MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codethief | 2025-05-13 22:52:16+00:00
> [1] https://studiotanais.com/

First, honest impression: At least on my phone (Android/Chromium) the typography and style of the website don't quite match that "high quality & expensive ingredients" vibe the parfums are supposed to convey. The banners (3 at once on the very first screen, one of them animated!), italic text, varying font sizes, and janky video header would be rather off-putting to me. Maybe it's also because I'm not a huge fan of flat designs, partially because I find they make it difficult to visually distinguish important and less important information, but also because I find them a bit… unrefined and inelegant. And, again, this is on mobile, so maybe on desktop it comes across differently.

Disclaimer: I'm not a designer (so please don't listen only to me and take everything with a grain of salt) but I did work as a frontend engineer for a luxury retailer for some time.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-13 22:52:23+00:00
> I have never felt like more of a replaceable cog in a machine.

Since forever I remember reading in the news that company XYZ 'let go' # thousands of employees in countries A, B, and from departments C, D.

I was working in a bank (one of the many) back in the late 00s and one morning the (open space) office was dead silent. It use to have 200+ people but that day it had 20+.

Apparently "Management" saw something coming (it was the 2008 crisis) and decided to cut costs asap, and the first to go out were the ~200 contractors (back then there was no 'remote' work, so everyone was in the office). I knew one of them, we grew up in the same neighborhood, and he was super angry because they asked them to simply hand over their laptops and walk out. 1 minute notice, and paid them in the end of the month for the rest of the month and that was that.

At _that_ moment I realized that shit doesn't just happens to others on the news, it happens to all of us, it's not an IF it will happen to you/me/anyone, it is a WHEN it will happen.

Brace yourselves, winter is coming.
by nemo44x | 2025-05-13 22:52:37+00:00
And I’ll expand on this:

Fishing is sending out applications all over the place. This is casting your reel. Changing your CV over and over is changing your bait. Reaching out to your network without a specific request to recommend you for a specific job is fishing.

Work backwards a bit. Find a job at a company you want. Look up the recruiters and hiring managers. Send them a note. Look up people in your network, or people connected to your network, and ask them to recommend you for the specific role. Companies incentivize this. They’ll want spend 2 minutes to possibly win a few thousand dollars by getting you in. Incentives align.

Lastly there’s a lot of independent head hunters out there. Hire them like you’d a trail guide.
by GWBullshit | 2025-05-13 22:53:33+00:00
And speaking of "Jumping to conclusions", you know NOTHING about me and what I do and who I associate with, work with, and sometimes antagonize or the level of technical proficiency they have.

I've personally seen them do things WAY beyond what I describe in this post, some so far beyond what most people would think is technically possible that simply describing it (without proof) would come off as highly-delusional to I suspect most of HN's readers/users.

So despite "they benched 800 pounds" seeming as "You're jumping to conclusions, go see a doctor" material to you, you're talking to someone that has seen them bench 3,000 lbs. (as an analogy).

NOW who's "jumping to conclusions" about what happened and whether or not this was technically-feasible?
by anyfoo | 2025-05-13 22:53:43+00:00
There is a difference. JS is turing complete, pure HTML is far from (as far as I'm aware). So HTML might (!) well be restricted enough to not be able to carry out such an attack.

But I'd never state to definitively, as I don't know enough about what HTML without JS can do these days. For all I know there's a turing tarpit in there somewhere...
by exiguus | 2025-05-13 22:54:12+00:00
89) Arrogance is a form of stupidity.

If you wish to train your mind with such aphorisms and craft your own, I recommend reading Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or more modern thinkers like Heidegger and Adorno. Each of them has collections of aphorisms, akin to an elevated 'Farmer's Almanac'.
by atombender | 2025-05-13 22:55:04+00:00
The Freeze-Frame Revolution is also fantastic, along with the short stories, which collectively form the "Sunflower" cycle.

Watts writes the smartest but also scariest science fiction. There's an aura of existential, Lovecraftean dread in all his writings that I find incredibly appealing. In the case of Sunflower, Watts is able to make the idea of floating through space for millions of years, unable to stop, into something genuinely upsetting. It's bleak, but also really well plotted.

Not too long ago, Watts published a short story set right after Blindsight, "The Colonel". It's an excellent, standalone read.
by alganet | 2025-05-13 22:55:23+00:00
> Sources speaking to The Verge are convinced [...]

Paranoid schizophrenics are also often convinced they're Napoleon, just saying.

There must be some solid journalism behind the article to confirm those sources, I imagine.

Is there any conflict of interest here? Like Comcast (telecom conglomerate) owning The Verge?

Let me reverse engineer this article: "Musk is probably a crook, and taking over the Library of Congress is a scumbag move, let's put the two things closer to make it look like their new telecom is evil".

Funny thing is that Musk is probably a crook indeed, and taking over the Library of Congress sounds like a terrible evil move. However, exaggerating it to play telecom wars doesn't help at all.

I guess we're in an age that we can't trust media owned by tech or telecoms.

Bring good journalism back. It sucks to not have it, for everyone.
by jodrellblank | 2025-05-13 22:55:28+00:00
Galileo was observing Venus in 1610; his telescope was enough to see the phases of Venus but probably not high resolution or quality enough to see someone waving Semaphore flags or lighting a bonfire. Astronauts in Low Earth Orbit can't see the Great Wall of China with the naked eye.

What scale of 'device a way to signal back visually' could done with 1600's era manufacturing and technology?
by II2II | 2025-05-13 22:55:48+00:00
I was under the impression that the Soviets launched multiple identical missions to account for failure. In other words: rather than investing a huge effort into reducing the probability of failure of a singular mission, they invested in multiple missions in hopes that one would be successful. If that is the case, it sounds like the had much more confidence in the engineers who did the design work than their ability to do quality control while building.

Any how, it's meaningless to compare old Soviet products to new Western ones. The older Soviet ones are likely still in use due to an incentive to maintain and repair them. Old Western products were probably just as repairable, but there was less incentive to do so. As for new Western products, there are both technological and business reasons to ignore repairability.
by xg15 | 2025-05-13 22:56:59+00:00
This is also the exact reason why all the bright-eyed pieces that some technology would increase worker's productivity and therefore allow more leisure time for the worker (20 hour workweek etc) are either hopelessly naive or pure propaganda.

Increased productivity means that the company has a new option to either reduce costs or increase output at no additional cost, one of which it has to do to stay ahead in the rat-race of competitors. Investing the added productivity into employee leisure time would be in the best case foolish and in the worst case suicidal.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-05-13 22:57:00+00:00
I very much agree here. This is clearly nothing more than a scam meant to separate investors from their money. I read the "white paper" and very few of their suppositions actually hold water, as many others have detailed in this thread. It seems like what this kind of "startup" does is pick two or three trending words, put them together and make up a story that would be believable to people who don't dig too deep. These guys chose the words "AI" and "space" and figured out how to stick them together. Speaking of that, anyone want to invest in my new quantum blockchain technology?
by nine_k | 2025-05-13 22:57:35+00:00
This is exactly what you won't do on most of your infrastructure boxes, would you? If you can reasonably trust all the software on the whole box, many mitigations that protect against effects of running adversary code on your machine become superfluous.

OTOH if an adversary gets a low-privilege RCE on your box, exploiting something like Spectre or RowHammer could help elevate the privilege level, and more easily mount an attack on your other infrastructure.
by karaterobot | 2025-05-13 22:57:44+00:00
In general, I think having an unrefined palate is one of life's great gifts. I admit there are areas of food where I'm a snob, but that just means I can't enjoy examples of that food which I consider sub-par, which is more of a curse than a blessing.

And, for all the areas where I have no particular expertise or discerning taste, I can just enjoy the cheapest and most easily available version of that thing. It's awesome!

Take chocolate for example: at this point in my life, every piece of chocolate I eat is a treat, and when I'm with someone who just can't eat cheap chocolate (Hersheys) my reaction is "sucks to be you, nom nom nom". If I went down a rabbit hole where I could only enjoy a subset of all chocolate, I'd consider that a worse situation than being able to enjoy all chocolate.

I think people believe there is something like a magnitude of enjoyment, and when you are an expert eating something you consider perfect, you enjoy it more. I think that's probably dead wrong, and nothing has empirically disproven that for me. Certainly in the long run you'll enjoy fewer things than people with no (supposed) taste.
by eitally | 2025-05-13 22:57:59+00:00
Related to that lock screen "quirk", the latest UI/UX "feature" that bugs me no end is the fact that on Pixel phones you can't remove the Google search bar on the home screen... yet there is now a Gemini widget available that does much more useful things, so in order to use it, you'd have two full width horizontal bars on your home screen. I assume this is going to evolve with Android 16 releases, but it's a really dumb feature.
by cryptonector | 2025-05-13 22:58:04+00:00
I took the context to be software skunk works. To give some examples, when SMF and ZFS integrated into Solaris' OS/Net core there were many unfinished things and bugs and many devs outside those teams had to jump in and help. I'm not sure if that's tech debt or what, but definitely they moved fast and broke things, yet they also delivered incredible value.

Would that be acceptable if building something like the SR-71? I want to say "no, no way", but then look at SpaceX's approach with Starship. You wouldn't put humans on such a thing until it's done, but if there's bugs to shake out, so be it.

And in fact the SR-71 did have bugs that needed shaking out, and one pilot died because of those.
by DennisP | 2025-05-13 22:58:29+00:00
As someone who does like coffee, I can't imagine that the best coffee for people who don't like coffee is much worse coffee. Seems like really good coffee would be a much better option to try first.

Everybody tastes things differently because we each have a different subset of scent receptors, but for me, it's not that instant is bland or one-dimensional, but that it actively tastes bad.
by dgfitz | 2025-05-13 22:58:37+00:00
No, correct, they do not.

Until an election is decided by rogue delegates, this is a frivolous point.

If it ever does happen, it makes the whole exercising of voting even more useless than it already is for states like CA, the vote truly means nothing as opposed to just being symbolically useless.

So, the EC absolutely matters, and it’ll matter right up until it doesn’t. At which point, who tf cares?
by ulfw | 2025-05-13 22:59:30+00:00
Looks seriously ugly but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that's only my personal opinion. Thankfully I won't ever get to see it anyway as majority Android vendors aren't using any of Google's UI stuff (my Oppo Find N5 basically looks iPhoney with ColorOS). So really this should be titled "Google Pixel phones will be getting..."
by matthewdgreen | 2025-05-13 22:59:31+00:00
It is such a goddamned tragedy that we’ve come to this. And also an avoidable one: every E2E messaging app (WhatsApp, Android Messages, iMessage) should be able to properly authenticate the caller. But I presume services are asking too much money for this, and nobody wants to hand yet another vital service to Apple/Google/Meta. So instead we all suffer.
by echoangle | 2025-05-13 23:00:17+00:00
Of course it’s possible. But they are acting like having the datacenter in space is actually an advantage over earth because space is cold.

That’s like saying „if you’re thirsty on a ship, getting thrown into the sea is actually really nice because you will be around a lot of water.“.

Physically, you could do it, but it won’t be simpler or cheaper than on earth. Except for constant solar availability, there are only downsides with this.
by thot_experiment | 2025-05-13 23:00:50+00:00
> passive cooling

what the actual fuck? my boys joseph and ludwig would like to have a word with y'all

in ideal conditions, your gpu putting out 600W will need about a square meter facing deep space to keep it at 80c, this idea is absurd on first principles alone, maybe if you have heat pumps you can push this but then you're dealing with on orbit fluid loops that you can't maintain, as i said, what the fuck?
by anyfoo | 2025-05-13 23:01:01+00:00
Yeah, as stated in a sibling answer, I misread your comment a little bit. It's true, on at least some classes of infrastructure boxes, you more or less "own all that is on the machine" anyway.

But also note my caveat about database servers, for example. A database server shared between accounts of different trust levels will be affected, if the database supports stored procedures for example. Basically, as soon as there's anything on the box that not all users of it should be able to access anyway, you'll have to be very, very careful.
by caseyy | 2025-05-13 23:01:20+00:00
There are many behavioral economics ideas about smartphone choices. There are various psychological aspects, such as lifestyle, status, social and personal values, and political influences. That is all true.

The strongest decider for whether a good will show positive or negative elastic demand (and be considered superior or inferior) is probably how it's branded, pricing strategy included. For example, wealthy people shop in boutiques more than large retail centers, though the items sold are often sourced from the same suppliers. The difference? Branding, including pricing.

You're right about basic goods, such as groceries. Especially goods that are almost perfectly identical and freely substitutable, like milk. What's a superior or inferior good becomes hard to guess when there is a high degree of differentiation (as you say, ecosystems, cameras, security). It's easier to measure than predict.

Anyway, this is all a "fun fact." My original comment really does make the assumption that software, which is relatively substitutable, is like the milk example — the price and the inferiority/superiority are strongly correlated. And the entire expensive software market has collapsed like the expensive secondary market for used cars.
by metalman | 2025-05-13 23:01:23+00:00
I'm struggling with this, to be nice,empathetic, understanding, but coffee for people who dont like coffee, is toggling back and forth across some unimaginable contradictory gulf, at a ferocious rate and leaves me wondering about how the world might look if it was filled with a complete set of things and services for people who dont like those things and serviced, and of course the whole theraputic ecosystem to kludge it along. sex for people who dont like sex and icecream for people who dont like icecreamm
by ignoramous | 2025-05-13 23:02:12+00:00
> IMO in many ways it had better foundations

Security-wise: True; but Android is a gigantic yet well-oiled ecosystem at this point, from silicon designers to manufacturers to vendors to developers, running on handhelds to TVs to wearables to gaming devices (including AR/VR consoles).

> shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android

ChromeOS had a decade but Google is wise focus on just one desktop platform. I don't think it should surprise anybody that a platform with 3bn users & 2mn odd apps won out.
by 9x39 | 2025-05-13 23:02:16+00:00
Well, a TPM would eliminate this user-hostile auth dance, although that security model is different than a password.

Failing to recognize and channel human behavior into positive behaviors and outcomes does suggest a level of ignorance/arrogance outside of extreme situations.

There’s probably a type of data one might handle to justify physical access threat models, but incompetence and out of date knowledge from these types is far more likely. FWIW something like a third to half of CISO’s are from nontechnical management backgrounds, based on surveys I’ve seen.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-05-13 23:02:20+00:00
Seriously. Last Thursday I experimented with making a prototype. I showed it at standup the following day. Literally five minutes after standup an executive PM’d me and said, “Can you show me what you just showed to the other engineers?”

And now we’re rapidly adjusting our roadmap and a bunch of people on the business side of the company have been reaching out to find out more about my prototype. The executive even called me on Saturday because he was so excited that he’d been doing research and wanted more details.

I had one guy in sales today tell me that this was the most exciting thing he’s seen in the 3+ years he’s been with the company.

Developers have ideas and skills. Everyone has ideas. Developers are the ones who can execute on those ideas.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-13 23:03:15+00:00
And I lost money because AMZN did horribly between my offer letter and each vesting period between 2020-2023.

No I was no more going to keep 25% of my compensation in AMZN after it vested than I would now take the same amount of cash compensation I get now - ie my cash compensation now is the same as cash + RSU I was getting at Amazon.

I talk to my former coworkers at Amazon, they now have a choice between fewer RSUs and more cash. They always choose more cash.
by wormius | 2025-05-13 23:03:21+00:00
Yep - never buying from them again. They've always been hostile to emulation but the past couple years have been even more ridiculous than normal from them. I don't need another Mario game while forking over yet more money that are user-hostile.

I know it won't place a dent in their profits, even if many of us who feel this way, since there are so many more people who just "wanna play the game" and don't know any of the politics of it. But this is still my personal stance, I just don't want to give a company like this money. Likewise, it's why I hopped off Windows, even though I really really thought they turned a new leaf with WSL, but Win11 Rolls around and ads & AI shoved in that I don't want.

I'm tired of giving corps what they want just because they're "the default". I'll live a cheaper life, with less FOMO. No skin off my back. Maybe this is just me getting old and dressing it up in a guise of moral superiority.
by jerkstate | 2025-05-13 23:03:45+00:00
I switched to unsweetened cacao with some extras in the morning, had to lay off caffeine but theobromine seems fine. Here’s my recipe:

About 15-20 grams of unsweetened cacao paste

2 grams freeze dried panax ginseng (some ginseng powders are disgustingly bitter and others taste nice and earthy)

Dash of cayenne pepper

About 3/4 to 1 cup milk (cold)

Top up with about another cup of boiling water from the kettle and immersion blend until smooth I make it in a thermos cup so it stays warm.

The idea is to prevent the cacao from exceeding 150 degrees or so, to prevent the compounds from breaking down.

Tastes great, has tons of nutrients, and wakes me up.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-13 23:04:43+00:00
> Is there not something wrong about a calculator app asking for contacts and location permissions[0]?

Depends.

> Are ads fine if they can be used to track every detail of what you do and want?

Depends.

> Was it fine when CrowdStrike caused Windows systems in airports BSOD and lead to massive delays?

Depends.

That's my whole point. You're presuming some absolutes which aren't universally necessitated or desired.
by bravoetch | 2025-05-13 23:05:04+00:00
My fave issue is Android as the moment is when I try the Gemini app is automatically changes the default assistant app to Gemini. And since Gemini isn't an assistant app, it doesn't work for that :/

But on your topic, my partner has an iPhone and they disable all kinds of features and then wonder why nothing works smoothly. They have a Mac, and airpods, and still don't have anything working together effectively. Just through simple self sabotage
by pfdietz | 2025-05-13 23:05:06+00:00
My point is: even small leaks (in percentage terms) will result in much larger releases from LWRs. And tritium promises to be very difficult to contain, as it diffuses through a wide variety of materials. For example, it diffuses through polymer seals. Materials of a reactor will become saturated with it, providing a substantial source term in accidents.

Lurking over all this is the issue that loss of property value doesn't require anyone to actually prove tangible harm. The mere fact that property values were affected is enough for a tort.
by perihelions | 2025-05-13 23:06:06+00:00
There's nothing to indicate there were radioisotope sources on this mission.

Public information: [0] describes the six publicly-disclosed Soviet radioisotope launches up to 1989. (It's not a primary source; it's hard to find those). This one's not among them—none of the Venus missions were reported to use radioisotopes. This Kosmos 482[1] and the rest of the Soviet Venera program were publicly described as being solar-powered, which is evidence against any engineering need for other power sources. The landing probes themselves carried chemical batteries (they were very short-lived landers).

Nothing I can find through search contradicts [0]. Wikipedia's list[2] is the same, and adds two more post-1989 launches.

Seven radioisotope payloads have already reentered/crashed into Earth before—four Soviet or Russian and three American; some thermometric generators and some simple heaters; containing either polonium-210 or plutonium-238. That's not counting fission reactors, of which there are several in addition (I'm unclear the precise count of which nuclear reactors returned to Earth, or simply exploded in orbit; or what became of the latter group).

[0] https://nuke.fas.org/space/sovspace.pdf (Gary L. Bennett, "A look at the Soviet space nuclear power program" (1989))

[1] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id... ("Two solar array wings, with an area of 2.5 meters, had a span of 4 meters. Due to the spacecraft's proximity to the Sun at Venus, the wings were only partially covered with solar cells".)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_... ("List of nuclear power systems in space")
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-13 23:06:18+00:00
And less risk. I knew my equity in a public company was immediately liquid when it vested and I sold it all and diversified as soon as it did.

Now that I make the same amount in cash as I did in cash + RSUs at BigTech, it’s not like I’m going to take 25% of my compensation and put it one stock.