MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creer | 2025-06-10 20:09:02+00:00
> strategic / economic point of view?

This is very much what you want from a BUSINESS lawyer. And what the author apparently didn't understand. You, your business, the other guys ideally - nobody in here should be there for ticking boxes and the exact details of the law. What you are sorting out with a business lawyer is business issues, which need to be resolved in pragmatic business terms. It's not a legal puzzle but a business puzzle.

Same thing from the point of view of writing a contract, or writing or answering a demand letter: The point is to solve a business problem - not satisfy some ideal of the law. And the business lawyers you want do understand this and can be amazing at finding the right terms and shortcuts and at helping you come to an understanding of what matters and doesn't. And yes, these lawyers very much exist.

People often argue that it's a lawyer's job to point out and try to protect you against anything that could possibly go wrong - with the result that indeed it's impossible to run a business. No, that's not the job.

But it takes time to find a great business lawyer, so this should be part of the tasks right from the beginning when founding a business. That lawyer won't cost all that much initially - and they will already be useful working on contracts.

Same thing for in-house corporate counsel, when you get to that. Some amazing ones who can defuse a situation in an instant - and others who spend their life making things impossible.

Now, it might get to the point where the business lawyer helps you understand that all alternatives have been explored and it's time to spend serious money on courtroom litigation specialists - but hopefully that's only seldom.
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-10 20:09:17+00:00
Claude 4 Sonnet gave the (reasonable given the obscurity, but wrong) answer that there was no such easter egg:

>I'm not aware of any MS-DOS productivity program that had Connect Four as a built-in easter egg. While MS-DOS era software was famous for including various easter eggs (like the flight simulator in Excel 97, though that was Windows-era), I can't recall Connect Four specifically being hidden in any major DOS productivity applications.

>The most well-known DOS productivity suites were things like Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, dBase, and later Microsoft Office for DOS, but I don't have reliable information about Connect Four being embedded in any of these.

>It's possible this is a case of misremembered details - perhaps your friend is thinking of a different game, a different era of software, or mixing up some details. Or there might be an obscure productivity program I'm not familiar with that did include this easter egg.

>Would you like me to search for more information about DOS-era software easter eggs to see if we can track down what your friend might be thinking of?

That seems like a pretty reasonable response given the details, and included the appropriate caveat that the model was not aware of any such easter egg, and didn't confidently state that there was none.
by benob | 2025-06-10 20:09:24+00:00
I am seeing different prices everywhere: - $199 https://shop.vassarrobotics.com/ - $219 https://shop.vassarrobotics.com/products/navrim-robot-that-l... - $599 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDTCwzFeIU

Which one is the actual price?
by vladvasiliu | 2025-06-10 20:09:29+00:00
Times have changed. Nowadays, the gendarmes only show up when protests are expected to turn into rioting (so basically most of them). You don't see them around Paris in day to day life. We now have actual military patrolling the streets, "Operation Sentinelle". They're supposed to show some muscle to discourage terrorism. They are actual military, with actual military weapons. This has been going on for multiple years, I don't remember when it started.

However, regular police now wear bulletproof vests, too, even when randomly patrolling the streets. Since some years ago, we now have "municipal police", basically police which answer to the mayor [0], as opposed to the state, with somewhat fewer powers. But even they walk around with bullet-proof vests.

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[0] In France, "the police" usually means "Police Nationale", which answers to the Prefect, who represents the State in the local Jurisdiction (département) – they are not elected, but appointed by the Interior Ministry. The "Municial police" answers to the City, but they're not allowed to conduct all the operations that the National Police do. The City means the Mayor, who's elected by the local population.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-10 20:10:19+00:00
As a software developer no I don't feel responsible for those things, because I don't have any involvement with them as part of my job. But the people who work in HR, finance, and marketing are responsible for those things.

I agree that the junior engineer implementing a localhost listener on Android might not understand what it is going to be used for and might not even think to ask. But somewhere, a senior engineer or PM or manager knows, and yes as you say that's the point where responsibility can be assigned, and increasingly up the line from there.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-10 20:10:28+00:00
im::HashMap is a great tool

I would love, though, to have a similar persistent structure where the node pointers at each level were thread shareded, instead of using e.g. atomics. A mutation at a branch could record that the mutation is "just" for thread ID X that did the mutation. At some later point a "commit" could reconcile the storage to global, maybe
by smelendez | 2025-06-10 20:11:11+00:00
It wouldn't surprise me if they try, but ironically if GPT is a good personal shopper, it might make it harder to monetize with ads because people will trust the bot's organic responses more than the ads.

You could override its suggestions with paid ones, or nerf the bot's shopping abilities so it doesn't overshadow the sponsors, but that will destroy trust in the product in a very competitive industry.

You could put user-targeted ads on the site not necessarily related to the current query, like ads you would see on Facebook, but if the bot is really such a good personal shopper, people are literally at a ChatGPT prompt when they see the ads and will use it to comparison shop.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-10 20:12:03+00:00
Elon has a working relationship with the Israelis. If any of what you said is even remotely true, then why would Musk betray the Mossad to expose a sitting president? Why can't Trump go to Bibi and make him admit to fielding a (now dead) operative and exonerate the case entirely? That makes no sense.

If you want to manufacture a wholesale lie like this, at least make it believable. I know it's hard to grapple with the fact that America elected a pedophile and convicted rapist as it's president, but you'll need more than tough words to blame it on Israel.
by kergonath | 2025-06-10 20:12:08+00:00
> Aqua's color emphasized interactive elements using visual contrast.

There were loads of complaints about readability with Aqua, particularly of the menus and the windows title bars, both of which were translucent and had pinstripes. Briefly discussed here for example: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/05/mac-os-x-revisited/ . There was also the uproar at Leopard’s transparent menu bar and glossy dock, discussed here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5/ . All these were over the top initially and were toned down and tweaked over time.

> How will those same audiences react when they see a glassy squircle pop up on their iPhone?

It’s a button. It has a shape, some physical character, and when you poke it wiggles and does something. It looks miles better than the label-button-links things that looked all identical in iOS 7 and that still plague modern design.

> This is objectively bad design. I would argue you don't know what made Platinum and Aqua great if you're comparing those complaints to this clown vomit.

I did not really like Platinum (I spent quite a lot of time with Kaleidoscope, which I miss very much). I really liked Aqua, though, despite its occasional brushed metal excesses. I would not mind going back to Lion, when they toned down the glossiness they introduced in Leopard. I think that UI was very elegant. But I have to admit there is a kind of playfulness with the concept of liquid UI that is intriguing. I love how the Dynamic Island reacts and behaves as it splits, grows, and shrink. I think I like it better than iOS 5-era glossy everything, and definitely more than iOS 7+. I am willing to admit that I have bad taste, but I am optimistic about the possibilities with the concepts they showed.

That said, I swear I read the clown vomit but about Aqua back in 2001. Some things never change.
by unconed | 2025-06-10 20:13:08+00:00
>assuming that vaccination would indeed prevent transmission was a good guess based on prior vaccinations.

It wasn't.

First of all, they didn't need to guess, because immunology already knew that there is a difference between immunity in the mucus membranes (which is where respiratory infection has to be fought) versus in the blood. The latter is where the immune response is generated if you get an intramuscular injection. This turns out to be have been immunology 101, as testified by e.g. immunologist Liliane Schoofs to my government. You will also note subsequent efforts put into a nasal version of the vaccine that wouldn't have this design problem. There were, in fact, lies.

Second of all, the net effect of getting "vaccinated" was that people got a green pass to go out during winter time, sit across each other in bars and restaurants, and breathe each other's air, while explicitly believing they were immune, even though they were not. The argument that this was still a net positive seems preposterous and a form of magical thinking, where the people who got the ineffective shot were still somehow better off, even though they were engaging in far riskier behaviors.

The people who didn't get the shot meanwhile were forced to stay inside unless they were recently tested. So the hypothesis that the shots reduced illness by reducing transmission is likely also false. There is ample evidence now of spike protein being produced far longer than was ever promised in some patients, and also signs of immunodeficiency, which means the shots themselves were also not an unalloyed good.

What this thread mostly shows is that "anti-vax" remains a magical word, a dividing line between the Good People Who Believe Science and the Bad People Who Dismiss it. The actual details of the vaccine science are not known, and the story many people tell in retrospect does not hold up to basic scrutiny. They are willing to admit to individual instances of error, overstatement or deception in the management of COVID, but they are rarely willing to put them all together and see how this radically changes the entire picture.

Because what it looks like is an insane lobbying effort of governments and influencers, enormous amounts of public money being spent on shots we didn't need, a huge propaganda effort to silence any dissent as "anti-vax" and "anti-science", and all this because likely it did escape from a lab, and the people responsible for developing and funding it were terrified of being held accountable, and having their field shut down as the irresponsible LARP it was. Following some of these star virologists (e.g. Marion Koopmans) online is quite hilarious, because it is very obvious none of their excuses hold up.
by adventured | 2025-06-10 20:13:42+00:00
It's because DeepSeek was a fast copy. That was the easy part and it's why they didn't have to use so much compute to get near the top. Going well beyond o3 or 2.5 Pro is drastically more expensive than fast copy. China's cultural approach to building substantial things produces this sort of outcome regularly, you see the same approach in automobiles, planes, Internet services, industrial machinery, military, et al. Innovation is very expensive and time consuming, fast copy is more often very inexpensive and rapid. 85% good enough is often good enough, that additional 10-15% is comically expensive and difficult as you climb.
by MisterTea | 2025-06-10 20:14:16+00:00
The future happened in the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

I'd like to see an Inferno with a WASM runtime that utilizes a Plan 9 like ABI/API instead of WASI. Node9 did similar but with Lua: https://github.com/jvburnes/node9
by fainpul | 2025-06-10 20:14:26+00:00
Yes, nowadays all the main browsers are pretty much locked down and you have to use the official app stores to sign and distribute your extensions, even if it's just something for your own use. I really wish this would be more open, since extensions allow for so many cool usecases because they don't have all the same restrictions that regular webpages have (CORS for example).
by bigyabai | 2025-06-10 20:15:51+00:00
Computers are just getting cheap, now. You can buy an equivalently specced Ryzen Mini PC for $300.

That said, cheap Macs never really grabbed my attention and more than a cheap ChromeOS box does. I want to pay for more features, not less. I already have a media transcode server, there's really nothing I could use a Mac mini for besides maybe the world's most lame set-top box.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-06-10 20:15:55+00:00
The Palestinians joined the ICC because they correctly concluded that they have much more to gain from the application of international law than Israel does.

The Palestinians are vastly outgunned by Israel, which militarily occupies the Palestinian territories. The Palestinians correctly believe that if everyone is forced to follow international law, it will be a huge net benefit the Palestinians. Of course, the Israelis have no incentive at all to submit to international law, because Israel can enforce whatever it wants through military force.

It's a David vs. Goliath fight. The Palestinians have very few cards to play. International public opinion and international law are two of those cards.
by feoren | 2025-06-10 20:16:15+00:00
> Maybe it's "just" another sign they're in an alternate universe where even the math is different

Unlike physics, there are no conceivable alternate universes with different math. That's what's so cool about math: it could not possibly be any different. There could be alternate universes where they've discovered different amounts of it, or named the discoveries different things, but everything that is "wrong" in math in our universe is universally (multiversally?) wrong.
Show HN: Dread Rising: Talk to Your Papers Before They Haunt You
by mostlyk | 2025-06-10 20:16:42+00:00
Built Dread Rising because I got sick of reading 14 research papers just to retain 0 facts , it’s a tool that lets you drop in PDFs, gives you the highlighted the important stuff, chats with you like a smarter friend, finds related papers on arXiv, cross-checks answers with Google (if you turn that on). It’s Streamlit + Gemini + my frustration distilled into something actually useful. Use the hosted version here or run it locally from GitHub , clone it, install the deps, add your Gemini API key, and summon the beast. It's not here to write your paper, just to make sure you can.
by nixpulvis | 2025-06-10 20:17:05+00:00
I honestly don't expect to use AI tools extensively for code generation until we figure out how to have the models learn and become accustomed to me aside from clever context prompting. I want my own models derived from the baseline.

That said, I also value not becoming too dependent on any service which isn't free and efficient. Relying on a CNC machine when you never learned how to whittle strips me of a sense of security and power I'm not comfortable with.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-10 20:18:01+00:00
I'm sorry; I assumed by "doctors" you meant "two GPs", not "over half a dozen specialists".

Out of interest, what have the doctors ruled out? I know your personal opinion is "the vaccine did it", but that was hardly the only thing going on in your life at the time, and n=1 doesn't give a lot of opportunities for a comparison.

I'd be interested in reading the case study, too, once pre-prints are available.
by m_dupont | 2025-06-10 20:18:03+00:00
My Qualifications: I moved to Germany for 7 years

I can only add my voice to what others have said: Just apply to universities and get your student visa.

In general it is very difficult applying to jobs in countries from abroad, and in many countries they have laws requiring that companies must prove that they couldn't source talent locally first.

Meanwhile student visas are very easy to get, and after you are in the country on a student visa, you can seek part time work, or get a job as soon as you graduate. Many countries offer fast-track residence permits for expats who have graduated from one of their universities.

My story: I applied to a german university, got accepted, and got the student visa relatively painlessly. After graduating I found a job relatively quickly and got a work permit.
by absurdo | 2025-06-10 20:18:14+00:00
Some time later on HN front page:

> Why I left FB,GOOG,Whatever

>> Author describes seemingly abhorrently unethical and immoral practices they were completely ignorant of, occurring right in front of them that they were a key participant in.

>> Accepted a massive salary to be ignorant.

>> Shocked as all fuck about ethics and implications.

>> Returned 0 money, cashed out.

>> 100% ethical now.
by simgt | 2025-06-10 20:18:16+00:00
I recently switched to Linux Mint on a makeshift PC and it feels a bit like going back to Snow Leopard. It's snappy, pleasant to look at and has all the necessary modern features I need. Very surprisingly and unlike everything I experienced before on Linux desktops, it all worked out of the box (plus a few extra clicks on a GUI to get some proprietary drivers).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-10 20:18:20+00:00
The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates - https://www.unfpa.org/news/fertility-fallacy-five-things-you... - June 10th, 2025

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo - June 9th, 2025

> In all countries, 39% of people said financial limitations prevented them from having a child. The highest response was in Korea (58%), the lowest in Sweden (19%).

> In total, only 12% of people cited infertility - or difficulty conceiving - as a reason for not having the number of children they wanted to. But that figure was higher in countries including Thailand (19%), the US (16%), South Africa (15%), Nigeria (14%) and India (13%).
by charleszyong | 2025-06-10 20:18:43+00:00
Yeah, safety is an important aspect. The good news is that the servos are not that powerful. Peaking at 3 Nm, with a moment arm of 0.2 m, you get 15 N of force, which is basically equivalent to the weight of three 500mL water bottles. This force might cause some scratches but should not lead to serious injuries.

Initially, I was planning to launch a product using Piper Arms (much more powerful than the current product). But after testing them, I realized they could cause serious injuries if not used properly. So I canceled that version. I still have 8 of them sitting in my office.
by meandave | 2025-06-10 20:19:34+00:00
Mikeal was extremely welcoming to me when I met him over a decade ago, It was either JSConf or NodeCamp, He was always super insightful and encouraging to my personal growth as an engineer and open source contributor. NodeJS wouldn't be what it is without him, especially the community around it in the early days. I got to work with him for a bit at protocol labs. This is a major loss to open source
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-10 20:19:36+00:00
My Pixel 6a (my current phone) has no battery swelling.

On the other hand, it takes over a minute to decide that it's confirmed a GPS location. The Pixel 3a will do the same thing in more like one second. The utter failure of the GPS on the Pixel 6a (and possibly other related phones?) seems to be a known, common issue.

I do have overheating problems. The phone won't work outdoors in climates that are less nice than California. Which surprises me, since that's most of the world.
by merb | 2025-06-10 20:21:20+00:00
Tbf if you look at all the printer drivers out there. You know why they dropped it. PPD is also not a good standard. I mean it would not be too bad, but what printer developers do to make their shitty printers work… (like adding binary command filters and stuff, binary tray mgmt extensions…) xerox for one example ships really strange drivers. Most of the time I use their windows ppd and strip the binary stuff.
by lloeki | 2025-06-10 20:21:33+00:00
> On non-Linux, you obviously need an additional kernel running (the Linux kernel)

Only "obvious" for running Linux processes using Linux container facilities (cgroups)

Windows has its own native facilities allowing Windows processes to be containerised. It just so happens that in addition to that, there's WSL2 at hand to run Linux processes (containerised or not).

There is nothing preventing Apple to implement Darwin-native facilities so that Darwin processes would be containerised. It would actually be very nice to be able to distribute/spin up arbitrary macOS environments with some minimal CLI + CLT base† and run build/test stuff without having to spawn full-blown macOS VMs.

† "base" in the BSD sense.
by DaSHacka | 2025-06-10 20:22:12+00:00
> Even if you weren't lying about that bit, non-mRNA vaccines exist and were approved in the US right alongside the mRNA vaccines.

From your own source:

> In April 2021, the CDC and the FDA issued a joint statement recommending that use of the Janssen vaccine be suspended, due to reports of six cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis—a "rare and severe" blood clot—in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia), in six women between the ages of 18 and 48 who had received the vaccine. The symptoms occurred 6–13 days after they had received the vaccination, and it was reported that one woman had died and a second woman had been hospitalized in critical condition.

Not exactly a great "alternative".
by idle_zealot | 2025-06-10 20:22:19+00:00
It's deeply disappointing to see that the multitasking solution for tablets that Google and Apple have settled on is... desktop-style floating windows, but without workspaces or window snapping.

There's so much space here to experiment with tiling views, scrolling columns of windows, whatever. Floating windows are cumbersome enough when you have a mouse and big display to spread things out on. I've tried this floating window thing in beta on my Pixel Tablet and iPad's windowing on the iPadOS 26 beta and they're basically worthless. A straight downgrade compared to the existing split views. They'd have done better to just let me add more apps to a split view.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-10 20:22:25+00:00
The Apple customerbase never changes. When Apple hypes up a bad update, people apologize and say "wait for the next point release" as a healing salve. When Apple releases a flop like the Vision Pro, everyone has to point out that the Newton failed so the iPhone could run. Maybe, just maybe, Apple's characteristic product management results in blatant failures. Mice that put a charging port on the bottom. Serial cables that are a white-label USB with licensing fees. Lisas that inhabit landfills. We can't always argue that Apple exists independent of other marketing influences and can just do whatever they want as a result - they have to compete! Resting on laurels isn't good enough.

I'm willing to give Apple their credit, where due. Mojave and Catalina was polished to a professional sparkle, it was very believable as a professional OS back then. Big Sur wasted a lot of screen real estate without any good way to get it back, and now Liquid Glass is sacrificing visual clarity to Mammon in hopes that it sells more Macbooks. I don't think it makes sense, any way you cut it. Not everything has to be history repeating itself, Apple has proven more than adept at inventing new ways to fail. Apple Car and Airpower both come to mind - sometimes it just doesn't work out.