MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by re-thc | 2025-09-22 10:15:50+00:00
> there is a clear failure of management and rolling those heads

It's more a structural issue.

Whilst it is a large chunk of assets, there's lots of competition so not really exciting. AUD has weakened, which makes it worth less by default.

So if you were its owner (in Singapore) what would you do? You can't really sell it (not worth it), you can't really invest in it but you don't want to fold it.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-22 10:16:05+00:00
> Native Persian speakers establish the human ceiling. Native speakers achieved an average accuracy of 81.8% on taarof-expected scenarios, demonstrating high but not perfect agreement. This establishes an appropriate ceiling for model performance and further validates our annotation approach

I'm surprised human benchmark is that low. The canonical example of taarof, one I've seen elsewhere, is of a taxi driver insisting that a ride is free while expecting to get paid. Taarof in this case is load-bearing for the transaction. I presume humans only get the edge cases wrong.

As an aside, there are elements of this sort of thing in Bay Area tech culture too. Something that drives me nuts is someone writing on a code review "you may want to consider using the X data struct here" and meaning "I will not merge this code until you use X". I can only imagine taarof irks more literal-minded Persian speakers for the same reason.

Also, this is pretty much as close as real life ever gets to a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" dynamic.
by lukan | 2025-09-22 10:16:32+00:00
"The only way anybody can come up with "Flat Earth" is by living in the middle of a continental landmass."

The main cause I could determine was rather a deep trauma of some sort or the other and with the result of them now mistrusting everything mainstream by principle and only now trusting their eyes and "intuition".

And believing the earth is flat is maybe the most anti mainstream position ever.

Edit: and my conclusion sort of was, that the only thing, that would really convince some of them is indeed to let them see it with their own eyes. So maybe I will organize a high altitude baloon trip for some people some day, but personally I also always wanted to get as close to space as possible at least once in my life..
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-22 10:17:06+00:00
I am that guy. I will also say from experience: It does not pay. Never once has it been ack'ed in a year end review (which controls bonus, salary increase, and promotions). As soon as a manager sees you as "The Wiki Guy", they take you for granted. As I grow older and more cynical, my view on internal docs: (1) Write them for yourself. (2) Write them to make people go away when they ask you questions ("Did you search the Wiki?").
by vkou | 2025-09-22 10:18:46+00:00
> Does russia also doing genocide in Ukraine

Since the goal is annexation and erasure of Ukranian identity and culture, the international community believes it to be one.

Some, but not all Soviet policies were genocidal.

> So that's ok, Egipt should not open border...

What Egypt is failing to do has no bearing on whether Israel is engaging in genocide in the territory it is invading. Israel is a sovereign state, it is responsible for its own actions.
by preommr | 2025-09-22 10:18:56+00:00
Is there something about cUrl that attracts these AI bots, or is it just better documented by them - because I was going to say that this is old, but then I checked the date and realized that this is a new problem. Going down the rabbit-hole, @badger has made multiple posts [0][1] about AI slop.

[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... [1] https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | 2025-09-22 10:20:19+00:00
That's a bit ... off brand coming from you mozilla. How are the governments going to find and censor things you don't like

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat... https://archive.ph/ia2z4

I see the link is now broken on their site so perhaps they have thought better. STFU and just make firefox.
by ta1243 | 2025-09-22 10:20:24+00:00
Hence platforms like axate, which make micropayments trivial.

Want to read that NYT article? Fine, pay the 30 cents and read it. Want to read all the NYT articles? Subscribe for $20 a week.

If Youtube wasn't owned by an advert company you could have the same -- creators could have a "pay 50c to watch this 30 minute video without adverts". I believe (haven't had youtube adverts for years) that the ad rates for western viewers are under 1 cent per view, with 1 advert every 5 minutes, so a 30 minute video would be 6 adverts or 5 cents. Youtube even has the funding built in via the "tip" mechanism.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-22 10:21:22+00:00
Thanks for your feedback on this :)

In the USA, if some big and usually "non tech" company like McDonalds or T-Mobile wants to staff a whole project with programmers, they will usually have a relationship with someone like Infosys, Tata, Slalom, perhaps even Hitachi or Tech Mahindra or Accenture/Deloitte. These companies all pay you like a regular employee so you don't need your own drafted employment contract or business entity.

If you howver have a github/youtube channel/website where you make and release your own software, and someone contacts you saying "hello we want to pay you to add more features and or fix some problem for us", then you will need a contract and usually a business entity unless you don't mind being personally sued into the ground.

Such reachouts are very very rare unless your software has gone viral in the right circles, but I personally know at least 20 people who make a full time living this way. It seems pretty unenviable, and corporations whose email domain you would recognize routinely pull support or play egregious games with the definition of done. No cure for life, I guess :)
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-22 10:21:42+00:00
About JDK Java docs:

> Those are references, not tutorial.

This is a great phrase. I fully agree with your sentiment. To me, I never read Javadocs in HTML-only form. I always read them in an IDE, along with the library code in question. If anything is unclear from the Javadoc, then read the code (which immediately follows the Javadoc).
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-22 10:22:50+00:00
PP asked,

> Didnt the jewish concenteation result from decades of "soft" power that evicted palestinian civilians as outcasts? (And in return festered terrorism.)

To which you basically replied:

> But look how bad all the others are and terrorism is almost all islamic.

This ignorance dehumanises and keeps the violence going. Israel cannot make confessions in a peace effort without acknowledging its decades of palestinian desintegration and apparently, the same is true for you.
by c22 | 2025-09-22 10:23:13+00:00
Someone gave one of my kids a dough-based circuit activity once. I recall it was hard to prevent the various globs of dough from touching and we burnt out most of our components within a few minutes. The experience was very poor compared to something like snap circuits, or even just using a bread board.

If the LEDs and whatnot were in modules with polarity protection there might have been something there, but I'm not convinced the dough adds much over just a bag of random components for teaching kids about circuits.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-22 10:25:35+00:00
Wouldn't touch Tesla if you paid me ... it's a branding problem. There are strong enough alternatives now so there's no excuse.

Owning a Tesla now either means 1) You're d0uche, or excuse d0uche behaviour, or 2) You got caught out and you can't afford to change, and attract pity (c.f. "I bought this before Elon went mad" badges) ...

Horrible either way.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-22 10:25:38+00:00
IMHO the situation is this: Are your actions make Trump feel good? The feeling can be induced by making him richer or boost his ego.

Those "X country will invest in US" stuff are about boosting his ego through good press. No one follows up anything, they use the "flood the zone" strategy, which doesn't allow the public to have long attention span.

Also, it appears that Trump likes numbers around $600B. Everyone is "investing" around $600B, even companies like Apple. When Mark Zuckerberg was asked what Meta invests, he threw the same number and later was caught ona hot mic asking Trump if he liked the number as he admitted that he was not prepared. So yes, just say you are investing $600B in USA thanks to Trump and smile to the cameras. Don't worry about the money, this is for boosting his ego and not about the money. Actually investing is dangerous, if it goes bad(like with factory incident) it creates problems for his campaign, helps his opponents and may hurt his ego, just do the show no need to complicate things.

If you want to do the money thing, you invest in his crypto or donate to his campaign etc.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-22 10:25:53+00:00
The main argument is "it's been in the mix for 20 years", and part of demonstrating it has been was to state that even the Obama administration didn't do much to stop it, so it kept escalating.

Not only I don't conflate the two, but you make the whole Obama note the center of this discussion, while it was there for the purpose of illustration.

This is how tribe politics work and how the US fell to the best populists instead of trying to tackle society's problems.

I have no interest in discussing with you anymore, since you don't seem interested in talking about ideas, only find an enemy to your tribes.
by ionwake | 2025-09-22 10:26:44+00:00
I dont see how anything I said has to do with politics, the left or right stuff.

Also I am confused why you are pointing out the obvious. Its as if you have been personaly offended by the suggestion Oxford has Monty Python moments and are trying to reassure everyone its only because all institutions do.

This was not an attack, it was just a couple of anecdotes. Like I said I still think Oxford is a great institution.

You are clearly confused why someone who likes something might criticise it. The reason is to improve it by increasing awareness. Its called positive feedback.

In essense what I am saying is, if all you have is praise for something, then in part you hate it , because you are not being honest, or trying to help it grow.
How can leaders keep remote teams motivated and aligned?
by beacoapp | 2025-09-22 10:27:05+00:00
We’re asking this because managing remote teams comes with unique challenges—like maintaining clear communication, ensuring accountability, fostering collaboration, and preventing feelings of isolation. Motivation is harder to sustain when people aren’t physically together, and without the right practices, performance, creativity, and alignment with company goals can slip.

By posing this question, we want to gather practical strategies and perspectives on how leaders can keep their teams engaged, motivated, and connected even while working remotely. Our goal is to discover effective ways to maintain productivity, team spirit, and a strong sense of belonging despite the distance.
by this2shallPass | 2025-09-22 10:27:38+00:00
I see the recognition, where are the hard conditionality or the security guardrails? If the PA doesn't cooperate, what leverage exists?

This move alone could have accomplished a lot of reforms. So far all I've seen is:

1) the PA supposedly end "pay for slay" where Palestinians that commit terrorist attacks or their family gets more money for more dead and injured victims or for longer prison terms (this program may have actually ended, it's just really hard to tell because of mixed signals),

2) Abbas condemn October 7th once in a letter to France and Saudi Arabia in June 2025 (for the first time and a little under 2 years after October 7th happened), and

3) the arrest of a person that committed a terrorist attack in France in the 1982.

I really hope there was a lot more behind the scenes, because those seem pretty small.

Having elections they should have had for many years now wouldn't be that impressive either.

Why not condition recognition on 1) releasing the hostages and 2) Hamas / Palestinian Islamic Jihad / Al-Qassam / etc disarming? Those 2 things could end the current war.
by baobabKoodaa | 2025-09-22 10:27:41+00:00
> helpful to have two versions of each contract, a consultant-favored and consultee-favored

Or, even better, instead of having only two versions of a contract, we can offer this choice on individual clauses within the contract. On some clauses the parties may choose to go with consultant-favored option whereas on some other clauses the parties may choose to go with client-favored option. This is what we ended up doing with the generator :)
by Asraelite | 2025-09-22 10:27:48+00:00
I strongly disagree. Monads are used all the time in non-FP languages. Parser combinators are one common example. It's just a programming pattern which gives the benefits of global variables without the downsides. They work perfectly fine without dedicated syntax.

I was very confused about what they were until I saw an article similar to the one I linked, and then I realized that I had actually been using monads all along, I just didn't know they were called that. I think a lot of developers are in the same boat.
by poisonborz | 2025-09-22 10:28:15+00:00
Software should still come with a documentation that LLMs can train on, plus they have all the learnings from interactions with developers asking about it - who will more and more just go this route (and following whatever guidance they get) and not thinking of searching for other material, let alone write guides for others. I'm not saying this is all that good, but that's the reasonable outcome.
by geocar | 2025-09-22 10:29:42+00:00
> just watch.

You need to be brutal with yourself for this, and understand you're chasing popularity, and not necessarily revenue.

It's good to be popular with your users, but if your users are not your customers...

> I've used FAANG docs that don't come close to passing the above criteria.

... FAANG is an excellent example of which; Because their documentation and code is so bad integrations always take longer than anyone can estimate, this actually discourages managers from considering a second integration.

That is to say it's not necessarily good business to "pass the above criteria" and I think it's important to remember that.
by eviks | 2025-09-22 10:29:45+00:00
> In the terminal, ajkl;gawgor;iqeg;iJLkqen. wl;R aw;oeiga 4648664 arjarwgj;llj;ja fadgfgajkljl; wlj;sdjk;lfas

Open, copy and paste, press enter

> Next go to folder/hidden/deep/in/the/file/system/surprise!.file and copy the contents of the file.

Also a primitive file operation via copy and paste of the path and file content, not even requiring 1 google search to find out how to show hidden files a complete novice would need

> Next go to folder/hidden/deep/in/the/file/system/surprise!.file and copy the contents of the file.

Same primitive copy and paste operation

> The first 3 steps will take me approximately 7 hours and 193 internet searches to complete.

Everything is possible and this isn't literal, but still that's just nonsense unless you come up with a plausible scenario where the challenge isn't copy and paste operations with no cognitive overhead
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-22 10:30:15+00:00
>Very curious that going against Israel is beyond the pale for Democrats despite being a wildly popular position.

Yeah cause they get money.

>Our system is 100% corrupt and invalid

Yes

>stop propping it up.

I’m not atlas holding the electoral system on my shoulders here. I think voting is unhelpful, but still worth doing when it’s the system that dominates our politics.

>The best thing you could have done on election day is not vote and encourage everyone you know to not vote.

Why does that help either change the dems or dismantle the electoral system? Most Americans don’t even vote, yet the system continues to exist just fine. If you’re saying discourage dems specifically from voting to send the party a message, again what if I’m helping elect someone worse towards Palestine?

>Biden's policy (which was as bad as Trump, if not worse).

How so? Don’t get me wrong, Biden was a-okay with the genocide, but Trump takes it a level further. There’s no attempt at an appearance of concern or moderacy.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-22 10:31:16+00:00
> I think Java is dying.

There are millions of enterprise programmers around the world that use it. If it is dying, then what is replacing it in the enterprise? From my perspective, I don't see any serious competition.

At the moment, I see this pattern for mega enterprise:

* C++ for scientific, mathematical, financial core libraries

* Java for heavyweight backend services that run on Linux

* DotNET for thick clients that run on Windows desktops/laptops

* NodeJS for lightweight backend services that run on Linux

* HTML/CSS/JavaScript (plus frameworkds) for lightweight web apps

* Python for data analysis and AI/ML work
by OrderlyTiamat | 2025-09-22 10:31:32+00:00
No, that seems a fair request, I like that idea! But I can also see that it's not likely to be implemented.

Though I'd see that transparency as a step forward, it's very likely to generate flamewars and even more discussion on the topic. If I was a mod I'd probably weigh the pros and cons of that to be negative overall.
by baobabKoodaa | 2025-09-22 10:32:27+00:00
Large consultancies like Tata also operate in Finland + we also have a bunch of our own consultancies that operate in this manner (their consultants are regular employees of the consultancy). Earlier when I mentioned job boards for freelancers, it is particularly these large consultancies that subcontract down to freelancers via job boards (they try to fill positions from their bench, and when they are unable, they subcontract to other consultancies or freelancers).
by out_of_protocol | 2025-09-22 10:32:33+00:00
> It requires slightly more complex firewall rules, and asking the network admin to put them in place might raise some eyebrow for reason 1

Well, in many such situations data is provided for free, putting huge burden on the other side. Even it it's a little bit less convenient it makes service a lot more sustainable. I imagine torrent for free tier and direct download as a premium option would work perfectly
by a235 | 2025-09-22 10:32:52+00:00
Maintainer or curl gave recently a talk on AI slop in security reports, showing this and other examples:

https://youtu.be/6n2eDcRjSsk?si=p5ay52dOhJcgQtxo -- AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg. Keynote at the FrOSCon 2025 conference, August 16, in Bonn Germany by Daniel Stenberg.

Plus, linked above, his blogpost on the same subject https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/18/ai-slop-attacks-on-th...
by koolba | 2025-09-22 10:33:07+00:00
Why both the pipe into sh and eval? The latter could handle all everything.

Couple more thoughts and unsolicited feedback from a quick eyeball:

- Use https://

- Wrap everything in a shell function to ensure that partial content is not executed.

- Wrap variable substitutions with "${OUTPUT_DIR}" to prevent arg splitting if they contain whitespace. Line 124, `rm -rf $OUT_DIR_INSTALL` is pretty scary if invoked with whitespace in OUT_DIR.

- Download nodejs tarball to temp directory and then extract them to prevent partial extraction
by Mindwipe | 2025-09-22 10:33:24+00:00
No it isn't.

Format shifting and personal copying are legal in Poland, but you as an individual still have to have legally obtained your original in the first place to exercise that right, and an illicit download certainly doesn't count. Taxing "empty media" is to compensate for those format shifting rights, but it doesn't cover renumeration for acquiring media in the first place (and indeed no EU member state could operate such a scheme - they are prohibited by EU Directive 2001/29 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A...).
by dist-epoch | 2025-09-22 10:33:28+00:00
> Studies have shown that various immunological and autoimmune diseases are much less common in the developing world than the industrialized world and that immigrants to the industrialized world from the developing world increasingly develop immunological disorders in relation to the length of time since arrival in the industrialized world.[23] This is true for asthma and other chronic inflammatory disorders.[18] The increase in allergy rates is primarily attributed to diet and reduced microbiome diversity, although the mechanistic reasons are unclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
by cedws | 2025-09-22 10:33:38+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20240101011830/https://blog.mozi... Looks like it was removed around Nov 2024, ie around the time it became clear American politics was turning tides and Trump would get elected. Regardless of political position, I have no respect for people or companies that have no principled position and pander to $CURRENT_POLITICS.
by kpcyrd | 2025-09-22 10:33:42+00:00
Also, don't use npx.

With the colors incident back in 2022, random stuff started to break not when people updated their dependencies, but immediately, because npx would resolve dependencies when the command is executed.

This means it's not really possible to reason about what code is going to execute, and forensics is going to have a really hard time figuring out what a computer has executed.

If your software uses npx in any capacity, you've auto-failed the SBOM compliance checkbox.
by lukan | 2025-09-22 10:34:47+00:00
Yes and standard reply then is quickly distracting (also themself?) with lots of other "facts" they quickly throw in, or some more vague mystic mumblings about perspective.

Edit: Oh and also there is some "proof" with a certain camera model they present. Where they zoom in closely to ships on the horizont, while not knowing the difference between optical and digital zoom. I am still not sure what they were trying to proof with that, but I did saw a visual glitch of the image processing on high digital zoom. Some vague impression that indeed you can enlarge the ship again fully, despite it being over the horizon. To me it was rather pixel soup, but for them confirmation. So to be on topic a bit again, if you want to influence irrational people of anything, logic only gets you so far and appealing on emotion quite further.
by senko | 2025-09-22 10:35:22+00:00
> The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training

"Legitimate interest" is a very specific term in context of GDPR. Not a lawyer, but have been looking into it previously, and I doubt "we want to feed data to our AI so we can make more money" passes the Legitimate Interest Assesment (LIA) test.

Here's an example of a test that must pass (sorry, docx, but way better than a random explainer): https://ico.org.uk/media2/for-organisations/forms/2258435/gd...
by johnisgood | 2025-09-22 10:35:39+00:00
Funny thing is, my private conversations of sexual nature with my 28 years old girlfriend could probably flag "their" system as CSAM. It has happened to a couple of people before from what I recall.

If this passes, just stop using anything inherently insecure. You may want to stop using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, etc. for private conversations. I already do this.

There are alternatives that will not be affected by this, stick to these. I would give you a list, but I should better be quiet about it.
by coldtea | 2025-09-22 10:36:26+00:00
>The Linux foundation would not exist if only individuals donated to it

Many things would not exist if they had to exist properly. Doesn't mean them existing improperly is good.

>Company backed OSS doesn't suffer from this.

No, but suffers from a way worse issue: corporate control.

Which is why community FOSS has been going downhill since circa 2005.