MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carabiner | 2025-09-25 20:27:33+00:00
These are sad stories but you have to wonder how many such stories you might collect from any mostly-functional organization. Certainly there were people who had unjust firings, toxic interactions before Trump and Musk. People who work at big tech companies also have experiences like this (layoffs while on maternity leave, while getting treated for terminal illnesses etc.). This isn't a sign of any grave malice and is inevitable in a large org. What I do wonder is whether DOGE achieved any significant savings, and that is not addressed in the article.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-25 20:27:36+00:00
> Justice means penalizing the guilty parties, not everyone in their geographical/social group. Your definition of Justice is leaky.

I disagree. Your definition of justice inadvertently prevents justice. Holding Hamas accountable for the thousands of rocket attacks and the mass murder / mutilation / rape of October 7 means hunting down all of them, getting rid of their weapons, and freeing hostages. You can only do so with some degree of collateral damage since they’re hiding in civilian populations.

But also, “civilian” is debatable. It’s this same population that voted for Hamas despite their charter explicitly calling for religious genocide. It’s the same population that supports Hamas even after the mass murder / mutilation / rape of October 7, according to multiple polls. It’s the same population that has so many times turned a blind eye to the actions of Hamas.
by Fwirt | 2025-09-25 20:27:39+00:00
The internet wasn't a need until the past 20 years or so, and yet it was a project that arguably began in the 1960s. Now governments worldwide are nearly mandating that everyone have an internet connection, not to mention a microcomputer with a high resolution color screen. I'd argue that microcomputers, although initially being targeted at business uses, were by and large seen by consumers as recreational tools as well until they found their niche, I would argue primarily as communication tools, inasmuch as mailing in paper forms is communication.

I think the problem is that right now, as with the internet and microcomputers, we can't see a use for VR that would necessitate its entrance into our everyday lives. That doesn't mean the use doesn't exist, it just hasn't been invented yet. There's no guarantee that will happen, but if it does I could VR could become a necessity just as high resolution displays, color graphics, and GPUs have. I think that people decrying VR's uselessness are forgetting the cycle we've been through with novel display and communication technologies time and time again.

This is me speculating: I think VRChat is a possible glimpse into what could make VR take off. Long range "presence" is very desirable. Apple seems to realize this with the 3D recordings that Vision Pro enables. If we could get anything close to "holographic" video chat, especially with multiple users, it could enable huge cost savings for businesses. Although many managers are loathe to approve remote work, if they could mandate virtual "presence" in a virtual office, that could dissuade heavy handed managers from requiring a physical presence, saving money on renting an office. Not to mention the appeal to consumers of being able to "visit" their loved ones from far away.

The industry is still thrashing around looking for a use for the technology, and they might stumble on it eventually, or they might not. Only time will tell.
by bkettle | 2025-09-25 20:27:39+00:00
I actually think that Cloudflare has made publishing on the internet _more_ accessible for many individuals. I’ve helped a few people get personal websites running on Cloudflare pages and run my own there—it’s free and extremely easy. They could obviously pull the plug at any point, but with static sites it’s easy to avoid lock-in. If it weren’t for Cloudflare and other services that give free, easy hosting, I suspect there would be even fewer of the non-commercial small-internet sites that you value.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-25 20:27:47+00:00
This could be amazing for dealing with schools - I get information from my kids' school through like 5 different channels: Tapestry, email, a newsletter, parents WhatsApp groups (x2), Arbor, etc. etc.

And 90% of the information is not stuff I care about. The newsletter will be mostly "we've been learning about lighthouses this week" but they'll slip in "make sure your child is wearing wellies on Friday!" right at the end somewhere.

If I could feed all that into AI and have it tell me about only the things that I actually need to know that would be fantastic. I'd pay for that.

Can't happen though because all those platforms are proprietary and don't have APIs or MCP to access them.
by stavros | 2025-09-25 20:28:08+00:00
Same. It takes the drudgery out of creating, so I can at least start the projects. Then I can go down into the detail just enough that the AI doesn't produce crap, but without needing to write the actual writes of code myself.

Hell, in the past few days I started making something to help me write documents for work (https://www.writelucid.cc) and a viewer for all my blood tests (https://github.com/skorokithakis/bt-viewer), and I don't think I would have made either without an LLM.
by sershe | 2025-09-25 20:28:09+00:00
For me prime still works fine most of the time. And so much random crap is overnight nowadays! Nothing like ordering a vent cap, finding it doesn't quite fit due to peculiar siding, and immediately returning and overnighting a different one for free. I just wish they'd pick up returns if they are rare enough, having to make a 10 minute stop to do it myself is completely unacceptable ;)
by lukan | 2025-09-25 20:28:15+00:00
I know that I am better at navigating with google maps than average people, because I navigated for years without it (partly on purpose). I know when not to trust it. I know when to ignore recommendations on recalculated routes.

Same with LLMs. I am better with it, because I know how to solve things without the help of it. I understand the problem space and the limitations. Also I understand how hype works and why they think they need it (investors money).

In other words, no, just using google maps or ChatGPT does not make me dumb. Only using it and blindly trusting it would.
by araes | 2025-09-25 20:28:19+00:00
OAW Article on the Subject: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/harvard-princeton-mit-25-top-...

OAW Call for Nominations: https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowships/apart-usa

OAW APART-USA Info: https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowships/apart-usa/apart...

> "The APART-USA fellowship is granted for a period of 48 months and must be commenced within six months of notification of the grant." > "The APART-USA fellowship amounts to a total of EUR 500,000. 25% of this funding (in total: EUR 125,000) comes from the nominating host research institution. 75% (EUR 375,000) comes from the Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) of the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development (NFTE)." > "funding can be extended by up to three months at no extra cost." > "The fellowship covers personnel costs as well as costs for relocation, travel, materials and other costs (such as mentoring, training, etc.)."

OAW = Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften = Austrian Academy of Sciences
by gabelschlager | 2025-09-25 20:28:26+00:00
Smartphone is required for everything there, yes. Signing up for services, authenticating yourself (e.g. when entering a train station), payment, social media, etc.

Computers used to be expensive and people had less money back then, so most of the country essentially just directly upgraded to smartphones. Many don't and never used to own a PC outside of work.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-25 20:28:28+00:00
> All assets are denominated in currency

False.

All assets can be valued in currency, but most are not denominated in currency (and even more are not denominated in whichever specific currency it is that you are trying to hedge against inflation in.) Debt instruments are usually denominated in some currency, but stocks are a claim on a particular share of the assets of a corporation at dissolution, not denominated in a particular currency.

A stock of a physical commodity is denominated in the physical commodity, not a currency.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 20:28:45+00:00
> Why would being cross-border matter when the entire land was previously Palestinian

That's how borders work. (Anything else is, by definition, a border dispute.) If the Armia Krajowa had bulldozed into Lithuania on the logic that they lost it due to foreign meddling, they would have tarnished their record. (Despite the claim being true.)

> Viet Cong, South Africa's ANC, the Suffragettes and civil rights movements all used violence for their causes

On their own turf. And as for the former, against military targets--nobody serious in the Viet Cong or USSR was plotting Al Qaeda-style attacks on the American homeland.

October 7th was a terrorist attack. It was plotted like a military operation. But so was 9/11.

> would you be as careful to keep your resistance peaceful?

Not particularly. But I'd want to be fighting an actual resistance. 7 October attack was a strategic failure. The only reason it might end in a draw is because Netanyahu surrounded himself with maniacs. Even then, permanent damage has been done to the viability of a sovereign Palestine.

(There is also a massive difference between something being understandable and something being justified.)
by JdeBP | 2025-09-25 20:28:46+00:00
That 65% figure in the press release has an interesting origin. It seemed oddly specific to me, so I had a look.

In the actual report main text, it says that the risk is between 35% and 65%, but does not explain the calculation, if any, that results in those numbers.

It's not until one reaches Appendix A that one finds that this really means that it has been assigned a value of 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, meaning "medium risk", and the value 3 is arbitrarily assigned that percentage range, originating with the U.S.A. FDA's Office of Information Security, where "low risk" (2) is similarly 10% to 35% and "very low risk" (1) is less than 10%.
by oofbey | 2025-09-25 20:29:01+00:00
A key point of the Turing Test was to stop the debates over what constitutes intelligence or not and define something objectively measurable. Here we are again.

If a model has a statistical tendency to recommend python scripts over bash, is that a PREFERENCE? Argue it’s not alive and doesn’t have feelings all you want. But putting that aside, it prefers python. Saying the word preference is meaningless is just pedantic and annoying.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-09-25 20:29:07+00:00
They have also made a lot of successful products and come backs. While the Pentium 4 lost out to the Athlon's and their marketshare dropped they then released the Core series of CPUs and the Core 2 Duo was a huge hit and marked the beginning of the dark ages for AMD until they released Ryzen.

As a company they have had long periods of dominance potted with big losses to AMD on the CPU front which they always claw back. They seem this time to be taken out by their inability to get their fabs online more than anything their competitor is doing.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-25 20:29:12+00:00
This is super interesting to me.

Is there another 12-color palette that allows you to easily distinguish between every color? If so, I'd love to see it.

I'd also appreciate if anyone who happens to read this who has a different variety of colorblindness - or who finds color palettes inaccessible for any reason - could share what colors in the 12-bit palette and any others that are suggested in this thread are problematic and why, that'd be awesome :)

My initial instinct is that finding 12 colors that are visually distinguishable for all users is likely impossible. That being the case, the ideal solution IMO is likely something like providing a dynamic option to change the palette (or even the representation!) and then choosing a default that the author is happy with.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-25 20:29:39+00:00
I suggest you seek out more information. Frankly this is not even under debate - there are videos from Hamas and from Gazans showing what happened. There are surveillance cameras showing them setting shelters on fire with children inside. Grenades thrown into living rooms with families. Dead women paraded around naked in the streets of Gaza (how did their clothes come off?)? Female hostages with blood on their crotch (hint: rape).
by rincebrain | 2025-09-25 20:29:55+00:00
The problem with means-testing benefits is that it often will cost more to means-test than to just accept nonzero fraud rates past a very minimal point, and there is a significant amount of friction introduced when you add more friction to people who do not have time or energy to spare.

e.g. if I ask you to submit receipts for literally everything that you bought in the last week, in order to give you a $20 stipend weekly, you will probably not bother, even if you could use the $20, and it will probably cost more than $20 to pay me for the time processing that.

I'm not saying there's no waste, but I am saying that the optimal amount of waste to reward is nonzero.
by Thiez | 2025-09-25 20:30:02+00:00
It would be wild because it would be wrong. We acknowledge someone who has suffered brain death to be truly dead, even if their body can be kept alive (and presumably shining!) for weeks and weeks through modern medicine. If this light is a side effect of biochemical processes then presumably someone who is decapitated will also continue to shine for minutes.

The fading of the light would be sufficient but not necessary for someone to be considered dead, so it would make a poor definition.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-09-25 20:30:08+00:00
I wanted to mention that the Pentium 4 (Prescott) that was marketed as the Centrino in laptops had 64bit capabilities, but it was described as 32bit extended mode. I remember buying a laptop in 2005(?) which I first ran with XP 32bit, and then downloading the wrong Ubuntu 64bit Dapper Drake image, and the 64bit kernel was running...and being super confused about it.

Also, for a long while, Intel rebranded the Pentium 4 as Intel Atom, which then usually got an iGPU on top with being a bit higher in clock rates. No idea if this is still the case (post Haswell changes) but I was astonished to buy a CPU 10 years later to have the same kind of oldskool cores in it, just with some modifications, and actually with worse L3 cache than the Centrino variants.

core2duo and core2quad were peak coreboot hacking for me, because at the time the intel ucode blob was still fairly simple and didn't contain all the quirks and errata fixes that more modern cpu generations have.
by tclancy | 2025-09-25 20:30:10+00:00
I get it but a lot of the war stories from Raymond Chen's blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ were about helping major corporations unscrew something that had relied on a private Windows API because there hadn't been a good way to do it. I would guess most cases of people choosing to rely on a private method are laziness or lack of knowledge about "the right way" (or call it bad documentation), but not 100%.
by palata | 2025-09-25 20:30:21+00:00
> but I doubt it will stop the average offender

I strongly believe it will catch the average offender. The average human doesn't have a clue about cryptography.

It won't catch all of them, of course. My point is that it is invalid to say that it won't catch anyone.

> but at what cost?

EXACTLY! The problem is that whoever controls the list of illegal material can abuse it. We fundamentally cannot audit the list because the material on this list is highly illegal. There is a risk of abuse.
by sally_glance | 2025-09-25 20:30:36+00:00
Your first paragraph summarize why businesses want to use Cloudflare and how it helps them maintain their business.

Your second paragraph talks about other (non-commercial) sites. I think I'm missing the link here. Why would the admins of such sites resort to Cloudflare if 'fundamental Internet infrastructure becomes inhospitable for them' by making that choice? They could very well choose to implement their own or no measures at all.

I think the issue is that the general threat level has massively increased compared to the past - not in terms of sophistication but frequency/scale. But that's a consequence of widespread adoption, nothing Cloudflare in particular is responsible for.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-25 20:30:44+00:00
How would you hear of somebody getting these funds? I don’t personally know anybody who’s gotten massive VC funding in the US either, but I think it does happen.

I don’t see any reason to be skeptical of the requirement to find a female co-founder, I mean it is clearly a program to promote equality, but that is an uncontroversial goal in some places.
by Kiro | 2025-09-25 20:30:54+00:00
The "you only think you're more productive" argument is tiresome. Yes, I know for sure that I'm more productive. There's nothing uncertain about it. Does it lead to other problems? No doubt, but claiming my productivity gains are imaginary is not serious.

I've seen a lot of people who previously touted that it doesn't work at all use that study as a way to move the goalpost and pretend they've been right all along.
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-25 20:31:17+00:00
From what I understand talking to the staff, it was because none of the staff (at the time, who weren't part of the original unionization push) actually cared enough about the union to do all of the union stuff (like going through the CBA finely and and renegotiating the rules, regular meetings, shop stewards, all of that). They all had a mentality of "this is a coffee shop I'm going to work at for a year or two, not something that I want to put any extra time into beyond the shifts I need to work to pay my way through school"

Edit: If I'm remembering right, the thing that finally sealed the deal for them was that Starbucks corporate was offering better benefits to the entire company than the union (which was made up of like 10 people) had negotiated for themselves.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-25 20:31:52+00:00
In the 1990s Yo-Yo Ma collaborated with artists in different fields to try to "translate" them to different forms of art:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspired_by_Bach

If you're in Toronto, Canada, you can visit the park that was inspired by No. 1:

* https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Music_Garden
by al_borland | 2025-09-25 20:31:58+00:00
> Yeah, ads on Prime suck. But I'm rewatching a 90s show and ponied up $3/mo for no ads.

The $3/month for no ads felt like they were nickel-and-diming the customers.

I was paying something like $129/year for Prime. The idea of paying $3/month on top of the $129/year I was paying for Prime felt so petty.

Had they just raised the price of Prime, I probably would have shrugged and carried on. But adding a monthly charge on top of a yearly charge, nope. I was done.

This of course was on top of allowing the store to be flooded with low quality junk being resold from Alibaba, counterfeit products all over the place, pushing to send shipments in their retail boxes, review gaming, them ripping off popular products to sell through their own private labels, and other such practices that have eroded my view and trust of Amazon over the years.

I ordered some headphones from Amazon a month ago, because the company that makes them was sold out in the color I wanted. I felt the need to lookup how to tell authentic from counterfeit headphones while I was waiting for the shipment, so I could validate what I received was real. I’ve received counterfeit goods before from Amazon. I heard they keep everything in the same bin, so it’s luck of the draw when picked (I have no way to validate that). No other store makes me worry about things like this, just Amazon. If brick-and-mortar stores were like this they’d be out of business in a week.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-25 20:32:26+00:00
https://quran.com/5/51

Surely it will be fine this time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_by...

I am not advocating reprisals by the way and I respect anyone’s religion but I am also not a naïve fool. I know my history, recent and distant.
by mym1990 | 2025-09-25 20:32:45+00:00
My argument is that the point is whether its advantageous to allow companies to continue to grow because whether a company has a monopoly or anticompetitive edge is the central argument behind breaking them up. By allowing companies to become monopolies or near monopolies, you disturb the very unified domestic market that you initially mentioned, which hamstrings growth in the future.

I believe companies aren't broken up because they are now so big, it is a logistical nightmare to do so, therefore those companies lobby the crap out of politicians to kick the can down the road. NVIDIA is nearly 3x the market cap of the next non-US firm...is that really the global competition you're looking for?
by William_BB | 2025-09-25 20:33:08+00:00
Respectfully, I disagree. I understand people have vastly different experiences and preferences. In my ideal world, a PR is a unit of work that has an in-state and an out-state. I don't have to see an initial commit within a PR with a full fledged spec and then wonder if any future commits within the same PR overrode those changes. A PR will rarely be clean from the start.

The way it appears to me, if there's multiple commits submitted as separate PRs, then maybe the PR wasn't so atomic to begin with.
by snowwrestler | 2025-09-25 20:33:27+00:00
It is precisely the attraction of the vision that makes people fight so hard to preserve these jobs.

Because we know how well the jobs address a need, and we also know how many times throughout history we have been promised magic wands that never quite showed up.

And guess who is best equipped to measure the actual level of “magic”? Experts like radiologists. We need them the most along the way, not the least.

If a magic wand actually shows up, it will be obvious to everyone and we’ll all adopt it voluntarily. Just like thousands of innovations in history.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-09-25 20:33:35+00:00
I suspect this has emerged organically from the user given RLHF via thumb voting in the apps. People LIKE being treated this way so the model converges in that direction.

Same as social media converging to rage bait. The user base LIKES it subconsciously. Nobody at the companies explicitly added that to content recommendation model training. I know, for the latter, as I was there.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-25 20:33:47+00:00
Why do you think Jewish people are mixed? Could it that occupiers, like invading Islamic Arabs, drove them away and they mixed over time with others? Regardless of that, it is Jewish people and their culture that are indigenous to the Levant. Not the Islamic Arabs who call themselves Palestinian.

> That it is a religious goal to have a nation of Israel is a new idea driven by Christian Zionists more than Jewish ones and the political, areligious Jewish Zionists enjoy their support and will play any role to achieve their own goals.

It is literally a religious goal of Hamas and the people who voted for them (Gazans) to destroy a religion (Judaism) and to commit genocide. It is literally in their charter. They voted for it. Meanwhile, the nation of Israel has a population that is over 20% Islamic Arab and they are thriving. The reality seems to me to be the opposite of what you’re stating here.

> Jerusalem and the rest of the Palestine was at peace under Muslim rule

It seems to me like you are pro colonization when the rules are Islamic and when the suppressed are Jewish. But not in the reverse? Israel is a democracy. Surely that is preferable to a religious supremacist rule?