MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buildsjets | 2025-09-30 23:47:25+00:00
Dennis Muilenberg has a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was Boeing’s CEO during and after the MAX disaster. He cannot be blamed for the first crash, but he absolutely bears a direct responsibility for every person who died in the second crash, as by that point he knew that he had delivered a product that had not been correctly and fully certified by the regulatory authority.

An ethical person with that knowledge, whether they be an engineer, lawyer, or a circus clown, would have fought tooth and nail to ensure the aircraft was grounded.

I am much more interested in the ethics of any particular leader, than their credentials.
by morleytj | 2025-09-30 23:47:27+00:00
Certainly, and that is the more pessimistic view that I have, that this is being developed with a view to introduce product sponsorships and advertisements.

I mainly am curious if anyone has the view that there is broader benefit to the development of this, after all, wasn't that the entire mission statement of OpenAI?

Quoting from their announcement on their site:

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

This feels like something constrained by the need to generate a financial return, and not something primarily focused on understanding physics and world models, to be blunt.

source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
by winkelmann | 2025-09-30 23:48:13+00:00
I think a dedicated "TikTok but AI" is infinitely better than AI videos polluting other platforms. Of course, in practice, the latter is already the case, rendering the theoretical benefits of the former kind of moot.

Nonetheless, a platform for AI videos with an audience looking for them, rather than the horrible "boomer-slop" that is prevalent on other social media, is welcome in my eyes.
by whatever1 | 2025-09-30 23:49:17+00:00
If your $1000 MacBook breaks after a year you need $1000 to repair it.

A 500 laptop is probably more repairable and worst case you pay $500 to get a new one. Not to mention battery replacement etc.

The expected total cost of ownership is very high for a Mac. It’s like owning a Mercedes. Maybe you can afford to buy one, but you cannot afford maintenance.
by blintz | 2025-09-30 23:49:45+00:00
Love atuin - has saved my ass many more times than I can count. The more you guys can monetize the better; will help keep the base product good. Even pretty senior devs (who don’t always love changing their workflows) can find a lot of value in it.

I would pay you guys for E2EE syncing, but I think it’s free at the moment. Charge me!
by kstrauser | 2025-09-30 23:50:18+00:00
But that still doesn't save away, "oh, it's only slow because the filesystem is so slow". Assuming that's true, that's a very integral part of the system that can't readily be swapped out by most people. You can't say "the system is actually really fast, it's just the OS that's slow", because the end result is just plain "the system is slow."
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-30 23:50:25+00:00
If you have been prescribed the Aspirin then it’s important to continue or discuss with your Physician. But as I mentioned in another comment, there are gastro protective Aspirin pills available.

The impact has been significant. Small servings of non-irritating food for months. I’m told the stomach lining does heal given time, and my symptoms are better now than a few months ago. The post I originally replied to sounded like a recommendation to take Aspirin speculatively as a preventative, which is exactly the mistake I made. Gastro resistant tablets might have helped, but the general advice is to be very careful with NSAIDs on the stomach (although I still use topical Ibuprofen gel when needed).
by bigyabai | 2025-09-30 23:50:42+00:00
Not every package in modern computing can be parallelized. In a perfect world, building a Docker container or Python package takes a single step and happens entirely concurrently. But that's obviously unrealistic, every program has some order-of-operations even if it's as simple as creating some volumes or setting environment variables. If you try to run them out-of-order or simultaneously, the root is polluted and you have to start over again from scratch. All software packages are staged by-design.

Linux does have solutions to this - Flatpak implements the macOS strategy of redundant static-linking, and Nix has an isolated dynamically-linked package manager that allows you to build and install packages concurrently. But both use a lot of disk space and aren't super intuitive to users that just want native versions of the programs they use.
by gregorvand | 2025-09-30 23:50:51+00:00
I agree that is probably part of the direction.

The other is possibly there’s no point in a thousand users all turning up to a blank prompt box and using a lot of resources to generate the same thing, or things they are not impressed by. A lot of users will ‘get what they came for’ initially just by seeing a bunch of good examples. Discussions around them will help them produce better outputs faster. Etc
by teabee89 | 2025-09-30 23:51:13+00:00
A while ago I discovered the lesser known Tichy diff algorithm that seems to preserve more context and is better suited for big code refactors compared to Myers: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220439403_The_Strin... via https://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-study-of-di...
by nabla9 | 2025-09-30 23:51:22+00:00
It's not accepted and it's not normal.

This is the case of user changing password setting and and realizing you can't use them with old backups after accidentally destroying one dataset. zfs is intented for servers and sysdmins so it is not as friendly as some may expect, but it did not lose anything that user did not destroy. Author had to use logic to deduct what he did and walk it back.
by skywhopper | 2025-09-30 23:51:24+00:00
This is a really poorly written update. Yes, we get that there is a need for security of the infrastructure services. That’s a given. But it’s overexplained here, while the actual mechanisms of what they are doing are never justified.

But worse, there’s just some random things thrown in that make no sense. Like “the README says rubygems code is managed by RubyCentral”. “Managed” does not mean owned. And how it should be managed ought to be up to the community, not board members acting in secret.

And this shows just remarkably poor editing: “some maintainers had long periods of inactivity (Least Privileged Access), changed the timeline.” Is that parenthetical a reminder to the original drafter to expand on that topic? Because it makes no sense in context.

Then there’s this line: “We could have communicated earlier and in more detail. And we won’t stop apologizing for the confusion that caused.”

That’s the closest they ever get to admitting they did anything wrong, and although they say “we won’t stop apologizing”, I’ll note that they never do apologize.

But, absolutely everything they’ve done since this started has been wrong, and ultra defensive. Just own up to your mistakes and start from scratch.
by simbas | 2025-09-30 23:51:27+00:00
I've used the DITA-XML Learning and Training specialization to write technical training documentation and I loved it. So much flexibility in generating document outputs and customizable standardisation.

Choosing the right information model for your company/group is not an easy task, but it's not the main hurdle. The major problem we had adopting DITA was having managers understand the added value of taking the time to train people to understand and write structured documentation.

I'm in a new job in a bigger org and I'm trying to show them the benefits, but that boat is really hard to steer. People REALLY like the WYSIWYG freeform documents.
by mostlysimilar | 2025-09-30 23:52:35+00:00
https://nitter.net/grok/status/1965863232478077127

> Charlie Kirk takes the roast in stride with a laugh— he's faced tougher crowds. Yes, he survives this one easily

> It's a meme video with edited effects to look like a dramatic "shot"—not a real event. Charlie Kirk is fine; he handles roasts like a pro.

This thing as the basis for an encyclopedia will be worse than useless. Comparing it to Wikipedia is several layers removed from reality.
by Reason077 | 2025-09-30 23:52:38+00:00
Here's the comparison between the M4 iPad Pro and the M5:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/14173685?baseli...

About 10% faster for single-core and 16% faster for multi-core compared to the M4. The iPad M5 has the same number of cores and the same clock speed as the M4, but has increased the RAM from 8GB to 12GB.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-30 23:52:49+00:00
Yes? Why do we need to colonize the moon with squishy meatbags with billions of years of evolutionary optimization for life on Earth?

All these dreams of star-trek like interstellar travel (or even interplanetary travel beyond taking a selfie and going home) require major advances in the physics tech tree. Might come, might not.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-30 23:53:05+00:00
> Hmm, why would you need to optimize a benchmark for something? Generally it's the other way round.

It had always been both ways. This is why there exist(ed) quite a lot of people who have/had serious thoughts whether [some benchmark] actually measures the performance of the e.g. CPU or the quality of the compiler.

The "truce" that was adopted concerning these very heated discussions was that a great CPU is of much less value if programmers are incapable of making use of its power.

Examples that evidence the truth of this "truce" [pun intended]:

- Sega Saturn (very hard to make use of its power)

- PlayStation 3 (Cell processor)

- Intel Itanium, which (besides some other problems) needed a super-smart compiler (which never existed) so that programs could make use of its potential

- in the last years: claims that specific AMD GPUs are as fast as or even faster than NVidia GPUs (also: for the same cost) for GPGPU tasks. Possibly true, but CUDA makes it easier to make use of the power of the NVidia GPU.
by phire | 2025-09-30 23:54:13+00:00
In my experience, btrfs just doesn't seem to be very resilient to hardware faults. Everything works great as long as you stay on the golden path, but when you fall off that path, it gets into a confused state and things start going very wrong and there is no way to recover (short of wiping the whole filesystem, because fsck doesn't fix the faults).

So yes, if you are Facebook, and put it on a rock-solid block layer, then it will probably work fine.

But outside of the world of hyperscalers, we don't have rock solid block layers. [1] Consumer drives occasionally do weird things and silently corrupt data. And on top of drives, nobody uses ECC memory and occasionally weird bit flips will corrupt data/metadata before it's even written to the disk.

At this point, I don't even trust btrfs on a single device. But the more disks you add to a btrfs array, the more likely you are to encounter a drive that's a little flaky.

And Btrfs's "best feature" really doesn't help it here, because it encourages users to throw a large number of smaller cheap/old spinning drives at it. Which is just going to increase the chance of btrfs encountering a flaky drive. The people who are willing to spend more money on a matched set of big drives are more likely to choose zfs.

The other paradox is that btrfs ends up in a weird spot where it's good enough to actually detect silent data corruption errors (unlike ext4/xfs and friends where you never find out your data was corrupted), but then it's metadata is complex and large enough that it seems to be extra vulnerable to those issues.

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[1] No, mdadm doesn't count as a rock-solid block layer, it still depends on the drives to report a data error. If there is silent corruption, madam just forwards it. I did look into using a synology style btrfs on mdadm setup, but I searched and found more than a few stories from people who's synology filesystem borked itself.

In fact, you might actually be worse off with btrfs+mdadm, because now data integrity is done at a completely different layer to data redundancy, and they don't talk to each other.
by kimixa | 2025-09-30 23:55:10+00:00
As a brit growing up at a similar time I assumed that was an American thing - you saw it all the time on TV and adverts, but seems crazy to actually serve it like that. It was always served by my parents already coated in sauce.

Looking back, I suspect it was more that the contrast of the sauce and spaghetti colours made it "pop" more onscreen. Though it's possibly unsurprising that could feed /back/ into how people thought it "should" be served.
by fragmede | 2025-09-30 23:55:44+00:00
In the history of the world? Yeah. Anytime you have a communal living space, you're going have to set norms on what constitutes shared community stuff. Is the milk in the fridge George's and no one is allowed to touch it, or do we, as a household, want milk communism and it just goes as shared groceries and we go often enough that there's always milk? There's not a right answer, but it's up to the community to decide what's normal in its culture. People come from different backgrounds, were born in different countries and have totally different expectations as to what constitutes "don't be an asshole". Do you put your elbows on the table? Is slurping your soup a sign of respect or disrespect? What you don't see is people who see a lack of a code of conduct and then just don't join.
by Someone | 2025-09-30 23:56:35+00:00
> Mmm. IIRC, usually the compiled NEXT statement would store the pointer to the corresponding FOR statement, so you don't need an additional stack for loop depth during the execution

I think you do. Apart from common sense, nothing forbids one from writing stuff like

100 for i = 1 to 10 110 if i = 4 gosub 100 120 print i 130 next 140 return

I think many basics also allowed changing that goto 100 to goto 200 and adding

200 for j = 1 to 4 210 print i 220 print j 230 next

Yes, things would likely end badly, but the basic interpreter would not be smart enough to reject such programs. Its editor didn’t even guarantee that a for statement had a corresponding next or vice versa; all it guaranteed was that the program consisted of a list of lines that each in isolation are valid basic code.
by dnemmers | 2025-09-30 23:57:23+00:00
I scoured the web for a bit, but couldn’t come up with a photo of the offending ‘gift’.

Not saying it was a smart move, but I also wonder how much of the enforcement ‘action’ is solely to score political points.

“The guns were later destroyed because they could have been made operable.”

- I’m sure there are a lot of objects that could be ‘made’ into an operable gun.
by raincole | 2025-09-30 23:57:44+00:00
As a social experiment to reveal how senseless and pointless pop entertainment could be.

(personal rant) I've been in a mild existential crisis since I read Amusing Ourselves to Death. Can one form of entertainment really be more well-regarded than another? Is fine art fundamentally different from pop art? Are there 'finer' pop cultures amongst all pop cultures? I do still think reading The Song of Ice and Fire is more meaningful than scrolling TikTok. The crisis part is that I can't justify this belief with words.
by afavour | 2025-09-30 23:57:44+00:00
I think it’s really cool… and I’m still concerned about the long term implications of it. We’ve already seen a lot of TV get worse and worse (e.g. more reality tv) in a quest to reduce costs. It’s not difficult to imagine a reality where talented people can’t make great content because it’s cheaper to thump out bargain basement AI slop.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-30 23:57:44+00:00
I have heard people claim that cracking down on immigration will increase labor costs for farmers in California who rely on immigrant labor to harvest their crops. That would be a contradiction of your study that you cite.

Can you find an example of the opposite? Can you find me a California farmer who is happy with the crackdown on immigration because now his labor costs will decrease? That does not exist, for reasons of reality.

Where is the corporate support for decreased immigration if it will lower corporations labor costs?
by echelon | 2025-09-30 23:58:32+00:00
I'm an adult. I personally found some of it funny and entertaining.

I like appointment television too. Sometimes A24 isn't pretentious enough for me. But I'm not beyond saying that there's absolutely a time and place for saccharine.

This content will grab eyeballs. I'll bet money on that.

It doesn't really matter what you or I think anyway. OpenAI is delivering a stream of hits and will continue growing while we debate on the sidelines.
by tptacek | 2025-09-30 23:58:45+00:00
I don't eat a lot of pasta these days, but I did spend a couple months getting decent at Cacio e Pepe, and one caveat I've picked up in the last 10 years is that some pasta dishes (the Roman ones in particular) really want you to finish cooking in the sauce, so the pasta takes up some of the flavor of the sauce while it finishes rehydrating.

The rehydration thing is still a killer trick --- especially for Mac and Cheese.
by nadermx | 2025-09-30 23:59:03+00:00
Backpage is on point as well as the overall point is the same, you cant be liable for crimes related to the inital crime if its not actually a crime. Ie if the gains are not ilgotten, you can't be tried for laundering them.

If you follow the DMCA (e.g., honor takedown notices, register an agent if you’re a platform, and act quickly when notified), your exposure to criminal liability is essentially zero.
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-30 23:59:28+00:00
>This is also an accurate description of a lynching.

No, it isn't. It's an accurate description of policing. A standard practice in human societies. If you think not letting anonymous people talk to children amounts to the French Revolution or lynching maybe get out some more. Not how the real world works. Never has, never will. People tolerated it on 90s internet chatrooms because it was all middle aged dudes, doesn't fly when it becomes an actual town square.