MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acdha | 2025-10-02 18:59:32+00:00
If this was correct, you wouldn’t be able to read those messages with remote content loading disabled or when in airplane mode. It’s pretty uncommon for me to get messages where that’s the case, and those are almost always marketing spam so, as they say, nothing of value is lost.

Apple’s private loading feature also shows how that could be fixed: the mail server can retrieve the referenced content once and save it so you’d always know what was served at the time the message was sent.
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-02 18:59:41+00:00
My favorite part of this phenomenon is every company that interviews developers on data structures and algorithms, then puts out a calculator app that takes half a gigabyte of storage and nearly as much RAM to run.

I have not had to use Windows in ages but every time I touch it I am amazed at the fact that it takes like 10-15GB for a bare installation of the latest version, while it does about the same amount of work as XP was able to do in under 1GB. Yes I am aware assets are a thing but has usability increased as a result of larger assets?
by BoxFour | 2025-10-02 18:59:42+00:00
Sure, but these are all true of middle-class employees as well:

1) Many middle-class families rent and their landlords aren’t necessarily any more understanding.

2) Not to be too political, but many middle-class employees don’t enjoy a friendly relationship with police either and similarly can easily “fail”.

If your argument is that being wealthy affords you a lot of leeway to fail in life, I mostly agree (though again, there are plenty of minority groups who would disagree that wealth always affords that privilege), but “middle class” encompasses a very wide swath of people which this doesn’t apply to. Many middle-class employees in the US are a paycheck or two away from being pretty destitute.

Maybe you meant “professional” or “upper class” instead?
by legitster | 2025-10-02 18:59:47+00:00
My dad has watched the NBC nightly news every day for 30+ years.

It's amazing how many of the national headlines can be condensed down into 22 minutes when you remove all of the talking heads, reactions, and noise.

Is their coverage perfect? Does it go into detail? Absolutely not. But in the long run average it's remarkable how informed you can stay without filling your head without the extra nonsense.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-02 19:00:14+00:00
> Congress could also simply impeach the President again and this time remove him from office for such nonsense.

It's not as simple in that case because the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate to remove, which cannot be overridden without an amendment. The nation is split pretty much 50/50 not 60/40, so a 50 vote threshold is easier to achieve.
by thegrim33 | 2025-10-02 19:00:22+00:00
>>the NY Times is much more conservative now

Well, here's the current, at this moment, nytimes front page stories:

- Negative story about Trump - Negative story about Trump's immigration policy - FUD story about how bad division has become (ironic) - Negative story about Trump - Negative story about Trump / energy department - Negative story about Trump's healthcare plans .. stopped scrolling at this point when I reach a slew of Israel headlines

Yup, checks out, it's definitely conservative. With all those anti-trump, anti-conservative stories on the front page every single day of the year, without fail. I'm sure if I offered you $10,000 to reply with a single pro-conservative headline that they've published in the last 10 years you could surely cash in on that bet, you know, with how pro-conservative they are now. Should be a sure bet.
by LUmBULtERA | 2025-10-02 19:00:53+00:00
That paper, which follows 106 people born in Denmark from 1975 and 1979, says there may be correlation coefficients of 0.48 or 0.50 for IQ groupings between ages (1) 4 and (2) 14 and 44 years. 0.48^2 is 23%, 0.5^2=25%, so if you accept everything else about this, this would mean 23%-25% of variance in the older years may be explained by IQ at 4... that strikes me as not enough to make your conclusions ("IQ is pretty stable from preschool onward) even if the rest of the study is concluded to be accurate.
by tguvot | 2025-10-02 19:01:41+00:00
> A senior COGAT official told a briefing in early September that 27% of the trucks entering Gaza are UN vehicles, claiming it was “a lie” that the UN had brought in 600 aid trucks a day before the war.

un own statistics site https://www.ochaopt.org/data/crossings

food tracks fluctuate between 2000 and 3000 a month prior to oct 7th. a few more dozens of of tracks with "non-edible consumables" and "medical supplies". rest of tracks are construction materials

"farm land" part, they forgot to mention that gaza was always totally dependent on imported food. farmland iirc provides only few percent of calories required in gaza. live stock is also sustained by imported feed
by pedro_caetano | 2025-10-02 19:01:42+00:00
> I feel truly lucky to have been born into a time of modern medicine.

Well it really depends on how you look at it...

I would argue that the truly 'modern' aspect of cataract surgery is the IOL manufacturing and implantation image-guided systems.

I have a massive respect for Ophthalmic surgeons but worth mentioning (most) current cataract surgeries still imply:

1. A manual incision (read stabbing you with a handheld scalpel)

2. Capsulorhexis (manually open the lens capsule)

3. Using a handheld ultrasonic 'jackhammer' to destroy the old lens and quite literally suck it out, working in a foggy environment with limited depth perception in a tiny chamber right next to a thin film behind the lens.

4. Finally then implanting the new IOL lens.

So with so much of 'modern' surgery still depending on Human Perception and Human submilimiter dexterity, with surgeons who are likely doing 16 plus surgeries a day. It is truly a remarkable statistic that only 5% of Cataract surgeries suffer complications.

And if you think the odds are against surgeons in Cataract surgery wait until you read up on retinal surgery, then it really drives the point home of how insanely skilled Ophthalmic surgeons are.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-10-02 19:01:52+00:00
My country hosted the PLO in the 80s and was almost outcast by the rest of the Arab world.

Harboring them was seen by some people as an indirect support to Israeli efforts to push Palestinians out and take over their land.

To this day, any talk about allowing Palestinians to move en masse out of their territory, even as refugees, is at best a very controversial move.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 19:02:10+00:00
A key part here is that your advice to your customer is confidential. They simply should not release it unless it is under your letter of non-reliance. That said, yes, scammers are - by far - the most aggressive (they know they're scammers, after all, and you are between them and their goal, which is to get funded, not to provide a product or a service) but it is up to your customers to hold the line there. Weak customers may end up being intimidated, that can be an issue.
by oofbey | 2025-10-02 19:02:13+00:00
The facts don’t line up with your concerns. Amazon announced prime air in what 2013 IIRC. Now 12 years later they have FAA approval for a small number of test flights. Exactly so they can slowly discover problems like this and fix them. Every safety critical system in the world is iteratively refined based on real world learnings about mistakes - mistakes made after careful design to avoid them. It’s just really really hard.
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-10-02 19:02:18+00:00
Makes me think of notices around adult clubs I've seen such as:

"CONSENT: A clear and unambiguous agreement, expressed outwardly through mutually understandable words or actions, to engage in a particular activity. Consent can be withdrawn by either party at any point."

and

"No means No"

What I'm about to say is strongly worded and I understand not a _perfect_ analogy by any means. However, it does sum up my feelings on this issue.

If Person A makes repeated unwanted advances towards Person B, we have words to describe that. But if Person A, a company, makes repeated unwanted advances towards Person B we call that business.
by elvisloops | 2025-10-02 19:02:20+00:00
It's not optional because you don't know whether the people you are communicating with have it enabled. One person in a group chat with the feature enabled undoes the forward secrecy for everyone in the group chat.

A cloud backup eliminates any forward secrecy. It used to be that in Signal, when you have a message on your device and it is deleted (or a disappearing message disappears), then it is truly gone and can never be recovered. Now with backups, since the key that was used to encrypt it to the cloud remains on your device, it can be recovered even after the message is deleted or disappears.

The only way to "truly" opt-out is to, as you say, set a disappearing message timer for <24 hours.
by tzs | 2025-10-02 19:02:22+00:00
I think you are mixing up genocide and the acts that are committed in furtherance of genocide.

Genocide is legally a set of acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

So yes, what Hamas did on Oct 7 was not genocide, and similarly what Israel does on any given day in Gaza is not genocide. Rather they are both part of ongoing campaigns that arguably are genocide.
by monocasa | 2025-10-02 19:02:46+00:00
Because Netanyahu is already saying he wouldn't comply with the deal that he's already agreed to, and isn't treating it as a peace deal.

> While Netanyahu agreed to the plan on Monday, he already appears to be pushing back on several of its terms.

> In a video posted on X, he insisted that the IDF would would be able to remain in parts of the territory and that Israel would 'forcibly resist' the establishment of a Palestinian state.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15156091/Hamas-mili...
by naasking | 2025-10-02 19:03:07+00:00
QNX is allegedly a microkernel. Either the QNX POSIX API is itself another layer over the microkernel, or QNX cannot be a microkernel (hint: it's the former [1]).

People run L4 as a hypervisor only because they want access to the full Linux API. That's not really what you're talking about though, and there's nothing stopping a thin QNX-style POSIX compatibility layer as a user-space server or library as with QNX. The point being, the mature, widely deployed, robust and widely tested microkernel you're looking for already exists, so you just need to focus on the POSIX layer.

[1] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/8.0/com.qnx.doc.neutrino...
by 6stringmerc | 2025-10-02 19:03:21+00:00
WELCOME TO TANGENTIAL INJUSTICE!

Lost access to my phone, then went to Tarrant County jail awaiting trail (innocent until proven guilty but $250,000 bond where no humans or property harmed), and only was able to get a few G-M-@-1-L related accounts reset following a plea bargain to get back my freedom. Lots of corpses in that system. IYKYK.

What can you do? Ask nicely. Hope to escalate. First off though, think of Jack Handey...

If you lost your keys in lava, man, let 'em go, they're gone.
by MangoToupe | 2025-10-02 19:03:37+00:00
I don't disagree with this at all; but I do question if there's been a lot of research for what kind of resources even help "high-performing or moderately-performing people", let alone directing these resources to this demographic over autistic people who struggle to meet society's expectations for individual productivity.

"Advocacy" I could see more clearly, and I question how much of this "advocacy" is actually doing for "high-performing or moderately-performing" people.

IMO, the only way to really "resolve" the anxiety over prioritizing one group over another in either discourse or in resources in the long term is finding a way to integrate non-productive people into the daily lives of productive people. This seems difficult to imagine in today's America, where community is largely based around interests and careers that will self-select these people away.
by echelon | 2025-10-02 19:03:44+00:00
What did elasticsearch/redis do so wrong?

AWS and Google stole their only revenue source.

Those guys did all the work and AWS and Google get to collect a cool hundred million each quarter for doing next to nothing. And the original authors can't compete with that.

Are we all gonna go sign up to "Enterprise Redis Cloud" to support them? I don't think so. They have nothing left. They got picked dry.

If they're preserved a "no managed offerings" freedom for themselves, they could collect a few hundred million from each hyperscaler each quarter and put that directly into product. And their engineers would be extra nicely compensated.

But that's not how this story plays out. Big tech just takes things and finds out how to monetize them in ways they don't have to give back.

And we've been trained (by big tech?) to yell at the little guys that try to carve out a space for themselves.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 19:03:58+00:00
Solidly in middle age, three kids, plenty of other problems.

Still way easier than high school.

If next week the world went topsy-turvy and providing for my kids now (for some reason) depended on my attending and doing tolerably well at high school for the remaining decade or so that my kids are at home, no other options, but also I'm somehow relieved from all the hard parts of taking care of them and such... frankly, I dunno if I'd make it. High school was incredibly stressful (even after I threw myself a life line and deliberately stopped giving as much of a fuck about grades) and, quite literally, depressing, as in it gave me seasonal depression that took most of my 20s to stop cycling through, and recurring nightmares that didn't end until my early 30s, and I wasn't even bullied or anything. The whole institution's a mental-health catastrophe in a way that nothing I've seen in adult life compares to (perhaps prison does, I, fortunately, am not in a position to compare them)

(Separately, yes, I'm sure—very sure, having seen it up close enough times now—that old age health problems and the process of dying are going to be extremely, perhaps incomparably, bad, but I don't think that's what people were talking about when they said schools had to be shitty in order to prepare me for even-shittier adult life, I think they meant work and paying bills and parent-teacher conferences and stuff)
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-10-02 19:04:22+00:00
Your own emails are immutable, if you trust nobody's modified your copy.

But proving to others that an email hasn't been modified is a more difficult task. As I understand it, you'd need to retain DKIM keys for the signing server, to check that historical DKIM signatures verify correctly and the old message was not forged or altered.

Are DKIM signing keys issued in some kind of Certificate Transparency log, where you can verify whether a particular DKIM key existed for a particular domain in the past, in order to do this in general?
by antognini | 2025-10-02 19:04:27+00:00
I can't speak to OpenAI's specific setup, but a lot of startups will use a third party service like Carta to manage their cap table. So there's a website, you have an account, you can log in and it tells you that you have a grant of X shares that vests over Y months. You have to sign a form to accept the grant. There might be some option to do an 83b election if you have stock options rather than RSUs. But that's about it.
by munk-a | 2025-10-02 19:04:28+00:00
When it's a silly marketing email - sure. But you'd be surprised how hard you need to work as a sender to ensure that your content will render correctly if your business is actually to deliver information via email. Remote content is ignored by default by almost all modern email clients (since developers got sneaky and started using it for tracking) so a good email with rich content is usually embedding all that content into a multi-part email and leveraging static styling rules to provide as much formatting as possible.
by PStamatiou | 2025-10-02 19:04:49+00:00
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by tsimionescu | 2025-10-02 19:05:30+00:00
This equivocation is absurd. Literally every international aid organization is saying the same thing - and even a few Israeli ones are now recognizing the genocide in Gaza. The fact that Israel, far from sending "large amounts of aid", has, in fact, systematically blocked aid to Gaza was recognized even by the US government. The US even resorted to building a pier to send their own aid in.

Edit: looking at the claims more specifically, this one is particularly easy to debunk:

> even publish comic books with some rather overt antisemitic trope

The supposed "antisemitic trope" is an image of a person holding a cracked globe. The blog post implies that this is supposed to be an image representing the antisemitic "masters of the world" trope. In fact, the image represents the UN rapporteur himself looking at how the lack of international reaction to Israel's crimes has left a crack in the UN-led rules-based world order.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-02 19:05:33+00:00
> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity.

Did a ctrl+F for "PBM," and when that failed, "pharmacy" :P And yeah, the thing about drug manufacturers is that they _are_ ripping us off, but at least they do actually provide a useful service. PBMs, by contrast, inflate costs without any real benefit to consumers.
by firstplacelast | 2025-10-02 19:05:55+00:00
That's like saying smoke detectors should cost thousands of dollars bc they can save a 500K+ building. That's a poor way to look at value in these situations. It's cheap and easy to make, so it should be cheap to the consumer if there weren't all sorts of red-tape and opaque pricing schemes used as an excuse to prop of extortion.
by chickensong | 2025-10-02 19:06:06+00:00
IMHO, the higher up the ladder you go, the more important soft skills become. Communication is #1. More patience and empathy. More conservative views towards change and tech debt. More focus and rigor on correctness. More alignment with company goals and objectives. More willingness to say no. More effort on leading by example. Be humble, professional, and a pleasure to work with. Congrats!
by strongpigeon | 2025-10-02 19:06:26+00:00
Google's biggest problem in my opinion (and I'm saying that as an ex-googler) is that Google doesn't have a product culture. Google had the tech for something like ChatGPT for a long time, but couldn't come up with that product. Instead it had to rely on another company showing it the way and then copy them and try to out-engineer them...

I still think ultimately (and somewhat sadly) Google will win the AI race due to its engineering talent and the sheer amount of data it has (and Android integration potential).
by LUmBULtERA | 2025-10-02 19:07:41+00:00
>But, the Left's problem is that instead of trying to raise everyone up they're bringing people down. It was that way in the USSR, and it's that way here. Where I used to live the Talented and Gifted program (which was state mandated) had a $1000 budget systemwide. The "equity" fund was almost a third of the budget. At that point why bother with public schools? It's taxation without representation.

Whether or not to cut gifted and talented programs is very much debated on the "left".
by zzbzq | 2025-10-02 19:07:51+00:00
In my experience owning private stock, you basically own part of a pool. (Hopefully the exact same classes of shares as the board has or else it's a scam.) The board controls the pool, and whenever they do dividends or transfer ownership, each person's share is affected proportionally. You can petition the board to buy back your shares or transfer them to another shareholder but that's probably unusual for a rank-and-file employee.

The shares are valued by an accounting firm auditor of some type. This determines the basis value if you're paying taxes up-front. After that the tax situation should be the same as getting publicly traded options/shares, there's some choices in how you want to handle the taxes but generally you file a special tax form at the year of grant.
by slowturtle | 2025-10-02 19:08:03+00:00
Probably because Israel violated the ceasefire earlier this year (that was a sham from the beginning) that lasted from January to March. The first phase of the ceasefire saw an exchange of hostages, but then the Israelis refused to move on to the second phase and broke the ceasefire by bombing Gaza in the middle of the night, killing over 400 Palestinians in one day, including over 200 children. [0]

Not to mention the fact that Israel just killed a top Hamas negotiator in Doha, Qatar only a few weeks ago. [1] How can you negotiate with someone who just killed your negotiator?

[0] https://apnews.com/live/latest-updates-israel-launches-new-w...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/qatar-explosion-doha-e319dd51b170...
by John23832 | 2025-10-02 19:08:03+00:00
Someone has read Outliers[0] obviously.

I personally don't think that it is a big deal. Giving kids until 3rd grade to actually "settle" and demonstrate ability is a good idea. Equal opportunity until we can decide as a society who is eligible for "more practice".

Though, in reality, the rich and able will give their children more practice regardless, so they will reap more of the Gifted and Talented slots when the time comes anyways.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-02 19:08:44+00:00
Is email immutable? Honestly I haven't looked into it very much, but as an email self-hoster I do know that i have the ability to decrypt any email in any user's inbox. I presume I could also edit and re-encrypt them, but I don't really know.

But as in all cases, you can only be truly sure no one is tampering if you don't give it to anyone else.
by peterfirefly | 2025-10-02 19:09:21+00:00
> Our ancestors 5000 and 10000 years ago were just as smart , intelligent and curios as we are today.

That sounds nice but axiomatic egalitarianism might, just might, not be empirically true.

We know that there are vast differences in all modern uniform populations we have tested -- intelligence is normally distributed and the differences between the tails are huge.

We also know that different populations have different distributions -- slightly different standard deviations, sometimes vastly different means.

Why wouldn't that also have been true at the dawn of history and in pre-history?

Since we do now know many alleles that influence intelligence and we roughly know their effect sizes (very small for almost all of them) and since we can actually sequence really old DNA in some cases, we can actually come up with reasonable guesses for how intelligent people were thousands of years ago.

And what do you know? They do differ. Or at least, their allele frequencies do for those alleles that we are pretty sure have an influence on intelligence. Some of them really do seem to have been pretty dim. Others not so dim.

PS: It's difficult to make an iron sword/knife/axe that is better than a bronze one.