MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2025-10-03 16:49:21+00:00
> As always: the means, the benefits. How would Russia benefit?

Ah, they can't be behind it because they never, ever make mistakes and everything they ever do serves them somehow.

In the meantime, in real world russia hasn't made a single good decision in almost 4 years.

> Ah, those sweet-sweet frozen assets. Also see how this piece implies Russian without any proof.

When you talk about mountain climbing you also silently imply that gravity exists.

What's the alternative?

> Also the more you fear monger the EU population, the more you can continue the war:

It's not exactly fear mongering. Europe is gearing for war and I don't think even immediate russian surrender could stop it at this point. Europe will steamroll russia in the following decade or two. There are no decisions to be made anymore. Now the stage is fully set and history just plays out.

The idea you can lay down arms up to the last moment before conflict is a pipe dream. It pretty much never happens.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-03 16:49:22+00:00
free email forwarding was one of the most useful features of Google Domains before selling... since the selloff, I've configured the domains to use Cloudflare which offers the same feature relatively transparently. I haven't seen too many issues with non-spam going into my spam, even relayed mail.

Aside: I do have a dedicated ip/vm for mailu setup, and will likely switch to using a vanity email as my catch-all instead of gmail soon enough. It's kind of sad how generally bad email has become at this point. Will also likely start playing with a few different self-hosted webmail clients, I'd considered and played with Nextcloud, just not sure how much I care for it or not.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-03 16:49:23+00:00
I can dig it. I'm constantly and annoyingly replaying every social interaction in my head for days, and even longer when they're (in my perception) bad. Why would I want to go out, if I might subject myself to more of that? (I do go out and continue to subject myself to that, but nowhere near as frequently as my more social friends.)
by HankStallone | 2025-10-03 16:49:30+00:00
It's strange how all these modern communication methods (blogs, forums, RSS readers) so often fail to have features that were available in Usenet newsreaders 30+ years ago. We had threading, searching, killfiling or scoring, marking posts to save, all pretty common features then. I'm not sure why there isn't more demand for them now.
by layer8 | 2025-10-03 16:49:35+00:00
That live demo, despite the failures, unexpectedly made Meta much more likable to me than (say) the sterile and cringy prerecorded Apple events, which are just completely off-putting.

Furthermore, look at how the prerecorded Apple Intelligence demo at WWDC 2024 turned out, where more than a year later we still don’t know if and when its most salient features will see the light of day. Whereas with the Meta demo, we can assume that they were reasonably confident it would work on stage, and the failure may really just be due to the flaky wifi at the venue.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-03 16:49:40+00:00
> based on knowledge and depth they probably wouldn't have without all the surrounding 'TPS' style bs.

>Boring ass code reviews come in super handy because of the better familiarity, getting exposure to the code slowly, exposures to the 'whys' as they are implemented not trying to figure out later.

But to what extent is this truly necessary vs a post-hoc justification? Workers are pushed to work right to the limit of "how little can you know about the thing without causing bad results" all the time anyway.

>In a sane world if we could take the fluff away we would have those people only working 5% of the time for the same pay, but we live in a capitalist system where that can't be allowed, we need 100% utilization.

<laughs in Soviet bureaucracy>.

The catholic church was making fake work for itself for about 500yr before it caused big problems for them. It's not the capitalism that's the problem. It's the concentration of power/influence/wealth/resources that seems top breed these systems.
by ytpete | 2025-10-03 16:49:43+00:00
Sounds like the way they're obtaining it without a subpoena is by simply purchasing it from a commercial data broker, though. If that's true, I'd say the real problem is that a broker is willing to sell virtually anyone this data with essentially no oversight – a problem that's sadly existed for quite a while already. One of their buyers being the government isn't the first-order problem there.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-03 16:49:49+00:00
It's tough to talk about these things because the words we're using are so overloaded. Because some "schools" are bread and butter educational institutions that teach students and that's it. Other "schools" are small cities or playgrounds for kids of the elite. So "tuition" means different things at different institutions.

Full tuition at Yale and Stanford essentially represents the maximum amount of money rich families are willing to pay for membership into an elite club, and doesn't bear close resemblance to the actual cost of delivering the service, which is funded from myriad sources so it's hard to frame it as a typical profit-maximizing corporation. IIRC Stanford is free for students whose parents are under a certain threshold, so there's all kinds of funny accounting at work to come up with the Stanford tuition rate.

This is a key reason why tuition at elite colleges has outpaced inflation -- rich families' income has also greatly outpaced inflation. And because they aren't qualified for any financial aid or support, schools want to charge them as much as much as they can (which is a lot but not infinity). Rich people are used to dropping 10s of thousands on club memberships or private daycares and boarding schools, so elite colleges set their tuition at a level rich people grumble about but nevertheless pay. Note that for this segment of the population, paying more than everyone else is actually a flex. Like they will moan about how high the tuition bill is, but they're happy to moan about it because it lets everyone know they're paying full tuition at Stanford.

Note this is only a strategy for the elite schools that get those uber-rich families. But the economic effect downstream is that all college tuitions are inflated. So because we want everyone to have an education, we've tried to ease the economic burden on the middle class by instituting loan programs, grants, scholarships, etc.

Which brings us to how colleges expand - typically it's not going to be through tuition. Again, growing a university depends on exactly what/how (new department? new laboratory? new library? new academic building?) Ultimately it's usually through a combination of state/local/federal/private partnerships depending on the kind of school. For example an existing school might partner with a hospital to create a med school. Or they might get some wealthy individual to donate a bunch of cash and put his name / her on the building (there are several Gates' centers for Computer Science).
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-03 16:50:09+00:00
So not judicial nor legislative. The Hatch Act has not changed, the president's OSC appointee has unsurprisingly decided that executive will investigate itself.

While you can grasp the barest of threads that your original statement was true because the OSC is "official" and anyone is afforded an interpretation, it's really goddamn deceptive. If anything is "the" intepretation it's derived from statute and/or common law, not one side's lawyers.
by tguvot | 2025-10-03 16:50:12+00:00
west bank population more radical because they don't feel the consequences of the hamas actions in gaza

how long civic transition given those:

https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/UNRWA-Education...

https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/Review-of-2023-...

https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/Gazas-Education...
by drivebyhooting | 2025-10-03 16:51:51+00:00
Genetically engineered, properly “educated”, politically controlled, and brain washed humans would be far more useful than electromechanical robots we can build any time soon. This too is a common scifi trope.

And it’s true. Industries have shown time and again that they’d rather send the work to paupers’ hands in countries without rather than automate to metals hands within.
by excitedrustle | 2025-10-03 16:51:58+00:00
Interesting. I am still defaulting to ChatGPT when I anticipate having a multi-turn conversation.

But for questions where I expect a single response to do, Google has taken over.

Here's an example from this morning:

It's my first autumn in a new house, and my boiler (forced hot water heating) kicked on for the first time. The kickboards in the kitchen have Quiet-One Kickspace brand radiators with electric fans. I wanted to know what controls these fans (are they wired to the thermostat, detect radiator temp, etc?)

I searched "When does a quiet-one kickspace heater turn on". Google Overview answered correctly [1] in <1 second. Tried the same prompt to ChatGPT. Took 17 seconds to get the full (also correct, and similarly detailed) answer.

Both answers were equally detailed and of similar length.

[1] Confirmed correct by observing the operation of the unit.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-03 16:52:26+00:00
Yeah, there's no way anyone would ask or it'd get approved for public release. Not because it's necessarily controlled information (though suspect it probably is), but what would be the point? Things get released to the public only when there is a particular need to tell the public something and everything else defaults to sitting on some janky ass SharePoint site until everyone forgets about it.
by gumby271 | 2025-10-03 16:52:28+00:00
Really? I've never really had a problem adding TOTP codes to the password manager of my choice on the device of my choice. Apple's 2fa where they assume I have an iPhone just because I own a Mac or just because I want to log in to some Apple service has definitely given me trouble though. It often feels like an iPhone is an assumed accessory with Mac OS sometimes.
by voakbasda | 2025-10-03 16:52:54+00:00
My wife asked for information about a product, and ChatGPT fed her a handful of blatant product ads. She told the AI never to do that again, and that was the last time she saw that format of output.

I would wager that she was part of an A/B testing group, so her instruction may not have any real effect. However, we were both appalled by that output and immediately discussed alternative AI options, should such a change become permanent.

This isn’t the rise of Google, where they have a vastly superior product and can boil us frogs by slowly serving us more and more ads. We are already boiling mad from having become hypersensitive to products wholly tainted by ads.

We ain’t gunna take it anymore.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 16:53:04+00:00
You need to be careful, the word "incite" does not mean what you think it does here.

Maybe the app enabled violence against law enforcement - but Waymo does that too by telling you where traffic cops are. Or Google Maps and Yellow Pages for documenting the location of police stations. Undercover officers, ICE or otherwise, aren't given any special exemptions to the law here.
by makrman | 2025-10-03 16:53:13+00:00
Saw this happen live at Foxglove's conference last week. Dyna robotics claims to have run the first on-stage autonomous demo of long-horizon dexterous VLA. Just rolled the machine on stage, turned the lighting up in the venue and it got to work. I think I counted 11 shirts folded in the 20 minutes he was on stage.

Still not speed ready for consumer, but the application was impressive and the folding results were high quality. Mostly impressed they were comfortable doing this live on stage.
by dmesg | 2025-10-03 16:53:35+00:00
The article describes how neurotypical people, i.e. the average Joe would come up with a decision to like or not like a person based on first impressions before the person being judged even talks. Fairly sure in an article about how people are thinking how they are perceived by others this is relevant. But I get it can upset people that it is out of their control entirely.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-03 16:53:45+00:00
I use it like twice a year and can't say I ever had a thought about the new design vs the old one. When I want to do something I just crack it open and use the search bar. The amount people freak out about stuff like this online is completely unwarranted.

In fact it's one step faster because cmd + space > "settings" actually finds it whereas in the past I would do that, get no results, and then remember the correct name.
by avaika | 2025-10-03 16:53:47+00:00
Not sure how much sarcasm did you put in this comment, but banning from entering other countries and disconnecting from visa / mc only hurts. Here's why.

I am originally from Russia and I do not support the war my country has started. I moved to another country because of that. And I face all the fun consequences from two nice restrictions above. Some of my former neighbors or acquaintances who decided to stay in the country or even support the invasion face no issues. They don't visit other countries and don't need international cards.

Which means both these things primary target people who most likely do not support the shit which is happening. Is that the goal?
by kiliantics | 2025-10-03 16:53:51+00:00
Wouldn't really be to my taste either but this whole story just reminded me of how much more interestingly the wealthy used to spend their money.

What legacies of high craftsmanship will be left by Musk and Bezos and their ilk? The rich seem to have collectively decided to no longer value good taste.

And I believe this has downstream effects on the aesthetics of everyday things for the average person too. It seems the average person will never again enjoy public works projects that are aesthetically beautiful, like say the Brooklyn Bridge or New York Public Library. All the craftsmen required to build such things no longer exist because the wealthy do not employ them.
by toast0 | 2025-10-03 16:54:11+00:00
> Chrome OS would have been a great option because they only need a browser, but just navigating the site is a mess. What the fuck Google, why do you always have to work against your potential customers.

Navigating the google sales site? You don't need to do that, just go to a computer store and pick out a chromebook from there. Try to get one with a nice processor (ryzen or intel core), and a good amount of ram, and check the expiration date. Most major computer makers have some chromebooks, so you can stick with a brand you like.

Of course, Google is cancelling Chrome OS, so it might not be worth training your parents on it, because you'll need to do something else next time.
by elevatortrim | 2025-10-03 16:54:52+00:00
I have social anxiety and it is completely unrelated to likeableness.

I do not think people would not like me, I do not try to avoid people disliking me, that's not the point at all. Quite the opposite, I'm sure I'm an interesting person and I'm confident people would like me if I could take the step.

Problem is, there is something that physically prevents me from saying "Hi!" to a stranger. I literally cannot get myself to take a step towards them and I can't explain why that is, because I do not understand it myself.

Also quite interestingly (to me), this completely goes away under certain circumstances: (1) If I take around 2-3 units of alcohol and it is not a totally alien environment (it would not help if I was in a bar alone with complete strangers). (2) If more than about 70% of people in the room are people I know well. Then I do not feel anxious about approaching the remaining 30%.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-03 16:55:01+00:00
>It’s been way too short a time to tell if this will work, but responding in a softer manner has proven to not. Might work is better than won’t work.

Absolutely! As R.A. Lafferty correctly posited[0]:

“When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.” ― R.A. Lafferty

Yes. It's up to those dead Palestinians to now make peace. And the more dead Palestinians there are, there are more who are on the hook to do so. In fact, if we kill them all, they'll be in the perfect spot to make peace, amirite?

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11072354-when-you-have-shot...
by yetihehe | 2025-10-03 16:55:09+00:00
Everybody says "drink a lot of water", but nobody says how much. Often people say that you need at least 2.5L/day. My constant headaches stopped and I'm finally able to lose weight (from 120kg) after I started to drink 4.5L/day. It's hard to keep up with such amount of water, but it looks like it was necessary.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-03 16:55:15+00:00
A bunch of people. Just type these terms into DuckDuckGo:

analog neural network hardware

physical neural network hardware

Put "this paper" after each one to get academic research. Try it with and without that phrase. Also, add "survey" to the next iteration.

The papers that pop up will have the internal jargon the researchers use to describe their work. You can further search with it.

The "this paper," "survey," and internal jargon in various combinations are how I find most CompSci things I share.
by sophacles | 2025-10-03 16:55:32+00:00
Not the person you asked, but I think it comes down to past experiences/family environment/etc. Theres poking fun at someone to signal "i like you anyway"... that is real. There's also people who cross the line with their words, and use "i was just joking" as an excuse to be cruel.

If someone has experienced a lot of the later, it makes sense that they don't really trust the former.
Disconnect between AI capability and public perception thereof
by rajap | 2025-10-03 16:55:37+00:00
I am increasingly concerned about the disconnect between the capabilities of AI and the public perception thereof. While GPT-5 has closed that gap somewhat by providing free users with much better reasoning models at least a fraction of the time, I’m still hearing the same stories over and over again from across the societal spectrum: AI is overhyped. Agents are not a real thing. Nobody is using AI in serious ways. It’s all AI slop.

The problem is that AI researchers, who truly understand the promise and exponential of AI, live in their own bubble, mostly in SF (I’m guilty as charged as well). Some are trying to educate and disseminate their views but hit the same channels like niche podcasts and X - where the main audience is the same bubble.

I think we need an immediate reconciliation of these two views to help prepare society and the broader economy for the exponential progress that will impact everything. I am just not sure how we get there?
by tracker1 | 2025-10-03 16:55:49+00:00
This is about importing email from your non-gmail account INTO your gmail account. POP is simply the easiest way to do this, and just from GMail's own IMAP interface, it's pretty clear that IMAP is NOT reliable for this task...

The details in TFA are that you can add an external IMAP account to the gmail client app in Android. This does nothing for the gmail web ui, meaning you need something else for your external email.

Wouldn't mind exploring something akin to a web-based, self-hosted Thunderbird mail client giving a server hosted web UI for multiple email and nntp services. If if synced to desktop/mobile apps and/or had a decent mobile web UX, that would be gravy.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-03 16:55:52+00:00
I'm really tired of this (now long lasting) UX trend of getting rid of physical buttons and sometimes software buttons, and replacing them with vague "gestures." Totally undiscoverable, and also, by the way, not easy for people with limited dexterity. I'm hanging on to my iPhone 7 for dear life, even as Apple and 3rd party developers abandon it and try to shame me for keeping it. The last time I tried to use my wife's newer phone, I had no idea what to do. I just kept randomly swiping from top to bottom and bottom to top and all over the place at random speeds until it did what I wanted it to do. Infuriating.

Even if touch screens are not remembered as one of the worst inventions of the early 21st century, they are going to at least be remembered as enablers of terrible human-computer interaction patterns.
by js8 | 2025-10-03 16:56:20+00:00
Look it up, in 2007 G.W.Bush invited Ukraine and Georgia to NATO. Also look up PNAC. Unfortunately, there was little interest from the U.S. side to end the cold war - they had to be a "world policeman".

Yes EU leaders called for deescalation, that is true. But the U.S., the most important NATO member, did not. There is a 2018 report from RAND that suggests Ukraine should be used as a tool to weaken Russia.

The Ukraine conflict, although there is a contribution from other causes (russian and ukrainian nationalism), is a proxy war between U.S. and Russia, a continuation of the cold war.

I don't disagree with you on Russia, but the US and EU (currently) is unfortunately not interested in deescalating.
Long Walkthrough vs. Quick Answers
by jazeemchoori | 2025-10-03 16:56:57+00:00
I was setting up payments for my product last week and came across a 1-hour YouTube tutorial.

The video was detailed and well put together, but all I really needed were 2–3 specific answers.

Instead, I spent most of the time skipping around, replaying sections, and still feeling like I was wasting time. It reminded me how often this happens when learning a new tool — the information is there, but buried inside long content.

As an experiment, I tried turning that same tutorial into something more interactive, where you can search inside the video or ask questions directly.

Here’s what that looked like with the LemonSqueezy setup guide: https://qudemo.com/share/761a0549-315d-4441-862d-fbff310a9cc8

It was a very different experience — instead of watching passively, I was able to jump straight to the parts that mattered.

For me, that shift from “sit through a video” to “interact with it” felt like a big unlock.
by askedrelic | 2025-10-03 16:56:58+00:00
It's an opinionated vertical platform; if you run into an edge case, bug, or functionality you don't like, you are have to open a discussion Github and wait for a new release to fix or change things. The devs are very responsive, but the same as any open source tool, it's their project. It perhaps depends on how much customization you want to do - GPUs and drivers, custom CNI, very specific disk settings. I've had more trouble with bare metal systems with varied hardware vs their supported cloud platforms, which are approved and tested.

I'm pretty positive toward Talos but if you stray from the happy path, by choice or accident, it can become challenging technically. And then you have sunk costs around choosing this platform and how hard it would be to restart from scratch.