MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-03 00:39:20+00:00
If it can't be exclusive, that means other providers must be allowed to pay to be default on some portion of installs? If so, wouldn't that result in the basis of payment changing to a basis which takes into account the number or (e.g., advertising demographics-based) desirability of the default installs that Google receives, rather than a global amount based on what is expected to be aggregate number and desirability of all users of the product covered by the agreement?
by Eji1700 | 2025-09-03 00:39:27+00:00
Much like microsoft, it's really the best possible outcome.

Winning a case is one thing, as they can find other reasons to come back.

Losing, and saying "but we were already punished, you got what you want" is such a barrier to EVER putting any sort of realistic reigns on them. They might as well just bury antitrust now and stop pretending.
by tzumaoli | 2025-09-03 00:39:30+00:00
The same Cornell group has done more research in this area. Here is one for capturing the microgeometry of metals https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/metalappearance/ Here's another paper from a different group on capturing the microgeometry using a lot of LED lights https://svbrdf.github.io/publications/MicroLightStage/Micros...

But I agree there should be a lot more work in this area!!
by navbaker | 2025-09-03 00:40:04+00:00
> the product occupies little space and it's trivial to keep around

Haha, I have found this to absolutely NOT be the case! Each individual mini only takes up and inch or so, but they multiply and between them and the brushes/airbrush/paint racks and the ever-increasing grey Pile of Shame, it’s not a small amount of space taken up!

It is an extremely rewarding hobby with a low bar to entry, though, and I agree that I will probably never stop.
by minwcnt5 | 2025-09-03 00:40:32+00:00
I have a slightly different take than others on this: I think the main contributor is the fact Toronto's financial district is extremely dense compared to most if not all European cities, and serviced by a highly trafficked subway line that loops around it. Many of the large office skyscrapers are built right on top of the subway, and so they naturally have a public underground connection, and usually it's a mini-mall with a food court and amenities for the office workers. Because of downtown's density these kind of just merged together into the larger PATH network.

The weather is of course also a factor. It's just incredibly convenient in the winter, or even in the summer when it's muggy out, for office workers. You just hop onto the elevator during your lunch or coffee break, wearing your office clothes, no need to throw on a jacket or bring an umbrella or anything. It's just an extension of your office building basically.

Toronto ALSO has healthy commercial streets all over the place that you access from street level and that DON'T connect to these tunnels. It's a very large city. The PATH tunnels are just one district.
by hinkley | 2025-09-03 00:41:01+00:00
How many times has hyperthreading been an actual performance benefit in processors? I cannot count how many times an article has come out saying you'll get better performance out of your <insert processor here> by turning off hyperthreading in the BIOS.

It's gotta be at least 2 out of every 3 chip generations going back to the original implementation, where you're better off without it than with.
by skhameneh | 2025-09-03 00:42:39+00:00
> On the other hand, maybe I can convince people in my org to get better at software engineering by telling them its for the AI to work better.

Really good engineering practices are fundamental to get the most out of AI tooling. Convoluted documentation, code fragmentation, etc all pollute context when working with AI tools.

In my experience, just having one outdated word (especially if it's a library name) anywhere in code or documentation can create major ongoing headaches.

The worst part of it is trying to avoid negative assertions. When the AI tooling keeps trying to do "the wrong thing" it's sometimes a challenge to rephrase instructions for "the right thing" to frame a positive assertion.
by kelthuzad | 2025-09-03 00:42:39+00:00
While your point about international law is technically correct, it is also a masterclass in deliberate evasion. You are not engaging with OP's argument, but you're using a legal footnote to sidestep the clear and openly stated intent of the system he's condemning. Leading human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have a precise legal term for this system, which is built on that very intent: apartheid. [1][2] "Israel is not, cannot be democratic based on Jewish superiority - No honest Israeli citizen can claim that the Palestinian citizens of Israel live as equal citizens in the State of Israel." [3]

This isn't a secret. Israeli officials have long been explicit that their policies are guided by the goal of maintaining demographic control. As Netanyahu declared, "Israel is not a state of all its citizens... but rather the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them." This driving intent is what gives rise to the entire apparatus of control. It is legally enshrined in constitutional law through the 2018 Nation-State Law, which reserves the right of self-determination for Jews alone. This legal supremacy is then enforced through a two-tiered justice system in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers are governed by rights-respecting civil law while their Palestinian neighbors are subjected to draconian military orders. This judicial separation, in turn, enables the physical re-engineering of the land: a state policy of systematic land dispossession confiscates Palestinian property for settlements, while a discriminatory planning regime makes it nearly impossible for Palestinians to build, leading to routine home demolitions. The ultimate result is the deliberate fragmentation of Palestinian life into disconnected enclaves, which B'Tselem calls 'territorial islands' carved up by walls, checkpoints, and permit regimes designed to sever social and political ties.

Your narrow focus on the procedural illegality of a vote under occupation law is a calculated deflection from this reality. The disenfranchisement of Palestinians is not an incidental legal problem, it is a fundamental and necessary pillar for maintaining this regime of apartheid. You are meticulously explaining the legality of the lock on the cage, while deliberately ignoring that the crime is the cage itself.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-...

[3] https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-734439
by tyingq | 2025-09-03 00:43:11+00:00
Interesting example, as Google used to link to Wikipedia much more prominently, then stopped doing that, which dropped Wikipedia's visitor counts a lot. A very large percentage of Wikipedia's visits are Google referrals.

Google shifted views that used to go to Wikipedia first to their in-house knowledge graph (high percentages of which are just Wikipedia content), then to the AI produced snippets.

All to say, yes...Wikipedia's generosity with outbound links is part of the popularity. But they still get hit by this "engagement" mentality from their traffic sources.
by okanat | 2025-09-03 00:43:24+00:00
The thing is: Where is the competition though? Considering that most IT departments don't want to spend an extra dime to do consumer-grade software engineering to do any extra integration there is no significant competition to Microsoft 365 and Active Directory.

Google Workspace is the closest but it isn't even in the same playing field when comes into advanced integration. Microsoft killed all of its competition in 90s and early 00s. Nobody stopped them. Nobody applied antitrust law. Now they have at least a decade ahead of everybody else.

Any competition should have to spend quite a bit extra money to just move all the integrated apps (SAP, Salesforce, CAD software, Exchange extensions) to their environment. To repeat my point, most IT departments want to spend a whole 0 on developing / engineering integrated solutions and developing those require some millions per year at least. Microsoft sells these stuff as low as €20 per user depending on the contract.
by localhost | 2025-09-03 00:43:36+00:00
one thing that i find works really well is to ask it to research things in the codebase and write a plan first. codex with gpt-5 is exceedingly good at doing this. then ask it to write a plan for what it would do with that information, i.e., i want you to research codebase for <goal>. then write a plan for how you would achieve <goal> given what you have learned.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-03 00:44:18+00:00
"better Beeper"

This is a different Beeper. I don't want a personal CRM, I know everyone in my Beeper chats well enough that I don't need a sidebar to prompt me about where they live. Conversely, I need Signal and Facebook Messenger because that's where my loved ones are.

However I can absolutely see that some people would want this. CRM for email is a solved problem and many professionals use CRM tools, but it doesn't exist in the same way for chat, and maybe it should (although email feels like the bigger market). This is probably in desperate need for a LinkedIn connection though.

My advice to the Amber team: is this for work or personal use? Pick one, make it great for that, and don't try to force it to be the other.
by socksy | 2025-09-03 00:45:04+00:00
What? The Google LLM assisted search experience is... not the best option by a long shot? It's laughably incorrect in many cases, and infuriatingly incorrect in the others. It forces itself into your queries above the fold without being asked, and then bullshits to you.

A recentish example, I was trying to remember which cities' buses were in Thessaloniki before they got a new batch recently. They used to rent from a company (Papadakis Bros) that would buy out of commission buses from other cities around the world and maintain the fleet. I could remember specifically that there were some BVG Busses from Berlin, and some Dutch buses, and was vaguely wondering if there were some also from Stockholm I couldn't remember.

So I searched on my iPad, which defaulted to Google (since clearly I hadn't got around to setting up a good search engine on it yet). And I get this result: https://i.imgur.com/pm512HU.jpeg

The LLM forced its way in there without me prompting (in e.g. Kagi, you opt in by ending the query with a question mark). It fundamentally misunderstands the question. It then treats me like an idiot for not understanding that Stockholm is a city in Sweden, and Thessaloniki a city in Greece. It uses its back linking functionality to help cite this great insight. And it takes up the entire page! There's not a single search result in view.

This is such a painful experience, it confirms my existing bias that since they introduced LLMs (and honestly for a couple years before that) that Google is no longer a good first place to go for information. It's more of a last resort.

Both ChatGPT and Claude have a free tier, and the ability to do searches. Here's what ChatGPT gave me: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b78eb7-d7b4-8006-81e0-ab2c548931...

A lot of casual users don't hit the free tier limits (and indeedI've not hit any limits on the free ChatGPT yet), and while they have their problems they're both far better than the Gemini powered summaries Google have been pumping out. My suggestion is that perhaps you haven't surveyed the market before suggesting that "by far the best LLM-assisted search experience today is available for free at the Google prompt".
by reactordev | 2025-09-03 00:45:09+00:00
It probably doesn’t belong to the group. Disabling password logins is good. That means ONLY authorized key auth is enabled or ldap/ad/domain. I should check out the sshd.conf before I talk out of my ass about what it should do…

It’s just one of those spidey-senses that goes off when there’s a default user, a read-only filesystem, and internet enabled *nix
by Nasrudith | 2025-09-03 00:45:41+00:00
The logistics are non-trivial. If you have to be nation-state intelligence level of scale then no, you cannot maintain NOBUS level of secrecy because you have too many people involved. That sounds pretty damn empirical to me. The objections to NOBUS aren't ideological, they are moral by the way. They are literally choosing to keep vulnerabilities in place for others to discover under arrogant assumptions that they will be the only ones who will know.
by tyingq | 2025-09-03 00:45:54+00:00
I won't call it dead, but it is declining. Their various sources of traffic are now regurgitating Wikipedia Content (and other 3rd party sources) via uncited/unlinked AI "blurbs"...instead of presenting snippets of Wikipedia contents with links to Wikipedia to read more.

It's not the only reason their traffic is declining, but it seems like a big one.
by MarkMarine | 2025-09-03 00:46:12+00:00
Works great until it’s stuck and it starts just refactoring the tests to say true == true and calling it a day. I want the inverse of black box testing, like the inside of the box has the model in it with the code and it’s not allowed to reach outside the box and change the grades. Then I can just do the Ralph Wiggum as a software engineer loop to get over the reward hacking tendencies
by justinpaulson | 2025-09-03 00:46:35+00:00
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by indigodaddy | 2025-09-03 00:46:59+00:00
Right, connected to the home lan would make sense, especially considering they detailed that it's fronted by nginx on another machine. curl -v does reveal nginx serving. I guess I was thinking maybe a phone wouldn't handle the HN load, but probably a mistaken assumption as it is after all a static site (believe it's Hugo generated html) and Pixel 5 likely has decent CPU and RAM (or at least plenty for static requests probably).
by tuckerman | 2025-09-03 00:47:13+00:00
My reading of the the linked github thread is: 1) A member of the FIDO alliance says that provider attestation is bad because relying parties could block specific providers 2) This FIDO alliance member doesn't like that keypassxc has implemented a feature for their users that weighs user freedom/security different than they would prefer and 3) they insinuate that if keypassxc doesn't change this, they could decide to push for provider attestation in the future, potentially ending keypassxc as a viable password manager.

Perhaps I'm reading things in a worse light than you but I believe the potential for abuse is so high and the value of user freedom is so high that these comments shouldn't be taken lightly. I say this a user and huge fan of Yubikeys (I use them precisely because of the feature of not being able to export the private key for security). But I think users have the right to build/use software that works how they see fit.
by qazxcvbnm | 2025-09-03 00:47:27+00:00
What are some more information on the state of the art in runtime adaptation? I confess I do not feel like I possess such a thing from the databases I regularly use.

Adaptation sounds very compelling; if instead of emitting a plan based on a cardinality estimate, we emit a plan and a range of reasonable intermediate cardinalities together with expected time, and interrupt the original plan when the expectations are exceeded by an order of magnitude, and perform alternative plans based on newly gathered physical information, it sounds like it would be greatly beneficial. Are there concrete reasons that this has not been done (e.g. cost, complexity)?
by fastball | 2025-09-03 00:48:01+00:00
Manageable isn't just from Amazon's side, it is also an argument from the side of the plaintiffs. e.g. "This class is too diverse. It will be like herding 300 million cats, which decreases the likelihood of arriving at a suitable settlement. Better to split this into multiple classes with more specific grievances".

Everyone benefits from the class being manageable (except maybe the plaintiffs' attorneys, who just want the biggest class they can possibly find).
by creddit | 2025-09-03 00:48:13+00:00
Even if Data/ML and Apps are split, in a company of 20, they would almost certainly go to the same CTO.

Here you will have what appears per this article to be 2 but as I looked more into it, there are 3 (!!) CTOs (see here: https://x.com/snsf/status/1962939368085327923) one of which (B2B CTO) seems to be reporting to the COO.

So in this context, you have 3 (!!) engineering organizations that don't terminate in a single engineering leader. "Apps" terminates at the "Apps" CEO (Fidji), research org terminates (??) at Sama (Overall CEO) and then B2B terminates at the COO.

So either you have weird dotted lines to Brockman for each of these CTOs OR you are going to have a lot of internal customer relationships which don't have a final point of escalation. That's definitely not common at this size and, unless these are all extremely independent organizations from a tech stack perspective (they can't really be since surely they are all reliant on the core LLMs...), then there will be a lot more weird politics that are harder to resolve than having these organizations all under one technical leader.

Of course another alternative is OAI is handing out titles for retention purposes and "CTO" will be heavily devalued as a title internally.
by kspacewalk2 | 2025-09-03 00:48:30+00:00
>The climate alone easily justifies building pedestrian tunnels.

Then why are they so deserted most of the time?

>You come across as one of those car-hating fanatics who'll zero in on literally anything about North American cities, blaming everything you don't like on Evil Car Culture.

Cool story, not sure who it applies to. I live in mid-size Canadian city in suburbia now, and drive a car quite often (though I do commute to work by bike).

>Car + N.A. is the most convenient and comfortable combination, by a very long way, even if you're stuck in a condo in the gridlocked downtown Toronto as I was.

That's great that you have this highly subjective opinion, and you should have the option of living that lifestyle. Those who don't want to should not be treated as second class citizens and should have the freedom to choose a comfortable, car-free or car-lite lifestyle too. That's not possible or logistically very difficult in almost all North American cities.

The walkways like PATH are absolutely a byproduct of the way our downtowns (used to, and to some extent still do) cater to the drive-in nine-to-fivers, and don't put nearly enough thought or money into making streets more pleasant and walkable in all seasons. You can think of it as good or bad, but I see little reason to exaggerate so comically about the deadly dangers of Scary Toronto Winters, and how they necessitate separating oneself from the outdoors at all costs. The reason our downtowns suck so much to walk through in wintertime is not the weather per se, but choices and priorities we make about infrastructure and maintenance. If you really have lived in Europe, particularly parts of Europe that have actual winters with snow, you'll know exactly what I mean.
by EveryQuantity | 2025-09-03 00:48:35+00:00
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by twoodfin | 2025-09-03 00:48:50+00:00
For whatever it’s worth, operational database systems (many users/connections, unpredictable access patterns) are beneficiaries of modern hyperthreading.

I’m familiar with one such system where the throughput benefit is ~15%, which is a big deal for a BIOS flag.

IBM’s POWER would have been discontinued a decade ago were it not for transactional database systems, and that architecture is heavily invested in SMT, up to 8-way(!)
by k310 | 2025-09-03 00:48:58+00:00
Welcome to the maddening and toxic world of real estate. I sold a home in the bay area as part of a divorce and can't afford to come back and buy a home, but statistically, I'd be damn lucky to outlive any mortgage. (I really try to keep fit). I may rent.

Every once in a while, someone invents some new cure for the Byzantine real estate/MLS boondoggle. No dent has been made in the Death Star.

Right after the fire that leveled Paradise, CA, I wrote to "Saint Jeff" Bezos suggesting that he create communities (probably mobile or manufactured homes) quickly for displaced residents, with the added sugar coating that Amazon drop boxes could be placed there so that people could donate purchased goods to fire victims (the ones that survived). And, with the current real estate shortage, could turn a profit after people are able to rebuild.

No soap.

The "Techno-Nirvana" planned near Travis AFB in the Sacramento area seems to have tripped on its shoelaces. The idea of "purposeful communities" is a good one, but mighty hard to implement. And, no offense, I find many tech leaders to be more than slightly sociopathic. You know their names.

One would hope that boomers like me who sold homes for whatever reason, or are hanging onto one, would contribute to the housing supply. But a lot seem to be handed down to children. I already gave my daughter a big chunk of savings to get her started in home ownership. I am glad of that, but when I do sell this home, it will be in the Sierra foothills, OK for WFH, but not going to help you that I can tell. I might compete for a rental in the bay area, who knows?

Anyway, this is part of a larger problem, and we seem to be approaching it from opposite ends, but I'm glad that it's being brought up.