MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-25 19:07:48+00:00
Businesses want to protect the continuity of their business operations, and to that end they buy such protection as a service, from a business that managed to MitM half the Internet in order to provide such service.

Point being, it's a commercial subverting the Internet from inside, reshaping it to better serve the interests of commerce. It is indeed protection, but it's accomplished by reducing variance. 99% of legitimate commerce on the Internet follows the same patterns, use a small subset of possibilities offered by the technology - so why not just block the remaining 1% that doesn't fit and call it a day? It will stop most of the threats to running businesses on the Internet. The 1% of legitimate commerce that doesn't fit the pattern? It's not being ignored per se, just pressured to adapt and conform to the majority.

What is being ignored is that the Internet is not just a place of commerce, and non-commercial use cases, ideas such as empowering people to better their lives, are gradually becoming impossible, as fundamental Internet infrastructure becomes inhospitable for them.

Some of us still remember the Internet being more than just a virtual mall, and are unhappy about it gradually becoming one. And it's not like CloudFlare, et al. are hostile to non-commercial interests as a matter of principle - it's just out of scope for them.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-25 19:08:13+00:00
> This is not true - most American companies hire contractors, usually through a local intermediary.

Do you have a source for this? I would expect EU rules around classifying contractors to be much stricter than what we have in the US.

> This is something work pondering about, really. Take step back, look at your life, and think a bit about this point, no matter if you're blue- or white-collar worker.

Yes, I have taken a look at my life and thought about this point.

I enjoy work. I enjoy building things that are useful to society and I enjoy getting paid a lot of money to do it.

I'm not even gonna pretend that I don't take long vacations. Lots of places I've worked have had unlimited PTO, despite no legal requirement for it.

But the smaller and earlier-stage places I've worked? No, people didn't take vacations there. The company could not afford it, and when employees are shareholders they generally love maximizing shareholder value.
by bitwize | 2025-09-25 19:08:14+00:00
If the content needs to be copied or downloaded in order to be watched, you may do so exclusively under terms set by the licensor, period. You may not even get fair use rights, as to get the content in the first place you might have to agree to terms of service waiving them, and being found to use the content in an unapproved way would be grounds for cutting off your access.
by hellojesus | 2025-09-25 19:08:41+00:00
Honestly, the current administration baffles me. There is so much activity that flies squarely against the constitution in a not at all subtle or clever way; just blatant, "I don't care."

It's one thing to be disruptive and enforce immigration law "by the books" but entirely separate to then go out of your way to not enforce it legally while at the same time violating or attempting to violate the constitution on pretty fundamental levels.
by fragmede | 2025-09-25 19:08:47+00:00
The problem is who wants to be CEO of that? How many people do you know are simultaneously voracious enough to want to be the CEO of something and also totally chill and down to just have a lifestyle business? How many people do you know would take a salary of $5 million/year and just keep working the same job? Pretty sure almost everyone I know would do that for maybe two years and then quit and retire. Companies doesn't want that. So that leaves us with the kind of people that would take that salary and keep at it. The reason CEOs are different kinds of people from the rest of us is that it stopped being about the money for them a long time ago. It's not not about the money, but after getting enough money for your own lifetime and several other people's, why keep working? Not everyone is cut out for it. Be the change you want to see in the world. Claw your way up to the c-suite and then run the company how you see fit. Just don't let that climb change you so that you no longer want to run it as a lifestyle business.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-09-25 19:09:02+00:00
I have stored every americans ssn in a text file, you can too!

seq -w 0 999999999 | sed -E 's/^([0-9]{3})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{4})$/\1 \2 \3/' | awk '{ area=$1+0; group=$2; serial=$3 if (area==0 || area==666 || area>=900) next if (group=="00" || serial=="0000") next printf "%03d-%02s-%04s\n", area, group, serial }'
by danbruc | 2025-09-25 19:09:12+00:00
What would happen in a hypothetical scenario where Microsoft cut off everything [1] they can for all of Israel - no Azure, no Office, no Outlook, no Exchange, no SQL Server, no Windows, no Xbox, no ...? Depending on how many things they can make unusable, I would imagine that this would be pretty bad, probably even causing some deaths because of affected infrastructure.

[1] Not sure what they could actually make unusable by revoking licenses, blocking logins, and whatnot. It probably also matters how quickly the effects are felt, Azure would be gone immediately but I am not sure how often Office checks whether its license has been revoked, if at all. If license checks make things stop working over weeks and months, it would still not be pretty, but it would provide at least some time to prepare and avoid the worst.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-25 19:09:13+00:00
This is not entirely clear. Elsewhere in this thread I found a couple of studies on this exact topic. The first [1] is just for breast cancer and after normalizing across a wide array of variables, found no improved survival rates except for black women, which I think is suggestive of further biases.

The second [2] is for all sorts of cancers, but is a large observational study without much effort to control for biases. It found an overall increase in five year survival rates of 3.6% (64.3% in NCI centers, vs 60.7% in non-NCI). That's certainly something, but it's fairly certain that biases would bring that down a healthy chunk.

However there were significantly better outcomes in more rare/lethal cancers. For instance in hepatobiliary cancers, the NCI survival rate was 33.8% vs 18.7% for non-NCI centers. And that is largely the point I'm making. For the overwhelming majority of things, care is mostly commoditized and you will be fine wherever you go. The value of high end institutions is mostly only realized in the case of rare/serious issues, for which transfer is always an option anyhow.

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Though I'd also add here that these examples, cancer, are on the fringe extremes of what my point was. That there is a strong argument to be made that even cancer falls within it, just further emphasizes the point. If your local hospital can competently treat cancer, they can certainly treat the overwhelming majority of reasons people go to the hospital, which are relatively far more commoditized.

[1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8462568/

[2] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4892698/
by commandersaki | 2025-09-25 19:09:16+00:00
I’m a true believer of Framework’s mission. The technology is awesome.

I have contention with this; Framework technology is anything but awesome. Their laptop line is just as mediocre as most PC laptops. Mediocre build quality, mediocre display, mediocre battery, lots of annoying flaws, etc.

I didn't want to copy and paste my rant about the specific issues with Framework laptop, but here is one I posted awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564335
by petercooper | 2025-09-25 19:09:22+00:00
Just as a geeky aside, I enjoyed learning about how to read ECG traces! There are lots of interesting patterns and general principles involved and I guess it could come in useful in a pinch one day. There are quite a few doctors on social media who share and explain traces and it's fun to figure them out first. Or I'm just a morbidly curious nerd.. :-)
by rchaud | 2025-09-25 19:09:46+00:00
Personal computers were extremely expensive until the mid-90s when free consumer email and chat started making them a necessity. Microcomputers didn't exist until the 80s and were largely useless to people with jobs didn't require email, desktop publishing or spreadsheets.

VR is a recreational tool. People aren't waiting for the tech to be better to jump in en masse. It just isn't a need most people have.
by tombert | 2025-09-25 19:09:53+00:00
> I'm not sure broad and deep are the same thing, but maybe we're just getting caught up in semantics?

They’re not the same thing but I think they’re still going “deep” in that they will focus very heavily on one subject in their conspiracy rabbit hole.

> Does anyone truly believe in a flat earth, though, or is it just an entertaining ruse?

I think that a lot of people are faking, but I am pretty convinced that at least some people believe it. There was that dude a few years ago who was trying to build a rocket to “see if he could see the curve”, for example.

I have seen some fairly convincing vlogs where the people at least seem to really believe it.
by jschveibinz | 2025-09-25 19:10:45+00:00
I've recently read about Roger Bacon, the medieval polymath and Franciscan monk who promoted and developed the study of science, magic, and philosophy coming out of the Arab world. He was convinced that the only way to defeat the antichrist was to have all of the "technology" and wisdom that the antichrist would use.

Peter Thiel may have been reading some medieval religious literature?
by dotancohen | 2025-09-25 19:10:48+00:00
This is such a perversion of the history of the holy land that I don't even see fit to correct any of it. Any reader here is welcome to read about the Muslim conquests, of which the Muslims are extremely proud.

In fact, part of that pride is calling it an the Arab conquest, even though the colonizer - Salah AlDin - was a Kurd and not an Arab.
by cuttothechase | 2025-09-25 19:11:05+00:00
Yes, but usually companies exploit loop holes and build exploitative contracts like you need to pay back the cost that we paid for getting you moved, handled and what not etc., and use it as a threat in case the candidate had the thoughts of leaving before the first year...(anything but the h1b fee, since law explicitly prohibits h1b paybacks). Agree it is going to be a state specific variation of the theme.,
by efreak | 2025-09-25 19:11:11+00:00
> Why did anyone think it was a good idea to put tabs in the title bar.

Because we decided it was a good idea to keep making monitors wider and wider and wider without making them any taller, and not everyone wants vertical tabs.

You can pry my 16:10 monitor from my cold dead fingers. Give me a 3:2 and you'll never get it back.

Why do you have 100 tabs open in the same window, anyways? Use tab groups and profiles, with a secondary window for session-tabs that'll get closed soon. Having too many tabs is like having too many desktop icons, but worse.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-25 19:11:19+00:00
Browsers are always going to be "as-is, best effort" . No one, not even google is going to stick out their neck and protect your privacy, that's up to you, and especially not "legally" as that has aspects of easily being sued when privacy/money is involved. Certainly not for a "small monthly fee". Best you're going to get is open source and security community scrutiny of said open source code
by 3pt14159 | 2025-09-25 19:11:42+00:00
I'm sorry but only at my most very dedicated periods of work did I work 100 hour weeks, and that was like 3 or 4 weeks tops. I highly doubt that anyone sustains a 100 hour work week for much longer. Eighty hour work weeks? Sure, that is doable, but sleeping at the job site because you are pulling a 100 hour work week is just not sustainable.
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-25 19:12:04+00:00
I think you should expand your line of thought. Think like MAGA in this situation. If you are a Democratic politician with no scruples and a drive to implement your agenda, what could you do? Assume for the sake of argument that you were swept into office on a tide of anti-Trump backlash and you have a majority in Congress.

You could start by passing legislation and excluding it from judicial review under Article III. After all, as you say, the SCOTUS would otherwise vote along their own ideological lines against everything you want to do. Sure, SCOTUS and others will undoubtedly howl that Marbury gives the court the right to judicial review, but you would not be the first president to ask the court "with what army?"

We are at a crossroads. Will the Democratic Party see itself as responsible for conserving the republic and push the government back towards something boring and sane? Can such a party actually get elected today? I have this suspicion that a lot of people think so, especially MAGA -- they [mostly] cannot conceive that the opposition can turn the tables and use identical tactics on them, so they feel like the current situation is a temporary but crucial win only for them, which will move the Overton window to the right. But what if there is really a sea of anger boiling below the surface right now just waiting to be tapped by a Democratic demagogue?

Could get exciting.
by artembugara | 2025-09-25 19:12:24+00:00
no no, they want to use it on external data, we do not do any internal data.

I'll give a few examples of how they use the tool.

Example 1 -- real estate PE that invests in multi-family residential buildings. Let's say they operate in Texas and want to get notifications about many different events. For example, they need to know about any new public transport infrastructure that will make specific area more accessible -> prices wil go up.

There are hundreds of valid records each month. However, to derive those records, we usually have to sift through tens of thousands of hyper-local news articles.

Example 2 -- Logistics & Supply Chain at F100 Tracking of all the 3rd party providers, any kind of instability in the main regions, disruptions at air and marine ports, political discussions around the regulation that might affect them, etc. There are like 20-50 events, and all of them are multi-lingual at global scale.

thousands of valid records each week, millions of web pages to derive those from.
by 5555624 | 2025-09-25 19:12:35+00:00
It's not any different than going to Walmart yourself and getting groceries -- they just put them in plastic grocery bags. I've never had a problem with anything refrigerated or frozen. (Well, I've never ordered ice cream.)

The key is to be home when they deliver it; so, you can put those things away immediately. They offer two-hour delivery windows and usually deliver within the window. In my experience -- I'm disabled and use them for groceries almost weekly -- about 5% fall just outside the delivery window. (Usually 10-20 minutes late.)
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-25 19:12:52+00:00
The IA-64 architecture had too much granularity of control dropped into software. Thus, reliable compiler designs were much more difficult to build.

It wasn't a bad chip, but like Cell or modern Dojo tiles most people couldn't run it without understanding parallelism and core metastability.

amd64 wasn't initially perfect either, but was accessible for mere mortals. =3
by al_borland | 2025-09-25 19:12:59+00:00
I really have to wonder if non-Prime and Prime deliveries go through the same shipping pipeline to simplify the process.

When I order without Prime, it seems my order just sits for a few days, then it hits my credit card and I get it 2 days later. Almost like giving everyone free 2 day shipping wouldn’t cost them anything at this point, so they just artificially delay normal users to make the service worse.

Occasionally the order will trigger right away and I’ve gotten non-Prime stuff in 1 day with free super saver shipping.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-25 19:13:01+00:00
Well, what is "the problem"? Is it children being abused, or is it the distribution of CSAM?

And if you say both - how would you rate the relative severity of the two problems? Specifically, if you had to pick between preventing the rape of a child, and preventing N acts of CSAM distribution, how big would N have to be to make it worth choosing the latter?
by Fwirt | 2025-09-25 19:13:11+00:00
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. They absolutely destroyed Guided Access in iOS 26 to the point of borderline non-functionality. I've had the system idle-sleep while in Guided Access and wake to a lock screen that I was unable to interact with in any way, including turning off guided access. Softlocked my device for about 5 minutes until panicked swiping and button mashing managed to snap it out of it. There appears to be a race condition with the lock screen and home screen, if the device idle sleeps in guided access mode then about 50% of the time it wakes to the home screen instead of the app. Sometimes waking it on iOS shows the lock screen for a brief second before the app starts. Also, exiting guided access sometimes doesn't recolor the apps on the home screen so it still appears as if all apps are disabled. Not to mention that they reclassified the pen settings dialog as a "software keyboard" meaning that in order for my kids to draw with the Apple Pencil I also have to allow them to enter text now. None of these were issues on iOS 18.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 19:13:15+00:00
> one could easily have said that Nazi Germany had greatly increased legitimate surveillance needs after they invaded Poland

This is an interesting comparison—thank you.

That said, did the Poles launch cross-border attacks on German civilians? The closest I can come up with is Bloody Sunday [1], which was an attack on ethnically German civilians, but not a cross-border incursion. (Granted, we can only observe this ex post facto, so your argument still stands.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1939)
by jama211 | 2025-09-25 19:13:37+00:00
Not this again. That study had serious problems.

But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less.

It’s like, a robot vacuum might take way longer to clean the house than if I did it by hand sure. But I don’t regret the purchase, because I have to do so much less _work_.

Coding work that I used to procrastinate about because it was tedious or painful I just breeze through now. I’m so much less burnt out week to week.

I couldn’t care less if I’m slower at a specific task, my LIFE is way better now I have AI to assist me with my coding work, and that’s super valuable no matter what the study says.

(Though I will say, I believe I have extremely good evidence that in my case I’m also more productive, averages are averages and I suspect many people are bad at using AI, but that’s an argument for another time).
by tombert | 2025-09-25 19:13:38+00:00
No, I disagree with that completely actually.

Functions and handlers should not care where data comes from, just that they have data, and a queue is the abstraction of that very idea. Yes, you lose atomicity but atomicity is generally slow and more problematic has a high amount of coupling.

I don’t agree that being out of sync is the main downside of microservices; the main downside is that anything hitting the network is terrible. Latency is high, computers crash, you have to pay a cost of serialization and deserialization, libraries can be inconsistent, and zombie processes that screw up queues. Having stuff in-process being non-synchronized wouldn’t even hit my top five.

ETA:

I should be clear; obviously there are times where you want or need synchronization, and in those cases you should use some kind of synchronization mechanism, like a mutex (or mutex-backed store e.g. ConcurrentHashMap) for in-process stuff or a SQL DB for distributed stuff, but I fundamentally disagree with the idea that this should be the default, and if you design your application around the idea of data flow, then explicit synchronization is the exception.
by lomase | 2025-09-25 19:13:56+00:00
Telsa told everybody 10 years ago self driving cars were a reality.

Waymo claims to have it. Some hackernews comenters too, I started to belive those are Waymo employees or stock owners.

Apart from that I know nobody that has even use or even seen a self driving car.

Self-driving cars are not a thing so you can't say they are more realible than humans.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-25 19:13:59+00:00
Nah, it's Apple's fault. Not regression testing against major apps is pure incompetence.

Also, this in the comment:

> [a user] Please try any way of getting in touch with Apple engineers you can. As a project, we don't have a better connection to Apple than you do.

>

> One approach might be the engineer who replied to the Bluesky post that someone linked to above about the input issue.

Pure incompetence. Major projects have no way to do anything but ping randoms on socials.
by computerex | 2025-09-25 19:14:24+00:00
I encourage you to step outside of the Israeli echo chamber of lies and deception.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165856

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286

Israel is a naziesque society through and through.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-09-25 19:14:27+00:00
what's missing from the blog is the fact that these decisions that are announced publicly are made a long time before they're announced publicly. so I would have already voiced my opposition (and presumably failed to sway leadership) and talked about it with my people long before the "be part of the system" moment.

if something ever came along where I was surprised and not informed ahead of time, I'd not loudly disagree publicly until I had more info and I'd tell my people as much. but that would be an exceptional circumstance and I'd probably feel I'm on the chopping block anyway since I was out of the loop.

so I don't play both sides but if you choose to stay employed at a place you're choosing to buy into the vision of leadership. if I wasn't bought in, I'd leave. if someone under me wasn't bought in, I'd support them and keep it between us but recommend they leave. because life is short and you'll regret working for people you detest. I get there's practical considerations because a job is a life decision but that's always why I'm careful about where I commit to work at and don't just aim for best salary or TC.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-25 19:14:33+00:00
I do scientific and hard code a lot. Gemini is a good bit below GPT5 in those areas, though still quite good. It's also just a bad agent, it lacks autonomy and isn't RL'd to explore well. Gemini's superpower is being really smart while also having by far the best long context reasoning, use it like an oracle with bundles of your entire codebase (or a subtree if it's too big) to guide agents in implementation.