MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BozeWolf | 2025-10-10 20:37:45+00:00
Contrary experience from me: i hate my samsung frame, especially because of the ads. And more especially because of that samsung tv channel which autostarts. And I hate it even more because these ads change the menu in such a way that you cannot navigate it blindly because it inserts itself as a button mid way in the menu bar. You cannot disable or disable those things easily. Built in airplay is unstable.

Bought and connected an apple tv, always switch on the tv with that. Most problems solved.
by t_mann | 2025-10-10 20:38:15+00:00
In case that wasn't clear, I didn't mean that every government in the world, nor even every agency in the same country, should be using the same office suite (which they pretty much do now). (Part of) the idea is to increase software diversity, for the same reasons that monopolies are generally bad in other areas. It's pretty clear that that goal alone will require switching to open document formats.
by ttshaw1 | 2025-10-10 20:38:22+00:00
I don't get what the point of the article is. Is the takeaway that I should lower the channel width in my home? How many WAPs would I need to be running for that to matter? I'd argue it's more important to get everyone to turn down TX power in cases where your neighbors in an apartment building are conflicting. And that's never going to happen, so just conform to the legal limit and your SNR should be fine. Anything that needs to be high performance shouldn't be on wifi anyway.

If you want to spend a really long time optimizing your wifi, this is the resource: https://www.wiisfi.com/
by jfengel | 2025-10-10 20:38:24+00:00
I do not get why Toyota is so wedded to hydrogen. There's no infrastructure for it. It would require a far bigger revamp than the switch to BEVs. There's no existing hydrogen source, and the stuff is tricky to transport and store.

If they had a hydrogen source for cheap, it would have been so much easier to just transform it into hydrocarbons. They're easier to store, easier to transport, and all of the existing structure is already built around it. Just keep on making the same engines you always have.

They already had a lead in battery-powered hybrids. It would have made so much more sense to lean into that, first into plugin hybrids and then plugin-only.

Hydrogen is such an obvious dead end, and everybody sees it but them -- the ones who should have been the first to figure it out. I just don't get it.
by thinkcontext | 2025-10-10 20:38:32+00:00
I thought a notable omission was discussion of releasing iron or other minerals into the ocean to stimulate algal growth. It mimics natural processes such as wind blowing sand from desserts. Its been tried by a rogue effort that didn't seek permission but saw some success and had the effect of restoring fish numbers in the area.

I've gone back and forth on whether the potential for unintended consequences is too risky. Lately I've been in favor of slow, carefully controlled efforts. We've already geoengineered the oceans into a bad situation and are about to take things to a whole new level with ocean mining. Mineral release could be considered analogous to tree planting restoration work.
by icsa | 2025-10-10 20:38:47+00:00
"English as a programming language" has neither well-defined syntax nor well-defined semantics.

There should be no expectation of a "correct" translation to any programming language.

N.B. Formal languages for specifying requirements and specifications have been in existence for decades and are rarely used.

From what I've observed, people creating software are reluctant to or incapable of producing [natural language] requirements and specifications that are rigorous & precise enough to be translated into correctly working software.
by simondotau | 2025-10-10 20:38:53+00:00
A few choice headlines:

2017: "Toyota’s new solid-state battery could make its way to cars by 2020" https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/25/toyotas-new-solid-state-ba...

2020: "Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400725

2023: "Toyota Touts Solid State EVs with 932-Mile Range, 10-Minute Charging by 2027" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36353474

2023: "Toyota Only Plans to Make Enough Solid-State Batteries for 10k Cars in 2030" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374322
by mindslight | 2025-10-10 20:39:48+00:00
"Conservative" is no longer anything more than a dishonest label for disguising a radical reactionary movement that fundamentally hates most of our modern society, and seeks to destroy it in some misguided idea that survivalist religious superstitions might be made to matter again.

Seriously, go down a list of traditionally conservative values. They mostly apply to the Democrats with the current Trumpist agenda being directly opposed!

The Republican party has bought into this backwards agenda hook, line, and sinker - supported by a cast of would-be business oligarchs who are eager to destroy our individual liberties as long as they might rule over the ruins. If there were anything conservative left about them, Trump would have been in prison after his first term of treasonous destruction.
by splix | 2025-10-10 20:40:29+00:00
I mean the arrest. But as I just learned [1] he is being allowed to make periodic travels to Dubai since recently. So things got better for him now, but that's just since July 2025. Before that he was physically staying in France since August 2024, which I would call as "living" as it's the place where he spent most of his time.

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250619-france-soften...
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 20:40:34+00:00
> It shows an unprofessional and inappropriate interest in things unrelated to work,

No, it's a chance for candidates to bring up relevant experience that might help their candidacy.

The question isn't about things unrelated to work. The question is asking if they have any additional experience outside of work that might help us better understand their skills for their job application. Many people have relevant experience for the job that they gained outside of work. Asking about that is not only okay, it's a good thing.

> and, from my experience, is a good indicator that the person will either micromanage, has poor work life balance, or is not socially fit to be a manager.

Asking candidates if they have any extra experience to share is not an indicator of micromanaging.

Jumping to completely unrelated conclusions and drawing extreme assumptions about people is not a good way to interpret a question like that.

I explained that the question cannot have any negative value to the candidate. It's a chance to bring up extra things if they have them and we didn't cover them. Literally doing the candidate a favor, not being rude or micromanaging.

> It also opens you up to litigation for discrimination, depending on the answer they give. I suggest talking with your HR department.

Asking candidates to share their work-relevant experience does not invite discrimination lawsuits. How are you coming up with these interpretations? Legal was involved in reviewing our hiring processes, so no need for condescending lectures about getting HR involved.
by airstrike | 2025-10-10 20:41:45+00:00
OpenAI is dynamic for consumer apps. Anthropic seems much better at productizing AI that you can actually build with, while also catering to enterprise in their own productized offerings

Also Claude Opus 4.1 runs multidimensional circles around GPT-5 in my view. The only better use case for GPT-5 is when you need it to scrape the web for data
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-10 20:41:58+00:00
Hasbara bullet points with no effort. Logically falls apart upon the most basic of inspections. For example, if a one day attack justifies a disproportionate slaughter for 2 years, then what is a merely PROPORTIONATE response to 2 years of slaughter? What is a merely proportionate response to 85% of all buildings destroyed and all infrastruction being turned to rubble?

For bystanders, be aware that there is a lot of money to be made by defending Israel. Some people will take that money. Just a few citations below:

- Certain social media influencers being paid up to $7000 per post [1]

- Israel boosts propaganda funding by $150m to sway global opinion against genocide [2] [3]

- "[...] a firm called Bridges Partners LLC has been hired to manage an influencer network under a project code-named the “Esther Project.” " [4]

[1] https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influencers-netanya...

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/isr...

[3] https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-spent-m...

[4] https://www.jta.org/2025/09/30/united-states/israels-secret-...
by Spivak | 2025-10-10 20:42:31+00:00
So I think we've over-grouped ads into too broad a category to be useful. Brand sponsorships (i.e. The Doritos-Jeep-AT&T Halftime Show) and other 'brand awareness' are clearly bad ads by your own metric, they do nothing to inform. Same with "entertainment ads" which are just 30 second comedy bits attached to a brand.

But when people think of ads, radio promos, podcast interruptions, tv commercials, posters in shops, billboards online banner ads, they're almost exclusively this kind of bad ad. And when people talk about banning advertising they're talking about these and likely very little else.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-10 20:42:35+00:00
> Spending $30 billion a year doesn't sound that apocalyptic.

they have $1000billion in future liabilities. https://www.ft.com/content/5f6f78af-aed9-43a5-8e31-2df7851ce...

they have income of about 4billion a half, with a loss of $13bn.
by gnulinux | 2025-10-10 20:42:46+00:00
No, I didn't misread, input can be self-generated of course. If you're writing a system that's designed like UserInput -> [BlackBox] -> Output, clearly user input won't be auto-generated. But if you factor [BlackBox] into a system like A -> B -> C, A -> D -> C, C -> Output, then each of those arrows will represent an input into the next system that was generated by something our devs wrote. This could be bunch of jsonlines (related to this thread) interpreted as string, a database, some in-memory structure, whatever.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-10 20:43:57+00:00
But intelligence and law enforcement aren't the same thing, and the CIA is specifically prohibited from operating domestically. Valiant attempt, but talking about law enforcement (again, as opposed to intelligence) activities that take place in public is a matter of settled law. We decided that you're allowed to warn people that the police are around, even if it will help people get away with crimes, as a first amendment matter when we decided that police can't make it illegal for you to flash your lights at an oncoming driver to warn them (https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/headlight-flashing/). There's no steelman for this, Apple is just trying to preemptively comply with an administration that considers civil rights inconvenient.
by tass | 2025-10-10 20:43:58+00:00
My isp-supplied router had 10gbe on both wan and lan sides. I swapped it for my own, but that is what modern consumer equipment looks like.

You can find a 2 port 10gbe+4 port 2.5gbe switch for just over $30 on Amazon.

If the run isn’t too long this can all run over cat5. Handily beats wifi especially for reliability but Thunderbolt is fastest if you only have 2 machines to link.
by joshuamorton | 2025-10-10 20:43:58+00:00
> If the policy of MIT or any other institution states that certain spaces are designated as single-sex only, then no, people of the opposite sex do not have the right to use these spaces.

Correct, but this is not MIT's policy today, responding to your edit, I do not believe your understanding of title IX is correct, See [0].

>I don't expect people to have a problem with understanding this, in practice. It's really not that difficult to understand what sex you are and where you're allowed to be. Children learn this quite early on.

But in places that do have such policies, people who are using the correct bathroom get harassed. Given that you assume this is easy to understand (and I think I agree), would you support laws that codify harassing people about using the incorrect bathroom as criminal, given that you assume these don't need enforcement, we should discourage vigilantism, right?

[0]: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10953 suggests that there is a circuit split on whether policies banning students from using gender-identity matching bathrooms would be a Title IX violation, with the 4th and 7th circuits saying that disallowing students from using their preferred bathrooms is a violation, and the 11th saying it is not. Currently there is no circuit split around the opposite question: the 3rd and 9th (and presumably also the 4th and 7th) circuits agree that allowing students to use gender-identity matching bathrooms would not be a Title IX violation, and the 11th Circuit's argument doesn't appear to preclude to a school or district choosing to allow gender-segregated bathrooms, it just allows sex-segregated bathrooms. MIT is under the 1st circuit and I can't find any federal cases at the district level, so it is technically not required to act in any particular way, but given other circuit precedent (and, I think, supreme court precedent under Bostock which says basically the same thing for title VII), I would suspect your interpretation would open MIT to legal risk.
by fnicfnac | 2025-10-10 20:44:29+00:00
I'm not sure if there is a word for people who choose high risk activities because they have less fear, because I'm not a coroner.. Perhaps because I'm not sure I have a healthy enough fear of death.

If you examine the stats with the assumption that you could be one who dies early and probably won't take up opioids then there is some logical reasoning to do about your relationship with cars and death. "Mistaking" that for fear is a defense mechanism.

The situation of the worse is better crowd and computer security increasingly looks like one of these things that I don't want to apply such a defense mechanism to.

Linux has not really gotten us closer to eliminating Windows yet it has eliminated a lot of the other approaches to eliminating Windows. Maybe it is only on par with the escooters that can now run me down on the sidewalk but don't seem to have reduced my risk from cars.
by SpicyUme | 2025-10-10 20:44:35+00:00
With regard to the sections about beavers, I went to an event this year where a beaver scientist mentioned that many European settlers in North America showed up after beavers had been nearly extirpated by trappers. So they would come across open flat areas with a stream flowing through which had likely been dammed by beavers in the past. This caused problems with flooding and water damage, and problems as beavers have been reestablished in much of the US (and Canada?)
by runako | 2025-10-10 20:44:46+00:00
Highly suggest reading the document[1] if you are interested.

The overarching problem is it moves management decisions from the colleges to the White House. But here are a couple of really problematic points:

- mandates government price setting

- requires institutions to promise to use force against minors when faced with unknown hypotheticals

- requires universities to monitor & censor staff and faculty

- requires government oversight of classroom grading, in the total absence of government standards

- bathroom fetish likely in conflict with state laws

- White House oversight of which academic programs are allowed, and the budgets attached to each. White House does not specify whether programs currently in flight will be allowed to continue through the school year, or whether students in those programs will need to leave immediately.

- White House decides what criteria can be used for admission

- White House decides which "institutional units" are allowed to function

- To enforce a parts of the Compact would effectively require the White House to install commissars at the institution to e.g. monitor speech and communications to ensure they are acceptable. This alone should be disqualifying.

- Many discretionary decisions like the above are made at the White House without any binding written guidance

Basically, an independent university would only agree to this if it would have to close otherwise.

The Compact is not conservative because it centralizes decisions best made lower down; it aims to radically reshape higher education; it mandates prices; it promulgates ideology, and more. Conservatives should also reject this Compact.

1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/22e45e59-75ac-4a81-...
by j45 | 2025-10-10 20:44:51+00:00
I use both.. And yes, both handle calls between different APIs.

One for the many, and maybe one for a different audience.

Node-red didn't have a login at the time, and was well geared towards direct IoT type flowing. I loved how I can just jump into the logic and flows.

N8N has a lot of pre-configured connectors.

If Node-red had the pre-configured connectors to different systems as easy as n8n, I think the point here would be even stronger.

It's why I use both. I start with the low level, and if orchestration beyond it is needed, I can tie in another tool if needed.
by pragma_x | 2025-10-10 20:44:53+00:00
> basically built for us old-skool types

Glad I'm not the only one. Ever since the first HTMX article, I felt like I was kidding myself. I had/have this thought in my head that "no way that we were that close to having all this right 25 years ago." I'm coming around and seeing that this tech gets the job done by doing one thing really well, and the whole API around it is dead-simple and bulletproof because of it. It's that good-old UNIX philosophy that's the enabling tech here.

While I can't say for certain that IE6 or early Firefox could have handled DOM swaps gracefully without real shadow DOM support, early Ajax provided the basic nuts-and-bolts to do all of this. So, why haven't we seen partial page updates as a formalism, sooner?
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-10-10 20:44:59+00:00
I think that's reasonable. I suppose I also think it idealist that cities will actually act that way in practice in the short term. I'm specifically thinking of examples like the Corniche highway in Alexandria or Marine drive in Mumbai which shows cities are willing to give up gorgeous public space throughout incredibly dense areas to support car traffic. But there's also examples like Boston's "big dig" which shows cities are willing to spend extra to move those auto pathways underground. At least in the short term it seems that 1) cities aren't giving up entirely on cars, but 2) are willing to pay more to have them underground.

I suspect in practice the actual approach is going to be a mix of all of the above. So my reasoning is primarily that if all cities won't give up cars anyway, it seems objectively better to make it easier to at least move more of them underground. I suppose one case where I would change my mind is if there was evidence that more affordable underground roads reduced the investment in public transit.
by Retric | 2025-10-10 20:45:25+00:00
Leadership and wealth are quite fluid in major transitions.

Read up on the US robber barons and they didn’t come from old money. The relatively recent (80’s to today) round of Tech billionaires don’t hail back to earlier great fortunes and most VC investors lost money compared to a simple index fund.

The first few rounds of AI investors are already getting screwed.
by paganel | 2025-10-10 20:45:26+00:00
I get EU (political, just to be sure) propaganda ads on my Facebook feed almost each and every day, no matter if we're outside the election period or not, while from now on political movements will have to abide by these so called rules:

> Among the requirements, the law demands that platforms provide information on what election, referendum or legislative process the ad is linked to

So if communication of said political movement via social media is connected to no election, no referendum and to no specific legislative process then it basically becomes forbidden. Supposing my country (Romania in this case) decides to send the Army next door into the Republic of Moldova that will involve no "legislative process", it will be an executive order, we already have a law that handles sending the Army outside our borders if our security demands it, so in effect the anti-war political movements here in Romania will not be able to speak against this on social media. Absolute madness, but that's the bed the globalists are laying for themselves.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-10 20:45:32+00:00
> if you care about correctness they all basically converge to the same thing and the same amount of work.

That's the part I'd push back on. They're not the same amount of work.

When I'm writing the code myself, it's basically a ton of "plumbing" of loops and ifs and keeping track of counters and making sure I'm not making off-by-one errors and not making punctuation mistakes and all the rest. It actually takes quite a lot of brain energy and time to get that all perfect.

It saves a lot of time to write the function definition in plain English, have the LLM generate a bunch of tests that you verify are the correct definition... and then let the LLM take care of all the loops and indexing and punctuation and plumbing.

I regularly cut what used to be an entire afternoon or day's worth of work down into 30 minutes. I spend 10 minutes writing the design for what will be 500-1,000 lines of code, 5 minutes answering the LLM's questions about it, 5 minutes skimming the code to make sure it all looks vaguely plausible (no obvious red flags), 5 minutes ensuring the unit tests cover everything I can think of (almost always, the LLM has thought of a bunch of edge cases I never would have bothered to test), and another 5 minutes telling it to fix things, like its unit tests make me suddenly realize there's an edge case that should be defined differently.

The idea that it's the "same amount of work" is crazy to me. It's so much more efficient. And in all honesty, the code is more reliable too because it tests things that I usually wouldn't bother with, because writing all the tests is so boring.
by gosub100 | 2025-10-10 20:46:32+00:00
someone further down found the incident [1] I was referring to. It was 14 years ago, not 5 as I had initially thought. Curious to hear your take on it. Pilot said "if you don't give me this runway, I'm going to declare an emergency..." which I don't think is the most helpful thing to say. But there were definitely many swiss-cheese holes lining up that day.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sQuHnrJu1I
by leopoldj | 2025-10-10 20:46:56+00:00
The blog doesn't verify if the code is actually using the GPU. The code will work perfectly fine on CPU, albeit slowly. You should run this to be sure:

python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())"

Strange that torch.cuda.is_available() is used for AMD also.

Use rocm-smi to be double sure.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-10 20:46:57+00:00
Luckily you guys can work at different companies and not have to interact except on HN.

(Personally I've been on both sides of this - early in my career I had a ton of hobby projects, wrote compilers for fun, and would often ask the interviewers what was the most interesting project they've worked on, either for work or for fun. Now I have a family, work stays at work, home stays at home, and I don't really care what my reports do on their own time. But different segments of the tech industry will fall on different ends of this spectrum. Know what you want and don't waste time interviewing at places where the culture is dramatically different.)