MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-27 11:55:34+00:00
> “it sounds very confident and looks correct, so this thing must be an all-knowing oracle”.

I think the majority of the population will respond similarly, and the consequences will either force us to make the “note: this might be full of shit” disclaimer much larger, or maybe include warnings in the outputs. It’s not that people don’t have critical thinking skills— we’ve just sold these things as magic answer machines and anthropomorphized them well enough to trigger actual human trust and bonding in people. People might feel bad not trusting the output for the same reason they thank Siri. I think the vendors of chatbots haven’t put nearly enough time into preemptively addressing this danger.
by drinkcocacola | 2025-08-27 11:55:36+00:00
I see a mismatch between the library API `filter` vs the supported operator `| SORT rating desc"`. You could use the API to your advantage by separating concerns: add a new `.sort("fieldName")` method.

``` const recentGoodMovies = filterql .filter(movies, "year >= 2008") .sort("rating") .desc()

```

If adding helper methods for semantics and clarity is not the intent of the library, then I'd rename the `filter` method since it doesn't communicate the intention clearly.

The function executes a full pipeline filter expression + `|` operations like `SORT` and `LIMIT` (not just a predicate filter). So for instance naming it to `query` will match your README terminology and grammar (`query := filter | operation*`)
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 11:56:09+00:00
Of course not, we sue the shit out of the richest guy we can find in the chain of events, give most of it to our lawyer, then go on to ignore the weakening of the family unit and all the other deep-seated challenges kids face growing up and instead focus superficially on chatbots which at best are the spec on the tip of the iceberg.
by IanCal | 2025-08-27 11:56:28+00:00
It depends on a lot of things but to add to your possible setups you can potentially improve results by using simpler systems for first answers and falling back afterwards.

For example:

If contains cafe and not internet/cyber/etc -> restaurant

No -> (tfidf) -> yes, no, unsure

unsure -> embeddings -> yes, no, unsure

unsure -> llm -> yes, no, unsure

unsure -> human queue ->...
by exaltedsnail | 2025-08-27 11:56:40+00:00
The unfortunate reality is that possibly the biggest contributor to higher prices is the phasing out of coal. Without coal there is no cheap base load - unless you happen to be somewhere blessed with hydro - and the market ends up swinging between feast and famine based on the availability of renewables.

Obviously there are very good reasons to get rid of coal, but it leads to higher prices. Reducing fossil fuels in the grid will be expensive and I worry that the lack of candor from politicians on this will end up making the transition more difficult politically.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 11:56:56+00:00
>I love "US so big arguments", no one else cares!!

The US is being targeted specifically because we've given so much. No one is bothering Japan, or Argentina, or Saudi Arabia. It's because the US has been generous (in absolute terms) that we get so much flak.

Imagine if we sent thoughts and prayers the way Kazakhstan does. That way we would get less hate. When's the last time you heard Kazakhstan criticized for lack of Ukraine support?

>And then looking at per capita the US sits at number 16.

I don't think that is accurate: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hd7aud/military_ai...

As I said... nothing we do for Europe will ever be enough. Better to cut them loose.
by latexr | 2025-08-27 11:57:01+00:00
Not for anyone without an Instagram account, which is most people on social media. But sure, here are several alternatives as single images for you to share on social media. Took me no time at all to take a screenshot and upload to a bunch of websites. Take your pick.

https://ibb.co/gMCPwzg5

https://postimg.cc/RNsT6bJJ

https://freeimage.host/i/tomtoroplanet.K2WBfYN

https://imgur.com/a/D4nEijI
by contrarian1234 | 2025-08-27 11:57:26+00:00
Oh interesting! I for some reason thought Apple devices can only every be purchased from Apple (maybe that was only during the Steve Jobs era)

But 8GB of RAM.. that's unfortunately completely unusable by most developers. (Panfrost drivers you can at least use on RPi-like devices)

Maybe in another 5 years it'll work on the M3/4 and I'll revisit this. Good to know the devices are still being built so long after release
by HSO | 2025-08-27 11:57:26+00:00
Here we go again.

Most charitable interpretation of this kind of articles now flooding legacy media is boomer tech incompetence/incomprehension mixed with everything after my golden teen/twen years was decline (misattributing their own physical decline and increasing little pains and nags to the wider world)

Most realistic imo is that this is a rehash of internet panic when legacy publicists realized their lunch was going to be eaten. Or social media panic when they realized non-establishment candidates would win. Etc.

Most cynical take is that this is a play for control and injection of further censorship.

In other words: this article is pure trash, playing (or preying) on gullible people´s emotions about a tragic event
by 127 | 2025-08-27 11:57:47+00:00
Just recently moved onto Linux. Most likely not coming back when these kind of things just keep happening. I'm really surprised how well everything works. 120Hz HDR 4k Nvidia no issues on Wayland. Kubuntu 25.04/Plasma 6.3 is very nice. EasyEffects/PipeWire makes audio better compared to Windows. Steam/Proton/Wine works very well for games outside ones that have kernel level rootkits. Outside DualSense controller having issues connecting to bluetooth I can't think of anything that's worse than Windows while many things are better.
by ipython | 2025-08-27 11:58:10+00:00
It takes intent and effort to publish or speak. That’s not present here. None of the authors who have “contributed” to the training data of any ai bot have consented to such.

In addition, the exact method at work here - model alignment - is something that model providers specifically train models for. The raw pre training data is only the first step and doesn’t on its own produce a usable model.

So in effect the “choice” on how to respond to queries about suicide is as much influenced by OpenAIs decisions as it is by its original training data.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-27 11:58:41+00:00
>> the real failure in the story of the Therac-25 from my understanding, is that it took far too long for incidents to be reported, investigated and fixed.

> the earlier (manually operated) version of the machine did have the same fault. But it also had a failsafe fuse that blew so the fault never materialized.

#1 virtue of electromechanical failsafes is that their conception, design, implementation, and failure modes tend to be orthogonal to those of the software. One of the biggest shortcomings of Swiss Cheese safety thinking is that you too-often end up using "neighbor slices from the same wheel of cheese".

#2 virtue of electromechanical failsafes is that running into them (the fuse blew, or whatever) is usually more difficult for humans to ignore. Or at least it's easier to create processes and do training that actually gets the errors reported up the chain. (Compared to software - where the worker bees all know you gotta "ignore, click 'OK', retry, reboot" all the time, if you actually want to get anything done):

But, sadly, electromechanical failsafes are far more expensive then "we'll just add some code to check that" optimism. And PHB's all know that picking up nickles in front of the steamroller is how you get to the C-suite.
by lxgr | 2025-08-27 11:58:53+00:00
What was inaccessible to them: The service itself, or any means to contact the merchant to cancel an ongoing subscription?

I can imagine a merchant to win a chargeback if a customer e.g. signs up for a service using a VPN that isn't actually usable over the same VPN and then wants money for their first month back.

But if cancellation of future charges is also not possible, I'd consider that an instance of a merchant not being responsive to attempts at cancellation, similar to them simply not picking up the phone or responding to emails.
by Gormo | 2025-08-27 11:59:50+00:00
No, that ruling was almost exactly the opposite. The FEC tried to argue, based on the "electioneering communication" provisions of the McCain-Feingold act, that expression of opinions that might benefit a candidate was equivalent to a monetary donation to that candidate, so their authority to regulate campaign donations included the power to suppress the publication of certain political speech.

Basically, they were arguing that "speech is money". The court ruled against that, and reaffirmed that speech in itself is always protected by the first amendment, regardless of who may benefit from it or what resources were allocated to facilitating it.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-27 12:00:18+00:00
Giant metal towers make a dead tall tree look harmless by comparison. If that topples - and eventually it will - it will kill everybody in its path. So, we're probably not going to just leave on-shore wind turbines to rot.

Off-shore definitely. The UK already had a bunch of decaying archaic man-made structures off shore because of World War II, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts which I went to look at a few weeks back. Pieces of the forts clearly break off and disappear into the sea without incident.
Ask HN: What's your 2025 "quality stack"?
by fazlerocks | 2025-08-27 12:00:25+00:00
Feels like we’re all shipping faster, but the old “just write more tests” advice isn’t keeping up.

Teams are smaller, release cycles are tighter, and AI is sneaking into a lot of workflows.

I’m curious what people here are actually relying on these days to keep things from breaking:

- What layers are in your stack? (types/linters, unit, contract, integration, E2E, monitoring, flags, SLOs, etc.)

- Is AI playing a real role yet for you? test gen, self-healing, triage, anomaly detection?

- Anything you dropped recently because it wasn’t worth the effort? (flaky UI tests, snapshot tests, staging envs…)

- For smaller teams, do you still bother with classic QA, or do you lean more on flags/observability/canaries?

- Anyone tried managed or AI-assisted QA instead of DIY? Curious if it actually worked, esp. around trust/cost/lock-in.

- How do you measure “confidence to release” beyond code coverage?

Would love to hear quick snapshots like: - team size / release cadence

- stack (web, mobile, regulated or not)

- pre-merge checks

- post-deploy safeguards

- tools you kept vs abandoned

- biggest source of flakiness right now

- what you’d do differently if starting today

Looking for real, on-the-ground stories from folks shipping in 2025. What’s working for you?
by sofixa | 2025-08-27 12:00:34+00:00
> Can you understand anyone who plans to vote for RN, the most popular political party in France by far, lead by a woman who said she shares Putin's global vision?

"by far" only if you get stuck on political party; considering there has been a united left coalition for multiple years and rounds of elections, that seems purposefully omissive. United left and RN are pretty close, polls and election results wise, with the centre-right and traditional right trailing closely behind. Neither of them have anything resembling a majority though, as is reflected in the current parliament, where each block has a bit less than 30% each.

And yes, I can understand them. RN's program contains points which cater to large amounts of French people, especially in rural disadvantaged areas. They're unrealistic or just fluff, mind you, but still sound good. RN is led by moderately charismatic people who have a good media presence - the party's head is Bardella, a young guy with a TikTok following who talks a decent talk. He's a nepo baby (son in law of Marine Le Pen), and mostly a grifter, but he can link a couple of phrases together and sound semi-convincing. Also, while Le Pen is a convicted criminal, it's "just" for stealing government and EU money, which a lot of people don't actually mind, and Bardella isn't.

Comparing to a delusional and senile old man who is literally convicted of rape, and there is plenty of credible evidence, out in the open, is also a pedophile. With a shit program with little concrete other than fucking up groups of people. After seeing his "work" his first term.

Yeah, I can understand, and probably have a discussion with an RN voter. (Those of the "black/brown people bad" variety mostly vote even further to the right, like Zemmour, those are the people I don't understand and wouldn't be able to talk with). A Trump voter? Something is seriously wrong with you to either like that, or pick your potential personal benefit over everything else.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-27 12:00:38+00:00
The worst part is that many devlopers think that by not working with high integrity systems, such quality levels don't apply to them.

Wrong, any software failure can have huge consequences in someone's life, or company, by preventing some critical flow to take place, corrupting data related to someone's life, professional or medical record, preventing a payment on some specific goods that had to be acquired on that moment or never,....
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-27 12:00:39+00:00
IMO Framework is a gimmick company that capitalizes on techie hipsters who buy into their story. The repairability case is very weak - in 10+ years of owning laptops I never had one fail, they are reliable enough that outside the warranty period if they die I am fine with taking the L and buying a new one (and mine spent a bunch of time in a backpack on my motorcycle in pouring rain, getting smushed on bus rides, used in cafes). The only thing that dies eventually is battery capacity and it starts showing signs of use/wear.

Modding and upgrade story is more compiling and worth paying a premium in special cases, but their upgrade story is weak. They lag behind HW releases and they don't even support the strongest CPU chip available on the market right now (Ryzen 395), they just sell it as that silly desktop brick. Meanwhile Asus has it in a 14 inch tablet form factor at a better price.
by newyankee | 2025-08-27 12:00:47+00:00
Also most of the value capture in solar and batteries like literally 70%+ is happening in China, while this could've been a win-win situation it has disturbed a lot of existing equations of the system.

As an example I feel even Gas electricity LCOE equivalent is calculated as Capex + Opex where Capex amortisation over lifetime depends on capacity factor of Gas turbine plant. With more renewable penetration even in a competitive market like ERCOT the LCOE equivalent costs for Gas increases although technically this should drive overall electricity lower and should work for everyone.

This completely creates a significant issue for Natural Gas future too which I think was unthinkable for US Gas producers as it was the safest bet decades into the future.

Not too talk about what even a 3-4% Oil demand destruction in Oil for transportation due to EVs can do to the oil markets.

All this seemed theoretical before but now the tides are finally changing led by China and most of the world has a vested interest in reducing Oil and Gas dependency as most of the world are net importers too.

So all these plays are essentially trying to maximise the cash producing life of the current assets whether it can be achieved by FUD or whatever other means necessary.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-27 12:01:51+00:00
The distribution term imposed on developers are a separate investigation that the one leading to the 500M€ fine. Preliminary view as of April 2025 is that Apple conditions are in breach of the DMA [1]. Apple has some time to reply.

Except fines to be coming soon. That’s why Trump is threatening the EU about IT firm compliance right now.
by derbOac | 2025-08-27 12:01:55+00:00
The problem is the cost of oil is downstream. The reasons why citizens want an alternative is because of those costs. If you added on all the environmental and health costs — all of them — you'd find oil is being subsidized in a different way.

I'm not even antioil in general but I am pro diversification, and think it's absurd to bring up government in that way when a major point of government should be to represent value for the citizens, that might not be represented in the market otherwise.
by sigwinch | 2025-08-27 12:02:16+00:00
Texas is fighting two things here:

1. Growing awareness of methods like ranked choice voting. This threatens the effect of wingnuts winning primaries, which is another word for purity at the cost of competence.

2. Red states welcoming workers and retirees from blue states. Without an income tax, those newcomers won’t feel like they foot a disproportionate part of the bill.
by ryankrage77 | 2025-08-27 12:02:38+00:00
Microsoft's accouncement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insider...

Word has defaulted to saving in OneDrive (if you turn on autosave and you're signed into an MS account) for years now, I think since the Office 2016 > Office 365 update. The only real change I see is that the document will now be given a name with the date instead of just 'Document 1'. Maybe it's a little more aggressive about turning on autosave for you? The autorecover location is still in appdata.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-27 12:02:50+00:00
And yet, despite multiple attempts by those on the political right to slow it down, they've powered ahead with reducing coal and gas usage.

Some of those critics focus on nuclear (Like AfD: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/populist-afd-sand-gears...) and some of those pretend to be angry about the slowness of Germanys transition but it doesn't really add up to anyone who pays attention to the local facts. It's just a meme to get people angry at the left and/or environmentalists, while the right openly and continually sabotage progress.
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 12:02:54+00:00
> The person didn’t ask if you know, they asked if you had looked at reports.

Obviously not. I said as much. I've listened to good arguments for and against it and I don't know what to believe.

My comments were simply about the fact that you could make better arguments than the ones that were presented.

> What do you perceive when they say wind is not reliable and increase electricity costs? I mean, it is free electricity, with minimal impact.

It isn't free electricity. There is a cost to constructing them, maintaining them and decommissioning them when they become EOL.

If the wind doesn't blow, they don't generate electricity. This means that there is more demand on other sources. So price is driven by supply and demand. All of this the energy company will factor into your tariff. So obviously it is going to affect the price of electricity.

> The way you understand about gas prices, while dismissing some arguments in favor of renewables is a bit telling.

Understanding a basic tax calculation that is listed on a government website is relatively easy and took a few seconds for me to guestimate. It is much more difficult for layman (like myself) to understand the Total Cost of Ownership of a Wind Turbine, it ROI and understanding whether that maybe a good investment.

I wasn't arguing for or against wind. I was saying there are arguments against wind that might be better than the ones are often highlighted. You are mistaking me highlighting there are potentially better arguments, with agreeing with those arguments.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 12:03:10+00:00
"Weaponized activists" was an instrument of non-market competition for a long while now.

It's kind of a more modern, more legal take on "send some mobsters to mess them up". You find (or make) an activist group opposing a certain development - and then covertly funnel funding and support to them so that they can do as much damage as possible and stall your competition for as long as possible.
by justin66 | 2025-08-27 12:03:33+00:00
> Not for anyone without an Instagram account

This is a lie - I have never had an instagram account and I was able to hop on there and copy the image.

(it might be of interest to some that the image shared by the artist on Instagram has the text justified how the artist intended and the New Yorker's text caption can look different depending on the device, but I can't pretend that I care too much about that...)

> Take your pick.

Why did you bother? I'm fully capable of googling a famous image and I'm sure everyone else reading this stuff is.
by metalman | 2025-08-27 12:04:00+00:00
oil is a huge mistake at this point, as any country that is investing in a solar/wind/renewables GRID, is watching there costs go into freefall, not just freefall, but costs that are disconected from energy markets built on consumable fuels and therefor stable and predictable. many countrys are figuring out that energy stability = societal/cultural stability and are slowly backing away from the chaos and ongoing disaster of oil/carbon
by farmin | 2025-08-27 12:04:39+00:00
Yes I moved away from Windows to MacOS but couldnt get used to the UI and they have now sprinkled bad AI tools throughout. I use KUbuntu now which feels a bit like Windows 10 and really is all I need. But what I really want on my Thinkpad with KUbuntu is the perfect open/close screen management like the Macbook has and changing from second monitor to no second monitor often causes issues and doesnt just work argh.. Maybe one of these linux first laptops will fill the void.
by the_other | 2025-08-27 12:04:58+00:00
"Democracy" will exist (as an idea) for a long time. What's currently happening in a lot of countries is that entrenched powers are actively disrupting the use of democracy in those countries, and some subsets of the populations of those countries are also losing trust in it as a useful system.

Even this "decay" isn't inherently "bad" (assuming you are pro-democracy). There are numerous other decision mechanisms, and many of them are inclusive and transparent. Some of them might work for various levels of civil organisation, should The People want to give them a try. If a country replaced its democratic voting system with one of these others, you could still call that a "decay of democracy", but it might actually be good for the country.

(For the record, I don't think authoritarianism and its associated decision systems are good for large, general purpose bodies like countries.)
by lxgr | 2025-08-27 12:05:08+00:00
Are you even trying to see things from a different perspective, or are you just dead set on winning an argument via ad hominems based on incorrect assumptions about my background?

It's quite possible that both of our experiences are real – at least I'm not trying to cast doubt on yours – but my suspicion is that the generalization you're drawing from yours (i.e. chargeback rules, or at least their practical interpretation, being very different between the US and other countries) isn't accurate.

Both in and outside the US, merchants can and do win chargebacks, but a merchant being completely unresponsive to cancellation requests of future services not yet provided (i.e. not of "buyer's remorse" for a service that's not available to them, per terms and conditions) seems like an easy win for the issuer.