MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wyldberry | 2025-10-07 00:40:31+00:00
Attainable isn't about benchmarks and performance, it's ecosystem such as supported kernel hooks for AAA games to invest the time in maintaining their anti-cheats and other parts of the game-as-a-service platform.

It's also about the market accessibility and penetration. When the base level MBA at it's lowest RAM settings is reliably running AAA games is when you might see more interest in the platform from those studios because much like the iOS market, people running Mac tend to be more readily monetized, especially through things like in-game cosmetics.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-07 00:40:35+00:00
> You need tool and die companies to build parts for your manufacturing machines, but almost none are left. There are only a few plastic injection manufacturing companies left, and they are either fully booked or on the path to shutting down.

> Young people think of trades and manufacturing jobs as fall-backs that only drop-outs who couldn't hack college get into.

As an engineer running a factory in New Jersey doing, among other things, injection molding, this is way off base. There are plenty of tool and die shops. While they do exist, injection molding job shops are a miniscule fraction of the injection molding market. The machines are so cheap and so easy to use that everyone in-houses their molding operations.

I don't personally see a shortage of young people in manufacturing; I'm in my mid 30s and I'm the old man in my department, and my past employers and the various companies I interact with seem to have similar demographic structures. Our job postings are flooded with kids fresh out of school applying for jobs. My job requires a degree; and it is quite rare to find someone who does not hold a degree compared to say software development. A lot of manufacturing companies will pay to send mid-career employees to school. Post secondary degrees are not uncommon.

> Destin from Smarter Every Day encountered all of this when he tried to make a better grill brush using only a handful of parts and _still_ did not manage to make the whole thing using only US-originated parts. It's a fascinating window into how hard it is to make anything at all here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

This video is a very poor representation of american manufacturing, likely due to Destin not having any prior experience in that space, and for entertainment value. The process could have been much easier if he talked with a manufacturing engineer early on. Further, he seems to not recognize the concept of comparative advantage. The truth is that international supply lines are actually incredibly beneficial for domestic manufacturing.
by miki123211 | 2025-10-07 00:40:46+00:00
3. When you know/suspect your ISP is more shady than the VPN you're using. This applies particularly when you're doing something your government doesn't like.

VPNs don't increase privacy, they just change who has the opportunity to spy on your traffic. Sometimes, it's much better if it's some foreign random ISP instead of your local government, who can send law enforcement agents where you live.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-07 00:41:36+00:00
> So, ignoring everything that got us here, what do people think about this?

It's fine. Keeps all the complainers away from the larger ecosystem.

I personally trust Ruby Central, 37signals, Shopify, DHH, Tobi, Matz and others over the guy who was launching a startup to compete with rubygems while being a maintainer for rubygems.
by wraptile | 2025-10-07 00:41:38+00:00
I used to work at Tesonet (as software engineer) and I'm not familiar with corporate politics / ownerships but they're lovely people that would 100% walk out if there were some real Russian ties involved.

Lithuania is a really small country and IT has been a huge economic strategy since early 00s as a way to become economically independent specifically because of Russia and it worked out really well.
by Theodores | 2025-10-07 00:42:07+00:00
Thanks for the link. How does this work on the server side? It gets packets on 8080 and then what? The article needs to explain the server config, even if it is just how to install ssh-server.

I have tried setting up OpenVPN on my own VPS and I didn't get very far with it. I have also had to use OpenVPN in the day job and I much prefer just using ssh without some extravagant OpenVPN layer.

My experience of failing to configure a VPN of my own (primarily for testing GeoIP) led me to try a few VPNs and the amount of junk adverts and whatnot made me wonder if it was time to fdisk my computer and start over due to the virus-vibes I was getting from a VPN. This was in the days before VPN adverts on lame YouTube channels, so I presume the product has improved since then.

In theory, someone smarter than me can rent a VPS and get OpenVPN on there, or, better still, a remote desktop so that only the screen image goes over the internet from the VPS to the PC, X-Window style but better. This could be further obfuscated by using 443 and one's own special ROT13 'encryption'.

Presumably a skilled person that knows what they are doing could get it all setup in an hour, to write concise instructions that 'civilians' can work through in pretty much the same time.

If you were highly invested in porn, watching Netflix in foreign countries and with even worse stuff to hide, you would think that some investment in getting a proper VPN with your own VPS would be the way to go, but no. Cost isn't the problem if you are deeply into something worth hiding, so why do so few people roll their own VPN?

The reality is that the typical product is marketed with FUD and the goal is to turn you into a 'sleeping giant'. A 'sleeping giant' is a customer that has a standing order or other payment arrangement that is for a service that is not used, and for that to not be noticed on bank statements. Everyone wants you to be a 'sleeping giant', including some 'worthy' charities, dating websites and every software subscription service. They aren't using FUD marketing though.

The commercial VPNs have mastered the art of selling a product that deserves technical knowledge to understand to the masses, so you have got to respect the hustle.
by tejasvi88 | 2025-10-07 00:42:24+00:00
Or maybe our universe represents the dregs of what once was a vibrant dense universe teeming with life, working hard to maximize entropy. We are like the end stage bacteria relegated to do a deep clean.

Ultimately there appears to be no purpose of life apart from child rearing for the majority. There's subconscious hope that kids might eventually figure it out for the rest of us. The only thing constant is the increase in entropy. At least that is what bound to happen. Should the purpose be accelerating that process or joining the resistance?
by NBJack | 2025-10-07 00:42:49+00:00
Hmm. Maybe something useful will come of this after all!

"...and that is why we need the resources. Newline, end document. Hey, guys, I just got done with my 60 page report, and need-"

"SELECT ALL, DELETE, SAVE DOCUMENT, FLUSH UNDO, PURGE VERSION HISTORY, CLOSE WINDOW."

Here's hoping this at least gets us back to cubes.
by SpicyUme | 2025-10-07 00:43:49+00:00
I suppose I don't think too much about the type of sugars in my fruits. We're approaching the end of my fruit picking season but yesterday I probably ate ~3-5 pears worth of scraps/discards while processing a bunch for pear sauce. During huckleberry season my picking for the winter is limited by the amount I eat since each bush obviously must be sampled for flavor.
by lax4ever | 2025-10-07 00:43:54+00:00
I don't know about openly hostile. Definitely making moves that the user base openly disagree with and think are, at best, very bad decisions, but I don't think they have crossed the "hostile" line. And MS is not alone with those kinds of decisions.

Apple may not "force" you to use an iCloud account for their devices, but they sure push it hard.

As far as Linux communities go, Red Hat, Arch, Cisco, and even Ubuntu have also done their fair share of "bad decisions".
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-07 00:44:14+00:00
> Interesting that we use the same word to describe both technologies, but semantically and technically they are very different.

That's where my head was at. When i hear my colleagues talk about a VPN, i'm thinking about an IPSEC tunnel and an afternoon of swearing at ios on some outdated ASA. When I hear regular people talking about a VPN, my mind immediately goes to "oh, so you want to watch rick and morty on netflix and don't know anybody hosting a jellyfin/plex server".

When do we coin a new term? Or do we? Does "vpn" turn into a word like "truck" where it's only the context that tells you if we're talking about a 2 axle pickup truck in a home depot parking lot or something pulling a 40ft container unit?
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-07 00:44:24+00:00
> What action would you like? In this case everyone says it was likely a rare disease and not sepsis.

I'd like them to follow the legally required prompt instructing them to test for/treat as sepsis, rather than ignoring it but falsely asserting they followed it, so they can rule that out instead of guessing about what "likely" happened.

You can hand-wave all you want about how medicine is complicated, but a doctor checking a box for something they didn't do is objectively incorrect in my eyes, regardless of what "might have happened" had they done their job correctly. All of the discussion in this thread blaming the design of the checklist that the doctors didn't follow anyway is insane to me.
by ebbi | 2025-10-07 00:45:07+00:00
Have you got proof that they have military assets beneath civilian infra? Evidence that is not Israeli supplied would be useful. So far I've only seen Israeli propaganda that hasn't been verified by a third party.

Sounds like you haven't done much research besides taking Israeli propaganda at face value. The difference is Hamas has called for independent investigation on Oct 7 and how their supposed military instalments in civilian areas. Israel...has done the exact opposite and closed off any access to third parties.
by john01dav | 2025-10-07 00:45:37+00:00
This website is very unclear to me. I see links to what look like articles, but there's no information on where these come from. Is it a link aggregator like HN or early reddit? Is it a search engine of some sort? Are these even real articles, or are they LLM slop? How are they arranged/ranked? How often does it refresh? Also, clicking on one of the apparent-articles causes the whole UI to move around, which is disorienting. It looks like some new boxes are created from the article, but it takes carefully watching the animation to see which movements are just the page reflowing, and which are the new box.

Overall, this looks like someone wants their website to feel nice with fancy animations and a novel UI, but they failed to properly consider practical use cases. Why would one visit this website?
by kmeisthax | 2025-10-07 00:45:43+00:00
日本語をわかれる人として、アニメはアメリカで一番部分は英語だけで見たいのは分かります。それから、アメリカで英語に翻訳しております。

If you don't understand the above, then you don't want raw episodes after all.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-07 00:45:50+00:00
Two issues:

- Japanese has very different word order and word lengths, and furthermore some constructions that are short and natural in Japanese have no universally good English parallel. (Vice versa as well, of course, but that’s not really a problem here.) To give a sense of the alienness at play here, Japanese is essentially postfix throughout, that is the most literal counterpart of “the car [that you saw yesterday]” is “[[you SUBJECT] yesterday saw] car”; and it also has no way to join sentences that would not make one of them potentially subordinate to the other (like the “and” before the semicolon does in this sentence). Virtually anything longer than a single line has to be retimed (and occasionally edited for length).

- “Forced” subtitles for captions, on-screen text, etc. are simply absent in the original, for lack of need. True believers (like GP apparently used to be) will try to match the positioning and even typesetting of the on-screen original, either replacing or supplementing it. (Those aren’t your run of the mill SRT subs, ASS is a completely different level of functionality.)
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-07 00:45:55+00:00
Its probably not PC but I think a huge part of this is the burnout associated with being forced to treat the same junkies day in and out. At some point you brain shuts off to possible alternatives and you just see everything as a "next, next,next"

The answer is unfortunately you cannot treat everyone equal if they don't want to help themselves.

I was at a ER for a bleeding puncture wound and was told to hold a bandage on it and wait while several 500lb people were seen because "they don't feel good". No $hit they weight 500lbs.

Also kids apparently are always first, but I can see why that one is needed. They don't have automy like the other people there that are the source of their own problems.
by fletchowns | 2025-10-07 00:46:24+00:00
That is unfortunate there's so many Redis instances out there that not only are exposed to the public internet (330,000) and don't have authentication configured (60,000). I'm guessing those folks probably didn't even realize their Redis was public.

There are so many tutorials out there for things like Docker Compose that cause people to bind a service to 0.0.0.0 with a port open to the public internet.
by dolebirchwood | 2025-10-07 00:46:56+00:00
Maybe, but as someone who's done a 4-month backpacking stint, I was over it after 1 month, so I think even just that amount of time is enough to make an impact psychologically. By month 3, I was acclimated to it, but still eager to be done with it.

(As an aside, the experience actually made me less enthusiastic about nature and gave me a deeper appreciation of civilization. Never in my life did I have such deep gratitude for having a flat paved sidewalk to walk on.)
by kcexn | 2025-10-07 00:47:37+00:00
This is true not just in AI but in tech in general. Data centers could be cheaper and more energy efficient. Phones could last longer, etc.

Ultimately, companies don't like participating in markets that are races to the bottom (better outcomes at lower prices).

Technologies that make LLM training cheaper will only see widespread adoption after its no longer feasible to keep expanding data centers to handle the data processing loads.
by analog31 | 2025-10-07 00:48:08+00:00
GEB was what really turned me on to math. I mean, I was good at math by the standards of a mid-tier high school, but was satisfied to work through the problems and proofs, or use math in my physics class and electronics hobby. But my older brother read GEB then gave it to me. I had also been reading Hofstadter's "Mathematical Games" in Scientific American.

But GEB exposed me to a level of math that seemed to beyond puzzles and applications. Or maybe it was just his engaging style. Or my cool big brother. Regardless, I started college as a math major.

Other things happened since then, and I now have a physics degree, but still enjoy math as an end unto itself.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-07 00:48:34+00:00
Japanese people as a whole never watch content with proper subtitles. And the subtitles that do exist in Japan for Japanese content are universally awful. It seems only foreign companies that promote being accessible have them. Unext, a Japanese company, never offers subs on Japanese content. It only have subtitles for foreign content... but it only offers subtitles if you're not watching Japanese dubs. It never, under any circumstance, allows the audio and subtitle language to be the same.

I feel like one reason is that subtitles in Japan never match what the characters actually say. A character may say "I've missed you so much. It's been so long." The subtitles will read "Hey. Long time. " (both quotes would be Japanese) Not sure why but the Japanese subtitle industry is just terrible in so many ways.
by derektank | 2025-10-07 00:48:50+00:00
It's no longer a guaranteed path to being rich, for the record. Since the 1990s, the average income of physicians has grown at less than the rate of inflation (Median physician compensation was ~$140k in 2000 and is ~$240k today). It's gone from being maybe a top 2% income to being a top 10% income.

Not to say it's not still remunerative, or anyone is going to go poor choosing to become a doctor, but there are other paths to a good wage that don't require 8 years of schooling or nearly as much student debt.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-07 00:51:02+00:00
>Basically, with all the job cuts in the last few years, there hasn't been as much unemployment. We are currently heading to the point where even small job cuts have a much larger impact on unemployment.

What are you talking about? Unemployment numbers have been gamed for years. Those job cuts from years ago didn't reflect in unemployment because the stats are fake.

>We saw similar during the great depression, in that people couldn't find full time work, so they did gig jobs, quickly undercutting other laborers until wages cratered and it was a full blown depression.

That is the wrong way to look at it. The depression did not result from low wages. Low wages were downstream of other calamities in the economy back then, chiefly a credit bubble and stock market bubble bursting as well as drought conditions and crop failures. Remember the Dust Bowl?

When the economy is suffering, money is (and should be) in short supply. There were naive efforts from the US government to try to set wages high. They even tried destroying food to drive prices up, until the many hungry people in the country became outraged about it. In the end they decided to debase the currency, thus stealing from everyone who had anything under the pretense of solving a problem. They made the problems worse, and probably prolonged the economic misery by years.
by kinderjaje | 2025-10-07 00:51:16+00:00
> The material expenditures on the towers were enormous; 192,000 tons of steel, 425,000 cubic yards of concrete, 43,600 windows with 572,000 square feet of glass, 1,143,000 square feet of aluminum sheet, 198 miles of ductwork, and 12,000 miles of electrical cable.

The towers also provided an extraordinary employment opportunity for the construction workers of the region. More than 3,500 people were employed continuously on-site during construction.

> A total of 10,000 people were involved in its construction. Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction.

During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders.

Fifty thousand people called the towers their place of work and on many days tens of thousands visited.
by jesterson | 2025-10-07 00:51:43+00:00
> 95% of VPNs sell your data. It's where they make their money. It's absolutely insane the push-back I get when I say this online.

People love to stick to what they irrationally believe in. I would give you push back as well by saying 95% is a very conservative number. I would say 98-99%

But hey, they say they don't sell my data isn't it?
by Hart_Paralegal | 2025-10-07 00:51:53+00:00
Avoiding Misclassification Pitfalls: Why Attorneys Should Use Contract Paralegal Services Instead of 1099 Employees

A common pitfall law firms face is paying a full-time or even part-time paralegal as a 1099 independent contractor when, by law, that individual may be considered an employee. This can be especially true if the paralegal is working remotely under the firm’s direction or comes into the office at times. While this may seem like a convenient cost-saving strategy, it can create serious risks for the firm.

If a paralegal is working under your direction, using your equipment, working set hours, and/or performing tasks that are essential to your firm’s operations, the law may view them as an employee rather than an independent contractor. Misclassification can possibly result in audits, tax penalties, unpaid overtime claims, or wage-and-hour disputes. California has some of the strictest employment classification standards in the country, which can make this an area of concern for law firms.

By contrast, hiring a professional contract paralegal service can help avoid these risks. A contract paralegal operates as an outside vendor. You pay for the services you need, when you need them, without the obligations of payroll, benefits, overtime, or employee compliance. Your firm can reduce its risk of audits and penalties while still gaining access to experienced legal support.

In addition, contract paralegal services provide flexibility and scalability. Rather than carrying the overhead of a full-time employee, firms can scale support up or down depending on the caseload. You can bring in specialized expertise for complex cases, without committing to long-term staffing costs.

By treating a full-time or part-time paralegal as a 1099 contractor, especially if that paralegal is working remotely or comes into the office at times, firms can expose themselves to misclassification concerns, liability, and financial penalties. Hiring a contract paralegal service can provide a safer alternative by supporting compliance while giving firms the flexibility to access high-level support only when it is needed.

Note: Nothing in this post should be construed as legal advice. Each firm should consult with appropriate counsel regarding employment classification issues.

Drafted by Victoria Hartley, Certified Paralegal
by jacquesm | 2025-10-07 00:53:08+00:00
I don't care about convenience, I care about the ethics of the companies that I work with. Convenience is what got us in this mess in the first place, it certainly isn't going to get us out of it. And if you don't want to implicitly support Microsoft Windows V 267 (now with more advertising, DNA samples for access and a free psych evaluation), then 11 is as good a time to break with them as any.
by godelski | 2025-10-07 00:53:29+00:00
> Being grumpy works locally. It won't fix the industry, but it fixes your team. And when enough teams refuse to normalize this, the pattern shifts.

I cannot stress this enough. Fixing local problems is a necessary step in fixing large systematic problems. Large systemic problems' greatest ally is momentum and the appearance of being immovable.

We solve big problems by turning them into many small problems. There is no difference here. One step at a time.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-07 00:53:38+00:00
>a strong cycle of "applications run on Windows" -> "device vendors choose to bundle Windows" -> "people use applications on Windows",

>but that has been eroded, in part thanks to Wine and the work put in by people at Valve.

Eroded even more so by the user-hostile approach of Microsoft itself.

Exactly with things like being a complete failure to recognize a strong valid need for general users to only opt-in to an account according to their own personal needs alone. Not with Microsoft or Google or anybody else known to be a source of unwanted ads or anti-professional annoyances.

Why abandon a remaining security element that can protect against PII compromise like no other?

It's just sad to lose an essential feature that has always been built-in to Windows since the beginning, which helped make Windows into a far better business machine than would have been otherwise possible.

And why now when security is more important than ever?
by ed | 2025-10-07 00:54:04+00:00
A bit underwhelming when you see what's actually on offer. "Apps" are really just MCP servers, with an extension to allow returning HTML.

A lot of the fundamental issues with MCP are still present: MCP is pretty single-player, users must "pull" content from the service, and the model of "enabling connections" is fairly unintuitive compared to "opening an app."

Ideally apps would have a dedicated entry point, be able to push content to users, and have some persistence in the UI. And really the primary interface should be HTML, not chat.

As such I think this current iteration will turn out a lot like GPT's.