MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-10-02 14:27:02+00:00
Okay, there’s no “working on” open sourcing your app. You could just open source it.

What you really mean is that you’re looking into how you can open source just enough to create a free-to-paid entrapment pathway. You’ll do open source if you can provide a product where all of your users eventually hit a wall and need to upgrade to a paid plan.

A more honest answer from you would have been “we are just looking to provide a solution” rather than pretending to be working on a true open tooling ecosystem.

Don’t pretend to be open source as in Linux or git when you’re really open source as in MongoDB or Chef Software.
by teetertater | 2025-10-02 14:27:05+00:00
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by JohnFen | 2025-10-02 14:27:08+00:00
OK, then let's build a good charging infrastructure first. It just seems to me that getting public transit in a good place is a much easier and cheaper task than putting a good charging infrastructure in place. If I'm wrong about that, I don't mind.

My point is that if we take away people's gas cars before having an alternative that works for everyone, that's bad. And we don't have an alternative that works for everyone yet.
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by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-02 14:27:27+00:00
Perhaps Microsoft should never have advertised that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows; see for example

> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

"Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of the dominant desktop software.

His comments were echoed by Microsoft which said it would update Windows in future in an "ongoing manner".

Instead of new stand-alone versions, Windows 10 would be improved in regular instalments, the firm said.

[...]

In a statement, Microsoft said Mr Nixon's comments reflected a change in the way that it made its software.

"Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner," it said, adding that it expected there to be a "long future" for Windows.

'No Windows 11'

The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.

"There will be no Windows 11," warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner who monitors Microsoft."

EDIT: Another article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/08/microsof...
by brk | 2025-10-02 14:27:31+00:00
Lots of different possible scenarios here, but this is a super common thing in business.

A couple of pointers:

1) Make sure you understand what they really want. It is common for a person to ask "can your hardware run on 12V", for example. But what they really want to know is something like "can I use this on my solar powered RV that will be parked in a 122F desert". This is just one of a billion examples from my career. You need to determine things like do they mean a stable 12.000V from a power supply, or a really variable 12VDC vehicle system that can range from 11-15V commonly. And then there is the whole ruggedness of the hardware issue. You need to be able to look ahead a bit and often assume the person isn't really asking the question they want an answer to.

2) The best way to be successful in business is to predict the future :) By this I mean determine how to set achievable expectations. If you feel confident that you can get an answer by COB, then state that and do it (predict the future, make it come true).

3) Communicate commitment and honesty. It is ok to tell someone you don't know, but you can say this in a lot of ways. Depending on all the variables, saying something like "this seems possible, but I need to check with X", or "I believe we did something similar for another situation, let me get more data internally and get back to you by tomorrow morning", etc.

If you want to setup a coaching session I'm happy to do a 30 minute zoom/whatever.
by blueflow | 2025-10-02 14:27:32+00:00
For reference: While the gas chambers were are the prominent way of death during the Holocaust, the majority of victims died of starvation. Starvation death looks like succumbing to a random sickness (the body is just too weak for a functional immune response), and thus saves the perpetrator from the usual psychological consequences of direct murder. This methodology was agreed on during the Wannsee conference in 1942.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
by fred_is_fred | 2025-10-02 14:27:38+00:00
What was promised with self-driving and what we have are orders of magnitude off. We were promised fleets of autonomous taxis - no need to even own a car anymore. We were told truck drivers would be replaced en-masse and cargo would drive 24x7 by drivers who never needed breaks. We were told downtown parking lots would disappear since the car would drop you off and drive to an offsite lot and wait for you. In short a complete blow up of the economy with millions of jobs in shipped lost and hundreds of billions of spend on new autonomous vehicles.

None of that happened. After 10 years we got self-driving cabs in 5 cities with mostly good weather. Cool, yes? Blowing up the entire economy and fundamentally changing society? No.
by qsort | 2025-10-02 14:27:50+00:00
Yes, precisely. OP, you're overthinking this. As a consultant I talk with a lot of people, nobody whose opinion you care about will think less of you for saying exactly that.

An intermediate answer you can give is something like "I would take such and such steps, but I'm not sure this will solve the issue and I need to verify this offline". Don't bullshit people, it's a small world, it's almost never worth it.
by bitbasher | 2025-10-02 14:27:58+00:00
> But I never found a good way to do it confidently, in a way that doesn’t make it seem like I can’t be trusted that I know what I’m doing.

It sounds like you're suffering from imposter syndrome. I promise you, no one thinks about you nearly as much as you think about you.

By the time you uttered the words, your team's mind has already moved on to something else.

Say the words and then follow up later.
by cubefox | 2025-10-02 14:28:04+00:00
> I realize that these models of computation are equivalent. My point was rather that the imperative paradigm collapses into the functional paradigm in practical programming when I disregard the admissibility of arbitrary side effects.

But in practical programming with imperative languages, arbitrary side effects can't be disregarded, so they don't collapse into the functional paradigm. In fact, from a physical perspective, every possible CPU has states, so the most physically fundamental model of computation (something like register machines, or GOTO programs) is imperative and more fundamental than functional models, like untyped lambda calculus. Functional models might be more mathematically elegant though.

> I wouldn't know how to define the concept of a function without sets.

Whitehead and Russell showed how to define functions just in first-order logic with identity, without requiring any set theoretical axioms, by defining an n-ary function via an n+1 place relation. See here top right: https://mally.stanford.edu/Papers/rtt.pdf

This is quite natural, because predicates (properties and relations) already occur in natural language, while sets do not; they are a mathematical abstraction. For example, sets can be empty, or arbitrarily nested, or both arbitrarily nested and otherwise empty, which has no analog in natural language.

> I can't even specify the characteristic function of a set without resorting to the inclusion relation.

If you try to define sets by using functions, functions are in this context assumed to be more fundamental than sets. Then you don't need to define functions. Then the inclusion relation is simply defined via the characteristic function. You don't need to define that function. Just like you, in the reverse case, don't need to define sets, if you want to define functions via sets.
by thisisnotauser | 2025-10-02 14:28:11+00:00
I agree that when people say "I'll have to get back to you" it sounds a little less than inspiring. In the military, we always called that "taking a look up" or a "due out," but it helps to be able to articulate well at the time why you can't give a more complete answer (ie what data you need to look up).
by nostrademons | 2025-10-02 14:28:23+00:00
I've wondered sometimes what software would look like if a crisis took out the ability to build new semiconductors and we had to run all our computing infrastructure on chips salvaged from pregnancy tests, shoplifting tags, cars, old PCs, and other consumer electronics. We'd basically move backwards about 20 years in process technology, and most computers would have speeds roughly equivalent to 90s/00s PCs.

But then, this still wouldn't incentivize building directly to the hardware, because of the need to run on a large variety of different hardware. You're still better off preferencing portability over performance, and then making it up by cutting scope and ease of development.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-02 14:28:28+00:00
This saga has been going on for a couple years now [0]. A number of CEE and Southern European countries like Spain, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Romania, and others heavily leverage this kind of tooling [1] and continue to have extremely strong interior ministries and weak democratic controls.

It's also helped create a boom in the cybersecurity industry, and helped build the hiring pipeline most American and Israeli cybersecurity firms are using in the CEE today.

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/parliament-defense-subcommit...

[1] - https://vsquare.org/pegasus-spyware-poland-hungary-slovakia-...
by codyb | 2025-10-02 14:28:46+00:00
Yea, I think the wording in the title seems fine.

I probably end up slightly wordier...

"Hmm, not sure. My best guess is that we're probably pulling some values from context and then using that to determine the behavior you're seeing, but I know my manager has a few contacts on that side of the org, I'll reach out to her and get back to you, probably in the next few days"

And then yea, just... delivering on what you say you're gonna do or updating if there's some bends in the road you didn't see.
by throwaway2016a | 2025-10-02 14:29:15+00:00
I didn't get a sense the article singled out charter schools specifically rather it just lists it as a alternative place that funds get funneled instead of to neighborhood public schools.

Which brings me to:

> The main reason "private" (in their sense of the word) schools are gaining in popularity is precisely because they are seen as delivering a better education by an ever wider chunk of society.

If you accept that the article is talking about charter schools, then yes, perhaps the narrow focus of the charter could allow for a stronger education in a specialized area could allow for better education in that area.

But, if you accept it as private schools as a whole, then I don't buy that argument fully. The administration has been very clear that the motivation is "anti-woke" and "traditional family values" and nothing to do with education quality. In fact, as someone who went to a religious school in a small town (granted 30+ years ago) I can vouch that my education (especially in science and math) was FAR worse than the public schools at the time and homeschooling quality varies wildly.

Edit: As far as

> More specifically the US currently spends more than the vast majority of the world per pupil

I also find this focus on spending per pupil very odd because it doesn't account for cost of living.

And if you dive into the fine print it says:

> Includes both government and private expenditures.

So what if (and this is a completely untested hypothesis) the reason we spend so much per pupil in that chart is being exasperated by the private school system.

Edit 2: after diving into it, that source provided is greatly inflated by private school spending including private colleges (which are insanely expensive). So that same data can also be used to argue the US is really spending too much on private schools not public ones.
by CM30 | 2025-10-02 14:29:18+00:00
As someone who refuses to upgrade from Windows 10, it's because all the new and invasive features that 11 adds are things I refuse to go anywhere near. I don't need ads in my operating system, I don't need a system to track every action done on the computer, I don't need a slower user interface rewritten in the latest shiny framework and I certainly don't want any more Copilot integration.

Unfortunately, a lot of niche communities have decided to stick to developing for Windows machines no matter what (especially game development and modding ones), so using Linux isn't that practical about now.
by ripe | 2025-10-02 14:29:28+00:00
Fascinating tidbit:

> Trevor Milton, who founded Nikola in 2014... lied about nearly every aspect of the hydrogen-fueled-truck company’s business... he was convicted... Milton received a pardon from President Trump this year, which also means he no longer has to pay restitution to investors who lost money on Nikola. Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump’s campaign in October.

Is the above kind of graft also par for the course, or is it unprecedented?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-02 14:30:12+00:00
Good question, it's already a thing for some use cases; what they can do in surgery is pretty amazing, but that's a use case where the robotic things have a huge benfit over people themselves. But that's a clear usecase of a complex task. For banal tasks like folding laundry... it'll remain more practical to just do it yourself, in the flesh. It can be done remotely but due to the limitations of robots and the internet it'll be slower and more expensive.
by pwillia7 | 2025-10-02 14:30:13+00:00
> “I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.”
by lormayna | 2025-10-02 14:30:29+00:00
I have a customer facing role, then it's easy to get questions about details that I don't know from the customers. My approach is easy: always being very transparent. I can say "I am not 100% sure, then I will verify with my colleagues and with R&D and let you know" or just "I don't know right now, but I am taking notes and let you know ASAP". This approach also helps me to ask the right questions to the customer, just to understand what the customer wants.

I was on the other side for years and I hate when consultants try to avoid the questions or give me foggy replies.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-02 14:30:32+00:00
> "It's always struck me as puzzling, why people in suits and ties in capital cities seem to think that the pastoralists don't understand very well how to manage these lands," Barrett said. "

The kind of ridiculous comment only an economist/business professor would make.

The agriculture equivalent of pastoralists also used to use slash and burn techniques to grow crops destroying and depleting massive troves of land. It was people in lab coats, suits and ties who figured this was wrong, found better alternatives and then passed policies and laws to switch to those better alternatives.

The appeal to folk wisdom is one of the most annoying rhetorical tactics and its use here only serves to undermine the credibility of the findings.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 14:30:58+00:00
Golden Gate Claude, and abliterated models, plus Deepseek's censoring of Tianamen Square, combined with Grok's alternate political views imply that these boxes are somewhat translucent, especially to leading experts like Ilya Sutskever. In order for Grok to hold alternative views, and to produce NSFW dialog while ChatGPT refuses to implies that there's additional work that happens during training to align models. Getting access to the source used to train the models would let us see into that model's alignment. It's easy enough to ask ChatGPT how to make cocaine, and get a refusal, but what else is lying in wait that hasn't been discovered yet? It's hard to square the notion that these are black boxes that no understands whatsoever, when the original LLama models, which also contain the same refusal, have been edited, at the level of a program, into abliterated models which happily give you a recipe. Note: I am not Pablo Escobar and cannot comment on the veracity of said recipe, only that it no longer refuses.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-a...
by brk | 2025-10-02 14:31:14+00:00
Sure, in theory. But then he is working on some important feature, and the code is on his laptop, which gets confiscated during a raid and now your access to the person and their in-process work is gone. Yeah, I know, code check-ins, documentation, blah blah blah. Totally the strong suit of the typical uber-hacker type /s.

The work/life boundaries are heavily blurred these days in even the best cases. Something like this, their personal life as a real potential to impact your business/product/brand.
by jbarrow | 2025-10-02 14:31:58+00:00
Existing “auto-fillable” tools are pretty lackluster in my experience. CommonForms is tooling that can automatically detect form fields in PDFs and turn those PDFs into fillable documents. The dataset is ~500k form pages pulled from Common Crawl, which I trained the object detectors on. For being vision only, the results are pretty remarkable!

Releasing the dataset, paper, models, and (imo most importantly) simple/convenient tooling to automatically prepare any PDF.

Links: Repo: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms - Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506
by tomrod | 2025-10-02 14:32:01+00:00
Yeah, the incident rate of this occurring is pretty high for randomness only.

It's easier to expect that your phone is always listening (because it is) and sending that data to apps for advertising than to force app providers to open source their code and prove they aren't collecting data on what the phone mic picks up.

But maybe you have more insight on a single provider's application that has been thus accused than other people in the thread.
by enriquegr84 | 2025-10-02 14:32:04+00:00
Hi, I would like to introduce an AI research project based on popular 3D shooter Quake3 Arena. You can have all the information details in the following link: https://github.com/enriquegr84/QuakeAI which comes with documentation https://github.com/enriquegr84/QuakeAI/wiki

I have only shared the source code, but if necessary I can create more demos video
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-02 14:32:18+00:00
Opposition to Netanyahu inside Israel is almost entirely about domestic issues (like judicial reform) and the fact that he refuses to accept any negotiated deal to get the hostages back. Relatively few Israelis care about what he's doing to the Palestinians.

Israeli society is deeply complicit in the mass killing and starvation in Gaza. The IDF is a citizen army. There haven't been mass refusals or resistance. It's not just Netanyahu.
by glonq | 2025-10-02 14:32:26+00:00
As a PC enthusiast, I can't remember a time when PC upgrades were less necessary than nowadays.

For the average user and even semi-enthusiast, 5+yo hardware with Win10 works just fine. I just upgraded last year, but it was probably the longest stretch I've gone between new PC's and even then it was as much FOMO as it was necessity.
by charlie0 | 2025-10-02 14:32:43+00:00
I find our community's take on paying for IDEs interesting. We're now willing to pay 20, 100, 200 USD a month for AI subscriptions, but wince at paying that for IDEs that clearly add value and also save time. I'm also frugal, but Jetbrain IDEs have been easily one of the best investments I've made for dev tools.
by probablyrobert | 2025-10-02 14:32:54+00:00
I'm not entirely sure what is going to happen with imports to be honest. My current thinking is that they'll be supported eventually but that imported modules should not have access to glide APIs. For anything that does need to use glide APIs, I would support that through a separate API.

Yes eval is blocked, and extensions / websites cannot access glide APIs.

Thanks that is very helpful! Agree those things should be mentioned in the security doc.
by potatolicious | 2025-10-02 14:32:59+00:00
It's pretty much my #1 example of Google's propensity for shipping its org chart.

Workspace accounts come with their own compliance requirements and edge cases that products need to handle, but rather than do that and provide a consistent user experience most product teams don't answer to the relevant PAs and so don't care, and Workspace accounts are a small enough minority of users that nobody has to care.

I've often railed against a particular way of doing product that's really common in our industry, but I suppose it's been a while so I'll do it again:

We have a real problem with metrics-driven product development, where we exclusively care about the 95% use case and actively disdain the 5% use cases.

On paper it makes sense - you direct your energies towards the highest-payback activities. But the problem is that every user falls into some 5% use cases, so a product that is purely made up of 95% use cases ends up becoming a patchwork that is frustrating to every user, somehow.

Rather than "product works great for 95% of users" you get "100% of users cut themselves on some corner of the product".