MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koliber | 2025-09-12 05:27:11+00:00
That’s in theory.

In practice these banners regularly break. They are hard to click on certain devices where the button is off screen. If they use JavaScript and there is an error elsewhere, you can’t hide them. And I regularly see them over and over again on the same sites because for some reason they can’t track me effectively for this purpose.

In short they are a regular minor annoyance that does take time and effort.
by digitalPhonix | 2025-09-12 05:27:21+00:00
> It has done literally nothing to improve anything whatsoever, in any country

That’s because of malicious compliance from all the websites/advertisers. I guess that is partly the lawmakers’ fault for not pre-empting that; but much larger blame lies on the industry that refuses to grant user privacy.

As an example for a site that followed the intent of the law instead: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-ou...

Github removed excess tracking so they didn’t need to show a cookie banner and that’s what GDPR’s intent was.
by bauruine | 2025-09-12 05:27:37+00:00
Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. /s

All my shelf stable products have been in my pantry for a few months before I even open them. You can do FILO yourself and have always a nice emergency supply and it can even cheaper because you can buy the stuff on sale most of the time. The problem is that many people just buy day to day and already have a problem when the shops are closed for a holiday they haven't anticipated because they buy just in time.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-12 05:28:09+00:00
Kids can't do it right, eh?

They can't go outside any more - third places (aka, places where one can be without consuming something) are sorely lacking, doubly so for youth who are driven away by "mosquito" teen-repellent devices, and you need to be able to get there without being in danger of getting pulped by a SUV so tall the driver literally cannot see a child.

Oh and parents don't want their kids go out alone lest they be charged with neglect by some HOA busybody snitch siccing CPS on them.

They can't be at school after hours because it's closed or because school is an unsafe place for them (e.g. bullying).

They spend too much time in front of computers, their Boomer parents cry about violent games turning their kids into killers or porn turning them gay.

They can't be on their phones because Boomers cry that they're not doing anything else.

Tell me, what are kids supposed to do? It's like an inverse Schrödinger's cat.
by mleo | 2025-09-12 05:28:12+00:00
Agreed. There is a difference.

I used vibe coding to build a UI prototype of workflow. I used mockup images as the basis of the layout and let the agent use Redis as the persistence layer. I know it will be throw away and don't care how it is working underneath as long as it can demonstrate the flow I want.

I have also used prompt driven development to allow the agent to code something I expect to turn into a longer term product. I do more review of the code, ensure it is meeting all standards to development I would expect of myself or any other developer.

There are certainly differing degrees of the two types of development.
by molticrystal | 2025-09-12 05:29:28+00:00
The talk that was referred to in the the article can be found here, just 13 minutes:

Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIKo

While the article does a great job, the video's graphs and photos really bring a lot more depth.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-12 05:30:10+00:00
>Also, while I'm sure that Anthropic has benefited from training its models on this dataset

I thought that they didn't use this data for training, the "crime" here was making the copies.

>I think that's fair, considering that two of those books received advances under $20K and never earned out.

i don't understand your logic here, if they never earned out that means you were already "overpaid" compared to what they were worth in the market. shouldn't fairness mean this extra bonus goes first to cover the unmet earnout?
by sn0n | 2025-09-12 05:30:36+00:00
I have a 512gb s22 ultra wifi only that was a handle down, the carrier radio was fried and they just sent a replacement... It's an amazing offline mp3 player loaded up with my 45k song Library. Using auxio from f-droid which handles it fine. Couldn't be happier. Also have the full library loaded onto my nextcloud (selfhosted, behind wireguard) and my laptop. I try to avoid the streaming side of things because camping and road trips happen.
by tcmart14 | 2025-09-12 05:32:22+00:00
I would say both are true. Kirk had the number 1 youth conservative movement. But, even with that, he isn't as well known as some people think because very few of the youth are engaged in politics. Most of the people I know who know of him are the terminally online YouTube politics watchers. Which is not a large group. I would say the same would be said of whoever the most influential leftist young political thinker is, maybe Hasan. They are big in a circle, but its not really a that big of a circle.
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-12 05:33:09+00:00
Reminds me of stories about salespeople compensation in the book "The difference between God and Larry Ellison (God does not believe he is Larry Ellison)". Oracle salespeople received commissions before customers had paid, and many of them made additional "side" contracts with customers that let them cancel the deal, but were not considered (or known) for the purpose of calculating the commission.
by famouswaffles | 2025-09-12 05:33:57+00:00
>You're arguing in bad faith again. I agree with you UNTIL you enact DEI then you have to wonder if they got the job because of qualifications and competency or because of some racial quota...

I'm not arguing in bad faith. You do not need to worry about anything. Do your job and mind your business. Millions of white people get hired for dubious reasons but I'm sure you don't go around wondering if every white worker you see is competent. That is what is racist. It's especially silly because it does not mean a lack of competence, so you just look like an idiot hiding behind an asinine 'problem'.

With people like you, there's always the undercurrent that a black person must have been hired because of diversity and not a presence of skill. Why else would you be worrying about a random fucking pilot. Do you have any idea what it takes to be one ? He obviously didn't. Did he know the guy ? No. Did he know anything about the airline's work environment ? No. He just said it because 'oh it's a black person'.

>Yes, of course, you didn't come off gloating or gleeful at all.

You think that was me being gleeful ? Lol

>If you can't be free to have unpopular opinions or disagree, then you don't live in a free society.

You can have your opinions and I can call you a piece of shit for it. It's not mutually exclusive. Fuck ignorant 'opinions' that just spew hatred.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-09-12 05:34:47+00:00
What are you using that's causing performance issues?

It runs like a dream when playing with the first window. When opening a second window and dragging it around it stutters for a second then resumes back to full speed and every window after is full speed. (I'm assuming that's the browser going: "Oh wait, they really are using those functions every frame, let me spend a moment to optimize them so they're as fast as possible for future executions)
by fy20 | 2025-09-12 05:35:21+00:00
My country does this, however there are multiple authentication options.

The main one is a private company that provides an authentication system using private certificates. When you try to login to an authenticated website your phone pops up a message asking you to verify the login and enter your PIN. That signs the request with your private certificate and sends it back to the provider. Other actions such as transfering money or signing contracts require you to authenticate using a different certificate, with a different PIN. The private certificate stays on your device (there are mechanisms to generate a new one if you lose your device).

The other options are ID cards with a USB card reader or a mobile signature in the SIM card of your phone. For government website and utility companies you can usually authenticate with your bank as another option.

I prefer it to username/password as all I need is my ID number (which unlike the US doesn't need to be private) and my phone. And basically everything you need to use to adult uses this system.
by xp84 | 2025-09-12 05:35:53+00:00
The 'selling of data' is separate of course, but the banners do nothing to actually ensure that they aren't collecting data you don't know about. They're honor system, which is dumb when you could have browsers not send that data back without opt-in.

In other words, of course Facebook knows you like bacon if you've followed 5 bacon fan pages and joined a bacon lovers group, and they could sell that fact.

But without cookies being saved long-term, Facebook wouldn't know that you are shopping for a sweater unless you did that shopping on Facebook. Today they undoubtedly do know if you are shopping for anything because cookies exist and because browsers are configured to always save cookies across sessions.

Also, I always point this out when this topic comes up: Of all websites I visit and have to click stupid banners on, almost none of them are in the market of "selling data" or building dossiers about individuals ("Steve Smith bought flowers on June 19th. Steve is 28 years old. He has a Ford Explorer. He lives in Boston."). They just want to get metrics on which of their ads worked, and maybe to know aggregate demographics about their audience. My local water utility, Atlassian, and Nintendo to pick 3 sites at random, have never been and are not in the business of data brokerage. But they do need to show cookie banners to not be sued for imaginary harms under CCPA or GDPR (unless they want to not make any use of online advertising or even aggregate analytics).
by kulahan | 2025-09-12 05:37:36+00:00
I don't think anyone is arguing either of those things, but 12k excess deaths in a country of 330 million means this should logically be incredibly low on our priority list.

What else with a 0.00006% (20k/330M) chance of happening are we walking around worried about every day?

Edit: Note that the correct answer here is that these mass shooting deaths are primarily focused on school children, and has become their (first? second?) leading cause of death at certain age groups. IMO we solve this by raising the gun purchase age to 26, because this is mostly school-age children shooting younger school-age children, then we can ignore the problem pretty much indefinitely.
by deaddodo | 2025-09-12 05:38:16+00:00
It’s a barely hashed together spec for associating webpages. It doesn’t seem to offer any of the “value” that social networks do, the prime of which being an easy-to-initialize profile with copious features.

It could be possible with nerds/geeks. However, that group (in the early 00s, at least) was far more interested in keeping their online anonymity prime and avoiding social networks; so I could totally see why it was dead in the water.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-12 05:38:42+00:00
It is not a personal account where what you put in is yours. You don't have a balance that runs down to zero if you live too long.

"The more you put in the more you get out" is only because that is how your benefit is computed. It is not because there is a certain amount of your money somewhere.

Related: your benefit is calculated on your 35 highest income years, not the total sum of your contributions. [1]

Other thing worth noting: the AARP page about SS myths that literally says: "Myth #7: Social Security is like a retirement savings account." [2]

The trust funds for social security are used to pay for everyone's current benefits and the rest is invested [3]. The fact that it's supposed to remain solvent still doesn't make it a retirement account.

Yes: it feels like a retirement account because you pay in now and (hopefully) cash out later. But that is only a feeling.

And finally, I started my GP comment with "nit" as one of my first three words because I understand the distinction is somewhat hair-splitty, but it is still real and relevant to how we think about it.

1- https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/11/11/social-securi...

2- https://www.aarp.org/social-security/myths-misconceptions-ex...

3- https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/describeoasi.html
by gameman144 | 2025-09-12 05:38:53+00:00
Legitimately not trying to be coy, but would you consider a game like Fortnite to be an instance of "lock-in" for teenagers? For instance, a teenager might say:

1. Fortnite doesn't have an iPhone app, so if I switch to iOS I can't play with my friends

2. My friends only play Fortnite, so I can't play with them unless I play Fortnite.

3. My skins can't be used on Roblox.

4. I lose access to all my custom worlds

5. Other game engines don't work for building Fortnite custom worlds, I have to use Unreal.

It feels like a certain amount of lock-in is expected just from network effects of products, no?
by xp84 | 2025-09-12 05:39:20+00:00
I do click yes. It still wastes my time since especially on mobile they obscure at least 1/3 of the viewport. They're just like the other popups that are now on most every site: The "Sign up for our newsletter" or "Get 10% off by signing up for emails", the paywall, the "It looks like you're using an adblocker."

There's a reason people have always hated popup ads even though "just close them" has always been an option.
by ruffsl | 2025-09-12 05:39:33+00:00
Why do you need to stick to just the "vendor supplied CUDA"? Is CUDA for arm64 targets only distributed via Nvidia ISOs for the Jetson targets? The download site seems to offer an arm64-sbsa option.

I thought the big barrier was the custom kernel they distribute. It was a pain to use the old Jetsons before Nvidia finally enabled modern c group support for containerization with docker. Perhaps building a kennel for their ended platforms is simpler now?
by Qwertious | 2025-09-12 05:40:06+00:00
If you have streets as narrow as in e.g. Florence, the rain can only hit you from above, whereas in car-centric suburbia rain can hit you from the sides in basically all directions - so an umbrella blocking the top isn't enough, you need a car.

In other words, the problem here that the car is solving, is a problem that the car is causing.
by dnissley | 2025-09-12 05:40:07+00:00
It is what I consider steelmanning.

Not of the conspiracy itself (I'm not interested in that, since the literal version isn't even well agreed upon by most of its believers) but of the observable pressures that make the conspiracy attractive.

I think I could convince an average believer in the great replacement theory (who would be a casual believer that doesn't know many of the specific details you've listed at length of the "official" version) that my restatement of the issue is what they're actually concerned about. In fact, I have had productive conversations with right wingers who express such a casual belief in this theory by telling them what I've written here in the comment you're replying to.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-12 05:41:23+00:00
Elon wanted to automate final assembly. Final assembly in cars is anything but final; it's most of what regular people consider "building" phase of the car where the body on a cart rolls forward and human workers attach parts to it until it rolls off at the end.

A lot of final assembly processes are already highly automated, albeit with human hands as tip of robots. Heavy objects such as entire assembled dashboard spanning an entire width of the car, or seats complete with headrest, are slid in from side riding on a carriage, often following a human hand that route cables and to confirm alignments for attachment.

Joint wears of worker humans embedded in the processes as robots are tracked and managed as well, by computer simulation, data tracking, and optimization.

Tool used, such as drills, are highly computerized as well, automatically setting and logging turns and torques, types and numbers of screws removed from the workstation shelf, etc., but they are still manipulated and articulaed by humans, as robots aren't good enough.

Robotizing final assembly is the holy grail for which Honda was doing robots since late 80s until Japanese economy collapsed and AI researches stopped. Steve Jobs was dreaming the same lights-out factory concept during NeXT years. More recently, Foxconn bought robots in hundreds at one point in hope that it will be useful for iPhone. Sony actually shipped some numbers of PS4 from a fully robotized prototype line.

The difference between them and Tesla is that they're so far the latest and about the least actually committed to it, obviously due to lack of engineering talent outside of UI software.
by forgetbook | 2025-09-12 05:41:26+00:00
I'm still junior, as in I spend more time reading docs than writing code because most code I have to write is stuff I haven't written before.

IMO, first impression? This is just a straight-up better way to show docs to me. To quote the landing page: "Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon."

Wow. They fixed it. First of it's kind, at least in my career so far. If you're got an example from DOS then yeah, I missed out, and agree that something important was lost along the way.
by geoelectric | 2025-09-12 05:42:23+00:00
I've noticed the iOS keyboard has fundamentally different tap recognition based on whether swipe typing is enabled.

It looks the same but behaves differently enough that I have a hard time believing it shares code. When I turn off swipe, my tap accuracy goes MASSIVELY up, and a lot of the autocorrect screwiness seems to abate considerably. I can go back to blind thumb typing.

That said, swipe is so useful, I’ve left it on, and I deal with the degraded tap behavior. But maybe that’s a trade-off for you to consider.
by lodovic | 2025-09-12 05:42:41+00:00
I find that hard to believe. As long as we have open weight models, people will have an alternative to these subscriptions. For $200 a month it is cheaper to buy a GPU with lots of memory or rent a private H200. No ads and no spying. At this point the subscriptions are mainly about the agent functionality and not so much the knowledge in the models themselves.
by efskap | 2025-09-12 05:42:41+00:00
I love how that became part of the "mythology" of Minecraft as the "Far Lands", where travelling far from the world origin made terrain generation and physics break down, subtly at first, and less so as you kept going.

It's like the paranormal trope of an expedition encountering things being disconcertingly "off" at first, and then eventually the laws of nature start breaking down as well. All because of float precision.
by wg0 | 2025-09-12 05:44:11+00:00
Basically - automakers would love a car that's like a smartphone that turns into a paperweight just decade and a half later and you have to buy a new one despite all the main components work fine except the built in battery.

They surely want such transition ASAP.

Whether the planet has that much Lithium or not, whether Lithium is recyclable out of old batteries or not and both processes of extraction of copper and lithium and later recycling of Lithium have how much carbon footprint?

Who cares?
by wcfrobert | 2025-09-12 05:45:31+00:00
I disagree. I think it might even be a positive signal, especially for startups.

Imagine a startup with an engineering team that has this much creative energy, ingenuity, and vision unencumbered by bureaucratic processes, committees, and all-day meetings.

A sense of "play" is so important in creating fantastic software. Some of the best products are the result of engineers having full creative control and the liberty to "play". See, for example, Google's "20% time policy" in the early 2000s which birthed Gmail, or 3M's "permitted bootlegging" policy which birthed Post-it notes.
by jchw | 2025-09-12 05:46:27+00:00
> To push back slightly, Discord says they have 19 million weekly active servers, which almost certainly outstrips the number of forums back in the day.

Yeah, but most of the servers are very, very small. They're internet chatrooms. It's more like MSN group chats or IRC channels.

On the other hand, there were probably more small forums than most people realize, due to free forum hosts like Proboards.

Maybe most importantly, having a Discord chat is in no way the same overall effect as having a forum used to be.
by Woodi | 2025-09-12 05:46:30+00:00
Still a infomess :>

Looks like OpenAI dropped Azure in favor of Oracle but MS still invests B's $ ?

And OpenAI is a "non-profit" so Oracle strait get 75% or more of OpenAI fees ?

All that strange bilions just like in ad tech... Why manager pay so much bilions ?? It must be managers, who else it can be ? Except govs ofc :)
by willcannings | 2025-09-12 05:46:38+00:00
Most? Almost all my requests to the "Auto" model end up being routed to a "thinking" model, even those I think ChatGPT would be able to answer fine without extra reasoning time. Never say never, but right now the router doesn't seem to be optimising for cost (at least for me), it really does seem to be selecting a model based on the question itself.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-12 05:46:44+00:00
I often leave my phone in a different room, and that's pretty effective, too.

I've started leaving my phone at home when my wife and I go places together.

It's not a problem without solutions, of course. It just takes an amount of discipline that feels unreasonably burdensome to me (as in "ugh why is this so hard?!").
by ZaoLahma | 2025-09-12 05:47:09+00:00
Oof...! A lot of innovation originates in engineers' "boredom".

I've been at a company that mandated innovation by having a mandatory annual innovation day, and full productivity for the rest of the year. "Be innovative for 8 hours, damn it!". That never worked. Not once. Never ever. Innovation was limited to evolution, and evolution was so slow that our customers had started implementing what we provided in house instead. Stagnation, as you call it.

I've also been at a company where people got... bored (didn't have enough to do). A guy single handedly re-wrote the firmware for a neat little hardware box that ended up saving the company an absolute ridiculous amount of money as they no longer needed to buy another much, much more expensive proprietary box.

So in my opinion having bored engineers around could very well be a sign of great success.