MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intended | 2025-08-01 19:39:26+00:00
Yes, second the desire for the video.

Tribalism coming to the Dems is taking FAR too long. People recognize that tribalism is working for the Republicans, so it’s natural that they are going to eventually imitated the winning strategy.

Seriously, I can’t believe it took this many decades for it to happen, and only after Trump made its efficacy blindingly obvious.

PS: Tribalism is not good for the overall health of a polity. Its just that people imitate whatever strategies appear to work.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-08-01 19:39:40+00:00
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by phillipcarter | 2025-08-01 19:39:53+00:00
Agreed.

The destruction of black-owned neighborhoods for freeways is very much worth studying. Sweet Auburn had 30,000 residents displaced, turning a once prosperous and flourishing neighborhood into a crime-ridden shell of its former self.

I am left dreaming about what Atlanta may have looked like if they prioritized public transit and … not pursuing explicitly racist policies. I believe in a world where we can rapidly build and roll out infrastructure for everyone without destroying so much.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-01 19:40:42+00:00
> I added an AbortController to the debounced search function, so that it aborts any previous queries when a new one is made. This means that the search results are always relevant to what the user is currently typing.

To me one of the most annoying things an application can do is go off and do something before I'm done telling it what to do. Filters that apply themselves without an explicit indication that I'm done setting them up, or searches that are constantly re-executing as I'm typing. Wait for me to stop.
by koolba | 2025-08-01 19:40:44+00:00
> How many pro-Trump Republicans actually want to engage in a fair round-table style debate?

There's plenty to pick from. The problem is that having someone effective in that position would anger the one people that PBS actually cares about, their donor class. It doesn't matter that Trump won the popular vote in the most recent election, they'll still go out of their way to ensure that the token conservative voice is against him.

> This administration makes a point that they only do interviews with sources favorable to them. They can't opt out of the media and then pretend to be victims.

This is the most accessible and transparent administration in decades, if not longer. The POTUS has held more interviews, with just about every national media organization, and regularly holds open ended press conferences with pools of reporters.

What you're describing is the previous administration which not only hand selected the reporters, they even gave Biden a cheat sheet of reporters (with pictures!) so he would know exactly who to call on: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-defends-bidens-cheat-sh...

Is that your paragon of media transparency?
by danenania | 2025-08-01 19:40:47+00:00
Input tokens usually dominate output tokens by a lot more than 2x though. It’s often 10x or more input. It can even easily be 100x or more. Again in realistic workflows.

Caching does help the situation, but you always at least pay the initial cache write. And prompts need to be structured carefully to be cacheable. It’s not a free lunch.
by salawat | 2025-08-01 19:41:05+00:00
And that's the problem. Contracts weren't meant to cover everything. We've taken a legal instrument, and based the entire bloody economy around it without bloody stopping to realize that, oh geez maybe having people click through a billion contracts they don't bloody read might cause deleterious effects in the civic macrocosm. The fact you're sitting here telling me it's a non starter just cements my point. The tech industry is predicated on predatory legalism, and click wrapped contracting. In point of fact, if you took the digital product away and tried to click wrapped literally anything else, the consumer would laugh at you. Only with digital products, whose terms can be changed at the will of the hosting company's legal department unilaterally, with no notice, and no recourse, other than termination of service is the root of the bloody problem. And we have an entire generation of business people who have been educated to think this behavior that results in massive exposure of clients personal data to outside firms and legal processes are 100% A-OK. If you think it'd be impossible to do business any other way, you are unironically one of the benefactors of the problen created and enabled by tech.
by taylodl | 2025-08-01 19:41:29+00:00
Meanwhile, Trump refuses to acknowledge that his stupid, stupid, stupid policies have anything to do with this. Oh no, not at all! Shoot the messenger who's just doing their job! Next month I'd report that 10 billion jobs were created and see if the dumb asses even notice or whether any of the American "news" agencies grow a spine and dare question it.
by cnst | 2025-08-01 19:42:17+00:00
I simply delete and rate 1* any app that doesn't work, including Schwab.

Schwab's mobile website is actually decent, and, basically, works better than their app in every way.

I'm honestly disappointed Android doesn't do something about these broken apps that don't let me keep records of my own stuff.

It should not be possible for an app to prevent screenshot use 100% of the time.

There should also be a 180° on the checklists to flag any app that uses disable-screenshot 100% of the time, similar to how we went from requiring people to change passwords every 14 days, to removing the mandatory-password-change policy in its entirety.
by camgunz | 2025-08-01 19:42:17+00:00
Hey I think she was basically right (I think her ideas on local control are applicable way beyond building neighborhoods). But we have to admit the ability to get up at some board meeting and veto stuff was her idea. It wasn't perverted by people who came after. Jacob's herself used these veto points in her time in Toronto. I'm not saying she was wrong to oppose the stuff she opposed, but the ability to obstruct in this way was her idea.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-01 19:42:23+00:00
Yet the board and CEO will get paid... So they're not that out of money. Just out of money enough to screw everybody but themselves.

> Philz board members, which include former CEO Phil Jaber and his son, Jacob Jaber; representatives from investment firms Summit Partners and TPG Growth; and CEO Mahesh Sadarangani will receive payouts or bonuses from the deal.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 19:42:26+00:00
In medical jargon, sure. In common usage, including among medical professionals, it's extremely common to just say "baby" in many contexts, especially when the baby is wanted and expected to be viable and brought to term. Nobody but a few weirdos or people trying to make some kind of a joke are gonna say to their partner "oh, did they give you any pictures of our fetus from the ultrasound? Oh look at our fetus' tiny little hands!"

(I'm pro-choice but think the "acksually they're fetuses" angle is fucking gross, both on an intellectually-honest debate level because it's semantic bullshit, and because it absolutely reads as a move toward dehumanization, and I hate to provide reasons for those kinds of accusations from pro-lifers to ring true)
by decafninja | 2025-08-01 19:42:28+00:00
I don’t think an equivalent Omega or Breitling is that much cheaper?

Rolexes also keep their value incredibly well. I bought a nice Tag many years ago (I knew nothing about watches) and it’s now worth about $1000 on the used market at best. Had I bought a similar priced Rolex instead, it would have kept its value, if not even appreciated.
by RDaneel0livaw | 2025-08-01 19:43:10+00:00
I have loved split ergo boards since childhood. Several years ago I found the sp111 board and truly think this is my endgame. I am right handed, so a southpaw numpad just makes SO much sense to me. Plus I use it for gaming so it's like a built in gaming macropad.

I also have a kinesis advantage 2 with some insanely nice switches, but never use it just because of the learning curve.
by stoitsev | 2025-08-01 19:43:54+00:00
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by kevinsane | 2025-08-01 19:44:05+00:00
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by stickfigure | 2025-08-01 19:44:49+00:00
I feel like taking risks today, so I'm going to publicly stake out a position that I haven't heard yet:

1. From reading the two women's statements (and between the lines of his), I believe the guy probably is a bad person.

2. Despite this, he shouldn't be cancelled from his profession.

We as a society need to be able to compartmentalize our lives to some degree. Unless you work in tiny companies your whole life, some of the people you work with will be trumpers, socialists, pro-lifers, had 5 abortions, religious fundamentalists, gay, anti-vaxers, teetotalers, swingers, or maybe even all of the above. Everyone believes something that someone else considers cancelworthy. It shouldn't matter; you're at work, not a social club.

We should be able to narrow our cancellations somewhat. Tell everyone that the OP is a terrible human being, sure! Cancel his dating life. If someone is a terrible employee, cancel her work life! But leave her family alone. You're welcome to kick me out of your religious revival, and you probably don't want me at your AA meetings either.

I get it, especially on the conference circuit in a small tight-knit professional community, the line between personal and professional can get muddy. But this isn't new; something like 20% of Americans met their spouse at work. I think we just have to navigate it ad hoc. People can and do maintain professional relationships while still cutting those people out of their social life.

It looks like this guy leveraged his high status in the community to sleep with young naive starry-eyed women, plus was a dick about it. I guess there are groupies in every scene. Still, these weren't employees. They weren't even coworkers. I think it would be weird to accuse Gene Simmons of "exploiting his position as a rock star to have sex with women". He's said many times that was kind of the whole point!

I guess what I'm saying is... probably the two public testimonials from women were enough to get the job done. Sometimes just word getting around should be enough.
by wand3r | 2025-08-01 19:44:57+00:00
I think you are correct, but my hot take is that they will capture most of the G7 through scummy regulatory capture and bundling with Microsoft. They will use this to mostly dominate the markets and run at small profitable margins. They will then pad out revenue by bundling in advertisement and agenda based pay to play messaging. They will also do a bunch of military and government contracts, take positions in profitable applications (or simply copy them) and maybe even do a hardware offering. Ultimately the company will end up being something like a facebook/google/palantir/apple hybrid. I'll admit the execution barrier is high, but the valuation is justified if they achieve. These are proven executors who have a nearly sociopathic capitalist mindset with deep ties to governments and corporations globally. I think it's probably likely they execute and if they fail in the grand scheme, it's hard to imagine they fail enough to bring down the company.

Let's not forget this company was founded by basically stealing seed investment from the non-profit arm, completely abandoning the mission, crushing dissent in the company and blackmailing the board. Sam will do anything to succeed and they have the product and powerbase to do it.
by abeppu | 2025-08-01 19:45:11+00:00
Oh I'm acutely aware that my taxes have been subsidizing people in red states that call me a slur.

But it's pretty messed up that presently the places that _were_ willing to pay for these things are deprived of the benefits. If instead we kept things alive on an optional basis, the participating states might get _better_ services and outcomes for a while because some poor red state communities would not be a sink for funds. But also, if the political pendulum swings the other way in a future election cycle, and more places opt-in, then having kept these programs alive in a reduced form would put them in a better position to resume activity.
by snickerbockers | 2025-08-01 19:45:24+00:00
"Click all squares containing a motorcycle."

"Failure to verify. Click all squares containing a traffic signal."

I hate how much unpaid labor I've given to Gemini just because so many sites fall for the DDOS shakedown. And I've heard the story about how PayPal's captcha saved the company or whatever, I just don't think the solution should be appointing Google as your gatekeeper.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-08-01 19:45:30+00:00
I hear you but I think there are much deeper problems. The material basis for the post-war order (high employment in high-margin industry in the developed countries, globally marketized resource extraction everywhere else) is collapsing. "Progressives" are just as lost as the rest of the broadly left coalition, but they're Liberals too, and their world is over.
by pron | 2025-08-01 19:46:24+00:00
Yes, that's what UB means - the program loses all meaning and any effect is possible - but the importance of a bug is much more than just its blast radius. We ultimately care not about the language semantics of a bug but its expected loss of value. This is also dependent on how frequently the bug appears and how easy it is to prevent or find and fix. Not all UBs are equal on that front.

Furthermore, an unbounded blast radius isn't itself the direct problem. A bug that with some probability casues your program to crash and your disk to be deleted is far less dangerous than a bug that allows a remote attacker to relatively easily steal all your secrets. UBs also differ on that front.

And again, virtually all programs are not provably without UB. For example, a Java program still interacts with an OS or with some native library that might suffer from a UB. So clearly we do tolerate some probability of UB, and we clearly do not think that eliminating any possibility of UB is worth any price.

When a program is just code on the screen, it's just a mathematical object, and then it's easy to describe a UB - the loss of all program meaning - as the most catastrophic outcome. But software correctness goes beyond the relatively simple world of programming language semantics, and has to consider what happens when a program is running, at which point it is no longer a mathematical object but a physical one. If a remote attacker steals all our secrets, we don't care if it's a result of some bug in the program itself (due to UB or otherwise), in other software the program interacts with, some fault or weakness in the hardware, or human operator error. The probability of any of these things is never zero, and we have to balance the cost of addressing each of these possibilities.

To give an example in the context of Carbon, we know that old code tends to suffer from fewer severe bugs than new code. So, if we want to reduce the probability of bugs, it is possible that it may be more worthwhile to invest - say, in terms of language complexity budget - in interop with C++ code than in eliminating every possible kind of UB, including those that are less likely to appear, sneak past testing, and cause an easily exploitable vulnerability.
by anonymars | 2025-08-01 19:46:27+00:00
I understand and to an extent agree with what you're saying--by the end of that quote, I think that's a reasonable expectation.

But we are reading that whole sequence at once, whereas in reality a journey elapsed to get there and I think the context matters.

If I'm in a hotel bar and I get invited up to a hotel room, that's a fairly clear signal (though maybe she's Canadian and just being polite [0]).

But if I want to attend a conference recommended by an advisor/mentor, and they suggest we share an Airbnb and that we can include additional attendees, that framing would be very different to me. At that point in the story I do not have the same expectation.

So I agree that ending is a red flag, but I think it's different when you've built up a context from prior information--one that specifically dissuades that interpretation--vs. getting it all at once as we do here. Now instead of starting at zero, you have to actively change your mind and overcome the inertia of that initial interpretation.

I'm also going to go out on a limb and suggest that participants in a programming conference, in aggregate, might not have exceptional emotional development. That casually explained is tongue in cheek but, I'm sure it resonates with a lot of people.

[0][https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-4IAR_9Yw]

I'll also point out that this is written in hindsight, when the author clearly does have a different understanding now, and is framing it accordingly.
by masklinn | 2025-08-01 19:46:57+00:00
Julian Baumgartner is a professional fine art conservator with a fairly popular youtube channel. Duct tape shows up from time to time in the pieces he's tasked with conserving, and it's always a terrible thing.

In fact it's a pretty big feature in the latest video (a drum) where he calls it

> a horrible material, because when it's fresh and young the adhesive's really goey and hard to get off, and then, when it gets old, the adhesive dries and it's... hard to get off

and he has to deal with both on the same drum.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 19:47:01+00:00
Everything in that report basically confirms what I was saying.

Most importantly, it looks primarily at the data from 2019-2022. Most execs (and many have said this publicly) are not that concerned about the short-term impacts on productivity. Indeed, many have argued that a good reason things were able to transition relatively smoothly during the pandemic is all the personal and professional networks and workflows already existed.

But that study can obviously not measure the longer term impacts on overall competitiveness. And again, since I'm talking about longer term impacts, no study that only took place from 2019-2022 could measure these effects. But I think it's important to acknowledge that, rather than just leaning on the "See! Studies prove remote work doesn't hurt productivity!" argument, which is an invalid interpretation IMO.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-01 19:47:21+00:00
Investing in shares is, like most things in life, a task that requires some skill and understanding. Hence the concept of accredited investors. When you're swimming with the big boys, it pays to know the rules of the game.

Unfortunately employees getting or buying shares from their employer have little to no investment skills. Yes, it's possible for these shares to be worth something, but if the company fails, they're last in line.

It behooves tech staff, who think the road to glory is paved in stock options to get professional financial and legal (not to mention tax) advice.

Or just consider all stock offerings to be worthless. The times it isn't are a rounding error.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-01 19:47:22+00:00
> Because of the scope of the act and the absence of a desire to force tech platforms to adopt specific technologies, this guidance was broad and principles-based – if the regulator prescribed specific measures, it would be accused of authoritarianism. Taking a principles-based approach is more sensible and future proof, but does allow tech companies to interpret the regulation poorly.

But, short of such an obvious breach, the rules regarding what can and can't be said, broadcast, forwarded, analysed are thought to be kept deliberately vague. In this way, everyone is on their toes and the authorities can shut down what they like at any time without having to give a reason. - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41523073

It should also be noted that the article is written by "a former Ofcom policy manager", and current CEO of tech consultancy Illuminate Tech:

Illuminate tech is a bespoke research and advisory firm founded by former online safety regulators. We provide streamlined approaches to online safety audits and risk assessments, and evaluate the effectiveness of online safety measures. - https://www.illuminatetech.co.uk/

In other words, he's planning to get rich on consultancy fees.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 19:47:22+00:00
I agree that it's generally important to respect other people and other cultures, both ethically because it is a ethical thing to do, and practically because it helps us all "get along".

I find, if we strip this from the colonial context, or remove it from the racial context entirely (this is now a conversation between two Han Chinese people of the same social class, for example) there is some relationship between what I perceive to be an increasing focus on the critical importance of a child being called their exact name and no abbreviation, mispronunciation, standard nickname, or contextually assigned nickname, to be a symptom of an American hyper individualism and "rights culture".

As an aside I have been told by more than one person with a foreign name before even attempting their name that they would prefer I just call them an Americanized abbreviation of their name for convenience. Obviously I want to try to do what they would like, but if they were to insist on a name I struggled with, I would consider them to be a generally annoying person.