult to define in a fool-proof way.

If you can still license copyrights, then holding companies would become the norm. Like, right now LucasArts owns StarWars, and LucasArts is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney, but if we had a limit on how many copyrights an entity can hold, Disney wouldn't acquire LucasArts, and would instead pay for an exclusive copyright license.
by bsnnkv | 2026-01-02 06:06:01+00:00
I'm a fan of this. My own projects on GitHub have an action[1] which autocloses and autolocks any opened issues until they have been reviewed and accepted by me, and I only consider feature requests from sponsors.

The real miss here is that there isn't a way on GitHub to only allow maintainers to create issues, instead we are left with these subpar workarounds.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/.github/workf...
by qcnguy | 2026-01-02 06:06:28+00:00
None of you are evidencing your claims that he's unreliable. You just keep repeating it, even after being asked for specifics they other people cannot find.

It seems more likely from these posts that Lasker is actually accurate but you can't handle true claims about IQ and race, so have unilaterally decided those must be fake because they undermines a left wing world view. But group differences in IQ are a very strong and well replicated result. There is nothing unreliable about those. Until you bring receipts we have to assume you are engaging in ad hominem for ideological reasons.
by mitchellh | 2026-01-02 06:09:04+00:00
Because I don't want my default view to be "triage." If GitHub allowed default issue views (and reflected that in the issue count in the tabs as well), then maybe. But currently, it doesn't work. I've tried it at large project scale across many (multiple projects with more than 20K stars and millions of downloads).

Compared to that, this system has been a huge success. It has its own problems, but it's directionally better.
by altairprime | 2026-01-02 06:09:39+00:00
This is what I would do if my internal moral compass was exhausted to the bone and I felt like public disclosure mattered. Fortunately, public disclosure regarding my prior employment is already regularly made and ignored, so I didn’t have any compulsion to.

Libraries are a haven of safety for leaking material once only. Burnout does not imply incompetent opsec. Neither does drunk; after all, it would horrify non-tech folks to realize how often impaired / intoxicated workers are using root privileges to fix an incident.
by DharmaPolice | 2026-01-02 06:09:41+00:00
While I'm happy to believe any/all of that might be true, accepting unsubstantiated stories like this isn't a great idea. You really need to start with the assumption that all stories like this are fake until some kind of evidence is provided.

If I was going to do some kind of exposé of my employers I'd at least include some semi-obfuscated screenshots to add some credibility to any claims I might make. Sure, things like that can be faked but it at least would require more effort to do all that (and make them appear credible) vs just a bunch of raw claims.

(I also don't think it's a great idea to judge claims based on how believable you personally find them. That often just leads to confirmation bias as you're just reinforcing your own biases).
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-02 06:10:41+00:00
As it should be. If the Globalist cabal had their way, everyone would drive on the same side of the road (like mindless assembly line workers) and traffic signs would be completely standardized, and - yes - the fuel filler would be on the same side of every car (welcome to a monotonous Communist dystopia). They already came for Sweden ('Dagen H' Plan. Do your own research) /s
by speff | 2026-01-02 06:11:39+00:00
Not sure why you're insinuating that I dislike apple products. My personal mb air doesn't have this issue and most of my household is on apple.

I'm also seeing results for "macbook pro doesn't go to sleep when lid closed", so other people see this problem too. You can't really claim that other platforms have them beat here if there isn't data to support the claim.
by WCSTombs | 2026-01-02 06:12:10+00:00
And I think most people would agree that an inherently unpredictable component has no place in a safety-critical system or anywhere that potential liability would be huge. AI-based products can still be viable for the exact same reason that an ocean of shitty bug-riddled software is commercially viable today, because there are many potential applications where absolute correctness is not a hard requirement for success.
by dismalaf | 2026-01-02 06:12:13+00:00
Linux has been good for years. The only thing that's changed is that Valve put a bunch of effort into Proton so now Linux has enough game titles for that to no longer be an excuse to not switch.

I've been using Linux full-time (no other OSes at all) for nearly 20 years. Went through all my university education using only Linux. It's problem free if you use it like a grandma would (don't mess with the base system) and even if you mess with it, most things are easily reversible.

That being said, I have noticed that the newfound interest in Linux seems to be a result of big tech being SO abusive towards its customers that even normies are suddenly into computing "freedom".
by mitchellh | 2026-01-02 06:12:40+00:00
To be clear, I think discussions on the whole as a product are pretty bad. I'm not happy having to use them, but given my experience trying different approaches across multiple "popular" projects on GH, this approach has so far been the least bad. Although I'm still sad about it.

> Yeah but a good issue tracker should be able to help you filter that stuff out.

Agreed. This highlights GitHub's issue management system being inadequate.

(Note: I'm the creator/lead of Ghostty)
by Bayart | 2026-01-02 06:12:43+00:00
CDs suffer from different forms of degradation. I wouldn't trust a 50 year old CD if there was one as I do a vinyl record I picked.

Using the same master a CD would always sound better than a vinyl record, but I and many people would always take vinyl over a CD because of the praxis. Set and setting is important, in the end. Vinyl is more demanding in every aspects, it imposes more care and respect for what you're listening to.
by bilekas | 2026-01-02 06:14:58+00:00
I'm inclined to believe the poster also, I see no real benefit otherwise. I will say it's not a surprise at the very least, their business model was market 'disruption' to the point there are no alternatives as the customers will all be on the app. It reminds me of a related video of the Last Week Tonight about the food apps.

Well worth a 20 min watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsfJYWpqII
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2026-01-02 06:15:01+00:00
I don't know a lot about Ruby, but I'd wager what its missing is a hero app or framework. Ruby on Rails got folks interested for awhile, but I guess other frameworks won out. What left does it have? What domains does it excel at?

Python has ML. JS has web. C/C++ has performance. Rust is stealing a slice of that thanks to safety.

That probably covers like 99% of things, at least from my world view. There are arguably other better languages but it doesn't much matter if the community all flocks to the well established ones.
by rustystump | 2026-01-02 06:15:34+00:00
No, this is too dismissive. There was a large shift in the culture of people over the last decade or so as the bay area money printers started printing faster than finance firms were printing. Eg tech money attracted a culture of people wed normally label “finance bros”. Patrick Bateman types but without the explicit murder. Status, money, often born outstandingly privileged.

This is the tech bro people speak of. It is that psychopathic desire for status at all costs which sadly is learned, emulated, and exalted. Ironically, yc is the poster child for breeding this culture over the last 8 or so years and the place it is most often complained about outside of reddit ofc.
by nullhole | 2026-01-02 06:15:43+00:00
A linked article agrees:

"... many European cars have the fuel door located on the passenger side, while many Japanese and American vehicles have the fuel door on the driver side. Both techniques have valid reasons. European automakers place the fuel filler on the passenger side for the sake of safety when a vehicle has run out of fuel and has pulled off onto the shoulder of the road to fill up from a canister. Meanwhile, American OEMs tend to place the fuel door on the driver side of the vehicle for convenience reasons, so that a driver doesn't have to walk around the vehicle when filling up at a gas station."[0]

Brings to mind the Dead Kennedys album name, "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"

[0] https://fordauthority.com/2020/08/ford-designer-credited-for...
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-02 06:16:31+00:00
Blockchain and split payments would work here. The transparency would be useful. Maybe even using x402?

So buyers should be able to see where and how their money is going to be distributed after payment. How much does the driver get? How much is he/she earning?

Perhaps unions could build some type of payment app and have gig workers use it as part of their employment contract?

So gig workers end up like ebay sellers with a feedback, followers and sales data on display. They can take their profile with them to new employers as well. Buyers get a profile too. Funds could also be held in escrow, and refunds granted where applicable. I don't know.

Ahh yes, blockchain, that pathetic excuse for software - just needs to be implemented better.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-02 06:18:36+00:00
In my experience your average indie CD these days comes in a cardboard sleeve or a digipak, which are slim and more resilient than jewel cases (which love to crack) but idk how to store them neatly, since the sizes vary in at least two dimensions. And they tend not to come with anything outside the disk, you're lucky if you get a booklet.
Show HN: Bouquin, an encrypted planner app written in PySide6 and SQLCipher
by _mig5 | 2026-01-02 06:19:58+00:00
I started this tool a few months ago after years of using RedNoteBook, which I started to grow frustrated with.

I wanted a notebook app that:

1) doesn't do any network connectivity/syncing (it runs in a vault Qube on my QubesOS workstation)

2) is encrypted at rest (something like KeepassXC etc) - and I know SQLCipher well already

3) has version control (not just autosave, but the ability to view and revert to older versions)

4) supports Markdown

Like most tools, through active use it quickly grew beyond that. For example, I wanted to:

a) be able to move 'unchecked' checkbox TODO items automatically to the next day as the click ticked over midnight, so that my remaining unfinished work was at the top of tomorrow's list

b) add documents

c) tag pages and documents with common tags

I'm a contractor, and I log my time all day long for different clients. I realised I was 'planning' my work in Bouquin, but still logging my time in a crusty old local Redmine instance. So, rather than spread my effort across tools, I added time logging (including a Pomodoro-style timer within the app).

That led to me realising I use a separate invoicing tool at the end of the month, as well. So, I added an invoicing feature to feed off the logged time, and also auto-save the invoices into the Documents system :)

Most of these features are 'modular', they can be turned on or off.

In the end, I've been able to consolidate a whole lot of functionality into one app, and I'm much more productive as a result.

There are other features too such as Reminders (which do support sending to a remote webhook, as well as flashing up on the screen - invoices also auto-add reminders for the due date if they aren't paid by that date).

More features can be found at https://git.mig5.net/mig5/bouquin#features and more docs at https://git.mig5.net/mig5/bouquin/wiki/

In retrospect, I maybe shouldn't have chosen PySide6 - even though I know Qt, it sometimes is a real hassle to work with (especially the 'live markdown' rendering). It's working okay, but doesn't look great on MacOS, because of something MacOS does with font sizes
by heroprotagonist | 2026-01-02 06:20:35+00:00
Yeah, that seems utterly made up.

I live in an urbanish area, and if i don't set Priority Delivery then there's probably a 2 in 3 chance I'm stuck in a queue with "waiting on other delivery to complete".

About the only way to get my food while it's still warm enough to eat (because few of these drivers use heat bags) is to set priority delivery. And when I do, I can track it straight from store to my place. No 'waiting on other delivery' messages, not even blips of disconnectedness while the driver fulfills orders from other apps. Just straight to me.

This fee, I find, works better than tipping. Which is sad because in my imagination, I suspect the platform is keeping the fee rather than the driver. Incentives are completely messed up for gig deliveries.
by greatgib | 2026-01-02 06:23:54+00:00
With Deliveroo, I already caught the app lying. One time the order was stuck at "waiting for the restaurant/cooking" for a very unusual time, like 40 mins instead of the usual 10 mins.

So I called the restaurant and they told me that the order was ready for like 25 mins but the driver didn't pick it up yet.

When I called the custom service after that, they told me that the driver was finishing another delivery and will pick it up soon.

But so the drive was trying to pin the delay on restaurant when it was their fault and that in the end you will get cold food.
by weinzierl | 2026-01-02 06:24:10+00:00
It's a convenient little invention but "the fact that there wasn't a simple way to know which side of a vehicle the gas tank was located on" is not quite true.

Usually, if the vehicle is of Japanese or British origin, the cap is on the left, otherwise it is on the right.

Source: I’ve driven dozens of different vehicle models all over Europe for decades. This rule always worked well enough for me.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-02 06:24:30+00:00
I don't think there is a clear argument that it isn't realistic to be done from a technology standpoint -- in other words, I don't think this laser meaningfully changes things from a capabilities standpoint. The necessary miniaturization and precision are available.

Now, you may think I have the facts wrong, here -- that we haven't had the kind of precise turret before, or that we can't deliver small arms ammunition with great precision -- but you don't come out and say that: you haven't said I have bad facts.

If we accept that the technical capabilities have been there for a while, then we need another explanation for what the hold up is. I have offered an alternative, which is that it comes down to doctrine or operational issues -- it's not easy to see how to deploy a weapon system that automatically targets people without creating huge practical problems. I offered two concrete cases in my earlier comment. Here again, you haven't really spoken to them: you haven't said, for example, A is not a problem and here's why not. You have just ignored them.

It is really starting to look like you have a story and you are sticking to it.
by holden_nelson | 2026-01-02 06:25:36+00:00
Bryan, if I may ask, what was the purpose of this LinkedIn / blog post?

Acknowledging that I don’t know you, and that I haven’t seen this private conversation, this post definitely reads like you just wanted to put a former colleague on blast semi-anonymously. I came to these comments to see if anyone felt the same.

> We probably disagree on this, but I don’t believe that there’s a basis for an assumption of privacy here

In my view you crossed the line when you included his gender, his current role and employer, and two former employers.
by digiown | 2026-01-02 06:27:04+00:00
> Intel or AMD

They certainly aren't perfect, but they don't seem to be hell-bent on spying on or shoving crap into my face every waking hour for the time being.

> insecure guests

"Insecure" for the program against the user. It's such a dystopian idea that I don't know what to respond with.

> required security requirements

I don't believe any external party has the right to require me to use my own property in a certain way. This ends freedom as we know it. The most immediate consequences is we'd be subject to more ads with no way to opt out, but that would just be the beginning.

> stop people from ripping the movie

This is physically impossible anyway. There's always the analog hole, recording screens, etc, and I'm sure AI denoising will close the gap in quality.

> it technically does not stop every possible cheat

The bar gets lower by the day with locally deployable AI. We'd lose all this freedom for nothing at the end of the day. If you don't want cheating, the game needs to be played in a supervised context, just like how students take exams or sports competitions have referees.

And these are my concerns with your ideal "hypervisor" provided by a benevolent party. In this world we live in, the hypervisor is provided by the same people who don't want you to have any control whatsoever, and would probably inject ads/backdoors/telemetry into your "free" guest anyway. After all, they've gotten away with worse.
by eastbound | 2026-01-02 06:27:19+00:00
And this is incredible motivation for me. I’m in my 40ies, and have been unsuccessful with girls. Of course being in your 20ies helped because that’s when good stories start, and at 40 women are already taken, but I find it a decent explanation of the times I was successful or not and it’s worth trying again. I was very fit at 30 but never muscular, just a guy with 8 hours or random sports per week, so like you before 18. I still do 3-5 hours of sports per week, I should redirect that towards gains.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-02 06:28:10+00:00
Wikipedia, at least, uses the same terminology as me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page?wprov=sfla1

> A client-side dynamic web page processes the web page using JavaScript running in the browser as it loads.

The linked page is one of those. They're often harder to scrape than server-side rendered webforums and the like.
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-02 06:28:52+00:00
I'll keep my comment briefer than before. :-)

Unfortunately I think we are talking past each other. The basic issue is that you are taking the constitution as a given, but my questions are about how government should be, not how it is. In my view, if you believe that our system of government is actually a good democratic system, you should be able to explain how it serves democracy better than possible alternatives; and if our system is not a good democratic system, then it doesn't really matter what the constitution says, because we should instead focus on what it should say. An argument along the lines of "the constitution says so" is nothing but an appeal to authority.

So no, I don't care that "states" is in the name of the country, nor do I care that the constitution says stuff about states, nor do I care about keeping the union together. Just about the only thing in the constitution that I wholeheartedly agree with is that the purpose of government is to promote the general welfare. :-) So I'm interested in what is the best way to do that, and everything is on the table in terms of retaining, throwing out, or adding whatever we want to the constitution to make it better.

In that line, my own view is basically the opposite of most of what you said above. :-) I believe that entrenching "states" as entities in the way the constitution does was a bad idea. Sure, we need different levels of government. But there's no reason to privilege states in the way we do, especially since their boundaries and accessions are at best arbitrary and at worst the result of political machinations. Democracy is about what people want, and I don't think our existing federal system is the best way to get at that.
by zzgo | 2026-01-02 06:29:51+00:00
I used to write tests for a cryptocurrency trading platform. I regularly talked to the auditors, as they were the ones who made sure that the crypto we transferred into external wallets made it back into internal wallets after the test.

I wouldn't say that I knew a bunch of accounting practices from talking to them, but I _did_ learn that the CTO and director of QA both lied to me during my interview. Sure, we made _some_ money from the spread as claimed in my interview, but in truth, the bulk of our money came from loaning our customer deposits to 3 Arrows Capital. I knew we were fucked _months_ before the company suddenly went under.
by tguvot | 2026-01-02 06:30:05+00:00
There’s a Russian joke that Russia’s mission in the world is to show other countries how not to be.

Or if we get more serious: it's mix of imperial ambitions, feeling of been humiliated by west and desire of revenge, (cultural level) aggression, arrogance, ignorance and been sure that Russia is a special country with special pathway and superior culture and one of world superpowers (that been ignored and this is not "fair")

A couple of days after russia started war, on it's official news agency site was auto published article that was supposed to be victory lap (after all it was supposed to be 3 day special operation). It was promptly removed but not before it was archived. You can read decent translation here and it will show you some glimpses of what I wrote above https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t2vz4v/ria_news_ac...

For reference: I was born back in USSR and lived there till my early teen years. Been closely following russian media, discussion platforms, etc ever since.
by dagmx | 2026-01-02 06:30:29+00:00
It’s literally from their requirements page

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

You have to request explicit permission to be able to be a browser on iOS. You can’t just ship an app. I assume part of that process is that you specifically demonstrate that you try your best to use best safety practices.

Again, it’s also not absolute safety. It’s just due diligence review.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-01-02 06:30:49+00:00
the government can already subpoena private companies for records of an account's search history, what's the spook value add of tying them to pii? this is like a one-two punch, first social media now search engines - stunning to witness freedom crumpled with such ease. also fuck need to setup a vpn to keep using google drive/gmail for work