MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 20:31:58+00:00
These things usually (not a lawyer tho) come down to the claims being actively made. For example "engineer" is often (typically?) a protected title but that doesn't mean you'll get in trouble for drafting up your own blueprints. Even for other people, for money. Just that you need to make it abundantly clear that you aren't a licensed engineer.

I imagine "Pay us to talk to our friendly chat bot about your problems. (This is not licensed therapy. Seek therapy instead if you feel you need it.)" would suffice.
by churchill | 2025-08-14 20:32:02+00:00
Watching this brings back memories of Nigeria's 2023 elections. It was (one of a series of) turning point(s) for me when it slowly sank in that the country wasn't worth building a life in. Working remotely & spending in a local currency meant that for the past couple of years, I was insulated and could accumulate savings with little effort. But, the blatant corruption pushed me off the edge.

Quick scan of my social network just confirms the same: anyone extremely agentic, intelligent, or educated I know has either left, is in the process of leaving, or is considering leaving.

Last person out of Nigeria can turn the lights off.
by steveklabnik | 2025-08-14 20:32:13+00:00
It may not make it fundamentally better, but it might make it easier and more pleasant. That’s what jj does for me; my basic workflow would work in git too, but it’s just nicer and easier. Which I would not have guessed, as I was very comfortable with git before I switched.

In your case, jj’s ability to slice and dice commits is really nice; jj split is built in and works similarly, but you also have other tools too.
by lordnacho | 2025-08-14 20:32:27+00:00
Crunch mode only works for when the finish line is in sight.

Instead of a 40 hour week, you find out you are within 50 hours of the goal. So you ask the team to come in for 60 hours that week, get 50 effective hours, and give everyone time off the week after to recover.

That's not what happens once you have the crunch mode button installed, though.

I used to live with a banker. He'd sit at the office all day, and at about 6pm his boss would come back from meetings, and demand slides be ready for the next morning. So the little bankers would be sitting in the office from about 9am to midnight. This went on for years. Same with weekends and presumed nights off: someone would see it fit to phone the analysts on their night off to have them correct the font on a slide deck.

Ultimately, this wears down everyone. People get stressed when there's no end in sight. The bad kind of stress that makes you lose your hair and your sanity.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-08-14 20:32:33+00:00
>If you look at airflow over an asymmetric airfoil [1], the air does move faster over the top.

What is your point? Where do you think lift comes from?

My point is the wing causes a pressure differential by redirecting air. Air speed changes are a side effect of lift not a cause of lift.

The other way around is something (magic fairies?) causes an air speed imbalances, that causes a pressure differential.
by rayiner | 2025-08-14 20:32:59+00:00
Those articles are all sourced from the same SPLC hit piece, and are laundering someone’s accusations of “racism” without defining the term, or engaging in guilt by association.

The folks at SPLC are cultural relativists. They think culture is just superficial things like food, and doesn’t contribute to material circumstances. The only reason India or Mexico are poorer and more disorderly, in their view, is oppression from whites. In that worldview, any opposition to immigration can only be based on skin-color “racism.” Is that your view?
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-14 20:33:09+00:00
I tend to solve this problem by reversing the log, rather than the rebase, when I want them to match.

That said, I think the order differing makes sense. When you're doing a log, it makes sense to have the most recent items up top, and search backwards in history. When you're doing a rebase, it makes sense to have commands in the order they will be applied.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-14 20:33:12+00:00
>Why do you judge people that did great things by the standards of everyday interaction

Because I don't want to live in a world of things built by socially maladjusted misanthropes, I want to live in a world build by kind and social people they made with their own hands.

There is something incredibly servile and pathetic in the psychology of people who latch onto perceived great men instead of looking to their neighbor. Like the kind of people who spend their day on twitter hoping that Elon retweets them and gives them attention.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-14 20:33:14+00:00
There is so much in life that is deferred to someones best judgement that if we stopped just to annotate and attempt to codify all these 100 such actions each person in positions of power or authority might take a given workday, it would take a century.

Not all mountain out of molehill arguments need to be engaged with I think is the broader lesson we need for our times.
by cnst | 2025-08-14 20:33:26+00:00
Our $100M Series B (oxide.computer) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733817 - Jul 2025 (503 comments)

This is really good for them, and I do hope they do succeed, but if it's a matter of an individual developer deciding on their optimal area of systems expertise, this is still putting too many eggs in a single basket.

The reality is that even Oxide.Computer clients would still be running Linux on their machines.

So, as an engineer, you're literally shooting yourself in the foot by NOT moving to Linux, when everyone else has.

I think it's a standard sunk cost fallacy here. Some of us continue using BSD, but others switch to Linux and go work at Google, Meta, Amazon and even Oracle and Netflix, at 2x to 4x+ the income we get as BSD and Solaris devs.
by teachrdan | 2025-08-14 20:33:55+00:00
> it's not like he was killing people or selling weapons.

Well, if your standard is that no one is a bad person until they are literally murdering people or selling war machines, then no, of course not.

But as a parent myself, I think it's fair to say that if you, as a multimillionaire, stoop to doing the bare legal minimum to support the child you created, who was at one point living in poverty because you failed to support her before, then yes: you are a bad person.

There are obviously many other ways in which Steve Jobs was a bad person! He kept obtaining temporary license plates because he wanted to park in handicapped spots without getting tickets. He orchestrated a salary-fixing cartel that artificially depressed wages for many thousands of engineers in Silicon Valley, all so that he and his other obscenely rich friends could get even richer. And he had his devices manufactured in China under horrendously exploitative conditions again, so that he and his shareholders could make an extra buck. (on top of the billions they already had)

But if your standard of being a "bad person" (not even evil!) is murder or complicity in it, then you could make a strong case that Steve Jobs was not a bad person, altogether.
by mindslight | 2025-08-14 20:34:09+00:00
Protected by society by having better support for caregivers and effective old age care in general? Most definitely.

Protected by society by sanitizing every last venue into a safe space that can be independently navigated by the vulnerable? Definitely not.

Having said that, the real problem here are the corpos mashing this newfound LLM technology into everyone's faces and calling it "AI" as if it's some coherent intelligence. Then they write themselves out of the picture and leave the individuals they've pitted against one another to fight it out.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-14 20:34:49+00:00
There are a variety of voting machines in use, some are like you describe. Others are ATM-like kiosks that print out your ballot based on electronic input. Verified Voting keeps a database of which precincts use which machines.

> the paper ballots retain a direct record of voter intent.

This is true, although it's expensive to recount the paper ballots and in practice people don't often do it. They routinely do a sort of checksum or sanity check by sampling small numbers of ballots. But a full-on paper ballot recount is rare.

Bush v Gore is a famous example of a recount that was halted before it finished.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 20:35:39+00:00
>You’re being deliberately incendiary

Which part was "incendiary"?

>you’re saying like the simplest thing

The truth is often simple, people are just too scared to confront it. So they call it "incendiary".

>Is it, perhaps, the cheapest way to get something tasty?

Healthy food is also tasty and cheaper than highly processed junk food. But it's easier to blame externalities than take accountability.

>Maybe there are underlying social problems, and that’s more interesting to discuss than “poor people are stupid and gluttonous.”

Why aren't poor people in poorer countries fat despite suffering even bigger social issue like war, slavery, rapes and famine?
by rkagerer | 2025-08-14 20:35:49+00:00
I'm talking about the LLM (and any other infrastructure involved). Reasons are:

- Pricing. If I grow to do this at scale, I don't want to be paying per-action, per-month, per-token, etc.

- Privacy. I don't want my data, screenshots, whatever being sent to you or the cloud AI providers.

- Control. I don't want to be vulnerable to you or other third parties going bankrupt, arbitrarily deciding to kill the product or it's dependencies, or restructuring plans/pricing/etc. I also want to be able to keep my day to day operations running even if there's a major cloud outage (that's one reason we're still using this "old fashioned", non-cloud software in the first place).

I think I'm simply not your target market.

I advise several companies who could be (they run "legacy" software with vast teams of human operators whose daily tasks include some portion of work that would be a good candidate for increased automation), but most of them are in a space where one or more of the above factors would be potential deal breakers.

The retention agreements between you and your vendors are great (I mean that sincerely), but I'm not party to them so they don't do anything for me. If you offered a contractual agreement with some teeth in it (eg. underwritten or bond-backed to the tune of several digits, committing to specific security-related measures that are audited, with a tacit acknowledgement any proven breach of contract in and of itself constitutes damages) it could go a long way to address the privacy issues.

In terms of pricing it feels like the core of your product is an outside vendor's computer-operating AI model, and you've written a prompt wrapper and plumbing around it that ferries screenshots and directives back and forth. This could be totally awesome for a small scale customer that wants to dip their toes into AI automation and try it out as a turnkey solution. But the moat doesn't seem very big, and I'd need to be convinced it's a really slick solution in order to favour that route instead of rolling my own wrapper.

Please don't take this the wrong way, it's just one datapoint of feedback and I do wish you luck with your venture.
by toast0 | 2025-08-14 20:36:33+00:00
> In the U.S., there is in fact not one federal ID, but instead we use state IDs.

That's only partially true. We also have federal IDs: passports, passport cards, permanent resident cards, DoD Ids, Transportation Worker IDs. There's also some other federally issued IDs listed as Real ID compliant [1], but I've never seen them so I didn't list them.

[1] https://publicpoint.fnal.gov/get-connected/Shared%20Document...
by leecommamichael | 2025-08-14 20:37:14+00:00
Yeah, it’s too hard of a rule. In reality interfaces have points of resistance; where they aren’t really helping you do what you’re wanting, and they have fitting-points where they do what you need done.

I’d argue it’s your job to strike some kind of balance there. If you know you’re working with something stable, why settle for good-enough? Well, because the task of assessing what is stable requires years of mistakes, and good-enough varies drastically between languages. I think I see a point here for using primitive C; there’s hardly a type-system to waste time with, but you can cut yourself with macros. This is why I use Odin.
by maxglute | 2025-08-14 20:37:18+00:00
I spent last few days chasing down a Bravo/peacock show from outside the US trying to watch legally, only to find it on watchseries and realize how good the experience has gotten. It's not even released on torrents or nzb. Watchseries UI is kind of peak now. Nuts. Does anyone know how Watchseries manage to stay up?
by crote | 2025-08-14 20:37:39+00:00
If the ID card cryptographically signs it, doesn't that mean that it isn't anonymous?

I assume it's a variant of PKI, with everyone trusting the government's root key, and each ID card storing a unique certificate signed by that root key. But an ID card will only have a single certificate, so it would be trivial to see that multiple data snippets were signed by the same certificate - and therefore the same person. That would allow a website to track users across sessions - or even across websites.
by raron | 2025-08-14 20:38:07+00:00
Not really (as far as the website and the government doesn't collaborate and share information with each other).

AFAIK the EU age verification app works by requesting bunch of digitally signed "proof of age" tokens (openid verifiable credentials) from a government institution and sends (uses up) one when you want to prove your age to a website. The website can check the validity of these tokens without connecting to the government institution.

They are even trying to do some form of blind signature or zero-knowledge proof to have better protections.

https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/d...

Age verification laws are easy to circumvent and they are bad for many other reason though.
by tomrod | 2025-08-14 20:38:16+00:00
> they don't typically choose to live the precepts the adherents wants

A bit reductionist, but critically, and because you asked for clarity, Dominionists want to force others to stop doing what they don't like even though it has no impact on their life.

Easily understood if you look at the standard of medical care for many miscarriages. They are abortions.

Today in the US, abortion is mostly illegal in many states, and people have died due to liability and uncertainty that would otherwise not have died should the standard of care been followed. This is before you consider the harassment of women after receiving care.

Yet, Dominionists want it banned because their theology changed with political winds conveniently in the 1970s and they now feel strongly, even more so than your feelings-based opinion that the factual claim of non correctness is unjustified despite clear justification, that life is absolutely defined as a zygote. This is before we consider that they are also equally unwilling to help children post-birth or to adopt sound economic policies to encourage household and family formation.

Tell me, what polity or power is forcing Dominionists to receive abortions unwillingly?

Or is it that they forget that their rights end at my nose?

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> I'll also note that your response of "no these two things are obviously different and one is not okay while the other is" is shared by the opposition. When you agree with the behaviors being imposed and the justifications for doing so it becomes difficult to understand why anyone would object.

You know, I hear conservatives say this all the time, but me being an old school minarchist Libertarian, I just want people to leave each other alone.

I'll note that now several times in this discussion you implicitly assert that anyone contrary to Dominionism is "progressive" (strawman designation by rightwing propaganda for outgroup, or actual political group, hard to say), and that if a specific behavior is called out, well, there must be some behavior the other party feels should be imposed on them.

No one cares about someone worshiping at their house of worship and engaging in their rituals. Not a bit. But come in and force someone else to hold their particular social club in high regard in order to engage in commerce, education, or careers? That's what Dominionists want. And it's an egregious violation of everything the US stands for to everyone outside the Dominionist camp.

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Now, please specify what progressive philosophy or policy planks that you think Dominionists find so unappealing that they'd be willing to sacrifice the freedoms so many US service members have died for, and how that is _imposed_ on said Dominionists?
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-08-14 20:38:18+00:00
> The ultimate example may be All Souls College, which has a ritual, the Mallard Song, that occurs once a century.

You can't walk for more than five minutes in the UK without tripping over some nonsense like this. History is very important, and traditon has its place, but really? As a brit I find it all kind of tediously performative sometimes.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-14 20:38:41+00:00
This product WAS generally marketed to the healthcare field, not to people directly.

It was literally described in the page you referenced: "Arm your patients with continuous measurements in a comfortable, lifestyle-friendly wearable—helping you deliver a true telemonitoring experience."

> automates the collection of clinically accurate measurements to help support: -Post-surgical recovery -Chronic care -Patient management

I say "was" because it was possible to buy it as a consumer, but there's still no direct competition, as:

"Please note that all Masimo consumer products have been discontinued. These include:

MightySat® Masimo W1® Sport Watch Opioid Halo™ / Masimo SafetyNet Alert™ Radius T°® Continuous Thermometer Masimo Stork® Vitals, Masimo Stork Vitals+, and Masimo Stork Baby Monitor"
by slothofgalaxy | 2025-08-14 20:39:00+00:00
TL;DR

- A flow's prior is typically fixed (e.g. N(0, I)). We learn it and use a lightweight flow to model pixel dependencies;

- This makes sampling (ODE solving) more efficient, without sacrificing performance in our setting;

- We introduce bespoke training objectives for both autoregressive and continuous-time flow variants;

- Flow-SSN achieves SOTA performance on standard stochastic segmentation benchmarks!
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-14 20:39:23+00:00
The Heritage Foundation is a think tank, not the RNC. Project 2025 no doubt has plenty of supporters in the RNC thanks to how influential the think tank is, but it's not an official party position. Any left of center think tank could cook up a Project 2028 document and claim it's the DNC's equivalent – it'd have just as much (official) standing as Project 2025.
by LearnYouALisp | 2025-08-14 20:39:39+00:00
> ...incredible technology during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

> - Now in 2025, that same tech is slated to have broad access to American citizen data

Speaking of which, only loosely-related, but is there any indication of where the 'recent' leak of British special forces, contractors and/or informants (?) happened? (est. 2022, discovered later, now in news)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-14 20:40:04+00:00
The problem is we got rid of "democracy" a long time ago.

The original premise was you have a lot of elected officials and then they act as checks and balances on one another. So, for example, to pass a law against something it has to be voted on by the House (elected officials), and the Senate (originally elected by state legislatures, giving the states, an independent elected body, a voice in the federal government; not anymore) and then signed by the President (another elected official), and then as a final check it had to be upheld by the courts (elected by the President and Senate for lifetime terms).

Then we effectively replaced most of that with administrative bureaucrats that act only within the executive branch. They're not only not directly elected, they're not even indirectly elected by the Senate; the President appoints them -- or they're hired by other unelected bureaucrats -- and then they tend to stick around between administrations because there are so many of them that you can't plausibly replace millions of people every time the constituents want to change who is in office.

Meanwhile they make the rules and enforce them and bypass the courts through coercive plea bargaining. But we call an attack on this system an attack on democracy?
by yahoozoo | 2025-08-14 20:40:04+00:00
Eh, I don’t know. I spent some time over 3 days trying to get Claude Code to write a pagination plugin for ProseMirror. Had a few different branches with different implementations and none of them worked well at all and one or two of them were really over-engineered. I asked GPT-5, via the Chat UI (I don’t pay for OpenAI products), and it basically one-shot a working plugin, not only that, the code was small and comprehensible, too.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 20:40:07+00:00
Moral hazard? Versus not getting even a diagnostic, let alone care, because someone couldn't afford it? Versus self determination? A clear upfront statement of what the product is not ought to suffice.

What we have isn't motivated by protection from moral hazard (at least IMO). It's a guild system that restricts even vaguely related access and practices in (I'd argue) an overly broad manner.

To be clear I don't object to the guild in this case. Only to the overly broad fence surrounding it.
by jmull | 2025-08-14 20:40:10+00:00
This isn't an unlimited loophole in the constitution (at least not so far).

As the article you link to points out, "It is not always clear when the government is speaking for itself instead of unconstitutionally restricting others’ speech...The Supreme Court has not yet provided a clear standard for this type of case."

Also, "...even though government speech is not regulated by the Free Speech Clause, it is still subject to the Establishment Clause."
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 20:40:28+00:00
Its hard to tell over the web whether things are sarcastic or not so excuse me if I misread the intent.

At Google I've found my colleagues to be knowledgeable, kind, and collaborative and I enjoy interacting with them. This is not just the folks I worked on this project with, but previous colleagues in other teams as well. With this particular product I've been impressed by the technical knowledge folks I worked directly with, and their contribution both improved the model's capability and my own.
by asveikau | 2025-08-14 20:40:40+00:00
It made it sound like what they did is drop ship into a company, destroy all their existing procedures, and rush through a half assed piece of software to replace them.

It sounded a lot like the DOGE playbook. From that vantage point I became skeptical that they did anything good for their clients. It's like "douchebag outsourcing consultant as a service".
by loveit___ | 2025-08-14 20:40:47+00:00
Without Woz and Jobs there’d be no Apple (as the name was because of Jobs weird eating habits), but most definitely without Woz there’d be no Apple.

Everything Jobs was though and the people around him and those that worked before him were important for the state of Apple as he left it.

But Woz is my fav also, and if there were many, many makers like Woz, and there are, that would be fantastic, and it is.

Woz, I love you, man.