MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-23 01:09:21+00:00
Yes, but in this case, the CEO said, “everybody try this this, it is important to me,” and the ones who dragged their feet on trying it got canned.

From my reading of the article, you don’t have to think AI is useful or great to keep your job there, you just have to try the tool out because the CEO said to.
by xg15 | 2025-08-23 01:09:59+00:00
A lot of that is irrelevant though. I don't think the problem is that Google might have unilaterally decided this, the problem is that there are unilateral decisions of this kind at all for a tech that affects billions of people.

(And I'm counting agreement between the handful of browser vendors as unilateral decisions as well. The group is not exactly very large)

The second part was basically the author saying "calm down guys, relax, there is a process." - and then speculating what that process might be.

If there is an orderly, public process that is being followed here, that includes a time and place for community feedback, shouldn't you be able to read up on it somewhere instead of speculating?
by firesteelrain | 2025-08-23 01:11:33+00:00
> Not only does the computer have no grab handles, but every single edge is painfully sharp. The iMac’s physical housing was designed to be “art” rather than a functional tool.

How many people are moving their computers like this?

I have a Dell Laptop and Monitor on my desk now. I move the laptop, never the monitor. It has lots of dust on it to prove it.

Not sure of the Author’s point
by zeta0134 | 2025-08-23 01:11:36+00:00
I mostly research and analyze retro hardware as a hobby, most of which was made in Japan. All of my research acquisitions at least doubled in price this month, and quite a few sellers have decided to stop shipping to me entirely until the tarrif situation gets sorted.

These are 40+ year old consoles and accessories that are no longer being produced anywhere, certainly not in the United States. There will not be a factory built for these items, they're not in high demand. They just got way more expensive.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-23 01:12:21+00:00
I buy wool sweaters from Europe. I don’t know of US equivalents to what I buy, and I doubt they’d be as cheap if I did find them, even with (expensive) shipping from Britain and Nordic countries.

I bought a linen sheet from Lithuania this year. I couldn’t find any in the US that weren’t just similar probably-imported-from-Lithuania-or-Italy foreign ones marked way up, or that didn’t set off my “this is low-quality bullshit sold at a premium” alarms.

I don’t know of a US equivalents to Dent’s Gloves. Not at the same price/quality combo, in those styles.

Raber Garbage Mitts from Canada. Dunno of US equivalents.

Last time I ordered Meermin shoes they shipped from Spain. They have or had some presence in NY too, but Spain’s where they shipped from.

If you want equestrian leather shoes, I dunno of anywhere but places that ship from Spain and Portugal that won’t empty your bank account for them.

Western riding shoes (“cowboy boots”), best bang for your buck by a long shot will probably come straight from Mexico. Or maybe Argentina.

Best bargains in decent hats I know come straight from Canada, the EU/Britain, Mexico, or Australia.

[edit] OK, so then what do I buy that’s made in America? Red Wing boots, Darn Tough socks, Rancourt and Company for loafers and mocs and such, Pendleton wool blankets and shirts (the cloth’s made in the US, anyway, though the sewing’s usually elsewhere) and a bunch of other MIUSA (and some Canadian and Italian) clothes but I only buy them used because I don’t make FAANG or finance tier wages (stuff like Sid Mashburn, made in NYC) so I’m not actually giving those companies money.
by ethantrang | 2025-08-23 01:13:36+00:00
I use AI every day. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Wispr Flow, and more.

But I don't think AI should just be something that you use a few times a day, but hundreds or potentially even thousands of times a day.

Coding tools like Cursor have made easy for software people to use AI all the time. And the result of that has been massive productivity unlock for them.

I think there's a way to make it possible for every other knowledge worker.

But wondering if this future looks like a single assistant that's multi use case and overlays your desktop, or are verticalized AI agents the way this will happen.

(tbh: I'm trying to build something in this space and looking for advice/opinions!)
by jazzyjackson | 2025-08-23 01:13:38+00:00
I degoogled and deappled and ended up with a Sonim flip phone. It’s like, Android 11 without Google services but I don’t mind the lack of security because there’s basically no personal data on it.

I’m amazed at the feature parity of immich, it works great. Jellyfin for media and Pydio for Dropbox/drive functionality, email via infomaniak 12$ a year.
by cyberax | 2025-08-23 01:14:17+00:00
> Citation? Because the EU intends to phase out Russian gas entirely by 2027.

Yes, by replacing it with natgas from Azerbaijan, Qatar, and other wonderful countries.

I'm kinda jaded about this whole topic because it exposes the utter hypocrisy of Germany's Greens.

But long story short, Germany can get Dunkelflaute. Long periods of time in winter when renewable generation falls to about 10% of the _normal_ generation for that time period. A once-in-100-years event is a full month of sustained Dunkelflaute. And this is not a hand-wavy theory. For example, in 2019 there was a 10-day sustained Dunkelflaute: https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_spot_market/chart.ht... - look at the period from 17 to 26 Jan. And as you see, they also coincide with heightened energy consumption, which will become even _worse_ as Germany switches to heat pumps for heating.

The current plan for these is to build more natgas powerplants (German government had to _subsidize_ them directly). With noises about magic "hydrogen".
by margalabargala | 2025-08-23 01:15:18+00:00
I run multiple arch systems and multiple Debian systems in my house.

Debian is great if what you want to do, is something that has been easy for 5 years. You set it up and forget it.

Debian breaks down whenever you try to do something new that requires some new dependency. Oh you want to run a Go program written in 2023? Now you have to download and install the new version yourself because the latest version in apt is 1.19. On arch stuff like that is generally not a problem. It's the best supported distro after the Debian based ones.
by susiecambria | 2025-08-23 01:16:46+00:00
It might not be consistent with slavery, but children as chattel was a thing.

It wasn't until 1874 that child abuse was documented with Mary Ellen Wilson and then later that rights and protections were accorded children. Now it's true that foster care and congregate care existed before 1874. But it was Wilson who started the ball rolling.

More on Mary Ellen Wilson and child abuse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Wilson, and the history of child welfare, https://blogs.millersville.edu/musings/a-history-of-child-we....
by vidarh | 2025-08-23 01:17:00+00:00
No, it's not the tools fault if you continue to use it in ways that according to you, yourself does not work, despite the availability of better guidance.

Do you always insist on listening to guidance you've observed doesn't work?

It sounds immensely counter-productive.

Meanwhile I'll continue to have AI tools write the majority of my code at this point.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-23 01:17:10+00:00
It can be looked at from a different angle: Apple always had a more restricted ecosystem (even now, when arguably it's at peak popularity), driven by a "our way or the highway" mentality that helps keep the experience within a happy path while forcing other needs outside of the platform.

It's not a ding against Apple, if you're running a select shop people expect a curated experience, but you can't look at it the same way as a home center or hardware shop.
by shakna | 2025-08-23 01:17:22+00:00
Whilst I can't be certain, I've been hearing that part of Google's want to move away from XSLT is two-fold - and relates to the idea of the security problem.

Partly, there's increasing attacks against XML.

And also, libxml2 has said "no" to security embargoes altogether. [0]

They might well consider there to be 0-days waiting in XSLT.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381093
by void-star | 2025-08-23 01:17:29+00:00
This is really, well... douchey. Emptying anything I have in Coinbase asap (and yes I read the whole thing)

I wonder how likely it is for CEO roles to get taken over by a sophisticated LLM at this point. I’d wager we’d see a 20x increase in value. I use and value llms in my coding and research workflows already but to fire people for careful and slow adoption speaks very poorly to individual and company maturity.
by canpan | 2025-08-23 01:17:43+00:00
Staff helps! I had this thought today taking the train here in Japan, why I feel safe compared to other countries. Every station is staffed with a real person. Most trains have at least two people in them. One driver and a second staff announcing and checking doors. The staff is clearly visible and in uniform. I know Japans base safety level is higher than the rest of the world. But I think putting trained staff in uniform on display would improve the situation everywhere.
by commandersaki | 2025-08-23 01:17:48+00:00
I find similarly annoying issues with Mac software and hardware. Exporting all your keychain settings can't be done as a bulk export last time I tried; it kept prompting my password for every entry using the `security` cli tool. I had a fusion drive iMac at my workplace and it was a horrid experience, and similarly I've had butterfly keyboard Macbooks were pretty unusable (I gave up on work laptops and just use my 2015 Macbook Pro) etc.

But I find the competitors in shambles. The hardware for virtually all PC laptops is pretty horrible. Software and UX have their own issues etc.

What keeps me on the Mac is Apple dedication to accessible technologies and having a *nix base, and for the most part they've been pretty consistent with that offering.
by postpress | 2025-08-23 01:18:05+00:00
XSLT currently provides a lot of value, as the browser can use it to transform documents directly, and it is exposed to JavaScript for scripting. Exploring it recently, including creating a PWA with XML sources reminded me why I like developing on the web. It made me think--RSS feeds can be PWA's now--right?

XML/XSLT/CSS/JS: https://kherrick.github.io/x-ml-data/2025/01/exercising-xslt...

XHTML/CSS/JS: https://kherrick.github.io/x-app/2025/01/exercising-xslt/

It seems like XSLT 3.0 would open up a lot of new opportunities and patterns, especially if it continues to work with existing standards, as the current version does. The Web Platform is so cool.
by codeka | 2025-08-23 01:19:13+00:00
> one involving Waymo

Are you referring to the one where a Waymo, and several other cars, were stopped at a traffic light, when another car (incidentally, a Tesla) barreled into the traffic stack at 90 MPH, killing several people?

Because I am not aware of any other fatal accidents where a Waymo was even slightly involved. I think it's, at best, misleading to refer to that in the same sentence as FSD-involved fatalities where FSD was the direct cause.
by foobarqux | 2025-08-23 01:19:50+00:00
> You have provided zero evidence to the contrary and have now shifted the goalposts to a vague, subjective debate about "usefulness.". The original comment is right there. You can read.

I literally provided several examples of unreasonable/misleading scores (there isn't an API so this is the best you can do). You on the other hand haven't provided any examples to show when RT is more useful than MC. The context of the original criticism is that the RT score is misleading and less useful than an actual rating.

> This is just gatekeeping masquerading as an argument. They have more to say on the mechanics of film, not on what movies you'll think are the best. It's especially ridiculous when you realize that RT gets reviews from these 'top critics' and you can filter for them.

It's not gatekeeping to recognize that there are actual experts in matter of taste who are going to be way more informative than the average joe. The implication of your argument is that every jack-asses opinion is just as valuable. No one actually believes this. And I don't know how many times I need to say this but I don't want to read a dozen critic reviews, I want a summary statistic (so that you can get a rough ranking of movies).

> The RT percentage has a critics and top critics score so no it's not, not anymore than the metacritic score is 'the score the average person will give it'. That's not how statistics work.

The problem is that the summary statistic (even if the average score was still visible) on RT includes so many people that it is closer to average opinion than critic opinion. That's apart from the problem with hot-or-not binary classification.

> There's nothing to pretend. If i think it's better then it's better for me. What critics say doesn't matter. It's really sad that you apparently characterize movies you like with lower critic scores as 'junk food'. Have a mind of your own.

I have explicitly said that I don't dogmatically follow critic opinions (no one does). The point is the opinions have value as a starting point to filter/select films that is better than popular opinion or a binary thresholding type system.

Once again you can make your same argument against any rating system (IMDB, RT,e tc) and absurdly claim that if you use those as a starting point to select films that you don't "have a mind of your own". In fact you can do this for ratings of any product or service and make the absolutely trivial point that a person's personal preferences or situation can deviate from consensus expert rankings. It's silly to then conclude that one ranking system can't be better than another or that popular opinion is equally valuable compared to expert opinion.
by dev-ns8 | 2025-08-23 01:20:07+00:00
Well isn't that the whole point? At a fundamental level, investment profits are a payment for the risk you take. No risk equals no profit. There are "safe" investments currently. You can get paid 4% a year roughly to hold treasuries right now. Considered a "risk free" investment (Which sure, maybe the merits can be argued).

But at the end of the day the only way to profit from an investment is taking some risk. It all comes down to pricing that risk.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-23 01:20:50+00:00
No, that's not true at all. There are ample examples from the past of children being both more and less controlled by parents. It's mainly upbto the parents and how they choose to parent.

You're correct that recently the most overbearing, authoritarian parenting styles have received a minor legal haircut, where the worst abuses must be done either in secret or not at all. The parents who feel victimized by this new norm would like things to go back to how they were when no one asked why their kids had so many bruises on their faces.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-23 01:21:17+00:00
I think it would've been much better to incentivize the likes of Apple and Nvidia to make investments in Intel. They need to have their designs fabbed, they have a good amount of geopolitical risk. They also have a lot of money on hand. Didn't Apple say they were going to invest $600B into the US? (not that that's really going to happen), ok, so why not put $50B into Intel?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-23 01:21:17+00:00
The country is being run by an unholy cabal of crooks, cranks, and creeps who are using a nasty senile old man as a media distraction.

Google how many members of Trump's cabinet are employees of Fox/Murdoch.

There's nothing stupid about this. It's a traitorous attack on the fundamentals of freedom and democracy - a cynically planned and calculated attempt to replace a modern administrative state with a neo-aristocratic oligarchy that considers itself above any law, accountability, or morality.

Trump himself can barely finish his sentences. I have no doubt what's left of his mind approves of what's being done in his name, but I also have no doubt he has less of a mind than the media are showing.
by antichronology | 2025-08-23 01:21:48+00:00
That would be really cool. Navigating SRA and mining out reasonable $ relevant tasks is a huge bottleneck.

I find it takes a large amount of effort to parse what the authors are doing, whether the data is high quality, and how to pre-process it in a way that makes sense for the task at hand.

Would love to chat more about how you're thinking of evaluating quality of these agents.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-23 01:21:50+00:00
> As of the next version of Chrome, XSLT will be gated behind a flag.

Citation? That would greatly surprise me in its abruptness and severity (they only just started talking about it this month, and acknowledge it’s particularly risky for enterprise) and https://chromestatus.com/feature/4709671889534976 gives no such indication.
by actinium226 | 2025-08-23 01:21:51+00:00
I think it's unfair to say that Coinbase has effectively "gotten lucky" in not being hacked. Security by obscurity makes sense when you have a low traffic low stakes site, but a place like Coinbase can't rely on that. They are a huge target, they have to take into account the possibility of disgruntled/bribed ex-or-current-employees abusing their knowledge of CB's security systems. They host coins like Monero and others which can obscure where the money is sent.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-23 01:21:57+00:00
Not American nor stuck in America, but I recently bought a simple kit for building your own clock from a ton of basic chips and resistors (that crappy one Big Clive showed off), for about a dollar.

The thing that surprised me most was how on point the shipping emails have been. The kit itself is worth about a dollar and was great for my 8 year old to practice soldering. Though if I skim the Temu site, it’s like 98% absolute trash.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-23 01:22:36+00:00
Yeah, was gonna comment on the Notes format myself. It uses SQLite (as most Apple apps do) and individual note data is saved as gzipped binary blobs. Not the most arcane storage scheme out there by a long shot.

There’s ways to automate note exporting with AppleScript, too. The Notes app surfaces notes content in both plain text and HTML forms. Here’s an AppleScript and Automator workflow I found that does exactly that: https://github.com/johansan/AppleNotesExport

Not that export couldn’t be better, but post author clearly didn’t go far in researching any of this. All assumption no problem solving.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-23 01:22:48+00:00
False. The exact opposite of bad.

The “system” should provide the barest minimum of libraries. Programs should ship as many of their dependencies as is technically feasible.

Oh what’s that? Are crying about security updates? Yeah well unfortunately you shipped everything in a Docker container so you need to rebuild and redeploy all of your hierarchical images anyways.
by maxdamantus | 2025-08-23 01:23:06+00:00
Can you give an example of how Go's approach causes people to lose data? This was alluded to in the blog post but they didn't explain anything.

It seems like there's some confusion in the GGGGGP post, since Go works correctly even if the filename is not valid UTF-8 .. maybe that's why they haven't noticed any issues.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-23 01:23:46+00:00
> Apple has more money than some nation states.

And Apple needs their chips fabbed, so why not have Apple invest $50B into Intel? Nvidia could afford to chip in too. These companies that face a huge amount of geopolitical risk because they've put all of their eggs in the TSMC basket should have to pay for this not US taxpayers.
by esrauch | 2025-08-23 01:23:52+00:00
It doesn't seem weird at all to me: standard is essentially the consensus of the major browser vendors; a spec which all of Chrome, Safari and Edge don't implement is really just a hypothetical.

The origin story of whatwg is that Apple, Mozilla and Opera decided that W3C wasn't making specs that they wanted to implement, so they created a new working group to make them.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-23 01:24:48+00:00
Slippery-slope fallacy. The money to buy shares has to come from somewhere and the power of the purse is with House of reps. Someone like Trump can (and is-per this post) take stakes in random companies, but that's our democracy. You wouldn't say "bomb canada, france, england and norway" because the military bombed one country right? You make sure congress checks and balances that power.

If the government takes over those companies and they don't do well, it means lost jobs which means lost elections too. There's a risk calculus to be had.

The current policy of never intervening or taking ownership in companies.. unless they are "too big to fail and start failing" only benefits the companies.
by SpecialistK | 2025-08-23 01:26:05+00:00
Are they not a "legal fiction" in the way that a marriage, or a state, is legal fiction? Even in the absence of legislation codifying them they will still exist in some form. People will still form long term romantic relationships for the purpose of raising kids, joint decision-making, and ensuring that the other receives your possessions in death. Groups of people who share a language, culture, and geography will still form tribes or clans or some other form of institution even if it isn't strictly Westphalian statehood.

Similarly, skilled workers will still find that their labor is more efficient when they work together. And with scale comes the need for sales, administration, and all the other components which make up a company as we know it today.

I assume by "we" lacking imagination you mean humanity as a whole, and that just isn't true - we have lots of imaginative people who have attempted lots of different ways to arrange an economy, with varying degrees of success. We've tried flavors of state-run enterprise (from "crown corporations" here in Canada all the way to full collectivization in leftist and fascism in rightist systems) plus voluntary co-ops like kibbutz or communes. Not to mention publicly traded vs privately held corporations.

Humanity has the imagination and often has had the pleasure of "experimenting" with various methods.
by vel0city | 2025-08-23 01:26:16+00:00
You're wrong because it wasn't some bailout it was a normal government loan available to to a wide range of companies. I'm not Tesla stan but it's massively misrepresenting the loan to call it a bailout. It's the kind of market investing the government should be doing, underwriting somewhat riskier loans to push the envelope on technology.

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/advanced-technology-vehicles-manu...
by jayd16 | 2025-08-23 01:27:54+00:00
This isn't exactly wrong but you're not looking at it from a modern perspective.

If you can cheat and get away with it, then you'll see streamers do it. That will tank confidence in your game.

It doesn't matter if cheating doesn't make you top the leaderboard. If you have global leaderboards, they will be dominated by cheaters.

I don't think rootkits are excusable but if the solution was simple they would do that.
by cuttothechase | 2025-08-23 01:28:13+00:00
I mostly agree with this but have a hard time digesting the fact that someone would invest going to war with inferior looking strategy and technology.

Future wars are likely going to be GPU driven, ML heavy entities where efficiency matters a lot more than brute force, blunt grenade throwing wars of the past.

A super power like US would likely want to be in the forefront of this if they happen to be in a tussle with a worthy adversary.