MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2025-10-07 02:36:17+00:00
Advocating? What? No, I'm not "advocating" for crime. I'm just pointing out that there are ways for crime to happen, to even be encouraged, without really risking the investors. Your "no such thing" comment, while maybe true in a nonexistant legally ideal reality, does not reflect how things play out in real life.

RICO is hard to prosecute on a good day. If an organization is usually law-abiding and occasionally structures things such that some lower manager has a near-impossible goal to hit that is made easier with crime, then one gets crime occasionally.

And that's also not counting all the crimes like environmental dumping, which consistently yield zero prosecution and slap the company with a fine that's 4% of what the company saved by dumping their waste in a river.

Here's a recent example https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/campbell-soup-admits-to-d...
by slg | 2025-10-07 02:36:17+00:00
>Which is all to say, you HAVE to factor delight into your product.

And yet I can't think of a single large corporation that actually has this mindset anymore. The current mindset of management is that any delight your customers take in the product is a sign that either the price should have been higher or costs cut until the product is merely satisfactory rather than delightful.
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-07 02:36:19+00:00
And this link form wired is about something completely unrelated - getting more stable coverage by using multiple different providers. It does not even mention Lasers.

You also clearly do not know what Layer 2 on the ISO/OSI model is.

But you are in total rage mode.

Triggered because the actual data invalidates what your cult says? :)

Sorry, will ignore you from now on. Again: Religion is not my cup of tea, bold claims on powerpoint presentations neither, I prefer to use data. We simply do not share a model of the world that is compatible to discuss these kind of things. No harm done, but no thank you :)
by jibal | 2025-10-07 02:36:35+00:00
I pointed out that he never expressed his point and then he comes back with a quote that again is not anything he said. Sad indeed.

And yes, these sorts of discussions do occur in person, although I rarely encounter people who say things like "orcas attack moose" with ZERO elaboration--that is indeed strange. And if someone said that's irrelevant and they then said "My point was ..." I would still say "Well, you didn't say that".
by btown | 2025-10-07 02:36:45+00:00
Two things could simultaneously be true: (a) trillions of dollars in value will be created/replaced/subsumed by AI solutions, and (b) even with near-universal adoption among knowledge workers, the value captured by the vendors of advanced AI solutions may never rise high enough to justify the valuations we're seeing now.

OpenAI's bet is that its frontier models will be so far ahead of the current status quo that, if they are the only ones providing those frontier models, they will be able to name their price (to end users and advertisers alike) while increasing their share of spend in the space.

But even today, last-generation and open-source models form a meaningful portion of adopted solutions. Not every application in 2028 will need the AGI-approaching GPT-10 - especially if those applications can leverage a relatively small amount of code, perhaps even written by that GPT-10, that can in turn orchestrate (say) DeepSeek V5 running on compute that can be obtained for pennies on the dollar.

OpenAI could become a victim of its own success, and cause a house of cards to take down the global economy in the process. I personally hope this doesn't happen, but there is real risk here.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-07 02:37:19+00:00
> aaaan.net stimulates, initiates and (co)produces work and research at the fringes of art, popular culture and technology. aan focuses on innovative and explorative artistic work that is prompted by social and cultural urgency. aan is not an institute nor does it have its own space, it is a flexible organisation that consists of human hardware. For all its projects aan connects to existing organisations and complements holes in the existing cultural grid.

Unfortunately, there's no direct link to their About blurb, but there it is. (Click the first checkbox, and then About)
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-07 02:37:47+00:00
The part of CarPlay I’m unhappy with is the (in)ability to plan EV trips with charging stops. Adding charging in a good native nav interface is simple: you enter the route and it picks chargers for you if the distance exceeds current range. In standard CarPlay this doesn’t happen automatically. Presumably it could, but in addition to charging station search and planning, CarPlay would need an interface to take current battery level and some other preferences that would tune the algorithm for specific cars. Not sure if that exists, but the cars I’ve used haven’t exhibited it.
by snovymgodym | 2025-10-07 02:38:14+00:00
A striking amount of business software runs on Windows because Microsoft was dominant during the peak PC era (e.g. 1990-2010). The companies running that stuff aren't doing so because old guys think Windows is good, they're running it because it's been built already and there's no real reason to change.

The next generation of business leaders already didn't build their companies on Windows or any other PC operating system because web apps replaced desktop apps and mobile devices overtook PCs in market share.

But it doesn't really matter to Microsoft. Microsoft isn't really the "Windows Company" anymore and hasn't been for some time. Azure, Office365, Sharepoint, etc. revenue dwarfs what Windows brings in and wouldn't be affected by Windows losing market share because everything is a web/electron client for a cloud service now.

In some ways, I suspect Microsoft views the Windows market share as more of a liability than an asset these days, because it makes them responsible for bad press events like BlueKeep and WannaCry. Business customers frequently buy support contracts with their licenses, whereas private consumers expect indefinite updates for a one time $120 fee. Given that, I wouldn't be surprised if they were intentionally letting consumer Windows slowly fade away.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-07 02:38:30+00:00
> When exactly does a fetus become a baby? At the point of birth? There is no easy way out of this dilemma.

The easy way is the one already taken: by putting more restrictions the closer you get to the time of birth, and not at all addressing the question of when it counts as a baby. The easy way is not making that question the focus, because it inevitably leads to a discussion of "when does the soul inhabit the body" - a religious argument.

Thank you for proving my point.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 02:38:31+00:00
I've given you links to the data you want and someone that can get it for you (and has monitoring stations).

I've also mentioned several places you can travel to do your own testing.

If you want to believe Tristan de Cunha or the Falkland Islands or Bhutan or Antarctica can be served by anything other than lasers, (get a map) I don't know what else to call that but religion.

I'm not giving more weight to anything. I've pointed you in the right direction but I don't think even internal tools from SpaceX would change your mind even though geography should be enough.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-10-07 02:39:50+00:00
> We saw (an admittedly razor-thin) majority in the first half of Biden's term

Two (2) years.

> more solid majority in the first half of Obama's first term.

Two (2) years and one (1) month out of Obama's Eight (8) years. Okay.

> It may feel skewed in favor of Republican majorities across the executive and legislative branches due to GWB having it for 6 years

Four (4) years, One (1) month total majority TOTAL in the past Twenty-Four (24) years.
by hedora | 2025-10-07 02:41:31+00:00
UI engineers need to be held legally responsible for false alarms like this.

My older car regularly hallucinates an incoming frontend collision and takes over the speedometer with a flashing red/black screen.

The new one (Kia) overrides the steering and forces the car to depart the lane (usually over double yellow lines).

If the alert regularly produces false positives then such behavior (and the behaviors of these EMRs) should open the vendor to civil and criminal liability. The courts should just assume the behavior will lead to loss of life, in the same way as discharging a firearm randomly in the city might.

It probably makes sense to have a short grace period to push a patch. Maybe one week after 0.1% of users complain?
by totallymike | 2025-10-07 02:41:35+00:00
I dismay at the possibility of this happening. What’s the point of an internet at all if one company controls, filters, and governs our entire usage of it?

I understand an argument can be made that google is doing similar, but at least you can still search and end up on an actual site, rather than just play telephone via chatgpt. This concept is horrifying for so many reasons.
by sghiassy | 2025-10-07 02:41:39+00:00
We still live in the shadow of the Temperance movement, where alcohol was demonized and liver disease became its symbol. But modern science shows that sugary drinks, even fruit juice, can cause the same liver issues once blamed solely on alcohol.

Maybe the real takeaway isn’t “avoid alcohol,” but “understand what harms the liver.” We’ve moralized one source of damage while ignoring others.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-07 02:41:48+00:00
Labor protections in America is a joke.

A friend had a rough pregnancy, got fired. You can try and sue but it's expensive/stressful and you'll probably lose.

Mom and the kid are both fine years later.

Had a co worker who only took a single day off for his daughters birth as the company didn't offer any PAID family leave.
by thingortwo | 2025-10-07 02:41:51+00:00
How many expenses do you really have on a daily basis that they are too much to track? I don't like a spreadsheet for this since they have bad input UX on phones. I use a custom app I built and even though it is manual I don't really feel it since I have optimized the UX for n=1 and it just becomes a habit. I tried all these other automatic tracking apps like monarch money,mint,YNAB et al but they are just not real-time enough for me and don't keep me in touch as much, also the obvious data lock. Maybe I'll make it public someday but I haven't mostly because the common sentiment online is 'manual tracking is too much work' when it really isn't if you do it as you go vs all at once at the end of month etc.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 02:42:24+00:00
>steal tax money

I just realized you're trolling.

Have a great day.

>It's very hard to find positive reviews that haven't been paid for.

You could try contacting people in places where it's pretty much the main/a major provider.

Kiribati, Galapagos, Iqaluit, Ukraine, Pikangikum, Vanuatu, Falklands
by fatihpense | 2025-10-07 02:43:03+00:00
From the article: "The arm and hand reliefs on the T-shaped pillars found in and around Göbekli Tepe have long reinforced the idea that these stones symbolized humans. This new find at Karahan Tepe, the first to feature a human face carved into a T-shaped pillar, is considered a turning point in Neolithic research."
by golem14 | 2025-10-07 02:43:15+00:00
Just anecdotal, but I visited Shanghai this summer and toured a top clinic - from my perspective, their standard of care is on par with, if not better, than many large (and quite good) groups like Sutter Health or Straub. The doctors there were educated in the U.S. and Germany (Massachusetts and Munich if memory serves).

Plus, if you can wait, treatment is nearly free, but you can get same day service for many procedures, like overnight ecg, for say $100 -$200.
by sbierwagen | 2025-10-07 02:43:59+00:00
>This Monday, I moderated a panel in San Francisco with engineers and ML leads from Uber, WisdomAI, EvenUp, and Datastrato. The event, Beyond the Prompt, drew 600+ registrants, mostly founders, engineers, and early AI product builders.

>We weren’t there to rehash prompt engineering tips.

>We talked about context engineering, inference stack design, and what it takes to scale agentic systems inside enterprise environments. If “prompting” is the tip of the iceberg, this panel dove into the cold, complex mass underneath: context selection, semantic layers, memory orchestration, governance, and multi-model routing.

I bet those four people love that the moderator took a couple notes and then asked ChatGPT to write a blog post.

As always, the number one tell of LLM output, besides the tone, is that by default it will never include links in the body of the post.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-07 02:44:38+00:00
Not sure I understand your analogy; Neither heroin nor codeine is a root cause of problems arising from the other.

Greed (in a generous def of the word, as in the wanting/desire of as much of the thing as possible [money in this case] quickly and/or easily despite the cost) is a root cause of many of the issues people create for themselves with gambling.
by fragmede | 2025-10-07 02:45:22+00:00
> certainly not a full tank though

I wonder how much you couldn't though. Obviously you'd need to retool the whole thing, and the cannon is a bit more complicated than simply a metal cylinder, but just how much more complicated? The reloading system is probably the most complex after of the jet turbine that powers those things.

My other question is, with gigacasting, how much better could a Tesla factory build an M1 Abrams compared to a traditional automakers?
by ponooqjoqo | 2025-10-07 02:45:30+00:00
Browsers _should_ have been set up to allow per-site toggling of the dark mode CSS preference, much like how they allow per-site zooming.

Configuring the whole browser to have a light theme is the wrong solution - some websites look better in dark mode and some look better in light mode. Also, the browser setting also affects the UI of the browser itself, not just website contents.

These are of course solvable problems, but the most obvious and trivial way to handle this is just to store an extra flag per-website in the same place as the zoom preference.
by kazinator | 2025-10-07 02:45:53+00:00
Abscond is really jut a crude hack: it's exactly like a dynamic block return in that it has a block symbol as its target. It finds the dynamic exist point by walking the dynamic frames looking for the block type with the right symbol. Only when it finds it, it simply jumps there without doing any unwinding.

Jumping without unwinding is more primitive than with; e.g. C setjmp/lonjmp is more primitive than exceptions, right?

It required a shift in attitude: in a Lisp with unwind-protect, we regard the unwinding as a Holy Cow. A dynamic control transfer guarantees that all unwinds are performed on penalty of the run-time implementor being struck by lightning.

I had to convince myself that this heresy was beneficial.

It's like threads. When the system switches from one thread to another, it doesn't unwind the resources of the thread left behind! With continuations, you can simulate coroutines, and as you go between them, you can't be unwinding and re-establishing resources. Not all resources can work that way. E.g. say there is a local variable holding a socket connection. You don't want to tear down and re-connect.

Stuff has to stay intact.

So how do you use the "abscond"? For instance to implement yield. yield works with obtain. obtain creates a dynamic block that is captured as a function. That function returns the yielded items. To continue the computation in the obtain block, you call the function again, to step it to the next yield. You can pass it an argument, which pops out of its yield call.

This yield back and forth is facilitated by the "abscond" dynamic control transfers which don't unwind.

The neat thing is that if, say, the yield process sis a recursive function with unwind protects, they all happen in its context undisturbed by the yield exchanges; it's like an exchange of virtual particles through a quantum tunnel.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-07 02:47:22+00:00
It's funny that what the author identifies as "the reality check":

Here’s the reality check: One panelist mentioned that 95% of AI agent deployments fail in production. Not because the models aren’t smart enough, but because the scaffolding around them, context engineering, security, memory design, isn’t there yet.

Could be a reasonable definition of "understanding the problem to solve."

In other words, everything identified as what "the scaffolding" needs is what qualified people provide when delivering solutions to problems people want solved.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 02:47:43+00:00
> It's well established these oxides lead to degradation of the ozone layer, are you disputing that fact?

“The ozone layer is mainly found in the lower portion of the stratosphere, from approximately 15 to 35 kilometers (9 to 22 mi) above Earth” [1]. Satellites break up around 75 km AGL [2], with most burning up “between 60 and 80 kilometers (37–50 miles)” [3].

So Idk! I don’t think anyone else does—these seem to be novel nanoparticles. We need to study it. If it’s a problem, that’s solvable—carbon composite satellite structuring could use funding. What we can’t do is just assume it’s terrible because items novel because that basically precludes space flight.

> Do you always have a meltdown whenever someone brings up something that upsets your worldview?

Happy to unflag once this unnecessary bit is removed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer

[2] https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Clean_Space/Space_debris_fe...

[3] https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Can-We-Solve-the...
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-07 02:48:17+00:00
I think the default styles are OK; I do not think they are so bad as some people say. However, the thing I would add (for web pages that have pictures) would be:

img { max-width: 100%; }

(which is one of the things mentioned in that article; it probably would make sense for videos and SVG as well like they mention.) But, if you don't like them, the user should be allowed to customize them. In case this causes problems with web pages that use different styles that interfere with them, then hopefully an attribute could be added to specify that the user's CSS should be used instead of this one (and in some cases the browser might be able to decide this automatically for when the web page does not specify this attribute, e.g. if the styles are only associated with media queries and HTML element names rather than IDs, classes, etc). The user could still override this to disable the web page's CSS entirely if desired, but this would make it possible to specify that the web page's CSS is not needed for styling classes and other more complicated stuff within the specific web page or web app. (If the user does not define their own CSS, then it would use that defined in the web page (or the defaults if there is no CSS in the web page; the defaults probably should be changed to support the light/dark scheme properly for web pages that lack CSS, though), and the hypothetical attribute that I mentioned would be ignored.)
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-10-07 02:48:27+00:00
As others have stated here, I think there’s this constant push for features and not enough investment in improving reliability, observability, scalability. Of course, there is a lot of context required to make actual conclusions.

At many large companies, there is an incentive to create systems that are as complicated as possible. A side effect of that is gaps in what’s actually observable. This manifests itself in shitty user experiences with partially loading pages and widgets or widgets that take multiple times longer to load than other parts of the page.

All this is a direct result of large company barriers in communication, crossing between stacks with no single vertical observability solution. At medium sized companies (<9000), it begins to fall apart. A single user request has dozens of internal hops to arrive at the final API and product managers wonder why a response takes several seconds.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-10-07 02:49:08+00:00
I don't think this is the author's intent, but to whomever it may help.

There will always be someone more "out there" than you. Traveling longer, with less, doing more, going farther. It's tempting to follow these people or to compare yourself to them.

I've also met people who are equally adventurous, equally worldly who travel in smaller chunks (2 weeks to 1 month then back home to recharge).

Go out there and see the world. Try to slow down as much as you can and don't focus on seeing "everything" but instead on doing things that are meaningful to you.

Most importantantly don't feel like you need "more time" to make it worthwhile. Just go!
by sanj | 2025-10-07 02:49:18+00:00
Hard disagree.

At least in my domains, the "battle-tested" UX is a direct replication of underlying data structures and database tables.

What chat gives you access to is a non-structured input that a clever coder can then sufficiently structure to create a vector database query.

Natural language turns out to be far more flexible and nuanced interface than walls of checkboxes.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 02:49:23+00:00
You can't get service to them on Starlink without lasers.

I gave you more than one link. I gave you an email to a prof.

I started working at a Telco at 13 and got my CCNA there ages ago within a summer break.

You've demonstrated a lack of understanding of basic geography.

Go get your money back from your tutors.
by hiisukun | 2025-10-07 02:50:05+00:00
I view this a little like those Nigerian prince email scams. True or not, once upon a time I heard that they deliberately did not fix the obvious spelling and grammatical errors in the scam emails -- they acted as an excellent first pass filter to exclude scam effort against targets who wouldn't fall for it anyway.

When Microsoft allows local accounts via more complicated loopholes, or activation via massgrave, or the removal of bloat/ad components via scripts or cmdline processes -- they lose little. But what they can gain by having an account for all the 'regular' users is a share of that giant ad revenue pie mostly dominated by google (and more recently a few other companies) in the last 20 years. And if you bypass those processes anyway? Probably worth being filtered out to Microsoft: you likely install an ad blocker later, change your search engine, browser, et al.

Knowing what their users do, being their search gateway, their default AI system (eventually..) and generally having an eye on their whole user experience gives Microsoft a formidable profit line in the future. And maybe the present too, I don't know.

It is a distasteful feeling to have installed windows 95 (or win7 or whatever your favourite flavour) and then try and install windows 11. But for the majority of their customer base (corporate and residential) this isn't relevant.

N=1, but this week my family member asked for advice on a new laptop and their only specification was that it could not have windows on it. They don't have any Apple products but are happy to shift, or use Linux.
by trhway | 2025-10-07 02:50:13+00:00
That war frequently goes very low tech (kind of COTS :) - plastic bottle as stabilizers

https://youtu.be/dcsf5yuEHDY?t=69

https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/drone-dropped-anti-t...

On the second pipe you can also see small fan which probably arms the side attached detonator.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-07 02:50:18+00:00
On a semi-related note, there was recently a discussion[1] on the F3 file format, which also allows for format-aware compression by embedding the decompressor code as WASM. Though the main motivation for F3 was future compatibility, it does allow for bespoke compression algorithms.

This takes a very different approach, and wouldn't require a full WASM runtime. Though it does have the SDDL compiler and runtime, though I assume it's a lighter dependency.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759 F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf] (125 comments)