MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by everforward | 2025-06-26 18:28:51+00:00
This doesn't feel like it will work to me, for a few reasons:

1. A video or survey will take longer than just finding the content elsewhere. The survey is also probably more effort.

2. This breaks the "flow". The odds that I get distracted or just lose interest before the ad/survey is done is pretty high.

3. A lot of the stuff I want to read is more "passing curiosity" than "thing I have a dedicated interest in". The effort and time I'm willing to put into access is low.

The real question for me is whether Offerwall is going to make it harder to get around the paywall than previously. There are a few sites that actually send the full article, they just cover it up with an HTML element. You can still see the full text if you open the request for the content in DevTools.
by cpburns2009 | 2025-06-26 18:29:04+00:00
Chrome provides no simple way to trust a self-signed cert. When you go to certificate details, the only option under the "Details" tab is "Export...". The only work around is to click "Advanced" and "Proceed to example.com (unsafe)". Chrome will then helpfully suffer amnesia in 1-3 days and completely forget you want to allow an exception for the certificate.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-26 18:30:04+00:00
Hertz used to be a business, run by businessmen who wanted to build and run a business.

Hertz is now a financial instrument run by private equity and investment bankers.

Businessmen want money the same way you or I want money. They just want to run a business in order to make that money. The same way novelists want to write novels to pay the bills. The book has to be good, people have to like the book so that they buy the book and tell other people to buy the book. So goes business.

Financial instruments are disposable, to be squeezed and wrung of every available cent until it becomes untenable and then the owners drop it and move on. If they can cut, squeeze, and extract they will. If they cannot-- they will destroy the instrument and the trick is they never lose money doing the destruction. People who run financial instruments masquerading as business don't want money like you and I. They want money the way addicts want heroin.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-26 18:30:32+00:00
Strictly speaking, if you wanted to solve intentional overdoses of acetaminophen, it appears that you could do it by presenting more appealing means of self-harm, like in the US. I'm pretty certain the availability of other lethal products (guns, really) directly correlates with whether OTC drug overdosing is a popular means of harm.

I'm willing to bet that handing out cyanide pills OTC would effectively eliminate intentional acetaminophen poisonings in the UK. Surprised the boffins at the NHS didn't think of it first if they really want to eliminate intentional overdoses! /s
by marssaxman | 2025-06-26 18:30:55+00:00
A friend of mine already does something much like this: she communicates by talking to her phone, which transcribes her messages and sends them as text. She practically never has a live phone conversation, nor writes any messages herself. I'm sure she would take to a system like you describe quite naturally, describing what she wants to say instead of strictly dictating it.

For me, I so rarely make or receive voice phone calls that I would likely not bother setting up such a service even if it were given to me for free; nor do I ever use voice interfaces, if I can help it. I much prefer to write.
by kiitos | 2025-06-26 18:31:23+00:00
The point is that libxml2 never had the quality to be used in mainstream browsers or operating systems to begin with. It all started when Apple made libxml2 a core component of all their OSes. Then Google followed suit and now even Microsoft is using libxml2 in their OS outside of Edge. This should have never happened. Originally it was kind of a growth hack, but now these companies make billions of profits and refuse to pay back their technical debt, either by switching to better solutions, developing their own or by trying to improve libxml2. The behavior of these companies is irresponsible. Even if they claim otherwise, they don't care about the security and privacy of their users. They only try to fix symptoms.

Hear, hear!
by bravoetch | 2025-06-26 18:31:26+00:00
I'm happy to hear this worked out for someone! My experience with a different company was being shown photos of hail damage, even though it was easy to show that the car could not have experienced a hail storm while I had it. It took me several years to fight before they dropped it. Turns out insurance companies are diligent about detailed records of all hail storms and this was useful in the fight.
by thekevan | 2025-06-26 18:31:31+00:00
"A note on security

This package is in no way as secure as a password and will never be. Although it's harder to fool than normal face recognition, a person who looks similar to you, or a well-printed photo of you could be enough to do it. Howdy is a more quick and convenient way of logging in, not a more secure one.

To minimize the chance of this program being compromised, it's recommended to leave Howdy in /lib/security and to keep it read-only.

DO NOT USE HOWDY AS THE SOLE AUTHENTICATION METHOD FOR YOUR SYSTEM."
by alwa | 2025-06-26 18:31:39+00:00
I mean eventually it becomes theft, doesn’t it? There’s some kind of line where your behavior demonstrates you have no real intention to return it?

The guy who took the car across many states and started driving Uber with it—he’d been assigned the vehicle for 3 days, claimed to have brought it back to the yard, but actually was using it to make his living every day for 6 months by the time we heard about it… surely that’s a bit closer to “he took it” than “he messed up the return date,” isn’t it?
by phren0logy | 2025-06-26 18:31:45+00:00
I was not familiar with it until now. At a quick glance, it looks like it has some overlap with the CPT. But generally speaking, this is going to give a snapshot in time in one setting, which is helpful, but just one part of the picture. As the makers of the test note, it still requires a clinical interview and rating scales to arrive at a diagnosis:

> Should QbTest be used with other measures?

> It is not meant to be a standalone tool for diagnosing ADHD. Instead, it has been designed to be added to the assessment process along with a clinical interview and rating scales.
by runarberg | 2025-06-26 18:31:46+00:00
A Japanese learner here (not commenting on this platform). I do recommend start using your target language script as soon as possible, maybe even earlier. The only exception are ideograms where you have to learn like 2000 unique characters, and even then you should learn the most common ones and start using them immediately.

Reading in a non-familiar script becomes much easier the more you do it, and the longer you put off learning it, the more opportunities you miss for using it.

I think you should only be using the latinized scripts in the absolute beginning where you are learning the most basic words and phrases like: “hello”, “yes”, and “no”, and “what is your name?”. This should only be for your first couple of weeks. After that you should have learned to read new words in the new script (albeit slowly). Learning the script makes everything much easier afterwards.
by InvisibleUp | 2025-06-26 18:32:14+00:00
I feel like that’s a bit harsh, but I’ll admit that it is needlessly inflammatory. I wasn’t in the best state mentally when I wrote that. (I do sometimes worry that I’m responsible for the disappearance of Paul C. Pratt…) At some point I need to either rewrite it to be less hostile or just yank it entirely.
by NoSalt | 2025-06-26 18:33:25+00:00
This is absolutely fantastic! As someone who has always wanted to try generating my own environments, like this and Minecraft, where would you recommend I start?

I am a software developer, but have no experience with anything like this; I mostly do mobile and web apps (full stack). I just don't know where to start, where to "dip my toe in", so to speak.

Is what you did here similar to how Minecraft worlds are generated?

Thanks!
by iandanforth | 2025-06-26 18:33:50+00:00
I learned from a recent post (https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...) that finding security issues can take 100+ calls to an LLM to get good signal. So I wonder about agent implementers who are trying to get good signal out of single calls, even if they are specialized ones.
by emptysongglass | 2025-06-26 18:35:13+00:00
> If you are 25 you should be seriously thinking in the next 2 years, and by 30 have them

I need to push back on this because no one is actually an adult at the age of 25 despite those people wishing it were so. You do not have your shit figured out and assuming a partner of similar age, neither do they. It's only starting in your 30s where you start to understand what it is to be a responsible adult to yourself and to the world.

So please, do not seriously consider having kids in your 20s, for all our sakes.
by meistertigran | 2025-06-26 18:36:25+00:00
At first, I created a simple API via Python that was basically mimicking the localStorage API. It would accept getItem and setItem requests and write it to a file. In the HTML file I was replacing localstorage calls to calls to the API automatically, via a script that was doing a simple search-and-replace on the file. I was also assigning a custom subdomains via nginx to each html file, so that it could have the max 10MB storage that localstorage can have.

After a while it became clunky doing things with separate scripts, so I ended up creating - htmlsync.io. It's still pre-alpha, but registrations for the free tier are open.
by kqr | 2025-06-26 18:36:25+00:00
Sure. Getting reliable data all parties can agree on is one of the biggest challenges to parametric insurance. The data sources I hear about most often are US governmental agencies – and this is a problem, since the US political system is not stable enough to finance its governmental agencies reliably. (Most recently I recall concerns around budget and staffing cuts for NOAA and USGS.)

That said, sane practice for parametric insurance is to have redundancy in data sources, and an agreed procedure for settling differences in conclusions resulting from relying on either of them alone.
by tzs | 2025-06-26 18:36:45+00:00
> I fail to see how that is different.

A feature request is for something new. A bug report is reporting an error in the already released and distributed software. Here is why that is relevant.

> Ultimately, you have released a piece of software into the wild with a clause stating: "The software is provided 'as is' and the author disclaims all warranties with regard to this software including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness".

When there is a bug in that released software the 'as is' is not the 'as is' that the developer intended. Probably 99% of free software developers would like to be informed about this, especially if it is software that they are continuing to develop and distribute.

> Thus, it is purely cultural that somehow others and yourself expect you to cancel your family time on a Saturday night solely because an issue has been found in a piece of software you have given away for free

Huh? If I report a bug on a Saturday night (to a free software project or a proprietary project) I expect that someone will look at the report during the normal hours when they look at bug reports and if they decide it is something that needs fixing the work will be scheduled the same way they schedule work to fix bugs that their own testing reveals.
by billllll | 2025-06-26 18:37:16+00:00
At the end of the day, they're subject to the same market forces. If the big publishers lose their shirts, that means small bloggers don't have any chance of making it big. The same market forces that make big publishers worse are going to squeeze smaller outfits and writers.

And I know some people are going to say how writers and news "don't deserve" to make money because they haven't sacrificed enough upon the altar of tech, hustle, and Silicon Valley - I don't really care. I think newspapers and writing in general losing out is a blow to society.
by drdaeman | 2025-06-26 18:37:30+00:00
Aren't those kind of tests... how I'd put it politely?... less than meaningful?

First of all, it's not really well done: there are no control questions, no inverted questions, no consistency checks (like re-phrased duplicate questions) or anything a well-designed self-test must have. All answers are obviously ranked, introducing perception biases. Questions like "how often do you interrupt someone" or "how often you were told" or "did parents notice" are highly culturally-dependent. The childhood questions do not discern between younger and older ages (where behavioral differences are drastic), and likely to introduce a skew based on one's age and long-term memory function (which, AFAIK, ADHD does not directly affect). To me it looks like nothing of value would be lost if the whole test would be replaced with a short description what ADHD is and then a single yes/no question "do you think you may have some of the described symptoms?"

I would understand something like ANT, which (as I understand it) tests way closer to actual brain behavior, than those distant derivatives smeared over social prisms, self-perception lenses, and dice rolls of life's [pseudo-]randomness.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 18:37:33+00:00
I'd argue that the brilliance of SpaceX is the opposite. They stick to technology and markets that are proven and use technically conservative approaches. Falcon 9 is about relentless improvement in small ways, not bold new ideas -- unless you count not getting caught up in the politics and psychology of bold new ideas as a bold new idea.

Sure, they talk about Mars, and in-space refueling seems radical, but they've yet to succeed at doing anything radical... yet.

Rumor has it they were struggling with the payload fraction w/ the first generation of Starship and they switched to a second generation that struggles with blowing up. A big advantage of the two-stage architecture is that you can develop the two stages independently. Presumably they will eventually get Starship to orbit and bring it home, they will have plenty of time to improve it get the payload fraction up just as they did with F9.
by jfengel | 2025-06-26 18:38:31+00:00
Can you elaborate on that?

In particular: how are they (and you) defining "truth" here? Are they claiming that people are using the ranking system incorrectly? Or that they're using it correctly-but-strategically, ending up with unintended consequences?

Arrow's Theorem says that there isn't any ground truth in a multiway election. That is, you can always define some not-unreasonable set of criteria to lead to any outcome you want.

I'm skeptical of ranked-choice voting (or any other voting scheme) to resolve the problem that people feel unheard -- at least in the general case. It sounds like you think the outcome in this case does reflect the sense of the people, and I'm interested in that.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-06-26 18:38:35+00:00
> No, they're absolutely correct that it's critical in professional and open source environments. Code is written once but read hundreds or thousands of times

What you're saying is reasonable, but that's not what they said at all. They said there's one way to write cleanly and that's "Standard conventions", whatever that means. Yes, conventions so standard that I've read 10 conflicting books on what they are.

There is no agreed upon definition of "readable code". A team can have a style guide, which is great to follow, but that is just formalizing the personal preference of the people working on a project. It's not anymore divine than the opinion of a "rando."
by refulgentis | 2025-06-26 18:38:38+00:00
That sounds fair, but opens up another N questions:

- Are there APK(s) that run on Tensor?

- Is it possible to run on Tensor if you're not Google?

- Is there anything at all from anyone I can download that'll run it on Tensor?

- If there isn't, why not? (i.e. this isn't the first on device model release by any stretch, so I can't give benefit of the doubt at this point)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-26 18:39:05+00:00
> no one is actually an adult at the age of 25 despite those people wishing it were so. You do not have your shit figured out

Too strong.

You're an adult who doesn't have their shit figured out. Some people never get it figured out, others take into their 30s, 40s or even 50s.

And then in your 60s, you've got new shit to figure out.
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-26 18:39:11+00:00
Would you happen to have any notable examples of EFF's treating Big Tech as the enemy (or major threat if you prefer) during its first five or ten years? That would be 1994--1999 or 1994--2004, roughly.

I ... was well aware of the EFF for at least the latter half of that period, and this doesn't seem to correspond well with my recollection, though I suppose one could argue that Jackson Games cast AT&T as Big Evil Tech. The defendant in the case however was the US Secret Service, a federal government entity. The Church of Scientology was of course another notable early non-government focus.

But largely at least through 2000, and for much of the decade of the 2000s, EFF's principle focus was law and policy, not abusive tech giants. Rather than abandoning the former, the EFF seems now to consider both as significant concerns. Even key EFF staffers themselves (e.g., Doctorow, Cohn) acknowledge this shift.
by gremlinsinc | 2025-06-26 18:39:29+00:00
I drive for Uber sometimes I use an app where it'll automatically take an Uber and turn off Lyft and door dash.. when it meets a filter... for example: $1 per mile, 25 per hour avg, and over $5 minimum...

you can manually accept ones less than the filter... but it pops up a thing with all this data so you can make a decision whether it's worth it and while driving it's nice it turns the rest off so you don't have bad stats when they send you an offer and you don't take it because you couldn't turn it off yet....

it's $18 per month but worth every penny!

plus I just hit 1 button to login to every service...

https://l.myst.ro/N0Q9/movhhjr5 (disclaimer: aff Link.... you can just look for myst in the app store on Android (not sure about iPhone).
by mcherm | 2025-06-26 18:40:04+00:00
The behavior of malloc(x) for any positive value x is to either return NULL (meaning that the system was unable to provide a new chunk of memory to use) OR to return a unique pointer to X bytes of data which the program can use.

By extension, if x == 0, doesn't it make sense for the system to either return NULL OR to return a pointer to 0 bytes of memory which the program can use? So the standard promises exactly that: to return either NULL or else a unique pointer where that the program has permission to use zero bytes starting at that pointer.
by HakanAbbas | 2025-06-26 18:40:13+00:00
HALIC's decode speed is already much faster compared to other codecs. When you look at the compression ratios, they are almost the same. There doesn't seem to be a problem with this. There are also issues where encode speed is especially important. But I think there is no need to spend a lot more energy to make a few percent more compression and decode it.
by 56544562 | 2025-06-26 18:40:35+00:00
It makes it impossible. The content gives off the feeling that it will "take" and grab more than it will "give" and release.

ADHD, to me, always, even before the diagnosis, felt like a valve that doesn't open for no reason and due to the build up pressure, some other valve with different "filters" releases whatever mixture of thoughts and actions to compensate.

Children's sugar-induced behavioral roller coasters have a similar characteristic. And this website looks like too much candy without there being any candy.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-26 18:41:07+00:00
> What really killed their revenue was zero barrier to entry, combined with social media monopolizing the attention of users.

Well, and intentional efforts by the major tech companies.

Like Facebook lying about video stats to push "pivot to video". https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/09/well-this-puts-a-nail-in-t...

"It turns out that the metrics that Facebook was using to measure engagement with news video were wrong, massively overestimating the amount of time that users spent consuming video ads. In 2019, Facebook settled a lawsuit with those advertisers, paying them $40 million (while admitting no wrongdoing). But it was too late for the publishers who’d already pivoted to Facebook video and then either made big cuts or shut down completely when it turned out people weren’t actually watching."
by csallen | 2025-06-26 18:41:20+00:00
Competition in the free market is not colonialism. The capitalistic marketplace is meant to involve disruption. That's the entire point: new companies come along and out-compete and out-innovate older companies and business models. The consumer wins. This is not the same as invading countries and subjugating the inhabitants, who have a human right to a peaceful life. No business in a capitalistic marketplace has a "right" to continue enjoying profits and resist innovation.
by gs17 | 2025-06-26 18:41:50+00:00
The McDonalds part isn't as weird as it sounds. Almost anywhere outside the US, it's very different and usually much better, and they redesign portions of the menu for the local cuisine (e.g. there's teriyaki burgers and fillet-o-shrimp in Japan, a lot of veg options in India). I wouldn't make it a priority, but it's really interesting to see at least and not an expensive or long sidetrip. It's definitely a more "American" perspective, but there's a good reason.
by kqr | 2025-06-26 18:41:55+00:00
Reinsurance does not only spread risk by pooling multiple insurers, but also smears out the impact of catastrophes geographically and temporally: big events in one year, in one part of the world result in more expensive reinsurance all over the globe for a few years forward, as reinsurers collectively stock up on capital again.

So while locally catastrophes can cause other catastrophes, for the most part earthquakes in Thailand does not trigger wildfires in Texas. Nor does a hurricane in Florida one year cause more hurricanes in Florida the next year.
by tim333 | 2025-06-26 18:42:51+00:00
They may kind of suck but even so they are still transforming the war in Ukraine. A month or so ago FPV drones took out much of Russia's nuclear bomber fleet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150789), something like 80% of battlefield casualties are due to drones, neither side pretty much can use tanks because they get taken out by drones. It's a huge change in war fighting.

One stat: "In May alone, Ukrainian drones destroyed over 89,000 Russian targets" https://www.newsweek.com/robert-brovdi-ukraine-russia-war-dr...

They've recently promoted the 'Birds of Madyar' guy to run the newly formed Unmanned Systems Forces and are moving to a unified drone line defence the whole way along the frontline. Update on that: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2073811/russia-army-ukr...

Also re drones not having the effect of artillery, fair enough but Ukraine has been using FPV drones to destroy Russia's artillery. Here's footage of one of it's most modern being taken out https://youtu.be/DMOjOJnAd8A?t=161 It's kind of asymmetric - the artillery can't similarly take out the drones because they are too small and replaceable.
by bitpush | 2025-06-26 18:43:34+00:00
Since we're on the topic of Microsoft, I'm sure you'd agree that Satya has done a phenomenal job. If you look objectively, what is Satya's accomplishments? One word - Azure. Azure is #2, behind AWS because Satya's effective and strategic decisions. But that's it. The "vibes" for Microsoft has changed, but MS hasnt innovated at all.

Satya looked like a genius last year with OpenAI partnership, but it is becoming increasingly clear that MS has no strategy. Nobody is using Github Copilot (pioneer) or MS Copilot (a joke). They dont have any foundational models, nor a consumer product. Bing is still.. bing, and has barely gained any market share.