MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-11 16:36:25+00:00
Maybe the plugin ecosystem can paper over some of the deficiencies, but Firefox is slowly taking away user agency and privacy in the name of simplification / whatever Chrome does.

The recent windmill against which I am tilting: Firefox no longer shows you the complete URL. Either in the address bar or long pressing a link. This is incredibly hostile to those of us with technical proficiency which can inspect a URL to see if it is a bad domain or embedding tracking information we would like to strip.

My other long standing annoyance is that on mobile, I can no longer protect cookies. Always keep the cookie to say my HN login, but allow me to bulk delete everything else. Instead, I am forced to manually go through the cookie page (like 10 at a time) and delete everything I do not want.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-11 16:36:40+00:00
I always think of that scene from Donnie Darko - where he says when his dog got sick, she went to hide under the porch. “To die?” His therapist prompts him. “To be alone” he corrects her pointedly. [0]

That’s kind of what I want when I die too - I don’t think I want to be around other people when it happens. I want to have my final moments to face death on my own, without feeling like I have to perform for other people.

… that said, give me another 60 years to chew on it and maybe I’ll feel different.

[0] https://youtu.be/8j1IMBM-QyE?si=jfCe9YUvKW_t5m5e
by kburman | 2025-10-11 16:36:42+00:00
I was referring specifically to popular embedding models like OpenAI’s and sentence-transformers, which (as far as I know) don’t reliably handle negation or emotional nuance, they mostly capture topical similarity.

I don’t know enough of the underlying math to say for sure whether embeddings can be trained to consistently represent negation, but when I tried the Mixedbread demo myself with a query like “winter landscapes without sun and trees”, it still showed me paintings with both sun and trees. So at least in its current form, it doesn’t seem to fully handle those semantic relationships yet.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-11 16:36:53+00:00
> If you're checking all the details for correct behavior, the effort involved converges to roughly the same thing.

Except it doesn't. It's much less to verify the tests.

> That's a valid argument, if you're ok tolerating a certain level of uncertainty about behavior that you haven't meticulously checked or tested.

I'm a realist, and know that I, like all other programmers, am fallible. Nobody writes perfect code. So yes, I'm ok tolerating a certain level of uncertainty about everybody's code, because there's no other choice.

I can get the same level of uncertainty in far less time with an LLM. That's what makes it great.
by Zigurd | 2025-10-11 16:37:11+00:00
If you've been paying attention, you see that Trump is not, as you put it, appeased at all. He doesn't know who Machado is. He utterly and publicly and loudly missed the irony.

Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were not hijacked by ethnic agendas, again,, as you put it. The outcome they achieved was the whole point of the Cold War. It was an outcome with bipartisan support over the course of decades. Defending the value of that outcome by supporting Ukraine and NATO is also not anything as small as an ethnic agenda.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 16:37:32+00:00
I’ve worked remotely for 5 years did three companies - two of those allowed Macs. Both would just express ship me a new laptop if I had an issue.

I wouldn’t be surprised if my current company - a third party AWS consulting company - wouldn’t just buy a laptop from Apple on their corporate account and tell me to pick it up from the local Apple Store and ship my old one back to the company.

That’s how I got my original one when I first started

Amazon - the first company I worked for remotely - had me use my own personal computer and log in to corporate approved internal AWS Workspace with the same software as they image their Windows computers until my Mac shipped. They would have done the same if I needed a replacement.

As far as installing drives, Thunderbolt is more than fast enough to use any external hard drive
by wtallis | 2025-10-11 16:39:11+00:00
Storage on the PS5 isn't really fast. It's just not stupidly slow. At the time of release, the raw SSD speeds for the PS5 were comparable to the high-end consumer SSDs of the time, which Sony achieved by using a controller with more channels than usual so that they didn't have to source the latest NAND flash memory (and so that they could ship with only 0.75 TB capacity). The hardware compression support merely compensates for the PS5 having much less CPU power than a typical gaming desktop PC. For its price, the PS5 has better storage performance than you'd expect from a similarly-priced PC, but it's not particularly innovative and even gaming laptops have surpassed it.

The most important impact by far of the PS5 adopting this storage architecture (and the Xbox Series X doing something similar) is that it gave game developers permission to make games that require SSD performance.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-11 16:39:38+00:00
I disagree, as a professional in this field for over a decade.

For this to be a legitimately backed statement, professional's would have needed to know about the PSL. This is largely unmet.

For it to be met, there would need to be documentation in the form of RFC's and whitepapers in industry working groups which would be needed. This didn't happen.

M3AAWG only has two blog post mentions, and that's only after the great layoffs of 2023, and only that its being used by volunteers and needs support. No discussion about organization, what its being used for, process/due process, etc.

It wholly lacks the needed outreach to professionals in order to make such a statement and have it be true.
by ronsor | 2025-10-11 16:39:46+00:00
Improving that problem probably would've been a massive undertaking. That aside, there's the problem that implementing kernel mechanics is a lot more than faking syscalls: the various types of namespaces, FUSE, random edge cases that applications do expect, kernel modules, etc. At the end of the day, users don't want to stumble into some weird compatibility issue because they're running not-quite-Linux; it's a better UX to just offer normal Linux with better integration.

The WSL2 design isn't stupid, it's practical. What I will give you is that it's not elegant in an "ivory tower of ideal computing" sense.
by rasz | 2025-10-11 16:40:13+00:00
>I imagine e.g. a picture of an 8x8 circle actually takes more bits to encode than a mathematical description of the same circle

I wonder if there are codecs with provisions for storing common shapes. Text comes to mind - I imagine having a bank of 10 most popular fonts an encoding just the difference between source and text + distortion could save quite a lot of data on text heavy material. Add circles, lines, basic face shapes.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-10-11 16:41:07+00:00
I've wondered about exposing this "asking clarifying questions" as a tool the AI could use. I'm not building AI tooling so I haven't done this - but what if you added an MCP endpoint whose description was "treat this endpoint as an oracle that will answer questions and clarify intent where necessary" (paraphrased), and have that tool just wire back to a user prompt.

If asking clarifying questions is plausible output text for LLMs, this may work effectively.
by 93po | 2025-10-11 16:41:36+00:00
The US did exactly what he wanted them to.

He wanted to radicalize Muslims worldwide against the West and drain American resources through prolonged wars.

It's also interesting how infrequently Americans know OBL's motivations for the 9/11 attacks. A big part of it was the American support of Israel, and OBL's belief that this would lead to further oppression of Muslim people in Palestine.

He did terrible things but was pretty accurate in his predictions.
by iFreilicht | 2025-10-11 16:42:07+00:00
Could you explain what you like about it? I feel like I'm missing something. I've listened to half an hour now and there have been a like five minutes of substance, the rest is self-references and jarring editing.

If I listen to a podcast I want to learn something, gain a new perspective, listen to a well-moderated conversation or at least laugh.

This podcast does none of those things. Literally doing nothing and letting my thoughts wander is more interesting than listening to this.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-11 16:42:33+00:00
> The charges were filed in April [2023] after police received reports that Prince Ssenteza-Woodson cooked a baby chicken in an air fryer while streaming it live on social media.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/uofl-student-sentenc...
by hoechst | 2025-10-11 16:43:06+00:00
documents like https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/skills/testing... are very confusing to read as a human. "skills" in this project generally don't seem to follow set format and just look like what you would get when prompting an LLM to "write a markdown doc that step by step describes how to do X" (which is what actually happened according to the blog post).

idk, but if you already assume that the LLM knows what TDD is (it probably ingested ~100 whole books about it), why are we feeding a short (and imo confusing) version of that back to it before the actual prompt?

i feel like a lot of projects like this that are supposed to give LLMs "superpowers" or whatever by prompt engineering are operating on the wrong assumption that LLMs are self-learning and can be made 10x smarter just by adding a bit of magic text that the LLM itself produced before the actual prompt.

ofc context matters and if i have a repetitive tasks, i write down my constraints and requirements and paste that in before every prompt that fits this task. but that's just part of the specific context of what i'm trying to do. it's not giving the LLM superpowers, it's just providing context.

i've read a few posts like this now, but what i am always missing is actual examples of how it produces objectively better results compared to just prompting without the whole "you have skill X" thing.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-11 16:43:23+00:00
> Being concerned with how your behavior affects your family or your community, and the opinion they have of you, above your own self-interest, is how good parents, good friends, good citizens, and so on, are made.

You've changed the meaning behind the original comment in a subtle but important way. The original commenter wasn't concerned about their effects on other people, they were concerned about how the disease would ruin their public image. Maybe they didn't mean that but it's what they wrote.

This distinction matters because those people whose top priority is their public perception (i.e. social status) are never "good people". It's normal to care about your social status to some degree but it shouldn't be the first thing you consider.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:44:35+00:00
If you want to complain about comments on a discussion site where many articles have no comments, please consider at least writing a comment that adds to the discussion in some way.

> I hear ya tho

If you agree and have nothing else to add and can't even be bothered to type all six letters of the word though, why bother commenting? Ya just like to complain or something?
by autoexec | 2025-10-11 16:44:38+00:00
> Faceless artists? Artists have dedicated followings with fanbases where they interact more than ever before.

Not so much these days. Especially on streaming platforms where countless tracks that get pushed on listeners are recorded by anonymous session musicians whose works are sometimes put out under an assigned name for that singe track, then they get assigned a new name for the next track they put out. Even worse, a lot of music on Spotify and Apple Music are 100% AI generated tracks. Literally faceless.

> You think people don't listen to albums anymore? That they're "clicking next" rather than listening?

Many aren't even "clicking next". They're just taking whatever comes next over their speakers and letting their streaming platform decide for them what they're hearing.
by devin | 2025-10-11 16:45:04+00:00
Yeah, I remember this. Macromedia Fireworks had a slice tool that I used quite a bit. You'd basically make an image which was your website, and then do all the layout with zero border tables. But for me, this was what I was doing circa 2004 before CSS was dominant. Earlier software from the '96 era like Frontpage I think would use bitmaps whole cloth, but maybe I'm misremembering.
by zigzag312 | 2025-10-11 16:45:13+00:00
I interpreted your argument that suffering that years of burden and stress on loved ones bring is a good reason for an assisted suicide. Or did I misunderstood you?

Regarding your estimates, are you just making up a lot of assumptions or do you have any data backing up your relative numbers? In your other comment you seem to assume that anyone not agreeing with OP's suggestion doesn't have personal experience with close relative having a dementia. I'm very sorry for your loss. At least some others (me included) also have had this unfortunate experience, but don't agree. High bar is actually very hard to quantify. All old people are in gradual decline and are relatively close to their deaths. One alternative to your suggestion would be that a state would provide quality professional care for people with dementia. That way the things OP described wouldn't happen and the family of the patient wouldn't have to bear the financial burden of the disease. We are more advanced and richer that we have ever been in human history, but it seems like we are unable, as a community, to provide very ill people with quality care they need.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-11 16:45:16+00:00
Years ago, when my vantage point was support and consulting, I had the same view of sales and marketing. I encountered too many buyers who did not know what they were buying, too many sellers who did not know what they were selling, and me in the middle having to reset everyone's expectations. The authority held by sales and marketing to steer the product into insane directions seemed like an injustice. It's an unfortunate reality that customers who already paid for something are often de-prioritized for new customers with different requirements and less expertise.

Much of my job is now customer onboarding, so I work closer with sales and solution architects. I also fill in for the solution architects when they're spread too thin for the events marketing has set up. The struggles faced by those teams are entirely different than those on the engineering and support side, and while it might not seem fair, a good corporate culture means everyone is motivated to work hard. Many of those roles are based on comission, so their financial and career prospects are worse than ours when they're not fully dedicated and producing results.

In terms of who gets what computer, it's unfortunate that the majority of users will be people who have average (or less than average) technical skills. That means a lot of them are afraid to even try macOS and will want to go back to PCs as soon as some trivial difference gives them the slightest uncertanty. Personally, I'd love to work on a rice'd hyprland system all day, but the fact that the business relies on BS like MS/Google collaboration software, our CRM has no keyboard shortcuts, etc. means technical users will always be held back.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-11 16:45:21+00:00
As long as you pass Apple's arbitrary rules, you can make your own browser for iOS. Ladybug uses Apple's test suite as an arbitrary measure of completeness.

However, no browser engine has bothered so far because they'd need to upload a separate app to the app store specifically for EU users, and non-EU developers cannot debug the application on a real device so manpower is region-restricted unless you hack around the limitations.
by dkural | 2025-10-11 16:46:15+00:00
To go down this rabbit hole, presumably someone is hating somebody in this immoral hierarchy though? If everyone is happy with everyone, where's the immoral part? I do think the OP is right that in many circumstances of everyday life, being good usually correlates with being appreciated by people you actually have relationships with. Of course, this being real life, there are exceptions. However, while a child may complain and claim they hate you for not letting them have too much candy, they do love and appreciate you in a deeper way for taking care of them.
by ktosobcy | 2025-10-11 16:46:32+00:00
I was just suggesting that ING has different policies in different countries.

As for "we have to use google wallet!!!":

https://i.ibb.co/4Z9dMvzR/Screenshot-20251011-184343-Setting...

basically all banking apps for accounts I have (alior, PKO - biggest polish bank, ING Poland and spanish BBVA as well as curve to which you can add whicever card)
by Bender | 2025-10-11 16:46:38+00:00
I second this for personal sites. Having run forums and chan sites without a CDN I found that not only is this true, it is 100% automated. The timing in emails to VPS/Registrars matches the times their scripts would crawl my sites and submit illicit content, screenshot it and automatically submit the screenshots to the VPS/server/registrar providers. That was incentive enough for me to take my sites private / semi-private. I would move them to .onion nodes but that's just too slow for me. I have my own theories as to what groups are running these scripts to push people to CDN's but no smoking gun.

Corporations are a little safer. They have mutually binding contracts with multiple internet service providers and dedicated circuits. They have binding contracts with DNS registrars. Having been on the receiving end of abuse@ they notify over phone and email giving plenty of time to figure out what is going on. I've never seen corporate circuits get nuked for such shenanigans.
by qsort | 2025-10-11 16:46:50+00:00
> Important: there is a lot of human coding, too.

I'm not highlighting this to gloat or to prove a point. If anything in the past I have underestimated how big LLMs were going to be. Anyone so inclined can take the chance to point and laugh at how stupid and wrong that was. Done? Great.

I don't think I've been intentionally avoiding coding assistants and as a matter of fact I have been using Claude Code since the literal day it first previewed, and yet it doesn't feel, not even one bit, that you can take your hands off the wheel. Many are acting as if writing any code manually means "you're holding it wrong", which I feel it's just not true.
by solatic | 2025-10-11 16:46:54+00:00
> wouldn’t there be a point where we can concede that it is actually valued properly, and it’s your valuation model that needs to adjust, not the market?

Requires an alternate proposal about how to value stocks, and in aggregate, the stock market at large.

The only reasonable way to value stocks is in their potential, upon purchase, for the purchase price to be returned via dividends issued on future profits (even stock buybacks ultimately justify their price increase on dividends being divided among fewer shareholders).

> After 100 years of being “overvalued”, can we call that the real value? 1000 years?

Stocks are being priced at levels that will require longer than a full human lifetime to return their share price via dividends. "Overvalue" is subjective; some people will be fine with the idea that only their children (or, someday, only their grandchildren, and so on ad infinitum) will see a profit. People will also pay a premium for the liquidity of the stock market compared to less-liquid investments (e.g. real estate).

There is simply too much cash sloshing around compared to the opportunities for return available.
by abuani | 2025-10-11 16:46:57+00:00
Did I suggest that? I'm pointing out the blaring hypocrisy of a company sitting on $350M in cash that opted to double the size of their company without having a clear strategy to become profitable. Then after laying off half the company, the CEO publicly states it's because the laid off workers don't have the skills they need for "the new era". I would really like to see in these scenarios the CEO accept a tiny bit of responsibility for their failures to set strategy and over hire, instead of publicly shaming 70 people they chose to hire in the first place. That's a failure in leadership, not in employees.
by keiferski | 2025-10-11 16:47:00+00:00
I think you can expand this to “finance” more broadly. This essay by the CCRU from 30 years ago is really interesting and basically explores the phenomenon of marketplaces turning into organized financial spaces as a space becomes more capitalistic. Let’s not forget what the WTC is/was: a major focal point of global capitalism, not just another building.

http://www.ccru.net/archive/markets.htm

In 'highly developed' economies the anarchy of concrete market-places has been replaced by the securitized space of the shopping mall (interiorized, guarded, and surveilled). Instead of dark and crowded alleys, lined by open stalls - which encourage a multiplicity of tactile interactions - the mall substitutes shop windows and brightly lit retail displays.
by pkulak | 2025-10-11 16:47:34+00:00
Are you sure about the black-areas-blocking? I remember a long time ago, when I was younger and had time for this kind of tomfoolery, I noticed this exact issue in my BlueRay backups. I figured I needed to up the bitrate, so I started testing, upping the bitrate over and over. Finally, I played the BlueRay and it was still there. This was an old-school, dual-layer, 100GB disc of one of the Harry Potter movies. Still saw the blocking in very dark gradients.
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 16:47:57+00:00
> Neither end will get stuck trying to make a 1000BASE-T connection with only the orange and green pairs being contiguous.

They can get stuck, because negotiation happens on the two original pairs (at 1Mbps), and to-spec negotiation advertises the NIC capabilities and selects the best mutually supported option. Advertising fewer capabilities for retries is not within the spec, but obviously helps a lot with wiring problems.

The key thing with the ethernet wiring requirements is that most of the specs are for 100m of cabling with the bulk of that in a dense conduit with all the other cables running ethernet or similar. Most houses don't have 100m of cabling, and if you're reusing phone cabling, it's almost certainly low density, so you get a lot of margin from that. I wouldn't pull new cat3 for anything (and largely, nobody has since the 90s; my current house was built in 2001, it has cat5e for ethernet and cat5e in blue sheaths for phone), but wire in the wall is worth trying.
by buildsjets | 2025-10-11 16:49:10+00:00
The article does not mention it (that I noticed), but the lower floors were occupied and in use before the upper floors were completed. My father was a beat cop in Manhattan in the late 60s and early 70s, he tells me that the construction crew took him up the elevator to a floor where the windows had not yet been installed, while businesses were working in the lower floors.

Dad also bemoaned the loss of Radio Row to build the WTC, as he was a big Ham enthusiast as a kid.