MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subscribed | 2025-10-24 10:40:50+00:00
Mhm, industries lobbying for lower standards, getting rid of rules and safety, allowing for self-regulation.

Case in point: https://i.tribune.com.pk/media/images/Grenfell-tower17254759...

This was literal "bonfire of the regulations": https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/this-is-the-bonfire-o...

Regulations and codes are written in blood and corpses. Don't be so quick to discount them.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-10-24 10:40:54+00:00
You don't stop this type of craft, it's strictly accelerate and coast type of thing.

Also note that "solar sail" is a bit misleading, the (now apparently dead) Breakthrough Starshot design was a big reflector "sail" in space and very many lasers on Earth to power it, it's not actually driven by a stellar wind directly.
by q534 | 2025-10-24 10:41:42+00:00
I’ve been an early AI adopter. At first it was harmless convenience: autocomplete finishing my emails, a chatbot sanding down my “uhhh” into “polite,” a summarizer chewing through articles I’d never make time for. Then I realized I was outsourcing the stuff I used to enjoy doing slowly—wrestling a hard paragraph, sitting with an uncomfortable idea, even choosing the right words for an apology.

Somewhere along the way, “just summarize this” became my default. So… I made a tiny self-check (just for fun): aipuritytest.app. If you try it, I’d love to hear your reflections—and your critiques. If the mods prefer no links, I’ll remove.

If I made you smile for a sec, hit the share button at the bottom of the site.
by Austizzle | 2025-10-24 10:42:54+00:00
I'm the same way, and I often feel like I don't know what the words that come out of my mouth will be until they happen.

I'm thinking in abstract feelings and images, and then it feels like some subconscious part of my brain is actually figuring out the words and saying them, if that makes any sense.

It can be spooky sometimes since it doesn't always feel like I'm in control of the specific words I use
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-24 10:43:13+00:00
I'm telling him... and you... that what I meant by the phrase is exactly how the LLM interpreted it.

For some reason that imbecile thinks that their failure to understand means they know something that's not relevant

How is it relevant what his interpretation of a sentence is if

1. His interpretation is not what I meant

2. The LLM "understood" my intent and behaved in a manner that exactly matched my desire

3. The universe was not deleted (Ok, that would be stupid... like the other individuals stupidity... but here we are)
by jddj | 2025-10-24 10:43:41+00:00
Unless they claim, by noreply email, that it (eg. ATC strike in a 3rd country for which they had 2 weeks' notice) was out of their control and so no compensation is owed.

Then you get the pleasure of a phone tree that only allows the option of giving feedback about the noise on the plane or the cleanliness.

Then once you get through and manage to plead your case you'll get quarterly emails about how your case is in review and sorry about the delay but you should have news next week.

Not bitter.
by jsheard | 2025-10-24 10:43:46+00:00
Each instance of a CS skin is assigned a random amount of wear between 0 and 1, so two copies of the same skin can be worth more or less money depending on their condition. To be clear the value is fixed, actually using a skin won't make it dirtier. Factory New is the highest tier with a wear value between 0 and 0.07.

The game itself only distinguishes between those ranges of values, but it's possible to query the exact number via an API so I think traders will even price that in (e.g. Factory New 0.02 is worth more than Factory New 0.06).
by soco | 2025-10-24 10:43:50+00:00
If we're talking anecdotes, my wife changes her iPhone every 4 years because it gets worse and worse. Daughter does the same. I change my Galaxy every 4 years because it gets worse and worse as well. Not sure how some people can say their <insert beloved brand> holds forever, unless they don't really use it of course. No brand really keeps up with the requirements, unless all you do is make phone calls - which is why my dad still has a Sony Ericsson.
by ninalanyon | 2025-10-24 10:44:29+00:00
It can just read the sign surely? My ancient Tesla S can read simple speed limit signs and in France distinguishes between those that apply to it and those that apply only to lorries because of the notice below the speed limit sign.

Then it really would be as simple as looking up the calendar or simply erring on the safe side that all weekdays are schooldays.

Waymo only operates on fully mapped roads anyway so I think that Waymo could be reasonably expected to include such abilities.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-24 10:45:43+00:00
The contemporary “ick” about street photography is the ick of non-consensual capture. Everyone feels it to some degree; I stopped doing street photography work and even most social photography (including paid work) because I felt it and I wasn’t ready to navigate those feelings.

This “ick” is real and it’s good that you feel it, because you can build on it for a sense of ethics about photos and the use of the camera, about how its gaze affects subjects, about how to reduce that impact.

A solution for you is to focus on photography with people posing for photos who want the photos, or people posing for photos who want money. Try art nude, even: it is fascinating, liberating, has a very strong historical and creative through line, and will teach you a lot.

I have developed a much stronger sense of the ethics around my photography and a little more personal confidence, so I might yet give street photography a go again in future, if I think I have something specific to say.
by rustdebacletime | 2025-10-24 10:46:07+00:00
Comparing with JS ecosystem is very telling. Some early Rust developers, come from the JS ecosystem (especially at Firefox), and Cargo takes inspiration from the JS ecosystem, like with lock files. But JS ecosystem is a terrible baseline to compare with regarding stability. Comparing a language's stabilitity with JS ecosystem says very little. You should have picked a systems language to compare with.

And your post is itself a part of the Rust community, and it itself is an argument against what you claim in it. If you cannot or will not own up to the 1.80 time crate debacle, or mention the 1.80 time crate debacle proactively as a black mark that weighs on Rust's conscience and that it will take time to rebuild trust and confidence in Rust's stability because of it, well, your priorities, understood as in the Rust community's priorities, are clear, and they do not, in practice, lie with stability, safety and security, nor with being forthcoming.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-24 10:46:17+00:00
> Replacing code written in C with code written in Rust is good in and of itself, even if there are some costs associated with the transition.

No it isn't. In fact, "Replacing code written in <X> with code written in <Y> is good in and of itself" is a falsehood, for any pair of <X> and <Y>. That kind of unqualified assertion is what the deluded say to themselves, or propagandists (usually <Y> hype merchants) say out loud.

This is what reality looks like: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2022/december/tsb-fined...

Furthermore, "designing for a future rewrite" is absolute madness. There is already a lot of YAGNI waste work going on. It's fine to design software to be modular, reusable, easily comprehensible, and so on, but designing it so its future rewrite will be easier - WTF? You haven't even built the first version yet, and you're already putting work into designing the second version.

Fashions are fickle. You can't even know what will be popular in the future. Don't try to anticipate it and design for it now.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-24 10:46:23+00:00
No.

I think that you are misunderstanding EVERYTHING

Answer this:

1. Why would I care what the other interpretation of the wording I GAVE is?

2. What would that interpretation matter when the LLM/AI took my exact meaning and behaved correctly?

Finally - you think you "know how it works"????

Because you tried to correct me with an incorrect interpretation?

F0ff
by whatevaa | 2025-10-24 10:46:27+00:00
2 hour return policy can already be a problem for a very short indie game. There was one which you could beat in 2 hours and refund and people did that.

GOG gets away with their policy because only people who believe in GOG ideallogy go there, and they won't refund a good game. If steam did that, abuse would skyrocket.

And in my country, unless explicitly stated otherwise, most physical goods can't be returned if they are used.
by MrLeap | 2025-10-24 10:46:37+00:00
> Both people in the conversation imagine that the other 'gets it' - a delusory and false assumption

'getting it' isn't an all or nothing thing. It would be an illusion to take it to an extreme.

The idea of some people in your life being able to get you better than others, more quickly and with fewer words, is a fact of life. Comparative human connection bandwidth can be estimated by vibes, history, outcomes.
by ezst | 2025-10-24 10:46:57+00:00
Next step is to give up on files/filesystem. As long as it's opensource, there's no lock-in. As long as the storage backend is clean and structured (SQLite or comparable), you actually get so much more (full text indexing, standard querying, ...)

I initially was cautious when going from "bunch of .MD files" to https://triliumnotes.org/ , since it's been pretty great.
by foldr | 2025-10-24 10:47:02+00:00
It's what some people see as the point now. Back when film was the only option, the cost and time per frame were just negatives (if you'll excuse the pun). There was no romance in deciding whether or not to use one of your last three remaining frames; it was just annoying.

I don't deny that for a whole range of reasons, some people might take better or more meaningful photos using old cameras. Limitations can feed into the artistic process. I just think it's a bit silly to romanticize the cost and inconvenience of film, or to think that photos taken using film are somehow inherently more interesting or valuable.
by stigok | 2025-10-24 10:47:06+00:00
Worth a watch. She has built a home-made loom with automation using Arduino and 3D-printer parts. It is pretty brilliant!

Excerpt from the video description:

> A computer-controlled handloom is a hybrid fabrication tool: while the loom greatly speeds the process of weaving by precisely selecting threads for a pattern, a human weaver is present and involved for the entire process. Like any computational tool, such a loom can embody both expert precision and fluidly emergent outcomes; “the trick” is in crafting generative logics that mediate the material constraints of the weaving process to support technically elaborate outcomes, spur creativity, or generate delight. Lea will discuss historical and contemporary tactics for algorithmic and improvisational handweaving, including her own work on personal interactive jacquard weaving systems.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-24 10:47:25+00:00
CBOR and JSON are just encodings, not schema, though there are schemas for them. I've not looked at their schema languages but I doubt they support typed hole formalisms (though they could be added as it's just schema). And since CBOR and JSON are just encodings, they are stuck being what they are -- new encodings will have compatibility problems. For example, CBOR is mostly just like JSON but with a few new types, but then things like jq have to evolve too or else those new types are not really usable. Whereas ASN.1 has much more freedom to introduce new types and new encoding rules because ASN.1 is schema and just because you introduce a new type doesn't mean that existing code has to accept it since you will evolve _protocols_. But to be fair JSON is incredibly useful sans schema, while ASN.1 is really not useful at all if you want to avoid defining modules (schemas).
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-24 10:47:26+00:00
I don’t mean to direct anything at anyone, other than my viewfinder. I believe in home rule, and not dictates from bureaucrats. As a sort of journalist, I’m going to keep taking pictures, and to keep writing journals. Anything less or different would be to be someone other than myself the best and only way I know how, and that isn’t being true to myself or to others.

If you felt that I directed my comments at you, I apologize; I almost certainly wasn’t. If anything, I am directing them at myself, as an affirmation of what I believe and why. Freedom of expression is one of the few issues that I will take a principled stance on, and if you feel that I was directing my comment at you, I don’t mean to, though you are free to express whatever you feel led to if you feel that I have given you short shrift or unalloyed fire, friendly or otherwise.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-24 10:48:18+00:00
Trump has his executive orders explained to him right before he signs them.

Yesterday he was asked about this pardon and barely knew what was going on:

“I believe we’re talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know. He was recommended by a lot of people,” Trump said.[0]

The Biden autopen-shadow-government conspiracies are hilarious, though. Every accusation is a confession with MAGAs.

0: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3861521/...
by a5c11 | 2025-10-24 10:49:07+00:00
You definitely should read the whole article. The author says that wrapping ideas in words at later stages is important to complete the process of inventing. It's all about the initial processing, to free your mind from language's constraints, because language is indeed constraining. It feels like multiplexing numerous parallel streams of thoughts into a single spoken channel. You have to do it at some point, but only when you are confident you know what those parallel streams carry. Otherwise you will get mess.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-24 10:49:44+00:00
No, this is what I claimed:

> I'd be okay giving Microsoft whatever they wanted on the Windows app store as long as they loosened their grip on being able to run what you want, from where you want, without their explicit blessing.

I am talking about their grip on what you're allowed to run with or without their blessing, not that you "can't run unsigned binaries at all". They have a tightened grip, in that without their blessing, running what you want is an exercise in futility for 99% of users.

> Edit: Everything I can find says that taking away the "run anyway" button is not default. If a user or their sysadmin changes that setting I don't really blame Microsoft.

It's exactly what I experienced when running an unsigned binary in a fresh Windows 11 VM with the default Defender settings, which are all on by default. This is how SmartScreen works by default with binaries it doesn't like.
by Xemplolo | 2025-10-24 10:50:25+00:00
How can this be a real issue?

We don't have a lot of car makers and we do not have a huge amount of EV models.

Either you are doing this on small scale, than you can select one or two specific EV models and use these batterie packs or you do it in big scale, than you can also easily adapt the most x batterie packs and only use these across your system.

If you go down to the cell level, its more effort true but then you probably only handel cell types of a handfull of manufacturer again.
by fjfaase | 2025-10-24 10:50:31+00:00
In the family of my maternal grandfather there are many individuals who are much better at science but have difficulty with language (often in combination with dyslexia) in school. I have some evidence that those individuals (myself included) have a significant higher non-verbal IQ (20 to 30 points) than verbal IQ as categorized by the WISC-V intelligence tests. I often struggle to express my ideas with words. When I think about algorithms it is often in 'abstract' visual images. While developing software, I find myself searching for functions/methods a lot, because I often forget their names or the order of the parameters.

Academic performance is strongly correlated with the verbal components of intelligence. I wonder if there are other people who know that their non-verbal IQ is measurable higher than their verbal IQ.
by 47282847 | 2025-10-24 10:50:36+00:00
I did not refer to Freud because I agree with his ideas. The claim was that psychotherapists do not look at environmental and societal origins of psychological disorders, which is false, plenty do. Have you looked into the material by Judith Hermann, the other psychotherapist I mentioned? You will find that she writes at length about Freuds denial and patriarchical circumstances.
by xattt | 2025-10-24 10:51:21+00:00
I had a wasp problem last year where they were going into the attic of my home. I did what I could with spray cans, but it wasn’t enough.

I ended up calling an exterminator who used delta dust, which the wasps carry into the nest. It was a little pricey (~$150) but it was peace of mind from the other alternative, being able to do nothing. The exterminator came back for free a few days later to re-dust when there was little change in activity. The second go did the trick.

I did look at a few options online before calling. One idea was to set up a vacuum trap with a shop vac (1).

(1) https://woodgears.ca/misc/wasp_sucker.html
by ben_w | 2025-10-24 10:51:32+00:00
In the same way, one could say that the president, prime minister, or similarly titled person controls a democracy.

Investors are "one share, one vote", rather than democracy "one person, one vote". The recent thing with Musk/Tesla and his trillion dollar options is being voted on, and Apple face campaigns and have votes, too: https://apnews.com/article/apple-dei-shareholder-proposal-an...
by yapyap | 2025-10-24 10:52:19+00:00
It’s odd, I experience aphantasia in the way that I am a words thinker, able to talk with myself, the whole 5 miles.

But I am also able to have very vivid dreams, given that I sleep at the right time, around 22:00 - 24:00 and being sufficiently tired also seems to help. They seem very real when I am dreaming them but when I wake up I can remember the thoughts of imagery but can’t recall any real images or pictures or visual recollection except that I seem to have had them in the moment.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-24 10:52:21+00:00
I should be more clear. My point is the sneering at the ~30% who are not politically engaged.

A boat load of meaningful change comes from working class agitation, but most of the political noise comes from the chattering classes, who have the luxury of creating cliques online, making and then banning phrases.

Of course the working classes have valid opinions. The issue is, unlike thier richer friends, they are living the discrimination that both left and right claim to endure. This leaves little time for mass organisation.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-24 10:52:35+00:00
Note to everyone - sharing what works leads to complete morons telling you their interpretation... which has no relevance.

Apparently they know better even though

1. They didn't issue the prompt, so they... knew what I was meaning by the phrase (obviously they don't)

2. The LLM/AI took my prompt and interpreted it exactly how I meant it, and behaved exactly how I desired.

3. They then claim that it's about "knowing exactly what's going on" ... even though they didn't and they got it wrong.

This is the advantage of an LLM - if it gets it wrong, you can tell it.. it might persist with an erroneous assumption, but you can tell it to start over (I proved that)

These "humans" however are convinced that only they can be right, despite overwhelming evidence of their stupidity (and that's why they're only JUNIORS in their fields)
by teodosin | 2025-10-24 10:52:43+00:00
If something needs to be said then it must be said, but you have a higher likelihood of the other person receiving the message if you drop the aggressive tone. You're also investing in them listening to you in the future, as opposed to avoiding you because you have a tendency to shame them for being wrong on something.

And if someone "consistently has a negative impact on the environment" you can still confront them without being abrasive. They can still be fired without calling them stupid. Adding that kind of tone adds no information except that you lost your cool. You're making it sound like every instance that warrants confrontation is about an intentional and repeated offence.
Show HN: A cheaper background removal API (no subscriptions, pay-per-credit)
by tcogz | 2025-10-24 10:54:46+00:00
I got tired of how expensive background removal APIs are some charge almost €1 per image.

So I built a simpler alternative: a pay-per-credit background removal API with no subscriptions and credits that never expire.

You just buy credits, send an image, and get a clean background-free result in seconds. No account tiers, no monthly resets, just transparent pricing and easy integration.

Built for developers who want to add background removal to their SaaS, e-commerce tools, or automation workflows without the crazy costs.

https://bgbuster.com/
by klustregrif | 2025-10-24 10:55:26+00:00
That’s not really what happens though. What happened was that 500$ bills where so rare in circulation that collectors started paying upwards of 20 100$ to get them. Valve went “yes the 500$ are too rare, we need to fix supply so we’ll start exchanging 5 100$ bills for one 500$ bill”

This had catastrophic impact on people hoarding 500$ expecting their exchange value to remain at the elevated levels.
by keyle | 2025-10-24 10:55:48+00:00
In Australia I think there is such a rule, so when they approach the deadline, short of an option: they just cancel the flight. It doesn't count as a delay, and won't affect their statistics of delays!

Some other airlines "swap planes" and do swapsies with every passengers, on every flights, if they get a morning delay; they trickle it down all day long. It's ridiculous seeing lines of people moving to another gate, all day. When your plane arrive at your gate, you know you're being moved to another line and the delayed passengers will get your plane. So that way, delays stay within the bounds!

Sickening, I'm never flying these airlines again.
by Xemplolo | 2025-10-24 10:56:33+00:00
'probably not'?

Based on what numbers?

Germany alone had to pay 2 billion in dispatch measures to energy providers. And in the last 6 month we had news about a HUGE request of companies wanting to build grid stabilisation and grid market battery systems in a range of over 100GwH.

Also we do have industries which would be able to save a ton of money if the invest in smaller but similiar systems today already due to energy prices.

And in germany for example, we do have a lot of wind energy in the north but not enough live transit capacity to get it into the south. In this scenario the market would again stabilize the grid by charging at night from cheap / free wind energy production in north and transfering it to the south and then using it at day.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-24 10:57:05+00:00
It has always been like that since CP/M and commercial UNIX days.

Vertical integrations like everyone sell a product, a brand, a whole ecosystem experience.

If all OEMs sold the same CP/M, UNIX, MSX, MS-DOS, Windows software stack, on the what is basically the same hardware with a different name glued on the case, they wouldn't get any brand recognition, aka product differentiation.

Thus OEMs specific customisations get added, back in the day bundled software packages are part of the deal, nowadays preinstalled on the OS image, and so on.