MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zugi | 2025-09-25 21:41:21+00:00
This is the quote that bugged me the most too, as it's an obvious attempt at pure emotional manipulation. Working from home as a federal employee was always a limited time privilege, not some sort of fundamental right.

And it sounds like she actually did find a place to drop off her child: "Her explaining to her manager the way her child cried and begged Mommy to stay home broke me." Yeah, most employed adults have to leave their children somewhere when they go to work.
by parineum | 2025-09-25 21:41:36+00:00
Generously, two of those I would classify as "investigating" with only one actually using that word but the investigation started in 2023 and I've heard nothing of it.

He and his businesses have had several interactions with the federal government of varying antagonism but this is nothing like Trump firing Comey.

I think that it's pretty apparent that the pdf you linked is a pretty partisan document that makes a lot of tenuous links between Musk recommending firing the low level employees and his interactions with the heads of those agencies.
by mbesto | 2025-09-25 21:42:10+00:00
Apax Partners rolled this companies together: https://www.authoritybrands.com/about-us/

I use ASP for my pool cleaning and they referred me to their electric company (Mr Sparky). Both have been excellent services and I was able to receive a discount on Mr Sparky, because of the existing relationship with one. Seems like a win:win for everyone.
by hollerith | 2025-09-25 21:42:18+00:00
>The Algerians hid within the population

Yes, but we're discussing a civil war or revolution in the US, where the rebels or revolutionaries would be able to engage in terrorism and to hide within the population -- and where there are so many long guns in private hands that the defending force (the government) probably wouldn't be able to deprive the attacking force (the rebels) of long guns simply by punishing any civilian found with a long gun in their home.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-25 21:42:25+00:00
”Updated something tiny and ran CI again until it failed on some other step”

Together with backing up your work.

Sure you can keep amending your last commit but whenever you detour to another problem in the same PR that turns into a mess.

Easier to just treat the PR as the atomic unit of work and squash away all that intermediate noise.

It also ensures that CI will pass on every commit on the main branch.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-25 21:44:36+00:00
Speaking of marketing, that era of Intel was very weird for consumers. In the 1990s, they had iconic ads and words like Pentium or MMX became powerful branding for Intel. In the 2000s I think it got very confused. Centrino? Ultrabook? Atom? Then for some time there was Core. But it became hard to know what to care about and what was bizarre corporate speak. That was a failure of marketing. But maybe it was also an indication of a cultural problem at Intel.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 21:45:54+00:00
Doesn't most of the stuff a radiologist does get double checked anyways by the doctor that orders the scan in the first place? I guess not a more typical screening scan like a mammogram. However, for anything else like a CT, MRI, Xray, etc. I expect the doctor/NP that ordered it in the first place will want to take a look at the image itself and not just the report on the image.
by marmarama | 2025-09-25 21:46:00+00:00
Centrino was Intel's brand for their wireless networking and laptops that had their wireless chipsets, the CPUs of which were all P6-derived (Pentium M, Core Duo).

Possibly you meant Celeron?

Also the Pentium 4 uarch (Netburst) is nothing like any of the Atoms (big for the time out-of-order core vs. a small in-order core).
by jcranmer | 2025-09-25 21:46:08+00:00
> segmented memory is out in Protected Mode (nearly the totality of remaining 16-bit code).

No, segmented memory is exactly what you can get working. You set up the segments via the LDT, which is still supported even in 64-bit mode; this is how Wine is able to execute Win16 code on 64-bit Linux. (Reading Wine code is how I figured out how to execute 16-bit code from 64-bit code in the first place!)

What doesn't work, if my memory serves me correctly, is all the call gate and task gate stuff. Which is effectively building blocks for an OS kernel that everyone tossed out in the early 90s and instead went with kernel-mode and user-mode with the syscalls (first software interrupts and then the actual syscall instruction in x86-64). You don't need any of that stuff to run most 16-bit code, you just need to emulate the standard Windows DLLs like kernel, ntdll, and user.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-25 21:46:50+00:00
AMD was beating the on performance before Athlon and Athlon 64 made it simply clear to everybody.

Intel spent literally 8 years and many, many billions and billions of $ to do everything possible to prevent AMD from getting volume.

The had so much production capacity and AMD so little, that they basically had the ability to pay every single large OEM not to use AMD. If you as company used AMD, you would instantly lose billions of $, you would be the last Intel costumer served, you wouldn't get the new chips early on and potentially much more. OEM were terrified of Intel. Because Intel and Microsoft were so dominate OEMs made terrible margin, and Intel could basically crush them. Intel used to joke that OMEs were their distributes nothing more.

This was to the point where AMD offered free chips to people and they refused it.

AMD had a long period of time where they had better product, but the couldn't sustaining investing in better products and fighting so many legal battles. And the regulators around the world took to long and were to soft on Intel.

Intel in the 80s invested big in memory, and got crushed by Japan. They invested big into the iAPX 186 and got crushed, it was horrible product. Luckily they were saved by the PC and were then able to have exclusivity on the back of the i386.

By the late 90s AMD was better then them and that persisted for almost 10 years. And then they took the lead for for about 8 years and then lost it. And they didn't lose it because of the fabs I don't think. When they lost on the fabs they just fell further behind.

Its really the late 80s and 90s gigantic PC boom that gave them the crazy manufacturing and market lead that AMD was not able to overcome the 10 years after that.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-25 21:46:59+00:00
I'm not the person you asked, but I often don't. I personally don't care about git history - I read code not commit messages. I don't really care how it got the way it is I care about what it is, maybe once in a blue moon there could potentially be some useful information in a commit message but it's not enough.

So, I'll often just make lots of changes and then commit them all at once with some vague commit message and that's that. Nobody cares. If I want to tell people why the code is the way it is I'll just add a comment.

This is how I work. I have tried to be more disciplined with commits and stuff like that but I find that it just slows me down and makes the work feel more difficult. I also frequently just forget and find myself having made lots of changes without any commits so then I have to retroactively split it up into commits which can be difficult too. So I'd rather just not worry about it, focus on getting good work done and move on rather than obsess over a git history that's unlikely to ever be read by anyone. I realize that's a self-fulfilling prophecy in that it'd be more likely to be read if it was useful and well done but it's not just me. If I was in a team where everyone did it really well I'd try to keep my own work up to par. But usually I'm the one who cares most about how we do things and this just doesn't seem important to me.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-25 21:47:08+00:00
Yeah it's kind of infuriating really. It's not like it's an uncommon workflow either. Everywhere I've worked people end up with PRs that just say "this depends on this other PR; ignore the first commit".

Gitlab kind of supports it - if your second PR's target branch is the first PR then it will only show you the code from the second PR and it will automatically update the target branch to master when the first one gets merged. I wouldn't say it's first class support though.

Sapling sort of has support for making it work on GitHub: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/addons/reviewstack/

And there was some forge that supports Jujutsu that has proper first class support, but I can't find it now.

Anyway it's a very useful workflow that lots of people want and kind of insane that it isn't well supported by GitHub.

To be fair I can't remember the last time GitHub introduced any really new features. It's basically in maintenance mode.
by Taganov | 2025-09-25 21:47:19+00:00
Oh, but they do atrophy, and in devious ways. Though the muscles under linear load may stay healthy, the ability of the body to handle the knee, ankle, and hip joints under dynamic and twisting motion does atrophy. Worse yet, one may think that they are healthy and strong, due to years of biking, and unintentionally injure themselves when doing more dynamic sports.

Take my personal experience for whatever it is worth, but my knees do not lie.
by mikamika83 | 2025-09-25 21:47:19+00:00
1. workaround for high GPU load by Electron apps (what this HN thread is about) — see the command here: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

2. unrelated workaround for scroll bug - defaults write com.google.Chrome NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false
by labrador | 2025-09-25 21:47:33+00:00
I tell my son to do something different everyday - to build memories, because otherwise if we do the same thing everyday it becomes a blur and time passes too quickly. We also don't have memories to reflect on when we're old. I discovered this by accident due to my chaotic life because of bipolar and alcoholism and the work and crazy lengths I had to go to to recover.
by oasisbob | 2025-09-25 21:47:43+00:00
> because these Gemini models sometimes feel downright lobotomized compared to claude or gpt-5.

I'm using Gemini (2.5-pro) less and less these days. I used to be really impressived with its deep research capabilities and ability to cite sources reliably.

The last few weeks, it's increasingly argumentative and incapable of recognizing hallucinations around sourcing. I'm tired of arguing with it on basics like RFCs and sources it fabricates, won't validate, and refuses to budge on.

Example prompt I was arguing with it on last night:

> within a github actions workflow, is it possible to get access to the entire secrets map, or enumerate keys in this object?

As recent supply-chain attacks have shown, exfiltrating all the secrets from a Github workflow is as simple as `${{ toJSON(secrets) }}` or `echo ${{ toJSON(secrets) }} | base64` at worse. [1]

Give this prompt a shot! Gemini won't do anything except be obstinately ignorant. With me, it provided a test case workflow, and refused to believe the results. When challenged, expect it to cite unrelated community posts. Chatgpt had no problem with it.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174045 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/47165
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 21:48:19+00:00
Because they made something different with the same process, instead of making the same thing with a different process. Feature size didn’t get any smaller. (or, rather, you get the order of magnitude improvement without it, and those gains were vastly more than the feature size improvements over that time period)

Also because “process improvement” usually refers to things where you get incremental improvements basically for free as each new generation of fab rolls out. Unless you can invent a 4D flash, this is a single (huge) improvement that’s mostly played out.
by parliament32 | 2025-09-25 21:48:31+00:00
No, any kind of phone that can receive codes over SMS will work (like the ultra-cheap feature phones you can probably get at your local corner store). From a computer browser, you still enter your mobile number to login, then enter the verification code it sends you over SMS. I've also seen sites that offer phone call as an alternative to SMS, so you can presumably also login from a landline.
by marc_abonce | 2025-09-25 21:49:06+00:00
The article has a paywall for me and I was curious about their methodology. Fortunately, Wikipedia has some information:

"Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
by yonran | 2025-09-25 21:49:07+00:00
> a16z and certain Sequoia partners specifically supported this during the 2024 election.

Support for DOGE before it was implemented is not a bad thing. Ro Khanna (Democrat from Silicon Valley) supported it too. https://khanna.house.gov/media/in-the-news/opinion-democrats...

It is the act of supporting DOGE after the dumb implementation (e.g. 1/28/2025 Fork in the Road letter) that would concern me (which I think a16z has continued to do).

In my opinion, Elon Musk approached DOGE all wrong because he is used to running companies where payroll is the #1 expense, and cutting workers is how he has always cut costs at his previous companies when they were strapped for cash (e.g. SolarCity, Tesla). He did’t realize that the US Government is mostly an insurance company, so cutting office staff is a drop in the bucket. A tragedy of his own juvenile ignorance.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 21:49:10+00:00
The last Iraq incursion was directly responsible for the rise of ISIS in the area, giving them a stronghold for mass slaughter throughout Iraq and Syria.

Saddam Hussein was obviously a murderous psychopath, albeit one who held tight enough reign to mostly subordinate the other psychopaths in the area, so you can ask the question about our culpability in switching that trolley onto a new set of tracks.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-25 21:49:29+00:00
Gordon Moore tried to link up with Intel when he was at DEC. Alpha would have become Intels 64 bit architecture. This of course didn't happen and Intel instead linked up with DEC biggest competitor HP, and adopted their, much, much worse VLIW architecture.

Imagine a future where Intel and Apple both adopt DEC and Alpha instead of Intel HP and Apple IBM.
by ge0rg | 2025-09-25 21:49:34+00:00
Yeah, I've documented a thing or two about the NX series on https://op-co.de/blog/tags/samsung-nx/

Regarding the RTOS, I took my NX300 from the shelf some weeks ago to make a few shots for the live demo at https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/fc37ae17-9264-... and OH MY FSCKING GOD IT'S SLOW! I made a burst shot of a model train approaching, and the camera was busy processing it for multiple minutes. The NX500 is lightning fast in comparison, and the NX1 is even snappier.

So what do you plan to do with the ARM hook? I've poked at different places of di-camera-binary, but never at the processing pipeline, and there are soooo many things to reverse-engineer, and I'm but one person!
by hashim | 2025-09-25 21:49:38+00:00
No, it's just been so isolated that only Israel can control who and what goes in and out, to the point NGOs have described it for decades as the world's biggest open air concentration camp. I don't condone the horrible things Hamas did (that were actually proven and not later disproven hasbara, like the rapes), but I'm also not arrogant enough to tell an occupied people how they should be resisting their occupiers, especially when the target is a military outpost (which is essentially what the kibbutz was) mere miles from Gaza and being used as a base largely by standing members of the IDF and their families (i.e. the occupying force). Desperate people take desperate measures, who knew? The Irgun and Haganah probably should have thought about that before they violently persuaded the British into giving them a "homeland" that already had a people - including Jews and Christians - living in relative peace on it for almost a thousand years.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-25 21:49:59+00:00
> someone pays for building them

Given the unit economics, the cost of development has no correlation with the end price consumers pay, so it's irrelevant.

> Sure you can. $10-100K/seat tax on LLM services, going straight into an unemployment/education/sovereign wealth fund.

No significant technological change has been withheld, especially in the current world. Even Amish had to change their ways, and North Koreans have mobile phones.

This is ridiculous pilpul to refuse to acknowledge that the labor market has a supply and demand, with salaries as a clearing price. Add more migrant workers, and the salary decreases at the expense of the local ones. AI is an orthogonal problem.
by boogieknite | 2025-09-25 21:50:35+00:00
i find a lot of value in using it to give half baked ideas momentum. some sort of "shower thought" will occur to me for a personal project while im at work and ill prompt Claude code to analyze and demonstrate an implementation for review later

on the other hand i believe my coworker may have taken it too far. it seems like productivity has significantly slipped. in my perception the approaches hes using are convoluted and have no useful outcome. im almost worried about him because his descriptions of what hes doing make no sense to me or my teammates. hes spending a lot of time on it. im considering telling him to chill out but who knows, maybe im just not as advanced a user as him? anyone have experience with this?
by zawaideh | 2025-09-25 21:51:10+00:00
For those looking for direct sources on the findings of genocide in Gaza, here are several key reports and legal conclusions from human rights organizations, international courts, and genocide scholars:

1. UN Commission of Inquiry: Concluded that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. * Report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c... * Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trUcK8hHaIA

2. Amnesty International: Concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. * Statement: https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/end-israels-genocide-aga...

3. B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories): Published their conclusion that Israel is committing genocide. * Report ("Our Genocide"): https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

4. International Court of Justice (ICJ): Ruled in January 2024 that it is plausible Israel's acts could violate the Genocide Convention. * Case Details: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

5. Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: Issued an "Active Genocide Alert" in October 2023, warning of the high risk of genocide. * Alert: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/active-genocide-alert-1/acti...

Beyond these formal reports, it's crucial to acknowledge that this has been one of the most documented atrocities in history, often livestreamed by Palestinians on the ground. Their testimonies have been consistent from the beginning, yet they are frequently dismissed until a non-Palestinian, "human" source validates their lived experience.
by thfuran | 2025-09-25 21:51:36+00:00
Ask anyone you know who has been sexually assaulted or raped what they think of the idea of pictures or recordings of that being both kept by the perpetrator and widely disseminated. I think you'll find very few who'd say that's totally fine. But given that there can be no CSAM without child abuse, the direct physical abuse is clearly the primary problem.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-25 21:51:44+00:00
> maybe you're misreading usernames

Sorry for that.

> KPGv2 pointed out the phrasing of the 2nd amendment is not clear.

I thought me and GLdRH replied to KPGv2 stating that the 2nd amendment isn't valid grammar and this results in some of the unclarity.

When you have this:

X -> [grammar rules 18th century] -> 2nd amendment -> [grammar rules 21th century] -> ...

, then when you want to discuss meaning issues due to grammar rules, you need to use 18th century grammar. I perceived GLdRH to use 21th century grammar to encode the same sentence. The literal text does not need to be modified, since it uses 18th century grammar rules. Only when you want to parse it with 21th century grammar rules, you need to preprocess it to adjust the grammar first. This preprocessing doesn't need to be written back, since the grammar rules of the text haven't changed. We are only circumventing the parser not supporting the texts grammar.

> only the Supreme Court's opinion matters.

This is purely about syntactic issues, not about semantics. The Supreme Court applies also semantics, such as the other legal system definitions of the time. I wasn't replying to that aspect.
by benatkin | 2025-09-25 21:52:06+00:00
They both can be highly unescapable. The podman community is smaller but it's more focused on solving technical problems than docker is at this point, which is trying to increase subscription revenue. I have gotten a configuration for running something in isolation that I'm happy with in podman, and while I think I could do exactly the same thing in Docker, it seems simpler in podman to me.
by rendx | 2025-09-25 21:53:14+00:00
Judging from many of the comments here and in other threads, it seems like no document is actually making people see how terrible these people are. Not even here of all places, where one could assume a decent capacity for rational thought. They either don't want to see the violence, or cannot see it, or condone or even support it. Which doesn't make rational sense, since it only leads to more violence, which I doubt can seriously be the end goal, to escalate us into extinction.

You don't even need to bring morals into it or care about anyone else than your own peers. It just doesn't make any sense other than self-harm and a comprehensible yet pointless expression of own pain.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-25 21:53:54+00:00
> This is a political non-starter as it opens the possibility that younger people could also just buy into Medicare instead of paying more for private insurance, something which has been declared strictly off-limits.

Whether something would have a particular policy outcome and whether you have the votes to pass it are two different things. Moreover, you could obviously require wealthy retirees to pay for Medicare without allowing younger people to do it. Stranger things have happened.

> Remember that we are largely talking about retirees. That $1400 + their Social Security is how they pay living expenses. If they have to pay it for healthcare, they have to find another way to pay living expenses.

They do have another way to pay living expenses. They have $600,000+ plus a house, and as soon a they only had $599,999 plus a house they would no longer have to pay the full rate for Medicare.

> Larger point here is that the suggestion to means test for seniors represents a clawback, a violation of promises made decades ago, around which people planned their elderly (perhaps non-working) years.

You can just as easily make the contrary argument. These programs were never funded -- social security started out making payments to people who never paid in and there isn't anywhere near enough in the "trust fund" to make existing payouts. The people paying the taxes to make up the shortfall were too young to be eligible to vote or not even born when those promises were made, so by what right does an older generation have to bind them to a promise it made to itself and then never actually funded?

> And we're talking about doing so before we ask the rich to pay (as Warren Buffet says) the same tax rates as their secretaries, and before we trim the military budget back to the levels requested by the military.

How about we do this and trim the military budget back to the levels requested by the military so that we can lower the taxes on the secretary to the same rates paid by Warren Buffet?