MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfe | 2025-10-08 23:05:53+00:00
I think if IBM had simply put in the engineering to allow Windows 95 to run as the Win-OS/2 layer, OS/2 may have survived a lot longer.

I've done a fair amount of research into this and I think it was technically within reach. IBM's marketing "a better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows" was true until Windows 95 came out, and it would have continued to be true if they had simply offered Win95-OS/2. Not being able to run the latest Windows (Win32) software meant that OS/2 was no longer a better Windows than Windows, it was just a different and increasingly dated-looking Windows.

IBM was too self-absorbed to do this. They were going to ditch both Microsoft and Intel and make PowerPC machines running OS/2. That didn't work out too well.

Imagine a world where OS/2 Warp 3 saw a BBS-distributed or Internet-distributed update to support Win95-OS/2 released within a week of Windows 95 going to retail. It was entirely possible in September of 1995 to do this, Warp Connect adding Internet support was done this way. The "Chicago" betas were widely available so this could have easily been co-developed.

The real lesson here is that building a better runtime actually can work, if you commit to maintaining feature parity. OS/2 faltered because IBM stopped developing the features their customers wanted, like the ability to run standard Win32 software, and instead developed the features IBM wanted, like the ability to run on a different CPU architecture.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-08 23:06:22+00:00
You can construct a synthetic long or short position with options [0], so those would need to be removed as well. Options are much too useful for market participants (market makers in particular), so your idea is dead in the water.

[0] For US equity options, if you sell a put and simultaneously buy a call at the same strike price, you have a synthetic long that acts like owning 100 shares of the underlying asset (no dividends, but that’s already priced in to the options).

Buy a put and simultaneously sell a call at the same strike price and you have a synthetic short that acts like being short 100 shares of the underlying asset.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-08 23:07:19+00:00
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out, because CFS (ME/CFS), Long COVID, PICS (Post Intensive Care Syndrome), PSS (Post Sepsis Syndrome) and a host of other diseases/conditions all share a very similar profile of symptoms.

My personal longstanding belief is that these conditions are somehow related in ways we don't understand.
by raincole | 2025-10-08 23:07:59+00:00
The cool thing about "here's what GPT says" is that you can make GPT says whatever you want!

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e6eeba-8284-800e-b399-338e6c4783...

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e6ef4a-bdd0-800e-877a-b3d5d4dc51...
by siliconc0w | 2025-10-08 23:08:19+00:00
MAGA isn't really about facts on the ground. It's about repetition of lies and "muzzle velocity".

Independent media gets fatigued calling you out, people tune out or accuse them of bias, and so eventually they just give up and "both sides" it - treating basic facts like an unknowable super-positional state.
by smsm42 | 2025-10-08 23:08:33+00:00
Unfortunately, this does not work. I see no end of banks, financial institutions, let alone random companies, who keep their authentication, for some reason, on different domain than main company, and sometimes they would have initial registration (which gets recorded in password manager) on one domain, and consequent logins on another, and sometimes it depends on how you arrived at the site, or which integration are you planning to use, etc. I wish there were a rule "one company - one auth domain" but it's just not true.

Example: Citi bank has citibankonline.com, citi.com, citidirect.com, citientertainment.com, etc. Would you be suspicious of a link to citibankdirect.com? Would you check the certificate for each link going there, and trace it down, or just assume Citi is up to their shenanigans again and paste the password manually? It's jungle out there.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-08 23:08:52+00:00
What I heard about the Stuxnet attack was different from what you are saying:

The enrichment facility had an air-gapped network, and just like our air-gapped networks, they had security requirements that mandated continuous anti-virus definition updates. The AV updates were brought in on a USB thumb drive that had been infected, because it WASN'T air-gapped when the updates were loaded. Obviously their AV tools didn't detect Stuxnet, because it was a state-sponsored, targeted attack, and not in the AV definition database.

So they were a victim of their own security policies, which were very effectively exploited.
by cma | 2025-10-08 23:09:02+00:00
Can think of plenty:

Online meetup for Disney fans: each week in a different scan of the park

Online consultation with interior design or architect: takes place in you existing house and saves travel for someone billing $x hundred an hour.

Online highschool reunion planning meeting with people spread over the world: takes place at the highschool or potential venues

Deployed military personel meeting remotely on his anniversary with his wife: takes place where they had their first date

I thought we would have already had this with photogrammetry back in 2016 when the Vive released with a camera, but that usually involved too much cleanup and optimizing geometry and couldn't be done automatically, along with the issues with reflections. I was also really surprised Google Earth VR didn't add in multiplayer soon after launch for similar use cases.
by acidburnNSA | 2025-10-08 23:09:02+00:00
This was never an actual reactor design. Ford imagined a future where nuclear power could, maybe somehow, be miniaturized. It was a vision.

Even as early as 1956, textbooks said [1]: "The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of including in an automobile enough fissionable material, about the size of a pea, to last the life of the vehicle. In order to realize why this is not within the bounds of reality, it is necessary to understand something about the fission process."

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...
by analog31 | 2025-10-08 23:09:40+00:00
Did it have something to do with the Ford Explorer?

But anecdotally, we were driving through Chicago in the family Subaru Forester, and got a huge gash in one tire. The Soob has so much automation in its drivetrain, that it still handled OK enough and we didn't notice there was a problem until the TPMS light came on. We had to cross a couple lanes of very heavy, fast traffic, to get off the road.
by deepfriedrice | 2025-10-08 23:09:45+00:00
I don't know the gullibility of the average tech CEO but this doesn't strike me as a very convincing phishing attempt.

* "We've received reports about the latest content" - weird copy

* "which doesn't meet X Terms of Service" - bad grammar lol

* "Important:Simply ..." - no spacing lol

* "Simply removing the content from your page doesn't help your case" - weird tone

* "We've opened a support portal for you " - weird copy

There should so many red flags here if you're a native english speaker.

There are some UX red flags as well, but I admit those are much less noticeable.

* Weird and inconsistent font size/weight

* Massive border radius on the twitter card image (lol)

* Gap sizes are weird/small

* Weird CTA
by fennecbutt | 2025-10-08 23:09:48+00:00
I used seagate ironwolf hdds (which have been reliable but s little noisy). And honestly for the cache ssd I just chucked in an old m.2 Samsung 980 pro or something I had lying around from years ago.

I don't need crazy performance or to fine tune the setup or anything, like I said it's mostly just to plug and play.
by freedomben | 2025-10-08 23:11:17+00:00
I think you're right. I must say though, it pleases me to see them playing it a bit loose with copyright. Copyright law is a very polarizing issue, and I think it's important to remember there are multiple sides (copyright holders v. consumers, etc), but as a mostly consumer and part-time producer who has had the copyright sharks go after me for my own content because some algorithm or something made them think it was theirs, I want to see those assholes die in a fire. Small and medium creators are the ones most hurt I think. The giant companies have absolutely weaponized every ounce of the IP laws against everyone else, and it's disgusting to me.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-08 23:12:31+00:00
I usually read articles like this, however I could not.

I use an iPhone 14 Pro Max and plan to upgrade soon. When I do, it won't be because of of AI or Siri. It will be because of my battery slowly dying and me wanting a better camera.

I read a report recently that AI subscriptions have paid out around $20 billion or something, where-as investment far exceeded that. I am still waiting on someone to tell me we aren't in a bubble based on that info.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-08 23:13:58+00:00
If you're getting pwned a physical Security Key still means bad guys don't have the actual credential (there's no way to get that), and they have to work relatively hard to even create a situation where maybe you to let them use the credential you do have (inside the Security Key) while they're in position to exploit you.

These devices want a physical interaction (this is called "User present") for most operations, typically signified by having a push button or contact sensor, so the attacker needs to have a proof of identity ready to sign, send that over - then persuade the user to push the button or whatever. It's not that difficult but it's one more step and if that doesn't work you wasted your shot.
by doodaddy | 2025-10-08 23:14:38+00:00
I love this car already. It has character, a personality. It’s the friend who’s kind of a pain in the ass but someone you usually have a good time with.

Reminds me of the car I learned to drive manual on. It would only start when the drivers side door was open. So if you stalled the car the process was: open door, clutch in, start engine, clutch out and go, close door. You learned not to stall…
by churchill | 2025-10-08 23:15:20+00:00
America's uncompetitiveness in certain industries isn't because of strong environmental and labor regulations. It's scale. That's why, despite working 996, Chinese software technology companies are still in (admittedly) second place compared to the US.

Places like Silicon Valley, etc. have such a dense concentration of talent that if you want to build anything at the cutting edge, you need to pack up, leave your life behind and move over there.

Likewise, this is why China dominates in hardware. You can walk into a random store in Shenzhen and pick out enough off-the-shelf parts to build a reasonably high-end smartphone. No one in the US or Europe will even talk to you if you're not ordering 10k MOQ. And that's if you can find a supplier.

Scale is also the reason why China and South Korea build nuclear reactors at a fraction of Western prices. On budget too! Not because they carelessly expose everyone to toxic radiation.

That's why China has 200* America's shipbuilding capacity. They build so much of it that they unlock economies of scale.

It's the reason why China is churning out more PV systems and batteries than the rest of the world combined. They're building so much that their per unit costs fall tremendously. Then they parley those gains in one industry into adjacent industries like EVs where batteries are 40% of the cost. When you stack economies of scale back-to-back, you end up with an order of magnitude's difference. That's why high-end Chinese EVs cost, say <$20k, while American manufacturers are struggling.
by Remnant44 | 2025-10-08 23:15:53+00:00
totally - especially given how bandwidth constrained CPUs still are, going wider than 512 doesn't make much sense. 512 itself was a stretch for quite a long time (and all the negative press on the original implementations was a consequence of being not-quite-ready for primetime), but for current hardware I think it's perfect.

But 128bit is just ancient. If you're going to go to significant trouble to rewrite your code in SIMD, you want to at least get a decent perf return on investment!
by akerl_ | 2025-10-08 23:17:06+00:00
I think you'll be led astray thinking this is CEO-specific.

The whole theory of phishing, and especially targeted phishing, is to present a scenario that tricks the user into ignoring the red flags. Usually, this is an urgent call to action that something negative will happen, coupled with a tie-in to something that seems legit. In this case, it was referencing a real post that the company had made.

A parallel example is when parents get phone calls saying "hey it's your kid, I took a surprise trip to a tiny island nation and I've been kidnapped, I need you to wire $1000 immediately or they're going to kill me". That interaction is full of red flags, but the psychological hit is massive and people pay out all the time.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-08 23:17:33+00:00
> Maybe it's implicit, but you didn't mention why process-people hate illegible tribal knowledge. It's because they fear that the people may have better leverage in salary re-negotiation, and if they bail, the knowledge disappears.

Being at a disadvantage in annual reviews is certainly a part of it I'm sure. Another non-trivial risk an organization must manage is retaining knowledge in a shareable form should team members transfer to other groups, take on a new role within the organization, or leave for reasons other than failed salary negotiations.

> More abstractly, explicit rules are a substitute for trust.

This is an interesting concept, thank you for sharing it (seriously). Stating it the way you have succinctly explains some of the asinine policies I have experienced in the past. Usually in large, dysfunctional, organizations I might add.
by poizan42 | 2025-10-08 23:17:52+00:00
Yeah, there were 119 people born in 1995 with first name Joachim, and 123 in 1994[0]. There is a pretty good chance that there is currently only one 30-years old Joachim employed as a software engineer in Aalborg.

[0]: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-ti...
by lschueller | 2025-10-08 23:18:08+00:00
Yes, this was one of the first things that came to my mind: landing a towed glider right behind a motorized machine is just a bit too adventurous... Especially when winds a not 100 percent in optimum for a safe landing approach. Gliders should always eject mid air an land on their own.. Minimizing risks for any machine or even individuals
by zamadatix | 2025-10-08 23:19:13+00:00
I'm not Cloudflare, I just read their blog too much. As they hint in the article when mentioning secure boot, they've been deploying Ampere in parallel to AMD for several years now. Purpose wise it seems to be Edge related for efficiency reasons, but maybe they use them for other things too. You can read some more here https://blog.cloudflare.com/designing-edge-servers-with-arm-... and here https://blog.cloudflare.com/arms-race-ampere-altra-takes-on-... along with the original evaluation of Qualcomm here https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-08 23:20:23+00:00
Employees working incurs other costs beyond the employees’ compensation, but, yes, assuming the back pay requirement is honored [0], that’s essentially what it is.

[0] The White House this week argued that the law that clearly and unambiguously requires this does not in fact do so, and OMB removed references to the law and its requirements from their shutdown guidance to agencies, so I would not count on the Administration honoring it, at least initially.
by firecall | 2025-10-08 23:20:57+00:00
IIRC The British Highway Code* used to suggest this as a method to move a vehicle stuck on a level crossing! (Train crossing).

They did note that it’s only good for manual cars. Automatics were not standard in the UK in the 80s.

All from memory, so might be mangling the details :-)

*Or could have been the Australian version.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-08 23:21:40+00:00
> My earlier point was contrasting full Rust and SPARK to highlight that SPARK’s integrated, industrial-strength proof model is unmatched in terms of whole-program, auditable guarantees.

Sure, but that's basically entirely unrelated to what the person you're replying to said, since they were specifically talking about Ada, not SPARK. I don't think anyone is disputing that a language not originally designed for formal verification is comparable to a language that is, and that kind of comparison isn't really interesting because it's apples and oranges.
by jayd16 | 2025-10-08 23:22:49+00:00
Likely, you'll want this sort of thing for easy VR video production. Once you have a backdrop scanned, you could more easily film the action with a directional camera.

At that point you can have a very convincing VR performance with cheap hardware. That handles much much more viewer IPDs and head positions etc, than one of those expensive omni-directional camera rigs.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-08 23:23:10+00:00
Tough to measure. A couple data points:

-NY state estimate $150–200M per year lost to real estate transfer tax fraud and evasion. On $3B receipts that is 5-6% breakage.

-Harris County (Houston) found $21M in improper homestead exemptions. On ~$7B receipts that is ~0.3% breakage

-Miami-Dade found $35M on $6.5B for improper homestead exemptions, 0.5% breakage

For comparison, IRS net tax gap is about 12%
by tintor | 2025-10-08 23:23:11+00:00
What is their safety case?

How are they planning to handle aborted takeoffs of towing plane, for example?

How does it integrate with ATC? During towing? During landing of glider?

This video claims that trailer is landing separately and autonomously. Obscure of details. https://www.aerolane.com/news/florida-2025-q1-tests
by fragmede | 2025-10-08 23:23:47+00:00
If we're genuinely asking, real actual communism comes into play. I think children being raised by government programs and not their parents would be extreme left. Making it so that no one can have more than $1 million to their name would be extreme left. Forcing people to be impregnated and give up those babies to government to be raised by them would also be extreme. Maybe left? Prohibiting religions. Making it illegal to be Christian/Muslim/Buddhist/anything. Making it illegal to have a gender. The problem of oversimplifying everything into a spectrum of left and right means that there's no room for ideas to exist not on that spectrum.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-08 23:24:45+00:00
Stop it!

... you'll need to refer to these pages on Confluence, but they haven't all yet migrated to the new Confluence documentation structure, which is here, so you'll need to search both. And then the really detailed documentation is in Sharepoint here, but when we update these documents we'll also need to convert them to PDF and publish them to our Customer-accessible ticketing system using this specific ticket number, which you'll need to remember because search on that system doesn't work very well.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-08 23:25:40+00:00
>In the old days people didn’t check them and they’d run around on underinflated tires on the highway until they had a front end blowout and took out a family minivan in the neighboring lane.

This is revisionist history through the lens of screeching people on Reddit.

Back in the old days you didn't need to "check your tires" because it's flagrantly obvious visually and in terms of handling when a tire with a 65 or 75 aspect ratio is low.

The reason we have a bunch more requirements on tires is because of all the finger pointing that ensued as a result of the Firestone Explorer debacle suddenly made formerly irrelevant few-psi differences in pressure very important. TPMS is there because you can't get a good visual read on lower profile tires until they're quit low. If you're not oblivious it won't matter you'll feel the vehicle handling funny long before they actually get low enough to cause problems though.

What "solved" blowouts was changes in construction. They started putting a couple extra belts into passenger car tires in the mid 00s. It mostly has to do with cap improvements that help prevent the sidewall from opening up at the shoulder.

Back in "the day" (so like 80s on down) everyone ran their tires to failure (usually bald, but often blowout as well) as a matter of normal practice, bought used tires left and right and blowouts were pretty common, even more common back in the really old days of tubes. It didn't reliably cause an accident unless you behaved hysterically in response, hence why everyone felt fine doing it. But that was so long ago ago, nobody much remembers it, nobody wrote about it on the internet and therefore it doesn't exist for the purposes of online discussion.
by Archit3ch | 2025-10-08 23:25:56+00:00
Honest take: yes, it's not ready. When I tried it, the generated binary crashed.

For what it's worth, I am able to generate a non-small (>1 GiB) binary with 1.11 that runs on other people's machines. Not shipping in production, but it could be if you're willing to put in the effort. So in a sense, PackageCompiler.jl is all you need. ;)
by jayd16 | 2025-10-08 23:26:17+00:00
Somewhat ironic but for a certain type of person its actually way easier to throw together a simple set than to build convincing 3D art. Once could imagine a point and click adventure built this way but I wouldn't expect that is really a major use-case.

That said, the more general aspect of "accessible, user generatable content" is a better way to look at it.
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-08 23:26:38+00:00
I'm responsible for building and deploying our Win11 cloud images and checking for Copilot, WinStore, OneDrive, and other bs is part of the checklist because the person from whom I inherited the task warned me that it's happened multiple times to him. Of course, that was Cortana before Copilot, but they're still pushy.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-08 23:26:41+00:00
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by taneq | 2025-10-08 23:27:52+00:00
As a self employed business owner I should definitely start billing us as “employee owned”.

I’m unaware of any tax avoidance advantages but I should ask my accountant (pretty sure he’ll say no though. :D )

I’ve actually considered various ways of assigning non-voting shares in the past as a way to grant employees some skin in the game without ceding control or permanently diluting ownership. It’s not a ‘startup’ in the HN sense so handing out shares willy nilly doesn’t make sense.
by poizan42 | 2025-10-08 23:28:07+00:00
You can find statistics about number of people born in Denmark in a given year with a given name at https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-ti...

There are 119 people born in 1995 with first name Joachim, and 123 in 1994. So probably somewhere around 120 30-year old Joachims in Denmark right now. About 3.75% of the population lives in Aalborg. So assuming an even distribution of 30-years old Joachims, we would expect 4-5 people in Aalborg. There seems to be a very good chance that there is only one possible software engineer named Joachim then.
by haberman | 2025-10-08 23:28:46+00:00
The article says exactly this in bold at the bottom:

> If you can break up a task into many parts, each of which is highly local, then memory access in each part will be O(1). GPUs are already often very good at getting precisely these kinds of efficiencies. But if the task requires a lot of memory interdependencies, then you will get lots of O(N^⅓) terms. An open problem is coming up with mathematical models of computation that are simple but do a good job of capturing these nuances.