MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techblueberry | 2026-01-05 14:33:15+00:00
I have a free market / economics question:

I’ve heard some like crypto bulls basically say, whatever the contract allows is kosher. If the contract/software allows you to steal money from someone in some way, then well you should have read the software/contract before you used it.

I guess - in a lot of ways gambling / prediction is an imperfect activity. The lesson would be don’t bet on anything where someone else with access to the market has control over the outcome. That would limit a whole lot of gambling. Maybe it should?

Yeah I guess, things might be more sane if people didn’t try to use vague ToS conditions to do something that the strict rules of the market should do better.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-05 14:33:31+00:00
I’m not sure square footage is what matters here, though comparing the overall market for datacenter/manufacturing jobs would be more useful than individual installations anyway. It’s not like the U.S. is hurting for physical space in which to put factories or data centers. Speed of light isn’t that slow — the big New York IXP is actually in New Jersey and it would be fine even if it was further away.
by rasikjain | 2026-01-05 14:34:24+00:00
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by Rochus | 2026-01-05 14:36:07+00:00
The report finds that the global music copyright business generated $47.2 billion in 2024, representing a 5.2% growth from the previous year, though this growth is slowing compared to the post-pandemic boom. For the first time in years, publishers and songwriters are growing faster (combined ~6%) than record labels (~5%). Publishers usually own the composition (melody, lyrics) and pay the composers, whereas the labels own the master recording and pay the musicians. The money is split roughly 62:38 in favor of record labels over songwriters/publishers. Historically, the split was closer to 50:50. However, the explosion of streaming (where labels negotiate better rates than publishers) shifted the balance toward labels.

The "Big Three" (Universal, Sony, Warner) are vertically integrated giants that own both the record label and the publisher. From a corporate perspective, the money just moves from one pocket to another within the same conglomerate. The article's statistics report on the gross revenue collected by the industry, not the net income paid to creators, which is much smaller (of the ~$29 billion collected by labels, widely cited estimates suggest that roughly $5–6 billion, i.e. ~17%, likely reaches the actual performers).
by zachseven | 2026-01-05 14:36:39+00:00
Hi, I’m the author.

This started from a practical frustration with LLM memory systems: deciding what deserves persistence felt like the real bottleneck.

We tested a minimal “flush vs persist” gate using sentence embeddings + a lightweight classifier. It generalizes surprisingly well, and the rest of the memory architecture hangs off that decision.

Happy to hear critiques or counterexamples.
by mjainit | 2026-01-05 14:36:57+00:00
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by DisruptiveDave | 2026-01-05 14:37:08+00:00
There's a pretty good video from HealthyGamerGGG (think I got his name right) on YouTube titled something like: Is ADHD A Superpower for Meditating? It sounds click-baity but I find him quite appealing. As a lifelong ADHDer, meditation has been more beneficial to me than any medicine or other practice.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-05 14:37:18+00:00
> I’m not saying there’s an obvious metaphor for “Open” Apple missed. There isn’t.

Citation needed. The open icon is general a file containing an arrow or a file as a metaphor of taking a file out of a folder. I just tested with MS Windows XP, MS Windows 7, MS Windows 10 and Mate/Gnome 2.
Ask HN: Would you fly on a Boeing 737 MAX?
by g4zj | 2026-01-05 14:37:41+00:00
I asked this question two years ago, and I'm curious how views on the safety of this aircraft have changed since then.

My fear remains the same as it's always been, and I'm quite frustrated with myself for that. Perhaps I just need to get out there and take the supposed risk myself.

As an aside, the cumulative orders and deliveries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_and_deliveries) combined with the number of daily flights by this aircraft (apparently 5,000+?) are at least a little comforting.

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Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118342

Flying is one of my greatest fears, to the point where I require medication before each flight to avoid panic.

Despite doing my best to book flights which I am most comfortable with, I often worry about last-minute changes to my itinerary which somehow require me to board a Boeing 737 MAX to reach my destination. I feel like if this were to happen, however unlikely, I would not be able to continue my journey. I'd cancel the flight (or simply refuse to board).

Perhaps I'm behaving irrationally due to fear, but with all the news surrounding Boeing's quality control and this particular line of aircraft, I'm curious how others would feel flying in a 737 MAX? Would you be comfortable with it, or do you avoid it at all costs?
by Pxtl | 2026-01-05 14:37:48+00:00
The inconsistency and monochrome nature is problematic but imho including your icons alongside the text representation wherever practical is good because it educates the user what those icons mean so that when they see the icon without the context of the text representation they will know.

Including the hotkeys in the menu is good for similar reasons. Does it help me find and click the menu item? No. But does it help me use that action next time without going through the menu? Yes. Icons are same.

Imho the best layout for menu-bars was Windows Phone 7. In WP7, a toolbar of action button icons were shown along the bottom of the screen along with a kebab-button. Clicking the kebab-button would just expand out the bottom-bar into a menu showing the icons in the same order as they were in the toolbar along with a text description. Below the toolbar icons would be all other non-toolbar commands.

It made it clear that the toolbar and the menu were the same thing, just the toolbar is an abbreviated form of the menu for the sake of economy of screen real-estate.

Putting icons throughout menus is kind of a cruder version of same. I like that.
by layer8 | 2026-01-05 14:38:16+00:00
It’s best when only some of the items in a menu (like maybe a third of them) have icons, preferably the most important commands. This gives the menus a visual structure and can also help in better recognizing groups of related items.

The classic Windows menu from the article is a good example: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/word@2x.webp?t=1767611340
by reality_inspctr | 2026-01-05 14:38:24+00:00
nice work. dealt with same issue during helene. would be interesting to do things like convert to morse code or convert to modem-over-walkie low baud rate.

I built this repo as a Helene response repo, trying to use an llm to help get resources over text message. https://github.com/realityinspector/supply_drop_ai

wonder if you could get to news over sms, use an llm to compress to minimum viable text?
by greenavocado | 2026-01-05 14:38:29+00:00
This is the justification for the killings (Paragraph 96) in case you are curious:

96. As for our constitutional rights, consider for example that of freedom of the press. We certainly don’t mean to knock that right; it is very important tool for limiting concentration of political power and for keeping those who do have political power in line by publicly exposing any misbehavior on their part. But freedom of the press is of very little use to the average citizen as an individual. The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system. Anyone who has a little money can have something printed, or can distribute it on the Internet or in some such way, but what he has to say will be swamped by the vast volume of material put out by the media, hence it will have no practical effect. To make an impression on society with words is therefore almost impossible for most individuals and small groups. Take us (FC) for example. If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted. If they had been been accepted and published, they probably would not have attracted many readers, because it’s more fun to watch the entertainment put out by the media than to read a sober essay. Even if these writings had had many readers, most of these readers would soon have forgotten what they had read as their minds were flooded by the mass of material to which the media expose them. In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-05 14:39:00+00:00
The body positivity movement when it was more about people not being ashamed for having conditions (amputations, eczema, vitiligo, etc.) was a good movement. It was about accepting people for their body that they had no control of. It was a bit tumblr-y but it had its heart in the right place at the start. It was kind of hijacked by these fat activists that wanted to convince people that being 400 pounds was not just okay, it was good. Then social graces forced people to go along nod politely despite everyone disagreeing.
by ghaff | 2026-01-05 14:39:02+00:00
It's somewhat understandable.

A lot of us felt at the time that surely laptops and tablets would converge. Otherwise, what a waste of hardware.

But it hasn't really happened. From a hardware perspective, things have gotten closer with the iPad's magnetic keyboard. But, I still find that the iPad as laptop replacement to be a compromise that I may tolerate for travel but don't love for a lot of laptop work.
by freedomben | 2026-01-05 14:39:40+00:00
Emphasis added:

> The GOG Preservation Program is our ongoing effort to save classic games from being lost to time. That means working to secure rights, fixing compatibility so they run hassle-free on modern systems, and even rebuilding missing features so the experience is the best you can get, while staying true to the original.

It still baffles me how the "rights" to a game (or any IP) can be a thing when the company has essentially abandoned it. Like take the Resident Evil example FTA: Launched in 1996, 2000-2023 not available (i.e. not for legal sale). I am a bit of an extremist wrt IP laws, but that just seems so crazy to me that we would provide a legal system to "protect" IP that isn't being used and is just being (essentially) hoarded.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2026-01-05 14:39:50+00:00
> Why introduce a membership now? Is GOG in financial trouble?

Glad they put this into the FAQ, because that was certainly my first thought, although I'm not sure the answer really assuages my concerns.

You have to admit that the combination of "Original founder buys back GOG from CD Projekt" and then "GOG introduces patron tier" soon thereafter does suggest a company in some financial hardship.
by kibwen | 2026-01-05 14:39:59+00:00
> If you're a designer at a top 10 S&P 500 company making 6 figures, you owe it to yourself to have some love for your craft.

I think you've unintentionally illustrated the root of the problem here.

People motivated by profit are not incentivized to produce high-quality results. Rather, people motivated by profit are only incentivized to do the least effort that they can get away with.

People motivated by pride are those who are incentivized to produce good results, because the result reflects on them personally.

Which is all to say, pride motives produce a race to the top, whereas profit motives produce a race to the bottom. It's no wonder our modern economy can only produce slop.
by EGreg | 2026-01-05 14:40:01+00:00
Seriously. People got canned for resisting the corporate overlords. That’s capitalism. Corporations run by their employees? Guilds? Cooperatives? Hah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbgMKclWWc

Just that usually the forcefed initiatives have to do with corporate profits for shareholders, or trends like shoving AI into everything. Imagine saying no to that!

Even at the supra-corporate and supra-national level, if the organizing principle is competition, no actor not even a CEO or a corporate board or a government can afford to stop racing towards disaster. There is a simple mantra: “If we don’t achieve AGI first, China will and then they’ll dominate.”

Once in a while, the world comes together to successfully ban eg chemical weapons or CFCs, and repair the hole in the ozone layer. Cooperation and restraint takes effort.

Judging by the way we’ve drained all the aquifers, overfished the last fish, destroyed the kelp forests, cut down the rainforsts, bleached the corals, and polluted the world with plastic, I don’t think there is much hope of stopping.

Insects and pollinators are way down, and many larger species are practically extinct, 95% of the world’s animal biomass is humans and their food, and people still pretend environmental catastrophe is all about a few degrees of temperature.

PS: Yes, that escalated quickly. In the real world, it has taken only 80 years… :-/
by codegeek | 2026-01-05 14:40:03+00:00
Tell me the company you work for and I can give you a few reasons why your work makes the world a better place. It is not a binary thing. Almost all work we do has some meaning no matter how boring or useless it may seem.

For example, lets take whatsapp. We can talk about how it erodes user privacy and has access to so much data and is more dangerous especially after being owned by FB. However, why do you think it became so big ? It helped connect you with anyone across the world in a second with incredible speed and accuracy. Before whatsapp, there was nothing remotely close (I know because I have family across the world and before whatsapp, it was always a battle to connect with them over a quick call).

So is whatsapp an evil company/product or did it make the world a better place ? You can say both depending on how you look at it. This argument can be made for almost all work in my opinion.
by nhvs | 2026-01-05 14:40:08+00:00
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by monerozcash | 2026-01-05 14:40:22+00:00
There are much lighter alternatives though, why would you want to bother with cryptocurrencies when you could just use DHT?

I mean, even just shipping a Tor client embedded in your malware seems like a much better idea.

>just rely on explorers to query your own wallet

This kind of defeats the point, you get exactly 0 censorship resistance like this.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-01-05 14:41:11+00:00
Yup: all the animation stops, the overlaid snowflakes disappear, and the background changes from blue to yellow. I haven't bothered to check the foreground/background contrast of the two versions, but I suspect that, although the yellow version will have less contrast, the removal of the snowflakes will make for a net benefit to readability for the average person.
by lxgr | 2026-01-05 14:41:39+00:00
As others have mentioned, that's not what Tor does by default. Just because you don't know how it works doesn't mean that it's generally unknowable.

And conversely, it's enough to visit a random website running WebTorrent or just a plain HTTP DDoS attack to possibly "use your connection for cybercrime".

Since RFC 3514 unfortunately never gained traction, distinguishing good, bad, and illegal traffic remains difficult.
by naravara | 2026-01-05 14:41:53+00:00
I did it as a kid but I also understood that if my parents SAW me doing it I’d feel embarrassed and they might scold me. I think there is some character building benefit behind making sure that simulating or watching inappropriate behavior should have an air of seediness and illicitness to it, even if the kids are technically able to access the stuff.

But I will say the rating systems have not caught up to the reality of where the dangers of modern media are. I worry a LOT more about skinner-box mechanics, design choices that cultivate addictive personality traits, and communication systems that create openings for cyberbullying and grooming/sexual interactions with minors are much bigger problems that I feel the industry does basically nothing to even inform me about, let alone empower me to be able to manage it.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-05 14:42:13+00:00
> Wikipedia and the other outlets described as 'left-leaning' are neoliberal institutions.

What exactly do you think 'neoliberal' means?

I do agree Wikipedia is not 'left-leaning', mainly because 'right' and 'left' are bullshit names that don't mean anything. But it doesn't even have the power to act in a situation that would make it neoliberal.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-05 14:42:19+00:00
This seems awesome! I wish this had come out a few weeks ago so I had time to tinker with it waiting for the Turing Complete rewrite. I particularly like the implementation of Elmore delay to give some meaning to the spatial layout.

I'm not 100% sold on the bitmap editing style of circuit layout vs something like the automatic wire pathing in Turing Complete though. It's something I'll need to play with to get a real opinion on though.

Purchased to have some fun with this weekend. Thanks for publishing the source as well!
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-05 14:42:22+00:00
X11's XKB (which, funnily enough, is also the standard keyboard layout system on Wayland) has support for Control, plus another 5 modifiers. Specifically, I believe Hyper is typically mod3. If you run xmodmap in a terminal under X, you'll see which keys are assigned to which modifiers. I have a custom XKB layout that assigns some keys to Hyper, and then adds Hyper to mod3. With X11 Emacs I didn't have to do anything to get it to work. But I don't think I've ever seen a pure GTK program recognize Hyper, so it may be a GTK limitation.

For learning XKB, I recommend the Unreliable Guide to XKB[0]. XKB is sorely underdocumented, so guides like these are the best way to learn it.

[0]: https://www.charvolant.org/doug/xkb/html/xkb.html

Please don't feel like you have to look into it, though. I was just wondering, since you mentioned that you used PGTK.
by Surac | 2026-01-05 14:42:32+00:00
To bad I can not change away from vs code. Most chip manufacturers use the vscode + Addons approach today to give you a toolchain to Programm for your microcontroller. They (thank god) abandon there proprietary IDE attempts and concentrate on chips and compilers again. They found VSCode and now you are required to use this. I’m very unhappy with the situation and on the job hunt to get away from embedded to application programming
by LurkandComment | 2026-01-05 14:42:53+00:00
Ozempic is another quick fix. You're going to be thin, but if you don't put in the work lifting weights and eating protien you're just a younger old person with advanced sarcopenia. One fall and your hip shatters. It won't address any other inactivity related illnesses and comes with its own issues. Ex. Bladder not being able to handle bile etc. I get it for advance stage diabetics who have enough nerve issues to be at risk for sepsis and amputation, I don't think it's great for average joe who just wants an easy way to lose weight.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-05 14:43:00+00:00
I remember reading "neural network" articles back from late 80's, early 90's, which weren't just about ANNs, but also other connectionist approaches like Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps and Stephen Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) ... I don't know how your university taught it, but back then this seemed more futuristic brain-related stuff, not a practical "AI" technique.
by DimmieMan | 2026-01-05 14:43:00+00:00
F# also has substantially better type inference so you don't need to write the types out everywhere, type aliases are first class too so you can easily write out some helper types for readability.

You can pipe a monadic type through various functions writing little to no type declarations, doing it nicely is F#'s bread and butter.

In C# version n+1 when the language is supposedly getting discriminated unions for real this time I still don't see them being used for monadic patterns like F# because they're going to remain a menace to compose.
by mastermedo | 2026-01-05 14:43:04+00:00
I still remember the hiatus around the pirate bay . org going down back in the day. They updated the landing page on the alternative domains to include a hydra above the pirate ship where above each hydra head there was a domain name[1]. I thought that was a great comeback by the maintainers.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-pirate-bay-has-a-new-log...
by soham_byte | 2026-01-05 14:43:38+00:00
Titan isn’t a JS→Rust compiler and doesn’t aim to replace V8 or claim faster JavaScript execution. The design is architectural: Rust handles networking, concurrency, and deployment as a single native binary, while JavaScript is scoped to application logic inside an embedded runtime.
If the documentation suggested otherwise or felt overly abstract, that’s on me — it’s being revised to be clearer, more concrete, and less ambiguous.
by smcin | 2026-01-05 14:43:44+00:00
If SO wanted to keep experienced developers on their site and contributing content for free, it shouldn't have been unthinkable to find some model to fund SO Jobs. Yahoo is one cautionary tale of what happens when a site pursues more advertising revenue without regard for losing users.

"Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story" 3/2022 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...