MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nappy-doo | 2025-10-28 21:27:18+00:00
I beg to differ that Samsung makes good stuff. We had a Samsung front-loading washer. The drum and the crank that holds the drum were made of two different materials, and in the presence of the water and detergent, a galvanic reaction occurred, dissolving the drum arm. Replacing the arm was $400 in parts and over 8 hours in repair time. (There's lots of YT videos of this exact repair.)

What kind of monkey designs something like that. It's obsolescence by design.

I will never buy another Samsung product.
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-28 21:27:41+00:00
I would say if you ignore the poorest 40% of the population, you've got quite the slim margin to go before you are no longer talking about "Most" Americans, which the OP was pretty explicitly talking about.

He was saying "Most people in the US" don't make 100-200k more, and that they probably don't even make 100k. This was in response to the generalization that "people from other countries ... underestimate how well paid people in the US often are".

Now there was talk of getting the political motivation to change things, so I guess everyone is assuming Medicaid/Medicare/VA recipients don't want to change the system, but that wasn't really established, nor was that really being refuted.
by juris | 2025-10-28 21:27:50+00:00
It's a proper argument on its surface, complete with claim, warrant, and impact.

"Features aren't rights" > see: Consumer Rights.

"Force of the state making sideloading mandatory is bad" > ...Except we have antitrust laws? The Play Store becomes the only source of apps, all transactions are routed through Google Billing? Not a problem for you?

"99% users won't use" > Except for when Google demands that transactions happen exclusively through Google Billing, which resulted in the release of the Epic Games Launcher for the world's highest grossing games by download.

"Sideloading is too nice" > Listen, either it's the case that "sideloading" is a threat to normies or it's not. Are normies your 1% or 99% of users? I thought according to you 99% of users won't sideload.

"You don't get to decide" > That language ties in pretty well with your fear of the use of the 'force of the state'; that tells me that you support freedom. Great-- you're right, why not let corporations be corporations and do anti-consumer things, they'll be very good to us (while they lobby the state).
by everfrustrated | 2025-10-28 21:28:01+00:00
The only email provider I trust would be Fastmail. They've been in business ages and contribute back by pushing newer jmap standards. Their web UI is very lightweight, slick and full of features.

They've finally implemented offline support in mobile app which was the last major missing feature I've been wanting.

They're not a "privacy" provider tho. So if you're one of those keep looking (private email is oxymoron but whatever)

They've had maybe only 1 major outage that I've noticed in the 5 or so years I've been with them and it was resolved in a day.
by thangalin | 2025-10-28 21:28:10+00:00
A change introduced to Java (JDK-8343006[1]) prevented KeenWrite from displaying SVG files, and has been logged as a bug (JDK-8368902[2]). Side-stepping the gory details, the library KeenWrite uses to render SVG files (EchoSVG[3]) released a fix last week for this issue. This KeenWrite release upgrades to JDK 25—a long-term support (LTS) release—and EchoSVG 2.2.1, which resolves the SVG issues.

This change to the JDK ended up breaking my documents, so I can only imagine that other people encountered the same issue. My apologies. I wrote the authors of the change, informing them that their assumption that the "impact is low" was incorrect. There are unit tests attached to the JDK bug, and EchoSVG has updated its unit tests. Hopefully that will decrease the likelihood of this happening in the future.

[1]: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8343006

[2]: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368902

[3]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/releases/tag/v2.2.1
by lovich | 2025-10-28 21:28:18+00:00
> Every US president in history has left office peacefully, the most probable outcome is that future presidents will too.

That is false. On January 6th 2021 the sitting president fomented a mob to violently keep him in power.

If we’re going off your rule of past events being the best prediction for future events then we should all be shitting ourselves over the fact that this guy isn’t leaving peacefully
by Yizahi | 2025-10-28 21:28:28+00:00
It reduces a barrier to entry, so less knowledgeable people can access the same information without inputting a prompt and then corrections. Also a person using an LLM directly may accidentally produce a progressive/liberal result, which is not good. So while for now it seems Elonopedia is mostly automated, in the future I foresee that young energetic party members will vet the most popular articles, to follow the party line.
by anon7000 | 2025-10-28 21:28:39+00:00
Yes, I really want an M5, a CPU I can buy today, more than Panther Lake, which isn’t on the market yet and hasn’t been reviewed by 3rd parties.

I want a laptop that gives me amazing performance, thermals, build quality, and battery life. It’s gonna take a while to see what manufacturers will do with panther lake.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 21:29:02+00:00
There are countries that have single-payer systems and widespread supplemental insurance. But if you universalized Medicare, you'd immediately do at least two big things to the market:

(1) You'd eliminate the system of advantages and supports that cause employers to offer private insurance, which is where most people get their insurance from.

(2) You'd create a huge adverse selection problem --- the more effective/useful Medicare is, the fewer families will want to spent $24k/yr on private insurance, meaning the families left on private insurance have a reason to want it, meaning the composition of the risk pool would shift dramatically.

Like, if we ever did M4A, we'd probably end up with a widespread system of supplemental insurance; we already have it with Medicare! But that's not the same thing as keeping your existing plan.
by lisdexan | 2025-10-28 21:29:07+00:00
Just tested⁰, it works with WiFi ADB but it has some limitations.

- The pairing process is kinda awkward, you need to split screen Termux and the Wireless debugging submenu, if you change windows the pairing IP and code are changed.

- The pair survives a reboot and WiFi change. You can disable the 7day revocation, so the pairing process is a one time thing.

- After a pair you still need to connect (adb connect localhost:port) and the port changes after a WiFi change or disconnect. I searched for solutions and apparently it's simple as running nmap twice¹

- It obviously doesn't work without a WiFi connection (unless is there some dark magic to connect your phone to its own hotspot).

So a wrapper seems viable if you are ok only installing apps on trusted networks.

[0]: I'm on GrapheneOS but I believe the dev menu is the same.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/1dqm8tq/project_sim...
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-28 21:29:27+00:00
No matter how stupid I think some of this AI shit is, and how much I tell myself it kind of makes sense of you visualise the prompt laying down a trail of activation in a hyperdimensional space of relationships, that it actually works in practice almost straight of the bat and LLMs being able to follow prompts in this way is always going to be fucking wild too me.

I was used to this kind of nifty quirk being things like FFTs existing or CDMA extracting signals from what looks like the noise floor, not getting computers to suddenly start doing language at us.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-28 21:29:29+00:00
That's truly fascinating. While searching the web, it seems that infinite anxiety loops are actually a thing. Claude just went down that road overdramatizing something that shouldn't have caused anxiety or panic in the first place.

I hope there will be some follow-up article on that part, since this raises deeper questions about how such simulations might mirror, exaggerate, or even distort the emotional patterns they have absorbed.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-28 21:29:31+00:00
The Amazon culture that exists today is nowhere comparable to the culture that existed 5-7 years ago.

A lot of the Amazonians who had a "mission first" mindset at the mid- and upper-level rungs of engineering and product management all ended up become leadership or executive management at other companies, or founding their own companies.

That said, it is important to highlight the mindset that did help Amazon during it's golden era.
by slg | 2025-10-28 21:29:36+00:00
>Because of thousands upon thousands of documented accounts from eyewitnesses and participants?

Then why can't you accept the "thousands upon thousands of documented accounts from eyewitnesses and participants" of him committing war crimes?

>I'm aware of what you're trying to do, but there is a difference between stating a generally accepted fact that has a tiny faction of dissenters (e.g. the earth is round) and something that is not and is therefore considered an opinion.

I think war crimes are bad. There is no "fact" involved in that statement, it is purely a value judgment and therefore an opinion. Yet I think it is inarguably a better opinion than believing that war crimes are good. Would you disagree?
by kryptiskt | 2025-10-28 21:29:41+00:00
Any fan of determinism would need to tackle quantum physics and what seems like unavoidable randomness in it (and there are such theories, but they offer little hope of getting around the randomness from our point of view, since they hide the order from us). The typical example of a random phenomena in nature is radioactive decay. You can't predict when any given nucleus will decay, only the probability that it will happen (which gives the half-life).
by iAMkenough | 2025-10-28 21:29:50+00:00
Intentionality matters in defamation cases.

She could spend thousands of dollars to sue the department for defamation, but she would have to prove without a shadow of a doubt "the speaker had a reckless disregard for the truth" when making the harmful statement, and then prove damages resulting directly from the statement.

The police department would then use her and her neighbors tax dollars to argue the officer followed procedure and did not intentionally lie with an intent to harm her reputation.

A jury would then determine if the police department fabricated the investigation or piece of evidence just so they could intentionally slander and ruin this woman's reputation.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-28 21:30:55+00:00
The line must go up.

By a percentage every year.

Compounding.

This was always an obvious outcome.

What the outcome actually happening is indicative of however is that consumers are very very very bad at their job (consuming the best products) and do not have enough rights.

If a customer was entitled to a working product without this kind of deficiency, and we had courts that actually applied punishments to large corporations (instead of unilaterally and without justification, significantly reducing fines to nothing) we wouldn't have this problem. It wouldn't be possible to profit off of this kind of advertising because you would be too busy signing court documents about how you suck at building stuff.

There's only so many human beings who can buy your fridge. There's only so cheap you can build your fridge. There's only so much you can charge for your fridge. But line must go up.

This is simply what it looks like when the people with money and resources decide that a stable and reliable profit is a Failed business.
by dheera | 2025-10-28 21:30:57+00:00
Amazon doesn't actually pay mediocre, they are very good for FAANG standards. But yes, when you have already cut out the slackers and still are required to PIP x% of every team despite everyone being competent, everyones' coworker relationships automatically become competitive, not collaborative. The culture starts to become a rat race of people working nights and weekends, each trying to not become the one whose family and children might have to get uprooted and leave the US within 60 days because of a PIP.

Meta is another dumpster fire. The highest level you can receive at a promo cycle is "Redefines Expectations". Congratulations, you have worked so goddamn hard, your reward is a redefined expectation and the next cycle if you work equally goddamn hard you will only "meet" that newly-redefined expectation. You're on track to a PIP!
by ncr100 | 2025-10-28 21:31:01+00:00
I would call that flow "complex." So, I disagree with you.

Simple would be for the "X" button to offer to turn off Ads completely, do you disagree?

(Disclaimer: I'm a pro / lifelong tech and both are "simple" to me. And to clarify my opinion, my Mom, who is a pro musician, would NOT discover / know how to find that option.)
by eks391 | 2025-10-28 21:31:48+00:00
There is no economic advantage of offering lower prices in the US medical sphere, as there is no way for a patient to know that you charge less than another provider. Most medical practices do not provide any form of costs until after a procedure except ones usually not covered by insurances, such as dental and chiro, which do offer transparent and low prices because they compete in the free market.
by jll29 | 2025-10-28 21:31:51+00:00
Reviewer (Scientific Expert) for the EU (since 2009) here.

The probability of getting a Horizon Europe grant allegedly (not official stats) is about 8.5% according to some friends, which may seem low. You need to write 70 pages following a Word template and the key goal is to cover answers to a large number of questions. Each proposal gets various grades across a range of dimensions, which get added up and if you obtain at least 13 out of a possible 15 points, you are eligible to get funded, read: "You will get funded if there is enough money." Often, there are several proposals that justly achieve 15/15, and because of that, many prosals that have 14 points and all proposals that have less may not get funded, simply because there just is not enough total funding available to fund all the technically eligible proposals. Having judged many proposals in AI / ML / search / "big data" / language technology etc. I recommend optimizing recall, i.e. aspiring completeness.

The application process is not easy, but you can get help: there are support agency in each member country, free online Webinars to help, hotline help desks as well as an ecosystem of paid consultants that typically charge about 3k€ to vet a proposal for you if you need that kind of service (I never used it).

The process is neutral and conducted professionally and with external oversight (consultants are hired as "rapporteurs" that report on process/procedural integrity in additional to the actual reviewers). I value the research officers of the EC as people of high competency, integrity and motivation (research money is tax payers money so it should be spent carefully).

In comparison, VC (and even more so business angel) funding is achievable with much less formal apparatus, often a short business plan and a convincing slide deck and demo can get people to a partner meeting if the time is right. But the criteria and process are much different, and ideas ready for public research grants are typically too early for VCs (but the EC wants to foster the creation VC-funded startups resulting from the disseminated research).
by dylan604 | 2025-10-28 21:31:52+00:00
This first time I used a mac where zsh was the default, I was confused for quite a bit of time when it would not run something I was used to doing. I kept looking up errors on the internet until I came across someone's post with a reply asking if they were using Terminal on a new OS X. Sure enough, this was a new mac as well. Now I know one of the first steps for me with a new Mac is change default shell. I'm way too old and set in my ways to care to learn a new shell. Choosing a shell, IDE, font, etc are games for youth.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-10-28 21:31:56+00:00
This is still not that common but I used to work on a commercial web proxy that did exactly this. The only way it works is if the company pushes out a new root certificate via group policy (or something similar) so that the proxy can re-encrypt the data. Users can tell that this is being done by examining the certificate.

But this is mostly a waste of time, these days companies just install agents on each laptop to monitor activity. If you do not own the machine/network you are using then don’t visit sites hat you don’t want them to see.
by ontouchstart | 2025-10-28 21:32:20+00:00
Interesting perspective.

I have been intentionally coding with Claude in the past few months and I started to think about programming from problem solving standpoint other than generating artifacts that conform to whatever languages, libraries and frameworks I happen to use to solve the problem at the time.

We can call this mental model or not. But it seems to be a different abstraction than we are talking about at PL level.

To me, LLM is part of the interface between me and the solution, that is what I mean by UI.

The real work is still in my head. PL language is just a medium.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-28 21:32:42+00:00
Yes, but we also want universal healthcare. What we don't want is only universal healthcare with death panels like the UK and Canada has. Give us universal health care where we can also get insurance if we want, and we'll vote it in. That's never what comes up though. I firmly believe we could gut medicare/medicaid and the savings from the bureaucratic administration costs alone could pay for universal healthcare.
by Johnny555 | 2025-10-28 21:32:51+00:00
One interesting fact I learned in a different discussion is that when LED lights are used for obstruction lighting, the FAA has standards that require infrared emitters to make them visible to night vision goggles, since unlike incandescent bulbs, some LED's can be invisible to NVG's.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/airports/engineering...
by somethingsome | 2025-10-28 21:32:52+00:00
Hum.. At least where I live in europe, you still need to battle with insurances for any non trivial problem.. We get a health care coverage for the common stuff, but many things are not covered, or not covered enough.. Then you need insurances.. And it's always a battle..

Same for other kind of insurances such as issues with the house, etc..
by dataflow | 2025-10-28 21:32:54+00:00
Hey, question. While I'm also miffed about Google's decision and see your point about the term sideloading, there is another elephant in the room you seem to not be addressing here.

You write:

> “Sideloading is Not Going Away” is clear, concise, and false_

But isn't Google saying that you will still be able to sideload via ADB? Which would mean their statement is true, and that your claim that Google's statement is files is itself false?

I'm so confused why you never even mention ADB or its relevance to sideloading, which they refer to rather explicitly in their blog post. At the very least, if you think ADB doesn't change anything, you could mention it and say so. Could you explain this seemingly critical omission?
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-28 21:33:00+00:00
I did not intuitively understand what Tailscale does, so I visited the following related page:

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works

Ah! OK, now I get it! :-)

But, what found particularly interesting on that page was the following:

>" Some especially cruel networks block UDP entirely

, or are otherwise so strict that they simply cannot be traversed using STUN and ICE. For those situations, Tailscale provides a network of so-called DERP (Designated Encrypted Relay for Packets) servers. These fill the same role as TURN servers in the ICE standard, except they use HTTPS streams and WireGuard keys instead of the obsolete TURN recommendations."

DERP seems like one interesting solution (there may be others!) to UDP blockages...
by Beijinger | 2025-10-28 21:33:06+00:00
8 years is pretty good. I personally like Bosch. Is a fridge with an icemaker not always problematic? How about biofilm?

What is the advantage of an inductive stove? Will they even work in the US? I think in Europe they work with 360 V if I remember right.

I realized two things:

1. You can cook nearly everything with a ricecooker. Just throw everything inside. Yes, even the minced meat on top.

2. An airfrier is better and faster than a shitty oven.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 21:33:09+00:00
Provide numbers. Sanders, for instance, funded his proposed system by (among other things) taxing capital gains at the level of ordinary income.

I'm critical of the US system, but I have exactly the opposite diagnosis you do: my concern with the system is that, by the numbers, it appears to function by driving way too much spending on "actual" care.
by hamburglar | 2025-10-28 21:33:10+00:00
Well my Samsung tv I bought two years ago has gotten progressively slower and slower despite never installing any new stuff on it and only using the basic functionality, so that is pretty infuriating. Every couple of weeks I have to unplug it (because naturally a soft power off isn’t really doing anything) and it’ll be fast again for a while. When it’s slow it can easily take 10 seconds to bring up the menu.
by kuratkull | 2025-10-28 21:34:00+00:00
Currently it seems that Google is pushing for hardware attestation, so you might be able to install Graphene/Lineage if your phone manufacturer allows you to unlock your bootloader, but many Play Store apps won't work as they'll detect your root. It's actually gotten pretty insane how every low-value app considers themselves the centre of the world and unable to run on a rooted device.

Example: the loyalty card app for a local store chain - there's no money in it, I can just get some discounts when I use it. So an attacker would have to steal my phone, somehow unlock it, and then they can use my loyalty card (btw which is free to obtain for anyone and there are no tiers) to get some discounts. And for that, they have implemented a pretty decent root checker which i had to put in some effort to overcome. And there are many more like it.
by TuxSH | 2025-10-28 21:34:28+00:00
Also this is _de facto_ limited to userspace application for the mainstream OSes if my understanding is correct.

Reading Fil-C website's "InvisiCaps by example" page, I see that "Laundering Integers As Pointers" is disallowed. This essentially disqualifies Fil-C for low-level work, which makes for a substantial part of C programs.

(int2ptr for MMIO/pre-allocated memory is in theory UB, in practice just fine as long as you don't otherwise break aliasing rules (and lifetime rules in C++) - as the compiler will fail to track provenance at least once).

But that isn't really what Fil-C is aimed at - the value is, as you implied, in hardening userspace applications.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-28 21:34:35+00:00
> University was cheap or free

Ha! I wish. It's not free. You will pay the same that Americans pay for Uni over your life many times over since tax rates in the EU are really high. Healthcare isn't exactly cheap either.

And everything you wrote is just the result of decades of prosperity that are now coming to an end. This will be a shock for many.
by raducu | 2025-10-28 21:34:35+00:00
> Some of those men could meet someone if they quit Tinder

Maybe your intentions are good, but remember, unless we legalize polygamy, the "bad/inept/creepy straight-white men" narative should crumble for people in their 30s and 40s when it's the last train for marriage and children.

But we don't have "some of those women..." narrative about single women in their 40s complaining they can't find a husband.

My point is it's an universal problem in the civilized world, spanning vastly different cultures in Asia and Europe and North America, "some of those men" is very hand wavy explanation, and I think it spans from the extremely toxic (I'd say anti-human and demonic) hollywood pop culture.