MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lrvick | 2025-08-27 22:46:26+00:00
If you install the app then you are complicit in normalizing the requirement of signing terms of service and data sharing agreements to US technology companies in order to do banking.

Feel free to say you are a member of the Church of Cryptography and that installing proprietary corporate controlled apps is against your religion.

Never been asked to install an app for banking, but a health care clinic dropped me as a patient for not buying a phone that can install their app. I was the first case where a patient refused to conform. Found a new clinic who was willing to earn my business with phone and email correspondence. The original clinic escalated the case to corporate HQ when I filed a public medical malpractice complaint, and they ultimately responded by adding a webapp.

DEMAND the right to live your life without corpotech in your pocket. I am now 5 years without a smartphone working as an engineer and founder with an active social life who frequently travels and it can absolutely be done.
by pas | 2025-08-27 22:46:47+00:00
XSLT being foundation to the modern web? How?

Outrage? In this economy? Are we watching the same movie?

(Anyway, my prediction is that likely they'll go with the WASM polyfill if they remove it ... but likely some folks will fight for some budget to keep it around behind some deprecation warnings and sandboxed for a while anyway.)
by quarkcarbon279 | 2025-08-27 22:47:19+00:00
Yeah when building for consumers on their devices, security is of outmost importance. I tried on couple use cases too. They currently use Sonnet and this is very initial version so it sometimes fails on picking the right tools. Some actions fail, for example I used their calendar template it failed to Save in the end.

Would love to see if they have cost breakdown for the task haha. It took so many actions, can be optimized + screenshots for one task.
by JCM9 | 2025-08-27 22:48:10+00:00
Fewer than 3 people? That almost never makes sense. Right on Google to sort that out but I’d have a lot of questions for whatever leaders allowed such nonsense to develop on their watch in the first place.

Also 35% is way too low if it’s really less than three. Should be more like eliminating 95% of those scenarios.
by mm263 | 2025-08-27 22:48:21+00:00
Many things require one to reject self-imposed boundaries. For example[1]:

> There's a story that, IIRC, was told by Brian Enos, where he was practicing timed drills with the goal of practicing until he could complete a specific task at or under his usual time. He was having a hard time hitting his normal time and was annoyed at himself because he was slower than usual and kept at it until he hit his target, at which point he realized he misremembered the target and was accidentally targeting a new personal best time that was better than he thought was possible. While it's too simple to say that we can achieve anything if we put our minds to it, almost none of us are operating at anywhere near our capacity and what we think we can achieve is often a major limiting factor.

---

Art is nothing like shooting. My first instinct looking at Guernica is that I also feel nothing, but one can limit oneself and say: if I feel nothing initially, I will feel nothing at all. If you prime yourself to be open to an experience of putting yourself into the shoes of the author, you might start feeling something.

[1]: https://danluu.com/culture/
by Terr_ | 2025-08-27 22:48:42+00:00
I dunno, I think I'd rather dribble in some hydrogen peroxide to sterilize and remove the eggs, as opposed to getting a spider bite on the inside of my ear canal.

Now that I think about it, I have no idea what hydrogen peroxide does to spiderweb material. It seems like the kind of thing one might learn during a childhood phase of mostly-unthinking cruelty to animals.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-27 22:48:48+00:00
More relevantly, it’s an open secret that a lot of churches are heavily into political advocacy directly for candidates, which they’re not supposed to do under their tax status, but they’ve been playing with the boundaries unchecked and are now really obviously past where they’re supposed to be—but nobody’s got the guts to go after them, so they just keep getting bolder.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-08-27 22:50:14+00:00
In some circumstances it can be an effective way to lose efficiency in exchange for velocity- basically there are large tasks that can’t be developed by a team any faster than by an individual ( mythical man month) because they are fundamentally sequential not parallel. In these cases there are often parallel subtasks, so you can buy some speed by having one individual forging ahead as if they are the only one on the project, and then rope in the team for parallelizable subtasks. Instead of any amount of decision-making or communication overhead, everyone jumps when the team lead says jump – this is the step that bounds performance to not be slower than a solo project.

Being the team lead in this sort of structure is grand fun, of course, but being a team member is brutal on the ego, and requires enormous skill to be a boost to velocity instead of a drag. Thus, it requires ridiculous compensation, even if you’re mostly sitting idle when the project is in a serial phase. it’s the sort of play that I could believe 2012 google could profitably execute and 2025 Google can’t.
by Animats | 2025-08-27 22:50:36+00:00
Good question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training.

He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya

[2] https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody
by sarchertech | 2025-08-27 22:51:06+00:00
There aren’t many experts who think current AI is conscious. There are a lot more that think it’s likely we will eventually build something that is.

If that’s the case, the thing we are building towards is a new kind of enslaved life.

> We don't even know for certain if all humans are conscious either.

Let’s just bring back slavery then since we aren’t sure.
by imiric | 2025-08-27 22:53:07+00:00
> I do not want any company or government telling me what software can run on my devices that I paid for and I own.

Device manufacturers that are also service providers want nothing more than to adopt the licensing business model. The public has mostly accepted that when you buy physical media that contains digital media, you buy a limited use license to the digital media, and the physical media just happens to be the delivery mechanism. In that same sense, it could be construed that buying a mobile device grants you a license to a digital service, without which the device is useless. You technically own the device, but you license the operating system.

So the argument is: feel free to do what you want on any other operating system, if you can manage to run it, but on our OS, you'll abide by our rules. Apple has been successful at this for years, Google is well on its way there with Android, and even desktop OSs have been trending in this direction.

The last bastion of OSs that give users actual freedom are Linux, BSDs, and other niche OSs. Everything else is becoming a walled garden.
by gkuhl21 | 2025-08-27 22:53:07+00:00
Is the data encrypted? Can vendors, escorts or foreigners read the data?

Access to a cloud DB is one thing. Failing to encrypt "data that involves the protection of life and financial ruin" is another.

>Crowley said he also met with prospective customers across the government and told ProPublica that the Defense Department was the “one making the most demands.” Concerned about the company’s global workforce, officials there asked him who from Microsoft would be “behind the curtain” working on the cloud. Given the department’s citizenship requirements, the officials raised the possibility of Microsoft “hiring a bunch of U.S. citizens to maintain the federal cloud” directly, Crowley told ProPublica. For Microsoft, the suggestion was a nonstarter, Crowley said, because the increased labor costs of implementing it broadly would make a cloud transition prohibitively expensive for the government.

Microsoft told the US Gov that MS could not hire US citizens exclusively because it would cost the US Gov too much. What?

Does MS have any actuaries or critical thinkers on staff? I would love to see a cost benefit analysis where risking foreign access to this data comes out ahead of charging the US government more and employing US citizens to do the work.

I am deeply worried that the macho American march toward conflict will fail because of misalignment of incentives. Ideallistically, US gov outsources functions to private contractors. Fine. They have gotten away with murder (unfortunate pun) with cost plus contracts since Desert Storm 2. Now, those contractors send the work abroad in the name of arbitrage and profit. Not fine.

Stepping back, a majority of American voters beat the drums of war hoping to also profit privately. They look forward to defense industry jobs and profits. This feeds an international arms race that is very familiar.

We are Sisyphus. The world is rearming like it did in the run-up to WW1 and WW2. We are pushing the boulder up the hill again.

Why? Is it a matter of illiteracy (doomed to repeat history due to not learning about it), institutional inertia (governments worldwide behaving rationally), the human condition (we will continue to want more)?

It is looking like Einstein was right. I'm gonna invest in trees and plan on selling some sticks.
by revoca | 2025-08-27 22:53:18+00:00
Hi, I’m Tanguy, a designer turned developer. I just launched SuperGymbo, a home workout app where a 3D robot coach guides you through no-equipment workouts.

You pick how much time you have (5, 10, 20, or 30 minutes) and the type of workout (full body, upper, lower, or cardio/HIIT). Each day you get a new workout for each category, so you don’t repeat the same routine endlessly.

The idea came from my own frustration because I was tired of doing the same YouTube workouts. I wanted something very simple: open the app, pick a time, and follow along.

Since I also do 3D animation, I built a robot coach that demonstrates every exercise. It makes the workouts a bit more fun and has become the app’s mascot.

Right now I have a little over 50 users and I’m experimenting with TikTok for marketing.

Happy to answer questions about building/launching, staying consistent with fitness, or anything else.
by nvarsj | 2025-08-27 22:54:45+00:00
This is a funny question to me, because my entire career (mostly small companies/small tech depts) I've never reported to an EM. It's only when I moved to big tech that EM-who-doesn't-code became a thing, and it took some adjustment for me. All prior roles had TLs (aka TLM) which led the team while being the expert - aka the "surgeon model" from Fred Brooks' book.

As far as I can tell, the main function of an EM is to enforce the company policy. I'm not sure there really is a need at a smaller place.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-08-27 22:55:19+00:00
If you live in an area with ticks, getting tick tweezers is a must. The ones we have have the fork you mention on one end, but what is much better is it has tweezers on the other end that have a hockey stick like curve at the bottom and come to a very small point. Very easy to grab a small tick and pull it off.
by gruez | 2025-08-27 22:55:20+00:00
>Surprising how quickly everyone is expected to comply with these laws - within a week you're supposed to block what could be a portion of your user base?

But the law was signed over a year ago[1]? The recent development was that the injunction blocking the bill from being implemented got struck down. I'm not sure what you'd expected here, that the courts delay lifting the injunction because of the sites that didn't bother complying with the law, because they thought they'd prevail in court?

[1] https://legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB1126/2024
by twoWhlsGud | 2025-08-27 22:56:18+00:00
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-...

I don't see what's funny about 4 inches just in the last three decades. 8 inches over the last hundred plus years at seattle

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

seems very much in line then (given the lower rates before 1992). "Further investigation" was perhaps motivated by the search for something besides truth?
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-08-27 22:56:59+00:00
> I would write comments in a supposedly anonymous survey like “He ist like…” to camouflage myself as german

Do actual Germans ever make that kind of mistake though?

I’ve only ever seen “ist” used “wrongly” in that particular way by English speakers, for example in a blog post title that they want to remain completely legible to other English speakers while also trying to make it look like something German as a reference or a joke.

The only situation I could imagine where a German would accidentally put “ist” instead of “is”, is if they were typing on their phone and accidentally or unknowingly had language set to German and their phone autocorrected it.

Sometimes you get weird small things like that on some phones where the phone has “learned” to add most English words to the dictionary or is trying to intelligently recognise that the language being written is not matching the chosen language, but it still autocorrects some words to something else from the chosen language.

But I assume that when people fill out forms for work, they are typing on the work computer and not from their phone.
by 3willows | 2025-08-27 22:57:04+00:00
> After all, philosophy advertises itself as a home to critical thinking. Some of my professors said that I was too critical, which may seem prima facie absurd. It turned out that they were right, in a way. I was too critical of and for my profession.

I think that puts the finger on the issue.

- Any form of philosophical discussion needs to start from some shared background assumptions.

- The academics who spent their life and work solving problems based on these assumptions would not be pleased to have these assumptions challenged: just as a Christian theologian would not be pleased if a student suddenly turned round and said, actually, the Muslims are right.
by femto | 2025-08-27 22:57:07+00:00
In Australia the current medical advice for ticks is [1]:

"For ticks that can be seen (adult ticks), freeze the tick to kill it where it is"

"For ticks that can hardly be seen – use permethrin cream to kill the tick where it is"

You can buy tick freezing spray, which is used in a similar way to wart freezing spray.

[1] https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-11/manage...

Edit: Here is the research on which the medical advice is based. Dated 2019 by Australian researchers, so the updated practise might not be widely deployed outside Australia.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6494660/

Edit: A comprehensive resource on tick treatment, including justification for the freezing advice.

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-01/preven...

Edit: and finally, the ABC Catalyst video segment demonstrating the technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77nrTVM_j8
by Taek | 2025-08-27 22:58:34+00:00
Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it, whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it. That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key, and few people even know how to produce an actual emdash.

That's what makes it such a good giveaway. I'm happy to be told that I'm wrong, and that you do actually use the proper double long dash in your writing, but I'm guessing that you actually use the human slang for an emdash, which is visually different and easily sets your writing apart as not AI writing!
by k310 | 2025-08-27 22:59:08+00:00
I am looking at Tuta Calendar for my group.

https://tuta.com/calendar

The blurb says "calendar sharing" but the price comparison has calendar sharing unticked for the free version. Guess I'll just try. No cost to do so.

It does seem to work only with client apps, no web interface, and I have had fits just trying to get people to adopt Signal. Many are locked into WhatsApp and FBMessenger. Ouch.

Anyway, that's FWIW. I am Google-free with bundled Apple apps and a boatload of Free and OpenSource apps. I use apple and comcast mail.

Apple office apps are all MS compatible as is Libre Office.

I try to do nothing "in the cloud" since any information that leaves the home is, IMO, subject to loss and seizure.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-27 23:00:10+00:00
The thing is virtually every single thing that gets presented as an "AI tell" is just "a word, punctuation mark, or pattern of presenting information more common in a training set which includes a high volume of formal writing and professional presentations than it is in the experience of people whose reading and writing is mostly limited to social media and low-effort listicle-level online 'journalism'."

So, yeah, if your target audience are the people who take those "AI tells" seriously and negatively react to them, definitely craft your writing to that audience. But also, consider if that is really your target audience...
by gruez | 2025-08-27 23:01:44+00:00
>Remember that massive surveillance capitalism apparatus that has been created for years? Now everyone must pay for it to legally comply with whatever arbitrary bullshit

Calling geoip databases "surveillance capitalism" seems like a stretch. It might be used by "surveillance capitalism", but you don't really have to surveil people to build a geoip database, only scrape RIR allocation records (all public, btw) and BGP routes, do ping tests, and parse geofeeds provided by providers. None of that is "surveillance capitalism" in any meaningful sense.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 23:02:00+00:00
A lot of those "ESL" patterns are cultural.

It's a mix of a cultural "founder effect" - whoever writes the English textbooks and the dictionaries gets to shape how English is learned in a given country - and also the usage patterns of the source language seeping through. In your case, it's mostly the latter.

Chinese has a common word with a fairly broad meaning, which often gets translated as "meticulous". Both by inexperienced humans and by translation software.

Ironically, a few Chinese LLMs replicate those Chinese patterns when speaking English. They had enough "clean" English in their pre-training datasets to be able to speak English. But LLMs are SFT'd with human-picked "golden" samples and trained with RLHF - using feedback from human evaluators. So Chinese evaluators probably shifted the LLMs towards "English with Chinese ESL influence".
by adastra22 | 2025-08-27 23:02:29+00:00
I often edit things in Word — I have a document that I can alt-tab to and type things. It has spellcheck, etc. that my browser window does not, and I’m not at risk of losing if I refresh or something. Then copy-paste back.

Word converts any - into an em dash based on context. Guess who’s always accused of being a bot?

The thing is, AI learned to use these things because it is good typographical style represented in its training set.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-27 23:02:57+00:00
If you value art for aspects that don't require intellectual or historical context knowledge then the best music is bubblegum pop and the best literature is pulp fiction and smut. And indeed people who most lack such context (teens) tend to like those most.

This is not to say that eternal themes aren't important. But art is a kind of social technology that mediates between people in given cultural contexts. Part of "the great conversation" across the ages, the part you can't express in logical essays or propositions. And the eternal themes pop up in different "clothes" at different times. Once you have the key to unlock them, you do discover the same human nature and human problems operating underneath as ever.

And the beautiful cathedrals are not simply beautiful for beauty's sake but their art often conveys very specific theological claims, often hotly debated at the time. Or the choice of subject may have been outrageous or novel at the time but mundane to us now.

Liszt's music may move us even today, but we can't quite appreciate it in the same Lisztomania way as it was then, when it was fresh and novel.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-27 23:03:11+00:00
> Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding.

... by automated spot welder programmed to the specified timing and temperature control from the cell spec sheet, in a controlled environment with suitable protection and fire suppression for a battery manufacturing line. Not by a hobbyist's first try with a homemade spot welder and a safety squint.

I have made such spot welder and done such spot welding. Sure it's fun to do stupid things, but it remains stupid and unnecessary. For a homebrew battery bank, this is the wrong tool, wrong cell and wrong chemistry.

Buy premade, or if you must, buy boltable prismatic lifepo cells. They can dump a lot of power if your short them, but you can drill straight through them and they'll remain stable. The random 18650 li-ion cells... Not so much.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-08-27 23:04:42+00:00
I will use a double hyphen: -- which Microsoft Word and I think most word processors I've used will auto-replace with an em dash. I will sometimes even type the double hyphen to represent an em dash in places where it doesn't get replaced, like internet comments. I'm kind of surprised more people don't use two hyphens as em dash shorthand, to be honest.
by BirdieNZ | 2025-08-27 23:04:47+00:00
Dell/HP/Lenovo all have huge amounts of ex-corporate mini PCs constantly coming onto the second hand market as they reach the end of Windows 10 licensing, or are depreciated out, or mass upgraded. Some popular models to get due to having a full size PCIe slot are the Lenovo M920q, M720q, or P330. They idle at maybe 10-15W with no optimisation attempts, and you can put a 10G network card in for example, or a bunch of M2/nvme SSDs. RAM can be upgraded to at least 64Gb. CPUs can be swapped out, there are 3D printable rack mounts, backplates and so on in abundance.
by EarlKing | 2025-08-27 23:05:54+00:00
And sometimes you just gotta read the complaint...

> 61. Section 179 of the Online Safety Act, the “false communications offence,” makes it a criminal offense to send information which the sender knows to be false if, at the time of sending that message, the person intended the message to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and the person had no “reasonable excuse” for sending that message.

> 62. Section 179 of the Online Safety Act effectively creates a defamation crime in the United Kingdom.

...

> 65. Ofcom's notices and demands to 4chan, including the "legally binding information notice" on April 14, 2025, the "failure to respond" letter on April 30, 2025, the investigation noticeon June 9, 2025, the "final legal notice" on June 16, 2025, the "Preliminary Contravention Email" on July 9, 2025, and the “provisional decision notice” on August 12, 2025, to the extent that they pertain to speech proscribed by Section 179 of the OSA, constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech protected under U.S. law including under, e.g. the SPEECH Act, 28 USCS § 4101.
by m463 | 2025-08-27 23:06:00+00:00
ios 7 was when it all went wrong.

some low points:

- low-contrast low-color shading

- thin fonts that are less readable

- hidden toolbars requiring multiple taps or drag to expose

- links or buttons with no visual clue they are selectable

I think the only thing I hate more is "touch anything in ios phone app to immediately place a call, even to a phone spammer"

unfortunately all of this got picked up by tesla, where you get all of these "features", but while driving a moving, bouncing car you have to control.