MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boston_clone | 2025-09-24 20:19:59+00:00
because we must, above all else, keep an ethical backbone in our decision-making that respects both the welfare of the people we lead and the task at hand.

if c suite is demanding people RTO to a toxic work environment, I'm not going to require my team to meet the exact requirements - wanna use your lunch break to drive to the office, tap your badge, then drive back home? sounds good to me. I'd also be asking for data to substantiate claims made regarding productivity gains or morale improvements.

or if newly appointed partisan hacks start programs for employees to snitch on LGBTQ+ people, you should channel chaotic good and not fulfill their request, and actively work against others fulfilling it, too. I know of at least one government organization in which this has taken place.

good leadership is about doing the right thing, and getting the job done. the right thing means leading by example with a high degree of proficiency, teaching others to be competent and confident, and growing yourself as an individual and as part of a larger community.

committing yourself to always carrying out the orders of leadership is a hella slipppery slope dude - especially when the "vibes are off".

maybe my examples are a bit pessimistic, but I just feel the author really missed the mark and left me (and others) scratching my head. maybe I'll give it another read later and try to steel man some of the positions. good and fair questions, by the way :)
by chriskw | 2025-09-24 20:20:29+00:00
The trick for Scenarios 2 and 3 is that most of the constraints don't end up being bottlenecks. For example in Scenario 2, well-connected pretty much always gets satisfied while doing the other constraints, so the DP table only needs 4 dimensions (space, Berlin local, techno lover, creative).

My other trick was to only build the full DP table for the latter half of the game (i.e. when all the constraints are at least 50% satisfied) which across 4 dimensions reduces the size by a factor of 16. For the beginning half of the game I combined Berlin and techno into a single parameter, which technically isn't perfect but doesn’t matter too much in the early game. I wrote up my approach here if you want more details: https://chriskw.xyz/2025/09/16/Berghain/

Re: optimizing for best case vs expected case, I thought about that but in simulations my strategy mostly performed the same as a "perfect knowledge" strategy where you could see all of the people in line ahead of time and retroactively accept people. When it under performed it was usually because some miraculous string of people showed up near the end, but betting on that happening seemed like it would do more harm than good, i.e. it would throw away more best case scenarios than it would salvage.
by ironking | 2025-09-24 20:20:36+00:00
Thanks for commenting, we have several example images for each model and dozens of models, totally over a hundreds of example images, why does one or two bikini images set the tone?

Or you are referring to the community images? they are user generated and shared. and these are dynamic.

Anyway, we are not trying to set any tone to attract a small target group of users.

Our goal is to provide users a one-stop AI generation platform.
by qwertox | 2025-09-24 20:20:46+00:00
A very similar issue is the lack of support for mmb "open tab in new background tab"-click in pages like Twitter. You have to click on the post and open the page for it, instead of deferring the use of that page to later (when more got opened in the background, starting from the main feed).

Or you can't just mmb-click the "Trending in..." clickable to open a trend in a background tab.
by throwaway1758 | 2025-09-24 20:21:51+00:00
Not great.

My partner has been out of work and I was recently laid off. I greatly struggle with (treatment resistant) depression, so losing healthcare is huge.

Corporate America is draining, will run you into the ground, and strip all your humanity. Doing the job isn't enough. You need big yearly goals (which you're never given time for), take overtime, use Newspeak, worship "leadership", and put on a face like you care about _The Mission_. It's such a joke. The you get canned once profits, while increasing, aren't increasing fast enough.

The world feels like it's on fire. Political violence appears to be on the rise and many people respond to it by pulling out a scorecard. The president (US) is increasingly erratic. His base continues to cheer him on. Recently I was told that Democrats have _never_ expanded presidential power. Quite a bold claim. This is from a person I never thought of as treating political parties as team sports.

I have friends and acquaintances who are targets of the current administration. I can't fathom what it must feel like for them. How long until one of them disappears? Is it crazy to think that could happen?

Politically, I know deep-down what I believe to be our best path forward as the human race. Big picture. On the daily and weekly scale things are so upside down, flipped around, and twisted that it feels like my head is spinning. Have I lost my mind? Eveyone else too?

My family - well they voted for this. They are extreme religious fundamentalists and I thought that reducing contact to near-zero and moving away would get me a life free from their beliefs. They can do their thing and I would do mine. Instead they helped put a guy in charge that can reach me and those close to me from thousands of miles away.

Climate change is something we collectively decided to do nothing about. There's no going back. The changes to our planet are in motion. That I'm somewhat calm about. I hate that we're this stupid but the battle has been lost. The only thing to do now is let it happen.

I'm lonely and isolated. The vast majority of my time is spent with my partner. They're great but it's not enough. Society feels closed off. Add on top that I'm introverted. Good male role models are hard to come by. It's concerning that my fellow brethren seem to be taken in en masse by radical right-wing influencers.

On the upside of things. Working out consistently has been the one of the best things for me in all this. My strength has dramatically increased, phsyical health is the best it's been, mental health is impacted positively, and it forces my mind to shutup for a few hours a week. Cutting out social media (aside from HN) several years back was the right choice. Except in cases where I follow a link to Twitter/Reddit/etc. and see just how insane online discourse has become.

Based on this thread a lot of people are in the same virtual boat. It's somewhat comforting.
by klibertp | 2025-09-24 20:22:16+00:00
As long as you still offer an easy way to highlight the button text.

Triple-click (at least in FF on Linux) highlights paragraphs or other block-elements contents; it should be allowed on things where a single-click does navigation. This would be very out of the way for normal users, but would allow easily and quickly highlighting (and copying) parts of the interface.
by ttfvjktesd | 2025-09-24 20:22:23+00:00
Different compiler versions, target architectures, or optimization levels can generate substantially different assembly from the same high-level program. Determinism is thus very scoped, not absolute.

Also almost every software has know unknowns in terms of dependencies that gets permanently updated. No one can read all of its code. Hence, in real life if you compile on different systems (works on my machine) or again but after some time has passed (updates to compiler, os libs, packages) you will get a different checksum for your build with unchanged high level code that you have written. So in theory given perfect conditions you are right, but in practice it is not the case.

There are established benchmarks for code generation (such as HumanEval, MBPP, and CodeXGLUE). On these, LLMs demonstrate that given the same prompt, the vast majority of completions are consistent and pass unit tests. For many tasks, the same prompt will produce a passing solution over 99% of the time.

I would say yes there is a gap in determinism, but it's not as huge as one might think and it's getting closer as time progresses.
by tuveson | 2025-09-24 20:22:37+00:00
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the joke. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of CSS the joke will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the author's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his post - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Chris Coyier's classic blogs, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of this joke, to realise that it's not just funny - it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who criticise being unable to select text within the blog post truly ARE idiots. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Bologov's genius wit unfolds itself in their browsers. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a tattoo of the Lobotomized Owl selector. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-24 20:22:56+00:00
This headline reminds me of a headline a while back that was something like how to do founder mode when you are not the founder. It all goes back to some Orwellian newspeak vibes. The words for what we are doing sound horrible. Can we just change word meanings so it sounds good?

If you are not the founder f founder mode. They can make you a cofounder if they want founder mode behavior from you.

If the vibes are off its because upper management is toxic and hostile to humanity. All you can do is protect your own job. I've made the same mistake the author made and had some immature naive dipstick employee I managed confront the upper management because of course they could not be evil ghouls. Almost cost me my job and destroyed any chance of a future at the company.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-24 20:23:04+00:00
> btw the passport renewal is done without government gateway ID.

Fuck its driving license isnt it?

Side note, driving license is an ID that carries a £10k fine if you don't update your address in time.

Thats the frustrating thing, GDS could have done "digital ID", and were kind of doing that already. When I came to renew my passport, I could use the photo I had on file from my driver license(or it was the other way around). Absolutely wild.
by smelendez | 2025-09-24 20:23:37+00:00
I think that's it.

I assume the pint glass pops up at intervals that the investigators would know and the general public would not, so you'd need some kind of central service with someone watching the commercial stream and showing/hiding the pint glass at the right intervals. In which case it would make more sense to operate a central service just pirating the commercial stream, which I'm sure does happen and does get shut down.
by gs17 | 2025-09-24 20:23:40+00:00
> Autocomplete on iOS is a shit show. It regularly autocompletes non-grammatical text

Android has the same issue with Google's keyboard, which will go back and change things you've typed correctly to be obviously wrong for no clear reason. I swear it used to work much better.

At least on Android alternative keyboards are easier to use. I have no idea how they both have such an awful implementation of it.
by mattmanser | 2025-09-24 20:24:04+00:00
Before the cloud you bought a VM for $5 p/m. You installed apache, MySql, php or whatever and you ran your app.

It took half a day to setup. 1/2 hour if you'd done it a few times before.

If you were being fancy you bought two VMs, one for the webserver and one for SQL.

When you got bigger, you bought a bigger VM. Then dedicated servers. Then a web farm with load balancers.

For most companies, all the cloud did is get rid of the entirely minor hurdle of learning how to setup a server. Which these days in bigger companies the same guys who were the infra team are now just called the DevOps team and do exactly the same job, just inside AWS or Azure.

It's just quite a bit more convenient and easy to use a cloud than do the boring job of setting up your own server.

Every time you use a VM instead of some special cloud doodad thingy bell, you can get it much cheaper doing it yourself. But then you got to setup backups. And updates. And firewalls. And DNS. And install your runtime. And install your dB engine.

It doesn't take long, it's just tedious and worth throwing a couple of hundred $$$ at a cloud to forget about it.

What it is not is anything expensive or complicated.
by lapcat | 2025-09-24 20:24:11+00:00
> I'm admitting that people making this argument have suggested there were things that supported it before. That doesn't mean I agree with them, which you seem to be implying there?

No, I'm not implying that. Whichever side of the controversy you stand on, apparently the opposite side from me, you have to admit, and seemingly are admitting, that many people have been arguing for years that iOS and macOS are merging.

My point is that if you're trying to interpret my views, you can't dismiss the prior examples as irrelevant. You may think my views are false, but my views are nonetheless based on the prior examples. You initially invented a straw man view out of thin air that I do not believe myself: "The argument apparently being that..."

> It was your opening paragraph that talked about merging the OSes. There's a reason I responded to it by assuming you thought the rest of your post supported your opening statement.

I think you misunderstood the purpose of the post, which was simply to highlight the latest abomination, not to make a larger argument.

A 391 word blog post is almost never going to be a comprehensive argument for anything. So if you're thinking "That's your argument???" well no, of course it's not. I don't have the time or desire to make every little blog post into a book-length treatise just so that random internet commenters don't assume I'm an idiot. (Some probably would anyway, so it would be wasted effort.)

> If you'd like, we really could just talk about whether the change to the video player behavior is a reasonable thing to apply to both platforms. I think it probably is, on balance, for the aforementioned control-visibility reasons. You?

I've never seen an case where the visibility/legibility of the controls were a problem. Do you have any examples?

The irony is that Tahoe has made many things on macOS less legibile, which of course is a matter of great public controversy now.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-24 20:24:31+00:00
I've been curious about this. I wanted to build a "Comment on anything" program, but found that it would have to be a browser extension. Iframes can't load most pages, a custom browser is too much friction, and running a proxy is expensive.

So I gave up because I didn't want to write an extension.

Even if you get it working, I'm not clear how you maintain privacy - Loading the whole index from remote is private but expensive. Passing every URL you load to the service is cheap but terrible on privacy.

There are middle grounds like "first 4 letters of a SHA384 of the URL" or bloom filters, but I only skimmed the article and didn't notice which one they're using.
by lxgr | 2025-09-24 20:25:12+00:00
> Airlines are forced to compete on price and have to publicly list prices

Which regulation requires airlines to do so? I was under the impression that airlines mainly make their inventory available via GDSes for historical reasons (for decades before direct online booking, airlines would sell most of their tickets through travel agents, which needed unified interfaces).

There are some low-cost airlines that don't embrace GDSes and force you to use their app as well (I've been bitten by that once when booking through a "non-cooperative OTA/reseller and not being able to access my boarding pass), and conversely, I think some train connections are selling tickets to travel agencies these days.

> If your airline is delayed and you miss a connection, you will get a hotel for the night. In a train, you can get that.

Sure? EU regulation 2021/782, article 20 would disagree: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...
by gregates | 2025-09-24 20:25:32+00:00
A few factual inaccuracies in here that don't affect the general thrust. For example, the claim that S3 uses a 5:9 sharding scheme. In fact they use many different sharding schemes, and iirc 5:9 isn't one of them.

The main reason being that a ratio of 1.8 physical bytes to 1 logical byte is awful for HDD costs. You can get that down significantly, and you get wider parallelism and better availability guarantees to boot (consider: if a whole AZ goes down, how many shards can you lose before an object is unavailable for GET?).
by zippothrowaway | 2025-09-24 20:26:00+00:00
I've not read that story in decades - thanks.

I got shudders just re-reading it when I came across:

'“It’s too late to vid your wife,” the fasrad said. “There are three emergency-rockets in the stern; if you want, I’ll fire them off in the hope of attracting a passing military transport.”'

...which sounds exactly like ChatGPT5.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-24 20:26:54+00:00
> No checks are done with HMRC for their income levels either.

I'd have to look it up, but some level of background checks are explicitly banned by the RIP act. It was put in place to allow local councils to "snoop" but only in defined situation. (for example if you have noise complaint, the council can't make a recording, but they can accept a recording you make.) but on the other hand they sometimes can inspect your bins to make sure you are not mixing waste streams.

> Of course, if a future government just wants to round up dissidents and send them to camps,

The UK constitution is pretty vulnerable to this. However, even a strong written constitution isn't going to stop that if it becomes socially acceptable.
by sellyme | 2025-09-24 20:27:07+00:00
> It's not in your interest buy a $200/mo subscription unless you use >$200 of tokens per month

This is only true if you can find someone else selling them at cost.

If a company has a product that cost them $150, but they would ordinarily sell piecemeal for a total of $250, getting a stable recurring purchase at $200 might be worthwhile to them while still being a good deal for the customer.
by nemothekid | 2025-09-24 20:28:26+00:00
>Get over it, move forward.

I'm not sure how Iranian's are supposed to "get over" the fact that America wants middle-east hegemony. My point is exactly that:

You wish the blame the Iranians for the problems with their government, but the underlying problems with their government is because _Americans_ can't stop electing war hawks. The only sin Iranians have comitted in the eyes of the west is being born on top of an oil field. The "beef" might be 80 years old, but the oil is there today and America wants it's cut. Iran didn't want sell their oil to the British while their own people starved and for that they've been a quagmire for 80 years. You are asking them to live as slaves in the name of peace.

Would you tell Ukrainians that they are at fault for the war?
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-24 20:29:32+00:00
The point of me sharing the video was to use the full glass of wine as an example for how generative AI models doing inference lack a true world model. The example was just as relevant now as it was then, and it applies to inference being done by LMs and SD models in the same way. Nothing has fundamentally changed in how these models work. Getting better at edge cases doesn't give them a world model.
by abraae | 2025-09-24 20:29:48+00:00
What a fantastic business. I've watched lots of digger (as we call them here) drivers in action and I'm in awe of what these machines can do and how incredibly skilled their operators are. We have several large rock walls on our property and watching these guys delicately picking and placing huge rocks to key them in just blows my mind.

There was a YouTube video recently of an AI-assisted digger making a wall out of the concrete rubble from a demolition.

I believe the applications for really smart excavators must be huge. Sounds like this might be a step on that voyage.
by robertgraham | 2025-09-24 20:30:10+00:00
The "Washington Game" is described the Society of Professional Journalists. https://www.spj.org/spj-ethics-committee-position-papers-ano...

Citing anonymous sources is not established ETHICAL practice, it's corruption of the system. The roll of the journalist is to get sources on the record, not let them evade accountability by hiding behind anonymity. Anonymity is something that should be RARELY granted, not routinely granted as some sort of "long established practice".

What is the justification for anonymity here? The anonymous source is oath bound not to reveal secrets, so what is so important here that justifies them violating their oath to comment on an ongoing investigation? That's what we are talking about, if they are not allowed to comment on an ongoing investigation, then it's a gross violation of their duty to do so. The journalist needs to question their motives for doing so.

We all know the answer here, that they actually aren't violating their duty. They aren't revealing some big secret like Watergate. They are instead doing an "official leak", avoiding accountability by hiding behind anonymity. Moreover, what the anonymous source reveals isn't any real facts here, but just more spin.

We can easily identify the fact that it's propaganda here by such comments about the SIM farms being within 35 miles of the UN. It's 35 miles to all of Manhattan. It's an absurd statement on its face.
by 9rx | 2025-09-24 20:30:22+00:00
> They work crazy amounts (multiple jobs even!) just to get to the upper rungs of society.

It does happen, as recognized before, but what suggests this is any kind of norm?

1. The median worker in the USA doesn't even make it to 40 hours of work in a week, only 34. What you say certainly doesn't hold true when dividing the latter in half.

2. Only 21% of the workforce normally puts in more than 40 hours per week. That could represent the lowest rungs, I suppose, but...

3. The data also suggests that those working long hours are more likely to be highly educated, high-wage, salaried, and older men. Does that really fit the profile of someone in the lower runs? Stereotypically, that is who most of us imagine is in the highest rung.

4. The upward mobility of which you speak is not typical. Most people will either stay on the same rung or find themselves heading lower.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-09-24 20:30:36+00:00
Your post is actually very helpful, but comes across as harsh and condescending. I think you should reconsider how you approach this.

EDIT: to be more specific, language like "You complain" and "You also didn't understand" can appear abrasive and scornful. Removing them would probably make the effect you're hoping for (proper learning techniques for the language) more meaningful.
by W0lfEagle | 2025-09-24 20:30:55+00:00
100% agree and living in a foreign country I have found myself completely reliant on the "circle to search" feature on Android as I'm far too often blocked by text protection and the instant translate is very handy. This has already been mentioned in other comments and I appreciate it is a circumvention of the problem. Just let me circle to search though also (sometimes it is blocked).
by hbn | 2025-09-24 20:31:17+00:00
I've also found you can just shoot the screenshot into ChatGPT and either ask it to translate or ask questions about it in your native language.

LLMs are arguably better translators since they're kinda built to concern themselves with context, or if it's missing you can just fill it in yourself with the prompt.

(Probably varies per language, I've had good success with going both directions with English and Spanish)