MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flextheruler | 2025-10-11 14:42:36+00:00
The point is he deserved to be remembered well but due to recency bias and the severity of whatever he did during the end stages of his disease he will not be. I personally suffered immense trauma in my early 20s when I moved to a really cheap place. My parents refused to believe me that there was a black mold and general mold problem in the place I was living and that it was causing me psychological distress and flaring up my eczema. Despite all evidence that I had they dismissed it because I had told them I was depressed beforehand. They are not very in touch with empathy or compassion or mental health. Very old-fashioned view that these things are character flaws which are not to be spoken of. Anyways they dismissed my concerns did not read my messages or view my pictures of personal property being destroyed and the landlord not responding to me, the whole rental was illegitimate and I had identified that early on they even ignored that I got a scalp infection which I had to take oral anti-fungal medication to get rid of. The preponderance of evidence was so overwhelming, but for whatever reason they could not admit I had been right and that they were wrong and refused to help me and actively discouraged me from taking legal action or even to move home for months. Eventually I was blessed with an extended relative who gave me shelter. During one of the worst parts of this period my parents even went so far as to assert that what was actually happening to me was the onset of paranoid schizophrenia. I was close to the right age and sex for it to happen. I knew that paranoid schizophrenics often become homeless and violent and the general awfulness of the condition. If it was not for my own investigation that there was no family history of it and a friend who believed what I was saying and told me that I needed to leave the house and then finally extended family I had a plan to no longer exist. This was partially out of not wanting to be remembered badly, but also so many other things like; not wanting to hurt my loved ones, not wanting to hurt strangers, not wanting to slowly degrade into an unstable and potentially dangerous person and of course the median life expectancy for that condition is so low. I lacked the constitution to allow myself to become someone who would likely damage the world and severely damage those close to me so my logical conclusion based on a false premise during those couple days was to nip it in the bud so to speak as it's a progressive condition. My relationship with my parents has not been the same since, but how could it be. I am forever indebted to a friend and extended family... they quite literally saved my life.

The end point being that with the parents I have there was nearly a guaranteed outcome of only objectively bad things happening for me, for them, for people around me. During that state I saw my plan as honorable and wrote it down in what I was to leave to explain my actions.
by nomilk | 2025-10-11 14:42:38+00:00
> The Qantas data, which was stolen from a Salesforce database in a major cyber-attack in June, included customers’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

Curious, what's the worst a bad actor do with name, email address, phone number and birth date?
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-11 14:42:39+00:00
Euthanization of the disabled has been a consistent part of the eugenics movement. For example George Bernard Shaw quote

> A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Shaw and other Fabian Society members were supporters of the group now called Dignity in Dying [0], which used to be called The Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society and was founded by a doctor.

Nazi Germany committed involuntary euthanasia of disabled people in a program called Aktion T4 [1]. It's probably not an accident that Dr Kevorkian, an American, started publishing his euthanasia papers in Germany. Before that he was trying to harvest blood and organs from inmates, which is another area where the incentives seem very bad.

I can't comment on how often modern assisted suicide programs recommend it to disabled people who don't want suicide. But it's clear that Kevorkian was not careful about who he recommended assisted suicide to. So given the strong desire of some people to euthanize the disabled against their will, the lack of carefulness is concerning and suggests that it likely happens with some regularity except in exceptionally run programs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_in_Dying

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-11 14:42:41+00:00
I think it would be pretty hard to power it.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-BTUs-would-you-need-to-cool-j...

>So we have to pump 150 + 22 = 172 watts of heat up a thermal gradient of 10C — more if it's hotter. If I assume a slightly pessimistic factor of 2 for the heat pump, that's an electrical input of about 85 watts to the heat pump, plus some to run fans and coolant pumps in the suit — my guess is that you need a minimum of around 250 watts to power the suit.

>Sounds distinctly unpleasant to wear.

>Edit:: and if the cooling stops, get out of the suit quickly, before you roast.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-11 14:43:00+00:00
> Well, CALL and RETURN need a stack: RETURN would need an address to return to. So there you go.

I agree with the sentiment but you're making an impermissible contraction here. Look at how ARM calls work—the instructions are "bl <addr>" (branch and link) and "bx lr" (branch to register, lr). "bl" just stores the return address in the link register. The stack is something the machine code does on top of that. Of course the CPUs are optimised for standard ways of doing that, but it's not inherent to the system.
by skatingaway | 2025-10-11 14:43:13+00:00
You do realize if this your strategy, you must own that domain FOREVER. Whomever purchases that domain after it expires now owns all your email aliases. Assuming you do a good job of changing all your emails at every service you ever used, there is still that potential leak. Large cloud services such as google do not allow name reuse. Of course paying for a domain name forever is probably still a better idea than a provider who can be purchased, but just a reminder!!
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-11 14:43:58+00:00
> Well, but what if I ain't a christian nor a buddhist and don't think suffering as a normal living condition is necessary? (Can you proof it is? Also I don't think all christians/buddhists share that believe)

At the very least, suffering (through childbirth) is a prerequisite to bringing life into this world.

edit: strange that this is flagged. my parent asked for proof that suffering is inherent in life, and I don't know anyone who has said that the physical act of giving birth is anything but painful.
by bityard | 2025-10-11 14:44:04+00:00
I don't see what that has to do with my comment, but okay: A lot less than are unwillingly bringing undue burden and stress to their family and neighbors because there is no legal mechanism to avoid it. Even fewer if we acknowledge that assisted suicide should be an option with a very high bar for those who would qualify. I wrote another comment about one way it might work.
by kstenerud | 2025-10-11 14:44:17+00:00
We'll have to agree to disagree, then. Technologies such as the GPU provided such massive improvements that you either had to get on-board or be left behind. It was the same with assembly line vehicle production, and then robot vehicle production. Some technological enhancements are so significant that disruption is inevitable, despite current "lock-ins".

And that's fine. We're never going to reach 100% efficiency in anything, ever (or 90% for that matter). We're always going to go with what works now, and what requires the least amount of retooling - UNLESS it's such a radical efficiency change that we simply must go along. THOSE are the innovations people actually care about. The 10-20% efficiency improvements, not so much (and rightly so).
by ipython | 2025-10-11 14:44:19+00:00
There is no non-IoT 2.4ghz network in my design. All "fast" devices are on a 5ghz only network. The only 2.4ghz network is dedicated to IoT devices. This also eliminates the need for devices to hunt and roam between 5ghz and 2.4ghz unnecessarily. Just need to balance tx power to make sure the 5ghz handoffs are as smooth as possible between APs.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-11 14:45:28+00:00
It is surprisingly hard in NL; we have familiar Alzheimer and had some practice by now, but it is very easy (depressingly so) to arrange your assisted suicide for when you get Alzheimer a long time upfront and still not get it because you did something wrong in the procedures/paperwork and end up going through all the suffering you planned out not to go through. It is not 'oh then they just sit in a home without memories'; it is a devastating process definitely far worse than death.
by dj_mc_merlin | 2025-10-11 14:46:20+00:00
> If consumers actually want unique local flavors an non-frozen foods, and are willing to pay a premium for it, sysco would have never gotten a foothold.

This is rooted in the assumption that capitalism provides what people want, rather than the worst that they will still accept. Endlessly cutting costs and then blaming the tastes of the consumer is why people put out anti-corporation pieces like the original video. That is not to say that Sysco is not operating logically.. but if the best move in a system leads to an unfavourable outcome for those that should benefit from it, then the system itself is the problem. Or another way to phrase it: there is a reason why that video resonated with many people that goes beyond trying to blame others for your problems.
by dijit | 2025-10-11 14:47:23+00:00
I get why you'd say the web versions are "pretty good" for most people, and I agree they've improved, but I think that's only true if you're doing basic stuff. The moment you hit a complex corporate or academic document, the web version of Office falls apart. It's materially worse than even LibreOffice when you consider a power user's reality.

The real killer is Excel. The web version has zero support for crucial tools like Power Query or Power Pivot, which are essential for any modern data analysis. You can't run, edit, or even create serious VBA/Macros, and advanced data validation and conditional formatting are stripped down to the bone.

For Word, if you're in law or academia, forget it. Features like Table of Authorities or Table of Figures are either completely missing or so simplified they are useless. Even the ability to handle standard APA or MLA citation styles is heavily cut down compared to the desktop app.

And for PowerPoint? You lose access to serious third party add-ins, and the granular control over animations and timers that professionals need just isn't there.

So, while the web version might be fine for a quick edit of a simple file, if you need to reliably work with a complex document from a Windows-based company, the compatibility issues and missing features will force you into a desktop app eventually. If you're going to be forced into a desktop experience anyway, you might as well bite the bullet and go LibreOffice for its feature completeness on Linux/FreeBSD.

It's a stronger bet than relying on Microsoft's cut-down web versions.
by whycome | 2025-10-11 14:47:29+00:00
In the future, our phone contacts will store name, address, phone number, voice model. (The messed up part will be that the user doesn’t necessarily send their model, but the model could be crafted from previous calls)

You could probably also transmit a low res grayscale version of the video to “map” any local reproduction to. Kinda like how a low resolution image could be reasonably reproduced if an artist knew who the subject was.
by nedt | 2025-10-11 14:47:55+00:00
Yeah I've also build a Phoniebox a couple of years ago for my kid. It has physical buttons, RFID cards or chips (some hidden in plush toys) and works very much like tonies, but with much easier access to anything you want to put on it. It's all in a wooden box including speakers. I've later extended it with a powerbank.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-11 14:48:08+00:00
That's unrealistic. The problem is most restaurants in America exist in rural areas in commercial food deserts and are almost entirely dependent upon mega broadline suppliers that have merged into de facto oligopolies. Furthermore, by offering a wealth of finished items, in addition to ingredients and supplies, it's seductive to restaurants use these boring, lazy, pre-made offerings rather than cooking from scratch like respectable restaurants that do the work and pay the cost of sourcing quality ingredients, taking the time to do the preparation, and cooking good food.
by Retric | 2025-10-11 14:48:24+00:00
It’s better for startup investors if it goes big or fails sooner. That’s the entire purpose of investing 100’s of millions into these companies.

If the CEO has no idea how to do that they should shut down the company or stand aside and find a better CEO, not try and milk as much money from they can by keeping the company shambling along as long as possible.
by mwigdahl | 2025-10-11 14:48:29+00:00
The problem is that you're talking about a multistep process where each step beyond the first depends on the particular path the agent starts down, along with human input that's going to vary at each step.

I made a crude first stab at an approach that at least uses similar steps and structure to compare the effectiveness of AI agents. My approach was used on a small toy problem, but one that was complex enough the agents couldn't one-shot and required error correction.

It was enough to show significant differences, but scaling this to larger projects and multiple runs would be pretty difficult.

https://mattwigdahl.substack.com/p/claude-code-vs-codex-cli-...
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-11 14:49:20+00:00
Being a US citizen doesn't mean anything in a combat zone. You can't pause the battle and have a trial.

As far as drone killings, would you prefer airstrikes that have high collateral damage? Drone warfare is inevitable. But the upside is you don't risk expensive pilots but also they can be more precise and lead to less "boots on the ground" scenarios. I am much a critic of him, but this ain't it for me. Maybe allowing ISIS to prosper would be a better criticism.
by runarberg | 2025-10-11 14:49:23+00:00
Unlike <div> and <span>, <output> becomes part of the form and you can target it as a named form item, e.g.

<form id="my-form"> <input name="number" type="number"> <output name="result"></output> </form> <script> const myForm = document.getElementById("my-form"); const inputField = document.elements.namedItem("number"); const outputField = document.elements.namedItem("result"); outputField.textContent = inputField.valueAsNumber ** 2; </script>
by dclowd9901 | 2025-10-11 14:49:34+00:00
You're talking about currency formatting while they are talking about currency value. In essence, you're both correct.

They are correct in that if you're displaying a currency value, you have to know which currency it is in, right? It wouldn't make sense for the server to be "unaware" of the locale of the value.

That said, your comment sidesteps that issue and addresses how the number itself is displayed, since ultimately the value itself is a number, but different locales display numbers differently.

So the person you're responding to is asking: since the server ostensibly already knows which currency it's in, shouldn't it already be formatting the value appropriately, and that's more a question of where one thinks localization formatting should ultimately live in web app context.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-11 14:49:45+00:00
The article (and a lot of comments here) confuse C with the psABI (platform specific ABI, which is what really defines conventions —more than just calling— for executable code.)

Due to history, yes, most psABIs are "do what C does". But the real problem isn't C rigidly frozen, it's psABIs designed around these "classical" programming models. E.g. none of the Linux psABIs even have a concept of "message passing", let alone more creative deviations from 'good ole' imperative code.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-11 14:49:57+00:00
Ok. I am impressed with your ability to take such complex subjects and make them plain, you are delivering very high quality here. The subject is absolutely underserved in the industry as far as I'm aware of it, and I would love to have a book that I can hand out to people working on software in critical infrastructure and life sciences that gets them up to speed. The annoying thing is that software skills are values much higher than the ability to accurate model the risks because that is only seen as a function of small choices standing by themselves. A larger, overall approach is what is very often called for and it would help to have a tool in hand to both make that case and to give the counterparty the vocabulary and the required understanding of the subject in order to have a meaningful conversation.

Edit: please post your link from above as a separate submission.
by vunderba | 2025-10-11 14:49:58+00:00
Honestly I was shocked that it didn't debut with the ability to "sync with any Macbook/Studio/etc" and all the currently running applications would show up as separate floating windows within ostensible spatial computing environment - each of which could be moved around / resized / manipulated at will.

That way you get all the computing power of your main work machine, and enjoy the freedom of 3d computing. I know a lot of people dismiss spatial computing as a gimmick, but as somebody who does a huge amount of work walking around my house while writing on my whiteboards, I really enjoy being able to work in a non-static way.

Instead as I understand it, it just creates a single resizable floating monitor pane that is just a crappy mirror of what's displayed on your Macbook - not nearly as cool.

Also the front-facing virtual avatar display might be the biggest "who the hell wants this" added expense on a device that's already 7 times the price of the Quest.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-11 14:50:22+00:00
This you can do somewhere? My bank asks me 20 questions (many like my first pet name, the last transaction I did etc) and then calls me back on the registered phone number. That data alone should get you nothing really. For credit here , small or large, you have to prove you are you or you get a nice police escort. Most of these apps, even if you are already registered, want you to tap your passport to nfc and scan your face for anything serious.
by zzzeek | 2025-10-11 14:51:42+00:00
scam call you with further fake extortions like "I'm in jail mom you need to bail me out!" since they have birthdates they can target older people for this. my mom has received at least four of these calls, since I always get the "ARE YOU OK? WAS THAT A SCAM?" phone call afterwards. the first time it happened, they were about to go to the bank to wire money when dad said, "let's try calling his cell!"

we'd like to think these scams are stupid but unfortunately they work
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by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-11 14:52:27+00:00
A PDS is just a docker image of a TS node app w/ sqlite that can run on effectively no hardware at all (someone got one running on a microwave once upon a time).

A relay is also fairly trivial to set up and can be orchestrated via docker I believe. You can run them on a raspberry pi as long as you have a half decent internet connection.

The tangled appview runs on a single machine w/ like 4 cores and a few gigs of ram.

You can run a knot (git host for tangled) on pretty much any hardware.

And a spindle (CI runner for tangled) on anything that meets the requirements for your CI ops.

It's multiple moving parts which increases complexity but IIRC they also all have nix flake support as well so orchestrating all of the moving parts together via nix is increasingly trivial.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-11 14:53:13+00:00
Good C has minimal allocations because you, the human, are the memory allocator. It's up to your own meat brain to correctly track memory allocation and deallocation. Over the last century, C programmers have converged on some best practices to manage this more effectively. We statically allocate, kick allocations up the call chain as far as possible. Anything to get that bit of tracked state out of your head.

But we use different approaches for different languages because those languages are designed for that approach. You can do OOP in C and you can do manual memory management in C#. Most people don't because it's unnecessarily difficult to use languages in a way they aren't designed for. Plus when you re-invent a wheel like "classes" you will inevitably introduce a bug you wouldn't have if you'd used a language with proper support for that construct. You can use a hammer to pull out a screw, but you'd do a much better job if you used a screwdriver instead.

Programming languages are not all created equal and are absolutely not interchangeable. A language is much, much more than the text and grammar. The entire reason we have different languages is because we needed different ways to express certain classes of problems and constructs that go way beyond textual representation.

For example, in a strictly typed OOP language like C#, classes are hideously complex under the hood. Miles and miles of code to handle vtables, inheritance, polymorphism, virtual, abstract functions and fields. To implement this in C would require effort far beyond what any single programmer can produce in a reasonable time. Similarly, I'm sure one could force JavaScript to use a very strict typing and generics system like C#, but again the effort would be enormous and guaranteed to have many bugs.

We use different languages in different ways because they're different and work differently. You're asking why everyone twists their screwdrivers into screws instead of using the back end to pound a nail. Different tools, different uses.
by techjamie | 2025-10-11 14:54:24+00:00
3b monthly users would mean nearly half of the entire world's population is on Facebook at least once per month. No matter how you shake it, that's simply not a realistic number, even before you consider people that live in areas with no internet, or regimes that disallow sites like Facebook, children too young to even possibly use Facebook, so on.

It wouldn't surprise me if the total number of real users, not counting bots and alt accounts, is probably ~1b or less.
by stevenwoo | 2025-10-11 14:55:26+00:00
I could imagine the one described in speculative fiction that works by directly affecting the neurons in the brain to simulate a sensory organ input could be acceptable with a non invasive, comfortable interface, but it's essentially like magic for foreseeable future, i.e. off the top of my head, Three Body Problem with aliens making countdown appear in people's vision or The Expanse with aliens making pretty much anything appear in people's vision and hearing. Creating content for such a beast and transferring the data from source to destination are also big practical issues.