MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blacklion | 2025-09-10 10:35:49+00:00
It is funny to see how in one (IT) culture there is two narratives, often supported by same people:

1) Office is bad, people more productive working remote from their homes, and corporate C-levels issue and enforce RTO, which is silly and anti-productive.

2) All jokes about Zoom/Meet/Teams, with all these «Each meeting consists of “are you hear me?” questions», etc.

Maybe, I'm unique (I'm sure I'm not), but I was twice less productive at remote (when it was mandated by anti-COVID measures of my Government) and I've happily returned to office as soon as I was allowed to.

For me, there are multitude of reasons to want to go to office, including endless number of shelves I need to mount at home (it is easy to procrastinate when you have OTHER real things to do, like home improvement, and not only meme-scrolling), mental resource to prepare one more meal each day (I have canteen at the office and lunch becomes no-brainer and takes 15-20 minutes instead of additional shopping & cooking at home), etc.

But main and most important reason is, personal meetings and, yes, this proverbial cooler chats. I'm 10x more effective in communication in person than all these videocalls. I dread planned calls, I cannot «read» counterparts well via videocall and it takes me much more time to explain ideas, problems and opinions via any remote communication. Also, a lot of «small» questions are postponed indefinitely because there is no this cooler, when you can ask somebody opinion or bounce off half-backed ideas against your colleague without scheduling yet another meeting and WITHOUT throwing your colleague out of the flow (because you know that he leaved flow to drink some tea already!).

I'm glad, that I can visit office every day, but also I'm glad that I can WFH for one day if I needed to (for example, when I need to meet plumber or alike).

Yes, there is commuting, but my commute is 15-20 minutes one way :-)
by noAnswer | 2025-09-10 10:36:42+00:00
> The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.

I thought the skin color thing is silly until I saw this vine. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9ZLq1iLCc6g

Apparently it is important to some. So I stopped complaining.
by varnaud | 2025-09-10 10:36:51+00:00
>Should I get a voucher if I pack my kids lunch?

Yes. And no. The gov gives the child X$ per week/month/year. The child parents use that money to take care of the child.

Society benefit from children that are well taken care of. Mechanisms to ensure that they are well taken care of are needed. Well funded daycare centers are one of the mechanism. A well funded household with a parent/grand parent/uncle is another one. In both case, an agency is in place to ensure the wellness level of the child.
by Unai | 2025-09-10 10:37:12+00:00
Repeating the last line of dialogue is not just a way to indicate that there's no more dialog, it often also works as a remainder, giving you the most important kernel of information ("You should go to [place] and talk with [npc]"), in case you come some time later and forgot what you were supposed to do. You can indicate there's no more dialog in many ways, but you'd lose that secondary feature. Same thing if the NPC just keeps babbling generated drivel.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 10:37:18+00:00
> Have you ever had to "now click on the left... no, up a bit. No go back you were just there. It's the third one from th... I'll just paste the link in chat" when you were standing next to someone's desk?

Yes.

I resolve it the same way in person as I do remotely, either by pointing at the screen, asking for (and receiving) control of the mouse and keyboard, or both. If you don't know how to use the features of your screen-sharing software that permit this, you need to learn them. If your screen-sharing software does not have these features, urge your company to switch to one that does (or just switch to one that does, if your company policies permit).

> People actually pay attention in meetings.

I've seen no difference in overall meeting attentiveness in the switch to WFH. Perhaps I've been blessed to work with unusually competent and mindful people.

> Spontaneous conversations are easier. ... You get to know colleagues better.

I don't, no. If anything, spontaneous conversations are way easier remotely, as most of the "water cooler" conversations in the office happen in large "off-topic" channels. This is really good for knowing what's going on at the company, because it massively expands the audience for chatter, gossip, and unofficial news from just a handful of people to the entire company. Plus, it's async communications, which means that you don't miss out just because you weren't there.

> Whiteboarding ... is way easier.

This is true. Most folks don't have cameras hooked up to their whiteboards (or even have whiteboards!).

> [B]rainstorming is way easier.

Disagree. Virtual post-it notes and a shared text document of some kind, plus a group voice call works great.
Ask HN: How do you build and sustain an offline tech discussion community?
by Judy-witch | 2025-09-10 10:38:16+00:00
I’m considering starting an offline tech discussion group where people can freely share ideas and inspirations, without rigid formats like formal talks.

I’d love to hear advice from those who have organized similar meetups or communities:

What are good practices for keeping the atmosphere open but still productive?

How do you handle costs (venue, refreshments, etc.) and maintain a balance between expenses and income?

Any suggestions on long-term sustainability and keeping members engaged?

Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences!
by Arathorn | 2025-09-10 10:38:26+00:00
It is absolutely possible to have a Matrix deployment that works seamlessly. It's true though that a lot of people are very unhappy at the transition from Element to Element X, hence the recent complaining threads. You can see a response from me as Matrix project lead (and Element CEO) here: https://gist.github.com/ara4n/190ad712965d0f06e17f508d1a45b5.... Meanwhile, we're working hard at landing both threads and spaces in Element X (they're available behind feature flags already).

The only reason people seem to complain about Element Call being hard to set up is that it's new and unfamiliar and doesn't have much docs yet, and VoIP is always a pain from a firewalling perspective. It's a hell of a lot simpler to setup and run than Jitsi, for instance. But if you run it via ESS Community (https://element.io/server-suite/community) or even https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo it should work fine.
by krapp | 2025-09-10 10:38:35+00:00
>He wants to use the pretense of war to subvert any checks against his power.

What checks to his power?

The US is already in a state of emergency, one magically extended into infinity by the legislative branch redefining what a "day" is. The Alien Enemies act has already been used to justify Trump's mass deportation program as a war against the "invasion" of the US by immigrants, and that continues despite pushback from the courts, because Trump has declared openly that he doesn't consider himself bound by the courts.

And given what he's already gotten away with, his thesis seems to be correct. He isn't going to seek the pretense because he knows he doesn't need to.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-10 10:40:04+00:00
France has definitely changed compared to say, 20 years ago, but it still more cigarette-oriented (especially in public) than where I've lived in the US (CA and NJ), but also less than Portugal, where I live now.

TBH, I think "frowned upon" would be an optimistic take on the current attitude towards smoking. It is still (to me) inexplicably common and popular.

That said, I actually think you've got an inverted view on French opinion. I'd say it's what you consider a desecration that didn't matter to us. People do stuff, sometimes silly stuff, and I think we generally do not lose sleep over it. The notion that it was vandalizing some cultural icon is honestly the kind of thinking that we'd be less likely to abide, more than we'd oppose anti-smoking vandalism. :)

But: maybe I'm just projecting.
by eviks | 2025-09-10 10:40:30+00:00
> are not shown to readers.

Sure they are, though the spec hides some readers behind other names like "editors, and other collaborators"

But also, have you never read the plain text / source of some markdown/other markup language written by someone else? Readme.md in its raw form?

And the spec explicitly applies to plain text, so it's self-contradictory as "the final rendered output" of plain text is... itself.
by latexr | 2025-09-10 10:40:43+00:00
> But imagine if interaction with NPCs (…) instead could sometimes be rewarding, sometimes useless, dynamically adjusted in how you interact with the world in non-predictable ways.

That’s a slot machine, and the same mechanism which also gets us hooked on social media. Sounds like something which would immediately be exploited by vapid addiction-as-a-feature games à la FarmVille.

> The player would just waste their time in their usual approach of canvasing each new area, which would become unsustainable. There would be no reliable way of ensuring you've extracted all the content.

Sounds frustrating. Ultimately games should be rewarding and fun. Constraints are a feature.

> All he/she could do is roam around more naturally, hoping the glimpses they catch are engaging and interesting enough.

Good reminder to go take a walk outside. Take a train to somewhere we haven’t been. Pick a road we’ve never crossed. We don’t even need a mini map, and sucks that we don’t have teleportation back to base, but we do have a special device which always points the way back.

> Realistically though, how do you build an exciting player experience with this framework? (…) Whether players actually enjoy this is another thing entirely.

Agreed. Though not enjoying it and abandoning it is fine, I’m more worried about people not enjoying it but feeling unable to quit (which already happens today, but I think the proposed system would make it worse).
by tigeroil | 2025-09-10 10:41:34+00:00
I think the simple and boring answer is it really depends. As you say, your commute is short, but also I think there's just a personality element to it. Some people absolutely thrive and are way more productive remotely (and I think HN skews towards that type of person), and other people are the opposite, losing their minds if they don't have colleagues beside them to talk and collaborate with.
by blitzar | 2025-09-10 10:41:59+00:00
One small disagreement - the most obvious entry point is one of the 3.5 billion android devices in the world (against apples 1.5b)

The relatively small changes in share price (~ -2% vs +2%) is likely just some optionality coming out of the respective company valuations for the small probability apple announced something big like Ai that works or a $400 phone for the mythical people who don't live in silicon valley and make 7 fig salaries.
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 10:42:23+00:00
I believe that if websites actually cared, if adblockers was a big issue for them, they would get to detect when a user uses one, eg by looking at specific parts of the webpage that are not loaded. There are some that do it. Even if it turned out to be an arm's race, it is a socially beneficial one imo, because it could reduce the appeal of the tracking-advertising model, by increasing the cost of keeping it up. But that's not what is going on here.

Personally I don't just block ads, but as much of any third party js/requests I can without breaking a website. Websites do not load any third party js etc by default except from some whitelisted domains. This takes care of a big part of the most annoying things out there. If you do not want to serve me the website if I block this stuff, don't do so, I don't care.
by Agraillo | 2025-09-10 10:42:38+00:00
> ... a topic that's worth only 1-3 minutes of your time

It's even worse sometimes, googling some "how to" queries returns links to yt-videos. Even if the video is 5 minutes, it's a waste of time, because I'm usually in the middle of an ongoing process when dozens variants are evaluated and an average dedicated time for a single one is much shorter.

Transcripts sometimes help. But not the native (no diarization as long as I remember). An example, Lex Fridman podcast is a good source of anecdata from famous science/tech/non-tech people and provides good transcripts on the site (but only starting some point in the past). For transcripts before this point v1.transcript.lol covered many, but amongst other glitches no names for diarization (Speaker 1/ Speaker 2).
by kypro | 2025-09-10 10:43:32+00:00
Transparency might cost a government in a direct sense, but the liberal argument would be that a transparent government is a more democratic and accountable government therefore that cost should ultimately result in better governance which has lots of indirect benefits.

In reality the majority of the US military budget does not go to defence in the colloquial sense, it's far more about projecting US power globally (which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you think that the US is projecting it's power for good).

"War" is a better description and sounds less innocent than "defence" would imply, although I think you could argue that even this is a slightly misleading description.
by scherlock | 2025-09-10 10:43:41+00:00
I think social norms in child rearing have changed drastically, though I think, at least in my neighborhood, they are swinging back.

Growing up in the 80s, I remember having a lot of free time and autonomy. I had soccer or baseballaybe twice a week and guitar lessons once a week, but the other days, I was doing what I wanted, I was expected to get my homework done, but once that was done,I was free to roam the neighborhood or my backyard.

This parenting mindset changed, by the late 80s early 90s and kids started getting more and more scheduled activities and less free time.

Even personally, 6 years ago my wife was very apprehensive about letting our oldest who was then 8, walk to his friend's house who was a 1/4 mile away in the neighborhood. Our youngest, who is 7, walks or bikes to his friend's house the same distance away. And we have other neighborhood kids that also go between people houses. That is the childhood I remember.

I don't think HW I got in elementary school necessarily helped me learn more, but the act of being given work with expectation that I would complete it on my own was a growth activity for me, and that is something that is starting to come back in elementary school, homework for the sake of learning how to do homework.
by farceSpherule | 2025-09-10 10:44:52+00:00
Microsoft, like other tech companies, over hired during COVID. This is their way of fixing that glitch while lessening the financial burden of severance packages handed out during layoffs.

It's a standard McKinsey & Co. playbook that is going around the various tech companies as a way to reduce headcount.

And, productivity is going to tank. If you force me to RTO, I will show up exactly at 8am, take my 1 hour lunch away from the office, and leave exactly at 5pm. And, when I do leave the office at 5pm, my work phone gets turned off and I will not do anything work related until 8am the next morning.

You would think these tech companies would do something innovative. A f*cking monkey can cut costs by firing people. How about you stop over hiring? How about you stop leasing building space and use the products you create that enable remote collaboration?
by crazybonkersai | 2025-09-10 10:44:54+00:00
If NATO wanted to confront Russia directly, they would have done it already. The truth is that NATO has no desire to go to war with Russia directly, a proxy war in Ukraine is the most NATO is prepared to do.

Triggering article 5 would do nothing and only show everyone how toothless it is. Besides article 5 does nothing else than calling members to discuss the matter and further plans.
by klabb3 | 2025-09-10 10:44:59+00:00
> I’m sure that might be the same in other markets where an iPhone is a status symbol. It’s definitely not one in the US where 60% of phone buyers have iPhones.

It can still be a status symbol to have the newest phone. That’s imo the only reason for changing camera alignments between generations. So people (who know & care) can see that you have the newest model.
by femto | 2025-09-10 10:45:05+00:00
CSV is good for debugging C/C++ real-time signal processing data paths.

Add cout or printf lines, which on each iteration print out relevant intermediate values separated by commas, with the first cell being a constant tag. Provided you don't overdo it, the software will typically still run in real-time. Pipe stdout to a file.

After the fact, you can then use grep to filter tags to select which intermediate results you want to analyse. This filtered data can be loaded into a spreadsheet, or read into a higher level script for analysis/debugging/plotting/... In this way you can reproducibly visualise internal operation over a long period of time and see infrequent or subtle deviations from expected behaviour.
by coldtea | 2025-09-10 10:45:29+00:00
>1. TikTok exists today, and the author still feels like YouTube is a monopoly. If TikTok was actually a viable alternative to YouTube, this article wouldn't exist.

Or the article might have just wrongly failed to take into consideration TikTok as a viable alternative. Imagine that?

>2. Futhermore, TikTok is not a substitute for YouTube, especially for the kinds of content that the author is watching. People don't treat TikTok as a video library -

>how many TikTok videos are posted straight to HN? TikTok does not have the same diversity of content as YouTube.*

HN is a niche platdorm mostly for older farts. Doesn't say anything about the viability of TikTok as YouTube replacement in general.

And an argument can be made about TikTok's viability to replace YouTube in its own thing, not that it already has done that. Unlike other platforms, TikTok has brand recognition, viewers, younger demographics, advertising and payments sorted out, and lots of initial content. If it can make a good proposition for longer YouTube style content, it has everything else sorted to be a viable alternative.

>YouTube doesn't have the existential threat of the next PewDiePie defecting off the platform.

WTF YouTube wont have it? If another platform starts to be seen as a cooler alternative, creators can jump ship on a heartbeat...
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-10 10:46:23+00:00
Which is a quirk of hindering renewable deployment.

All over Europe nuclear reactors are throttled down or even shut down for days/weeks because renewables lead to too low prices for the reactors to even cover wear and tear and fuel costs.

Given that renewables are the cheapest energy source in human history this will happen in every grid that is based on a free market principle.

In the monopolized markets the distributed aspects of renewables will mean that rooftop solar and storage enables home owners to largely disconnect from the grid if the monopoly starts to force new built nuclear power costs on the ratepayers.

In other words: Nuclear power is fucked unless it can either get the marginal cost to zero like a solar panel, i.e. impossible or get CAPEX low enough to act like a fossil gas peaker which again seems near impossible given the past 70 years of nuclear powers history and commercialization.
by ThunderSizzle | 2025-09-10 10:46:38+00:00
Whose to say "cited findings" have any more value than "anecdata".

The institutions that build these national and international statistics do so with bias and goals, or without complete data. For example, how can a bureau make a national statistics on crime accurate when cities intentional report crime incorrectly to look better in statistics.

To think "cited findings" is gospel truth is naive. I know it's highly desired here, but I stand by what I'm saying. Data is lovely, but garbage in, garbage out, and most national-level data is complete garbage with an agenda or bias or naivety.
by tucnak | 2025-09-10 10:47:06+00:00
It certainly took them a while to introduce MTE! Pixel 8 came out in 2023. I wonder how it compares against hardened_malloc with 48-bit address space and 33-bit ASLR in Graphene. Apple's security team has reported that MIE could break all "known" exploit chains, but so does hardened_malloc. Hard to tell right now which one is best (most def MIE) but everything else included in Graphene is probably making the point moot anyway.
by black_puppydog | 2025-09-10 10:47:53+00:00
Yeah this is infuriating. I read 4 languages and now I'm left trying to reverse-engineer/guess what the title I'm reading was supposed to mean.

Add on top of that googles persistent (14 years and counting) inability to decide which of the three countries I've lived in they attribute my account to (sometimes it still opens maps centered on Stockholm 12 years after I left) and I understand why I watch way less video these days...
by frumiousirc | 2025-09-10 10:47:59+00:00
My initial thought as well. But, what is the "Discriminator" here? What grounds the training toward reality? The "Challenger" and "Solver" adversity alone can only serve to amplify hallucination.

Ahh, GPT-4o is the arbiter.

So, basically, this is a way to perform LLM model compression (GPT-4o to qwen3) while maximizing the in-distribution domain size. As such, it seems reasonable and useful.

However the reliance on an arbiter LLM makes the claim that it will overcome the problem of a lack of training data unreasonable. Once the target LLM is scaled up to reach the in-distribution domain size of the arbiter, it seems to me it will turn back into a hallucination amplifier.
Sui fobbed off my disclosure that nearly 40% of their validators are exposed
by simonmorley | 2025-09-10 10:49:03+00:00
I built a tool called PGDN.ai that analyses DeFi/L1 networks for misconfigurations, CVEs, exposed services, etc. I started with Sui because I had a contact there. I didn’t expect much from one of the largest chains. What I found was wild.

- Nearly 40% of validators are running with serious misconfigurations: open SSH, CVEs, default services, no firewalls. - The majority expose the exact Ubuntu version. They didn’t give a sausage. - I flagged multiple validators with default Apache landing pages on 80, all with a CVE. They said, "that’s by design!" - They cannot tell the difference between RPC & HTTP. - Port 2375 (usually Docker) was open - they actually just denied this.

For context: I was CTO of a crypto exchange for 4 years, and have spent 20 years in security. It's not my first rodeo as they say.

When I disclosed responsibly, their response was bizarre:

'A CVE is only exploitable if you know how to exploit it.'

They brushed it off as a "bug bounty". I was not looking for a quick buck, I was looking to help them.

After I spoke to a journalist, their comms team even told my contact not to discuss it further.

I eventually wrote up a simulated attack doc:

Full report (technical): https://github.com/pgdn-network/sui-network-report-250819 Blog (overview): https://paragraph.com/@pgdn/40percent-of-sui-validators-exposed

To me, this shows a systemic lack of security hygiene in a network securing billions of $$$. Given the right tools, an organised group could easily take Sui offline. (I am personally selling all my Sui because of this.)

So my question: is this lack of secops understanding, lack of genuine concern, or something else? I have really struggled to get this out there with my limited public "followers". Would appreciate any input!
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-10 10:49:05+00:00
>> Given that, why does the England government not provide a definitive solution?

Every government in the last 20 years has been incompetent when it comes to managing the country. All they know is to make statements to the news about hot-button issues, like Brexit, foreigners, flags, Ukraine, Palestine, trans rights, Lucy Letby, etc. Both the Tories and Labour. They've both been more like teams of social media influencers than governments.