MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-08 01:06:17+00:00
> Close is all that is possible with human systems. The alternative is giving up on all legal action, because every single one is fallible.

There are other alternatives. Many countries have rational immigration rules and enforcement.

> Would you forego all law enforcement in your own country because of a nonzero error rate?

A blatant false dilemma.
by larsiusprime | 2025-09-08 01:06:19+00:00
What are you talking about? There are verifiable primary sources that ChatGPT was not citing. There are direct primary historical sources that lay out the full budget of the historical German colony in extreme detail, that directly contradict assertions made in the Silagi paper, that’s not a matter of opinion that’s a matter of verifiable fact.

Also what “axe” am I grinding? The findings are specifically inconvenient for my political beliefs, not confirming my priors! My priors would be flattered if Silagi was correct about everything but the primary sources definitively prove he’s exaggerating.

> You published a blog about that opinion, and you want ChatGPT to say you're to accept your view.

False, and I address this multiple times in the piece. I don’t want ChatGPT to mindlessly agree with me, I want it to discover the primary source documents.
by motorest | 2025-09-08 01:06:45+00:00
> This was one of the most unsatisfying things about learning C++ move semantics. They only kinda move the thing, leaving this shell behind is a nightmare.

I don't know what nightmares you have. The only requirement that C++ specifies for moved-from objects is that they remain valid. Meaning, they can be safely destroyed.

You can go way out of your way and reuse an object that was just moved, but that's a decision you somehow made, and you have the responsibility of adding your reinitialization or even move logic to get that object back in shape. That is hardly something that sneaks up on you.
by monkeydreams | 2025-09-08 01:07:09+00:00
> There are already cheaper, better vehicles being produced in China that American consumers cannot buy due to exhorbitant tariffs.

As an example, Australia has lifted many of the import barriers to entry to the car market and is flooded (in a good way) with cheap, reliable, and safe electric vehicles. US cars, once heavily dominating under local branding, are vanishingly rare (except in the "light truck wanker" marketplace).
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-08 01:08:12+00:00
Like I said I have nothing against the blog post or writing about it, that was by no means meant as a criticism of you. And I agree it's worth writing and talking about. What surprises me is that we're in a forum for technology enthusiasts.

FWIW Gemini at least has been pretty good at this since late 2024 IMO.

As for where things are now, I just ran a comparison with ChatGPT 5 in thinking mode against Google search's AI mode across a few questions. They performed the same on the searches I tried and returned substantially the same answer except for some minor variation here or there. Google search is maybe an order of magnitude faster. Google obviously has an advantage here which is that it has full access to their search and ranking index.

And of course the ability to make multiple searches and reason about them for been available for months, maybe almost a year, as deep research mode. I guess the novelty now is you can wait a smaller time and get research that's less deep.
by ggm | 2025-09-08 01:08:17+00:00
I want to push back on part of the message. I agree routine prescribing is a problem which can lie at the heart of what does ultimately kill older people. But, some problems (like persisting interrupted sleep) aren't actually amenable to simple sleep hygiene methods in some people. The drugs, with side effects, help when it turns out your idiopathic sleep problem isn't resolving with CBT. I am lucky my sleep irregularity is a function of my work (jetlag travel) and play (early starts for rowing) -my partner would love a regular sleep, but without some assistance, does not get there and she has been assessed repeatedly for the non-drug pathways. They just don't work for her.

I think the problem is, we're exposed to more people with brittle bones, being encouraged to be active, which is of course GOOD for their bones, but also increases the risk. In times past, we'd have wrapped them in a tartan blanket and pushed them to the park in a wheelchair. Now, we encourage a more risk-taking approach, and so the cohort who suffer life affecting falls rise. In times past, that cohort probably had died earlier.

Middle ear problems, balance, massive in this. as a (young!) 64 year old I notice my pilates classes emphasise balance work alongside core strength. The physios are explicit: if they can key people to keep balance, work on joint issues affecting stability, even help them "fall more safely" it's a better outcome than just working core strength and weight bearing exercise, but leaving balance issues unattended. And indeed the drugs probably are part of the problem. I have something which is akin to POTS in that my (drug)managed Hypertension leaves me exposed to dizzy spells standing up suddenly. I'm not going to stop the BP meds, I have to learn to cope with the change in BP when I change posture.

Another part of the problem is the emergence of newer infections like covid, which if they manifest as middle ear problems means BPPV. I've had a lot of my older cohort of friends complain since they started getting the regular cycle of flu, RSV, covid, they've had vertigo off-and-on.
by davetron5000 | 2025-09-08 01:08:43+00:00
There’s also a typography element to formatting source code. The notion that all code formatting is mere personal preference isn’t true. Formatting code a certain way can help to communicate meaning and structure. This is lost when the minimal tokens are serialized and re-constituted using an automated tool.

https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2013/05/17/source-code-typograp...
by geor9e | 2025-09-08 01:09:05+00:00
"The intention is to compile this driver as an out-of-tree kernel module, without needing to copy it into the kernel source tree. That's why there's just a simple Makefile, and no other affordances for kernel inclusion. I can't really imagine any further need to build this driver into the kernel itself.

The last version of the driver that was included in the kernel, right up until it was removed, was version 3.04.

BUT, the author continued to develop the driver independently of kernel releases. In fact, the last known version of the driver was 4.04a, in 2000.

My goal is to continue maintaining this driver for modern kernel versions, 25 years after the last official release." - https://github.com/dbrant/ftape
by oxguy3 | 2025-09-08 01:09:36+00:00
If repair shops can buy the $130 calibration machine, presumably the super spy in this story (who for some reason couldn't steal the data while they were replacing the lid sensor, nor can they steal the data when the laptop's in use, but somehow can steal the data when it's idle with the lid down) can also get a calibration machine, and then deliberately set the zero point incorrectly.
by istjohn | 2025-09-08 01:10:26+00:00
Tesla's success shows that people want high-quality EVs. And if competition in the local EV market drives quality up and prices down, they will become more and more compelling to consumers. But tariffs isolate domestic manufacturers from foreign competition where the latest advancements are currently being made. American manufacturers are already not competitive in the global market.

But perhaps most importantly, we must transition from fossil fuels to avoid the most dire possible outcomes of climate change. It doesn't matter if you enjoy a pipe after dinner, you can't smoke in a family restaraunt because it would harm the well-being of the other diners.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-08 01:10:56+00:00
You, but shorter: It can't be done perfectly in 100.0% of all possible circumstances, so better to do absolutely nothing at all. On an unrelated note, this strongly aligns with their economic interests.

For storage specifically, in that circumstance, if you weren't hellbent on claiming otherwise: it's easy to figure out what to do. For storage: block writes and reach out to the customer. Also, people are extremely unlikely to accidentally upload eg 250tb which is how you'd get to, say, $200/day. Whereas similar bills are extremely easy to accidentally create with other services.

It's totally reasonable to want spend limits firmer than AWS' discretion, which they can revoke at any point in time for any reason.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-08 01:10:57+00:00
Four years ago I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860500:

> Not fond of Pico.css’s weight, though: over 50KB, nowhere near as lightweight as the name suggests (even if it’s above-average compressible, 8KB gzipped—but I wouldn’t count even 8KB uncompressed as pico); in this case, if you flatten the variables and strip unused code, you’re left with under 4KB (~1.4KB gzipped). Lots of bloat from unused light mode support, things like form controls, and a fair bit of frivolous custom properties usage. This is the sort of place where I see the appeal of the likes of Tailwind, because they generate such huge amounts of CSS that you just about have to use an unused style remover. But it is another build step, and contrary to the deliberate intent here.

And it sounds like it has grown further. I don’t see 71kb, I see 83KB (11.6KB gzipped, 10.1KB brotli). At that point I wouldn’t even call it small, and it’s even getting past medium-sized into large territory.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-08 01:11:16+00:00
How does Apple know the owner of the product has authorized the HW change?

There’s a secondary argument you could make here whereby because the replacements must be valid Apple parts that have uniform behavior and tolerances, the strength of the secondary market is stronger and Apple products have a stronger resale value as a result, because you’re not going to encounter a MacBook with an arbitrary part replaced that you as the second-hand buyer know nothing about (this is why the secondary market for cars doesn’t work without the ability to lookup the car history by VIN).
by satisfice | 2025-09-08 01:11:43+00:00
Who is “they?” There is no they.

Obviously, there are no fixed rules. There is just the economy and how you position yourself to participate in it. That positioning is called your career.

I haven’t gotten a job by applying for one since 1986. I haven’t been recruited to a full-time job since 1998. So far this century, I have subsisted as an independent consultant, participating in the economy on somewhat creative terms.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-08 01:12:30+00:00
> Don't pretend to not know the point. Rich executives and profiteers are the ones committing the actual crime. They're coordinating hundreds of people around with the express intent of using illegal labor to subvert local wages and workers' rights.

Then charge them with the appropriate crime.

> But every time one of these busts happen, no executives go to jail. They bust in, grab potentially hundreds of instances of those executives committing felonies, and pretend those working class people are the problem, quietly letting the execs giggle away to the bank. Often with a fee single digits percents of what they saved / made.

Okay, then fix that instead of deciding to allow a bunch of people who are here illegally to remain because you're upset that other people aren't being charged.

> If there were 300 people here working illegally, I want to see multiple Hyundai executive charged with 300 counts of the associated felony crime.

Fine by me. Not sure why you're ranting at me about this tangent from the question I asked the parent poster.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-08 01:12:35+00:00
I wouldn't put .doc and .docx next to one another, as they're only tangentially related. I'd bet getting the <html><body><p>hello, world</p></body></html> of .docx would be some silliness, but would not be hard to grok. I couldn't readily find a browsable copy of ECMA 376 4th Ed online but https://github.com/PumasAI/WriteDocx.jl/blob/v1.2.0/docs/src... was in the ballpark of what I expected to find in some section of the actual spec
by non_aligned | 2025-09-08 01:12:47+00:00
I really want to believe, but if I had a penny for every time that analog, optical, ternary, clockless, or other radically non-standard computing paradigms were supposed to revolutionize the industry... I'd have a nice pile of pennies.

Electronic signaling is just so marvelously easy to scale that the right path was clear pretty much from day one. We don't have that path for other operating principles right now. As for synchronous operation, binary signaling, and so forth, they're once again just scaling tools that let us crank out designs with billions of transistors without hand-crafting every piece or making the abstractions more leaky than they already are.
by ethagnawl | 2025-09-08 01:14:40+00:00
You're right but I think it's even more broad than just sexual harassment, racism, bullying, etc. MAGA has given people license to be shitty and not have to worry (as much) about the social, legal or political costs. In many cases, people are actively rewarded for their bad behavior because "it makes them authentic" or because there's a large enough percentage of the population that shares the same biases.
by amacalac | 2025-09-08 01:14:50+00:00
$50 to move past your bottleneck? I’d say that’s worth a fortune in ROI if you had:

a) poor design sense; b) poor design engineering (you have good design sense but can’t figure out how to build it); c) taken more than your hourly salary to learn a + b.

Agree with understanding if you could do it cheaper and faster next time, but the rule of 3 usually applies: “good, fast and cheap, pick 2”

It looks like you’re on the right track; pragmatism about specific tools, and their use cases.

Hopefully your friend sees the value in the tool and a big ROI too!
by Lammy | 2025-09-08 01:15:03+00:00
If we're talking Bond-tier assessments then Apple already sell a covert microphone: AirTags. They “have no microphone” according to product specs, but they do have a huge speaker, and a speaker and microphone are the same thing like a generator and motor are the same thing: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/news/eaves_dropping.aspx
by monkeydreams | 2025-09-08 01:15:07+00:00
> other than admission to defeat compared to Chinese EVs

Or, to put it in another way; better and cheaper options for consumers.

> in every country that doesn’t have domestic car industry or huge tariffs against them.

Not every country needs a local car industry. Having a small number of efficient manufacturing countries means that everyone (both the consumers and the manufacturing countries) are better off.

As a non-American, there is nothing special or magical about the US economy besides its size. American cars are generally sub-standard and are increasingly unpopular in my country as they are either too large/loud or saddled with US politics.
by meesles | 2025-09-08 01:15:52+00:00
> Use these tools as a massive force multiplier of your own skills.

I've felt this learning just this week - it's taken me having to create a small project with 10 clear repetitions, messily made from AI input. But then the magic is making 'consolidation' tasks where you can just guide it into unifying markup, styles/JS, whatever you may have on your hands.

I think it was less obvious to me in my day job because in a startup with a lack of strong coding conventions, it's harder to apply these pattern-matching requests since there are fewer patterns. I can imagine in a strict, mature codebase this would be way more effective.
by motorest | 2025-09-08 01:16:10+00:00
> Making the moved from object inaccessible like in Rust would have required static ownership tracking which I guess the C++ committee was afraid to commit to (...)

I'm not sure the "afraid to commit to" is a valid interpretation. The requirements that the C++ standard specifies for moved-from objects turns that hypothetical issue into a non-problem. In C++, if you move an object then after the move the object must be left in a valid state. That's it. This means the object can be safely destroyed.

You are also free to implement whatever semantics your moved-from object has. If you want your moved-from object to throw an exception, you are free to implement that. If instead you want to ensure your moved-from can be reused you are also free to do so. If you want to support zombie objects then nothing prevents you from going that path. It's up to you. The only thing the standard specifies is that once the lifetime of that object ends, it can be safely destroyed. That sounds both obvious and elegant, don't you agree?
by kragen | 2025-09-08 01:17:21+00:00
Presumably when prewett said "When the Japanese imported it, they used the characters much more phonetically," they meant onyomi. (Perhaps they didn't know about kunyomi.) When they say, "but the characters got assigned to the Japanese pronunciation of the word," that is mostly wrong as a description of how Japanese writing uses kanji today, but I think that is the process from which kana came: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dgana and apparently it isn't quite extinct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji

There are kanji less obscure than 論. There are some that are so common that even I know them. It is in the 6th grade jōyō kanji, but I doubt it's in the top 1000 most common characters in Japanese, maybe not even the top 2000. You could probably guess that 侖 is the phonetic, and 論 is a Chinese loanword so that might help, but by itself that's an even less common character, so you probably won't know it if you don't know 論. 侖 occurs as a phonetic in 倫 and 輪, but that's no help, because there it's "rin" instead of "ron". Did anyone guess "rin"?

"Sus" actually is "sub"! As in "look up to". From below, I guess, like the South Wind. Just as an overseer or supervisor sees from above rather than seeing something above him.
by techdar42 | 2025-09-08 01:17:29+00:00
Dating apps have long promised to help people find love, but Japan’s newest entrant, Loverse, takes that concept a step further: Every potential match on the platform is powered entirely by generative AI. Unlike traditional apps that connect people, Loverse pairs users with “AI boyfriends” or “AI girlfriends” who text, flirt and even sulk much like a real person would.
by lxe | 2025-09-08 01:17:30+00:00
> you could view the source however you wanted. Spaces vs. tabs didn't matter because neither affects the semantics and the editor on the system let you modify the program tree directly (known today as projectional editing).

But formatting still doesn't matter. Outside of whitespace-dependent languages, formatting is a subjective thing -- it's a people concern, not a computer concern. I can store my JavaScript as AST if I want to.
by mastercheif | 2025-09-08 01:18:26+00:00
I kept search off for a long time due to it tanking the quality of the responses from ChatGPT.

I recently added the following to my custom instructions to get the best of both worlds:

# Modes

When the user enters the following strings you should follow the following mode instructions:

1. "xz": Use the web tool as needed when developing your answer.

2. "xx": Exclusively use your own knowledge instead of searching the internet.

By default use mode "xz". The user can switch between modes during a chat session. Stay with the current mode until the user explicitly switches modes.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-08 01:18:43+00:00
My experience is different. If my wife goes to the counter and I order electronically, she is always done faster. This is doubly so if I use a phone app, because the app is painfully slow.

If it was just slow, I might put up with it. But the systems are broken. For example, it's recently changed, but the electronic order screen in the restaurant used to print a receipt with an order number. The bulk of the time the printer was didn't work - out of paper or something else. Then you had to remember the order number, or have an argument with the counter staff, or on occasions both.

The app is anything is worse. On several occasions I've had the app not clear my previous order after collecting it. I didn't notice. The result was a double order the next time around. If I did notice, it would take ages to clear the order because the app insisted you delete the items one at a time and it's takes seconds for each item. On one occasion I drove up, gave my app code to the cashier, only to have the restaurant claim they had no record of the order. I showed them their app on the phone saying it had been paid. They said they could not trust it. It took me 30 minutes on their web site to get the payment refunded.

One restaurant has recently fixed the printer receipt problem. They get you to enter your name now, and they call it out when serving the order. The printer has gone. It took, what, 5 years to recognise the problem and find a fix. I assume the same will happen with the app, but I'd expect another 5 years at least.

The reason the cashier is faster is partially because the app is slow, but also because the UI is different. The user friendly interface displays long lists with nice pictures the user has to navigate by scrolling. The cash register UI is designed for speed. It displays lots text buttons that near respond instantaneously. They could streamline the app interface a little, but you will never be able to hit the speed of a experienced cashier entering the order, or an AI doing the same thing. The app using an AI to process your voice order on the other hand could be just as fast. Maybe that is what we will get next.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-08 01:19:19+00:00
You can set up billing alerts to trigger actions that stop things when they trigger. The easiest way is to take permissions away from the roles you create.

They give you the tools. It’s up to you to use them. If that’s too difficult, use the AWS LightSail services where you are charged a fixed price and you don’t have to worry about overages or the new free tier

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Because despite what everyone here is saying, before July of this year, there was no such thing as a free tier of AWS, there was a free tier of some of their services
by jacquesm | 2025-09-08 01:20:21+00:00
The point is that you strongly suggest that we collectively expected them to do just that, when nobody did that. So it makes a big difference on why they are here, they had nowhere else to go, we made room for them, collectively, and tried to make it work. Not always equally successful but for the most part it did. Their kids are doing a lot better than their parents (I see plenty of them in the schools of my children).

But, in an interesting turn of affairs, the same groups that were screaming 'foreigners!!! they'll take our jobs!!! they'll take our women!!! they are not Christians!!!' about Indonesian people in the 60's, Surinam people in the 70's, Turks in the 80's, Moroccans in the 90's, Poles, Romanians, Latvians, Armenians, Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians and Afghans in the two decades after that are perfectly ok with it as long as it allows them to cling to their fears and stoke the division. Never mind that those first waves are now all but indistinguishable from the rest here.

There still is a massive disadvantage to being non-white, so Poles, Latvians and Ukrainians have an easier time of it. And it will take a long time before that difference has been leveled, if ever. Unfortunately.