MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-01 20:47:33+00:00
> Would be nice to see executions of corporations as punishment

Fines. Massive fines.

"Corporate death penalty" is a genius invention of corporate lawyers to distract from the punitive effect of massive fines.

Fines and license revocable are precedented. They take real money from the corporation and its owners. Corporate death penalties are a legal morass that doesn’t actually punish shareholders, it just cancels a legal entity. If I own an LLC and have a choice between a fine and the LLC being dissolved, I’d almost always opt for the latter.

But fines are boring. Corporate death penalty sounds exciting. The anti-corporate folks tend to run with it like catnip, thus dissolving the coalition for holding large companies accountable. (Which, again, a corporate "execution" doesn't do. Nullifying my LLC doesn't actually hurt me, it just creates a little bit of work for my lawyer, and frankly, getting out of a fuckup by poofing the LLC without touching the udnerlying assets is sort of the selling point of incorporation.)
by jumpkick | 2025-08-01 20:47:57+00:00
> because you almost certainly weren't watching those shows on linear television anyways.

I'm just one person, but I definitely am watching the local PBS over an antenna, and so do several members of my family (living in different households).

The local broadcast is excellent quality, I get a good signal to it, never any glitches, and I enjoy the local news and other programming too.
by VohuMana | 2025-08-01 20:48:32+00:00
I’m not up to date with how the filter is supposed to work, the article mentions it hides Google Password Manager but didn’t hide passwords in plain text in a notepad text file. Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That said the feature still seems kinda dumb to me and feels very much like a solution in search of a problem. There is a ton of data on a device which doesn’t require screen shotting everything. Want to help the user find some website they visited long ago? Just parse every web page the user visits and summarize it no screen shot necessary
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-01 20:49:20+00:00
On the other hand, the article also says this:

> The jobs report is made up of two surveys: one of businesses, which produces the payrolls figures, and another of households, which is responsible for the unemployment rate. The household survey has also seen a decline in response rates. BLS said its analysts have “found no discernible relationship between collection rates and subsequent revisions” to the payrolls data.
by embeddedbuilder | 2025-08-01 20:49:20+00:00
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by tootyskooty | 2025-08-01 20:49:35+00:00
Thanks a lot! I did do some of these things (namely Reddit) and that worked well, just the number of places that allow posting is limited and I don't want to get too spammy. Will continue there.

Main conceptual issue I've been having with other marketing (e.g. influencer) is that there isn't a well-defined audience to market this to. Usually edtech targets students/schools and Periplus doesn't fit there too well. Need to find what works I guess.

I'll spend more time on it from now on :). Thanks again.

re: mobile playback controls -> on it
by shkurski_ | 2025-08-01 20:49:37+00:00
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by ender341341 | 2025-08-01 20:49:39+00:00
I definitely prefer it to to be text.

I'm not a fan of chat bots on random websites, but also my work is pretty regulated so as far as AIs go we're only supposed to use ones we have direct agreements with.

While I can just not put in anything protected I much prefer being able to point one of the bots we can use at docs and be able to provide it context for what I'm working on.
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by rvba | 2025-08-01 20:49:59+00:00
Come on: openAI has a product that you can "touch" - both on your phone /home computer and at work, since their tech sits behind copilot (msft hit the jackpot with the licence).

It is a virtual product yes, but come on - no vapoware.

At work I see it - people want the better (and more expensive ) licences
by redeeman | 2025-08-01 20:50:34+00:00
yeah putin man bad. king pooh man bad. as an EU citizen, china or russia is not even 1% the enemy that EU countries and EU itself is to the people of EU.

EU and the member states are nothing but thugs and terrorists. Very powerful ones, but terrorists nonetheless. Putin or russia has not once threatened me, stolen from me under the threat of throwing me in jail, yet EU does. Russia has never tried to steal money from other citizens to try bribe me, yet an EU state has.

EU and its member states are an enemy of the people.
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by zecheng | 2025-08-01 20:51:19+00:00
Yes, there is a roadmap to support more models. For now there is a in progress PR to support Anthropic models https://github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot/pull/21 (contributed by some active open source contributors) Feel free to let us know which (open source) model or framework (VLLM etc.) you want to use :)
by stego-tech | 2025-08-01 20:51:45+00:00
> I take most measures of 'productivity' to be totally fake, just based on my experience.

Same. Having worked everywhere from tiny storefronts all the way up to the SV Big Leagues, "productivity" and "performance" as a measure is complete bullshit. The only measure that matters at the end of the day is corporate profit, and so long as the company is earning more than it spends while compensating workers to thrive in their communities, then any other measure of human capital is irrelevant.

Instituting KPIs for human capital only leads to the most toxic people thriving in an organization, because they have no compunction gaming the system for their own ends. Remove the KPIs and force management to deal with interpersonal conflicts and skill gaps again, and suddenly your org will start dropping bad people and retaining good workers.

EDIT: Adding that, especially in technical fields, KPIs will miss substantial improvements 100% of the time because they only measure what the business wants to measure. No KPI can accurately track replacing a six-month timeline for bespoke OS images with a 15 minute Packer pipeline, and most managers can't or won't recognize the outsized impact of such a contribution. Worse yet, organizations overly dependent on measuring human capital via KPIs will penalize such an efficiency gain, because it harms those gaming the KPIs for their own ends.

Stop measuring human capital with KPIs is the lesson, here. Evaluating performance is literally why you have managers.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:51:48+00:00
Why is it evil? If we assume that a free URL shortener is a good thing, and that shutting one down is a bad thing, and given that every link shortener will have costs (not just the servers -- constant moderation needs, as scammers and worse use them) and no revenue. The only possible outcome is for them all to eventually shut down, causing unrecoverable linkrot.

Given those options, an ad seems like a trivial annoyance to anyone who very much needs a very old link to work. Anyone who still has the ability to update their pages can always update their links.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-01 20:52:27+00:00
Yeah, I was just musing on some companies trying to make "dear John" talks when laying people off. I prefer to work where I might be dehumanized, but with everybody being honest about it.

> The alternative to having the 2-sided at-will employment system would need to be a two-way commitment, which seems far worse.

You probably just haven't tried it, or have little knowledge of how it works in practice, because your example is way radical. Learn about the actual conditions under which it works over here in Europe (you don't get locked in to a duration of employment, the notice period in Poland, for example, may be up to 3 months if you worked at one place for three years or more — to give time for knowledge transfer).
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-01 20:52:36+00:00
I didn't read the whole thing, but the gist seems to be that consciousness is a spectrum (agreed), and that video game NPCs might be significantly higher up on that scale than we think.

Which ... doesn't seem right to me. It's like saying that if I draw a picture of a character, and then roll some dice to decide how they behave, tearing up that picture is tantamount to some sort of ethical or moral wrongdoing.

I do think that how we treat NPCs matter. I've recently switched from calling my mother's dog "The Horrible Hound" to "The Honorable Hound", not because he understand what I'm saying, but because it makes a different in my own mind, and in the minds of others around me - which has been a challenging thing to explain to my kid.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-01 20:52:44+00:00
It's not assistive features in general that are the problem. It's that level 3 self-drive (which is what Tesla purports to have) should not be permitted to exist.

Things which simply help the driver, fine. Lane assist, adaptive cruise control and other such things that remove some of the workload but still leave the driver with the full responsibility of control. That's level 2.

Level 3 can generally run the car but is not capable of dealing with everything it might encounter. That's where you get danger--this guy thought he could pick up his dropped phone, his car didn't even manage to stay in it's lane. And the jury quite correctly said that's totally unacceptable.

The next step above level 2 should be skipping to level 4--a car that is capable of making a safe choice in all circumstances. That's Waymo, not Tesla. A Waymo will refuse to leave the area with the sufficiently detailed mapping it needs. A Waymo might encounter something on the road that it can't figure out--if that happens it will stop and wait for human help. Waymos can ask their control center for guidance (the remote operators do not actually drive, they tell the car what to do about what it doesn't understand) and can turn control over to a local first responder.
by esseph | 2025-08-01 20:53:04+00:00
You realize there's also a lot of racism and xenophobia that plays into this too, yeah?

It's easier for some to care less about people that don't have the same accent or clothes or common background.

And the US has a lot of financial liquidity.

Hence, you'll get a lot of people starting companies in the US while the ICs are remote - also where many of the buyers are likely to be of your product.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-01 20:53:36+00:00
I doubt the Scala open source community had an HR department or lawyers on hand to investigate and take action on behalf of the community as a whole.

And I'm not sure some random software engineers contributing to open source projects have the proper expertise to build a sexual harassment reporting mechanism and a mechanism for fairly enforcing consequences.

Do we need to make sure there all those kinds of structures are in place for every permutation of human interaction?
by regularization | 2025-08-01 20:53:39+00:00
I can't imagine not just one, but two women coming forward and making such accusations against me. People here are acting as if he is the victim, not them.

Insofar as the letter signed - UK law has it so the letter worded as it was, with the burden of proof on the signers, could be held as libel if signed - so the UK signers got caught up in their country's law, due to the accused being litigious.

One pleasing thing to me is, however casual some people's attitudes to all of this is, out of control behaviors can cause legal and PR problems for corporations, and that is a move forward that, despite ebbs and flows, will not be moved back in any substantial sense. Woe be the CEO or HR director who thinks they can ignore bad behavior.
by rwmj | 2025-08-01 20:53:48+00:00
Cool, my local aircraft museum. The square-windowed Comet was rotting in the open for many years but (as the article notes) has been restored. They also have a Comet flight deck which you can walk around. It has 5 seats on the flight deck (it really is huge!), including a flight engineer and a navigator.

Edit: flight deck photo on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet#/media/File...

Other highlights of the museum are a fully restored Mosquito, and a Chipmunk (which will be nostalgic for RAF servicemen and cadets of a certain age).
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by jayknight | 2025-08-01 20:54:10+00:00
I've just now learned about tmux's control mode. Can you explain what that tmux -CC command does? I use `ssh -t <host> tmux attach -d` from bash history to (re)establish my remote tmux session. `new -A -s 0` would do the about same thing, I just don't see how -CC is supposed to work here.

Edit: It appears to be related to iterm2's tmux integration. Neat.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-01 20:54:28+00:00
If you're not free to make (what someone else believes to be) the wrong decision you're not free. Dems assume that they can tell voters what's in their best interest because Dems assume that they can tell voters what those voters value and what those voters think is the best way to achieve it. That's the patrician attitude, the idea that the vast majority of the population is too stupid to make decisions for themselves with the ipso facto evidence being that they don't want the same things that the patrician does. Whether it works out in what is judged to be their "best interests" or not, that attitude is why people are abandoning liberalism and it's a very good reason to do exactly that. Is it cutting off your nose to spite your face? Probably, but after years of someone looking down that nose at me I might be tempted to cut it off as well and damn the consequences. Between that and the way Dems run on "no kids in cages" then rule on "expanded open-air detention facilities for underage migrants", they run on "student loan forgiveness" then rule on "partial forgiveness for people who were already legally qualified", they run on "healthcare for everyone" then rule on "access to insurance marketplaces for everyone with a small subsidy to help pay for insurance that's mostly useless". They run on "women have a right to choose" and when given the chance to make that a law they say it's "not a legislative priority" (Obama, 09). Even if I do concede that Democrats have "my best interest" at heart I don't trust them to actually do any of it.
Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme
by funkaster | 2025-08-01 20:56:28+00:00
I started this project a couple of weeks ago because I was stuck on my side project and needed some motivation. For a very long time I wanted to get back to do something useful in lisp/scheme, did a quick research and settled on CHICKEN mostly because it's relatively well maintained, fast enough, it's extremely easy to build/install and very easy to write interop to pretty much any library.

Most of the projects that I've written on the side have been using some combination of Sinatra + Sequel + Postgres/Redis/Something else + HTMX. I love the simplicity of Sinatra's API so I decided to focus on trying to have a similar experience but in scheme, trying to make it ergonomic for a scheme dev (that part might not be there yet since I'm not an experienced scheme dev).

The most fun part was the dev cycle: Emacs + NREPL + Aider (as a code reviewer & rubber ducky. For codegen it's mostly annoying but works great for documentation & refactoring).

I hope to add full SSE & WebSocket support some time this week. Anyway, hopefully this is interesting to some of you and might be a source of fun :)
by democracy_diy | 2025-08-01 20:56:38+00:00
Here's a summary of the changes and the impact: https://democracy.diy/issues/save-pbs-and-npr/

The PBS budget has been cut by 15%, and the NPR budget by 1%. That's not enough to end either one at the national level. However, local stations depend on the CPB funding for 50% or more of their budgets. (Local stations provide local disaster alert systems and local programming.) There will definitely be local station closures and major cutbacks in the stations that survive. Large metropolitan areas will be the least affected. PBS and NPR will continue at the national level, as before.

The funding cuts are the result of an executive order that Trump issued on May 1, ordering the immediate cessation of all federal funding. Similar executive orders have been found to be illegal in federal court. (Congress had already guaranteed funding for CPB from 2025-2027, and only congress can take that money away.)

However, congress supported Trump a short while later (on July 24) by passing the Rescissions Act, which officially (and legally) ended all funding for CPB. And that's the reason for the current crisis: all federal funding for CPB is ending by the end of this year, which is only a few months away.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-01 20:56:40+00:00
I think he made a good profit on ARM, and probably most people wouldn't have called that. More than enough to cancel out WeWork. But looking at their overall value over 5 years... it's pretty random; you could have done just as well investing in index funds. He clearly got super lucky with Alibaba and once you're mega rich it's not hard to stay mega rich.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:56:54+00:00
> cull any that have had dead endpoints

That actually seems just as bad to me, since the URL often has enough data to figure out what was being pointed to even if the exact URL format of a site has changed or even if a site has gone offline. It might be like:

kmart dot com / product.aspx?SKU=12345678&search_term=Staplers or /products/swingline-red-stapler-1235467890

Those URLs would now be dead and kmart itself will soon be fully dead but someone can still understand what was being linked to.

Even if the URL is 404, it's still possibly useful information for someone looking at some old resource.
by asyx | 2025-08-01 20:57:07+00:00
HM is distinctly more conservative than most other places online at least in my experience. Excluding the fascists safe spaces.

At the moment, the right is what is pushing for authoritarianism in most western countries. And fascism is conservative in nature and not progressive. All fascist policies are by definition right wing but not all authoritarian policies are fascist.

And if anything HN is really good at being weirdly against bread and butter social democratic policies. It’s an American website after all. I don’t think you could ever get away with discussing far left libertarian ideas on HN.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-01 20:57:47+00:00
> it doesn’t matter because technically the fine print says otherwise.

Every time you engage the system it tells you to pay attention. It also has sensors to detect when you don’t and forces you. If you have more than N violations in a trip, the system is unavailable for the remainder of your trip.

I don’t know how much clearer it could be.

I would argue that the system is actually so good (but imperfect) that people overestimate how good it is, and let their guard down.

If a system were more error prone, people would not trust it so much.