MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jijijijij | 2025-08-28 01:41:52+00:00
Oh, boy...

If "YouTubers" are journalists, then everyone is a journalist. The point about proper press is, they know what's allowed and what isn't, when you need to ask for permission, when to blur a face.

> So it is indeed an issue and the public is already aware of it.

Am I the public? Cause, I am super happy people can't just film and publish me walking in public. I have to get out, to get food, to work and stuff, doesn't mean my life is a public affair. Considering AI and big data, I am extra happy about "these strictest regulations in the free world". Speaking of, there is no freedom under surveillance and Germany is kinda an authority on that matter...

Or is JD Vance the public? Lol. Got a problem people can't express themselves here, like they did in 1933, but sure on US' doubleplusfree turf, trans people got outlawed, "DEI" folks erased from history and people expressing tattoos, or melanin are getting kidnapped by blessed masked men in unmarked vehicles. You can fly the NSDAP flag in the US, but can't disrespect the American one, cause that's inciting violence. Classroom bible, but empty shelves in the library, under his eye. US human rights report calling out people protesting the genocide as credible reports of antisemitic violence – well, let's call some reporters in Gaza to confirm these allegations... weird, no one is picking up. Funkloch or F-35? Did the US also object when the communist party got banned here? Verfassungsfeind-schmeind, says Werner von Braun. Bit one sided and oddly programmatic this report, don't you think?

And reporting live from Minneapolis, just because something is perfectly legal in the US, doesn't mean it's best practice. Tomorrow, crisis actors caught in 4k by an independent journalist...

It ain't all bueno in Germany, not at all, but the US most certainly isn't the gauge for anything.
by utyop22 | 2025-08-28 01:41:59+00:00
With all due respect, do you folks actually think deep and hard about what you write before you do?

I get the impression that you don't. This isn't meant to offend you, since this stuff is really hard to do. But I notice this a lot - wishy washy comments, that lack deep thought.

This place would be better with less posts but more thinking.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-28 01:42:28+00:00
C also has a (granted very small on Unix) runtime[1]. On windows the C runtime is a bit larger, since windows processes get a single string for their arguments, which must be parsed into argc/argv.

As far as "you have to also dynamically link the C++ runtime", try calling malloc from two different libc implementations in the same process and see "interesting" things happen. Even more interesting is calling free() on a pointer that was malloc'd from a different C library.

1: E.g. for musl https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/crt
by geysersam | 2025-08-28 01:42:39+00:00
> Only they are legally responsible if they cause a death, which makes them care

I see this kind of cynicism often on this site and I frankly find it inexplicable. It doesn't seem warranted. The vast majority of therapists clearly care about their patients.

On the other hand, people often don't give a shit about laws, even to their own detriment.

People are a lot more complicated than "I adjust behavior to maximize personal outcome in terms of $$, beep bop". In some cases we respond to incentives, of course, but having that be the only law to explain human behavior is patently ridiculous.
by andrekandre | 2025-08-28 01:43:28+00:00
> The end of that week I bought a used ThinkPad and installed Arch on it. My future is no longer on the Mac.

same, i think the slow decline of macos' user interface means kde is actually the same level or even better (kde slowly improving mac slowly declining) so i might as well jump sooner than later... i'll miss the quality of some native apps, but that to me is more a business opportunity than a pure negative per se
by acdha | 2025-08-28 01:43:38+00:00
They gave him what he most desires: respect. Every news watcher saw one of the most powerful CEOs, a genuinely accomplished person, treating him as the more powerful party. His whole career was spent playing at being a successful business man but being known as a lightweight – his dad gave him a billion dollars give or take and he managed not to quite lose it all several times until finding some breathing room in the 2000s when Russian oligarchs started using NYC real estate for money laundering and then the video editors at The Apprentice made him a star cosplaying as a brilliant businessman. He was never in Tim Cook’s league before, or even within a couple levels, but now he’s able to demand favors from almost anyone. For someone with the raging insecurity complex he’s demonstrated for so many years, that recognition of sheer power is the best high of all.
by steveklabnik | 2025-08-28 01:44:19+00:00
Just to cite what the others have told you: https://godbolt.org/z/bWfaYrqoY

/app/example.cpp:10:6: runtime error: member call on null pointer of type 'Foo' SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior /app/example.cpp:10:6 /app/example.cpp:3:8: runtime error: member call on null pointer of type 'Foo *' SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior /app/example.cpp:3:8
by zkxjzmswkwl | 2025-08-28 01:44:39+00:00
I don't understand why they'd include "blackbox" on the list of words to not say.

It's somewhat common and perfectly acceptable, with no such history to it. The color black is the absence of light. You traditionally need light to see things. A box made entirely of black would therefor be impossible to see into. This is perfectly socially acceptable, is it not?
by legostormtroopr | 2025-08-28 01:45:03+00:00
The Xbox, Switch and PS5 play games, but they all allow you to install apps, stream movies, buy movies, stream audio and join fitness classes.

They also have chat apps and you can stream your own games to places like twitch for others to watch. And through simple steps they all have browsers you can load web pages on.

If a mobile phone is a computer, a game console is a computer.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-28 01:45:31+00:00
One of the things about the Apple Store, is that folks want what it sells. Because of that, they put up with it.

Personally, I find the Apple Store to be a pain in the ass. The online version makes me a clickaholic, and the IRL version is very confusing.

Government sites are very different.

I have no opinion on the new position. I don’t know the guy, and don’t use AirBnb. I just find that the insistence on making govt sites “like the Apple Store” to be weird.

In a local mall, we have an Apple Store on one end, and a Microsoft Store on the other.

Aesthetically, they are quite similar.

But the Apple Store is always packed, and the Microsoft Store is always empty.

[UPDATED TO ADD] As was pointed out, this was reflective of a long time ago. Microsoft closed all their stores a few years ago.
by hereme888 | 2025-08-28 01:46:07+00:00
FP4-sparse (TFLOPS) | Price | $/TF4s

5090: 3352 | 1999 | 0.60

Thor: 2070 | 3499 | 1.69

Spark: 1000 | 3999 | 4.00

____________

FP8-dense (TFLOPS) | Price | $/TF8d (4090s have no FP4)

4090 : 661 | 1599 | 2.42

4090 Laptop: 343 | vary | -

____________

Geekbench 6 (compute score) | Price | $/100k

4090: 317800 | 1599 | 503

5090: 387800 | 1999 | 516

M4 Max: 180700 | 1999 | 1106

M3 Ultra: 259700 | 3999 | 1540

____________

Apple NPU TOPS (not GPU-comparable)

M4 Max: 38

M3 Ultra: 36
by quacksilver | 2025-08-28 01:47:22+00:00
Often you will obtain a vulnerability in some software and then search for companies using it. You can often use Google or Shodan to do the searching, but perhaps ingested LLM data could also work.

In the simplest case if you get remote code execution in SuperServer9000 (made up product) and that has a banner on error / status pages that reads "Powered with pride by SuperServer9000 version 2.1", then you could just search for that string (or part of it) and use your remote code execution bug against any sites that come up.

It can get behavior based or more complicated than that though, or rely on information that an LLM has ingested about a company from public sources.

Then either grab data and sell it or sell your access to a broker or whatever else.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-28 01:47:26+00:00
>The money is not "burned up" - it is spent right here on Earth.

If the idea was not clearly conveyed then let me try again: the money is spent building things that are intended to be destroyed (in order to fulfill their function, but nevertheless), when it could be spent building things that are intended to last.

>The technology developed for doing such a difficult task will inevitably benefit all of humanity.

I've heard this refrain several times. Please name a technology that was developed for the space program and that would have otherwise not been developed.
by muvlon | 2025-08-28 01:47:31+00:00
> We need to fix the fact that you can't write `.into::<u64>()` to disambiguate types.

Yes, that would be great. In the meantime, if you can't wait but want something like this, you can DIY it via an extension trait.

It's very easy to write it yourself, this is all it takes:

pub trait To { fn to<T>(self) -> T where Self: Into<T> { <Self as Into<T>>::into(self) } }

Now whenever this trait is in scope, you get to simply do .to::<u64>() and it does exactly what Into does. If you prefer adding a tiny dependency over copy-pasting code, I've also published a crate that provides this: https://crates.io/crates/to_method
by heelix | 2025-08-28 01:47:41+00:00
I know my lexicon has expanded with 5 letter words. Coffee and Wordle kicks off the morning and I got to believe many other folks do the same. It would be fun to know how much that silly puzzle is impacting things. Love it when my Bride gives me the side eye and tries to pass off NORIA as something she uses all the time.
by const_cast | 2025-08-28 01:48:59+00:00
When a random ass product has "AI!!1!" slapped all over it it's a clear sign that the business suits and sales fuckheads who don't know anything about anything are running the show.

Which, granted, describes most companies. But ultimately they do not serve you or your technical needs, because they are literally incapable of understanding them. Any intersection between your technical needs and their provisions is of pure coincidence.
by andrekandre | 2025-08-28 01:49:41+00:00
> I'm honestly curious why Apple (and other OS vendors like MS and various Linux distributions) still feel the need to tweak their UIs many, many years after having reached maturity.

its hard to market something like an os to consumers and devs without some large noticeable changes

though one then has to wonder, why do we need a new os every year...
by deepfriedchokes | 2025-08-28 01:50:13+00:00
Ideological suggests they have ideals, and values, but I think it’s simpler than that: This is about power and submission.

All of Trump’s seemingly irrational decisions are his emotionally rational pursuit of forcing people to submit, just like his dad did to him [0]. Like a lot of boomers scarred by untreated trauma, that’s what he understands respect to be: submission. It was wrong then, and wrong now, but attacking Trump, while intuitive, is the wrong way to engage him.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/07/donald-trump...
by ortusdux | 2025-08-28 01:52:11+00:00
A few companies in China compete over building construction times. Examples include a 57 story tower built in 19 days and a 15 story hotel in 48 hours. These are just assembled from pre-fab components, so it might be 3 years of prep followed by a few days of assembly. I think the end goal is prestige.

I'm partial to LiftBuild's method of building the central tower first, and then constructing each floor at ground level and hoisting it up the tower and into place. The bulk of construction is done on the ground, faster building with less rigging and safety requirements. I think they averaged 10 days per floor on their last build.

https://www.liftbuild.com/
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-28 01:52:13+00:00
I disagree with that one, too, because it shows a lack of understanding.

Electronics black boxes are a common item that allows one to enclose systems, hiding the way they are wired or networked, which is where the term originated from.

I struggle to understand how one would replace "ownership" in memory ownership. Memory responsibility? I would hope that it is still OK to be responsible for something, but this is still a form of "owning."

I suspect some of these will receive push back and fail to be adopted in the future, while a majority of them most people would not be able to find meaningful objections with.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-28 01:52:27+00:00
It's a bad sign that the first table on the page is full of errors.

"Can only host Linux" -- Windows Containers are a thing too: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

"Can host a single app" -- not true either. It's just bad practice to host multiple apps in a single container, but it's definitely possible.

IMHO it's not very nice to use the generic-sounding "linuxcontainers.org" domain exclusively for LXC-related content there.
by munchler | 2025-08-28 01:53:49+00:00
> I have found that Rust's strong safety guarantees give me much more confidence when touching the codebase. With that extra confidence I'm much more willing to refactor even critical parts of the app, which has a very positive effect on my productivity, and long-term maintainability.

That's great, but the graph at the top shows your productivity more than doubling as the size of the project increases, which seems very dubious. Perhaps this is just intended as visual hyperbole, but it triggers my BS detector.
by awirth | 2025-08-28 01:54:04+00:00
These tokens never expire, and there is no way for organization administrators to get them to expire (or revoke them, only the user can do that), and they are also excluded from some audit logs. This applies not just to gh cli, but also several other first party apps.

See this page for more details: https://docs.github.com/en/apps/using-github-apps/privileged...

After discussing our concerns about these tokens with our account team, we concluded the only reasonable way to enforce session lengths we're comfortable with on GitHub cloud is to require an IP allowlist with access through a VPN we control that requires SSO.

https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/5924 is a related open feature request
Show HN: Solana KOL wallet tracker Pumptracker.io
by frydcircuit | 2025-08-28 01:54:12+00:00
Pump Tracker lets you follow the trades of top Solana KOLs and influencers as they happen. It automatically pulls their swaps (Pump.fun, Raydium, etc.), calculates holdings and PnL, and highlights their best plays so you can see who’s actually winning in the meme coin game.
by kketch | 2025-08-28 01:54:44+00:00
Technically no. Producing side effects from a setter is not unexpected, even if it often the best idea to have a setter have a lot of unexpected side effects. However producing side effects from getters is definitely unexpected and should not be done. Interestingly it's one of the areas where rust is really useful, it forces you express your intent in terms of mutability and is able to enforce these expectations we have.
by EPWN3D | 2025-08-28 01:55:01+00:00
Slack is the best of a bunch of trash options. That doesn't make it good. I shouldn't be able to accidentally select every widget in an app as though it were text. But with Electron apps, that's just normal.

Slack puts a nicer shade of lipstick on the pig than Teams does, but the lips still belong to the same thing.
by Gathering6678 | 2025-08-28 01:55:07+00:00
"After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base."

Did I misread that? I thought it meant an air-to-ground call, which I suppose is not that unheard of: I've definitely seen air accident videos saying the pilots were trying to debug in the air with engineers in the loop.

*edit: never mind, I misunderstood your comment. I thought you meant the article was clickbait.
by asdff | 2025-08-28 01:55:40+00:00
It begs the question though. If these vendors are so closely guarded of their API to try and shake down people for an enterprise license, why would they suddenly be permissive towards the LLM subverting that payment flow? Chances are the fact the LLM can interact with these systems is a blip: once they do see appreciable adoption the systems will be locked down to prevent the LLM from essentially pirating your service for you.
by joshuamorton | 2025-08-28 01:56:10+00:00
TPM, TAM, and PM have nothing to do with this. A technical lead is usually a semi-formal role for an IC or a TLM that implies that they are leading a project with other folks working on it. There are situations where the Mid, Senior, or Staff IC could all be a technical lead of various sized projects.

> Does the change mean the most competent solution architect who has successfully designed and implemented many complex systems from scratch is capped in salary package because they're not doing the important job of demanding those around them fill out TPS reports all day?

No.
by const_cast | 2025-08-28 01:56:15+00:00
The client costs money too, opportunity cost.

Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn!

Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free!

Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and then damned again.
Ask HN: Why isn't my ISP providing AI as a service?
by dwa3592 | 2025-08-28 01:56:34+00:00
My ISP already has an optical fibre to my home, I could be directly connected to a rack of GPUs as compared to API requests that I make over the internet Gemini/GPT. AI truly will feel like a commodity if ISPs started providing it. Maybe I am missing something really fundamental/silly ??
by yalogin | 2025-08-28 01:57:13+00:00
> The 35% reduction refers to the number of managers who oversee fewer than three people, according to a person familiar with the matter.

I wonder why these people are made managers in the first place. That too this kind of title seems quite prevalent in the company given they found 35% of all managers are like this. Either the statistic is just plain false or google is really dysfunctional
by HillRat | 2025-08-28 01:57:54+00:00
Not gonna spend PACERbux on this to find out, but not sure how they’re arguing there’s an actual case or controversy to rule on, since no one’s trying to domesticate a judgment against them in the US. This is just an attempt to preemptively weaponize the US courts against the UK government, good chance it gets bounced for lack of jurisdiction.
by asdff | 2025-08-28 01:58:26+00:00
The issue is once again the forest is allowed to be sold. If you open up land for development, that is typically what tends to happen. People will seek out whatever use case makes sense with that land. No one wants to lord over a nature preserve. Everyone wants to make their buck into a buck fifty. Clearcutting of the rainforest in Borneo could be solved with a pen stroke by the government in charge but it seems they are more interested in supporting industrialization than preservation.
by executiverange | 2025-08-28 01:58:33+00:00
Nothing terrible will happen. You will still be able to use your computer with Windows 10 as usual. But what will eventually and gradually happen are:

- Software developers will cease to provide new version support for W10 and certain programs will now start to require a particular version of W10 (this already starts to happen in a smaller scale), starting with browsers like Chrome or Firefox then moved up to something like the Adobe CC Suite.

- Microsoft will be very persistent in trying to make sure that you eventually upgrade to W11 (or future versions of Windows). This already happened but the nagging and begging will become maddeningly constant unless someone or you find a way to turn it off.

- In regard to the first point, some hardware makers will stop providing support for W10 too. If you’re a custom person you’ll still have plenty of time to stay with W10, but that eventually will end. If you’re buying a new PC, chances are you won’t see new laptops or PCs came pre-installed with W10, and even if you could wipe the W11 installation and put W10 on - the increasingly proprietary nature of drivers and components on board will not guarantee if your new device will support W10.
by mindslight | 2025-08-28 01:58:54+00:00
They're called Trumpists. They claim to have some lofty constructive values. But whenever one tries to discuss the destructive actions of their hollow cult leader with an appeal to any of those values, they fall back to whataboutism. The smarter ones change to a different topic with cookie cutter talking points about that value. The dumber ones usually just complain about an arbitrary female democrat. The only conclusion that fits is that they want to see their country and their fellow citizens get hurt, while feeling morally justified about it.

The psychological mechanism seems to be [social] media psychosis. It's been slowly festering through decades of reactionary talk radio, but really went into overdrive when the attention-surveillance industry went to town promoting the dumbest least common denominator memetic reactions to outrage bait.

signed, a libertarian who actually believes in a strong natural right to free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, fiscal responsibility, individualism, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and many more unenumerated personal liberties.
by dwd | 2025-08-28 02:00:07+00:00
Tobacco tax in Australia is an interesting example. A lot of people may have stopped initially but there was a more gradual decrease over time as the tax increases annually by CPI + 5%.

The problem is not everyone will stop and they now face is that at 70% of the price it's encouraging a black market for illegal tobacco with associated crime and a decline in tax revenue.
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-28 02:01:08+00:00
Why do you say that? What makes you say this is McCarthyism which was an accusation made against people in the House? I read the article and it says they are opening a probe into foreign influence peddling and people receiving taxpayer funding to do influence peddling and they asked for information from the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. You might disagree those are worth investigating but that sounds a lot more reasonable than McCarthyism. The headline makes it seem like they are simply just investigating bias.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-28 02:01:14+00:00
> The redirect is an assignment. In no language has a variable assignment ever stopped execution.

Many languages support property assignment semantics which are defined in terms of a method invocation. In these languages, the method invoked can stop program execution if the runtime environment allows it to do so.

For example, source which is defined thusly:

foo.bar = someValue

Is evaluated as the equivalent of:

foo.setBar (someValue)