MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stubish | 2025-09-23 02:15:42+00:00
In the KMart case, it would not have been interpreted differently if people were doing the facial recognition rather than a computer. The issue was indiscriminate use on everyone who walked in, without permission or proper notification. Which is only cost effective if automated, and a technology of convenience I guess.

But is a non-indiscriminate, privacy friendly solution possible? The problem is people walking in with a valid receipt for a purchased item, grabbing a matching item off the shelf, and wandering over to the returns counter and requesting their money back. The usual solution most shops use is locating the returns counter past the security controls (checkout counter). But more and more of these types of stores are putting their service counters in the middle of the store for some reason.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-23 02:15:55+00:00
The argument I've seen on Mastodon that seems to make sense to me, is that the US Dollar is the currency used in oil trading. That brings a lot of foreign currency to the USA, because people need to buy dollars to buy their oil. If the world moves away from oil, then the US economy will stop benefitting from this trade.

Of course, if the rest of the world moves to renewables, which it is, and just the USA remains reliant on oil then that also destroys this benefit. But the USA refusing to help implement renewable energy will definitely slow it down.

It's the only rational argument I can see for this policy. Of course there's the irrational to consider ("real men burn stuff" as Cory Doctorow puts it), and that may be the more important consideration.
by 7thpower | 2025-09-23 02:16:31+00:00
I was only half way paying attention because I was enjoying the joy of everyone around him.

I wonder if it will hold up the next time I watch. I keep notes for my daughters to read some day and wrote about this tonight (it’s been too long since I wrote them), I hope this video will still be around when they are ready to read the notes so they can experience it too.
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-23 02:18:00+00:00
there's a worrying lack of structural integrity building up in this hype bubble and this adds more fuel to the fire.

You essentially have Nvidia propping up its own valuation here by being its own customer. If they sold a bunch of H100's to themselves and then put it as revenue on their books they'd be accused of fraud. Doing it this way is only slightly better.
by kaz-inc | 2025-09-23 02:18:06+00:00
Persians might actually be a unique dual culture. Whereas others might guess or ask about things, Persians offer absolutely everything and the actual problem then shifts from "what can I ask for" vs "what should I refuse?".

An asker asks for things, absolutely everything, and the giver must choose what they can give.

A guesser must choose what they can ask for, and only ask when they're quite sure it can be given, so the giver has less responsibility for the transfer or service, and most asks can be assumed to be reasonable.

A Persian cannot ask for anything. They must wait for it to be offered, and even then, they must insist that they are quite alright, and that they would rather do without, and only through reciprocal insistence from the giver can they consider whether it would be rude to take them up on the offer.

Presumably, one can judge the giver's underlying intent by the quality of their reciprocal insistence (does it seem like they're just doing the bare minimum of insistence upon their offering, or do they truly wish for me to take them up on it?)

In the Taarof system, an offeree actually has more data, rather than a simpler Asker-scenarion "no", and even more data than the shared values in a Guesser household, this allows for a quick negotiation of values by the immediate and well-practiced cultural norms around the quality of insistence, even for people across different households.
by glenstein | 2025-09-23 02:18:23+00:00
I didn't take them to be suggesting that, and I don't think it makes any difference to the point they're making. Google controls commits to Chromium which then make it into Chrome.

They do have technical control over the upstrean Chromium project. There's an invite only pool of developers who decide what gets committed to Chromium and they are Google employees.
by khamidou | 2025-09-23 02:19:00+00:00
> If all the kids love Rust and hate C, then perhaps a switch to Rust might be a necessary evil to ensure we'll have well-maintained coreutils for another generation. You still need to be careful to avoid the fad of the day, but I think it's pretty clear by now that Rust is here to stay.

It's very unclear – to me it seems more like there's a vocal minority on people on here commenting on every C post "someone should rewrite this in a memory-safe language".

People tend to forget that C got so popular because it had very simple semantics (with much UBI ofc). Golang is arguably more popular than rust, has much simpler semantics and is much easier to pick up.

In all my years in tech I've rarely seen a more complex tool beat a simpler one (otherwise we'd all be using VMS), I'm not holding my breath for rust's longevity.
by endgame | 2025-09-23 02:19:00+00:00
But the large volume of copyleft does make it much easier for all the BSD/MIT/X11/ISC ("permissively licenced") stuff to show up in e.g., enterprise Linux distribution releases, under the "we have to do it anyway for all these other packages, so we may as well do it for all the FOSS code that we use" type of argument. There was a kerfuffle with RHEL a couple of years back, where they tried to provide sources only to paying customers. Not sure where that ends up.
by throwaway106382 | 2025-09-23 02:19:09+00:00
The hype around Rails is just insane.

It's not just a few libs (anymore), so instead you have to download hundreds of gems (in the game of 'good dev ex') that ships with activsupport, and ORM, ERB and even pushes an app architecture on you but you still end up using ruby. If it was just a few things like sinatra and sequel I'd (almost) get it. If it was a fork of another project like Merb I'd (almost get it) but this just make no sense. I'm all for making web development more accessible but this aint it, chief.
by nmfisher | 2025-09-23 02:19:26+00:00
A dollar is always a dollar, so it's hard to claim that $1 million in revenue is actually worth $10 million. OpenAI shares, on the other hand, aren't publicly traded, so it's much easier to claim they're worth $10 million when noone would actually be willing to buy for more than $1 million.

It's not necessarily manipulative but it's also not exactly an arms-length purchase of GPUs on the open market.
by bsder | 2025-09-23 02:19:37+00:00
They don't seem to do this anymore. Or, at least, not without paying some money. I think they have a "Hang with Penn and Teller"-like thing that you can buy VIP tickets for.

The other thing to note is that Penn and Teller are getting old. Penn is 70 and Teller is almost 80! Don't expect anything in their act which requires physicality anymore.
by bri3d | 2025-09-23 02:20:18+00:00
They’re Bluetooth based and worked offline, but like so many “cloud” products, the app required an account which it seems to use to provision the key material for Bluetooth. I’m assuming they’re shutting down the account servers - so depending on how long the app goes between logins (or if the key material expires or not), it may be possible to extend their use.

This would be a fun reverse engineering project, probably!
by pm90 | 2025-09-23 02:21:02+00:00
> Work on the nearly completed Revolution Wind project for Rhode Island and Connecticut has been paused since Aug. 22 when the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order for what it said were national security concerns. The Interior Department agency did not specify those concerns at the time. Both the developer and the two states sued in federal courts.

This administration is beyond stupid.
by decafninja | 2025-09-23 02:21:12+00:00
In places where this is common (Hong Kong? Singapore?), isn’t it also normal to provide the housekeeper a small room in situ to live? So they’d not have any housing expenses?

I have some friends here in NYC that have visiting housekeepers that come weekly to clean their apartments. To be frank, I’m still kind of “wtf, you can’t clean your own place?” when they mention it.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-23 02:22:07+00:00
I think the other side of this is the fetishization of "if it isn't broken don't fix it" and computing conservatism a la the famous Dropbox/rsync comment. An equally valid inquiry is to ask "why should we not replace it", which can lead to some valid and correct thoughts.

At the end of the day, greybeards are going to retire and new generations are not going to want to deal with code bases built around technology and decisions that were made in the 1990s.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-23 02:22:38+00:00
No, it's not permittable land (floodplain). His hoarding has resulted in junkyard vibes (at least it "resets" after major flooding). I'm a blue collar guy in Appalachia, so this isn't exactly California...

Landlord is a decade+ older than me — after his parents died, he's sort of going back to the land (if that makes sense). I've testified as a character witness for him (he occassionally gets arrested for self-help evictions — doesn't give AF at all — readily brags admitting to what he done'did); us long-term tenants currently screen new tenants, and all he cares about is money (cash only). If you want a written rental contract, you have to provide one yourself =D

I often love it here — and am paid through the end of 2026 (and do everything I can to keep this massively-undermarket rental). Landlord won't even consider selling it (I've offered!), but he has no heirs so... [fingers crossed it'll work out eventually].

Ref: An RV park very close to me is mentioned in OP's article — very real (I am on a slab, thank god). Mostly nothin' out there but land and poverty.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-23 02:23:03+00:00
You seem to be completely at sea here, for all your knowledge.

Caring about oneself and others' welfare is a direct result of being creatures that must make choices to survive. The compounding positive sums of increasing cooperative behavior are not arbitrary. They pay for themselves, many many times over.

Thus, practical virtue appears naturally, and persists, and grows, regardless of what you want to call it, or alternatives that anyone comes up with.

If you are going to argue about/against that practical impact, at least acknowledge practical virtue has a very special status.

Or you are arguing from (real or posed) ignorance.

The burden us on you, if you want to claim this practical progression should be superseded.

Without that, an appeal to impractical principles over practical good, is very much in the vein of "telling me what deity you believe in".

What "good" is "good" that doesn't reciprocally maximize "good" going forward.

So far your comments lack any grounding beyond itself. Perverse "purity". That relegates virtue to an hermetic aesthetic or OCD tick.
by vr46 | 2025-09-23 02:23:48+00:00
OMFG

This post is full of outright nonsense. I was in Central London last Saturday and watched a lot of it go down, before heading to Islington and then catching the last dregs of the crowd nearer Euston and chatting in the pub with some of them.

As a "native Brit" and "native Londoner" that DHH wouldn't recognise as such, he can absolutely do one.
by dpflug | 2025-09-23 02:23:58+00:00
Cloudflare is domiciled in the USA, where shareholder supremacy has been part of US corporate law going all the way back to Dodge v Ford Motor Co. in 1919.

Now, it's in Cali, where it's not as strong a statement as in some other states, but it's still got a lot of precedent behind it.
by dang | 2025-09-23 02:24:09+00:00
You broke the site guidelines badly here. Please make your substantive points without personal attack in the future, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

Also, separately from the above, it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political and nationalistic battle. That's not allowed here, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do this. Past explanations on this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by grover12 | 2025-09-23 02:25:04+00:00
I was so obsessed with this when I was a kid. I created a complete node graph a few years ago in order to cheat and to show the entire tree structure of the book:

https://archive.org/details/magic-master-node-map

I simply didn't have enough fingers to bookmark previous pages if I made a choice which led to a bad ending. This was my first taste of depth-first search algorithm.

With the graph visualization as an oracle, I was able to explore all threads leading to all the different possible endings. You can read this book in OpenLibrary:

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30096W/Choose_Your_Own_Adven...

I carried my childhood obsession with me all the way to Ghidra / IDA debugger which shows the disassembly blocks with arrows in its graph view.

I'm now a Reverse Engineer thanks to the Choose Your Own Adventure books I've obsessed over and read a lot as a kid. :D
by teleforce | 2025-09-23 02:25:28+00:00
There is next gen web standards initiative namely BRAID that will make web to be more human and machine friendly with a synchronous web of state [1],[2],[3].

"Braid’s goal is to extend HTTP from a state transfer protocol to a state sync protocol, in order to do away with custom sync protocols and make state across the web more interoperable.

Braid puts the power of operational transforms and CRDTs on the web, improving network performance and enabling natively p2p, collaboratively-editable, local-first web applications." [4]

[1] A Synchronous Web of State:

https://braid.org/meeting-107

[2] Braid: Synchronization for HTTP (88 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016

[3] Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (564 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507076

[4] Braid HTTP:

https://jzhao.xyz/thoughts/Braid-HTTP
by rogerrogerr | 2025-09-23 02:26:07+00:00
I’ve never really thought about this - how does Outlook handle this? Has anyone received a “sorry, that room you reserved actually wasn’t available; talk to this other dude who reserved it too” message after reserving a meeting room?

Or does it just double book the room? Or is there a global lock on any transaction affecting a meeting room, so only one goes through? (Feels like it doesn’t scale)
by Smeevy | 2025-09-23 02:28:27+00:00
>I'm independent

That's great and I totally believe you. Thumbs up emoji and all that.

>I've seen what antifa militants do almost every time they protest,

Oh my gosh, you were serious. Can you point out the "Antifa militants" to me? How would someone go about training to join the Antifa Elite Guard?

I see there's a whole process to get into the Proud Boys and all sorts of other right wing extremist groups on Facebook, but I'm not quite seeing the path to membership for Antifa. Is it because they're so well organized and funded by billionaires?
by svieira | 2025-09-23 02:28:29+00:00
I do not think you are shilling anything at all - merely that you are biased and that bias is somewhat driven by a source of income that you link to your hacker news identity. If you were a Forth hacker with a Forth consultancy, the same thing would apply.

That said, I did not intend to call out your bias as a means of questioning your honesty and I apologize if my communication came across as doing so!
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-23 02:30:17+00:00
Coreutils licensing is just one part of the amalgamation that prevents the Nintendo Switch-ification (it's based on FreeBSD) of entire free software stacks. Not only do non-Switch users not benefit from changes, the entity that made billions on top of free software then uses that war chest to sue free software developers into oblivion.

I think licensing is an important way to prevent those types of abuses, and to maximize users' benefits.
by akst | 2025-09-23 02:31:08+00:00
Just confirming, I've seen that the title between the post and link are inconsistent incase there's any confusion.

While I agree, the difference is significant, and it is often the case that a a decent tutorial/blog post on a technology is rarely tailored to non developers

I do think there's a kernel of truth in this for with educational content written by developers. I think many developers underestimate the attention and care that's necessary to write high quality education material. Not to say they shouldn't, it's a valuable skill for everyone to develop but it doesn't always come naturally.

I think one part of it is, in writing the content sometimes someone who is inexperienced in writing, might be writing something with dual roles in mind. They may be venting their frustrations with learning the technology, selling their experience and accomplishments (to any potential employers who may be reading it, which is where some name dropping might be coming in) and using the format of a tutorial as a vehicle to do so. They may also just not have a clear objective of what they want to write in mind and they just want to share some information and they initially wrote a tutorial and veered off on to something else.

If you're someone who is reading something like this, it can actually be annoying or confusing if you went into the tutorial expecting one thing which doesn't end up being there. For a beginner even more so, as you lack the domain knowledge to know if you need to disregard these tangents or skip forward, if you're more experience it feel like someone is wasting your time by telling you they were going to explain X Y Z then it ends up being some rant passing as a half baked tutorial. That said I rather this than AI slop, but reading it can be equally annoying if it feels like the author doesn't respect your time in the way AI slop feels like there's an expectation your time reading it is worth less than the time the author would spent writing it.

The issue here for the reader is usually the content is inconsistent with their expectations, and for the author they possible communicated that poorly.

Yes if the author has mistakenly assumed an article not written for them were written for them, well yes that's on the author. But taking what they say at face value or even the title used at the post I think there is a point of value to take away from this for those writing anything ranging from education material to a post mortem.

Know your objective, the key information your communicating, has the way you've written effectively communicated that to your intended audience? Cull things that detract from this. And of course there's nothing wrong with unstructured forms of writing, they can be really fun, but they are the last thing someone wants to read when they are in the middle of trying to fix a technical issue they don't entirely understand. That can largely be avoided by with a better title, or avoiding insinuating the post is something it's not.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-23 02:31:25+00:00
It isnt irrational. He golfs. He believes golf with an ocean view to be the highest and best use of land, the ultimate expression of wealth. The sight of windmills on the horizon providing power to the poors is like seeing a honda civic parked in the members-only lot. It isnt an irrational hate. It is simple nimby elitism.
by itake | 2025-09-23 02:32:49+00:00
> And let’s be honest, if you were buying fridges or washing machines based on WiFi features that’s on you.

I don't understand what you mean by this? My clothes will smell really bad if I leave them in the washer wet. If the appliance has a leak, I need to be nearby to remediate. Thus its not safe for me to start the appliance before I leave for 8+ hours.

If I can remotely start my washing machine, just prior to me arriving home, I can move the clothes to the dryer.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-23 02:33:43+00:00
I watched several videos from the Liz Amazing YT-link you provided — very thoughtful content from two obviously-compatible sunbirders.

Her overall recommendations tend to recommend older, well-taken-care-of models over the newer less-expensive trash being mass-produced. Get a PROFESSIONAL INSPECTION before purchasing any RV particularly if your first purchase, and buy from a local person (instead of a dealership).

Really loved that some of Liz's most-popular videos weren't about RVs, particularly her Introduction to Electric Bicycles (helpful as we've gotten older).

By least-favorite brother (maker of terrible decisions™) lived in an RV for about two years, and it was absolutely embarassing to the neighborhood... just a squalor'd pig-stye.

If anybody near Chattanooga wants to restore an old Airstream, I know a guy... [that owns a dozen, variously delapidated]
by asteroidandy | 2025-09-23 02:33:58+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. It actually works both ways in the examples you provided, they are just different sections of the product.

So the "research" feature is similiar to similarweb in that you can look up a domain to find which search queries it ranks for in Chatgpt and the specific article it links to as a citation/source. I have a fairly small database at this stage so it mainly returns data on the big websites but I am rolling out a 10x larger database in the coming weeks.

The "analytics" feature is a script you install that tracks the traffic ai search engines send you and more in depth information such as the breakdown of traffic from the different ai search engines and which page content is performing the best. I also track page crawls but the ai engines are pretty sneaky (fake user agents etc.) so it's hard to monitor.

Hope that helps. I might update the website with a video so it's easier to see how the features work.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-23 02:34:15+00:00
Hit inbox on two different accounts of mine (different domains). Thankfully the subaccount called me, but looks like other people on Reddit fell for it. Forwarded to Fastmail's support hours ago but it's been crickets from them.

Update: Since I posted this I've received the real renewal email saying to update my card, the phish was only 8hrs earlier.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-23 02:35:19+00:00
> SAN reached out to a user listed in the leaked data and confirmed that they had in fact downloaded the app. The user, who asked to remain anonymous over fears of retribution, expressed concerns that Cancel the Hate might be a “scam” after receiving an influx of donation requests to their email.

Evil simply can't resist the temptation to devour itself.