skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'd like to think there's more efficiency to be gained when the scale is city-wide rather than a small subset of demand being attended to reactively.

Ideally this would be a municipal fleet and transportation just another utility like water, electrical, and broadband. Admittedly this would require strong political power and vision, as anything that remakes physical infrastructure does.

Agree small cars are a cultural/identity issue tho usually a rather rational one as well, given safety vis-a-vis 7000lb SUVs. However, I don't think people's aversions to spend $20k+ on a city-only vehicle has any bearing on whether they would be willing to be being taken places in one when its the most convenient/safest/fastest way to get places. A city-wide transportation utility obviates most of the need/desire for individual car ownership.

To put it in tech biz terms, everything in tech is bundling or unbundling. Ownership of cars is the unbundled version of transport, and took over due to convenience and creature comforts. Now a new tech has come out that swings the pendulum toward bundled being more convenient & optimal.
> Or if truly not being censored bring receipts on what’s happening

Why is blacklisted or censorship for that domain taken as fact? IMHO the author didn't bring any conclusive receipts either.
We are in the same boat! I am worried that we may be mistreated or worse coming back into the country. What if they put us in some detention center and no one will know where we are either. Even if they release us in a few days the damage is done.
If you want better than AI you must demand it as if life depended on it.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. HN and DF are both stubbornly wrong about refusing to use good typography and a sensible approach to responsive design.

I know that stubbornness and misplaced pride go hand in hand, but it’s harming the both of them.

I would definitely read DF more often if I didn’t have to use Safari’s reader mode just to be able to read it.
I don't necessarily disagree (I am not a lawyer), my point is that reading an AGPL license at the bottom of the page can only be a good thing; it can only give you the ability to do more things than you could if had no notice been there.
Unique username, password, name, email address, dob etc for every account + 2fa.
Suno is for people who would otherwise not make music. The grandchild who wants to send grandma a funny song. The marketer who wants a quick solution for a social post. There are valid reasons for both types of AI products.
This is the one, thanks.

> You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response. I don’t use comments on Wilcox’s site to respond publicly to his pieces, but somehow it’s unfair that he can’t use comments on my site to respond to mine? What kind of sense is that even supposed to make?
They only stopped making them last year. Someone was buying them, enough to keep the production lines going, and not to run CP/M.

TI uses them in one of their calculator lines. I've seen gobs of them as embedded controllers in invarious industrial systems (I have family in manufacturing). I understand a lot of coin-op games (think pinball or pachinko) use them. I've seen them in appliance controller boards (don't recall the brand).
BYU?
This is it for me. I've been using macs since 1985 (!) but I just don't think that blog is very interesting. From what I've seen, you're right that it's mostly Apple "inside baseball" and I just don't care.
Stephen Miller is credited with shaping Trump's immigration policies and known for his hardline stance on immigration. I suspect he has staff dedicated to identifying people to target.
I don't understand this article, the problem is that they have too much cheap energy?
What’s an example complex generic? If you have one, that is, I’m curious what kinds of things people do with types. I’m a fan of using types, myself. Thanks in advance.
My point was that your metrics (more cars, bigger houses) are as invalid as my metric (more passports) because Europeans have fewer cars and smaller houses as a choice, not because of poverty. Like Americans have fewer passports because they choose not travel internationally, not because they can't afford to.
...and wouldn't that actually be problematic in health-related research?

I mean, it seems like saying copper/iron/titanium/lead are all "metal"
I am really interested in this. The current paradigm from e.g. Suno is an all or nothing finished product. Producing intermediate assets allows you to do simple things like proper mastering or swapping instruments or editing melodies etc.
What a neat idea.

We could use emulators to stitch together code from binaries compiled for particular CPUs.
I have a question for you - is it their choice not to have social media, or yours? Neither is bad - I’m father to a young girl (not school age yet) and am starting to think about how I should approach this as a parent
I'm not intending to denigrate CollapseOS; they appear to be deliberately taking precautions for a specific degree of technological catastrophe, and it seems worthwhile for someone to prepare for that, regardless of how likely one thinks it may be.
From the article:

> I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.”

> But that’s just sophistry and spin.

Ah, you see, the article man, a man who clearly possesses no biases whatsoever, has simply declared it to be sophistry and spin from these so-called “experts,” therefore indeed it must be.

In all seriousness, the article shows that students are doing worse inside and outside of schools, increasingly since 2010 or so, and it shows that phone use has risen over roughly the same period. I’m happy to attribute some of the issue to phones, especially the students’ complaints of focus issues, but this period also encapsulates fucking covid 19, which is where the charts show the biggest rise in complaints. Why would I blindly assume the phones are the biggest causative factor here without the author providing an argument for it? Ah but that’s just “sophistry and spin” I’m sure. Jesus.

There’s other issues in this article too that a more honest author would have addressed. Why might prison students be more willing to learn? I tried to track this comment down, but it’s on one of his own articles (very unbiased stuff) and is thus subscribe(pay?)-walled. Because of that, I’m left to assume these are adult prisoners taking advantage of a voluntary program in their prison. Gee why might an adult who wants to go to school, whose alternative is prison, be more interested than a kid who doesn’t want to be there? Really strains the mind that one.

>Pretending that if your Memphis school just let kids bring guns or pot to school you’d have not needed your phone (there’s a reason they were searching bags, after all) is bizarre.

I didn’t have a phone in elementary school, my cope was fantasy novels. The reason was indeed largely to keep knives and drugs out. See, perhaps the fact that some of the kids were flirting with gang violence before age 10, and that others were bringing weapons to school to defend themselves against said gangs, indicates problems more significant than TikTok in school.

> The article lays out why the students are “coping”. It’s not because teaching them geometry is “broken” - it’s because learning it is hard and there’s no dopa hit when you memorize sohcahtoa. Watching TikTok is easy, and there is a dopa hit every time.

The article doesn’t even try to show that the learning outcomes are related to phones, much less that the reason for any mental distress of students is because “learning is hard.” Do the kids of billionaires with private tutors have a similarly negative experience with the process of learning? No I’m not delusional, we can’t give everyone private tutors. I am delusional enough, however, to think that a series of drastic reforms and restructurings could bring the student to teacher ratio more in line with that of the more successful developed nations.
DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
A zipper!
>I would love to know how people have successfully resolved this for their families.

Have kids so rich what you leave doesn't really matter, or so poor they can't afford to bicker over it.
I don't even know which is which anymore. Like what is the difference between all of those and Google Assistant and Bard and the GCP AI services? Are they all just different models or different products altogether?

Maybe I'll ask ChatGPT to explain...
celiac here (+decade old find) and it's impressive what's hapenning to certain "health oriented" demographics fueled by doctors on Instagram cherry picking studies of the size of this one and blamming the 'thousands years old staple food' as a cause of ANYTHING
csv does not stop you from making the first line be column headers, with implied data types, you just have to comma separate them!
It’s pretty astounding to me that this aspect of MCP is not mentioned more. You’re putting a LOT of trust in both the model and the system prompt when you start attaching MCPs that provide unfettered access to your file system, or connect up to your REST API’s POST endpoints.

(That being said, I have to admit I’ve been writing my own powerful but extremely dangerous tools as an experiment (e.g. run arbitrary Python code on my machine, unsandboxed) and I have to admit the results have been incredibly compelling.)
That's actually how many of the most famous compounds emerged (like the "gingerbread houses" on Martha's Vineyard). Lots of summer camps that became permanent over decades.
Why not both?

If I want to learn how to do something, I want to be educated in that. There should be education available for that, but for knowledge workers, there largely isn't; instead, university has been hijacked to fill that role. In the trades there are schools dedicated to learning these topics and they work well at helping people learn to work effectively.

Universities should be a place of higher learning and research - those are really important too. The struggle in universities today is that they are expected to be both and those things aren't really compatible. That's why you get research professors begrudgingly teaching undergraduate courses.

We need an alternative to universities for learning the trades that knowledge workers tend to do.
I expect she's had the best behavior that the members in question are capable of.
One data point: my partner has digestive problems if she eats wheat, but barley doesn't bother her.
> Something very specific seemed to trigger it.

Being not a fan of La Liga???
True, but God does WhatsApp suck.

They've got a billion-strong userbase and yet the Android app still dumped literally every attachment I received into my camera roll until I manually added '.nomedia' files in the right places.

And, oh man, the API for businesses is a Kafkaesque nightmare. Maybe it was good before it got Zucked, but I had to fight with their support for over a week to get an automated ban-hammer overturned... only for it to get auto-banned again two days later. We hadn't even deployed the damn thing yet!
It's certainly possible there's a backend flag on the site.

But from the comments I see on Reddit, I suspect there may be a simpler explanation: a lot of people for some reason really dislike John Gruber and view him as someone who slavishly praises Apple.

I'm a big John Gruber fan, and I don't think this is true in the slightest. I think he thinks carefully, forms his own opinions, and is very willing to intensely criticize Apple as evidenced by his recent article on the State of Cupertino.

But this means his pro and con opinions don't match typical opinions and this makes him polarizing. And hence some people will flag his articles reflexively or post reflexive dismissals. And Hacker News is heavily weighted to downrank polarizing articles.

I've seen this same pattern happen with other topics where an article doesn't match the zeitgeist, even it the article itself is not flamebait. I think the Something Rotten in the State of Cupertino should have been at the top of Hacker News.

But overall the algorithm has kept HN an interesting place. Any good moderation policy has side effects and tradeoffs.

Dang would be the one to know, but it looks to me there's an innocuous explanation here. As for transparency, it's always frustrating to have it. But transparency in algo's invites gaming of those same algo's (and I don't mean by John). So I wouldn't expect the HN modteam to publish details about their algo.

Edit: since I posted this, the article was flagged. Which I think may support the thesis. I will say the mod team might consider a vouch feature for articles the way one exists for users/comments. I think it ought to take a lot of vouching to counteract flags, but there are clearly articles where this is warranted. The OPSec breach this week was one of them (and it was restored).
Yeah, I have lived in SE Asia too, and I think the reason is public transport - in Berlin there are two train systems, trams, and buses. You can get anywhere cheaply, safely, and relatively quickly. In SE Asia there's usually tuk-tuks, sometimes taxis, and that's it. And owning a moped is a lot cheaper than taking a tuk-tuk every time. Owning a car is a lot more expensive than taking the u-bahn every time.
1Password makes this fairly easy. I’m sure other tools can too. But if you’ve got a tool, you just don’t need to think about it. As long as 1Password doesn’t get LastPass’d - although their architecture should prevent that.
are people suggesting targets? who would that be? is this organized online somewhere?

Betar US: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/what-is-betar-us-th...

I've read at least one other article a week or two ago that I'm sure mentioned a different group, but can't recall it well enough, could well have been Betar US as well.
Question: How are they going to link the DNA to people?

Some will be easier than others, sure. I'm trying to decide how "safe" my data is, since I created a single-use gmail account, with fictitious name, and paid for it with a gift card. I was afraid that some information in there might lead to being uninsurable, so I decided to row away from the rocks. Thankfully, my genetics didn't pop up any red flags, knock on wood.

I guess if you signed up using your normal e-mail address and your real name and used your credit card, you can still take the Shaggy defense ("It wasn't me"), but I suppose at that point they could ask you to prove it. I mean, most businesses aren't obligated to do business with you, for any or no reason at all.
Hasn't Kunstler been predicting the imminent end of oil supplies since the 1990s?

When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?
Another curious question: what use case can only be served by an Oracle DB?
I thought dang said once that any Apple article gets downranked automatically … and since Gruber predominately writes about Apple, his articles are probably experiencing that.

But I can’t seem to find that comment here on HN that references how Apple articles get downranked.
In addition to a controller, being able to do non-trivial calculations will always be useful.
This title is clickbait. A lot of repos in AOSP were already like this. Calling development private seems misleading because you can still contribute to them.
It's funny, this post just got flagged.

The shift from past popularity to apparent suppression is interesting, but without concrete proof, it remains speculation. Still, the frustration about opaque moderation resonates with me.
Just to understand, methods cannot declare any new type parameters of their own, but they can use type parameters from the type they are bound to, can they?
You can certainly go overboard on the “teaching only practical skills” thing, but id argue the pendulum has swung way too far in the other direction.

The point of teaching useful skills is so people can be helpful to other people. While coded as right wing this is fundamentally pro-social. Finding a useful and needed place for yourself in society tends to result in more stable families, communities and mental health.

Spending decades indulging your own ego tends to do the opposite.
As a European I'm quite surprised to see Americans hating on their most successful car company internationally.

Tesla produces and sells more autos in China than the USA. What makes you so convinced it is an "American" company?

Surprise! Business is not about sentimental nationalism or loyalty. It has little impact on the overall economic analysis. The primary loyalty is to profit --- wherever it can be found.

Not just my opinion but also the expressed attitude of multinational tycoons like Musk.
> Since then I’ve been thinking a lot about AI agents. They’re the closest I’ve seen to the dream of “programming for all”

Programming is programming for all, you just have to put some effort in.
This is alike to saying you wish there was a ‘Spanish for all’ so you invented Google Translate
Exactly. You are either pro-genocide, or pro-terrorist. What sort of choice is that?
Not at all, programming is mind-stimulating. By doing it, you don't just invent, but you discover how to create new things. So it's a combination. But for the most part, it is a way to satisfy the need many people have to solve problems. Why do people like puzzles? Because many people like to solve problems. Hobby programming falls in the same real.

The way I see it, neither says anything about majoring in science. That decision is all related to what you would like to learn in school and where you want to work in the future.
yeah if I had a cookie for every time I've had to deal with this I'd have maybe 10 cookies - it's not a lot but it's more than it should be.
see also

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485577

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487465
On the contrary. How arresting people for being "anti-israel" could be a good thing?
> Why are you doing it this way then?

I'd argue that it'd be a beneficial life lesson for the people who are freaking out over a "Hey, maybe stop using 'atop'." comment to learn how to enhance their calm.

Blowing one's stack over every little thing shortens your lifespan! It's best to learn how to take friendly warnings about bad things in stride.
In a societal collapse, the only thing that you list that I think would be worth the effort would be "solar powered cb ham radios for communications."

Considering how much potentially invaluable info is only/mostly/only easily available as a PDF, I'm thinking a working ereader would be of nontrivial value.

Now...if there was only a way to crunch a PDF on an 8-bit processor I recovered from my washing machine...
Uh... aren't they able to do that by leveraging their monopoly in other industries?

That's the definition of monopolistic behaviour that almost got them split up 25 years ago.
I respect that you did this. Nice quick data grab.
I appreciate that I was a bit too confrontational in my first reply and should have just added that WeChat, Line and Telegram are also used (plus many others), not just WhatsApp.

Why I think I (over) reacted is that it was, to me, an example of only partial escape from US American insularity. They understood that ppl outside the USA don't use SMS much, but only suggested a US American messaging platform as what was used instead.
Although I've never contributed with Blender, I felt proud when I saw "made with Blender" in the credits.

Blender is a jewel of the FLOSS movement and a history and behavior that must be mimicked by many other projects.

Looking forward to more successes like this.
my favorite is implementing issues from linear
Visually similar to column separator in a spreadsheet.

Less likely to appear in normal data. Of course you have to escape it but at the very least the data looks less noisy.
The important property that anyone can verify the untainted relationship between the binary and the source (providing we do the same for both tool chains, not relying on a blessed binary at any point) is useful if people do actually verify outside the debian sphere.

I hope they promote tools to enable easy verification on systems external to debian build machines.
Then take a look at how Nvidia markets a similar product (GeForce Now). It not only works way better (much better GPU) but also is growing by leaps and bounds every year and adding hundreds of games. And it uses your existing steam library for cross saves and cross plays. It was around before Stadia and survived long after Stadia.

Google has a bunch of amazing engineers and finance people but apparently they just can't productize anything.
Great points. My own "have to say this every time" is that Waymo only operates within the boundaries of a few cities. Most people's experience of self-driving cars is not with Waymo. It's with vastly inferior technologies, most especially Tesla's. Waymo might be great, but I get really tired of fans dismissing others' misgivings as some sort of Luddite thing when it's entirely justified by experiences people have had where they live. If people want to say that autonomous vehicles are already better, they need to stop sneering long enough to show how that works at a freeway interchange with multiple high-speed merges and lane drops back to back, at a grocery store parking lot when it's busiest, near any suburban school at pickup time. Without that data, "safer than humans" is mere cherry picking.
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The question is "what are you guys so scared of?" and it's a genuine question, I would love to know what the fear is that drives someone to buy a gun when the plain fact is that buying a gun puts them in more danger. It's not a rhetorical question.

The two answers I've read so far are: mexican cartels (ok, but if you don't live on the border what are you scared of?) and "all the other terrified people with guns" which I think is intended to be joking (but many a truth said in jest).

If you have a different answer, I'd love to hear it.
This is sometimes too dramatic but does alright:

https://www.historytools.org/school/why-do-schools-look-like...

>During the 19th century Industrial Revolution, reformers explicitly modeled public schools after factories to habituate youth to regimented workplace environments.

>Cell-like classrooms with regimented rows of desks

>Rigid schedules and rules to control movement

>Obedience to authority figures

>Conformity and standardization

>In the 20th century, disciplinary issues led architects to also incorporate prison elements

>Enclosing perimeter fences up to 10 feet high

>Locked or monitored gates limiting entrance/exit

>Surveillance cameras blanketing hallways and grounds

>Metal detectors

>Mesh covered windows preventing exit attempts

>Sparse and durable interior materials resistant to damage

>Currently over 17% of schools possess 10 or more of these. Their prevalence continues rising yearly.

The article goes on but this should hopefully be illustrative of my point.
A handful of 100+ comment/upvote submissions in the past month or so alone is not "afraid to discuss". That's hundreds or thousands of eyeballs. And your hot topics might also not be that unique so discussion is happening on other source articles at the same time. Not everything is going to be that interesting all the time. And stuff moves pretty fast around here. Come on now.
>could read papers if they want but choose not to

Journals are expensive.

>catering to your level of literacy?

Lowering the cognitive effort required to acquire the new information makes it more broadly available. Both to people that couldn't comprehend the source material, and to those that could, but don't want to spend the cognitive energy.

I can understand the argument that we should avoid dumbing down our media, but this is a weird battle to pick. Go throw stones at youtube shorts if you're worried about modern media liquifying humanity's frontal cortex.