MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by banannaise | 2025-09-05 19:47:18+00:00
I understand the article's emphasis on exercising good judgment around release timing, but read-only Fridays are not there for the people who generally exercise good judgment. If you are the sort of person/team that is likely to deploy late on a Friday afternoon despite the inherent risk, you are likely the kind of person/team who underestimates or ignores risks in general. This includes the risk of a given deployment, thus exacerbating the impact of your late-Friday deployments. It is therefore sensible to simply take the decision out of your hands.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-09-05 19:47:19+00:00
No, they are not. The police is under the control of the central government (and that includes the courts). Yes, it is true that swedish politicans dont want to give the impression they control the actions of the police etc but of course in the end they do. The difference is maybe in the US politicans say "I gave the order to the police to do X" while in Sweden they would say in private "you probably should do X or we might find a replacement"
by slipheen | 2025-09-05 19:47:25+00:00
Thanks! I’m glad to see that that’s something that works for you, and I think I understand what you’re using it for more even if it’s not something I would do.

Personally - No way. I don’t want to let generative AI anywhere near anything I write in email.

If I’m writing an email to somebody it’s because I have something to say, and I want to express my own feelings on it.

(I suppose theoretically I could see it I guess if I needed to talk to someone who only used another language?)

But when reading/composing email, I’m not just trying to optimize for raw information throughput- I’m trying to experience my life and the lives of the people who took time to write to me.

If my friend wrote me a letter, I want to enjoy every word of it. Even for something more perfunctory, the nuance of the particulars in the way it is expressed carries a lot of information.

Likewise, I suppose with reading sites like HN comments- I want to see the perspective of the people who are writing, that’s the whole point of reading comments.

It helps me to understand them as people, their use cases, and how they interact with an particular article.

If I didn’t care about any of that, if I didn’t want their perspective, I wouldn’t bother reading the comments…
by delusional | 2025-09-05 19:47:35+00:00
> The entire idea of "Oh they'll leave" is ridiculous, an empty threat from billionaires who are afraid of regulation.

My hot take is that if they want to leave, then they can fuck right off. If you think your desires, profits, or business practices extend beyond democracy, then I don't need your business. Private enterprise should support and assist democracy, not the other way around (there's obviously some leeway there, but by and large).
by zdragnar | 2025-09-05 19:47:40+00:00
Back when I lived in the cities 15 or so years ago, it was still notably slower than driving, so many if not most people still drove everywhere.

Public transit wasn't as gross as stories I've heard of elsewhere, but it also wasn't something I wanted to take on a regular basis if I could help it. I think I used it regularly for about six months or so one year in particular, and the lack of warm bus stops meant standing in freezing rain, sleet, snow and more.

Maybe things have improved since I lived there, but hearing that they are the high bar is pretty sad.
by nartho | 2025-09-05 19:48:36+00:00
A while ago I bought an older leaf because I had an expensive commute. Battery was ok when I bought it but it degraded very quickly. Doing my commute in winter with the heater and radio off going 10 under hoping to make it to my job where I could charge it was not fun.

I now own a corolla hybrid and I enjoy cheap commutes without the fear of running out of juice
by com2kid | 2025-09-05 19:48:43+00:00
Google had 3,000 employees when Gmail launched. Now they have over 100,000 employees!

People criticize Microsoft's historical fiefdom model, and it had its issues, but it also allowed orgs to find what worked for them and basically run independently. Of course it also had orgs fighting with each other and killing off good products.

Xbox was also a skunk works project at Microsoft (a few good books have been written about it!) and so was Microsoft Band. Xbox succeeded, Band failed for a number of reasons not related to the product or execution itself. (Politics and some historical corporate karma).

IMHO the only company good at deploying infinite resources quickly is Apple. 1 billion developing the first Apple Watch (Microsoft spend under 50 million on two generations of Band!) and then they kept going after the market, even though the first version was kinda meh. In comparison Google wear was on again of again for years until they finally took it seriously recently. I'm sure they spent lots of $, but the end result is nowheres near what Apple pulled off.
by giulianob | 2025-09-05 19:48:43+00:00
I read the first part and I enjoyed it. I agree that us developers aren't great at communicating tech debt effectively. Managers are also not great at prioritizing it. I think the "debt" analogy has been a net negative as management often thinks "we'll just pay it later" but don't often see how much pain it's causing. So having a resource to help both sides on this topic is very valuable.
by ForOldHack | 2025-09-05 19:48:49+00:00
BART is dual track around the entire system, except for side yard entrances. I have seen stopped trains, and it was worked around. One I was on caught fire I. The middle of a station and it did not close the line. It slowed it down a lot but did not stop. There are so many systems in place, it's a quite complex system.

The real heros? The bus drivers. The baddies? The planners, the management. The evil? Pure unadulterated evil? The AC Transit app. I would give it a -11.
by coffeefirst | 2025-09-05 19:49:14+00:00
Honestly, I'd go a different direction entirely. The web has become too frenetic. I want a browser that helps me FOCUS.

If I were to go build something—and maybe I should—it would be something like this:

1. Named workspace tab groups that you can focus on and hide everything except what you're doing right now. Arc did something interesting here. I don't know that it has to be the way Arc did it, but the idea is good.

2. Make the world's best bookmark manager. If AI can help organize it for you, that's neat. Bookmarks are a great idea and they've been neglected for too long.

3. Builtin RSS reader.

And uBlock Origin, of course.
by zamalek | 2025-09-05 19:49:15+00:00
Even with my limited knowledge about FP I am pretty sure I would only grow more in agreement as I learn more. My only exposure to functional is via Nix and Rust (I promise I'll learn OCaml soon). One thing that I've really come to appreciate is the concept of "making invalid states unrepresentable," a trick that is harder than it should be (though not impossible) in "less functional" languages. Coming back to distributed systems, I have wondered what a functional database would look like. Mutations as pure functions, DUs in tuples, could we store a function, etc.
by ajs1998 | 2025-09-05 19:49:45+00:00
Not really. I could imagine AI-integrated docs pages being useful just from the huge volume of information available and how overwhelming it can be to learn something new.

I've used plenty of AI tools and models, local and paid, agents and chatbots, and the hallucination problem is a huge roadblock every time. I treat it like an autocomplete and I babysit its output because I have to. It just can't be trusted to give a correct answer.

I think LLMs being good at producing language is a trap. The chatbot interface is the obvious product to build around it, but it just sucks right now.
by qwerty456127 | 2025-09-05 19:49:52+00:00
> It is not wrong to regulate social media

Yet it is wrong for a government to deny the people to access foreign services over the Internet when they want. That is wrong in the same sense as disallowing them to travel overseas, read untranslated books and consume services of vendors right there is.

It can be sorta okay to require local ISPs stop providing necessary connectivity readily but if the users find a way, punishing them for this or actively attacking the ways they do it is wrong.

Hopefully Nepal is not going this far.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-05 19:50:12+00:00
Wouldn't it be something if the EU focused on fostering a tech scene rather than attacking it. This is like the 4th time they have gone to the Google bank demanding a $1B+ ransom.

And before we "Just don't break the laws" take note of the fact the the EU has a dead tech scene. I don't know how they expect competition to grow when they block all the sunlight in their tech fields.

If you don't want Google dominating your populations technology, try creating conditions to grow a replacement.
by gxonatano | 2025-09-05 19:50:14+00:00
This blog post, and the one it references, on the jhanas[1], belong to this weird genre which is basically in the vein of Buddhist writing, but without more than a passing reference to Buddhism, its scholarly tradition, its terminology, or its taxonomy. Here's Nadia:

> The word jhana comes from Buddhist scriptures, where they were first described. However, as many meditators like to point out, jhanas predate Buddhism. ... I am not a Buddhist, nor would I describe myself as a meditator.

She seems to be taking pains to extract Buddhist techniques from Buddhism, and discuss them independently. Even if these practices predate Buddhism, Buddhism is the system of thought that contextualizes them, and has been developed and enriched over thousands of years, to provide a systematic framework for understanding them. This is especially true of Zen Buddhism—the word "Zen" is even derived from "jhana."

It'd be like if you tried to describe the properties of sulfur dioxide or something, without acknowledging that an entire academic discipline—chemistry—has been doing that for centuries. You don't have to "be a Buddhist" to study Buddhism, any more than you have to be a chemist to study chemistry.

[1]: https://nadia.xyz/jhanas
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-05 19:50:18+00:00
HP 's graphing calculators are the best, but they can be very expensive.

Every major calculator manufacturer makes modern back-lit full-color graphing calculators, like HP's Prime, TI's Nspire, and Casio's ClassWiz, but they don't have the charm of reflective LCDs.

The best bang for your buck is probably a Casio FX 7400, 9750 or 9860 GIII series, which have Python interpreters. If you want something more fun, albeit only programmable in BASIC, Casio's CFX have an oddball color display that doesn't use subpixels. (See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLew3Dd3IBA)
by layer8 | 2025-09-05 19:51:53+00:00
But the up and down really consists of two user actions, pressing the mouse button, and releasing it again. See drag-and-drop for example, where that distinction is important. It’s even important for simple buttons: You can generally abort a button press by moving the mouse pointer outside the button area before releasing the mouse button again. In that case, the button action isn’t triggered. The pressed-down state visualizes that the action will be triggered when you release the mouse button while still in the button area.

Animation is when more than one consecutive step happens on it’s own. I’d argue that even tooltips appearing and disappearing after a timeout doesn’t constitute an animation, because the disappearance isn’t immediately consecutive with the appearance, and (maybe more importantly) the intervening state of the tooltip being shown is meaningful to the user as a distinct state.
by gojomo | 2025-09-05 19:51:55+00:00
The LLMs need the embedding function, benefit from growth, do the training – and then other uses get that embedding "for free".

So an old down-pressure on sizes – internal training costs & resource limits – now weaker. And as long as LLMs are seeing benefits from larger embeddings, they'll become more common and available. (Of course via truncation/etc, no one is forced to use larger than works for them... but larger may keep becoming more common & available.)
by accrual | 2025-09-05 19:51:57+00:00
> After just a few hours without any social interaction, adolescents make significantly more effort to get rewards.

> The study found that the effect was stronger in adolescents who reported feeling lonelier while in isolation.

I found these two points interesting. I'm fairly introverted so I "recharge" by being alone and I suspect there are adolescents perhaps not captured by the study who would thrive in similar circumstances.
by rvz | 2025-09-05 19:52:21+00:00
> A trial was scheduled to begin in December to determine how much Anthropic owed for the alleged piracy, with potential damages ranging into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

It has been admitted and Anthropic knew that this trial would totally bankrupt them had they said they were innocent and continued to fight the case.

But of course, there's too much money on the line, which means even though Anthropic settled (admitting guilt and profiting off of pirated books) they (Anthropic) knew there was no way they could win that case, and was not worth taking that risk.

> The pivotal fair-use question is still being debated in other AI copyright cases. Another San Francisco judge hearing a similar ongoing lawsuit against Meta ruled shortly after Alsup's decision that using copyrighted work without permission to train AI would be unlawful in "many circumstances."

The first of many.
Ask HN: How do I manage auto-updates during testing on Windows?
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-05 19:52:24+00:00
We are currently alpha-testing a very specific desktop client with a big corporation on the receiving end. It is no longer feasible to juggle installers manually. What would be your solution for multiple testing teams, multiple channels etc.? The only thing I found that looks at least a bit usable is velopack.
by com2kid | 2025-09-05 19:52:39+00:00
You'd run into the same issues if you followed a slightly outdated medium tutorial on the topic!

React had this issue when they changed away from create react app. Basically every tutorial for years was instantly made obsolete, despite occupying all the top search results slots.

Forums where filled with confusion for quite awhile.

Now days most libraries seem to rely on "content producers" to document how to actually do things and don't bother with great docs filled with examples. In decades gone past, companies would hire actual authors to write real physical books on how to use new APIs.

LLMs just have a higher latency on updating their reference material.
by troyvit | 2025-09-05 19:52:41+00:00
On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect.

However in this case there are other news outlets reporting the same thing, so there was no need to even link to the New York Times. The same info is free on Reuters and AP among plenty of other places.

If we lived in a just world I would be able to pay NYTimes .05 using some nice stablecoin to read that story, but like the rest of the media, while they can invest 80% of their budget and bandwidth tracking people across their site (including subscribers) and selling that data to brokers and middlemen, they can't get their shit together enough to even think like that.
by msh | 2025-09-05 19:52:58+00:00
Your dryer will load the socket for far less time than a car charger and will probably not use 15A for the entire drying cycle.

It’s the long charge time that leads to heat buildup, not the max amp.

Where I am from standard outlets can deliver 16A but are not rated for more than 6A if the load is longer than 2 hours.
by tibbar | 2025-09-05 19:53:46+00:00
I think a big difference between being a professional and a beginner is, a beginner will work very hard on the most obvious part of the problem. And might get something reasonable after a while. But the professional knows that the obvious part isn't where most of the difficulties lie, they'll probably use some tool to handle the obvious part near automatically, and they'll factor in all these invisible requirements into their original estimate.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-05 19:53:56+00:00
Meh, having been forced to use labview for an engineering class a long time ago, dabbled some in verilog, and worked on some production actor based code, it seems clear to me that we don't see those kinds of approaches often is that they're very quickly impossible to understand when you have a lot of interactions.

Labview was a particular nightmare even for very basic tasks.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-05 19:54:21+00:00
> Even assembly language and machine code has types.

I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, but on this specifically what's noticeable in an assembly language is that data doesn't have types, the operations are typed. That's usually not really a thing in programming languages. It does happen, but it's not common.

For example Rust's Wrapping<i8> is a distinct type from Saturating<i8>, and if we've got variables named foo and bar with the value 100 in them, if foo and bar have the type Wrapping<i8> the addition operation means the answer is -56 but for Saturating<i8> the exact same addition operation gets you 127

In assembly or machine code there's be Wrapping addition, and Saturating addition and they'd both work on integers, which don't themselves inherently care.
by tern | 2025-09-05 19:54:45+00:00
As soon as you open up the means, you open up an expectation of support

If Apple provided all the docs, people would start building, and then they would start complaining when Apple doesn't consider them a customer of the business, and Apple would eventually be forced to react, which would take energy away from there core commitment: delivering a unified product experience for consumers

I suspect you don't understand this, but this is why corporations are deliberately unhelpful in many (annoying) ways, and why people don't share things in general as much as you'd hope
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-05 19:55:00+00:00
Isnt the commission basically just he executive branch of the EU?

My understanding is Sweden's "SEC" (in US terms) is called Finansinspektionen. Wouldnt this EU commission be like the Finansinspektionen issuing a fine or revoking a license if a bank didnt comply with regulations? My understanding is the Finansinspektionen can do this sort of thing but has to go to the court for larger actions.

Perhaps the EU commission has a bit more leeway?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-05 19:55:18+00:00
I thought not having Carplay was a dealbreaker, then I tried shopping other brands and they wanted $15 to $25 per month for remote start, so I went with Tesla. Plus Tesla had dash cam recording, which somehow no one else has yet? And of course, don’t have to deal with a stupid dealer with Tesla, just bought sitting on the couch at home.

Anyway, not having CarPlay has not been an issue. Although, it would have been nice to have.
by mrandish | 2025-09-05 19:55:23+00:00
To me, the weirdest part of this is that they're doing it because it apparently works so well on Trump. I can intellectually understand Trump having differing views from mine and a very different personality but it's hard to comprehend how anyone can be a wealthy business executive and media personality for decades who achieved at least some level of functional success and still not intuitively recognize the obvious motivations behind such flattery or praise and dismiss them completely. Wealthy, famous people have nearly everyone blowing smoke up their ass - especially in politics. I can't understand how anyone could function at all in that context without developing natural immunity to it. Yet, by publicly repeating the flattery/praise he receives from others, as well as clearly seeking it out, Trump gives every indication he accepts it as credible and that its important to him.

There are perhaps a dozen people in the world whose praise would be both credible and meaningful to me.
by fragmede | 2025-09-05 19:56:01+00:00
The PowerPC wasn't a static ISA, with later revs adding features like Altivec and 64-bit mode, back in the, like, G4 and G5 era. Thus, the day binaries were used to ship a single fat binary that had versions with and without Altivec optimizations enabled.

Anybody still have a G5 cube?
by lambdaone | 2025-09-05 19:56:55+00:00
Age verification at the content end has always been a silly idea. Eyeball networks can, and do, implement such filtering already - for example, UK mobile networks block porn by default, but allow any adult account holder to connect to unfiltered service.

Providing a BGP feed of such provider network subnets to content providers would then allow them to happily serve content to those subnets without any further checks, safe in the knowledge that they will only be providing service to endpoints controlled by adults.

Details of how this can be done for other services including home broadband omitted - suffice it to say your router would have both adult and child-friendly SSIDs.

This seems both simple and obvious, and protects children without encumbering adults, risking privacy, or forcing a mass censorship regime on everyone.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-05 19:57:00+00:00
The EU has been chronically unable to fill the gaps in their economy. If you look at the list of europes biggest companies, it's the same companies as it was 30 years ago...automotive and oil and gas. There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major tech company off the ground.

Regulation may be good, but understand, actually, recognize, that it is also suffocating. People bragging that they have no weeds in their fields, when they have no fresh crops either....
by Bender | 2025-09-05 19:57:02+00:00
That is a tax

For many it would be. I started with FTP and then SFTP so it's muscle memory for me and it's a lot faster than using a browser when used optimally with LFTP+SFTP+mirror, much like rsync but works with chroot SFTP-only. Groups can fully automate sharing their own collections with one another, entirely hands off no pun intended.
by RomanPushkin | 2025-09-05 19:57:10+00:00
> Yet it is wrong for a government to deny the people to access foreign services over the Internet when they want

"Services" here can be replaced with "control". I'm not super conservative, but social media sometimes do take control over our kids, and ourselves. If they could have offered a better way to content moderation, or ability to tune algorithms, that would be a great thing.

I recently created YouTube algo booster (open source) that allows to take this control back a little bit: https://github.com/ro31337/youtube-algo-booster

I wish there is a law that allows parents, and individuals to have control over some social media and their algorithms. For now all they do is just prevent themselves from scraping and automation
by mikepavone | 2025-09-05 19:57:25+00:00
I have a 2017 Bolt as my only car and the slow L3 charging is definitely a downside, but I haven't found it to be a huge issue in practice. On a trip long enough to worry about fast-charging you're going to need to stop to eat periodically anyway so if you plan your charging around meals you don't end up waiting too long. Obviously gets a bit more annoying on trips that are long enough to require more than one fast-charge per-day, but I don't take trips that long frequently.

Day to day charging is generally all going to be L2 or even L1 depending on how far you drive and how long typically parked somewhere with a plug. That will be roughly the same speed in any car. Some cars do have higher capacity L2 chargers than the Bolt does, but most public L2 stations don't provide the higher current needed to see the difference.