MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by datadrivenangel | 2025-08-14 19:19:10+00:00
It's on AppleTV+ but only if you also have the entity formerly known as paramount+ or for 3.99 (14 to own).

Poob. Poob has it for you. [0]

0 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you
by iib | 2025-08-14 19:19:57+00:00
This is exactly the fine-tuning I am hoping for, or I would do if I had the skills. I tried it with gemma3 270M and vanilla it fails spectacularly.

Basically it would be the quickadd[1] event from google calendar, but calendar agnostic.

[1] https://developers.google.com/workspace/calendar/api/v3/refe...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-14 19:19:57+00:00
Okay, it seems like if you're using compose this is now doable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70322031/does-docker-com... So you'd make an init container that runs something like `test -f /certs/whatever.crt || openssl command to generate cert` and tell compose to run that before the real web server container.
by thyristan | 2025-08-14 19:20:04+00:00
Then please prove the possibility by doing so.

Up to now, there has only been intense wishful thinking by politicians, and strong "NOPE" by anyone with any kind of knowledge about cryptography. Either really everyone, including the likes of NSA, CIA and other spy services don't actually employ top cryptographers. Or they repeatedly tried and failed miserably. Or really nobody, including the spies, wants backdoored NOBUS encryption.
by adrr | 2025-08-14 19:20:12+00:00
Why would they license something that was invented 50+ years ago? No one else pays a license for it. Not even valid patent as the company couldn't prove it court it was a valid patent and the case ended up being hung jury with all but one jury that held out. Only reason they couldn't import it because

Travesty is the ITC is allowed to block imports without going to court. Banning imports shouldn't be done by some government institution and should be handled by the court system.
by roscas | 2025-08-14 19:20:33+00:00
Opened the ieee site and what a privacy nightmare.

It is pixel.ad and ads and tracking. And tell Google you have been there. So, I went to see what indeed ieee was and is says it is something for "advancing technology for the benefit of humanity".

This site should be on black lists on ad blockers. The amount of crap the page loads it is amazing.

Again, don't open any page on www without uBlock Origin.
by nwallin | 2025-08-14 19:20:50+00:00
> 100% agree, but what's frustrating is that "the left" are not much better. We get things like the rewriting[1] of Roald Dahl's books based on the feedback from "sensitivity readers".

You realize that's significantly better, right? Like at least two orders of magnitude better?

In one case, the copyright holder of Roald Dahl's books decided to censor (incorrectly, I agree) their own books which they own the copyright to. That's a private organization doing a stupid thing, making their own content worse. A private organization censoring their own words. No elected officials or persons appointed by elected officials were involved.

In the other case, the government is unilaterally deciding to withhold information from the public. The government is censoring other people's words.

You realize how that's not even remotely similar, right? "The left" is way better on this one.
by oliwarner | 2025-08-14 19:20:57+00:00
This has crystallised something for me: I'm not letting my children anywhere near a Meta product. They can decide what they want when they're adults.

I'm not usually this absolute, but by codifying levels of permissible harm, Meta makes it clear that your wellbeing is the very last of their priorities. These are insidious tools that can actively fool you.
by bko | 2025-08-14 19:21:11+00:00
> Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns

For me happiness is a terrible life goal. Sure it's nice to be happy, but its such a vapid meaningless emotion. If I were to optimize for "happiness" I would just cash out, abandon my family, move to Vietnam, play video games and eat Hot Pockets all day. It doesn't take much to ride out the rest of my years.

But the life I choose is hard because doing hard things is good and fulfilling. I often willfully forgo happiness because, you know, I'm an adult. Maybe I'm just stupid?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 19:21:25+00:00
I was actually inclined to believe the person I was responding to. However blind belief of things which align with one's biases is ironically enough exactly what not being "built for logical deduction" looks like. It's important to maintain a standard of discourse that expects citations for such claims.

I'll also point out that your comment is not in keeping with the site guidelines.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-14 19:22:21+00:00
This is basically the concept of being "house poor" right? You have a house, you make payments on it, but you are poor and have no extra money after expenses. Maintaining a house costs money, and it should be accounted for. A Real Estate agent will at best take the inspection and suggest knocking a few thousand off the price for these new things. But their job is over once you buy it. The bank just wants you to make payments and doesn't really care if you put the house in disrepair.

Personally I think people should consider having a house repair savings account (or Money Market Fund or CD Account or whatever).
by tptacek | 2025-08-14 19:22:23+00:00
I see exactly what you're saying and I agree: the kind of understanding your exposition gives is different than the kind of upskilling Math Academy can promise. My only thing here is (a) there's value in both approaches and (b) everything I've read about self-teaching math is that you can't get fluency without grinding problem sets.

I buy that you need both (and: I supplement MA with ChatGPT, which is pretty great at Socratically working through concepts), but also I cringe whenever people say "oh, you want to understand eigenvectors, just watch the 3blue1brown videos", because, those videos are great, and watching them in isolation gets you approximately 0% closer to being able to do (or appreciate) a PCA.

I think a set of videos like Strang's 18.06 and Math Academy (but for arbitrary subjects, like Calc II or undergrad Stat) would be a pretty killer combination. Are a killer combination, is what I mean to say. But I've only been at it a few months!
by aggregator-ios | 2025-08-14 19:22:34+00:00
The streaming landscape is now terrible and no different than the incumbent CATV providers that it sought to replace. In 2011, streaming services were the hotness because CATV subscriptions were expensive. In 2011, people were subscribing to 1-2 or 2-3 services because they were all less than $10USD/month. That was still 10x cheaper than the alternative.

However, 15 years later, those numbers exceed or are the same as CATV costs combined with all the streaming/smart device headaches.

All we did was change the pipe. The providers didn't change except for consolidation and erosion of policy, both of which lead to worse outcomes for consumers.
by jachriga | 2025-08-14 19:22:46+00:00
"Journalism" has to compete with the likes of TikTok these days in terms of information availability, and TikTok (and it's infinite scrolling ilk) are not subject to the same principles that traditional journalism has been.

It makes perfect sense that the modern press has devolved to a 24-hour rumor mill; if they hadn't, they'd be even more irrelevant.
by mattbee | 2025-08-14 19:23:12+00:00
Absolutely right!

A week ago I downloaded a couple of movies and shows from Netflix for my 6yo daughter, to watch on a 3hr flight. Worked nicely!

Today we made the return flight. She opens Netflix, and ⅔ of the films have now "expired" with no notice and she can't watch the one she wanted.

For the next flight I'll remember to pirate!
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 19:23:28+00:00
Say I check out a branch (or bookmark or whatever). I compile it. Some stuff doesn't work. I add some debug printfs. Compile it again. Ok I'm done now.

In git I can just revert all the changes and I haven't modified anything important. In `jj` won't I have actually added all of those debug printfs to the top commit of that branch? Now I have to manually revert the edit?

As I understand it, the answer is "aha, but you just have to remember to `jj new` before you do any edits. The problem is I'm very sure I will constantly forget to do that. I guess you could say Git is opt-in to modifying commits whereas jj is opt-out, and I think I prefer opt-in.

I have very little jj experience but does that sound accurate? (Genuine question; I would love something better than Git.)
by atonse | 2025-08-14 19:23:42+00:00
Maybe I'm not creative enough but I've tried this thought exercise with friends and it's a fun one.

The question is, try to spend $1bn on stuff. Go.

So then you start with big ticket items (like maybe a yacht or a house). That gets you to your first $500m. After that, stuff gets WAY "cheaper" where you just run out of things generally before even hitting $1bn.

And then at the end of it we try to imagine what it's like having stuff worth $250bn. And there's just no way to make that tangible.

I did try this with my son and he said he'd buy an A-list soccer team. But I feel that starts to get into "buying companies that make you MORE money" territory.

At a much smaller scale, it seems to be that $10mn is so much that you could live in a $2m house (good by any standard in any location), have a stable of cars, have full-time help, fly first class or even private everywhere, and vacation as much as you want. Or am I off by a lot given inflation?
by ComputerGuru | 2025-08-14 19:23:52+00:00
If it didn't know how to generate the list from 1 to 5 then I would agree with you 100% and say the knowledge was stripped out while retaining intelligence - beautiful. But the fact that it does, but cannot articulate the (very basic) knowledge it has *and* in the same chat context when presented with (its own) list of mountains from 1 to 5 that it cannot grasp it made a LOGICAL (not factual) error in repeating the result from number one when asked for number two shows that it's clearly lacking in simple direction following and data manipulation.
by sandworm101 | 2025-08-14 19:24:43+00:00
CO poisioning is one of those strange cases treatable using scuba diving. Recompression therapy, which can be theoretically aped under water, can be like magic. In some cases the patient just wakes up like nothing is wrong. No drugs. No invasive treatment. Get deep enough and hemoglobin isnt totally necessary for getting O2 where it needs to be.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470531/
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-14 19:24:52+00:00
Its consistent conventions also help a lot — it means learning a handful of things once, which can then be applied numerous other places (which as an aside, used to also be a strength of macOS). No need to even consult the manpage in many cases then.

An interesting but gargantuan project would be a Linux distro that maintains patches for all of its packages that standardize directory structures, config file locations, CLI argument order, etc.
by torginus | 2025-08-14 19:25:16+00:00
The problem is not only that it's impossible to make cryptography that's only secure when the good guys use it, it's that once cryptography is made insecure, it's insecure for everyone, forever.

I'm not a privacy hardliner, and I think the socially acceptable tradeoff between privacy and security have been well established before the computer era - if the police has a well-enough established suspicion against you - they can get a warrant and search your home. That's due process.

I would accept if there was a digital version of that which targeted not the encryption itself (which could be as strong as possible) - but the endpoints, like smartphones and computers.

Let's say police had a device which they could plug into your phone, which would send a specially signed message - a digital warrant, containing all the info a real warrant would - which be permanently be burned into the ROM of your phone, after which the phone would surrender its encryption keys, and the police could dump your unencrypted disk.

The phone would be then presented as evidence at the trial, and not following due process would be a cause for mistrial, no matter what they find there.

The general public would be safe in the knowledge that as long as the police isn't hauling them in, their secrets are safe, and the government would get the tools for what they claimed they wanted - a way to catch bad guys with digital tools.
by cole-k | 2025-08-14 19:25:40+00:00
I heard Woz give a talk (or Q&A?) at a conference and it was very enjoyable, even for someone who doesn't know much about Apple's history.

If we are to believe his word about not selling out, then I must assume that https://www.efforce.io/company also brings him more smiles than frowns. I suppose if you change the definition of "sell out" you can conventionally sell out without meeting your own definition. That said, I am reluctantly open to being shown evidence that the company isn't a grift.
by remexre | 2025-08-14 19:25:50+00:00
> What’s more, the changes to the information on which this “baked in” build logic is based is not tracked very precisely.

kbuild handles this on top of Make by having each target depend on a dummy file that gets updated when e.g. the CFLAGS change. It also treats Make a lot more like Ninja (e.g. avoiding putting the entire build graph into every Make process) -- I'd be interested to see how it compares.
by xenadu02 | 2025-08-14 19:26:09+00:00
There are plenty of areas Kodak could make a difference if they cared to.

Fuji's instant Polaroid-like camera is a novelty and we still use it. Getting an immediate physical print is entertaining for people of all ages these days.

The security camera business is crowded but mostly with low image quality garbage.

For that matter webcams are also often garbage. A quality camera with optical zoom and good ISP and low light performance could do really well, especially with so much remote work.

The market for high speed cameras is still under-served. As is the market for high quality microscope cameras.

There are lots of opportunities out there if you aren't only focused on products that can sell a billion units.
by sunrunner | 2025-08-14 19:26:19+00:00
And I thought the problem was (just) limited to fragmentation of complete IPs between services. I'd love for someone in the know to explain how you get to this stage.

It it some kind of hedging strategy by The Pokémon Company to account for the number of different streaming services (thereby actually making the problem worse)? Was there some kind of timed exclusivity deal that's forced them to put different things in different places? Did one of the streaming services come along at a later time to try to undercut the earlier ones but the earlier licencing deals haven't expired? Anything else?
by azinman2 | 2025-08-14 19:27:13+00:00
$10M being enough depends on a lot of things:

1. Do you have children, and if so, are they going to expensive private schools or have other expensive hobbies

2. Are you planning on stopping working, and how many years do you need to support at what lifestyle

3. Debt

4. Do you support others, like parents, etc

5. Do you have health issues, or will you, that will be expensive to support

There are more factors but these are just some that prevent 10M from being enough.
by partiallypro | 2025-08-14 19:27:47+00:00
I believe it applies to the entire West, and explains why there is a surge in "right wing" parties. I believe it could easily be fixed with reform, but everyone on the "left" is too scared to do it but in doing so they are conjuring something worse. Even those who I've known that used to be "open border" have started to shift away from that idea. That's not going to go away until the problems are at least addressed in a meaningful way, and honestly more so in Europe than the US where integration is generally easier and more common.
by eastbayjake | 2025-08-14 19:28:25+00:00
Couple thoughts for you:

(1) What are the use cases you envision? I can see the value for a really large marketplace in having a ton of pricing data, or the value to a hedge fund etc in having raw data to analyze macro trends... what is the use case for someone paying $200/month for the developer tier? (If I'm a retailer myself I probably only need data on my direct competitors, unless there's something cool you're imagining that I've failed to see.)

(2) You've got some logos on the store splash that don't show up in store search (eg Nike). Is that a data error or a coding error?

(3) You should probably think about how you scrape and categorize marketplace data... the Walmart tab has a lot of products that are clearly third-party sellers transacting via walmart.com, which pollutes quite a bit of the data value if I primarily want to know what a big retailer is doing on products where they actually set the prices.

(4) Have you looked at grocery data? Have wished someone would build a grocery prices API for like a decade now... lots of cool consumer and hedge-fund monetization opportunities if you can show the price of strawberries in every store across the US (and graph the trendlines over time).
by Finnucane | 2025-08-14 19:28:38+00:00
A medium-format Hasselblad or Fuji camera can get pretty close. I mean, my Hasselblad 503cx and Fuji 690 are my favorite cameras, and if I could justify spending the money, a digital back for the Blad would be pretty tempting. And for my 4x5s, it really depends a lot on the particulars of film and lenses. That's quite variable. And it's an entirely different way of working.
by radio879 | 2025-08-14 19:29:25+00:00
I know this 'guide' is really raw and messy, but it seems that people prefer it that way. It doesn't sound AI generated and like.. when people try way too hard to sound like LinkedIn posts. I felt like I did some of it that way on purpose just because I kind of like it myself.. like it sounds ridiculous but funny calling it "my smart juice theory", but I don't really want to change that LOL. I know it could use some real clean up though. Not enough time in a day...
by dkersten | 2025-08-14 19:29:47+00:00
I agree. I feel like the more strictly defined the problem space can be and the more guarded rails that can be added and checked, the better the LLM will be. The data derived from such constructs also doubles as providing additional context to the LLM.

I haven’t had much time to really experiment with it but I feel that the typescript xstate library would in theory be a great fit for LLMs as it allows them to break a problem into states and state transitions and then focus on on one state at a time.
by sltkr | 2025-08-14 19:30:25+00:00
The “not everyone has an ID!” argument is such an American perspective. The vast majority of world citizens live in countries that require you to have some form of government ID anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

It seems pretty reasonable to leverage this into online identification.

In fact, online ID is already used in the European Union for popular initiatives (see, e.g., https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ ) and nobody seems to think this is “bullshit” or infeasible or any of the concerns that are lobbed at the age verification requirements.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-14 19:30:34+00:00
I'm a bit skeptical of the "It's definetly AI killing jobs" thing, but the increasing number of college graduates unemployed is interesting. In 2008, college graduates had clearly lower unemployment rates. Could it be something else about this recession?

I do feel like attributing macroeconomic trends to almost anything is so weird in this post-pandemic space.
by burkaman | 2025-08-14 19:30:39+00:00
Are you talking about Chicago? An express train sounds great, they should absolutely build one, but I think you're being a little harsh on the existing train. By America's (very low) standards it is quite convenient. It is already much faster and cheaper than driving, I have never even considered taking an Uber and I'm not sure it would be worth paying much more for an express train.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 19:30:51+00:00
> They're intended as a method of pinning read-only upstream Git dependencies. And when used for that purpose, they're good at what they do.

No they are not. In theory they could be good, but the actual implementation falls down in ... let me count the ways:

1. Transitive dependencies. I sure do love that my company's submodule-based repo has 12 copies of one of our dependencies.

2. Checkouts don't work any more. You can't simply `git switch <branch>`, especially if that other branch has a different set of submodules. And good fucking luck if one branch has a submodule and another branch has a not-submodule in the same location.

3. They don't work with worktrees. In theory... maybe. In practice, the documentation says not to try and in my experience it is right!

4. The submodule URLs are now baked into the git repo. This means you can't mirror the repo anymore easily. I've even had cases where I couldn't even clone the repo because the authors had used `ssh://` URLs which required permissions I didn't have. It's insane that the authentication method gets baked into the repo. I have no idea why they implemented it like this.

5. The tooling experience is just way worse. Want to see a diff of everything you've changed? Well you can't. If you've changed anything in a submodule you just get a hash difference, or at best a list of commits (which is better but it's not even the default!).

Before you instinctively reach for the "well obviously it must work like that" part of your brain, take a moment to think if it should work like this. I can think of several ways to do it better (beyond just making the implementation less buggy).
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-14 19:31:36+00:00
> Justice Kavanaugh asserted the Mississippi law is "likely unconstitutional" but said that the internet companies who sued had not "sufficiently demonstrated" they would be harmed by a temp order in favor of the state.

Did platforms not bring up the

ongoing expense of a verification system liability from system verification failures ongoing expense of securing verification data liability when verification data is exfiltrated ?
by dbingham | 2025-08-14 19:32:08+00:00
It also matters whether we are considering it a static $10 million or considering reality.

In reality, if you have $10 million, you put it in the S&P500 and make an average of 10% ($1 million) per year. Far more than inflation and more than enough to cover those things you're talking about unless you have a pretty extreme medical condition or very expensive hobbies.
by torginus | 2025-08-14 19:32:24+00:00
These 'anonymity' technologies are laughably worthless - sure ZKP might provide mathematical proof that it's impossible to find out who the subject is, but embed a tracking cookie and fingerprinting script into both the porn site, and the online grocery - and there you go, you have irrefutable cryptographic evidence of how John Doe likes to spend his evenings.
by AstroBen | 2025-08-14 19:32:35+00:00
> Typing things faster doesn't make you get to the goal faster, since finding the overall design is the limiting thing.

interesting point and that matches my experience quite well. LLMs have been horrendous at creating a good design. Even on a micro scale I almost always have them refactor the functions they write

I certainly get a productivity boost at actually doing the implementation.. but the implementation is already there in my head or on paper. It's really hard to know the true improvement

I do find them useful for brainstorming. I can throw a bunch of code and tests at it and ask what edge cases I might want to consider, or anything I've missed. 9/10 of their suggestions I just skip over but often there's a few I integrate

Getting something that works vs creating something that'll do well in the medium-long term is just such a different thing that I'm not sure if they'll be able to improve at the second