MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mr_toad | 2025-08-25 20:59:22+00:00
I agree that the code that dreamweaver generated was truely awful. But compilers and interpreters also generate code, and these days they are very good at it. Technically the browser’s rendering engine is a code generator as well, so if you’re hand-coding HTML you’re still relying on code generation.

Declarative languages and AI go hand in hand. SQL was intended to be a ‘natural’ language that the query engine (an old-school AI) would use to write code.

Writing natural language prompts to produce code is not that different, but we’re using “stochastic” AI, and stochastic means random, which means mistakes and other non-ideal outputs.
by oklixm | 2025-08-25 21:00:07+00:00
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by jhatemyjob | 2025-08-25 21:00:16+00:00
It's a tell, like in poker. Just saying you're inexperienced, that's all lol. Everyone gets their start somewhere and who knows maybe this ends up being huge.

Unsolicited advice: Stop using the Github web UI asap. It will slow you down. VScode has git integration. There's an upfront cost to learning it but it's worth it.

If you're willing to take the plunge it's best to use the git command-line interface directly. It pays in the long run. But I understand it's kind of daunting at first.

Whatever you decide, whether its VScode or the git CLI, just get off of the Github web UI. Trust me. I look at my old projects from when I was in high school and I deeply regret that I didn't do version control. So much information that gets lost.
by yibg | 2025-08-25 21:00:22+00:00
Details matter. Tariffs CAN promote domestic manufacturing and raise wages. But a few things need to be true for that to happen:

1. Targeted specific tariffs aimed at industries we want to protect. Not a flat across the board tariffs on all / most things coming in. The latter IS just a tax on the consumer.

2. Other policies aimed at promoting the said industries. e.g. CHIPS act.

3. Consistency, predictability and stability of policies. No one is going to move manufacturing to the US if they aren't sure if tariffs are going up or down or will get removed entirely on short notice at a whim.

We have none of the above.
by rdtsc | 2025-08-25 21:00:23+00:00
I am with the commenter who pasted a link to https://xkcd.com/1235/

With almost every one carrying smartphones we should be seeing a lot more high resolution videos of these objects. Especially we would be having recordings the same event from different angles.

Now I am not saying there are not a good amount of UFOs there, there are, but that still doesn't mean they are aliens. They are just unidentified, and maybe some are not even objects but illusions, or optical effects, or natural phenomena.
by toss1 | 2025-08-25 21:00:31+00:00
Excellent work here, on exactly the nits with this great mouse.

I came to the MX Ergo when having shoulder surgery and found it worked perfectly only 1-2 days post-op, just putting it in the sling, but it is so much more efficient to use, particularly for CAD work than any regular mouse in the previous decades. Also great for use on airplanes where there's no real space to run a regular mouse.

Will definitely check out SteerMouse, as the Logi software is often so marginal I just uninstall it and run the mouse bare.

Thank you for posting and HN for getting this to the front page!
by thephyber | 2025-08-25 21:00:36+00:00
Yup.

I didn’t realize how bad it got until my father stopped answering calls. It turned out he was getting (no hyperbole) 90 calls a day from spammers and vendors he had no relationship with.

I used the iOS filter, the AT&T filter, and turned on the shortcut so the phone doesn’t ring unless the caller is in his contacts.

The problem is that it already changed his behavior. He doesn’t answer the phone anymore, even if it is a person he recognizes. The Pavlovian response to his ringtone is still very negative.

I’m sure there is a non-trivial percentage of the US who already viscerally hates receiving phone calls.
by stn8188 | 2025-08-25 21:00:38+00:00
Haha yeah, last year I replaced my wheel bearings in my van. I ended up with a frustrating ABS code (long story short: faulty magnetic encoders on both of the new bearings). I ended up spending about the same as the job would have cost at a shop, but with a slew of new tools.

I also did a USB switch project for fun, and ended up spending probably $250 for something I could have just bought for $15, but it was a great experience. (Here if anyone is interested: https://shielddigitaldesign.com/posts/2021/susb/ )
by arghwhat | 2025-08-25 21:00:51+00:00
The shops you're thinking of are less of a sweat shop than, say, Amazon in the US. Theres no good wages, but factory jobs don't really pay well anywhere.

They're mostly just a lot more efficient at scale, with a few plants managing close to the whole worlds supply of random shit. Almost all microwaves by all international brands are made by the same Chinese company, all prismatic LiFePo battery cells come out of one of two factories in China, and so forth. Economy of scale on turbo steroids.

Imagine having to compete with Ford by making cars in a garage. Now imagine Ford as the garage shop vs. these factories.

The sweat shops you're thinking of is stuff like clothes manufacturing in other third world countries than the usual suspect. That shit is nasty - breathing and handling acid with naked skin nasty.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-25 21:02:02+00:00
> But it's hidden, apparently because keeping users from using it to block ads on apps is of greater concern to Google than keeping people safe.

The internet permission has nothing to do with ads? It's a hidden permission because:

1) Internet connection is so ubiquitous as to just be noise if displayed

2) It's not robust, apps without Internet permission can still exfiltrate data relatively easily by bouncing off of other apps using Intents and similar
by Zak | 2025-08-25 21:02:26+00:00
In legal jurisdictions where Apple is forced to allow it, yes. They have a similar scheme for requiring developers to register and are demanding per-install fees for popular apps, though I'm not sure that will survive regulatory scrutiny in the EU.

Otherwise, I think it's possible to use developer tools to temporarily install apps on an iPhone. IIRC this requires a Mac and has to be repeated every few days.
by otterley | 2025-08-25 21:02:52+00:00
> I think it has more to do with the various new meanings that have been attached to the word "agent" and the concept of "agency" by software and some parts of west coast culture.

Indeed, agency (the capability to act) and autonomy (the freedom to choose those actions) are separate things.

BTW, attorneys' autonomy varies, depending on the circumstances and what you hired them to do. For example, they can be trustees of a trust you establish.
by Someone | 2025-08-25 21:03:12+00:00
Haven’t seen the movie, but if the goal is to read a single 8" disk once, it wouldn’t surprise me that, with modern tech, were easier than creating a disk. A McGyver construction would leave out the spindle motor and the stepper motor for the read head. You can manually rotate the floppy at about the right speed, manually move the disk head to find the positions of the tracks, record the signal and then do signal processing on you multi-GHz laptop to recover the signal.
by temporallobe | 2025-08-25 21:03:47+00:00
I’ve tried this method, but it didn’t work out for many reasons. I often have to deal with people I don’t personally know for various reasons (mechanic, lawn care, doctors, school staff, etc.), and I have missed too many important calls like this, so I basically just have to deal with it. About 50% of the time it seems to be caught with “spam risk” or something like that, otherwise I just use my judgment.
by pnw | 2025-08-25 21:04:11+00:00
IMHO it's basically impossible to build such a PC. The small size plus high thermal load of a modern GPU means it cannot be cooled quietly. Intel's line of NUCs had some gaming models back in the day (e.g. Skull Canyon), but the graphics were the Intel midrange GPU and they had tiny noisy fans. Anything approaching Nvidia 4070 or 5070 series and you've got up to 300 more watts TBP heating up the system on top of the CPU etc.

My last small form factor gaming PC was an Origin Chronos. It was great but it was definitely not quiet. The larger Origins offer liquid cooling but I'm guessing it can't be done in that small form factor.
by jsnell | 2025-08-25 21:04:17+00:00
Why make up such an absurd grievance to get fake-outraged about? Nowhere in the article does it say that Google claims to have invented liquid cooling. In fact, nowhere does it say they claim any part of this is a new invention.

But the point of this kind of paper is typically not what is new, it's what combination of previously known and novel techniques have been found to work well at massive scale over a timespan of years.
by runako | 2025-08-25 21:04:33+00:00
> All of which have my same area code, which is for a location I haven't live at for over 15 years

I am in a similar situation. One of my not-yet-implemented projects is to route my phone through a VOIP app that automatically blocks any number from my phone's area code (or even the whole state) where the caller is not in my contact list.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-25 21:04:35+00:00
You are moving the goalpost. I was referencing the "murder ad" comparison. There is nothing about advertisement in DNS. Nobody is browsing DNS records. IP or SNI blocking are similarly intransparent.

You can block wherever illegal content is linked, or indexed, if you have to. Not on the infrastructure level, as that's distorting reality and is very annoying to fight.

But really, just pay a few more investigators and take down the offending service, if you got legal cause, instead of this sneaky, lazy shit, which is easily abused and sets a bad precedent.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-25 21:04:47+00:00
Imagine there had been a 50MB jump in 1998. That would be a major WTF moment. Now imagine a 50MB jump in 2025. We'd barely notice.

Saying Adobe's crazy growth spike started six years ago is just pointing to the knee in the exponential curve. It's had pretty much the same curve since version 1.0. And SumatraPDF had the same exponential growth for quite a while.

If absolute numbers are what matters and an extra 300MB is not important, then why not scale the Y axis to 1TB and squash everything to the bottom?
by cma | 2025-08-25 21:04:55+00:00
> “why this new artist sucks.”

That's about AI, not very polarizing at the level it's currently at.

> Another find, what I assume is an overblown small quibble turned into clickbait videos, was “this record label is trying to SILENCE me.”

That might be overblown, but it doesn't sound polarizing at all. OP was saying he always has the most polarizing opinions.

If that last one is the vid I'm thinking of, the same record company has sent him hundreds of copyright strikes and he has to have a lawyer constantly fighting them for fair use. He does some stuff verging on listen-along reaction videos, but the strikes he talks about there are when he is interviewing the artists who made the songs and they play short snippits of them for reference while talking about the history of making them, thought process behind the songwriting, etc.

I think it's not just automated content ID stuff where it claims the monetization, but the same firm for that label going after him over and over where 3 strikes removes his channel. The title or thumbnail might be overblown, probably the firm just earns a commission and he's dealing with a corporate machine that is scatter shotting against big videos with lots of views that have any of their sound rather than targetting him to silence something they don't want to get out, but I don't think the video was very polarizing.
by qwytw | 2025-08-25 21:05:30+00:00
> but ACTUAL MILITARY LEADERS

Historically they are rarely very good at being able to tell how the next war is going to be fought.

Sure I suppose most generals these days are much smarter than the ones leading the French army back in 1940 (or pretty much anyone at the outbreak of WW1) but that's a very low standard..
by dekhn | 2025-08-25 21:05:44+00:00
I believe Map in MapReduce stood for "map" function, not a multimap- I've never heard or read otherwise (maps can operate over lists of items, not just map types). That's consistent both with the original mapreduce paper: """Our abstraction is inspired by the map and reduce primitives present in Lisp and many other functional languages. We realized that most of our computations involved applying a map operation to each logical “record” in our input in order to compute a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and then applying a reduce operation to all the values that shared the same key, in order to combine the derived data appropriately"""

and with the internal usage of the program (I only started in 2008, but spoke to Jeff extensively about the history of MR as part of Google's early infra) where the map function can be fed with recordio (list containers) or sstable (map containers).

As for the ripper, if you have any links to that (rather than internal google lore), I'd love to hear about it. Jeff described the early infrastructure as being very brittle.
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 21:06:08+00:00
IMHO Sony nailed this pretty perfectly 30 years ago on devices like the Discman: Have a footprint which can support a number of standard batteri(es), but engineer it so it also accepts and detects a specially-designed NiMH pack. When the special batery is present, allow the battery to be charged anytime external power is provided.

Now you have the best of both worlds: Economical rechargable use for the 90% of the time that the user's in their normal routine, and easily ability to swap temporarily to universally-available alkalines in exceptional situations.

Note: When I had one of these, I just used my own NiMH AAs and jammed a folded-up piece of cardstock against the detection switch, which worked perfectly fine.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-08-25 21:06:37+00:00
> In a free market, the price of water rises so that there is no such thing as a "shortage." It would be uneconomical to waste water on lawns far before a significant amount of additional people would be unable to buy enough to drink.

What happens when growing alfalfa makes more of a profit than individuals have, such that individuals simply cannot buy water to drink? Or what if a company comes in with sufficient capital to corner the market, then bottles and sells the water at a profit to individuals, exporting the leftover to sell to individuals in other places?

Or what if some random billionaire decides he's mad at his neighbors for voting wrong and decides to buy out all the water for a huge swimming pool that only he gets to use?
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-25 21:07:18+00:00
The light hitting our eyes is not a phenomenon of perception. Each photon hitting our eyes has a certain wavelength, but the resulting color we see is a perception.

A related concept is sound vs psychoacoustics[1]. Sound is just pressure waves, but what we hear is a perception and has all sorts of aspects like masking[2]. The pressure waves contains two different signals but thanks to masking we might only perceive one.

Personally I think color constancy[3] really drives home that color is a perception and not something fundamental like the wavelength of photons.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
by akk0 | 2025-08-25 21:07:42+00:00
That's a different matter that wasn't mentioned though. Where I live (continental Europe) I've never seen any kind of medication as a bottle, but I'm also not aware of there being an amount restriction on paracetamol, which where I grew up in in the Netherlands can be bought in any supermarket. Interestingly I was surprised to find that in France paracetamol can only be sold in pharmacies but hard liquor is available in supermarkets.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-25 21:07:51+00:00
"The changes will affect all certified Android devices once live". AKA GrapheneOS should remain unaffected (as it is not "certified", per Google parlance), and F-Droid should remain available - in theory.

If they keep up this "boil the frog slowly" crap though, I may be migrating off of Android and over to a strictly Linux-based phone, like a PinePhone, Librem, etc.

Fuck the scumbags at the top of big tech making decisions like these.
by iinnPP | 2025-08-25 21:08:16+00:00
I'm sure you can be unconsciously intent on things, but gaslighting is a unique concept. Here's the definition I am relying on: manipulate (someone) using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning.

In your provided example, the user is obviously not trying to manipulate someone into questioning their sanity, nor power of reasoning. Quite the opposite. Lying to themselves (your example) for sure.
by lemming | 2025-08-25 21:08:44+00:00
So the OSS thing is a preference, obviously, if you like OSS tools, just use them - it's not like you're short of options.

But... expensive? Really? A one-off cost (not a subscription, mind) for a tool that might make an expensive developer/data person even marginally more productive? You have to be kidding. It blows my mind how much developers, who of all users should be the ones who appreciate how much work goes into something like this, complain so often about the cost of basic tools.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-08-25 21:09:09+00:00
Sure, but by that logic you’re saying piracy* in general is bad, but when you pirate* the video it’s okay. And if I pirate* the video the same way it’s okay. But if we cross share it’s bad, while the only real difference is via this route , google is paying for more bandwidth and yt-dlp becomes less effective because it’s redundantly executed at scale.

*pirate, for lack of a better term. I couldn’t give a fuck what people call it.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-25 21:09:10+00:00
> had me believing that bypassing the restriction might've been possible by disabling Play Protect, but that doesn't seem to be the case since there aren't any mentions of it in the official info we've been given.

I don't think we can know for sure before the change is actually in place. Going through Play Protect would certainly be the easiest way of implementing this - it would be a simple change from "Play Protect rejects known malware" to "Play Protect rejects any app that isn't properly notarized". This would narrowly address the issue where the existing malware checks are made ineffective by pushing some new variant of the malicious app with a different package id.

It's a big change for the ecosystem nonetheless because it will require all existing developers to register for verification if they want to publish a "legit" app that won't be rejected by any common Android device - and the phrasing of the official announcements accurately reflects this. But this says nothing much as of yet about whether power users will be allowed to proactively disable these checks (just like they can turn off Play Protect today, even though very few people do so in practice).
by GuB-42 | 2025-08-25 21:09:12+00:00
That's because you don't trust the agent, and for good reasons considering the article.

But if you trust the agent, why not let it do the final step? You will accept anyways. Imagine you have a car mechanic you trust, you can just ask him "hey, fix my car" and let him buy whatever parts he needs on your behalf. If he quoted you first, you would say "yes" anyways, so skip that step and get your car repaired as soon as possible. Only if you don't trust him you will ask for a quote and review it, which, if the mechanic is trustworthy is a hassle for both of you.

Some purchases are enjoyable, most of them are not. I don't enjoying doing the groceries. And to continue with the car mechanic theme, I don't really enjoy buying new tires, though I know some people do. So I just ask my mechanic: "if the tires are worn, change them, give me the ones you think are the best". I will probably end up with the most boring option: the same model as before, which is the one recommended by the manufacturer, and that's perfect for me.
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-25 21:09:17+00:00
It’s not a flat fee though, it’s the VAT rate and an admin fee if you don’t go the IOSS route.

When I sent an unpaid item, I think I paid 5 EUR/pkg for processing to France customs on top of VAT because I paid online after France assessed it, but before delivery.

US is saying any parcel arriving without duty paid would be charged $80-$200 flat fee solely depending on which tariff rate applies. IE, from a “bad” country, a $1 item could have a $200 fee. Or as low as a bargain or $80.

They’re basically treating every parcel like it’s work $800 item.

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/trump-ends-de-minimis-exe...

Anecdotally, many Canadian shippers have reported that China item containing parcels have just been getting returned to sender. No American has received a bill at the door for postal imports.
by pdonis | 2025-08-25 21:09:21+00:00
> Aside from remodeling, the only thing that increases the value of a home over time is increased demand for homes relative to supply

And it's important to note that a highly significant factor on the demand side is the availability of mortgage loans at low rates because the government prints money to fund them.

And a highly significant factor on the supply side is many highly desirable localities intentionally restricting the supply of housing.
by dvh | 2025-08-25 21:09:30+00:00
The ceramic shard (linked in first comment) had holes appearing in SEM because you need to make samples conductive and grounded (gold or carbon), otherwise electrons accumulate on the surface and make it invisible/cloudy in SEM.

But on topic of the article, I haven't seen single convincing photo or video of UFO. So despite collecting for 80 years, we have 0 good evidence. No need to bother with additional steps.

For me the moment when I gave up on UFO was when in comments under the "gimbal" video nobody realized that the "rotation" of the object comes from the rotation of the camera. It's like showing matches to uncontacted tribes, people are just dumb.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-25 21:09:40+00:00
The claim is that Google has larger pipes that go all the way out of the building. While mainframes have short pipes that go only to a heat exchanger on the end of the hack.

IMO, it's not a big difference. There are probably many details more noteworthy than this. And yeah, mainframes are that way because the vendor only creates them up to the hack-level, while Google has the "vendor" design the entire datacenter. Supercomputers have had single-vendor datacenters for decades too, and have been using large pipes for a while too.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-25 21:09:47+00:00
That's a dream come true... provided they fix multi-accounts and game visibility/accessibility in the Steam UI.

I already have a Steam Deck that I can't let my kids touch, which is stupid. I can't hook something like this up in a shared space of any kind without improved parental controls, including ability to toggle visibility of game library entries, and (ideally, but not strictly necessary) the ability to say "do not show this user's entire library to anyone else on this machine, or on the network, nobody with a different login"