MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blibble | 2025-10-10 17:17:06+00:00
> Nadella has guided valuations and stock targets that are simply unobtainable without this growth

I read a couple of articles and he seems to have been completely suckered in by the damn thing

from https://archive.is/oWbZB#selection-2387.572-2401.668

> Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

this is no different to ending up in an alternate reality populated by your AI "girlfriends"

and will produce similar results
by deadbabe | 2025-10-10 17:17:35+00:00
My problem with apprenticeship is that my workflow simply isn’t optimized for performative demonstration. It’s messy, haphazard, and a junior would have to sit around watching me do a whole lot of nothing at times. I don’t want to teach, I want to get work done.

Juniors need to just accept they will have to learn the hard way, on their own, asking occasional questions and looking at tutorials until stuff sticks.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 17:17:53+00:00
(1) this was a jet, not a turboprop

Edit: changed turbofan into turbprop, which is what I meant.

(2) fuel burned stays burned, you don't 'get it back'

(3) the altitude gained may have been adjusted to account for the low fuel situation

(4) the winds are a major factor here, far larger than the fact that 'what goes up must come down', something that is already taken into account when computing the fuel reserve in the first place.
by WorldPeas | 2025-10-10 17:18:04+00:00
I use a NEC OPS module tv I got on facebook marketplace as a digital signage monitor. Best purchase I've made yet, though I will admit the feet for it being 200 dollars was quite a shock (they're made out of steel and about 2 feet long each so it makes sense) completely dumb tv, takes all inputs from HDMI to component and has features like auto-sleep without any real smarts inside. I love it.
by legitster | 2025-10-10 17:18:11+00:00
> The following month, the president said his administration would not approve solar or wind power projects. “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” he posted on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”

Excuse my harshness, but what a moron. It's literally free power from the sun.

I know that there's still lots of hydrocarbons in the ground still, but these guys know it's not infinite or free, right?
by ruuda | 2025-10-10 17:18:44+00:00
It says so at https://repo.or.cz/uk-blocked.html:

> UK's Online Safety Act 2023 would require us to do a prohibitively complicated risk assessment for our service. We're talking reading through thousands of pages of legal guidelines.

> We're a volunteer operation and would likely be held responsible as individuals. There is talk of fines up to 18 million GBP which would ruin any single one of us, should they get creative about how to actually enforce this.

> Our impression is that this law is deliberately vague, deliberately drastic in its enforcement provisions, and specifically aimed against websites of all sizes, including hobby projects. In other words, this seems to us to be largely indistinguishable from an attempt to basically break the internet for all UK citizens.

> If we could afford to just hope for the best, we'd love to.

The way I understand this is that it's not feasible for them to assess how the legislation impacts them, so they would rather stay safe than risk having their lives destroyed.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-10 17:19:17+00:00
When I was a beginner in school we got "hello world" as an example, and were on our own from there.

Of course things were much simpler. You had an editor, and a compiler that you ran from the command line. At some point you would learn about Makefiles, but not before you would appreciate their value.

And there was no CI, no source control, no IDEs, no TDD frameworks.

I can see that throwing a brand new developer into something like Visual Studio would be overwhelming. Even I find it overwhelming after three decades. I still use emacs and a shell.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-10 17:19:41+00:00
Putting a theory of "you shouldn't trust pilots" into ATC breaks the entire system.

It is a system built out of very regulated parts, very professional people, and tight controls.

Pilots are encouraged to be very forward and proactive about fuel situations because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_052

Minimum fuel requirements are calculated as "Time of fuel for cruise to certain points", which is usually good enough, but if an Airport is stupid busy, or has bad wind patterns, just a couple go-arounds will chew through your fuel way faster than the regulation expects.

Turbofan engines are also dramatically less efficient at low altitude than high altitude cruise. So holding at low altitudes because a congested airport is dealing with traffic will chew through your reserves much faster than you expect.

Ryanair flies short hops to congested airports. They will have relatively low reserves, and you should expect them to run into "Hey we are low on fuel" more often than international flights for example.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-10 17:19:54+00:00
California has massive penetration of distributed solar to the point that solar supply exceeds total grid demand much of the time, making the marginal value of additional solar generation very low.

Which is a pretty big difference when comparing viability of utility solar installations in California to anywhere else in the country.

And I assume the particular California plant you are talking about is the big solar thermal/natural gas hybrid plant that was being built just as the big price drop in photovoltaics essentially made it obsolete, which barring unexpected breakthroughs on some competing technology, is a big difference from any not-already-obsolete system being considered now.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-10 17:20:16+00:00
I said eventually, and he did set the stage for the pull out. he could have done the opposite and established longer term commitments. Honestly, my view is that both countries should have been incorporated as US territories. $20tn is not a small amount, and by virtue of being the aggressors, they've lost their right to self-rule (yes, even in without wmd's Saddam was taunting support for US's enemies).
by 3D30497420 | 2025-10-10 17:20:21+00:00
From the article:

> Workers have complained of chemical burns from the waste material generated by the tunneling process, and firefighters must decontaminate their equipment after conducting rescues from the project sites. The company was fined more than $112,000 by Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in late 2023 after workers complained of “ankle-deep” water in the tunnels, muck spills and burns.

That sounds like a "real environmental hazard" to me.
by wantering | 2025-10-10 17:20:32+00:00
Three weeks ago, I generated my first Sora 2 video. Looked amazing. Except for that watermark. Googled "how to remove watermark from video." Every tutorial started with "Open Adobe Premiere Pro..." I don't have Premiere Pro. And honestly? I didn't want to learn it just to remove a tiny logo. So I did what any lazy developer would do - spent a weekend building this: https://nanophoto.ai/remove-watermark-sora-2 Paste your Sora link → 5 seconds → clean 1080p video. Done. The irony? Building the tool probably took longer than learning Premiere. But now I use it daily and it saves me hours. Sometimes being lazy leads to the best solutions.
by paxys | 2025-10-10 17:21:34+00:00
Leadership - "All employees are required to use AI and be X% more productive"

Employees find that AI tools are useless and don't increase productivity.

Leaders say - You are using the tools wrong. Figure it out.

Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired.

Company does layoffs under the guise of "we replaced workers with AI" and the stock market rewards them for it.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-10-10 17:21:45+00:00
Second guessing a pilot saying they have a problem is a really bad idea. ATC second guessing an emergency is a really bad idea. Making a pilot explain why they're actually low on fuel, despite whatever some computer is saying, instead of focusing on flying the plane is a really, really bad idea.

Also, that sort of telemetry does exist for most major airlines, however it goes via satellite to the airline not the ATC.
by sfarshid | 2025-10-10 17:22:20+00:00
tried reproducing the "Sycophant Problem" example in ChatGPT but couldn't.

A: https://chatgpt.com/share/68e940a1-953c-8011-a8f2-3a1a0c51be... B: https://chatgpt.com/share/68e94067-ec74-8011-88e5-9d27670f31...
by alganet | 2025-10-10 17:22:47+00:00
The idea I'm trying to convey is that there's an upwards trend in history. Until very recently, we can say humanity was doing very good (awesome hits and a few blunders).

Think of a graph. Each time life unquestionably improves the graph goes up. On blunders, it goes down.

Now, even if you have lots of blunders, you can still point to a relative place in the past you were doing worse than now. You could claim "that in the big picture" you're ahead, despite having had a lot of recent blunders.

To avoid this illusion, we must always do the comparison step-by-step. Is now better than 10 years ago? and that was better or worse than further 10 years prior? and so on. If you consider that this is the way of doing this, then this line of reasoning becomes unviable.

Furthermore, history is not segmented in equally distributed steps. The further you go into the past, the larger are the segments, and lower is your resolution to see what happened. It's another illusion.

Do you understand why comparing _exactly now_ with _exactly 500 years ago_ while conveniently hiding a lot of in-betweens is a fallacy? It could be that it's right, and we're on a win streak, but the very means the argument uses to showcase this idea are, in principle, not very solid and could hide a lie.

I often prefers ways of investigating history that cannot possibly hide lies within, which leads me to question when someone tries to push a way that could be hiding a lie or not.

It's definitely not about my quality of life. Also, the critique I'm making to what I called "snapshot" comparisons could be used for any other similar metric. The discretization of steps and the choice of snapshots can hide misinformation, and it represents an unreliable line of reasoning.
by kbolino | 2025-10-10 17:22:54+00:00
I don't see this mentioned anywhere else, but Go may start experimenting with rearranging struct fields at some point. The marker type structs.HostLayout has been added in Go 1.24 to indicate that you want the struct to follow the platform's layout rules (think of it like #[repr(C)] in Rust). This may become necessary to ensure the padding actually sits between the two falsely shared fields. You could combine it with the padding technique like this:

type PaddedExample struct { _ structs.HostLayout Field1 int64 _ [56]byte Field2 int64 }
by dcchambers | 2025-10-10 17:23:27+00:00
Especially crazy considering the 737 is not a particularly large commercial aircraft.

40kg/minute is around 12 gallons (47 liters) of fuel per minute. Meanwhile a 777 burns around 42 gallons (160 liters) per minute. A 747 burns 63 gallons (240 liters) per minute - more than a gallon per second!
by JohnFen | 2025-10-10 17:23:34+00:00
You should not believe any of the claims genAI companies make about their products. They just straight-up lie. For example:

> Several PhD-level reasoning models have been released since September of 2024

This is not true. What's true is that several models have been released that the companies have claimed to be "PhD-level" (whatever that means), but so far none of them have actually demonstrated such a trait outside of very narrow and contrived use cases.
by duxup | 2025-10-10 17:23:47+00:00
I'm still not sure what Apple's plans are with the Vision Pro / use case is.

It was pretty clearly NOT VR when released, but that didn't keep a lot of coverage talking about it like it is VR. The best use case I saw was sort of a augmented reality glasses where you could set a spot in your house where there was a timer, like in a kitchen over a pot and another timer elsewhere. That at least did something ...

But here with an NBA "court side" like experience we seem to be leaning into VR like experience.

Usually with Apple devices I already know what I would do with it, Vision Pro seems like a platform looking for a use case.
by nxobject | 2025-10-10 17:24:17+00:00
For context, this is the whole list of metrics measured by their Eye of Sauron tool, Viva Insights – it seems to be split between Outlook, Teams, Office, and Copilot data. The Outlook and Teams stuff seems to relate to time spent on their individual platforms, but the Copilot-by-app stuff is hilarious.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/advanced/ref...

I look forward to the equivalent of a mouse jiggler.
by MBCook | 2025-10-10 17:24:21+00:00
I thought a lot of airlines had rules to limit the number of attempts you could make at a single airfield in an attempt to prevent this exact kind of situation.

It sounds to me like they tried harder at their intended destination than maybe they should have, followed by going to an alternate airport that probably wasn’t a good choice in the first place, and then having to divert to the final airport where luckily they could land in time.
by lukan | 2025-10-10 17:24:24+00:00
But if real, indicates, that he does take it serious. Eat your own dogfood and all that.

I do not see it as AI girlfriend. I see it as pushing the limits of the technology for productivity.

" Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages"

But .. I would never do that, without also having a human check what important bits don't get through.
by r14c | 2025-10-10 17:24:32+00:00
That is surprising. I didn't have much trouble getting LSP working either in og or neovim. My editor config is fairly barebones by preference, so its not like I spend a lot of time editing my configs either. I will say, Lua is a lot more ergonimic than vimscript for a lot of things, but I appreciate that I can still use the old ways at times. Like ALE isn't leaving my config unless I'm forced to remove it for some reason.

I hope they're happy using helix tho
by keybored | 2025-10-10 17:24:48+00:00
All countries that have a regime have many factions: supporters, opposition, those who are well-intentioned and those who would just like their side to get into power again and suppress those others. Your lived experience as a Venezuelan is not imbued with some infallible essence that just wants peace and justice and good things; all people, also those who are telling the honest truth, have their own limited perspective and motivations and cannot speak for The Country alone.

We certainly accept this when the topic is some country that we know better here. We don’t accept the proclamation of an-ordinary-American as the infallible voice of the people. Why should we treat other countries differently?

So given the above, the other poster is within their right to compare tragedies and speculate about whether the price was deserved—it’s a competition—, and you can’t trump that by saying “but my lived experience”.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-10 17:24:55+00:00
1 - a turbofan is a subset of jet engine, and there are no 738s running anything other than a turbofan.

Actually, nothing in civil aviation that has a "jet engine" has used anything but a turbofan (or turboprop) since the early 70s with the exception of Concorde and some older business jets.

(Turboprops are jet engines, too, to be precise, with the jet of exhaust gases powering the propeller.)
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-10 17:24:57+00:00
Trump is a jerk. and he makes a million promises and keeps like 10. He isn't the type of person that is afraid of looking bad because he broke a promise, he's more likely to use a peace prize to justify violence because after all, it has to be someone else's fault since he has a peace prize awarded to him.

Maybe there should be other prizes for life time achievement or something, but the Nobel committee seems to be intent on promoting peace instead of giving kudos to someone.

I think neither obama or trump qualify, even to promote peace. it implies that they are law makers. in the US, the president is supposed to be an executive that takes actions, not a legislator that has the power to start or end wars. Treat them like kings and be surprised when one of them dumb enough to think he actually is one starts acting like it. that's the state of things unfortunately.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-10-10 17:25:17+00:00
The most annoying problem I run into with strongly typed languages or even typed python for that matter, is what on earth do I expect this to return?

With python, it could be a mysterious class that isn't explicitly mentioned.

For Rust, you often need to know 4 layers deep of nested types for various error and flow control, and once generics are introduced with the expectation of implemented traits, it all goes out the window.

If I need to declare the type of a value ahead of time, or know it's shape to serialize, check, etc, I want a very clear "this is what it returns, this is how it's expected to be used".
by freedomben | 2025-10-10 17:26:06+00:00
Speaking from personal experience running a non-profit seeking to disrupt the entrenched prison communications industry, there have been several. FCC data reporting requirements that took an FTE 200 hours to complete, accessibility requirements that have to be in place before you can (legally) even launch a pilot or MVP, endless legalese documents to parse through, compliance requirements that have to be checked even if they don't make any sense for the application, and some of the best ones: arbitrary requirements like "to be eligible for a proposal/contract, you must be in business at least 10 years and have a minimum $50M in annual revenue" (a requirement clearly written by our incumbent competitors to exclude us that was adopted by the regulators). Oh and all of that stuff you have to deal with before you can even close your first deal.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-10-10 17:26:08+00:00
> I think the literal fear of death _might_ be motivation enough for pilots to advocate for safety?

You'd think, but individual humans are very very bad at estimating risk, and in toxic group and work situations, humans will often take on increased personal risk rather than risk conflict. I.e., they will value group conformity over their own safety ... especially if their paycheck is involved. Fear of death is not nearly as powerful as robust regulation and unions.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-10-10 17:26:13+00:00
David Frum talked at length about self-abasement in MAGA public culture in his recent podcast for the Atlantic[1].

> I think it also becomes a real test of in-group loyalty to see who can outcompete in slavishness the other members of the circle, who are also competing to be slavish. That’s why you get these strange [phenomena] like Donald Trump’s physicians claiming that he’s the most physically vigorous president ever.

> Now, even when Donald Trump was younger, he was a big man, but he was never a great athlete. And now, as he approaches his 80th birthday, he’s obviously not physically fit.

> The fact is, you’re not just willing to tell a lie, but tell a lie that abases you, that makes you look foolish, that makes you look like you don’t care about yourself at all, that you only defer to the leader. That’s the real sign of loyalty. It’s flattery that is not meant to be believed but functions as a kind of system of in-group recognition.

To me, this is a perfect mirror to Chairman Mao (supposedly) swimming across the Yangtze River in his 70s at a pace faster than an Olympic champion of today.

There’s no meaning to any of it. It’s just propaganda and self-abasement for the purpose of loyalty competition to the leader. In fact, the more ludicrous, the better, because it means you’re willing to fully destroy any personal credibility you may have as a sacrifice to show loyalty.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/the-dav...
by jitl | 2025-10-10 17:26:31+00:00
It's more like they sell a truck, but disable it remotely if I drive more than 50 miles a day. And I want to drive unlimited miles.

> then you start getting into additional costs, controlling how much of your metrics are surfaced vs. kept internal, etc

I don't know what this means. In my experience with anything sold B2B, all the terms are negotiable. If you want unlimited everything, you can ask for that.
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-10 17:27:00+00:00
FWIW that stuff was put in the Java tutorial (not sure if this is still the case today). The "Visual Index to the Swing Components"[0] (a copy i found online from ~2003) shows JLabel with an image and the docs even begin with "With the JLabel class, you can display unselectable text and images.".

[0] https://fizyka.umk.pl/~jacek/docs/javatutorial/uiswing/compo...
by fernly | 2025-10-10 17:28:01+00:00
Some quite random claims here, can anyone provide citations?

> GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch

Especially "design novel forms of life" blinks "Citation required" in neon colors.

The article goes on from there with a lot of very credible, real-world jail-break examples. But that opener...
by jmhmd | 2025-10-10 17:28:16+00:00
I agree with this sentiment. I have always wished, maybe naively, for the type of computing environment that makes possible things you see in sci-fi movies and shows, where someone can simple "route all power to the forward lazers!" or "use the power cells from your rifle to keep life support systems online!" This imaginary world where technological components are trivially interchangeable, compatible, reusable. My impression is that if you even asked a smartphone hardware engineer to replace a broken iPhone camera with a leftover working camera from an Android phone that, at best it would be an extraordinarily difficult task, and at worst, just may not be possible.
by maxglute | 2025-10-10 17:28:24+00:00
> Not everything wrong that happens in the world is because an empire is meddling, we are also capable of being useless by ourselves!

A petrostate kleptocracy can still trickle down enough scraps for it's people. An empire that controls global markets that sanctions an petrostate kleptocracy into just a kleptocracy, can't. The reality is no amount of competent governance is going to enable a petrostate like VZ to not be a shitshow if it's sanctioned from maintaining extractive infra (techstack controlled by empire) or sell in global markets. It's not about just being useless, but the inability to be useful no matter what you do. Yes, VZ got fucked from oil $100->$40 pre sanctions, but that's still a survivable/pivotable scenario than oil production going from 3 mbd to 400k mbd due to sanctions that prevents reconstitution of production. There's a reason economic freefall stabilized when Cheveron got license in 2022 that brought production back up to 1mbd.

Now you can argue a "competent" government would have conceded to Monroe (like Machado) in the first place, or not pissed off US in backyard. Like, I get it, you're living through the shit, but don't be economically/geopolitically naive, US didn't sanction VZ because muh democracy decline under Muduro when US props up other petro authoritarian MENA states. The only difference is US meddle with those that align with US interests and not, and US meddling is what makes or breaks petro states.