MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-10-03 04:30:36+00:00
> extremely prolific author,

prolific self-published author of free things on the internet sometimes also sold as books

> software engineer

along with many others who wrote great things in 2005! but what lately? the setup script called omarachy?

> entrepreneur

again, we're two decades from anything I'd call entrepreneurial

babies have born and can vote since the last major wave DHH made, but he's great at soundbites and attention cycles
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-03 04:31:10+00:00
Okay, that made me chuckle. As someone[1] who has also predicted the opportunity for hobby robots based on my experience with home computers. And yet that has really never materialized. I mean there are common household robots today, things like Roombas and robot lawn mowers, but the whole "app" ecosystem, a robot that can do lots of different things, Etc. is still not in the cards. Part of that has to do with how insanely hard vision to inverse kinematics is, "fuzzy logic" was going to fix that before, now "AI" is the buzzword of choice, but realistically you need a lot of things to go right to make this work.

Back in the day we had everyone in the club set some goals for their robot, mine were simple; on voice command, have my robot go to a special refrigerator, get out a cold Diet Dr. Pepper, replace it with one from stock, then bring the cold one to me, where ever I was in the house.

Even allowing for a lot of customized environment to support the robot that is a really high bar today (much less in 1998 when I was thinking I'd have it working by the early 2000's)

End effectors, vision, custom fridge that an open electonically on demand with structured storage to hold beverages in pre-specified places, etc etc. I could probably get a lot closer.

Of course my eldest child could do that at 3 years old without any programming at all and no custom engineering of the appliances. So some things seem effortless for people are really challenging for computers.

[1] I was President of the Home Brew Robotics Club (hbrc.org) for 10 years around the turn of the century (after Dick Prather had been President for 10 years and before Wayne Gramlich became President for 10 years :-)
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 04:31:21+00:00
> The point is that surrender is something that has to be negociated.

It actually doesn't have to be negotiated, one side can simply make a demand for surrender with their terms and then apply military pressure until capitulation. This is largely what happened with Germany/Japan in WW2.

> By organizing boring meetings with negociators and never killing them.

If it's clear the current negotiators/leaders will never surrender then there is arguably no benefit in keeping those particular negotiators/leaders alive. Once an organizations leadership tree is wiped out a few levels deep there's a decent chance you will get negotiators/leaders that will eventually capitulate to the demands(i.e. like what happened with Hezbollah).
by grogenaut | 2025-10-03 04:31:33+00:00
Note, linked article has no details. This sublinked article has some https://www.newsweek.com/3-dead-after-tesla-cybertruck-crash...

It's completely unclear to me from this article if they failed to open because of computer control or mechanical damage. The car was on fire, I think, that's not exactly a trivial crash (though the 2nd article a fire chief says it didn't look like heavy damage to cause a fire) And they only got 1 of 4 out before the rest died? It doesn't take much to make a door hard to open or a lock fail to operate. They were also intoxicated.

What scares me, as a new volunteer fire/ems, with these is how prone to fire they are and how hard it is to stop the fire once thermal runaway has started. Especially when you are trying to pull someone out.

But as I said I have no idea from this article what happened, incredibly badly written. I'm not a fan of tesla but it almost feels like a 0 data hit piece. It's very hard to understand anything from this article.
by leakycap | 2025-10-03 04:33:33+00:00
> How do they do this?

This isn't happening.

> How is the data obtained?

The web is a big plac, but you're spending too much time online andhaving repeat interactions with the same media. You need to spend time away from screens and with other people IRL.

> Is there a way to block it?

YES! Never visit 4chan again and spend way less time browsing aimlessly online, and not only will this problem stop - but many other issues in your life will likely resolve.
by iamartech | 2025-10-03 04:33:56+00:00
Location: New Delhi, India Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Tokio, Rust lang, Golang, python, linux, concurrent programming, systems programming, databases, REST, GRPC, Git

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KqigF1tSXciVMJiY0YqwnX8Z-H6...

Email: ar9tech@outlook.com

I am a systems software engineer specializing in low-level software design for backend systems. My professional experience spans multiple compiled languages, including Rust, C++, and Go. I have developed REST API servers, gRPC programs, and background job handlers/schedulers.

In Rust, I have extensive hands-on experience building low-level applications using the Tokio runtime, applying strong principles of distributed systems, and working with synchronization primitives such as Mutexes, RwLocks, and concurrent data structures. I also focus on performance optimizations that leverage the language’s zero-cost abstractions and memory model.

I place strong emphasis on building reliable test environments, using real-world testing methodologies such as unit tests, integration tests, concurrency stress tests, and fixture-based simulations.

I have worked with clients across several domains, including: - Image processing - Blockchain network layer design - Cloud infrastructure solutions

One of my most significant Rust projects was developing and deploying a web-based terminal access system for LXD containers running on bare-metal servers. This system leveraged Tokio for concurrency, TTYD for terminal emulation, and Caddy as the reverse proxy, with communication over Unix Domain Sockets. The solution also supported authentication. Efficient and scalable under configuration of environment.

I love playing with distributed system a lot and challenging myself to learn new concepts under this domain.
by couldai | 2025-10-03 04:34:26+00:00
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by necovek | 2025-10-03 04:34:38+00:00
Not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

US (and maybe the whole of Anglosaxon world) is a bit mired in this let's consider everything the worst case scenario: no, having a photo of your friend's naked kiddo they shared being funny at the beach or in the garden in your messenger app is not child pornography. The fact that there are extremely few people who might see it as sexual should not influence the overall population as much as it does.

For me, I wouldn't blink an eye to such an ad, but due to my exposure to US culture, I do feel uneasy about having photos like the above in my devices (to the point of also having a thought pass my mind when it's of my own kids mucking about).

I resist it because I believe it's the wrong cultural standard to adhere to: nakedness is not by default sexual, and especially with small kids before they develop any significant sexual characteristics.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-03 04:35:04+00:00
>All of these teens use Google Docs instead of OpenAI Docs, Google Meet instead of OpenAI Meet, Gmail instead of OpenAI Mail, etc.

Billions of people use Meta apps and products. Meta AI is all over all those apps. Why is usage minuscule compared to ChatGPT or even Gemini ? Google has billions of users, many using devices operating their own OS, in which Gemini is now the default AI assistant, so why does ChatGPT usage still dwarf Gemini's ?

People need to understand that just because you have users of product x, that doesn't mean you can just swoop in and convert them to product y even if you stuff it in their faces. Yes it's better than starting from scratch but that's about it. In the consumer LLM space, Open AI have by far the biggest brand and these mega conglomerates need to beat that and not the other way around. AI features in Google mail is not going to make people stop using GPT anymore than Edge being bundled in Windows will made people stop using Chrome.
by leakycap | 2025-10-03 04:36:15+00:00
With so many options popping up left and right, choosing one seems like a bad idea. Better options are coming out every month or so.

Save your notes in a folder on your device. When you have a use case for interacting with a tool, upload the parts of your notes and references that are relevant.

This way you can have any kind of file & also use it how you want.

I tried a ton of services. Most of them are extremely immature and not ready for you to dive in and use them as a real second brain.
by coppsilgold | 2025-10-03 04:36:36+00:00
There are also HTTP fingerprints. I believe it's named after akamai or something.

All of it is fairly easy to fake. JavaScript is the only thing that poses any challenge and what challenge it poses is in how you want to do it with minimal performance impact. The simple truth is that a motivated adversary can interrogate and match every single minor behavior of the browser to be bit-perfect and there is nothing anyone can do about it - except for TPM attestations which also require a full jailed OS environment in order to control the data flow to the TPM.

Even the attestation pathway can probably be defeated, either through the mandated(?) accessibility controls or going for more extreme measures. And putting the devices to work in a farm.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-03 04:40:08+00:00
Not really. There's no particular policy basis for objecting to biased sources, so this only comes up when

- An occasional newcomer tries to raise concerns, before being informed that it's pointless because Al Jazeera has been deemed reliable.

- Occasionally other reliable sources contradict Al Jazeera.

Both are quite rare compared to the vast number of Al Jazeera references.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-10-03 04:41:22+00:00
It's incredibly hard to teach a senior how to angle the phone correctly for face unlock to work (there's also no feedback that you've done it wrong). If you're using the power button, then you have to teach how to not hold it too long, or else, siri shows up. Or maybe you want them to use siri voice command, then you have to teach them to hold it down long enough (and there's no feedback if you're off of the spot you're supposed to swipe up from). Swipe to unlock (password or otherwise) was impossible.

I gave up and returned the phone.

I was desperately wishing some hipster had refurbished an old style rotary or physical push button phone with a Sim card, but not even that exists.
by deaux | 2025-10-03 04:42:15+00:00
> When someone tells you "my hands are tied" it's always worth asking whether they made the rope

It's not worth asking, as they're lying and they know it. It does not mean every decision made has to be to maximize shareholder wealth. As you're pointing out, even if incorrectly interpreted as such, any decision could be justified as doing so besides outrageous cases of intentionally tanking the company. This, in turn, is why no business gets prosecuted over this either.
by saurik | 2025-10-03 04:43:43+00:00
FWIW, you are legally required to pay your taxes, and there are going to be serious consequences to your life and your family's life if you don't; the moral decisions in that situation are much more difficult. However, Apple obviously is not and never was legally required to build a centralized App Store... hell: it isn't even clear that that it is legal that they did it, and these arguments are still playing out in court!

And, certainly, no one is legally required to put copious effort into defending the thing Apple did which directly and predictably leads to these results (which are not new or surprising). Even if Apple is, now, legally required to remove this app (and I don't know if they even are: many companies are just cowing to political, not legal, pressure), they carefully and intentionally set themselves up to be in that position.
by disqard | 2025-10-03 04:45:03+00:00
Thank you for sharing your experience!

Would you mind sharing a bit more about your workflow? Do you export to obj/stl? What slicer do you use?

Five years is a decent amount of Time, and I'm sure you have much hard-won knowledge (and gotchas) to share.

(Personally, I'm stuck on the mental block of "I know I should just get and learn Fusion360" but I cannot bring myself to knowingly tie myself to a subscription-based piece of rentware.)

Thanks in advance!

Edit to add: my motivation is 100% to use this for 3d printing.
by deaux | 2025-10-03 04:46:08+00:00
It didn't poison us at all, it's meaningless. Not a single one among the millions of societally-damaging decisions made by companies in the pursuit of profit ever since that case, was made because of that case. A. It doesn't mean companies have to maximize shareholder wealth. B. Even in the scenario that it did, it doesn't set a time horizon for this maximization C. Anything can be construed as being good for companies in the long run. And this is why no company ever gets prosecuted for it - it's a total non-factor.

As I write this, you're right, it has poisoned us; it has mistakenly made a number of laymen believe that this is one of the reasons why greedy, evil psychopaths such as Mark Zuckerberg and tens of thousands of lesser known names, behave the way they do, that law is to blame for their decisions.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-03 04:47:11+00:00
I have a couple of older relatives with Macs, and every time you fire them up for the first time in a while (these people might go several months without using their computer) the Apple ID sign-in nagging is insane. It'll pop up the same sign-in notification a dozen times and seems to lock up the settings app until you deal with it. I usually think of myself as quite patient but when I see that little window it inspires strong feelings.
by flomo | 2025-10-03 04:47:31+00:00
My parents are seniors. My dad has never had interest in computers, and only used them to the extent he had to. But my mom has mastered the iphone/ipad stuff.

> Nokia "dumb" phone

I don't think this exists anymore. I got one for my dad because it has an emergency button on the side to call mom. But its really some android front-end with a bunch of modes, and not at all 'easy' if you weren't into this interface back in the day. He has lots of problems with it. Next plan is Apple's 'Assistive Access' on an old iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...
by LeoPanthera | 2025-10-03 04:47:46+00:00
The post says this:

"I know there are accessibility modes, but you don’t want to have to go through all that and spend hours trying to customize the phone."

I don't think the author has actually tried "Assistive Access" mode: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/abou...

It is ideal for the elderly or those with cognitive disabilities. It removes almost every complex feature and reduces the rest to large clearly labelled buttons. And it doesn't take that long to enable.

I highly recommend it.
by saurik | 2025-10-03 04:48:34+00:00
It isn't just our government: Apple sells these devices around the world and they pull the same shit in every jurisdiction, and so the Chinese government has been granted by them an extremely powerful axe to just ban software they dislike, a tool they use quite often, forcing Apple to pull apps for VPNs and other P2P tools used by protesters to coordinate in a world where the Internet is locked down. If you are going to create a device and sell it in this world, you have to understand how this world works, and in this world, if you create and defend a centralized bottleneck, you WILL become a patsy.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-03 04:49:09+00:00
> Also also: 26M requests daily is only 300 requests per second and Apache could handle that easily over 15 years ago. Why worry about something as small as that?

That doesn't matter, does it? Those 26 million requests could be going to actual users instead and 300 requests per second is non-trivial if the requests require backend activity. Before you know it you're spending most of your infra money on keeping other people's bots alive.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-03 04:49:15+00:00
It's always bizarre to hear this sort of doomsaying about what would befall israelis if they treated Palestinians as the equal humans they are: 'it's suicide to treat Palestinians as people'; 'innocent folks will be expelled from their land if we treat Palestinians as people'; "or worse, killed!'

It's bizarre because all the horrible prophecies have already come true, or are coming true, only with the roles reversed: We see that it is actually israel genociding Palestinians, rather than vice versa.

Somehow these doomsaying prophets feel this dystopia is actually totally ok, as long as the victims have a particular religion or skin color. Or, to be charitable, maybe the prophets have been paying exactly zero attention to what israel has been doing to innocent Palestinian civilians over the years.
by swinglock | 2025-10-03 04:49:15+00:00
> There were too many apps; all they wanted was the phone app, but it doesn’t default to the keypad, which was too much for them to find.

Then why buy an iPhone? There are phones designed for seniors that do just that. You don't need to pay 10-30x more for functionality you don't need and can't understand. Buy a Doro if you just want to call.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-03 04:49:19+00:00
In fairness, it's good to be willing to try a different approach from first principles. It's very easy to get locked in by your preconceptions about what works, and as a result miss out on better approaches. The thing is, you also have to have the humility to admit that the new approach is not turning out to be better, and uh... Elon doesn't have that to say the least.
by worik | 2025-10-03 04:49:53+00:00
In New Zealand there are rules, and more extensive guidelines, on "disabled access". (Probably called something different now)

But it means that access to publicly accessible places is possible for a wide variety of disabilities

I wonder if that would help robotic access? For example you do not need to grip and turn a knob to open a door, they should all be levers.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-03 04:50:09+00:00
> You've chosen a number there, conveniently lower than the one the Israelis picked. I must say, an argument that convenient is not persuasive.

They're disputing whether the actual rate is 12% or 16%. So if I can make my argument without any numbers inside that range, of course I will do so.

Why is that less persuasive?

You could say that I'm giving Israel the benefit of the doubt. Sure, let's say it's 12%. That's still bad.

> whether their should be stages at all

Sure, there are many levels of hunger issues.

> should the results of reports be scrutinised?

In general yes. But in this particular case we can be confident it's at least the number Israel is giving, plus or minus some fraction of a percent, so that's what I based my argument on.
by saurik | 2025-10-03 04:52:08+00:00
But that isn't how this has worked, even in places like China where the regime would seem to have that level of power: while they absolutely require Apple--who went out of their way to create a bottleneck on software and information that is just too juicy not to assert external control over--to remove various apps from their store, it is not actually illegal to own or use unlocked devices.
by appleFanboy25 | 2025-10-03 04:52:11+00:00
> Armed and masked intruders

You mean federal law enforcement officers

> The app doesn't do that.

With a name like ICEBLOCK, how would one ever come to the conclusion that the app might be blocking federal law enforcement from carrying out their sworn duties!

> enforcing the whims of a dictator.

You mean a president that was elected twice. The hysteria really does make me laugh.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-03 04:53:05+00:00
Nah. No one is using Meta AI because it's shoehorned into contexts where you don't actually need it. And that's because these happen to be the only surfaces that Meta controls. They know full well they won't win there, which is probably why they're so desperate for a "hail Mary" in the VR / AR space.

For the average person, what's the most serious / valuable use of ChatGPT right now? It's stuff like writing essays, composing emails, planning tasks. This is precisely the context in which Google has a foothold. You don't need to open ChatGPT and then copy-and-paste if you have an AI button directly in the text editor or in the email app.
by boxed | 2025-10-03 04:53:26+00:00
That's not what anyone said. I said that moving people is not genocide. Killing people is genocide. And sometimes one happens (like when all muslim states in the entire world moved out the jews into Israel) and that's not a genocide, and sometimes the other happens (when the nazis killed the jews) and that IS genocide.

Trying to put an equivalence between those two things is idiotic. And if you DO that, then the arab world perpetrated a massive "genocide" in 1948, much bigger than what the Nazis did. See how crazy that is? Obviously that's not what happened!
by bigyabai | 2025-10-03 04:53:49+00:00
> but this was legitimately a step in the right direction I felt

I'll steelman against this, but only because I really enjoy entertaining the idea. Even back then, it was a branding farce. The San Bernadino event was in 2015, pretty close proximity to the Snowden leaks which disclosed Apple's 2012 cooperation with PRISM. Best-case scenario, it was an extremely lucky press junket; worst case scenario it was a false-flag operation designed to manufacture trust from the ground-up. In the aftermath, Apple cooperated with local police and federal authorities perfectly well, and the passcode to the shooter's phone did eventually come out. Apple continued providing device access in situations where warrants were issued. They even dropped their eventual charges against NSO Group.

If your tinfoil hat isn't tight enough yet, we're talking about events that happened over a decade after the Halloween documents. Apple's executives (and the three-letter spooks) know that Open Source can ship attestable and secure software that trounces their best paid UNIX or Windows Server subscription on the open market. If the goal is to expand surveillance and you've got a coalition of sycophantic tech executives (somehow, imagine that haha), then it would almost be trivial to program endless RCEs into the client-side with "secure" binary blobs. All the "E2EE" traffic can get copied onto tapes and sent to a warehouse in Langley. Would be like taking candy from a baby.