MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eadmund | 2025-10-29 02:06:35+00:00
> I applaud the author for trying. The underlying viewpoint is valid

Is it valid? I’m not really convinced. I’m not particularly a fan of copyright to begin with, and this looks like yet another abuse of it. I consider myself a creative person, and I fundamentally do not believe it is ethical to try to prevent people from employing tools to manipulate the creative works one gives to them.
by buu700 | 2025-10-29 02:06:44+00:00
I can definitely see the case for that. Ultimately, we're going to need vocabulary for all of the following:

* >=GPT-3.5-level intelligence

* AI that replaces an ordinary human for knowledge work

* AI that replaces an ordinary human for all work (given sufficiently capable hardware)

* AI that replaces any human for knowledge work

* AI that replaces any human for all work (given sufficiently capable hardware)

It doesn't really matter to me which of those we call "AGI" as long as we're consistent. One of them may be AGI, but all of them are important milestones.
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-29 02:07:03+00:00
To be fair, the actual “Product” tab that describes the products lists what it can do:

* Water Plants

* Turn off lights

* Get the door

* clean up trash

* Load/Empty dishwasher

* Tidy House

* Laundry

* Bartend Party

* Feed Pets

* Play music as the most over engineered Bluetooth speaker
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-29 02:07:14+00:00
Fair has its own issues - or did last I checked which was a while ago.

They used to claim reporters were biased towards the right. That used to be a left-wing claim, but it’s no longer credible. Something like 90% of reporters are left-wing.

Maybe they’ve reformed, and aren’t in the business of providing partisan talking points anymore.
by bo1024 | 2025-10-29 02:07:22+00:00
> What's worse, many plaintext HTTP connections today are entirely invisible to users, as HTTP sites may immediately redirect to HTTPS sites. That gives users no opportunity to see Chrome's "Not Secure" URL bar warnings after the risk has occurred, and no opportunity to keep themselves safe in the first place.

What is the risk exactly? A man-in-the-middle redirect to a malicious https site?
by 0xrelogic | 2025-10-29 02:08:17+00:00
You're touching on the core tension in Meta's strategy. I think you're partially right, but there's more to it.

On "replacing expensive humans" agree that's part of it, but the bigger play is augmenting existing products. Meta's Q3 2025 guidance shows ad revenue still growing 21.6% YoY. They're using AI to make existing ads more effective (better targeting, higher conversion), not replacing the ad model entirely.

On the moat question this is where the infrastructure spending makes sense. You're right that wrapping an LLM has no moat, but owning the infrastructure to train and serve your own models does. Meta has three advantages: (1) 3B+ daily users generating training data competitors can't access, (2) owning 2GW of infrastructure means $0 marginal cost for inference vs paying OpenAI/Anthropic, and (3) AI embedded in Instagram/WhatsApp/Facebook is stickier than standalone chat.

On ads behind chat interface this is the real risk. But Meta's bet seems to be: short-term AI improves existing ad products (already working), mid-term AI creates new surfaces for ads (AI-generated content, business tools), and long-term if chat wins, Meta wants to own the chat interface (Meta AI), not lose to ChatGPT.

The $75B question is whether they're building a moat or just burning cash on commodity infrastructure. Time will tell, but the data advantage plus vertical integration gives them a shot.

What's your take do you think the data moat is real, or can competitors train equally good models on synthetic/public data?
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-29 02:09:22+00:00
Good news but still far behind on rate of energy development, and using old technology. Westinghouse licensed the AP1000 design to China a while back, and they went on to make their own version of it. I don’t know what the IP issues are there, if any, but it’s the newest version of this design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP1400). The AP1000 this article is about is now 20 years old (since regulation approval).
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 02:09:45+00:00
> You can't convince someone who lives in an alternate reality of anything by argument.

Your powerlessness, their invincibility, is part of their propaganda. It's like the reason people act angrily - they are trying to discourage you from approaching them.

Argument doesn't work. You'll be surprised what sincere, genuine, empathetic reasoning does. I find it works pretty well. Take them seriously, have genuine empathy, don't get inflamed - that's the intent of their leaders' inflammatory language: they want you inflamed, to drive a wedge between you and your friend.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-29 02:09:46+00:00
> Meta announced the cuts in a memo from chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, Axios reported. It parroted a go-to layoff reasoning from CEO Mark Zuckerberg — that smaller teams are better for the company. “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang reportedly wrote in the note.

> Employees learned before 7 a.m. on Wednesday whether they’d lose their jobs, Axios reported. According to CNBC, some laid-off staffers were told they’re in a “non-working notice period” until Nov. 21 and that they could use the time to look for another role at Meta. Should they leave, they’ll be able to accept severance packages that provide at least 16 weeks of pay, CNBC reported.
by j45 | 2025-10-29 02:10:16+00:00
“Sideloading “ is the original app installing by sync or copying.

You used a wire, or Bluetooth that transferred the app file.

Then it ran.

This is how it was.

iPhone 1 was vehemently against third party apps of any kind.

The use of iTunes to have a “store” helped transfer and install apps digitally, and I believe using a wire too.

You either own your device or you don’t.

At a software level mobile has been a challenge to keep secure and locking it all down might not secure it either as there might be side doors still instead of side loading.

It has been 15-17 years since we got this batch of mobile operating systems, maybe we’re due for a new one since there’s a critical mass of users already on smartphones, unlike when Android/iOS began.
by foinker | 2025-10-29 02:11:24+00:00
Does it? I mean the quoted text doesn't really make much mention beyond the word "allegations" that there isn't any evidence of wrongdoing on Joe Biden's part. In fact, it's written as if there is still some question of validity. Grok is a rhetorical device that tries to paint right-wing reaction to woke stuff as an honest concern for journalistic integrity. If it were really being honest, why is it so often just a blatant point by point contradiction of whatever the wikipedia article says in all these culture war matters?
by treetalker | 2025-10-29 02:12:41+00:00
Fair enough regarding the subtleties of tu quoque, and thank you for the insight.

Whataboutism provides no support, or extremely weak support, to justify the pardon at issue. Nor does the rest: first, the "no other alternative" injects something entirely new into the discussion; and second, it does not justify the pardon, but attempts to justify either the person effecting the pardon or, more expressly, voting for that person.

On a more-pedestrian level, all that sounds like a shrug while saying "Trump gonna Trump!"
by 1123581321 | 2025-10-29 02:13:50+00:00
If your friend keeps mastering coffee he'll learn to appreciate what Folgers or Starbucks is doing again. He'll also learn to suggest the coffee that will make someone happiest, or help them the most, in a wider variety of situations. It's nice to retain youthful oblivious in some categories, though. We can't learn everything anyway. It's often enough just to know how to avoid expensive mistakes.
by aiipassword | 2025-10-29 02:14:00+00:00
Hey, totally get why you'd be careful Basically, the tool doesn't even know what account you're trying to get into (like your Gmail, Instagram, whatever). It never asks for the email or phone number tied to that account. The hints you give like names, dates, job stuff? They're only used right then while the AI is thinking and as soon as it spits out the password ideas, poof that info is gone. We don't save it anywhere. The only things we keep are your login details for our site and how many credits you have left. That's it. Seriously, we built it this way so your info stays yours. Hope that helps clear it up!
by hansvm | 2025-10-29 02:15:01+00:00
That's not a bad rule of thumb, but it's also easier to get dry, poorly seasoned rice, mushy fish, overdone or poorly done sauce and toppings combinations, and >1 day old uni than I'd really like at a lot of places.

Your advice makes sense when your local options are good enough, but I don't think you're actually arguing that quality doesn't matter -- only that beyond a certain point the additional discernment isn't valuable.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-29 02:15:21+00:00
If someone doesn’t have health insurance in my state, they get sent to financial counselling/assistance and signed up for Medicaid, CHIP, or HCAP.

I asked one of their counsellors once if they ever have any ultra wealthy people who don’t have insurance and also don’t qualify for any assistance. (This was at a children’s hospital with a Level IV NICU.) She said she was unaware of that ever happening, other than very wealthy foreigners who would prepare in advance, arrange payment in advance, fly in, and have a special procedure done.

Overall, in many states, it is logistically impossible to have an unaffordable bill and also not qualify for assistance. The worst situation actually is the person who has insurance but has high deductibles and copays.
by esseph | 2025-10-29 02:15:22+00:00
Ehhhhh... I'm not sure the market opportunity there is large enough for them to pursue.

They're strapped with SKU as is. Ubiquiti seems very focused on two main segments right now, which is growing enterprise switching and wifi, and their outdoor wireless gear, where (if memory serves from quarterly earnings reports) is now mostly concentrated outside the US.
by wtallis | 2025-10-29 02:15:35+00:00
For residential lighting running off a single-phase supply, there are some annoying LED bulbs with simple half-wave rectification that strobe at the grid frequency with less than a 50% duty cycle (often seen with bulbs emulating vintage exposed-filament bulbs with no frosted glass). It would be interesting to see how much less annoying that kind of flicker is when you have a three-phase supply to a light fixture, so that at least one set of LEDs was illuminated at all times.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-29 02:16:22+00:00
I messed up in that domain when it comes to music software, it's tweaks all the way down, amazing that it works at all. I make do with cheap MIDI controllers, but spend hours cracking VSTs I already bought so I can run them in Linux.

Typing this out makes me realize its not even about the music anymore, but the tweaks. Let this be a warning
by bookwormtrixie | 2025-10-29 02:16:31+00:00
Happy birthday! I don't know if anybody get back to 2 days old thread, but there is one minor thing that have huge impact on me and me relation with other people, although it touch area that other people wrote about as well.

I put birthday of my friends in calendar, so I remember to call them/exceptionally write them on birthday. I don't hesitate to contact them even if someone forgets about mine birthday and this is the only way so I can keep contact with so many friends when you both are quite busy with everyday duties. I know that this might sound odd and artificial for you at your age, but it is very easy to lose some people with moves or once one of you are busy with newborn children or work.

And little thought about relationship, assuming that you thread it seriously, you and your chosen one should be prepared for the worst than can happen do you two and you need to start practice on small problems, so you can go trough huge problems you may encounter. So I really recommend to work on yourselves or rethinking the relationship if minor problems cause quarrels between you two.
by jwilber | 2025-10-29 02:17:01+00:00
I understand your argument but it just seems like you’re purposely being contrarian.

Here’s why what you wrote seems needlessly contrarian: Amazon just posted an $18B quarter, so there is no pressing financial pressure. Okay, so you suggest this may be a last resort in lieu of retraining, but we’re talking about 14k jobs across many teams (I know of at least 40 affected), levels, and job families. The idea of needing to cross train is obviously not the culprit at that scale; An SDE laid off from one team can easily perform the same tasks on many others internally. This also completely ignores how Amazon works internally, with managers required to rank employees for pip, and, for events just like this one, URA, regardless of whether or not they deem them to be competent or not.

Of course, Amazon has also been documented to use automated processes for pip/layoffs, and the idea that layoffs involved any ounce of consideration as a last resort is so unbelievable it feels almost inflammatory.

The notion that criticizing one of history’s most profitable companies laying off thousands (at the height of their profits) is the same thing as stating, “every company beyond profit X should never do layoffs” is a blatant misrepresentation and ignores any context.
by xp84 | 2025-10-29 02:17:02+00:00
> The decision to cancel the Harris editorial led to more than 300,000 cancellations by digital subscribers.

This is what it’s really (still) about. Partisans are mad that the publisher of this paper didn’t let them rubber-stamp Team Blue - regardless of the incredibly deep flaws of the candidate[1]. Note that not endorsing Harris didn’t mean endorsing the also deeply flawed and corrupt Trump.

I voted for neither of those hacks and endorsing either would have been an embarrassment.

[1] coronating a nominee - without a primary - who was known to be so deeply disliked by so vast a majority of the Democratic voters that she had dropped out of the 2020 race before Iowa should have been a huge red flag to anyone.
by deadfoxygrandpa | 2025-10-29 02:18:53+00:00
this article is trivial nonsense. of course he's technically correct, but the article contains no useful information and boils down to just saying that people (including doctors) aren't looking at literally only 5 year survival rate charts.

like the colon cancer thing. he talks about how it would only be more effective to catch colon cancer early if you assume we have treatments for it that would work early. but we don't need to just assume blindly. we already know we do have those treatments!
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-29 02:19:33+00:00
It's very funny to see the US perspective here. $30-40k debt for a new graduate of an average university sounds crazy expensive to virtually everyone outside of the USA, I would bet. I paid $0 for my university, as did most of my colleagues, but even if I had had to pay the tuition, it would have amounted to $4k total for a 4-year bachelor's degree, or $6.5k total for a 6-year bachelor's + master's, at one of my country's premier state universities (and consider that private universities are a joke here, just diploma mills).

Granted, none of the top universities in my country even makes it to the top 500 in the world, so maybe this isn't a completely fair comparison? Actually, it's expensive by some other EU country standards - public schools in France and Germany, including PSL (ranked 28th in the world) and TUM (ranked 22nd), are free for all EEA applicants, with some nominal yearly registration fees (amounting to $1k in total for a 4-year degree). A more expensive school, like ETH Zurich (rank 7 in the world), is $4500 total for a 4-year degree if you're a Swiss citizen or EEA citizen with a Swiss work permit; it's triple that for an international student.

So yeah, when we say "university is crazy expensive in the USA (and probably UK too)", we're actually talking about the $30-40k numbers you're looking at. $200k and so are almost inconceivable to us.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-29 02:20:28+00:00
"That planned obsolescence thing on light bulbs isn't the entire story."

Whilst that's certainly true the Phoebus cartel's most negative aspect was that it was a secret organisation, its second was that it was actually a cartel. These disadvantaged both light bulb consumers and any company that wasn't a member of the cartel—a new startup company that wasn't aware of or a member of the cartel would be forced out of business by the cartel's secret unfair competition.

Without the cartel manufacturers could have competed by offering a range of bulbs based on longevity versus life depending on consumers' needs. For example, offering a full brightness/1000h type for normal use and a 70% brightness/2000h one for say in applications where bulbs were awkward to replace (such product differences could even be promoted in advertising).

Nowadays, planned obsolescence is at the heart and core of much manufacturing and manufacturers are more secretive than ever about the techniques they've adopted to achieve their idea of the ideal service lives of their products—lives that optimize profits. This is now a very sophisticated business and takes into account many factors including ensuring their competition's products do not gain a reputation for having a longer service life or better repairability than their own (still a likely corrupting factor that originally drove the formation of the Phoebus cartel).

Right, the philosophy's not changed since Phoebus but the sophistication of its implementation has increased almost beyond recognition. There's not space to detail this adequately here except to say I've some excellent examples from the manufacture of whitegoods and how production has changed over recent decades to manufacturers' advantage often to the detriment of consumers.

In short, planned obsolescence and the secrecy that surrounds it has negative and very significant consequences for both consumers and the environment. When purchasing, consumers are thus unable to make informed decisions about whether to trade off the reduced initial costs of products with a short service live against those that have increased longevity and or improved repairability. Similarly, shortlived products only add to environmental pollution, witness the enormous e-waste problem that currently exists.

As manufacturers won't willingly give up panned obsolescence or secrecy that surrounds it, one solution would be to tax products with artificially shortened service lives. In the absence of manufacturing information governments could statistically determine product tax rates based on observable service lives.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-29 02:20:51+00:00
Sounds like they previously banned short-term rentals but had trouble enforcing, thus this new regulation.

> The coastal town of about 7,000 residents has prohibited rentals under 30 days since January 2019, but is now making simply posting an ad for one of these illegal properties a punishable offense. Each day an advertisement remains online counts as a new violation, according to the new ordinance that was passed unanimously on Oct. 21, and the fines escalate sharply: $1,500 for a first offense, $3,000 for a second violation within the same year, and $5,000 for each additional violation.

> Sausalito code enforcement officer Justin Goger-Malo, who took the position in February of this year, explained why this change was so crucial at a City Council meeting on Tuesday. Previously, enforcing proved to be a frustrating bottleneck as property owners disputed citations. “We’ll send out a citation, the property owner will then send us a screenshot which says, ‘Look, here it says my account’s been suspended and I canceled two reservations,’” Goger-Malo said. “It’s very easy to fake something like that.” Goger-Malo described working through six or seven cases simultaneously and receiving various forms of pushback from property owners claiming they had stopped short-term rentals or switched to longer terms.

> The advertising ban eliminates this enforcement gap. “It’s going to allow us to say, ‘You advertised it. We see that it says there’s been a rental completed,’” said Goger-Malo. “Even if you’ve canceled that rental, we now have the means going forward to be able to take some of our time back in investigating these claims and say it’s the advertising that you’re being fined for now.”
by blooalien | 2025-10-29 02:22:04+00:00
> The amount of thinkering these people had omitted because of smartphones and such it's huge.

On the other hand, I've met people in the Godot game engine community that have built entire games on Android devices using Godot (yes, actually used an Android phone and the Godot game engine to build a game; not simply exported an Android game from a PC), so that only proves to me that if someone's got that "hacker spirit", they'll find a way to indulge it, even if the only thing they've got to work with is a smart-phone (and a spare keyboard / mouse layin' around). Problem is that mentality isn't encouraged quite the way it used to be back in the early days of the tech industry. The advertising and entertainment industries have "optimized" the Internet for "engagement", but most definitely not for the betterment of humanity. You gotta have that drive to build and create things or you'll get sucked down the various total waste of life rabbit-holes provided by the brain-sucky industries.
by roenxi | 2025-10-29 02:22:25+00:00
President going to president. I'd advise most people save their outrage for when Trump pardons his extended family at the end of his term a la Biden. I expect it'll be an ongoing feature of presidential politics and that seems like a bigger problem with corrupt pardons than this excessive ballroom. There should be an expectation that presidents - and their families - are not above the law.

> Nor does the rest: first, the "no other alternative" injects something entirely new into the discussion

I'm engaging in whataboutisms. Talking about the alternatives is very much already in the conversation. Trump isn't a president because everyone thinks Trump is the best man in the US for the job, it is because the alternative was the Biden/Harris administration or some generic Republican failure. And despite the quality of the opposition it still wasn't a sure win for him, which says a lot about how people are viewing the situation.
by rekabis | 2025-10-29 02:23:34+00:00
I have a non-technical father with dementia, and passwords+TOTP are almost frictionless for him, with minor exceptions. We are able to share around passwords and TOTP codes without any problems so I can properly monitor his online activities to keep him out of trouble. He’s a cranky old guy with almost zero trust, so having to input all that stuff satisfies him that security is being employed.

Passcodes just freak him out.
by tzs | 2025-10-29 02:24:57+00:00
That's not quite correct. This can easily be seen by simply considering that the people who developed the passkey standard are also developing a passkey import/export standard which is nearly done and implementations are appearing in the field already.

For example Apple's Passwords app on MacOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 now supports export and import of passkeys to/from other apps that support that standard. I don't know if any other apps have yet actually released such support.