MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s20n | 2025-10-29 03:30:51+00:00
> It is interesting though how this same conversation doesn't exist in the same way in other areas of computing like video game consoles

Yes, there needs to be a lot more uproar for these cases as well. One of the most appalling cases is that of macOS. To distribute your app (as a .dmg for instance), you need to sign up and pay for a Developer ID, sign the app with a Developer ID certificate and then notarize it, EVEN if you don't intend to use their App Store.
by veqq | 2025-10-29 03:31:02+00:00
Old English and Old Norse are mutually intelligible (especially after you realize the precise correspondences like un- = o-). Gunnlaugs Saga explicitly says the English and Norse are of one tongue and features a Norse poet singing to an English king. As another example, Ohthere of Hålogaland (Norway) visited King Alfred's 9th century English court and simply spoke to them in his own language:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170530232902/https://blogs.bl....

> Whoever preserved this story was also curious about Ohthere’s descriptions of where the Angles had lived ‘before they came into this land’ (England). Members of Alfred's court remembered that their ancestors came from mainland Europe, and they wanted to learn more about the lands which they identified as their own places of origin.

The scribe explicitly wrote things like "he said krán which we call crein" showing they were speaking in their own languages. It's even clearer if you consider our standard Old English is West Saxon from 850 and our standard Old Norse is from 1250 in Iceland (more different than the Danish variety of most Scandinavians in England). At the same time point,they would have more similarities (8th century Danish had wír before w turned to v).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohthere_of_H%C3%A5logaland
by itissid | 2025-10-29 03:31:18+00:00
A pharmacist once told me that big insurance companies have call centers out in other countries whose job it is to call everyone who has medication approved and any one with misleading line of questioning:"Did you get or approve medication worth $$$$$$..?".

Calling 100's of people Ofc the find one poor guy never heard of such a sum denies this kind of line of questioning. Then the insurance company uses this to deny all claims made by the pharmacy for ALL their patients for that given drug/medication.

The pharmacist told me the mountain of documentary evidence they have to collect to rebut these denials is very large. Once a customer at their pharmacy said he did not want to sign off on a paper that he got a medication, the pharmacist got the customer's ok though to video record his consent, just so he does not have to deal with this mess.

He also mentioned to me that a pharmacist should NEVER pay any kind of reimbursement to an insurance company on a claim that was denied cause that somehow legally can let the insurance company deny future claims. Not entirely sure what exact legal procedure allows them to do that.
by johnthedebs | 2025-10-29 03:31:58+00:00
I'll reply here in good faith: I just don't see how you connect those dots, or why this has anything to do with gender.

> women have asserted themselves in the workforce

Agree.

> young women being the creators of mass culture for their generation

Citation(s) needed. I've never heard an argument for this or even seen someone suggest it before.

> partial driver for why everyone is so much less independent

Even if we take your previous statements as true, what does that have to do with peoples' independence?

To me (and my own confirmation bias pet issue), it seems much more likely that having recordings and visible online identities the way we do now with smartphones, ever present cameras, and social media causes people to think a lot more about how they're perceived by others.

And, the flip side, spending so much time seeing other people via tv, online videos, social media, etc constantly reinforces what "normal" behavior looks like.

People are also so absorbed in modern media that they just do way less interesting stuff overall imo.
by Retric | 2025-10-29 03:32:23+00:00
That’s actually roughly the price range to manufacture normal shoes. “The average production cost of a single pair of shoes ranges between $10 and $50. This includes materials, labor, and overhead.” https://hevashoeinc.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-manufacture...

What you actually pay is a large multiple of that covering the taxes, shipping, sales channel, marketing, etc.
by superice | 2025-10-29 03:32:27+00:00
To provide a European/Dutch perspective: I’m pretty sure that as a small employer myself, I am very much disallowed from using those mechanisms to actually inspect what employees are doing. Automated threat/virus scanning may be a legal gray zone, but monitoring-by-default is very much illegal, and there have been plenty of court cases about this. It is treated similarly to logging and reading all email, Slack messages, constantly screenrecording, or putting security cameras aimed at employees all day long. There may be exceptions for if specific fraud or abuse is suspected, but burden of proof is on the employer and just monitoring everyone is not justifiable even when working with sensitive data or goods.

So to echo a sister comment: while sadly it is common in some jurisdictions, it is definitely not normal.
by koolala | 2025-10-29 03:32:30+00:00
I'm just not sure people have been referring to that method when saying 'sideloading' and Google didn't mention sideloading specifically there.

This is what they say in the quote this article is about:

"Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android?

Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away. Our new developer identity requirements are designed to protect users and developers from bad actors, not to limit choice. We want to make sure that if you download an app, it’s truly from the developer it claims to be published from, regardless of where you get the app. Verified developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or through any app store they prefer."

In this paragraph they don't mention ABD at all similar to how in your paragraph they don't mention sideloading.
by mtud | 2025-10-29 03:33:25+00:00
> During the TLS handshake, the client tells the server which treeheads it has.

I don’t love the idea of giving every server I connect to via TLS the ability to fingerprint me by how recently (or not) I’ve fetched MTC treeheads. Even worse if this is in client hello, where anyone on the network path can view it either per connection or for my DoH requests to bootstrap encrypted client hello.
by _the_inflator | 2025-10-29 03:33:51+00:00
I side with you. The more you know, the more you discover what you don’t know.

Every attempt to consider the extremely complex dynamics of human biology as a pure state machine, like with Pascal, deterministic of your know all the factors, is simplification and can safely be rejected as hypotheses.

Hormons, age, sex, weight, food, aging, sun, environmental, epigenetic changes, body composition, activity level, infections, medication all play a role, even galenic.
by rawgabbit | 2025-10-29 03:34:47+00:00
The whole GPA thing never made sense to me. Did you grasp the material? You should get a diploma. Were you extraordinary academically? You should get a diploma with magna cum laude (high praise). Were you a top student and your peers voted you best mate / leader? You should get a diploma with summa cum laude (highest praise). That should be it.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-29 03:35:26+00:00
> There isn’t an addictive property like other abused drugs,

This is incorrect. Testosterone can be acutely rewarding and reinforcing, especially at high doses used by people seeking these effects.

Seeking testosterone does not indicate body dysmorphia. People want it (or think they want it) for numerous reasons, from getting stronger to feeling “alpha” to thinking it will give them an edge.

It’s also very dependence inducing because it shuts down physical production, so the person needs to continue taking it just to get back to baseline after using it for a while. At my very first job one of my coworkers got ahold of some testosterone gel and used it for several months until he ran out and couldn’t get any more. I clearly remember how bad he felt while going through withdrawals and rebound for months. I left before he fully recovered.
by wtallis | 2025-10-29 03:35:27+00:00
The right tradeoff for compression ratio can change with just a few years of technological progress, or even quicker if it's a half-assed port from console to a high-end PC. There are similar issues for a game's decision of how many threads to spawn based on the CPU's core count. The developer's assumptions may not have been right to begin with, and even if they were, they're not likely to stay right for long.
by Lucian6 | 2025-10-29 03:36:12+00:00
I've run into similar interference issues when building real-time audio processing systems. The AirPods Pro's use of Bluetooth 5.3 in the 2.4GHz band makes them particularly susceptible to Wi-Fi interference, especially on planes where you have dozens of devices competing in a metal tube.

One mitigation strategy we found effective was implementing dynamic frequency hopping with adaptive channel selection. By monitoring RSSI levels and packet loss rates across different channels (typically seeing -85 to -95 dBm on crowded channels vs -65 to -75 dBm on clear ones), we could proactively switch to less congested frequencies. This reduced dropout rates by about 70% in high-interference environments.

The real challenge is balancing frequency agility with audio latency - each hop adds ~2-3ms of overhead. Has anyone experimented with using the 5GHz band for wireless audio? The higher frequency would mean more attenuation but potentially much less interference.
by lovelearning | 2025-10-29 03:36:12+00:00
The radio access network (RAN) is all the RF part of a mobile network: towers, base stations, the signals between our phones and the towers, phone-to-satellite comms (non-terrestrial network or NTN).

AI-RAN uses AI/ML for adaptive behaviors and optimizations in all these links.

For example, fine-grained RF and modulation details, called the channel state information (CSI), is constantly being exchanged between a phone and a base station. The volume of information creates transmission latencies. Using autoencoder models, this information can be semantically compressed to reduce its volume and decoded with high fidelity on the other side.

That's just one example. In the upcoming 6G, RAN will be "AI-native", using AI/ML everywhere. The standards may require AI accelerator chips in most base stations, NTN satellites, phones, and other elements.
by nl | 2025-10-29 03:36:42+00:00
Note that most tests where they actually try to pass the Turing Test (as opposed to being a useful chatbot) they do things like prompt it with a personality etc.

eg: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10907317/

It's widely accepted that is has been passed. Eg Wikipeida:

> Since the mid-2020s, several large language models such as ChatGPT have passed modern, rigorous variants of the Turing test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
by sussmannbaka | 2025-10-29 03:36:46+00:00
Every frog will be boiled. Remember this when you argue “oh but it will still be possible to sideload via adb” “oh but you can turn it off” “oh but you only need it on the first run” “at least they don’t…”

You won’t be able to. It will be mandatory. They will do it. If you give these companies an inch, they’ll take a mile.

The moment they don’t actively work entirely aligned with your interests, they work against you.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-29 03:37:14+00:00
> I've never torrented anything and have been wary that doing anything with the Tor project on my not-so-private computer just sends up a beacon asking me to be investigated. I don't do anything illegal or plan to, but being investigated alone is enough of a deterrent.

Tor is not illegal. Usage of Tor is not illegal. If you have such fears you are either unreasonably paranoid in this regard or you are correct in your fears and you are already living in a totalitarian surveillance state that uses fear and intimidation to deny you your rights and freedoms.

I live in Germany and torrent all day (with a VPN), use tor all day and shitpost on the internet as much as time permits. I will not yield in that regard and neither should you.

> 1. If you're threat model is surveillance state, are things like this helpful or harmful?

It depends. The most useful usage for tor is to work around blocks and nation state firewalls. My traffic almost universally exits in Germany or the Netherlands where you can access any website you want from. If you life in china you might not be able to visit all the sites you want, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

> 2. If you need a tool like this, what's the best way to obtain/install this anonymously? Depends: Do you have access to some form of internet connection thats not directly linked to your identity? Because downloading and using tor from your home connection if you are worried about "sending a beacon" really is pointless. A public wifi is propably the easiest way to get it.
by xKingfisher | 2025-10-29 03:37:49+00:00
I think a distinction can be made between bad taste and different tastes.

One of the greatest developers I've worked with, who I learned a lot from and respect immensely, has extremely different tastes in software from me. To the point where I wouldn't say I think he has good taste.

But, his work still has a distinct style and intention. I can tell anytime I come across libraries he had a hand in. I understand what the code is doing and why is is correct, even when I disagree with it.

And I think that is what is important. When working with more junior people, I'll ask them why they did things a certain way and will generally me be with a "well, idk" of some variant of path dependence.

I think developing that intentionality as a developer is important. Which does come with some amount of aesthetic, and I think taste is a defensible metaphor.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 03:38:21+00:00
Distinctive style is actually bad. You want your code to be uniform, readers should not be unable to tell who wrote what.

Otherwise you run into the danger of having parts that are peculiar and or obscure to everyone except the one who wrote them. That's if you are lucky, if you are unlucky the person who wrote them won't be able to decode them either.
by kamaal | 2025-10-29 03:38:23+00:00
>>It’s the Terry-Gilliam-level of absurdity of the billing process. Absolutely no one will tell you how much things are, and when you ask, they sass you that it is a ridiculous question.

Here in India when my dad underwent bypass surgery, I checked the bills the breakdown is insane. This how a charge goes, Nurse comes to see you, so she wears a pair of gloves, that gloves is billed. And often something like 10x the price those are available in the regular pharmacy. Each and everything is billed, and you would be surprised just how many things like these can be be billed.

>>You’ll be asked to take a diagnostic not knowing whether it will cost $10 or $15000 . Even if you try to be responsible and call the provider (who isn’t your doctor, clinic, or hospital ) – they won’t be able to tell you.

Often some 'visiting doctor' comes to see you. Like in the case of my dad we were billed for a diabetic consultation, despite clearly telling them he wasn't diabetic, even more so, the same doctor came in the day before and had to told the same. We didn't need it. But you will see they bill you like 2000 rupees just for the person to enter the room say 'Hi' and exit.

>>The only thing I’m sure of is that there has to be tremendous amounts of incidental and deliberate corruption . Auditing a single patient’s billing is impossible – so a population’s worth is a goldmine .

In these situations most people are so stressed and anxious often people just have no mental bandwidth to fight side battles.

Its really a corrupt system to the core, and I don't see hospitals and doctors giving all this up anytime soon. Or even ever.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-29 03:38:25+00:00
It seems naive to expect a product by a company that desperately needs a lot of revenue to cover even a tiny part of investor money that it burned—where said product offers unprecedented opportunity to productize users in ways never possible before, and said company has previously demonstrated its disregard for ethics—to represent user’s interests.

It’s unlikely LLM operators can break even by charging per use, and it should be expected that they’ll race to capture the market by offering “free” products that in reality are ad serving machines, a time-tested business model that has served Meta and friends very well. The fact that Atlas browser is (and they don’t even hide it) a way to work around usage limits of ChatGPT should ring alarm bells.
by jancsika | 2025-10-29 03:38:34+00:00
> But wait, shouldn’t we be drowning in new, groundbreaking art?

We are.

I just watched a short Youtube clip of Corey Henry on organ accompanying a preacher's sermon. It's fucking insane-- he's doing two-handed Liszt-inspired cadenzas while the preacher is freely changing keys. I've never heard anything like it.

Also, some weirdo did what appears to be an accurate scrolling transcription that accompanies the clip.

Now Youtube is recommending a bunch more clips with scrolling transcriptions of out-of-this-world jazz performers doing deviant things.

Here's one now of Benny Benack scat-singing, showing an unbelievable vocal range. Now he's yelling the name "Phil Woods" as he quotes a fragment from Phil Woods' solo on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are."

Youtube will keep suggesting these things at me literally until I have to go eat food to survive. And that's just the scrolling transcriptions of deviant jazz solos.

In short, author is so wrong he thinks he's right.

Edit: clarification
by runako | 2025-10-29 03:38:56+00:00
> quick and responsive

This is kind of surprising, because those are precisely the ways I would say that a Web search is better than ChatGPT. Google is generally sub second to get to results, and quite frequently either page 1 or 2 will have some relevant results.

With ChatGPT, I get to watch as it processes for an unpredictable amount of time, then I get to watch it "type".

> ads free

Free of ads where ChatGPT was paid to deliver them. Because it was trained on the public Internet, it is full of advertising content.

Update: Example query I just did for "apartment Seville". Google completed in under a second. All the results above the fold are organic, with sponsored way down. Notably the results include purchase, long-term and vacation rental sites. The first 3 are listing sites. There's an interactive map in case I know where I want to go; apartments on the map include links to their websites. To see more links, I click "Next."

ChatGPT (MacOS native app) took ~9 seconds and recommended a single agency, to which it does not link. Below that, it has bullet points that link to some relevant sites, but the links do not include vacation rentals. There are 4 links to apartment sites, plus a link to a Guardian article about Seville cracking down on illegal vacation rentals. To see more links, I type a request to see more.

For all the talk about Google burying the organic links under a flood of ads, ChatGPT shows me far fewer links. As a person who happily pays for and uses ChatGPT daily, I think it's smart to be honest about its strengths and shortcomings.
Show HN: WayOfThat, Automatically detect and place fields and checkboxes on PDFs
by ChanceOfficial | 2025-10-29 03:40:42+00:00
I built WayOfThat as a tool for my own work as a realtor. Mainly to speed up setting up and sending documents with tons of fields.

One of my listing forms has over 600 unique fields, and filling them manually was painful. So, naturally, I spent even more time building something to automate it. WayOfThat automatically detects and maps out form fields and checkboxes from PDF documents.

It works like a standard document signer; upload docs, place fields, send for signature, but the MVP is what makes it different.

MVP: a trained image detection model built on 100k+ documents that can automatically set up around 95% of document fields, dramatically speeding up the “place fields” step of the process.

Right now, it can take almost any PDF, detect its fields, and either export a fillable version or prepare it for signing. Next up: document workflows and integrations with automation tools.
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-29 03:41:08+00:00
You don’t need to hand‑write serializer code. In typed languages you just define your class or struct as usual; in dynamic languages you can use type hints.

When running in compatible mode, Fory automatically derives a compact schema from those definitions at runtime time and sends it along to peers for the first time serialization. That way, both sides know the structure without needing a separate schema file.

The idea is to make cross‑language exchange work out‑of‑the‑box, while still allowing teams to add an explicit IDL later if they want a single source of truth.
by rockskon | 2025-10-29 03:42:09+00:00
There's also the issue of gatekeepers squashing deviance. Payment processors killing payments to various legal adult websits. Information-discovery gatekeepers squashing discoverability of deviant material. Social media....has had a dual affect of being subject to the gatekeeper's restrictions and the risk of self-appointed moral busybodies searching for deviant content to threaten peoples' lives/livelihoods over.

Cultural gatekeepers are able to exert influence over more people now than they have ever had before in human history. In many cases the ability to be deviant is becoming more difficult to even attempt.
by hopelite | 2025-10-29 03:43:57+00:00
I find it interesting you describe the issue like that. I had my airpod pro 1st gens go out on me in a way that was very similar to that, with the popping noises as you walk and move around. I figured out that when I put them in “normal mode” i.e., totally disabling the noise cancellation microphone, it mostly went away. I just figured something had happened to/with the external microphones and/or the noise cancellation processing was not happening correctly. It was basically impossible to test this theory I had, but I wondered if it was an update that introduced a bug.

I can’t recall now at this point, but I do recall the feeling that the different ways I played with and tested to understand the cause and symptoms of the noise, left me with a feeling that it was not a physical/hardware issue.

I suspect Apple even knows, with as many problems they’ve had with the AirPod pros; but that’s another story… when they had to replace mine one bud at a time, about 6 complete sets, i.e., over about 10 replacements or so… during the pandemic nonsense.
by silexia | 2025-10-29 03:44:27+00:00
People blame insurance, but insurance is just a willing punching dummy. Insurance just charges a percentage over the base costs. This is why every president who has tried insurance reform has failed. The guilty are the hospitals and the American Medical Association, which limits seats of new doctors in the USA. It is the strongest trade union on the planet, making millions for it's members and using the excuse of "safety" to try to pull the wool over your eyes.
by NaOH | 2025-10-29 03:45:14+00:00
People quickly become accustomed to common occurrences that are not threatening (like extreme weather events). Apollo 8 was the first time humans reached the moon, just orbiting it. Sixteen months later, in a time with much less media and information than we have now, US TV networks chose not to broadcast an en-route feed for Apollo 13 because this was no longer seen as interesting. We often seem spoiled, we often seem prone to complaining, and we often seem more enamored with something new. Yet there are so many remarkable things we take for granted.