MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisislife2 | 2025-10-24 09:10:19+00:00
No, Google isn't less bad (and I avoid them using Sailfish OS and non-Google ROMs (Lineage OS / Graphene OS). I don't believe either Google or Apple (or any other BigTech) should have any role in deciding what apps I install on my phone or how I choose to purchase (not rent) an app. (I mean, they just act as an unnecessary middle-man and gatekeeper to extort money). The smartphone is just another computer. I don't pay Apple or Microsoft to install software from other developers / companies on my desktop computer. Why should it be any different for me on mobiles? Just because they can abuse their monopolistic power?
by walkabout | 2025-10-24 09:11:37+00:00
“Democracy” in the sense of “a government with large amounts of citizen participation via voting, strong rule of law, and peaceful transition of power” (this is an entirely fine usage; it’s the main way most political scientists use the term day-to-day, ditto ordinary people, that’s why there are so many openings for incorrecting people online with “ackshually only direct democracy is democracy, the rest is sparkling representative republics”, which, again, isn’t how people who study government generally use the term) is failing, because rule of law is failing. This is a (partial, in this hypothetical, but far more complete in the real thing I’m alluding to) clear failure of government.

“Democracy” as in people are voting and the people they elected are wielding power (nb it is not necessarily the case that voters like that crime isn’t being prosecuted in my hypothetical, even in cases that their system of presumably-also-democratic government legally requires it—it could be that this prosecutor is popular despite that) is working.

Maybe you just mean that votes are resulting in things happening, period, regardless of whether those things are legal according to laws established and upheld by prior elected governments, and even if the system isn’t operating anywhere near its foundational legal basis, and that’s the disconnect?

(Outside the hypothetical, rule of law has always kinda struggled at times but is simply collapsing this term in ways and to a degree that’s not been seen in living memory, certainly; voting has been under attack for decades and especially lately between the ‘00s-today baseless but effective attacks on confidence in elections, the “find me votes” and illegal electors pushes having no consequences and the guy behind them currently holding effectively all federal levers of power and quite a few state ones, increasing gerrymandering activity, and the VRA being on life support and likely soon to be dead; and we’ve not seen peaceful transition of power in as shaky a place as it is post-Jan-6th [and the reactions thereto]… maybe ever, aside from the actual civil war? Certainly not since the 19th century; taken together, yeah, American democracy in the former sense is doing extremely poorly and large parts of it are entirely broken at the moment, and it’s very much not clear how much, if any, of it will recover, and it’s a safe bet a lot of that’s going to get worse at least in the short term)
by tpxl | 2025-10-24 09:11:39+00:00
> People feel like there's some man in a dark room somewhere looking at each and every image posted everywhere with evil intent.

Yeah when there's precedent for people doing exactly that the feeling is justified. How many times have we heard of [facebook employees/police/...] abusing their powers to stalk their [exes/wives/love interests/'enemies'/...]. With the amount of face detection and cataloguing being done today, it's never been easier on a technical level. The only protection we have is 'trust us we aren't doing it bro', which doesn't get you very far.
by lpapez | 2025-10-24 09:12:53+00:00
> I think politically, everyone would want airlines to have working IT-systems and they would probably want to pay $100 (rationally, closer to $1000) amortized over 50 years to pay for that, but apparently humanity is just too stupid to make it work.

Not stupid, just corrupt :)

If we did this, the money would get misappropriated or stolen - most likely completely legally through overpaid consulting fees.

So clearly we should pay someone to prevent that from happening.

Wait a minute...
by lynx97 | 2025-10-24 09:13:15+00:00
I find the combination of "pictures of strangers" and "our right to take pictures" rather concerning. I have a different perspective, as I am blind. But I was always uncomfortable with having a picture taken of me by basically a stranger. And that feeling didn't just come with social media. It always was there. I disagree that you have a "right" to take pictures of strangers. IMO, you shouldn't have that right. It is probably different depending on what juristiction you are in. But my personal opinion is, that this attitude is rather selfish. In my perfect world, taking pictures of strangers without their consent should be illegal.
by friendzis | 2025-10-24 09:13:19+00:00
> Can you give some examples of this happening in real life?

Uber is the canonical example of this, I guess.

> None of the examples I can think of where people criticised the companies for operating unprofitably, such as Amazon retail or Uber, were able to corner their markets.

It's not about people criticising this behavior or not. It's about being factored in the model. The free market model assumes that every participant in the market has the same access to capital, ensuring that every market participant can equally undercut everyone, making this particular strategy irrational, therefore not part of the model.
by ktpsns | 2025-10-24 09:13:51+00:00
So this another tale of not rolling your own crypto. The blog post does a great job in not to sound arrogant and state a clear way out:

> Using HMAC or a modern hash/MAC function is the proper fix. For systems like BunnyCDN, adding a parameter such as ~ at the end of the query string provides a quick mitigation.
by ibowankenobi | 2025-10-24 09:13:59+00:00
People have trransformed their brain because of using frameworks and do not understand how DOM works.

I pasted A LIVE example to prove you wrong and you will still attach me whatwg link. YES , when you append it is emptied! Keep a reference to the same fragment and REAPPEND to it! REUSE it. If you want to empty without appending, call replaceChildren() since it inherits from Node.

Why are people stubborn on things they dont know????
by bertylicious | 2025-10-24 09:14:05+00:00
It's not that simple. The real problem is that Valve allows items to be sold in markets outside of Valve's control which allows third party gambling websites to operate. And you guessed right, they basically don't care about your age. Valve of course knows this but won't do anything, because they make profits off all transactions happening in third party markets. Plus the whole professional CS tournament scene is sponsored by these predatory casinos. Coffeezilla did an in-depth piece on this: https://youtu.be/q58dLWjRTBE
by bell-cot | 2025-10-24 09:14:22+00:00
Rather than some fundamental law of AI, one might better view the Turing Test as a then-obvious product of its social backstory and circumstances. Turing was a son and grandson of civil servants, engineers, army officers, and gentry. He grew up in the inter-war (WWI-WWII) British Empire. He originally called his test "the imitation game". And introduced it in a paper he published in a philosophy journal.

In that context - being able to present yourself as an intelligent human, in strictly written communication with other humans, is a "d'oh, table stakes" human skill. The Empire was based on ink-on-paper communications. If you couldn't keep the people who read your correspondence, paperwork, and reports convinced that you were an intelligent (and dutiful, honorable, etc.) person - yeah.

(Yes, that was only the ideal, and the British Empire frequently fell rather short. But what is an "imitation game", described in a philosophy journal? An ideal.)
by kakacik | 2025-10-24 09:14:39+00:00
Its not bank managers but IT managers choosing somewhat the tech stack, rest is inertia and things working. Bank managers dont give a fuck in same way they couldnt care less what plumbing material is used in their buildings. They care about long term stability, as they should. Same is true for almost any business outside SV.

Parent is correct, been doing this my entire (profitable to the absolute limit) career and will most probably retire doing same. You clearly seem to lack any expertise in field discussed.
by bborud | 2025-10-24 09:15:38+00:00
The people who buy these cameras would probably be better served by upgrading their phones. Phones are good enough cameras for this use and they are infinitely better at processing.

As a long time hobbyist photographer I can understand buying cameras because they have a certain appeal. But I have to say that I honestly do not understand why someone would spend lots of money and then not want to take advantage of the technology offered.

I think shooting to JPEG and using film profiles is kind of pointless. If you want to shoot film, shoot film. Imagine you have taken a really good picture, but it’ll always look worse than it could because you threw away most of the data and applied some look to it that will date it.

I do understand that a lot of people think these cameras are worth buying. And that they are selling well. But I can’t understand why.
by citrin_ru | 2025-10-24 09:15:39+00:00
If we are talking about electrical installations flying in is a bad idea because the code / regulations are different in different countries but what would help is making it faster to get a license. In both the UK and the US one needs may hours of apprenticeship (around 10000h AFAIK) so it takes years to get a license. If apprenticeship hours will be reduced and amended with a stricter exam labor supply will increase IMHO.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-24 09:15:53+00:00
> The thought of rewriting anything as intricate, foundational, and battle-tested as GNU coreutils from scratch scares me. Maybe I'd try it with a mature automatic C-to-Rust translator, but I would still expect years of incompatibilities and reintroduced bugs.

It is extremely bad that it's not a relatively straightforward process for any random programmer to rewrite coreutils from scratch as a several week project. That means that the correct behavior of coreutils is not specified well enough and and it's not easy enough to understand it by reading the source code.
by thisislife2 | 2025-10-24 09:17:21+00:00
Parent poster was considering ways on how to limit abuse of a certain political power, and I thought they may be interested on how other countries handle it. (Not though that I am not sure our indian approach is necessarily right - the Supreme Court of India is considering the Presidential powers of pardon only as a remedy to some judicial injustice / miscarriage. But sometimes there can be a political reason too, to pardon somebody. For example, someone cited the Lincoln example of pardoning the confederates. Legally, that may not be sound (ignoring crimes committed by them) but politically such things may be necessary to heal a society and create politically stability. And in such cases, the judiciary is not the right institution to make a judgement call on whether a political pardon was right or not.)
by benjiro | 2025-10-24 09:17:45+00:00
People are so focused on the mmap part, and the latency, that the usage is overlooked.

> The last couple of weeks I've been working on an HTTP-backed filesystem.

It feels like this is micro optimizations, that are going to get blocked anyway by the whole HTTP cycle anyway.

There is also the benchmark issue:

The enhanced CDB format seems to be focused on a read only benefits, as writes introduced a lot of latency, and issue with mmap. In other words, there is a need to freeze for the mmap, then unfreeze, write for updates, freeze for mmap ...

This cycle introduces overhead, does it not? Has this been benchmarked? Because from what i am seeing, the benefits are mostly in the frozen state (aka read only).

If the data is changed infrequently, why not just use json? No matter how slow it is, if your just going to do http requests for the directory listing, your overhead is not the actual file format.

If this enhanced file format was used as file storage, and you want to be able to fast read files, that is a different matter. Then there are ways around it with keeping "part" files where files 1 ... 1000 are in file.01, 2 ... 2000 in file.02 (thus reducing overhead from the file system). And those are memory mapped for fast reading. And where updates are invalidated files/rewrites (as i do not see any delete/vacume ability in the file format).

So, the actual benefits just for a file directory listing db escapes me.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-24 09:18:43+00:00
I'm sure the top leadership was well aware of what happened after the first crash yes. They should have immediately gone public and would have prevented the second crash.

Don't forget that hiding MCAS from pilots and the FAA was a conscious decision. It wasn't something that 'just happened'. The decision to not make it depend on redundant AoA sensors by default too.

My point is, I can imagine that the MCAS suicidal side-effect was something unexpected (it was a technical failure edge-case in a specific and rare scenario) and I get that not anticipating it could have been a mistake, not a conscious decision. But after the first crash they should have owned up to it and not waited for a second crash.
by Theodores | 2025-10-24 09:19:07+00:00
Yes but it is a hard sell, arguably too hard, and the product pitch, which is away from these applications, is the right one. They are not promising to be 'blockchain two' with hypothetical business use cases.

Imagine going to the solicitors with lots of documents that they need copies of. If they are making scans themselves then that is all the proof they need. If an assistant has copied that important certificate, then that copy is all that is needed for normal legal services. The Roc Camera would not be helpful in this regard, even if it had some magic means of scanning A4 pages.

In a serious solicitor interaction there will be forms that need to be signed and witnessed. These important documents then need to go in the post. In theory, the client could just whip out their Roc Camera and... But who is going to buy a Roc Camera when a stamp will do the job?

Maybe you might if you have a lot of photos to take for 'evidence', for example, of the condition of a house before work is done, or after it is done. However, nobody is asking for this so there is no compulsion to get the Roc Camera when the camera on your phone suffices for the needs of the real world.
by mckn1ght | 2025-10-24 09:19:19+00:00
I’m finishing up a DIY ground install and just the conductor from the array to the service panel cost the same as about 3 panels. It’s about a 150 meter run.

Some very rough numbers from memory:

- 20 panel + 10 microinverter bundle: $5600

- cost to ship the bundle: $700

- conductor: $450

- steel/pvc conduit for conductor sheath: $350

- strut for racking: $500

- 3” steel conduit for ground mount: $5000

- concrete and tube forms for vertical post footers: $400

- augur/trencher rental: $500

- brackets/fasteners: $600

- tools: $500

- electrician work to upgrade service panel: $2500

- electrician work for hookup and disconnect install: still TBD but I’m guessing more thousands

- time spent x my current hourly salary as a programmer: I don’t want to think about it haha

Probably a bunch of stupid little stuff I’m forgetting. Just gas to go on supply runs is probably over $100, although I always tried to batch runs with other normal errands.

The most expensive parts of projects can be surprising, at least to me. I also recently invested in my own fuel transfer pump to transport home heating fuel instead of paying for delivery. 55 gallon drums: $20 each. Pump: $200. But the most expensive part was actually the 15 meters of arctic grade fuel hose at over $400.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-24 09:21:03+00:00
> Every Samsung phone comes with the Samsung Store. My Xiaomi phone came with a Xiaomi store.

Google got caught withholding search revenue from vendors who installed third party stores and punishing them in various other ways.

The phone vendor stores are all useless specifically because they're from the phone vendors, which means they'll be terrible because hardware vendors are notoriously bad at software, and on top of that they'll only be installed for people with that brand of phone, which again destroys the network effect.

> All I ever read about the app store alternatives that do exist is that people wished they could get rid of them.

Those are the phone vendor stores. Nobody wants those.

Actual competitors would be the likes of Amazon or Epic or F-Droid, but Google's shenanigans have meant they all have negligible market share to the extent that Amazon even gave up.

> Because people like Google Play?

That wouldn't explain it. If they like Google Play and ten other things then they would each have ~10% market share. If they only like Google Play, that implies something fishy is going on, because you'd otherwise expect there to be a thousand bad ones and at least a dozen good ones since it's not that hard to set up an app store. Unless it is that hard, and then why is that?
by reify | 2025-10-24 09:22:11+00:00
To Perplex, means to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve.

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser that initially cost $200/month became free to use

We must ask the obvious quesion: If it was so great why give it away for free? Answer, because it is shit.

Its like having a stranger, wearing a trench coat and dark sunglasses, hanging around in your bedroom while you attempt to seduce your wife/partner/lover.

Unhealthy spying on your personal and private life
by sph | 2025-10-24 09:22:33+00:00
Yes, Jupyterlab has a collaboration extension.

I've spent the past month writing a HTTP+WebSocket proxy to be used with Jupyterlab for an ESA-adjacent company, and spent a good deal of time trying to make the collaboration system work behind this proxy.

That said, I don't think my contribution is at all related to this post.
by woodpanel | 2025-10-24 09:22:54+00:00
Well it's not a surprise that green energy fanatics act fanatic, is it?

Obviously there is a solution, but I'd say the vast majority of either fanatics or normies tinkering with the idea of installing a solar roof know anything about those severe problems.

I've installed one recently. I've asked every prospective contractor for the job beforehand about whether I should get some mesh around it. All said they never heard of such a problem. And if virtually all the people that installed all these roofs in your area tell the same story, what do you do?

Half a year later the whole block turned into Guano dump and once the plague is there, mesh around the panels won't do – you need to install spikes as well, because as long as not every solar roof in your vicinity is "meshed" these colonies are still going to use your roof for their "business" as well.

EDIT: Since you've mentioned ROI, the premium for installing the panels with the mesh directly would have been around 500€, having to do it separately (plus the additional spikes) cost 2500€
by tasuki | 2025-10-24 09:24:42+00:00
Ok, you link to a deployment, and also the docs say this:

> Collaborative GIS Environment: Work together on geographic data projects in real-time.

How does that work? I can apparently make changes to the files, and even save them, but then my changes are gone when I reload it. Where were the changes saved? This is exactly what I'm wary of when using Jupyter...
by alganet | 2025-10-24 09:24:58+00:00
> How would you validate "novel work" vs "performance theater"?

I don't know. That's future shit, no one invented this yet. But I think someone will. Otherwise, hiring will become very difficult. As code becomes more and more commoditized, it should become easier to see.

> Would you use a tool that helped you share technical progress with ONLY people who'd understand it, while filtering out the influencer noise?

I wouldn't trust it today.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-24 09:26:41+00:00
> C is a bad language in many respects, and Rust greatly improves on the situation. Replacing code written in C with code written in Rust is good in and of itself

That's empty dogma.

C issue is that C compilers provide very little in term of safety analysis by default. That doesn't magically turn Rust into a panacea. I will take proven C or even static analysed C above what the borrow checker adds to Rust any day of the week.

I like the semantic niceties Rust adds when doing new development but that doesn't in any way justify all rewrites as improvement by default.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-10-24 09:26:46+00:00
> Enterprise Java runs the backbone of operations for all of large business organisations such as banks.

This is rather anti-recommendation. At this point I'm expecting from a bank only to reliably login, preview balance and transaction history, receive and send bank transfers... and they oftentimes fail at this basic feature set. I don't even need credit or interest rates from them.
by metalman | 2025-10-24 09:26:50+00:00
AI is a false (political) wish, it can and never work, it is the desperation of an over extended power structure to hold on and permanently consolodate controll of all of the worlds population, and nothing else.

the proofs are there.

philosophers mulled this over long ago and made clear statements as to why ai cant work

though not that for a second do I misdunderstand that it is "all in" for ai, and we all get to go for the 100 trillion dollar ride to hell.

can we have truely awsome automation for manufacturing and mundane beurocratic tasks?, fuck ya we can!

but anything that requires understanding, is forever out of reach, which unfortunatly is also lacking in the people pushing, this thing, now
by vidarh | 2025-10-24 09:26:55+00:00
Countries with similar laws might very well consider doing the same after reviewing the case and considering how well it matches their own situation.

Other than that I agree with you - the fine doesn't make much of a difference unless the risk becomes so significant that it effectively threatens the jobs of people not to address it, and it will only threaten jobs if it becomes more expensive to continue ignoring these laws than paying fines if/when individual countries take them to court.
by Arnt | 2025-10-24 09:27:10+00:00
I see: The first tranche requires him to achieve a P/E ratio of about 400 if the other graphs stay flat, or maybe 500 with some decline. I've heard of higher P/E ratios in growing companies, but that's a real challenge for a stable or even declining company… it ought to keep him busy.

Which would be no bad thing.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-24 09:27:15+00:00
A few months ago, I realised CS:2 is more than 60GB and still barely worked on my M1 Pro Mac. I tried with these three: Whisky, Sikarigur, and even CrossOver trial. A friend suggested I should try some kind of partitioning and install Windows on that. I definitely will never try that.

CS:1.6 (which is what I still would want to play) is history unless I clasp my nose with my toes and then hang upside down from a ceiling fan and request someone to switch it on and then pray it works and keeps working. It doesn't; it crashes with flamboyance. There are some browser options, but that's another story altogether, and that too if I can find enough players there, let alone with good pings.

I finally realised that the only computer game I ever loved playing and played really a lot— albeit with gaps worth years in between after college— is just gone for me, and there's no coming back.

I guess now I am too old for all this, and maybe that's the point. Possibly someone who is on the older side will not buy these skins and whatnot; the company's focus is rightly not on us at all.

(PS. I always felt distracted with those skins; even in those younger and much younger days)