MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NickC25 | 2025-10-30 21:13:40+00:00
> Redefines the meaning of genocide to fit the shape of the conflict -- a war started by Hamas on Oct 7

My man, Israel had a blockade surrounding Palestine on all sides for years prior. October 7th was a retaliation for a lot of the pain Israel had inflicted on Palestine (sorry- Greater Israel). And Bibi was well in the know and all too happy to let it happen.

> largely ignores role of Hamas in the conflict

Bibi loved and loves Hamas. Also, Israel has nuclear weapons. A lot of them.

It's like David and Goliath, except in this case David is malnourished to the extreme, has no future, no present, no past except seeing his family and friends bombed to oblivion....and only can attack Goliath with a few pebbles. Meanwhile, Goliath has plot armor and nukes.

>Frames the country as a "settler-colonial" project ignoring realities of jewish history in the region.

And not ignoring Palestine, which had existed for 12 centuries before the birth of Christ?
by avidiax | 2025-10-30 21:14:05+00:00
For those that don't know, ZOZO is a tech-forward clothing designer/retailer.

Several years back, they sent me a special spandex shirt/leggings combo, black with spaced white dots. Then you use their app to take many photos of yourself, and they have a profile of your body to be used for automatic fitting.

The shirt they eventually sent did fit well, but wasn't anything special several years ago.

This shows that they are still at it, and as someone that hates shopping for clothing, I hope this is a sign that the dream of a custom tailored fit at a mass production price is getting nearer.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-30 21:14:26+00:00
Yeah at it's core a blockchain based cryptocurrency is a consensus system and decentralised resource market where the resource in question is space in the blocks within some time bound and verifiable proof of the time and state they were accepted in.

That core feature of "providing a total ordering for state changes and events with formal trust bounds" turns out to have a lot of potential uses.

Now of course truly providing correct timestamps or really any clock mechanism in a trustless way turns out to be massively difficult. And not just in a blockchain but really in any decentralised/distributed system. It's a famously unsolved problem.

There's some research[1] on how to go about providing a "global time"/"global clock" for cryptocurrencies without external trust assumptions but it's extraordinarily academic and most if not all systems just assume trusted time within some bound and hope for the best.

1. Permissionless Clock Synchronization with Public Setup - https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1220
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-30 21:14:38+00:00
"Encourage" may be a strong word, but it's specifically outlined in the Microsoft Services Agreement:

> 11. Choice of Law and Place to Resolve Disputes. If you live in (or, if a business, your principal place of business is in) the United States, the laws of the state where you live (or, if a business, where your principal place of business is located) govern all claims, regardless of conflict of laws principles, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs all provisions relating to arbitration. You and we irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state or federal courts in King County, Washington, for all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services that are not heard in arbitration or small claims court.
by redleader55 | 2025-10-30 21:14:43+00:00
I think GP is suggesting using less words on a slide, having visual aids and often, thinking of 2-3 ideas that someone would remember from your presentation. To the first point, if you take more than 1 min on a single slide, you need to split it into more slides.

Also, present things that you are passionate about if you want to make people care about your presentation.
by jonhohle | 2025-10-30 21:15:02+00:00
I think it falls into a few buckets:

A) maintainers don’t know any better and connect things with string and gum until it most works and ship it

B) people who are smart, but naive and think it will be different this time

C) package manager creators who think they’re creating something that hasn’t been done before, don’t look at prior art or failures, and fall into all of the same holes literally every other package manager has fallen into and will continue to fall into because no one in this industry learns anything.
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-30 21:15:02+00:00
> Make products people want and they buy, ignore them, and they don't.

What does this even mean? When I went to my local Apple Store to see the iPhone air in person (to decide if it was right for me, which it was), they had a line out the door for people who wanted to buy new phones. Their Mac business is very healthy since introducing their own silicon. Everyone in the Bay Area (skewed, I know) has AirPods on the train or at the grocery store.
by Johanx64 | 2025-10-30 21:15:12+00:00
Don't tell me what the original claim was.

You contorted it to mean that it's literally impossible to write "quality software" in vim/emacs.

I did NOT claim this. Nobody would claim this either.

I wouldn't make such claim even about nano or notepad or any text editor (of which there and hundreds and thousands) for that matter.

What an insane thing to contest even.

Would I attribute quality of software to - in any shape or form - to the text editor it was written in - whether written in nano, notepad or vim or emacs or god knows what else? No, I would not. That WAS the original claim.
by peterspath | 2025-10-30 21:15:29+00:00
They have enough "AI" stuff. People just don't know it is AI. That is the best way of integrating AI into your product(s). The tech behind stuff doesn't really matter for the end user.

other companies should also follow that trend, use ai for useful features, just give the feature a good name... no need to mention "ai"... because next year it could be something else that is powering the feature.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-30 21:15:30+00:00
"Jim Bennett: I've been up two and a half million dollars.

Frank: What you got on you?

Jim Bennett: Nothing.

Frank: What you put away?

Jim Bennett: Nothing.

Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks?

Jim Bennett: Yes.

Frank: I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0
by cosmosgenius | 2025-10-30 21:15:30+00:00
one thing which causes problem with git for me is collaborative work without using "git server". This usually comes up at homelab situation with no access a "git server" or ssh server. One thing with jj is i can use existing sharing mechanism like dropbox, google drive or if nothing else just copying jj folder (granted all of those are bad idea w.r.t vcs but still).
by xfour | 2025-10-30 21:15:44+00:00
Seems like the obvious reason for this is that Mac is now a niche for people that operate computers, where there are likely 6 people that don't for every 1 that does. We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.

The second reason is likely that there are computers that are 1/3 of the price subsidized by the terrible ad-supported OS installs. (Has anyone tried to setup a MS computer lately, it's an ad-box).
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-30 21:15:52+00:00
>Somehow, with the economies of scale,

"Big business is better for consumers because economy of scale" has just always been a lie.

No business will pass on a cost decrease if it doesn't have to. A big business will always have more pricing power than a small business. A big business will therefore pass on fewer cost savings to consumers.

Also, making food the way Chipotle does just does not have any economy of scale. The workers making burritos don't get cheaper if you hire 100k of them.

"Economy of scale" is not some magic spell that you get when you pass 10k employees. Economy of scale is a lie that covers up that if you make huge investments, you can do enough engineering and machine work to replace humans in some parts of some processes. It is not intrinsic.

It is the norm that a business will spend a lot of money on cost reduction or process improvement and then just.... happily absorb that improved profit margin.

Why wouldn't they?
by numbsafari | 2025-10-30 21:16:01+00:00
Don't do development on your local machine. Full stop. Just don't.

Do development, all of it, inside VMs or containers, either local or remote.

Use ephemeral credentials within said VMs, or use no credentials. For example, do all your git pulls on your laptop directly, or in a separate VM with a mounted volume that is then shared with the VM/containers where you are running dev tooling.

This has the added benefit of not only sandboxing your code, but also making your dev environments repeatable.

If you are using GitHub, use codespaces. If you are using gitlab, workspaces. If you are using neither, check out tools like UTM or Vagrant.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-30 21:16:57+00:00
> Feels like this violates zig “no hidden control flow” principle.

A hot take here is that the whole async thing is a hidden control flow. Some people noticed that ever since plain callbacks were touted as a "webscale" way to do concurrency. The sequence of callbacks being executed or canceled forms a hidden, implicit control flow running concurrently with the main control logic. It can be harder to debug and manage than threads.

But that said, unless, Zig adds a runtime with its own scheduler and turns into a bytecode VM, there is not much it can do. Co-routines and green threads have been done before in C and C-like languages, but not sure how easily the would fit with Zig and its philosophy.
by abemiller | 2025-10-30 21:18:06+00:00
Yea I mean a more generic version of the simulation theory is just that there is an "outside world" within which our universe exists in containment. Seems probably impossible to disprove (or prove) that for the same reason that proofs about the existence of God are hard.

But, making proofs about the capabilities of the exact types of computation we currently use can still be interesting.
by oskarkk | 2025-10-30 21:18:28+00:00
> "With others doing testing, I think it's appropriate that we do also,"

Others are only testing the delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons (missiles, submarines), not the nuclear weapons themselves. So "Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis" may also mean that the weapons won't be detonated in these tests.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-30 21:19:08+00:00
I'm not sure I catch your explanation, so let's try with some simple numbers and you'll tell me where I'm wrong.

I have a family of 10 people. These people have, respectively,

$0 ; $0 ; $1 ; $5 ; $49 ; $51 ; $190 ; $8,000 ; $150,000 and $1,000,000.

What's the median amount of savings in this group?

And what amount would complete the sentence : "50% of people have ..."?
by jameslk | 2025-10-30 21:19:11+00:00
Tragedy of the commons which is a symptom of lack of common culture. That is, since not everyone has been raised under the same culture and norms, there will be misunderstandings about what is acceptable. More regulation and fines[0] to solve what is mostly an educational problem seems unfortunate

0. From TFA: In the UK, the Liberal Democrats proposed legislation that would make playing content out loud a fineable offence of up to £1,000.
by lapcat | 2025-10-30 21:19:42+00:00
I think your conclusion is also wrong. iPad sales are flat, and wearables are actually declining:

(Wearables, home, and accessories already surpassed Mac sales, although I don't know what exactly is included in accessories.)

Also, I don't think it's useful to compare wearables to Mac, because Watch isn't much of a computing platform, AirPods aren't a computing platform at all, and Vision Pro has almost no sales. This category is mostly accessories to iPhone.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/charts-apple-caps-off-bes...
by chasd00 | 2025-10-30 21:19:47+00:00
> Times Square area in NYC.

quick funny story, my family and i were in Times Square last year for New Year's. Thousands of people everywhere as you can imagine. We're walking down the sidewalk and right as rain my wife runs into someone she knows from all the way back in Texas. Among all those people from all over the world she still manages to run into someone she knows. My wife and her talk while me and the boys hang around waiting just like we've had to do at our local grocery store back home. My kids and I still laugh at that story.
by zakelfassi | 2025-10-30 21:20:04+00:00
I had a similar experience here on HN. One of my blog posts recently made it to the front page, and I ended up getting brigaded. I had to add a dozen AI-use disclaimers around the blog, not even the piece itself. It was surreal.

I get the anxiety about authenticity, but sometimes the witch-hunt feels more automaton-like than the tools themselves. For what it's worth, I've written publicly about my process ––how I use AI as scaffolding, not ghostwriting–– in my standing note on AI use.

The discomfort around augmented intelligence is fascinating + telling. I sometimes wonder if the same people browse HN on typewriters or pray for the next X-class solar flare so we can all return to rock carving.
by mung | 2025-10-30 21:20:32+00:00
I feel like everyone is very negative about something that hasn't happened yet. This gives a desktop environment to Canva users, where the revenue actually is. It's both a trojan horse and a usable product. Will everyone's worse fears come true? Maybe, maybe not. Mean time you have an excellent app, for free, and very few software products, free, open source, closed source, perpetual, subscription.... last "forever". They are often obsoleted by some new product, new workflow or just a new OS. Take it for what it is right now.
by pavon | 2025-10-30 21:20:42+00:00
No, it means they buyer thinks it is worth more than what they are paying. It doesn't mean they are right. It also means that this is the only buyer who thinks the company is worth that much, because if someone was willing to pay more, the company would be selling to them instead.

Ideally startups are about creating value, and making a return on that value, but more and more they look like they are instead selling hype to a series of investors who are trying not to get stuck with the hot potato.
by rafabulsing | 2025-10-30 21:20:55+00:00
> The implicit claims are more misleading, in my opinion: The claim that self-hosting is free or nearly free in terms of time and engineering brain drain.

Not only is that not an implicit claim in the post, they explicitly say the that it's not free, it's actually just around the same amount of time they used to spend with AWS:

> Total toil is ~14 engineer-hours/month, including prep. The AWS era had us spending similar time but on different work: chasing cost anomalies, expanding Security Hub exceptions, and mapping breaking changes in managed services. The toil moved; it did not multiply.

As for the following:

> If you’re a stable business with engineers sitting idle that could be the right choice. For most startups who just need to get a product out there and get customers, pulling limited headcount away from the core product to save pennies (relatively speaking) on a potential AWS bill can be a trap.

You're just agreeing with them:

> Cloud-first was the right call for our first five years. Bare metal became the right call once our compute footprint, data gravity, and independence requirements stabilised.
by dkural | 2025-10-30 21:21:07+00:00
Taking some time off to travel when you're young is much more than a beach vacation. You meet people (sometimes you meet your future wife), that can become lifelong friends. You learn what you like and don't like; and that the world is infinitely more complicated and beautiful than what you could imagine through books and watching youtube.

After 40 you've already made many of your major life decisions - career, partner, education, kids etc. There's less room for new experiences to alter that trajectory meaningfully.

One thing I've also realized through being lucky enough to enjoy some "semi-retirement" between work is having a healthy balance makes me appreciate both work and "leisure" more. It gets pretty boring to go to the beach every day, it turns out. I was itching to get back to building something by the end.
by antonvs | 2025-10-30 21:21:29+00:00
> Personally, I can see images when I dream, but I don’t see anything at all if I’m conscious and closing my eyes.

That's classic complete aphantasia. I have it too.

The "kind of different. I’m not really seeing it" would apply just as well to dream images. If you're interrogating people, you might try asking them whether it's similar to that.
by largbae | 2025-10-30 21:21:44+00:00
I've worked with many folks over the years after learning myself...

The feeling of complexity comes from not yet understanding that commits are just sets of changes to files. They are then thrown off the scent by new terms like origin clone vs push and pull, merge vs rebase, HEAD increment notation vs other commit hashes.

Once people start with a local understanding of using git diff and git add -p they usually get the epiphany. Then git rebase -i and git reflog take them the rest of the way. Then add the distributed push and fetch/pull concepts.
by gotrythis | 2025-10-30 21:22:32+00:00
I am a daily user of Affinity Publisher and regular user of Affinity Photo. I bought version 1 when it came out, upgraded to version 2, and upgraded this morning to the new, free version.

This is NOT FREEMIUM as I understand the model, as it is not limited in any way. This is everything they were charging for and more, now free, with free upgrades.

I'm personally thrilled to get so much value for free.
by jrs235 | 2025-10-30 21:22:41+00:00
Blame finance and accounting... Rent compute in the cloud can be immediately expensed against revenues. Purchasing equipment has to be depreciated over a few years. Also why spending $$$$$ on labor (salaries) to solve an ops issue rather than spending $$$$ on some software to do it happens. If the business relies on the software it looks like an ever ongoing cost of operating the business. Spending more on labor to juggle the craziness can "hide" that and make the business look more attractive to investors... Cutting labor costs is easier to improve the bottom line (in the short term).
by gpm | 2025-10-30 21:23:20+00:00
Not 100% sure I understand what you're saying, but I think the answer is "yes".

You can modify any* commit in `jj` regardless of whether it has commits on top of it at any time. Either by another commit into it, or by directly checking out the commit and editing the source tree. If this creates conflicts with commits on top of it `jj` just records those commits as having conflicts/adds conflict markers without interrupting the workflow.

* Commits pushed to remotes are marked immutable so you have to pass an extra flag to say ignore that and modify them anyways. Which you generally wouldn't want to do.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-30 21:23:22+00:00
This is a good write-up.

In addition to this issue, I've also had good conversations with a business owner about why he chose a Windows architecture for his company. Paying money to the company created a situation where the company had a "skin-in-the-game" reason to offer support (especially back when he founded the company, because Microsoft was smaller at the time). He likes being able to trust that the people who build the architecture he relies on for his livelihood won't just get bored and wander off and will be responsive to specific concerns about the product, and he never had the perception that he could rely on that with free software.
by shaftway | 2025-10-30 21:23:36+00:00
I had the same experience being in downtown SF (near Market) for the first time in a few years, but I attributed it to the number of electric cars.

The whole visit felt weird, and eerie, and off somehow, but I couldn't figure out what it was. And then I was standing waiting for a crossing light and heard the clicking of a scooter's turn signal ~20 feet away. It stood out because it took a few seconds to realize that I shouldn't be hearing it because of other noise.
by kcplate | 2025-10-30 21:23:38+00:00
I’d suggest that because the implementation didn't happen on Trump’s watch and the vaccine hard sell, mandates, “stretching” of the truth of efficacy during that period was the primary contributors to much of the distrust, it’s definitely helped contribute to his reelection.

There is certainly no way to know how Trump would have handled that implementation, but we do know how the Biden administration handled it.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-30 21:23:42+00:00
The earliest years of your earning life contribute overwhelmingly more to your final retirement figure than your later years. Anyone lucky enough to have a job in their teens that gives them disposable income after each paycheck really, really, really should be saving and investing. Like OP, if I was more serious about investing in my early years, I would be retired by now.

One can lead a meaningful, enjoyable life while also considering their finances.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-30 21:23:47+00:00
> We keep hearing that the next generation is "true computer" illiterate.

I 'member when "personal" computers were going to be a kind of capital-equipment made available to the masses, creating new levels of autonomy and personal control over our own lives, working for our goals and interests... Whoops.

Folks like Stallman did warn me though.