MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-09-24 16:57:18+00:00
Why doesn't he just save himself the time, money and hassle and just watch the highlights or highlight clips.

I understand why the NFL is going the stream route given how popular it is already. They can afford to inconvenience people. But MLB has been stagnant or declining for so long. You'd think they'd make their content more accessible to grow the fan base.
by godelski | 2025-09-24 16:57:19+00:00
> Don't confuse your preferences with "correct" :P

Don't overlook the point by fixating on a technicality

> I'm doing just fine with code and best practices

Yet, you aren't following best practices

> So no - by default I use a pager... just about never. Why would I when I have absolutely everything in scrollback by default 99.9% of the time?

Fewer capabilities. But those were already explained and not just by me. There really should be no need for such huge scrollbacks, you have history

> I'm simply stating that this is a rough edge on an otherwise lovely tool.

No one has disagreed with this point. I think everyone even agrees
by alberth | 2025-09-24 16:57:31+00:00
Is this a surprise though?

50-years ago, if you wanted to:

- read the news (local paper),

- get coffee (local coffee shop)

- get groceries (local grocery)

- buy tires (local tire dealer)

You’d get this from your local small business … and this created local small community groups.

But now between the internet and national distribution of goods/services - all those small local companies are gone (or has a much reduced role as Tao would say) … because CNN, Starbucks, Kroger, Discount Tire has replaced the need for those small local businesses.
by pimterry | 2025-09-24 16:57:38+00:00
All of them now require some kind of 2FA, everywhere. This is due to a legal requirement on all EEA payment providers that they require 2FA for almost everything since 2020, including accessing your account on their website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication

TOTP codes would be allowed by the regulation, as would biometric approaches or separate physical tokens, but in practice every bank I've used in recent years (quite a few, mostly Spanish but also in Belgium & Switzerland) require that you accept a confirmation prompt or similar in their app.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-24 16:57:50+00:00
Sure, but the take is huge (it covers all dimensions of society) and is two takes in one: the claim that the role of small organizations is diminishing and the reason for this. I'd be stunned if such an effect could be meaningfully explained in so few paragraphs.

When the topics are entire subfields (the development of multinational corporations, the development of states, the development of communication networks) it makes sense to build takes off of actual research.
by klauslin666 | 2025-09-24 16:58:14+00:00
I'd say the value of Strata is more than just one MCP Server, it's a strategy that can apply on AI Agent interacting with tools or even other AI agents.

in your example, one agent access 1~2 tools, what if an enterprise have 1000 use cases and need 1000 AI agents as you said. How you let your system intelligently dispatch the correct AI agent to the correct use case? (or will OpenAI create 1000 customGPT and let user to choose which one? ） instead you need a way to intelligently dispatch user query to different sub-tools or sub-agent, depends on how you design. But the essence of Strata I believe is rely on model's reasoning to minimize context window + maximizer relevant info. and then solve the user query.

Security is another level of topic and I think it's not related to this approach.
by ksec | 2025-09-24 16:58:35+00:00
Well, AFAIK most telecoms are either doing spectrum sharing or still keeping majority of spectrum on 4G. M-MIMO not deployed as widely as expected, and 5G SA has barely started.

COVID along with Huawei ban and other national security concerns have at least delayed most plan by 2 years minimum.

So while most would have expected 5G to have a much quicker roll out than 4G, those reasons above make current 5G about the same stage of previous 4G.

I sometimes think if it would be better they craft out a subset of 5.9G with along with some efficiency improvement and then brand it as 6G instead.
by larodi | 2025-09-24 16:58:39+00:00
Somehow I dont see this applicable for 90% of all current spatial needs, where PostGIS does just right, and same IMHO goes for DuckDB. There perhaps exists 10% of business where data is so immense you want to hit it with Rust & whatnot, but all others do just fine im Postgre.

My bet is most of actually useful spatial ST_ functions are not implemented in this one, as they are not in the DuckDB offering.
by nice_byte | 2025-09-24 16:58:45+00:00
> [7 Software Failures Due To Lack Of Testing That Rocked The World](https://www.appsierra.com/blog/software-failures-due-to-lack...)

Do you really think you can prove your point by showing me some sloplist of mildly high profile bugs? All these systems had extensive test suites and yet these problems happened anyway.

Bugs happen in extensively tested systems literally all the time, but by your own logic, any bug is "due to lack of testing". That's an unproductive line of reasoning because it is not possible or practical to test for every possible eventuality. This is why fields like formal verification exist.

>> Hiring people who think bloom filters are "exotic" to work on a distributed system could certainly doom that project to failure regardless of how diligently tested it is. > Citation needed.

ever tried to build a distributed cache??

> The problem domain is never the data structure or algorithm.

The problem domain is literally always that. The way your data is organized and the way you work with it is directly affected by the exact problem you are solving.
by morgankrey | 2025-09-24 16:58:49+00:00
(I work at Zed) No, you aren't. We care about you using Zed the editor, and we provide Zed Pro for folks who decide they'd like to support Zed or our billing model works for them. But it's simply an option, not our core business plan, and this pricing is in place to make that option financially viable for us. As long as we don't bear the cost, we don't feel the need (or the right) to put ourselves in the revenue path with LLM spend.
by Avicebron | 2025-09-24 16:59:05+00:00
I don't think he was making claims in the context of a professional mathematician. I think he's a popular guy (because of his status) and he's discussing his own thoughts on modern nihilistic thinking while calling for 3rd spaces on his own social media. Seems...fine? For an individual to that, we don't have to ascribe some degree of reverence to his thoughts anymore than I would yours. That extra reverence is all user-added
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-09-24 16:59:17+00:00
GNU MC is indispensable. Some basic features it has still like a file overwrite strategy prompt is absent from many modern file managers of the day like yazi.

One of the most overlooked features is a custom user menu[1]. It allows greatly expanding MC's capabilities with custom actions and integrate it into specific workflows. No plugins or DSLs, just a `sh` calling whatever you like.

For example, I have a couple keybinds for transferring selected files/directories over rsync while browsing the remote directory over sftp. You can easily adapt it to do the same for directories mounted remotely with sshfs/rclone mount.

Another action that I like to add (this one I actually use in Double Commander on my GUI workstation) is to automatically convert transferred files on the fly, like compress media with ffmpeg (WAV to FLAC, * to OPUS, etc).

[1]: https://source.midnight-commander.org/man/mc.html#Edit_Menu_...
by pessimizer | 2025-09-24 16:59:29+00:00
You should be using all the words. If you want to learn words about cooking, buy cookbooks. I want to read all material. I want to read extremely esoteric subjects from UNAM's press, I want to read Cervantes, I want to read cookbooks, I want to read Mexican street fotonovelas from the 70s.

> using preselected word lists makes sense

I have never used Anki for word to word translation, because there is no Spanish word that means any English word. You've restricted yourself to a particular paradigm from the beginning. I mean, do whatever you need to do to get a foothold, but you want to get away from L1 as much as possible as soon as you can.
by jdietrich | 2025-09-24 16:59:45+00:00
The clearest example of the deficiencies of identity documents in the UK is the "Right to Work" process.

If you're an employer, you are legally required to check that anyone you hire has the right to work in the UK. The penalty for hiring an illegal immigrant - even accidentally - is a £60,000 fine. The guidance on how to perform a Right to Work check is 60 pages. A whole industry of third-party identity verification providers has sprung up, because the system is so complex that most employers don't feel able to do it themselves.

Ironically, performing a right to work check on a legal migrant with a work permit is trivially easy, because we've digitalised the visa system. They give you their Home Office share code, you type it in to a website, and the website shows you a photo of that person and clearly states whether or not that person has the right to work. We already have a really good digital ID service, but British nationals can't use it.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6878ead80263c...

https://www.gov.uk/evisa/view-evisa-get-share-code-prove-imm...
by jwally | 2025-09-24 16:59:53+00:00
Banks and most sites requiring age verification are _littered_ with tracking software that does _literally_ this.

Further, if you put on an adblocker and I get access to the logs at ironbank and hornpub; I could just query them for your IP address.

Collusion to this degree is possible, but doesn't seem worth worrying about if the aforementioned attack vectors still exist. My $0.02.
by cs702 | 2025-09-24 16:59:57+00:00
Great post, thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

Interestingly, in the past, the US federal government actively made efforts to keep private organizations from becoming too dominant. Here are just a few examples, from memory:

* The Bell system was broken up, resulting in a geographically distributed telecom network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System : Your phone company was local.

* Banks could not cross state lines, resulting in a geographically distributed financial system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFadden_Act : Your bank was always local.

* Banks were prohibited from entering riskier businesses, resulting in a compartmentalized system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla... : Your bank did not try to sell you investments.

* Monopolies and oligopolies were routinely busted, resulting in less concentration in many industries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law#United_States_... .

The companies you dealt with every day were typically smaller, more local, more subject to competition, and less able to yield economic and political power, particularly at the national level.

Nowadays, power and resources seem to be far more concentrated.
by omnicognate | 2025-09-24 17:00:19+00:00
Microsoft have a terrible track record for moving and deleting technical content, to the extent I think I'd rather their developers host their articles almost anywhere else.

Maoni Stephens is the lead developer on the .NET garbage collector. An "About" entry would probably help, but she has a lot of name recognition in the .NET community and in the article it's clear from the first sentence that she's talking from the perspective of owning the GC.
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-09-24 17:00:20+00:00
> I suspect this is going to be one of the next big areas in cloud FinOps.

It already is. There’s been a lot of talk and development around FinOps for AI and the challenges that come with that. For companies, forecasting token usage and AI costs is non-trivial for internal purposes. For external products, what’s the right unit economic? $/token, $/agentic execution, etc? The former is detached from customer value, the latter is hard to track and will have lots of variance.

With how variable output size can be (and input), it’s a tricky space to really get a grasp on at this point in time. It’ll become a solved problem, but right now, it’s the Wild West.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-24 17:00:33+00:00
I think it is the same kind of magic thinking about 5G that causes people to believe that those base stations somehow mysteriously know to within a couple of feet where a handset is located. That's just not how it works, at all. At best you could say that the interference pattern caused by a particular engagement of the radios has a local peak that - hopefully - coincides with the location of a particular handset. But there are countless such interference patterns and no single one will stand out to say 'that's the one', besides the impossibility of actually calculating the patterns because of the lack of knowledge about the environment.

It's also amusing to see lots of people state with great authority how simple it is to track down a transmitter, when in fact they've probably never so much as participated in a fox hunt, which can get quite interesting at higher frequencies and when not in open field.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-24 17:00:36+00:00
Not at all. It's a reflection on human behaviour, in the content that the other commenter said that you shouldn't concern yourself with bad actors as long as you can later say that "you did the right thing". That can bring you to bad situations, as another poster warned about above.

Taking care to not be an abuser and to not be a victim is rather the best path, even if it demands more from the person. It's easy to just do what others tell you, but it will soon bring misery.
by bluGill | 2025-09-24 17:00:45+00:00
For most perhaps, but I want to know what I'll really pay. I already know I'm going to check luggage (or not, but now that I have kids and am going for longer vacations checked bags is not something I'll do without), so I want to see the price with checked bags. Likewise I know I'm willing to pay for the legroom of economy plus (the rest of my family doesn't care, though my kids are soon hit their final growth and soon will). I've just added $1000 to my actually price, but all I see is the per person ticket price with no options...

There is a reason I took Amtrak last vacation. Too bad they doen't go do where my next vacation will be.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-24 17:00:56+00:00
Not just that, but it would presumably be sensitive to light emission spectra too. As inks can only reflect wavelengths of light that hit them, if the emission spectra has spikes or gaps - think LED or florescent - the reflected spectra will be a function of the light source[1].

Perhaps there's some accounting for this, and I'm curious to learn what it is, because it's a phenomenally complex problem.

1. You might think the sun is a standard source, but it's usually modulated by the atmosphere[2].

2. Unless you are in space.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-09-24 17:00:59+00:00
Yes it only works when participants have a shared aim

In full sociocracy, it...

> honors the circle’s ability to freely make decisions within its domain. This is key for the organization to remain effective. But it comes at the cost of members not having “consent rights” to every decision the organization makes. Each member will only have those rights for the circles they are a part of.

So it's not necessary to allow people outside that working group to veto or require compulsory followup through objection

There's no perfect solution to organization, everything is a tradeoff. I've also been part of working groups (made of people whose job description is to manage the scope of changes they're proposing) where everyone and the workers impacted by the decisions are in agreement and no impact on cost etc., but the exec decides no change can be made due to personal preference despite disastrous consequence. Or where an exec who abstains from checking in on a working group's efforts nonetheless counters it with shifting and contradictory demands whenever it comes time to take action, requiring going back to the drawing board repeatedly until people simply give up or leave the organization. Or where the exec asks for more data for a proposal, and then doesn't evaluate the data once gathered, leaving no recourse but to give up or leave the organization. We all have stories like this. Hierarchical organizations are also susceptible to paralysis.
by alerighi | 2025-09-24 17:01:18+00:00
This is plain stupid. Countries (e.g. where I live) already have systems like SPID or CIE that can authenticate users using a multitude of factors, for example I can authenticate myself with a QR and a phone, or I can not even have a phone at all and have a 20 euros NFC reader connected to the PC and can authenticate using my digital document and a PIN.

I see this as a huge stepback to be fair.
by istjohn | 2025-09-24 17:01:34+00:00
I mostly blame bad journalism for this. Always looking for sensational content to capture attention, outlets publish credulous articles on single journal articles without providing enough context for their unsophisticated audience. It would take much more time and effort to properly contextualized them, and in many cases, it would be apparent that it is too early for the general public to draw any conclusions from the research. It wouldn't be newsworthy.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-24 17:02:02+00:00
"How to suck up in public but bad mouth in private" is I suppose some good advice if one doesn't mind hypocrisy or lying or having integrity. But if you're middle-management in a company being described here, you've long since lost any revulsion to hypocrisy. If my manager was saying one thing to one person/group and another to me, I don't think that's good leadership at all, mainly shitty humanity.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 17:02:43+00:00
Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies#Tinky_Winky_contro...

Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_comments_on_Georg...

Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._national_anthem_kneeling_...

Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor_on_Satu...

But sure, the left invented it.
by ritzaco | 2025-09-24 17:02:47+00:00
yeah definitely my favourite feature on android too that I use multiple times per day. Unlike the people saying taking a screenshot is basically the same on iOS - no it isn't. This moves the whole display into an ephemeral screenshot and you can copy text, translate, all kinds of things, without the delay of taking a screenshot, or worrying about that file hanging around permanently after.

Super ironic that often images are the most accessible way to share text data these days but that's what enshittification brought us.
by codyb | 2025-09-24 17:03:56+00:00
Ah, that's interesting. I've definitely learned a ton through the vocabulary and conjugation decks and they're a great way to continue learning even on days when there's little other stimulus.

I think what's key is that I'm taking the words and conjugation rules I'm learning and using them relatively quickly, often that day or that week. I.E., I'll come across words in Anki, then hear them in a baseball broadcast or see them in a news article. Or I'll recognize what tense something is because of the rules.

So it's supplemental, and maybe that's why it's sticking better. I don't think I'd want to create decks constantly, I created one 140 card deck and that was enough.

Finally, I do frequently use memory tricks to create associations so maybe my experience with memory castles, mnemonics, and other techniques (which I use on cards I forget frequently to create links I'm unable to create quickly on my own (or to differentiate similar words (or words that are the same but in different tenses))).

Yea, it's _work_!
by electric_muse | 2025-09-24 17:04:13+00:00
I feel this.

Tried launching something in 2022. Night of the launch, my whole team pulls an all nighter.

Some launches suddenly pull ahead with 20 upvotes right out of the gate. We have a handful. I see the same LinkedIn messages this author cites, but I ignore them. Why cheat?

Once someone secure a top spot, all the traffic goes to those apps, and they stay ahead to matter what. Accumulative advantage.

1 hour later, we get hit with a cyberattack. We don’t have rate limiters on sending invites from validated users, and someone overwhelms that system. All the queues are flooded and grind to a halt.

We work furiously to resolve it. It takes hours to get everything flushed and healthy again.

We ended in 9th place or something.

Never again. I realized it’s just pay to play.
by linsomniac | 2025-09-24 17:04:18+00:00
Someone needs to build a phone that is leaning towards a tricorder; I'd buy that for myself and my kids. My Pixel 10 has a temp sensor on it, which is cool, but I've had minimal use so far.

I've always wanted to build a tricorder with my son, was just thinking about it last week when he was putting together a digital compass (with RasPi Nano, magnetic sensor, GPS, and LED light ring + OLED).
by nostrademons | 2025-09-24 17:04:27+00:00
Matches my experience. Our kids' co-op preschool went out of business last year; their actual preschool got bought by private equity and is struggling to survive. Longtime neighbors say the spirit of volunteerism in the upper schools is suffering. And institutions that were big civic centers when I grew up - freemasons, Boy/Girl/Cub/Brownie Scouts, 4-H, YMCA/YWCA, local bowling/skating rinks, etc - are now shadows of themselves.

I'll posit a mechanism: when times are good, small organizations are born, growing out of people's spare time and sense of security in the future. After all, by definition organizations start small. And then when times are bad, small organizations are the first to die, because they lack the economies of scale and financial reserves that allow them to weather a contraction. We've entered a time of scarcity since COVID; that's put severe pressure on many smaller organizations, leading to them withering and shrinking away.

Interestingly, bad times often lead to large organizations becoming dysfunctional, but not dying because they have sufficient reserves to weather the storm. We see this with Big Tech now; we saw it with American automakers in the 1970s. During the next expansion period they often lose competitiveness to new startups, and then in the next contraction they die and their replacements become large organizations.
by gambiting | 2025-09-24 17:05:00+00:00
Honestly the biggest problem is that government requires companies to verify identity of their employees but doesn't give them any means to do so. There was a recent case where a fish and chip shop owner was fined £40k for employing someone without a legal right to work in the UK, and the owner said the guy literally showed him his British passport, turns out it was a fake - but how was he(the business owner) supposed to know, if the government doesn't allow him to check this?
by zwnow | 2025-09-24 17:05:13+00:00
I recently moved away from as much big tech as possible. Canceled Spotify, won't order anything from Amazon, deleted Instagram, trying not to watch as much YouTube Videos etc. Sadly cant move away from WhatsApp and Google yet...

Instead, I am sitting here right now working on a blogging engine so I can create personal blogs to let my friends keep up to date with my shenanigans. Basically give them a chance to participate in my life without enabling them to doom scroll.

I really hope its not only me growing tired of all these addictive unhealthy apps and subscriptions that sneaked into most peoples everyday life. I can only recommend boycotting big tech with CEOs only caring about their own enrichment.

Its only the internet part of life, but this is where I spend most of my time. In real life I try to buy from the local stores as much as possible. However, I do not participate in many other smaller organizations...