MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-07 09:24:03+00:00
American 1A is as strong as it's proving to be right now and increasingly proving to be stronger and stronger by the day, since January this year!

Many other countries have protections like that, "on paper" (!!!) - but the point is in how it is used or misused, or rather completely ignored - directly or indirectly, like in the USA currently and many other countries in the world.
by jadelcastillo | 2025-10-07 09:25:48+00:00
Interesting approach, but I guess still lot of work to be done. I tried with this question:

"Alice has 60 brothers and she also has 212 sisters. How many sisters does Alice's brother have?"

But the generated program is not very useful:

{ "sorts": [], "functions": [], "constants": {}, "variables": [ {"name": "num_brothers_of_alice", "sort": "IntSort"}, {"name": "num_sisters_of_alice", "sort": "IntSort"}, {"name": "sisters_of_alice_brother", "sort": "IntSort"} ], "knowledge_base": [ "num_brothers_of_alice == 60", "num_sisters_of_alice == 212", "sisters_of_alice_brother == num_sisters_of_alice + 1" ], "rules": [], "verifications": [ { "name": "Alice\'s brother has 213 sisters", "constraint": "sisters_of_alice_brother == 213" } ], "actions": ["verify_conditions"] }
by jeevships | 2025-10-07 09:25:54+00:00
I'm currently doing this right now. Living out of a 38L backpack while coding an app living out of hostels in SEA. I have 3 pairs of shorts, 4 t shirts, 1 pair of vans, 1 pair of nike trail runners, laptop, bose headphones, toiletries, 2 hats, and thats pretty much it.

> You're constantly making and throwing away relationships. I found this the hardest part.

very true. it's harder to keep in contact with freinds who you make deeper connections with. But whats the alternative, to not make them in the first place?

> Your lifestyle is subsidized by society. You depend on other people and services to make it work. You either have to eat out all the time or make many small trips to grocery stores and rent places with furnished kitchens. There is no self reliance, no preparation for things to go wrong besides saving money and hoping you can buy your way out.

True, I eat out every meal, have a membership at a coworking space, and either go for runs or use public outdoor gyms for exercise.

I've been following up on and off for a bit, seen his posts on reddit, etc.. I'm not sure how he funds his lifestyle; he seams to just walk all day...
by kharak | 2025-10-07 09:26:15+00:00
To be honest, I do understand some people preferring pastures in front of their home. But we can't have nice things if individuals are capable of blocking projects for that. Personal preferences should not be a valid reason to block projects. Unmitigated negative externalities are reasonable objections, but even then, you have people "finding" this one protected snail type living there and - boom - project can't be realized due to environmental protection laws. There needs to be a re-balance of the commons, but try getting that through legislation.
by perching_aix | 2025-10-07 09:27:39+00:00
Extremists gotta extremize, right? They couldn't stop themselves from tainting their work with their beliefs, you cannot stop yourself from taking the few times this happened and magnifying it, as if it was predominant, and then reacting to it viscerally, even years down the line under no emotional pressure to do so.

And then even with all that additional capacity at hand, the proposed solution is replacing the rarely politically addled subs with mostly nonsensical AI generated rubbish, because that is such a reasonable alternative. Some people really deserve what's coming for them it seems. Just wish normal people didn't have to along for the ride.

What about AI being politically biased by the way? Or is that talking point already forgotten?
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-07 09:29:00+00:00
But surely that doesn't prevent liability? It just makes it even more systematic?

You'd sue in some creator-friendly jurisdiction and say something like that 'Youtube's effectively co-operating with fraudsters who use false copyright strikes in this or that way, possibly to save money, possibly to avoid liability in other jurisdiction, but they do it'.

If the friendly jurisdiction was the Swedish one you'd say that this avoidance of liability in other jurisdictions etc. was Youtube's gain and the economic harm or loss was your actual loss of revenue, and then the judges, even though it's not law would start thinking about all the problems and social harm from this, and then judge in your favour. Apparently in Swedish law negligence is enough for fraud, and given all these complaints and videos etc. it would be easy to prove negligence.

This kind of thing also falls within allmänt åtal, so in theory a private lawsuit shouldn't actually be required, so in principle it shouldn't matter that you might have an agreement to settle disputes through some special procedure. This kind of negligence is simply crime, crime that you can go to prison for.
by fransje26 | 2025-10-07 09:29:48+00:00
> Any experience?

Yes. As you transition to using Windows less and less, you'll get reminded more and more about how much of a pain it is to use, and how much of a Stockholm Syndrome you've developed over years of abuse.

To the point that you'll be avoid Windows as much as you can. You'll be booting your system infrequently enough, that, at every boot, Windows will be unresponsively slow, hogging your CPU and your bandwidth to forcefully update whatever bloatware is in need of an update. It will nag you about needing to restart, it will stand in you way, it will make your experience even more miserable. From time to time it will simply announce that the system will be rebooting in two minutes, without any recourse possible, your work be damned. Because, why not? Who the f*k cares about your work?

Be warned, you might reach a point of no return where you'll be avoiding this abusive piece of bloatware like the plague. You might discover light and happiness at the end of this dark, damp tunnel. You might free yourself from the PTSD you didn't know you were suffering of at the slightest mention of the word "Update".

It will be a liberating experience. Come and join us on the other side.
by latexr | 2025-10-07 09:31:19+00:00
> I disagree

And then all your examples are about tech work and startups. Other types of work exist, and they comprise the majority of jobs. Labour laws don’t exist only for startups and tech workers.

You’re also ignoring the argument of the article.

> Criticize the system if you want. What's better? Feudalism? Communism?

Let’s please leave out the purposefully exaggerated bad examples and engage in good faith. You don’t have to change the whole system to increase respect and conditions for workers, as proven by the difference between the USA and Europe described in the article.
by simonh | 2025-10-07 09:31:39+00:00
At the time most of those people took out those loans on those houses, they could afford them. Several things happened in various combinations. Interest rates shot up making the loans unaffordable. House prices collapsed so now they had taken out loans on houses worth dramatically less than they bought them for. They lost their job.

In some cases they lost their job meaning they needed to move to find work, but that would mean selling a house worth less than they bought it for which mans they'd owe the difference, and the mortgage on the new house would be unaffordable anyway due to the increase in mortgage rates.

Then bear in mind the hyper aggressive marketing tactics, and assurances from financial institutions and politicians that this was all fine and there was no risk.

Ultimately though, this has nothing at all to do with my comment. I meant "they lost their homes" and that's all. I didn't assign any blame to anyone, nor did I try to accuse anyone of anything, all I talked about was the potential economic repercussions.
by piva00 | 2025-10-07 09:33:06+00:00
Isn't that part of the job of being in top management? Being paid millions of bucks for your skills that should tell what your business need?

If the signs are showing that you might need to fire people, you need to think and work for that: set enough money aside to pay for severance and/or buy-outs, not just decide "oh shit, I can't pay them, and I can't pay what is needed for me to fire them", that's just incompetence.

The way you present this is like business leaders are victims that were helpless on forecasting what their businesses need, which is exactly their fucking job to do.
by rwmj | 2025-10-07 09:33:11+00:00
A couple of uses of consultants that I've seen at first hand:

- They helped our company to negotiate the minefield of government R&D tax credits, by interviewing all the developers and assessing how much was R&D compared to the guidelines (which are complicated). I think this was a good use of consultants: You get someone with specialized knowledge, and unless you're an enormous company, you couldn't afford to have someone with this knowledge on staff all the time.

- They ran a survey of our software development practices, which they also ran with many other software companies, and then compared our performance to the other companies. I think if you're a completely useless manager with no idea about software, then this could be good, as it might highlight obvious ways that you could improve your processes. For us, it was a waste of time and money.
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by aswin_kp | 2025-10-07 09:34:14+00:00
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by hyperman1 | 2025-10-07 09:34:20+00:00
Yes and no. There are many distros, but they all use the same components. If outside entities only allow you to run specific distros or configs, you're done. Some examples:

* My jobs VPN only runs on Ubuntu. There is code in there that checks your OS.

* My bank wants the chrome browser. Messing with headers makes it work on firefox. But that's for now and needs me spending time fighting them.

* sssd is starting some light GPO enforcement on my laptop.

* systemd slowly moves towards encrypted home dirs and a fully validated boot chain. That's a golden cage with a lock to which we have the key. Microsoft can take the key away, and governements can make them do this.

* Android is also theoretically multi distro, but Google is the only one that matters. And they just decided they want developers identity.

* Most if the big sites make you jump trough hoops for non-chrome browsers. Facebook, cloudflare, Teams...

Computers are now part of networks, a bit like their own societies. These will force you to use their rules or isolate you. And that's assuming you can keep buying machines that are open or legally jailbreakable.
by darkamaul | 2025-10-07 09:34:58+00:00
I believe this will be more detailed in the author following talk at HexaCon [0].

They used this bug in Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, earning a 40,000 bounty in the process [1].

[0] https://www.hexacon.fr/conference/speakers/#rce_in_redis [1] https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/5/16/pwn2own-ber...
by noduerme | 2025-10-07 09:35:29+00:00
Counter-counterpoint (from someone who minored in typography): The purpose of a font is to be transparent as glass to the data being transmitted to your eyes. That is why if you notice a font and think it's stupid, the designer has made a mistake. Also if you notice a font because the designer left it in your default Times New Roman, that is a mistake. If a layout artist does a good job, you should never notice a font in the body of text you're reading. You should only notice a font occasionally if they really want to highlight a header or something. The font is a carrier of information - lighting on the stage, not the main actor. And it must never assume the role of an actor unless the designer specifically intends it to.

If you're a coder, you understand this extremely well, implicitly: You set up your IDE fonts and colors in a way that helps you see through the code. You don't want to be looking at letter forms when you're trying to grok something.

This is also the job of designers: Creating typefaces and layouts so that people see through the text, to the meaning.

Leaving your website in the system standard font basically screams "I do not give a shit about what is written here" and also possibly "I run a quacky conspiracy website" and me and most people will scroll past your writing as quickly as possible.

But there is no font that has no connotation. Every font has subconscious meanings to readers. Knowing what these are is important. Times New Roman screams, "I'm still using Windows 98". Whereas Comic Sans screams, "I work in a shitty real estate office". Simple examples. But the art is much deeper than that, because Optima Sans and Univers read very differently to the general public in ways that I could spend another few pages explaining. Every choice you make with type implies something that sits as a layer on top of the text that's written in that typography. But if you do your job well, you make the artisanship transparent, and allow the content to shine.

This is why typography is a bit of a black art, and why it's powerful. It subtly influences people in ways they don't notice and don't understand, while they're absorbing written information. Dig:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput...
by lloydatkinson | 2025-10-07 09:36:01+00:00
I still believe there should be a `unset user agent styles` that could be set somewhere in the document. Why make devs ship reset CSS if they are going to be undoing all your pretty janky default styles anyway? Here's a list of arguments and refutations I know this suggestion is going to get:

> But a browser should have a minimal set of default styles!

They always have done. My suggestion does not affect that.

> Websites shouldn't be able to turn off default stylings!

Many already literally are, either through CSS resets or simply doing h1 { color: red }.

> What's the point!?

There's a dozen or so popular CSS resets that literally overrides all the browser default styles. It would save time and data to not ship the same styles over and over again.

> It's impossible!

No, no it is not. Simply inform the browser to apply no styling at all. This would be a straightforward feature for browser implementors to create.
by terminalbraid | 2025-10-07 09:36:02+00:00
> For those who've built FFI wrappers in similar situations, how did you navigate this?

You talk to a lawyer who specializes in this topic. Anyone who is not a lawyer telling you anything is not to be trusted and can land you in legal trouble with no recourse.

There is literally no other discussion to be had you can trust.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-07 09:36:23+00:00
Just to elaborate a bit more, the problem is that even a colony which, for example, glows under a blue light, will have some members that didn't uptake the genes. So you need a more proactive filtering method.

There's also the fact that bacteria tend to lose non-adaptive traits pretty quickly once the selection pressure is gone, so having the antibiotic resistance attached to your gene of interest makes it much more likely to stick around for the duration.

Additionally, as others have said, this particular antibiotic (from the post) isn't even used for human treatment so it's not really particularly more "dangerous", we just tend to get nervous around anything "antibiotic resistant" because we jump to thinking about like, MRSA.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-07 09:41:06+00:00
I made the jump to Linux 3 years ago, when I learned that Windows 10 support was coming to an end, and I really didn't like what Windows 11 looked like.

3 years, and not a single time I had any regrets. Not a single time I thought about moving back.

I went for Mint because I am a filthy casual, and as you put it, that system is a joy to use. On Windows I needed to do yearly fresh installs as I could feel performance degrading as time went on, On Linux the laptop is performing as well if not better than when I freshly installed it.

It's so good that I even donate 20 bucks to the project every year. It has no right of being that good and also free.

About games - not only I can play basically everything in my Steam library, but even installing things from other sources is very easy with minor tinkering. At least to me, Windows became nearly superfluous nowadays.
by fingerlocks | 2025-10-07 09:41:24+00:00
No you’re just completely ignorant. You can trivially set breakpoints, use conditional breakpoints, watch variables, step over, through, and into in exactly the same way. Hell, even raw-dogging lldb directly on the CLI is incredibly user friendly, fast, and has a ton features you wish were more exposed by common IDEs. Don’t feel like debugging right now? Take a heap snapshot and do it later! Don’t even need to launch the process.

Visual Studio is ridiculously overrated, and this is coming from someone that works at Microsoft and forced to use it every day. What really kills me are the insanely complicated and unmodifiable shortcut keys for common tasks. Killing the process is like some finger breaking ctrl+alt+function key nonsense? Seriously wtf? Oh to debug multiple binaries simultaneously in the same solution requires launching multiple instances of the entire IDE? Why??
by sigwinch | 2025-10-07 09:42:03+00:00
In theory, an official with skin in the game can use a consultant to learn how to avoid mistakes. We don’t have AI smart-enough to speak about new kinds of mistakes (yet). So it seems to me that the public official should be using AI more than the consultant, for now:

- Find prior consulting products (reports) relevant to my situation. Maybe Deloitte produced a great piece of public advice back in 2007 and AI can style-transfer it to my set of 2025 vocabulary and assumptions.

- What would an average citizen, with access to AI, expect me to do on their behalf and communicate back?

- I meet with a consultant and provide AI with a transcript. It should research a reading list for us.
by ultim8k | 2025-10-07 09:42:33+00:00
Most of the time gov, orgs and companies don't listen to their in-house engineers but will pay $$$ to some consulting firm, only to confirm the same thing or just to show that "they are taking actions towards the solution".

In some cases there is distrust from management on in-house employees or in some other cases they want to show quick results without distracting their teams from their planned tasks.

Of course there are the cases that managers have personal motives, either to add an extra (useless) achievement on their list or even worse to get referral fee or presents from the external consultancy.
by survirtual | 2025-10-07 09:42:43+00:00
In ordering a meal from someone else who makes it, I think that the relationship is rather well defined. One person is asking another person to use their skills to make a meal.

With AI, there is a vision and there is a tool executing it. This has a recursive loop involving articulation, refinement, repetition. It is one person using a tool to get a result. At a minimum, it is characteristically different than your comparison, no?

To add, my original statement was concerning going into a grocery store and buying ingredients. That was once a much more difficult process.

As an aside it reminds me of a food cart I would go to regularly in Portland. Sometimes the chefs would go mushroom foraging and cook a lunch using those fresh mushrooms. It was divine. If we ever reach a time when I can send a robot out to forage for mushrooms and actually survive the meal, I would celebrate that occasion, because it would mean we all made it through some troubling times.
by mijoharas | 2025-10-07 09:43:25+00:00
I think you may have misread it. The original claim is:

> This resulted in a nonzero number of donors believing they were funding the work of people like Steve Klabnik, Aaron Patterson, and Sarah Mei, when in fact only Andre was being paid at the time.

Steve said "that didn't happen to me" and then Aaron said "that definitely did happen to me". Seems pretty relevant. I don't think he was claiming steve was wrong in not having heard that, but Aaron was saying it did happen to him, so the claim is true.

(and in terms of evidence, do you want him to share the emails he got? A first hand account seems enough evidence to me)

Seems pretty unambiguous, and a good reason to chime in.
by perching_aix | 2025-10-07 09:43:44+00:00
> So anything that is not like the way things are now, is automatically nonsensical?

No. Claiming that I'm trying to force something to happen that is already the given way is what's nonsensical. Because you see, it has already happened. I can at most reinforce it, contributing to it remaining established, which is really not the model you've been playing along in.

> That seems a very ... progressive mindset.

I'd go as far as to say it's downright tautological!

> And everything anyone else says, that goes against current trend is ... childish clapback?

No. Riding off what I said to coyly make your point instead of just directly sharing them, in order to get a rise out of the other, is what constitutes the childish clapback there. You know, like what you're doing again.

> Wow. You sir are truly an enlightened being.

Unfortunately, I fall way short of that. If I was truly enlightened, I wouldn't give conversations like this the time of day, as they're intentionally crafted to be asinine, to waste people's time and care. Or is that not your whole idea?

Because I have to say, could have fooled me! Repeating after me that I have the amazing options of simulating a different device, injecting my own styling, or using reader mode, blatantly ignoring that these are workarounds and right after I did explicitly list 2/3rds of them off, surely you can appreciate comes across as more than just a little insulting and disingenuous. So does reflecting back the subjectivity of the topic, while conveniently ignoring that e.g. stylesheet injection or browser extension use go both ways, and they could use those too. So is everything just fine as is then, or is there a change needed? Make up your mind, please?

> Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us today.

Cheers! I would say any time, but hopefully for not much longer.
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-07 09:44:26+00:00
As far as concrete facts go, 1) we know that plastic fabrics (polyester, nylon, etc) generate airborne plastic particles which we then breathe in, 2) they exacerbate certain skin conditions, 3) they start to stink much faster than natural fibers, 4) they burn incredibly fast and fuse to your skin and 5) they’re funding the oil industry. Those factors alone are enough for me to essentially ban them from my body.

Beyond facts, there is also a certain ugly vibe to plastic clothes. They’re cheap and impersonal and disposable and typically generic. I have never really fallen in love with a polyester product. When it came time to throw away my polyester clothes, I wasn’t surprised to find that everything I really loved was wool/cotton/silk.
by gwd | 2025-10-07 09:45:19+00:00
I mean, yeah, add that in there.

Listen, I'm not trying to argue that the containment protocols aren't safe; I don't know what they are. What I am trying to argue is

1. That these fears are reasonable, and deserve to be treated with respect.

2. Even if you don't agree with #1, in a democracy, just insulting and ignoring people with those fears is going to be counterproductive.