MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benrutter | 2025-10-29 06:26:05+00:00
Putting aside my political concerns about Elon Musk starting an encyclopedia, I thought I'd look up the indie rock band Beat Happening as a tester. My first thoughts were that it was very impressive. There's a confused garbled image link (that appears as text) but otherwise it looks convincing:

> Beat Happening was an American indie pop band formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1982 by vocalist and guitarist Calvin Johnson, guitarist Heather Lewis, and drummer Bret Lunsford.

Then I though, hey let's see what wikipedia says, here it is:

> Beat Happening was an American indie pop band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, and Bret Lunsford were the band's continual members.

I came away less impressed- grokipedia's opening paragraph reads to me like a very minor rephrase. I assume wikipedia is in the training data here and being spat back out?

In fact going back to the garbled image link:

> ![Beat Happening in 1988. Clockwise from top: Calvin Johnson, Bret Lunsford, Heather Lewis.](./assets/Beat_Happening_(1988_Rough_Trade_publicity_photo)

Even this seems to be a reference to the wilipedia image at the top of the article titled:

> File:Beat Happening (1988 Rough Trade publicity photo).jpg

What a collosal waste of resources? Is anyone under the impression that this kind of "rephrased and lesss acurate wikipedia" is going to be helpful?
by terminalshort | 2025-10-29 06:26:43+00:00
Routine stuff is never denied in the US either. I've never had one thing denied ever and I even have a weird condition that requires expensive testing to diagnose and even more expensive treatment (narcolepsy). The insurance companies will throw up annoying bureaucracy like prior authorizations, and made me switch medication to generic when it came out (reasonable) and then back from the generic to another brand name when it came out (WTF??), but never actually a denial.
by asimpleusecase | 2025-10-29 06:27:36+00:00
The issue that many schools face is that companies complain the grads - even with PhDs - are not able to do anything useful in the workplace. When my wife did her PhD more than 10 years ago (in the UK) she was required to take a stack of ungraded workshops under the label “professionalizing the PhD” it was totally annoying waste of time for her. The stuff was “basics of Excel”, “Research poster making”, “ intro to Adobe suite”, etc this was done because the university had received feedback that PhD grads could literally do nothing useful when hired.

From the article. “About 60% of the grades handed out in classes for the university’s undergraduate program are A’s, up from 40% a decade ago and less than a quarter 20 years ago, according to a report released Monday by Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Education”

Harvard is currently under a lot of pressure from donors , courts ( loss of case on admissions), and political pressure from US administration.

Awarding 60% A’s does not help them make the case that they know what they are doing and should just be allowed to carry on.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-10-29 06:27:55+00:00
> To me this seems analogous to the motivation of certain people, as soon as they were able to work from home during the pandemic, to move to some arbitrary other cheaper place only because they were no longer required to go into the office.

Because that is important to them. Everybody has different opinions on different things. Their priorities are different. I prioritise privacy. I had a workflow with convenience and privacy setup I can do with Android now. It had a lot of loopholes but it is something I am satisfied with. Its something I have developed it by making compromises and adjustments based on privacy, convenience and functionality. So FOR ME, it becomes valueless after this change. And the better would become iOS. So I would change.

I could also argue that yours is a boiling frog situation where you are fine with bad changes around you but you keep getting adjusted to it and making excuses.

For example, due to my privacy setup, I rarely see ads, I rarely get scam calls. There are convenience I get because of it.

All you have to think is... If whatever these companies do online... Will you be OK with it if they do it offline and in person?

Imagine I follow you everywhere and keep telling me to buy a burger from McDonalds. Stalk you around, noting everything you do. And about your family. How long will it take for you to call the cops on me or confront me? Why are you complacent when these companies do the same online? End result is literally the same. Only difference is scale and the fact that one is happening in your face while other is out of your view.

In conclusion, Everybody's threshold (like you mentioned) to different changes are different based on their views and priorities.

And most importantly, as a software professional, we definitely should hold ourselves to higher standards. I am doing what I CAN now.
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 06:28:08+00:00
I think it's more equivalent to when game consoles check the license on disc media.

It used to be via hardware in the disc reader, then online license checking. And now it's fully digital, media and license.

The fucked up part is the fact that we can't transfer digital ownership of purchases. But at least I can use my purchases across multiple devices. Maybe this is what we should use blockchains for, but it would still require a locked device with root-of-trust.

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> It's not an acceptable move from google.

By all means, you can have an unlocked Android device with a non-Google sanctioned OS and not use Google Play. That way you can use any app that doesn't require Google Play Protect.

Companies are OK with it because it makes them money. The majority of users are OK with it because they can use those companies' apps.
by nicoles | 2025-10-29 06:28:50+00:00
1. This is absolutely the case for the launch portfolio. These games are super unique experiences that are really only possible from mixing the physical and digital in this way. Does the site not make that clear to you? Super useful feedback!

2. The piece sets can be used as is for new games/apps, especially for prototyping! However if it’s super promising and you want to bring it into our (future) store, we’d love to work with you to make a bespoke set of pieces to go with the game. Whether the launch sets are modular enough as-is is really dependent on the ergonomics and aesthetics of the game you want to make. We’re excited to make ourselves available to devs who want to explore this though, and happy to work with folks to figure out ways forward.
by derefr | 2025-10-29 06:29:26+00:00
It sounds like you're describing idle-rich people. Which makes sense.

Yeah, if you're "rich" as in "retired", your life is usually pretty mundane. Most such people don't even live in any kind of mansion these days†, but rather just in very nice homes that are perfectly-sized and perfectly-cozy for them and what they like to do — with some verrrry long driveways, if they're in the right part of the country for that.

† (Mansions as a concept evolved from palaces; both exist mostly to provide enough rooms to host guests when some other rich person decides to pilgrimage themselves and everyone they know over to your place to stay for three months — in turn because that was really the only good way to visit someone with full amenities, back before air travel. Nobody needs to do that these days. Any modern mansion exists either as a status symbol, or because the owner likes hosting parties [or imagines they might one day host a party, but never actually does]. Mansions are especially useful, in the modern day, for people who throw fundraiser galas, like politicians.)

> Maybe some nerds in silly valley like to larp as 1800s rich people with actual large numbers of staff, I don't know,

I don't think it's SV people doing this. (The SV entrepreneurial "grindset" is a form of protestant work-ethic mindset; most tech millionaires find it hard to allow themselves to have staff. They might have a lot of people on retainer — lawyers, personal trainers, private-practice doctors, etc — but they would find the idea of paying the full salary for the exclusive use of even a maid to be a bit strange, instead preferring to just "hire a service" for that. Right up until they have a security scare, that is... but I digress.)

Rather, the personal-staff (private chef, limo driver, landscaper, several maids, etc) setup is, these days, something for the busy rich — think "runs ten businesses because they don't know how to stop", or "has an infinite queue of people needing them to make a decision about something" [politician, chaebol owner], or "thrives on fame, and so can't stand to turn down packing their schedule with ever-bigger gigs" [celebrity actors]. You find it in LA and in DC, not in SF.

These groups "have people" because they literally wouldn't be able to fit self-care into their schedule without "people."
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-29 06:29:37+00:00
DOP is great, but there’s always a gap between DOP and OOP. That gap is where Fory comes in. Right now, Fory takes an OOP‑first approach, but next we’ll add a DOP path by introducing an optional IDL — bridging the two styles. My goal is for the IDL to also support optional OOP‑style expressiveness, so teams can choose the balance that fits their needs.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-29 06:29:42+00:00
I don't get this version of Claude Code. What changed my mind about AI coding was the fact that Claude Code was so good at using tools. If it changed some code, it ran tests, debug failures, etc. Having Claude Code on the web, without having access to a custom environment with the right tools available, just doesn't make sense to me. Claude Code on GitHub Actions is a much more usable variant for me. It allows for custom setup, but then it's not interactive like this one is. I really wish there was some middle ground.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-10-29 06:30:05+00:00
You can develop and install via adb, but you can't just tell the package manager to install an APK you downloaded on your phone. Maybe attestation makes sense to allow Amazon App Store or Epic Games Store to be installed without a warning and to allow companies like Spotify to distribute their apps themselves from their websites without using Google Play Store and without a warning. What's wrong is preventing people from installing apps that haven't been attested by Google straight from their phone, even with a warning.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-29 06:31:21+00:00
Not just cleared. Each stack would get dirtied to the largest depth and that memory never gets reclaimed even if you only hit that deep of stack once. And the OS’s only way to reclaim that is if the allocator frees that page (in practice rarely particularly for glibc) or it gets swapped to disk (expensive since unused pages end up getting swapped too)
by hattmall | 2025-10-29 06:31:26+00:00
>Medicaid isn't paying parents to not work. New parents will still have to worry about paying bills and the economy.

That would be up to their job if they had one of course, but Medicaid does have some cash benefits and if you have a baby on Medicaid you typically get auto-qualified for TANF so that covers a lot of bills.

>When those parents die, any potential generational wealth for their children will be taken by the state to pay back the benefits they received from Medicaid.

This would only be true if the parents received long-term care or something. And this happens to TONS of people who have otherwise been financially well off, they have to exhaust their assets before Medicaid starts paying for a nursing home. It's got nothing to do with pregnancy benefits.
by undeveloper | 2025-10-29 06:31:50+00:00
I really don't mean to be rude but you sound insane. You have spent too much time in whatever insulated twitter space you're in, and you've ended up sounding like an insane person! Please go do independent research on these topics, so you can try not saying things like "DEI virtue signaling white knights". You just strung together 3 separate buzzwords (buzzphrase?)
by techpression | 2025-10-29 06:32:33+00:00
Miele did the best advertising ever, and I believe it even got a news story. A woman had been using their washer for 25years and Miele reached out and asked if she wanted a new one for free, for no other reason than to upgrade. Iirc she declined as the one she had worked perfectly. I have a vacuum from them, a cheap model, been working for 12 years so far. It’s probably the only appliance brand I would trust, even if I’m sure they have bad stories too.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-29 06:32:37+00:00
I get that requiring attestation for downloaded apps is wrong too, it's just this website says "it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google" which seems incorrect from what you're saying.

Edit: Oh I get it, "develop for the platform" means develop and distribute. Maybe it's just me, but seems like an important difference.
by r_singh | 2025-10-29 06:32:55+00:00
Not sure why this got downvoted, but to clarify what I meant:

With my repo connected via the GitHub app, I asked Atlas about a problem I was facing. After a few back-and-forth messages, it pointed me to a fork I might eventually have found myself — but only after a lot more time and trial-and-error. Maybe it was luck, but being able to attach files, link context from connected apps, and search across notes and docs in one place has cut a lot of friction for me.
by wiml | 2025-10-29 06:33:04+00:00
At small unattended airfields, you can sometimes turn on the field lights by transmitting on a particular frequency (as if you were calling the non-existent tower in quick succession).

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/march/flig...

(Of course, in this case it works because the pilot already knows the airfield is there.)
by TheTon | 2025-10-29 06:34:17+00:00
But games are full fledged GUI apps. At a minimum they have a window.

It’s really unclear what it means to support old games but not old apps in general.

I would think the set of APIs used by the set of all existing Intel Mac games probably comes close to everything. Certainly nearly all of AppKit, OpenGL, and Metal 1 and 2, but also media stuff (audio, video), networking stuff, input stuff (IOHID etc).

So then why say only games when the minimum to support the games probably covers a lot of non games too?

I wonder if their plan is to artificially limit who can use the Intel slices of the system frameworks? Like hardcode a list of blessed and tested games? Or (horror) maybe their plan is to only support Rosetta for games that use Win32 — so they’re actually going to be closing the door on old native Mac games and only supporting Wine / Game Porting Toolkit?
by simoncion | 2025-10-29 06:34:46+00:00
> Edgerouter support abandoned...

Well, [0] mentions that they left the ER firmware alone for two years. They also don't sell the ER hardware anymore.

Looking at the changelog in combination with the comments on the news item about the new release, it looks like there are many bugs left unfixed. If this analysis is correct [2], nearly nothing was changed.

That smells an awful lot like abandonment.

> ...VLAN issue unacknowledged and unfixed... were both wrong.

This subthread [3] disagrees with you. As someone who has suffered through multi-quarter "struggle sessions" [4] with UBNT engineering staff about broken basic functionality, I can totally believe a report that UBNT claims something has been fixed when it's very much not fixed.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794857>

[1] <https://community.ui.com/releases/EdgeRouter-3-0-0/33ee3852-...>

[2] <https://community.ui.com/releases/EdgeRouter-3-0-0/33ee3852-...>

[3] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44756915>

[4] Complete with round after round of them saying "Hey, we fixed it! Try the latest beta!", and me replying "No, you didn't. Did you run my 100% reliable reproducer that I've given you? It sure looks like you haven't because that reproducer still reproduces the problem.".
by Frieren | 2025-10-29 06:35:37+00:00
> A description of what changed is very useful when browsing through git logs.

Doing a blame on a file, or just looking at the diff of the pull request gives you that. The why is lost very fast. After a few months it is possible that the people that did the change is not anymore in the company, so nobody to ask why something was done.

"Oh, they changed the algorithm to generate random numbers". I can see that in the code. "Why was it changed?". I have not clue if there is no extra information somewhere else like a change log, pull request description, or in the commit comments.

But all this depends on the company and size of the project. In your situation may be different.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 06:36:01+00:00
I think the point is that every manufacturer is playing this game, and with comparable margins.

I have no idea what the hip PC laptop is these days, is it still the Lenovo Carbon X1? I went to their website and picked the pre-configured laptop with the most RAM (32GB), best CPU, and 1TB SSD. This was $3k: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/t...

Roughly the same size and specs as the most expensive pre-configured MacBook Pro of the same screen size (the MBP has 36GB RAM, +4GB over the Lenovo, and a much better processor & GPU for $3.2k).

It's all market segmentation. Apple is just being upfront about it and giving you a clean, simple purchase page that shows the tradeoffs. Whereas Lenovo is using car salesman techniques to disorient you with a bewildering array of options and models all of which have decision paralysis-inducing tradeoffs not entirely in your favor.
by godelski | 2025-10-29 06:36:38+00:00
> Back when it came on physical media, it was very much finished.

That's also not true and I think you're not reading my point fairly. Back when software came on physical media we still had patches. We had patches that came through the internet and we had patches that came through physical media. The latter making it harder to patch.

It's a great situation when a bug is discovered and it is hard to patch.

You're fantasizing about a time that never existed. Software isn't "ever finished" because we are not omniscient writers who can foresee all problems, fix all bugs, and write software that is unhackable. That's the mindset that "all tests pass" or "it works for me" means the software "works."

We can't address the problems, as discussed in the article and that I mentioned in my comment, if we're going to retcon history and redirect ourselves to a worse environment. That doesn't fix anything.

We'll never be omniscient, sorry. The world changes. Hardware changes. Software rots. Time marches on. These do not change and we have to operate in a world where we acknowledge these basic facts of reality. We'll never make decent software if we can't acknowledge reality first.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-29 06:36:41+00:00
I took some rough notes to whittle down the verbiage.

This proposal is to introduce PQ certificates in WebPKI such as for certificate authorities.

Problem is PQ signatures are large. If certificate chain is small that could be acceptable, but if the chain is large, then it can be expensive in terms of bandwidth and computation during TLS handshake. That is the exchange sends many certificates which embed a signature and a large (PQ) public key.

Merkle Tree Certificates ensures that an up to date client only needs 1 signature, 1 public key, 1 merkle tree witness.

Looking at an MTC generated certificate they've replaced the traditional signing algorithm and signature with a witness.

That means all a client needs is a signed merkle root which comes from an expanding Merkle Tree signed by the MTCA (Merkle Tree CA), which is delivered somehow out of band.

So basically TLS client receives certificate containing new signature algorithm which embeds a witness instead of a signature, a root (not sure if just a hash or a signed hash, I think the former). Client will get the signed roots out of band, which can be pre-verified, which means verifying the witness is simply doing a check on the witness.

Edit: My question: is this really a concern that needs to be addressed? PQ for TLS key exchange addresses a looming threat of HNDL (Harvest Now Decrypt Later). I don't see why we need to address making WebPKI use PQ signatures, at least for awhile now.
by sothatsit | 2025-10-29 06:37:07+00:00
The problem is that the sheer volume of low-quality AI PRs is overwhelming. Just the time it takes determining whether you should pay attention to a PR or not can add up when there are a lot of plausible-looking, but actually low-quality and untested, pull requests to your project.

But if you stop looking at PRs entirely, you eliminate the ability for new contributors to join a project or make changes that improve the project. This is where the conflict comes from.
by weatherlite | 2025-10-29 06:37:28+00:00
I agree, in severe mental disorders A.I is probably not enough (and afaik it acknowledges this to the user right away) but it might be able to help. If we accept/believe that the act of talking about your problems and having them reframed back to you empathetically helps , I don't see why we can't accept LLMs can help here. I don't buy that only a human can do that.
by SteveVeilStream | 2025-10-29 06:38:38+00:00
We've got a product in beta right now that lets's you spin up a review app by just commenting "deploy" on a PR in GitHub. When you combine that with Claude Code on the web, it is pretty fun. You can be anywhere (on a boat, train, lying on the couch, in a stadium watching 18 innings of baseball) and using Claude Code on the web on any mobile phone (in a browser.) As it builds stuff, it's instantly deploying a review app for each update and so you can see the changes and then give it another request. Also makes it easy to just drop that review app into a groupchat to get feedback from other people who are also not at their computers. I don't have a link to a video yet but I posted a few screenshots here. If you want to try the review app functionality, just send me a message. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonessteven_anthropic-claude-...
by simoncion | 2025-10-29 06:39:03+00:00
Yeah, my experience with the UAP-AC-LITE and -LR was that it would get wonky if not rebooted every month or so. That (combined with the realization that its software load is pretty much just OpenWRT with the serial numbers filed off) caused me to dump the official firmware and switch to OpenWRT.

I was quite a lot happier after the switch, as I didn't have to hassle with UniFi and my APs stopped needing roughly-monthly reboots.
by jacobolus | 2025-10-29 06:39:51+00:00
I think it's possible to get a careful dark roast, but often "dark roast" coffee mainly tastes like burned toast. It's still warm and caffeinated, but it's not really that enjoyable. There's a reason so many people make this kind of coffee very watered down or drown it in cream and sugar. Maybe it feels historically connected to cowboys brewing coffee in a sock over a campfire or whatever, but is that connection really so valuable?
by mmaaz | 2025-10-29 06:42:01+00:00
Good advice. I didn’t have a stroke but a couple months ago I developed blindness in my left eye. It came down to my optic nerve being inflamed. I was later diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition called MOGAD which “attacks” the optic nerve. Thankfully my vision is approx 95% recovered by now. But I still can’t read, eg code on my laptop, which is scary (my right eye is basically making up for it). And I’m scared of another attack happening. So I’ve been really looking after my health and trying not to do the 12+ hr coding benders I used to do. I appreciate these tips!