MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verandaguy | 2025-10-02 17:45:42+00:00
I dunno, SPQR is fairly obvious for anyone who covered Rome in elementary or middle school history.

Beyond that, if you’re from the part of the world where asterix comics were popular (mostly thr francosphere, but also europe more broadly), it really stands out.

That’s all to say nothing of people who’ve got formal higher education in history or even the classics.
by lostbean | 2025-10-02 17:46:07+00:00
This really isn’t an ontology. Palantir’s marketing around “ontology” is misleading — what they (and you here) are describing is closer to a semantic layer or curated data model.

An ontology in knowledge engineering is an open-ended graph of concepts and relationships, typically expressed as triplets (subject–predicate–object). It’s flexible and domain-agnostic.
by qafy | 2025-10-02 17:46:10+00:00
I can totally see the value of agent driven flows for automating flows that are highly dynamic, poorly specified, error prone, zero shot environments, etc, but that doesn't seem to be at all what you are demonstrating here. Maybe your demos could show something more "challenging" to automate?

As someone who has spent a LOT of my time in my career working on browser automation and testing, speed and cost was always key. Even with existing programmatic tools like selenium, playwright, cypress, etc speed and headfull hosting costs were already big issues. This seems orders of magnitude slower and more expensive. Curious how you pitch this to potential customers.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 17:46:26+00:00
Again, this is not the particular problem space of arguments that's being addressed here. This is one possible outcome. The "AI does not reach 300 IQ ever" argument. That is a different argument with its own set of probabilities and outcomes. Out of all possible outcomes it's not actually a bad one. People do some dumb crap and we eventually get over it.

300 IQ AI is near a worst possible scenario, especially if it's a fast takeoff. Humans being lazy will turn over everything to it, in which AI will likely do very well on for some time. As long as the AI decides to keep us around as pets we'll probably be fine, but the moment it needs some extra space for solar panels we will find ourselves in trouble.
by Lwerewolf | 2025-10-02 17:46:29+00:00
I always move the taskbar to the right on any remotely wide setup that I have - including my 21:9 main. Had it at the top on my sp3. On my current portable (spectre 13.5) it's at the bottom, since I kind of have to use win11 due to the heterogeneous cpu arrangement (how "hard" could it be to port the scheduler to win10... yeah yeah we know), and while it annoys me when I dock it at work, the system (win11 pro, with MS account) absolutely does suck in a lot of other respects.

Right click latency in explorer is annoying.

Opening the settings "app" after first boot takes several seconds because who the hell knows - I personally blame it on moving everything to some thousand layers JS framework since I like being grumpy about that. This is a core part of the OS, FFS. Fairly certain that they have the talent to pull it off properly.

Search has been fine for me.

Language switching almost always breaks during updates - "ghost keyboard layouts" and such. Has been the case for a few years now.

General "we'll shove down whatever we feel like on you" BS.

Just let us pay for "ultimate" (a.k.a. end-user enterprise) and be rid of all the BS.

Getting WSA back (yes, I have the community version) and expanding on connected standby or however they call it now would've been neat, especially on a convertible, but it is what it is, I guess. WSL2 is also quite the improvement. Lots of other small little things like the task manager (not using procexp too often nowadays).
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-02 17:46:36+00:00
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They're giving out T-shirts again? But only for the first 10,000
by phototovideoai | 2025-10-02 17:46:42+00:00
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by creer | 2025-10-02 17:47:20+00:00
The threat of retaliation - in the form of being fired, harassed or moved to a dead end position - is very scary to a younger engineer. But from a rational point of view it's not very strong (HOWEVER many managers or CEOs are far from rational.)

- Firing someone has large costs to the employer. You have the job because you are needed. Same for side-lining someone or not promoting them.

- Firing someone removes the final incentives against that person reporting the deed to the govt. It pushes that person toward reporting instead of softer "negotiated" steps such as continuing to argue for legal alternatives or discussing it with an intermediate rather than outright reporting. And many corporate legal or accounting people are amazing at finding alternative ways to achieve the same result in a not-illegal manner.

- A lawyer can help you much more once there is retaliation. The company might end up fighting both the fraud reporting AND the retaliation.

Just firing someone is not a great "solution" for the company.

Letting you believe that they will ... that's very powerful.

(and probably all this is caveat: in countries where retaliation is illegal enough and commonly taken to court or settled. which is not worldwide.)
by bwfan123 | 2025-10-02 17:47:37+00:00
> I think when the environment gets more and more complex, interactions with the environment, and learning from these interactions will matters more and more

Thanks for sharing your experience ! It correlates with this recent interview with Sutton [1]. That real intelligence is learning from feedback with a complex and ever changing environment. What an LLM does is to train on a snapshot of what has been said about that environment and operate on only on that snapshot.

[1] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/richard-sutton
by lesuorac | 2025-10-02 17:47:50+00:00
There's a huge practicality issue for the chef. They don't have the food in microwavable format for many dishes.

But to me thats the end state of this conversation. Like lets take shipping as an example, we came up with pallets and containers not because they're useful for a person to move but because they're helpful for robots (and analogs) to move. People aren't born with palletjacks for hands. So to me it seems as you add more robotics into the kitchen you're going to slowly change your supplies to arrive in more robotic form.
by ahakki | 2025-10-02 17:47:58+00:00
That's a bit harsh.

The recovery partition has some value. But in an OS reinstall scenario Windows.old is a much more helpful feature.

However, these features won't used by someone installing Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC Evaluation (Evaluation just means that it's 90 day free trial version). This is because to aquire the non-trial version of the OS you must either be willing to license Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC from Microsoft, or crack the activation. If you crack Windows you do not need the 90 day free trial! And any company which has institutional knowledge of what an LTSC edition is, is capable of running the 90 day trial in a non destructive way (pro tip: put your new OS on a new drive and keep your old drive in a drawer).

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is the best version of Windows 11 I have ever tried, no contest.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-02 17:48:02+00:00
I have a friend who was diagnosed as an adult with Autism. 40 ish years into their life and they finally got a name to attach to their “quirks”. And the thing that they found most frustrating (and which I find sympathy for feeling that frustration) is the number of people who now treat them completely differently and with much more grace and respect.

On the one hand, of course we extend extra grace and accommodations to a person with a given disability because we expect people without the disability to behave differently. On the other hand, they didn’t just magically get the disability when they got diagnosed. They’ve had it their entire life, and needed that grace and accommodation their entire life. But only it’s only now, half way through their life with their shiny new diagnosis that people give them that grace and accommodation. Is it then any wonder that people who haven’t been able to get that official diagnosis are still trying to at least get people to accept an unofficial diagnosis? If we were better at not needing the labels in order to accommodate, maybe we wouldn’t also have so many “self diagnosed” people. Or ironically maybe we’d have more officially diagnosed people because we wouldn’t be having a moral panic over fakes.
by danaris | 2025-10-02 17:48:10+00:00
> There's nothing inherently wrong with inequality

If you're talking about a spherical economy in a vacuum, no, there isn't.

When we actually turn our attention to the real world, we find that, in fact, there is. Because when the people at the top have sufficiently disproportionate power (and wealth is a kind of power), they use that power to increase the inequality by any means necessary. That includes, fairly prominently, redirecting resources that would otherwise have gone to ensuring the floor stays high to raising their own ceilings.

So it's not a binary—either there is perfect equality or everything goes to shit—but the levels of inequality we have today are demonstrably bad for society.
by notatoad | 2025-10-02 17:48:13+00:00
check out the chatGPT subreddit last weekend for the meltdowns from people who were routed away from gpt-4o to the "safety" version of the model when they tried to discuss controversial topics - they sound like somebody confiscated their best friend.

i think more people are treating an LLM like a friend than you might expect - i was certainly surprised.
by orisho | 2025-10-02 17:48:13+00:00
I believe it's because if you are easily replaceable, then screwing up means you're not worth the trouble. If you aren't easily replaceable (whether it's because you have demonstrated you're a good employee or you're working a high-demand role), you are worth the trouble and you'll get more chances. There are other reasons too, such as jurisdictions where suing after being laid off is more common, which makes more chances, PIP and severance packages more likely.
by michaelmior | 2025-10-02 17:48:16+00:00
Part of the problem here is that there is no prior association of an identity with an account. So proving who you are is somewhat irrelevant since even if the account has your name, email, and photo, that's no guarantee that the account was created by you. If identity verification were required ahead of time, then perhaps verifying identity after loss of access could be reasonable recovery method. But of course there are many reasons why requiring such verification is problematic.
by alwa | 2025-10-02 17:48:36+00:00
I for one would appreciate the option to put an ID on file ahead of time, at least for important stuff like this. I like digital-only accounts for play, but for work stuff with real-world consequence, I’d like to link it to a real-world identity system…

Not unlike the signature cards banks used long ago, I guess.

Sure, maybe somebody motivated could defraud the government into issuing them a replacement ID in my name. But that’s big boy crime, not a casual “bribe a retail employee to SIM swap” kind of undertaking.

Sure, there are issues of access to government ID systems, and I know anything touching government names / “show me your papers” raises hackers’ hackles—I’m not saying require it, just that I’d choose it if it were a MFA option of last resort.
by ajmurmann | 2025-10-02 17:49:38+00:00
What's the math that gets to 3-4 hours? Do the drones usually multiple deliveries in a flight? In my metro I would have assumes that any place is less than 30 minutes flight time from a Whole Foods or Walmart for example. How long does the actual safe delivery take? I assume it just lowers the goods and doesn't wait for the customer, right?

Edit: The Internet tells me that delivery drones fly at 40-60mp/h which is much faster than I assumed and makes the 3-4 hour window even more surprising to me.
Show HN: Ubiquiti-themed memory game (fan-made, non-commercial)
by libaznezba | 2025-10-02 17:49:55+00:00
I built a small browser game in the style of memory/pexeso using images of Ubiquiti products. It's fan-made and non-commercial (I used to work at Ubiquiti) and made for my son to have fun. All product names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. Would love feedback on UI/UX and performance tweaks.
by broguinn | 2025-10-02 17:50:32+00:00
I don't know if this is useful for you, but getting my MTHFR and COMT genes sequenced has been incredibly helpful for managing my own mental health. Since getting these results, I've been able to understand my own neurology better.

I'm sorry to hear about your issues with sleep - and can relate to them. In particular, my slow COMT means that my baseline cortisol is higher than most. Taking phosphatidyl serine before bed helps me a lot, and lets me sleep through the night.

Best of luck.
by smileybarry | 2025-10-02 17:50:34+00:00
Windows 7 is still dramatically less secure by design (i.e. not missing patches but architectural changes) compared to Windows 10, even Windows 8 had some meaningful kernel security features that 7 lacks. This includes sandboxing measures that Chrome & Firefox use, meaning you're still less secure even if you're not downloading shady software.

You're frankly better off applying a bunch of registry changes to 10, using a Education or N (EU) edition "illegally", or blocking DNS than going back to 7 just for privacy concerns. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face.
by stevesunderland | 2025-10-02 17:51:08+00:00
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by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-10-02 17:51:12+00:00
I was willing to give Edge a chance years ago. I didn’t see a compelling enough reason to switch, so I stuck with Firefox. However, while troubleshooting some problems on a family member’s PC I got to see what a ‘default’/‘opt in to everything’ Edge experience is like in 2025.

It’s horrifying. Edge is jam-packed with bloat and the entire browser is geared towards monitoring and hoarding every scrap of user interaction that passes through it. The worst part is that the average person likely has no idea just how pervasive Microsoft’s spying and ad-targeting is.

I envy the fact that EU Citizens have the right to decline all of these intrusive “features” foisted upon them by Microsoft. I doubt Congress would ever come close to affording us a fraction of these same consumer rights. Sigh.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-02 17:51:13+00:00
> 3rd party extensions were causing it to load slowly.

Yep, and I liked it that way. I had piles of right click extensions that I used every day, and if one made it slow I uninstalled it.

Windows is a tool, it shouldn't be any more prescriptive than a hammer. *

> How are you measuring this? How do you specifically know how much memory it should take?

Windows 7 required 1Gb of ram. Windows 11 requires 4Gb (and is unusable with only 4 - windows 7 actually ran with reasonable speed with 1Gb). Windows 11 does NOT offer 4 times the utility or security, it just offers unwanted services.

> It's even more convenient in macOS. It's right on the permanently pinned Finder icon in the Dock!

That made me laugh out loud. Still, if my work crashed and I suggested to the boss that I build a special "restart" button into the menu rather than fixing it I would need to work on my resume urgently.

*EDIT* - Had they made it optional I wouldn't be complaining. Instead you have to use registry hacks to get it back.

I'm not frustrated that things changed, I'm frustrated that it has less functionality than it did before and is more expensive in terms of compute. It does less, but costs more.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 17:51:33+00:00
Well, it looks though like these 60 votes required to change these rules will not happen. Which makes me think these rules do not matter for most of the people. This ties in with my other comment in this thread - the US population is living comfortably enough that they simply do not care about any of these things (Supreme court packed with conservative for 2 decades at least, Bill of Rights gutted, ubiquitous surveillance, etc...).
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-02 17:51:38+00:00
This doesn’t clarify it at all for me because this model already works without the bother of subscriptions

Not if you're using CarPlay, it doesn't.

The automakers' best move is to incentivize drivers to use the company's nav system instead of their own phone, but instead they're penalizing them. That's the part I don't get.
by RankingMember | 2025-10-02 17:51:50+00:00
They should be, but I also rarely see roofers in harnesses around here on the other side of the country. It's one thing when it's a roofer himself making the (stupid) decision, but a lot of the guys I see actually on the roofs are non-English-speaking laborers basically told to get the job done and not ask questions.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:51:56+00:00
> as things stand now, barring a fundamental change in structure that nobody in the Congressional majority is currently proposing

I mean yes, SCOTUS rules supreme until at least 2026. My point is Democrats have had two trifectas in the last 20 years. We used one to pass ACA. We wasted the second.

The idea that the current structure of SCOTUS is immutable has somehow become lore. It is not true. The Constitution is brief on the courts because it left constructing them to Congress.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-02 17:51:59+00:00
> Adult life is far easier than high school. High school is insane. Like it's an actually-crazy thing to subject kids to.

This is probably not universally true. It certainly matches my life experience, but I have to admit that a life that gets easier and easier as time goes on is something that relatively few privileged people experience.

For me, school was a prison full of torturing peers, strict teachers with no flexibility, and ultra-high-stakes tests that to a large extent determined your future. Whereas work is a paradise and a breeze in comparison. And as life goes on, I make more money, can optimize my way further and further up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and things get better and better. This is an ultra privileged scenario though, and we have to admit that.

For many (most?) people, school was lower stakes and less pressure. You fail a test? No problem. You get a B or C on your report card? Not the end of the world. You don't get into Harvard? I wasn't trying anyway... Then you start adulting, and the pressure is on! You gotta gets some kind of job now and make some money every week so you can avoid homelessness and starvation. You've got a boss on your ass and threatening to fire you (or worse) every day. Your family can't help you anymore, and you're on your own to figure out the world. I know a lot of people who just can't deal with adulthood and hate it, and wish they were back in high school.
by Gud | 2025-10-02 17:52:21+00:00
Why would it "not work"? The whole point of my idea is the wealth redistribution. Taxing the rich does not have the same effect as redistributing shares in the economy, from the generational wealthy to everyone else.

If the "non rich" receive $50,000 in shares when they are born, that will generate a lot of dividends over the years. They would no longer be born into poverty and would no longer need cash "most of the time". Everyone would get richer, except for the already well off.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-02 17:52:55+00:00
The point is not whether they are right, but how low the bar is for what constitutes as palatable opinions from bystanders on a topic that other people have devoted a lot of thought and money to.

I just don't think "I don't know anyone who pays for it" or "You know, companies have also failed before" bring enough to the table to be interesting talking points.
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-02 17:52:56+00:00
Yes, the problem isn't that the definition isn't 100% formal. If "autism" meant "unusually sensitive to loud noise" (and presumably other symptoms get new labels) that would be reasonable. But it seems to mean "unusually sensitive to something OR unusually methodical OR unusually bad at reading emotions OR unusually affected by other's emotions OR ... ", and almost nobody has every symptom, but two people may have completely different symptoms while a third person has some from each.
by cpswaim | 2025-10-02 17:53:13+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:53:28+00:00
> it looks though like these 60 votes required to change these rules will not happen

Then change that rule. The sixty-vote threshold can be changed by the majority. They're literally chamber rules, not even statute.

> US population is living comfortably enough that they simply do not care about any of these things

I wouldn't say this. Americans care about pocketbook issues. Not democratic ideals. Not foreign policy.