MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tracker1 | 2025-08-04 18:28:22+00:00
I think that Outlook as an experience has become significantly worse as o254 has advanced... I understand some of the reasons, such as managing millions of inboxes vs a few dozen on a private server. That said, it's kind of a mess.

I used Thunderbird for years, mostly to keep my NNTP feeds going, at some point, my mailboxes corrupted between versions (the NNTP site I was using didn't work right anymore) and I just kind of gave up at that point. It was in the dark time, before the more recent resurgence of dev activity, but NNTP didn't seem to be even a tangential focus.

I'd love to see a relatively easy open-source server for mail+contacts+calender that allowed the level of visibility, management and sharing that Outlook+Exchange/o365 offers. Right now, I have some of that, but not nearly the same.

Edit: Also, really sick of getting meeting change notifications in Teams for a meeting that is months away... just leave any meeting notifications beyond today/tomorrow in outlook, I don't need them in my workgroup app.
by thebruce87m | 2025-08-04 18:28:30+00:00
> And you don't respond to your own point about it being called autopilot despite it not being an autopilot

I don’t follow what you mean here? Are you confusing me with someone else?

> There are videos of people on autopilot without their hands on the wheel...

You can definitely remove your hands momentarily. I’ve seen people apply a weight to the steering wheel to fool it too. Not sure how people defeating the safety features would be Tesla’s fault.
by dontlikeyoueith | 2025-08-04 18:28:51+00:00
> if people like Musk or Bezos suddenly popped out of existence; their lives simply don't impact mine. If anything, their existence serves as an inspiration for others to try for big dreams. Many of those will fail, some will succeed marginally, and a very small number will join the ranks of the ultra-rich - because they managed to provide a service that millions of people were willing to give them money.

Sure, you're not indoctrinated. Keep telling yourself that.
by munificent | 2025-08-04 18:29:05+00:00
In the US, I think we should consider that many people go through four socially traumatic transitions:

1. Moving away to college.

2. Moving for work.

3. Getting married.

4. Having kids.

Each of those tends to sever many friendships in ways that are more painful than a lot of us realize or acknowledge. We might even consider what it says about us as a people that we seem to value all of the points on that list more than we value being a member of a community with deep social ties.

When I graduated high school in Louisiana, I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of my small suburb. Then I dropped out of college and couldn't wait to get out of Louisiana entirely. I looked down on everyone who stayed in my home town and got a job at Shell or Entergy.

I still believe I did the right thing by leaving—the community there goes against many of my most deeply held values. But as I've gotten older, I realize more what the people valued and kept by staying there: a consistent set of close ties and community maintained throughout their entire lives.
by simion314 | 2025-08-04 18:29:30+00:00
>I don't necessarily disagree, but I personally find these "but you theoretically could have done even more to prevent this"-type arguments to be a little dubious in cases where the harm was caused primarily by operator negligence.

The article says that soem government agency demanded Tesla to actually geofense the areas Tesla claims their software is incapable to handle. I am not a Tesla owner and did not read the small fonts manual, do Tesla reserve the rights that they might also not sound the alarm when the car is going at speed straight into an other car while a driver is not having the hands on the wheel? sounds bad, the driver is not steering, the car is driving on an area where it is incapable of driving still and it is heading into a obstacle and the alarm is not sounding (still from the article it seemed like this was a glitch that they were trying to hide, and that this was not supposed to happen)

Anyway Tesla was forced to show the data, they did tried to hide it, so even if fanboys will attempt to put the blame `100% on the driver the jurry and Tesla 's actions tell us that the software did not function as adevertised.
by bityard | 2025-08-04 18:29:34+00:00
> Is this an argument that the skill curve for motorcycle driving is skewed towards highly unskilled drivers but cars are more evenly distributed?

Yes! Cars and motorcycles share the same roads but in North America at least, nearly everyone is a car driver and most people drive at _roughly_ the same skill level because we all drive for mostly the same reasons and have all had lots of time behind the wheel. (Of course there are outliers for all of these.) The vast majority of us wear our seatbelts, buy cars with good safety systems, and drive safely because even though it happens occasionally, none of us want to die at all, let alone due to something as mundane as a traffic accident.

But motorcycles are entirely recreational. People buy bikes for different reasons but the most popular ones are seeking thrills, looking cool, and trying to fit into a certain peer group. Safety is not a top concern for most motorcyclists, and is often something that even scoffed at. I personally know guys who refuse to wear a helmet because (to paraphrase their words), "I'd rather die as I am than end up half-alive as a paraplegic or vegetable." Nevermind that wearing a helmet makes the latter MORE likely, not less, but saying so would not have changed their minds anyway.

Those of us who DO take safety seriously are out there, wearing full-face helmets, armored jackets, pants, and boots. We practice our low-speed maneuvers and focus on situational awareness. We NEVER ride drunk or tired. We know we are not invincible. We acknowledge the risks but we try to push the odds more in our favor as much as we can. But we are a small minority and are severely underrepresented in injury statistics that non-riders like to tout on the Internet.
by standardUser | 2025-08-04 18:29:40+00:00
This is why Waymo will win. They've focused on transparency and building trust. They understand they are operating in the most physically dangerous space most people ever encounter in their day-to-day lives. That, and their technology actually works.

Tesla is comparatively a bull in a china shop. Raise your hand if you would trust Tesla over Waymo to autonomously drive your young children for 1,000 miles around a busy metro. That's what I thought.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 18:30:37+00:00
So, we have to ignore the entire safety record for the entire technology just because one operator has failed to follow the instructions?

This is especially the case for something that was in its infancy back in 2019 when this crash happened.

And you know what we have in 2025 because of those restrictions being enforced since then?

In 2025, Tesla's nag drivers so much, for not paying attention to the road, that drivers no longer keep the much safer versions of autopilot engaged at all, when looking for their phones.

Instead, now, because the issue is "fixed", Tesla drivers simply do the same thing what drivers of any other car do in the situation.

They disable autopilot first, and only then stop paying attention to the road, looking for their phone.

How's that safer?

We're precisely less safe because of these regulatory requirements.

(And, add insult to injury, this court is now using the hindsight 20/20, of these warnings subsequently being implemented, as evidence of Tesla's wrongdoing in 2019, at a time before anything like that was thought to be possible? Even though, now that these warnings were implemented, we already have evidence that these nags themselves make everybody less safe, since autopilot is simply turned off when you need to stop paying attention to the road?)
by yantrams | 2025-08-04 18:31:36+00:00
Sample

perfect tutorial is just one search away from understanding everything but understanding nothing because breadth without depth is just surface tension holding together illusion of knowledge that breaks moment you try to apply it but application requires confidence and confidence comes from experience and experience comes from doing and doing requires starting which brings us back to fundamental problem of infinite choice paralysis paralyzed by possibilities spending hours researching best way to do simple task that would take minutes if just picked any way and did it but what if there's better way what if missing crucial optimization what if code isn't clean enough for imaginary code review by developers who don't exist because project doesn't exist because still researching best practices for project type I haven't defined but definition requires decision and decision tree has infinite branches each leading to different tutorial series on youtube where someone explains their way is best way until next video autoplays explaining why that way is actually worst way and real best way is completely different approach requiring different tools and different mindset and different everything except result which is same hello world application with extra steps but those extra steps are what separate amateurs from professionals according to blog post written by someone selling course about becoming professional which I almost buy before remembering
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-04 18:31:43+00:00
> The megacity of >10M people is the basic functional economic unit in 2025, the minimum healthy employment market, the level at which we can provide a reasonable opportunity for productive jobs in a specialized role and a reasonable opportunity to hire someone in a specialized role

Sorry, that's nonsense. Smaller cities like Nuremberg, Ingolstadt, Augsburg etc. are perfectly viable on their own. And frankly, I can't imagine that the numbers are that much different in America.

The key thing is, the rents and housing costs in general in hyper-urban areas need to be paid for by the inhabitants, which means that their labor costs have a certain floor (ignoring assistance programs). That in turn makes hyper-urban areas less competitive in a global market. You can't really compete with Romania for developers when German developers cost twice as much or more than Romanian developers (which are equally capable), and a lot of that price difference goes to the greedy German landlord caste.
by fsckboy | 2025-08-04 18:31:52+00:00
the 2nd game, click the prime numbers, my second board had only a 1 as a potential candidate, and 1 is not considered prime. the other numbers were all composites and I was awarded a big fat zero for knowing all this. (I went back in and the game does not allow clicking the 1, good; but the description "divisible only by 1 and themselves" doesn't really rule it out. maybe don't give 1's or explain this)

clicking the prime numbers is a bit hard to do, and they scooch out of the viewing area and disappear for a bit. not complaining but while i was figuring out the game on my first board, I did terribly because of that.

given the level of math proficiency required for the prime number game, I was shocked in the next math grid game when using the ascend/descend buttons it simply told me every time I had hit the right answer. thought this was how to play so I didn't try typing numbers in. on my firefox browswer the answer numbers are too big to fit in the cells.
by assword | 2025-08-04 18:31:56+00:00
> I'm not going to give too much more detail here. Obviously not STEM but nothing fluffy.

Which letter? From my (probably mistaken) perspective

S usually requires a PhD to get into the field and if you get that far, it’s a battle for a handful of poorly paid positions waiting for you

T doesn’t need too much explanation here. Not great right now

E alright, but seems to be pretty sparse. A lot of actual engineering positions seem to have been outsourced long ago. Might also be hard to compete with just an undergrad.

M probably the most valuable right now IMO. Wide range of jobs you could have available, often decent if not high paying, but outside of those (if you can get them) you might as well be a philosopher.

The STEM push seemed to be a grift through and through.
by cogman10 | 2025-08-04 18:32:05+00:00
> and even $0.01 per mobo shipped could be millions of dollars in lost profit.

Gigabyte shipped 4.8 million MBs in the first quarter.

Assuming they sell 20 million MBs in a year, how does a $0.01 additional component cause $1 million in losses? By my math, it's 200k per year.

Further, what restricts gigabyte from raising the price of their MB by $0.10? or even $1 to accommodate the various $0.01 components they might need per board? Do you think the market wouldn't bear such a price variance for $200 boards?
by betaby | 2025-08-04 18:32:27+00:00
> Excel is one of the most successful pieces of software of all time

This is constantly repeated truisms, and yet I don't use it and have no plans using it. I'm certain I'm not alone. Excel is counterintuitive and not 'consumable' as the opposite to SQLite. Surely I understand it not the same. Also I suspect most of the Excel users use it like CVS editor.
by xenadu02 | 2025-08-04 18:32:44+00:00
PDF is a list of drawing commands (not exactly but a useful simplification). All those draw commands from some JS lib or in SVG? Or in every other platform's API? PDF or Postscript probably did them first. The model of "there is some canvas in which I define coordinate spaces then issue commands to draw $thing at position $(x,y), scaled by $z".

You might think of your post as a <div>. Some kind of paragraph or box of text in which the text is laid out and styles applied. That's how HTML does it.

PDF doesn't necessarily work that way. Different lines, words, or letters can be in entirely different places in the document. Anything that resembles a separator, table, etc can also be anywhere in the document and might be output as a bunch of separate lines disconnected from both each other and the text. A renderer might output two-column text as it runs horizontally across the page so when you "parse" it by machine the text from both columns gets interleaved. Or it might output the columns separately.

You can see a user-visible side-effect of this when PDF text selection is done the straightforward way: sometimes you have no problem selecting text. In other documents selection seems to jump around or select abject nonsense unrelated to cursor position. That's because the underlying objects are not laid out in a display "flow" the way HTML does by default so selection is selecting the next object in the document rather than the next object by visual position.
by einarfd | 2025-08-04 18:32:50+00:00
You are right, but unfortunately you are the least useful right, which is technical right.

That is definitely what auto pilot means in the aeronautical and maritime sphere.

But a lot of the general public has a murky understanding of how an auto pilot on a ship or a plane works. So for a lot, probably the majority of them. They will look at the meaning of those two words and land on that auto pilot, means automatic pilot. Which basically ends up beeing self driving.

Sure in a perfect world, they would look up what the term means in the sphere they do not know, and use it correctly, but that is not the world we live in. We do not get the general public, we want, but we have to live with the one we got.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-04 18:32:57+00:00
Racine sings the english translation of the Disappearance of Hatsune Miku much faster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohDycgc-H8

However, there is a difference between a rehearsed and practiced performance and communication that makes these things more a feat of acrobatics.
by joshuamorton | 2025-08-04 18:33:13+00:00
> For example, if the design doc says we should do X but you think it should do Y, in an email I maybe have to enumerate all the advantages and disadvantages, but in a meeting, maybe you're convinced after seeing just 20% of my rationale.

This is organizationally inefficient. You should write these reasons down in the design document so that you do not need to rely on both of us still being employed 5 years from now to explain to someone who is evaluating the state of the system on why the decision was made. A design document must include justification, not just the final decision, -- that's obvious from the code.

What you're describing as "immature meeting culture" I would instead describe as "mature documentation culture". Different companies work differently of course, and if you're absolutely optimizing for latency and have relatively small groups of stakeholders, meetings are super efficient since you can make all decisions now. But if you're optimizing for throughput and have larger groups of stakeholders, more asynchronous (or entirely asynchronous), document/slack/email driven approaches.

I think the amazon approach is weird and somewhat childish, but I stand by "meeting is only necessary if the stakeholders haven't approved your design offline/async". For such meetings you can use the amazon approach, or you can assume folks have already reviewed and left open comments, and only address outstanding comments during the meeting.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-04 18:33:16+00:00
I think OP's point is - the fine is not large enough to impact Tesla's stock price - which is all Tesla cares about.

It also didn't really seem to impact Tesla's decision to keep pushing Full Self Driving and Robotaxi despite it having obvious severe flaws (because Tesla sees this rollout as something holding up its stock price).
by addaon | 2025-08-04 18:33:20+00:00
> Autopilot is cruise control. When you understand this, claiming that Tesla is partially at fault here does not match the existing expectations of other driver assistance tech.

The problem is for several years they actively targeted a customer base incapable of understanding the limitations of the mis-named system they advertised. (Those customers capable of understanding it were more likely to buy vehicles from brands who advertised more honestly.) While the current approach of targeting Nazi and friend-of-Nazi customers might eventually change the story (with its own risks and downsides, one imagines), for the time being it seems reasonable that Tesla bear some responsibility for the unsafe customer confusion they actively courted.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-04 18:34:50+00:00
> What exactly do you mean by 'this'?

Building up strategically vital industries. The fact that no place in any Western country can offer anything close to what bunnie described in Shenzhen many years ago is damning in itself, and that's what keeps holding our industries back massively.

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2019/essential-guide-to-s...
by HelloUsername | 2025-08-04 18:35:20+00:00
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/proton-fixes-...

"Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product. These days, reddit is heavily astroturfed with fake posts asking questions about companies and services by shills of those same companies and services as a form of fake organic advertising, and by competitors trying to create FUD to benefit their own product or service. This often takes the form or character assassination, libel, and conspiracy theories. We don’t allow it, and in order to keep it from happening, we remove posts that are too close to astroturfing, corporate comparisons, personal Nd political opinions, ranting diatribes, etc. If your question was legitimate (asking for pros and cons, potential issues, comparisons, etc), feel free to use subreddits more appropriate such as one for the company or service mentioned, or see privacyguides.org for community comparisons and recommendations to privacy focused open source software."

and

"Thanks for reporting this, this is an oversight in our iOS app, it should only log the entry ID and not the secret (this is the way it is done in our Android app). This will be changed in the next version of the app. Note, secrets are never transmitted to the server in plaintext, and all sync of secrets is done with end-to-end encryption. Logs are local only (never sent to the server), and these secrets can also be exported on your device to meet GDPR data portability requirements. In other words, even if this was not in the logs, somebody who has access to your device to get these logs, would still be able to obtain the secrets. Proton's encryption cannot protect against device side compromise, so you must always secure your device. EDIT: This is fixed in 1.1.1, which is live on the App Store"

and

"Proton Authenticator uses end-to-end encryption. The server-side code doesn't really matter since all the encryption is done on the client side. Furthermore, it is open source, so you can go on GitHub and check the code to see that it does indeed encrypt client-side. You don't have to trust it, because it can be independently verified. It is also very easy to independently verify that Proton Authenticator does indeed end-to-end encrypt and sends no secrets to the server, as it is not a very complicated app."
by neutronicus | 2025-08-04 18:35:24+00:00
Once it became plain that there was duplicate functionality and that it was a problem, yeah, the first thing she did was tell Claude at a high level to factor out duplicate functionality.

This didn't really work - it would often implement a factored-out piece of logic but just leave the pre-existing code alone. So she had to be pretty specific about problem areas in order to actually push the refactoring plan forward.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-04 18:36:20+00:00
Do people who get married and have children diverge in values at the same rate as unmarried people who live together? Or do they tend to converge rather and align their attitudes to the common interests of the family?

"Who you are" is not a stable thing, nor is it a mystery suddenly revealed at a certain advanced age: it is something you continuously construct and reconstruct all your life. I suspect that marriage and family play a massive role in that ongoing psychological construction rather than being independent states that might be invalidated by some sudden discovery of "who you are."
by davidcalloway | 2025-08-04 18:36:38+00:00
Many years ago I visited some lava tube caves in Hawaii. I had to call and get directions, write them down and follow them... No address I could out into a navigation device, no coordinates.

It seemed strange and I thought they could surely modernize their operations and get more business.

Nope. The friction was intentional, they told us later. Before visiting the cave you had to prove it was worth it by calling, and that you could follow directions and instructions.

They previously didn't filter customers so well and those people would touch and break sensitive pieces of the cave.
by ferguess_k | 2025-08-04 18:36:49+00:00
On my side, once we formed families we sort of lost contact gradually. We still gather around once or twice a year for Christmas and another holidays, but other than that we keep to ourselves. My wife doesn't really like staying with my friends so she always asked me to go alone, but I mean, it's usually family gathering, and going alone is really weird.

We do get a couple of new ones though, from my wife's side. They are very good people and very fun to stay with. I have to admit that I enjoy staying with my wife's friends more than she does with mine, but that's fine with me. Maybe I'll get a few days off and coffee chat with my side of the friends.