MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-10-21 03:07:16+00:00
> J6 was some kind of insurrection, but the BLM riots were peaceful protests

I'm not a fan of shameless whataboutisms, but this one is particularly bad. The attempted insurrection on January 6th had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter riots (Funny, you can never say those words. It's always an abbreviation).

It was a premeditated attack on the Capitol at the exact time and place the new president was being certified.

It is the most cut and dry example of an attempted coup this country has seen in decades, and it was organized and executed by the sitting, and current President.

There's no reason for you to try to remake history. Your guy got back into power and made all of his legal problems disappear.

He has not avoided prison because he was somehow not guilty. He avoided prison by overcoming the legal system.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-10-21 03:07:43+00:00
If it meant that people who didn't want to do software didn't ans people who wanted to do software did software, then it sounds nice. I was never interested in making a lot of money in software.

A question, though. Was software designed at Sun closely with hardware teams and vice versa, or were they mostly disjoint? Presumably many hardware companies that have succeeded have built good tooling around said hardware (like NVIDIA).
by swaits | 2025-10-21 03:08:26+00:00
Hi, I am a half decent engineer. I say that as objectively as one can say something like this about themselves.

I worked at Amazon. Twice. In total about a decade as a Principal Engineer. I left voluntarily a few months ago.

I have zero regrets about my time at Amazon. I learned lots, worked with some incredible people, and had fun doing it.

And the culture? It was life changing for me, especially when I first joined. In all the best ways.

And Amazon today? All I’ll say is that at their size, maintaining solid culture is damn hard. The hiring spree peri-Covid definitely added unimaginable stress to maintaining the culture the company was built on.

They’re a big company, and thus a big target. It’s easy, cheap, and even lazy to kick them with stuff like this.

The truth is that while it’s changed a lot over time, anyone fortunate enough to work there should embrace it.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-21 03:08:36+00:00
Right. And neither do Google Docs shared by a no-login link (which used to be the only option) or for that matter RSA signing keys. You could in theory guess any of these, given all of the time in the universe (quite literally). A “password capability” is any mechanism where knowing the designation of an object (such as the “unlisted” link) is a necessary and sufficient condition to access it. The designation has to be hard to guess for the system to make sense.

(The intended contrast is with “object capabilities”, where the designation is once again necessary and sufficient but also unforgeable within the constraints of the system. Think handles / file descriptors: you can’t guess a handle to a thing that the system did not give you, specifically, a handle for.)
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-21 03:10:26+00:00
If it is not possible to login as root directly (which on a multi-user system, it might only be possible to do if you are directly at the computer), then the wheel group might be one of the pieces (which should not be used alone; the wheel users still should avoid revealing the root password anyways) to protect against accidental telling the password, I suppose, since then other users cannot use the password without physical access to the computer. If they deliberately want to do so, then they could presumably just as well make the other users to also be the wheel group (or modify the software on the computer so that it does not require wheel, etc), if you have root access.
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-21 03:10:46+00:00
Oh good, Jimmy can stop hounding me for money like a late night infomercial or televangelist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106982

>2022

>It’s the dishonesty of Wikipedia that bothers me. The implication is that donations are urgently needed to keep the website running. In reality they have $300m in the bank and revenue is growing every year[0]. Even Wikipedia says only 43% of donations are used for site operations[1], and that includes all of their sites, not just Wikipedia. Fully 12% of the money they collect from you is. . . used to ask you for more money[1]
by ehnto | 2025-10-21 03:11:18+00:00
It's most notable to me in mid level manufacturing equipment. Once upon a time you would never touch a chinese made CNC, lathe, mill etc. Now they're totally fine, and offer significant value for your dollar. Sometimes outperforming other countries offerings while being cheaper to boot. Especially in new industries and processes, suggesting innovation is not the differentiator it used to be.

Enterprises often prefer having US based support and so can prefer US or European machines that have that supply chain setup.
by musicale | 2025-10-21 03:13:51+00:00
> we are finally getting low level software that no longer needs it

Ada has had memory safety for decades – not to mention Lisp, Java, etc. if you can live with garbage collection. Even PL/I was better than C for memory safety, which is why Multics didn't suffer from buffer overflows and Unix did. But the Linux kernel (along with lots of other software which we would like to be reliable) is still mostly written in C, for better or worse.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-21 03:14:21+00:00
"And then came his astonishing letter to the Queen: 'Your Majesty, may I have the temerity...' and the typical genius of the single banner-line across the Express next day: TEMERITY MUSK, and the story of how he had given to Britain his entire holding in Columbite to build a super atomic rocket with a range that would cover nearly every capital in Europe -- the immediate answer to anyone who tried to atom-bomb London. £10,000,000 he was going to put up out of his own pocket, and he had the design of the thing and was prepared to find the staff to build it.

"And then there were months of delay and everyone got impatient. Questions in the House. The Opposition nearly forced a vote of Confidence. And then the announcement by the Prime Minister that the design had been approved by the Woomera Range experts of the Ministry of Supply, and that the Queen had been graciously pleased to accept the gift on behalf of the people of Britain and had conferred a knighthood on the donor."

Bond paused, almost carried away by the story of this extraordinary man.

"Yes," said M. "It's very odd." He turned back and faced Bond across the desk.

"That's about it," M. said slowly. "I don't know much more than you do. A wonderful story. Extraordinary man." He paused, reflecting. "There's only one thing..." M. tapped the stem of his pipe against his teeth.

"What's that, sir?" asked Bond.

M. seemed to make up his mind. He looked mildly across at Bond.

"Elon Musk cheats at Diablo IV."
by glenstein | 2025-10-21 03:14:57+00:00
Saying "Mozilla doesn’t itemize expenses" is like saying a university's annual financial report is hiding cafeteria costs because it doesn’t list fruit cups separately.

Large nonprofits publish consolidated, high-level statements that group expenses by broad function, not by department or line item because that's the correct level of financial reporting for external audiences.

If they misrepresented their spending that would be flagged by the independent auditor. It's deeply responsible to accuse them of hiding something when you have no baseline concept of standard disclosures.
by The_President | 2025-10-21 03:15:21+00:00
How about Apple actually fix the iOS wifi hotspot? Disconnects when it wants to, selectively connects to clients only when it wants to. Broken on every iPhone I've used in the past three years. When it does work the hotspot drains 30% per hour. Can run a hotspot on an Android phone half the day without any issues. What an infuriatingly amatureish product.
by sgentle | 2025-10-21 03:16:25+00:00
As I said, the Wikipedia article is what the words "native Brits" links to.

Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

Here's what the article says:

> In 2011, it was reported for the first time that White British people had become a minority within the city

How could you possibly come to the conclusion that it's not about race? Do you think he linked to the wrong article by accident?
by dorongrinstein | 2025-10-21 03:17:41+00:00
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by kristopolous | 2025-10-21 03:19:20+00:00
That's not the point. It was that the market hypothesis of supply simply responding to demand doesn't actually hold.

People sell things based on their perception of future consumer sentiments, calculated margins, defensible moats, lots of things.

If someone wanted a compact sedan but the only thing for sale was SUVs, they aren't going to be like "I refuse! Bus pass for me" no. They will just bite the bullet and purchase the SUV.

Then the analysis will say "well people are buying the SUV! It looks very popular we should make more of them! I told you sedans were a bad idea!"

The supply and demand economics 101 ways of thinking are for fools and simpletons. It's why the iPhone wasn't a BlackBerry knockoff
by VladVladikoff | 2025-10-21 03:19:47+00:00
It’s interesting how these big tech companies are playing a role in all these scams. I do a fair amount of paid ads on Facebook, and I get probably about 20 phishing messages a day via Facebook channels; trying to get me to install fake Facebook ads management apps (iOS TestFlight), or leading me to Facebook.com urls that are phishing pages via facebooks custom page designer. These messages come through Facebook, use facebooks own infrastructure to host their payloads, and use language which Facebook would know should only come from their own official channels. How is this not super easy for Facebook to block?? I can only explain it as sheer laziness/lack of care.
by liqilin1567 | 2025-10-21 03:20:56+00:00
sentence embedding models like all-MiniLM-L6-v2 [1], bge-m3 [2]

[1] https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...

[2] https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-m3

In my recent project I used openai's embedding model for that because of its convenient api and low cost.
by derkster | 2025-10-21 03:21:04+00:00
i checked. he seemingly limits his "i have a controversial opinion, let me explain why everyone who disagrees is disgusting" posts to once a month. i'm not sure they're increasing racist, but he's clearly becoming more and more enraged.

anyone so unhinged that they can't comprehend the value in not publicly attacking subsets of the population you might need to cooperate with, eventually becomes a liability for everyone.
by mvkel | 2025-10-21 03:21:15+00:00
Still insane to me how broken the UX is. In safari, tapping the back button, disabled or not, makes it react in the same bubbly way.

If the back/forward arrows are present, it again reacts identically, regardless of which button is tapped.

Not to mention simple QoL regressions like taking 3+ taps to share a url instead of 1.
by mrbombastic | 2025-10-21 03:22:06+00:00
I am going to try to take this thread in good faith.

Here is an event that happened on Saturday, 7 million plus people took to the streets.

One side says this was a Hate America rally made up of marxists, hamas supporters and protestors paid by George Soros. The president shared an AI video of himself in a crown flying over the protesters he is supposed to represent dumping shit on them.

Every news outlet on the other side says it was a peaceful protest against authoritarian overreach.

Call me a biased leftist but the misinformation and divisive bullshit is severely tipped to the right side of the scale.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-21 03:22:25+00:00
Appreciate the feedback, I will do so more research and see what I can turn up. I had a quick question if you have a sec.

> Note too, that NextDNS blocks archive.is et al by default unless you manually add redirects.

Can you explain a bit about what you had to do to get archive.is to work with NextDNS? I have used their service/app before, but I’ve never dug into redirects via NextDNS, as I didn’t even know that was a thing you could do via the service.
by decimalenough | 2025-10-21 03:22:50+00:00
> How many hundreds of NHS horror-stories are produced a year?

Less than the millions of horror stories produced by the lack of anything like the NHS in the US.

That number is not just hyperbole. There are on the order of a million homeless people on the US, and 50-70% of them cite medical debt as a major reason why. This is literally unimaginable in any European country.
by rsanheim | 2025-10-21 03:23:03+00:00
I wonder what kind of outage or incident or economic change will be required to cause a rejection of the big commercial clouds as the default deployment model.

The costs, performance overhead, and complexity of a modern AWS deployment are insane and so out of line with what most companies should be taking on. But hype + microservices + sunk cost, and here we are.
by manquer | 2025-10-21 03:23:43+00:00
The parent poster is talking about the Younghusband expedition into Tibet of 1903[1], I don't think it is the boxer rebellion in which British Indian troops had no direct involvement(AFAIK) and also those events happened before 1901 establishment of the Nobel Prize, which is the time period OP cites as the starting time range.

To see the Tibetan military expedition as an invasion of China, means to accept the Qing dynasty and its successor states (ROC,PRC)claim of sovereignty and not suzerainty over Tibet. A claim at the time which was not recognized by other countries specifically Russia, Britain and also Tibet.

The refusal of Tibetan government to accept terms of treaties they were not party to directly (i.e. the ones Qing China signed) was the official reason stated for the invasion by the British.

Either way it is a deeply contentious topic never legally settled in the 1907 agreement and had implications both to that era and modern geopolitics. No one then or now is purely looking at merits of the arguments.

The points will end up into esoteric discussion on whether is kowtowing and kneeling are the same thing, or is acknowledging supremacy is same as sovereignty, or the differences between vassal state or autonomous region or protectorate or suzerain.

Also the views of the countries/entities (or their successors) have also changed including the Tibetan government-in-exile in the last 120 years.

My knowledge of history is at best a passing student at high school level, this kind of discussion requires deep understanding of relationship of states, and of Chinese culture and language during Qing dynasty i.e. professional expertise which I certainly don't have.

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[1] My initial read was they meant either Arunachal Pradesh( South Tibet to the Chinese), Aksai Chin or the MacMohan line etc, but they clarified it wasn't the case.
by nradov | 2025-10-21 03:23:50+00:00
The Argentinian government was literally out of cash. There was nothing left and no ability to borrow. So complaining about cuts to education, science, and transportation seems a little silly. How exactly were they supposed to pay for it?

In the long run there are things they can do to raise revenue and cut waste. But when you're stuck in a deep hole the first thing you need to do is stop digging.
by thayne | 2025-10-21 03:24:06+00:00
Doesn't CHERI use additional bits to store the capabilities rather than masking existing bits in the pointer?

But that can be problematic for any code that assumes that the size of pointers is the same as size_t/usize.

I don't see how this could not be opt in for backwards compatibility though, since existing code wouldn't use the new instructions.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-10-21 03:24:24+00:00
My doctor requested one for me, and I just got it in the mail (USA), which is nice for me.

I suspect that this will remain a niche product. It would, in theory, be applicable to most people on earth. Such wide spread screenings simply aren't viable in a world of massive compliance costs and subsidized health care.

It took an act of god for simple COVID testing to become somewhat inexpensive.

I look forward to getting this test every few years until it is killed by our regulatory apparatus.
by epakai | 2025-10-21 03:24:29+00:00
His specific words were "it's no longer full of native Brits" with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

Then he goes on to point out more than sixty percent of the city were "native Brits" in 2000, but that number corresponds to the White British categorization.

Ergo he's conflating White British with native British.

He also said "A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now." Maybe he is extremely observant, but I don't think that follows unless he is talking about skin color.
by rvz | 2025-10-21 03:24:55+00:00
It's clear that the "cRyPtO hAs nO USe cAse" crowd on HN have completely miscalculated the usefulness of crypto rails and stablecoins.

Stripe, PayPal, Sony, Shopify, Google and may others do not care about your complaints about crypto and the rails they run on.

Like it or not, crypto is being used by them and it is here to stay.

cope.
by dwd | 2025-10-21 03:25:07+00:00
Australia has had self-checkout in supermarkets and larger retailers for nearly 2 decades now.

Usually you will have a single staff member responsible for 4-10 checkouts to override the machine when your product doesn't register a weight, or you move items off the scale too quickly, and it wants them to check it.

It generally just works and is a lot quicker if you're just scanning a few items; surprised it hasn't really taken off in the US.

Most of the issues these days are when they introduce new features like less tolerance on the weight (sometimes adjusting already scanned items trips an error) or auto-scanning fruit and vegetables.
by ghaff | 2025-10-21 03:26:30+00:00
I didn't actually work there; I knew a lot of the folks from the perspective of an IT industry analyst both during and after a lot of the work there. I certainly saw some level of integration with things like Dtrace (how couldn't you) but when you were a systems company, it's probably the case that software folks couldn't really just divorce themselves from hardware.

The low-level software work at Data General where I was prior to the analyst biz was certainly integrated to a certain degree--read Soul of a New Machine if you haven't. The software folks for the minis were also mostly in the same same location. As things migrated to Unix, most of that team was in RTP and it's probably fair to say that there was less integration though probably wasn't something I thought about a lot of the time. Hardware stayed in Massachusetts.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-21 03:26:39+00:00
Some previous discussion:

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004773

How we built analytics.usa.gov (2015)

https://blog.18f.org/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-g... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9234420)
by rubyn00bie | 2025-10-21 03:26:52+00:00
From the Mother Jones article:

> Citrone, the co-founder of Discovery Capital Management, is also a friend and former colleague of Bessent—a fact that has not been previously reported in US media outlets. Citrone, by his own account, helped make Bessent very wealthy.

I think it's simply that Bessent can give his buddy (Citrone), who made him (Bessent) "very wealthy," a bailout at zero cost to any of them. $20 billion is really insignificant for the US government, even if a gross waste of tax dollars, and they know there's not going to be a single repercussion.

> Argentina is being set up as a new exit, a new place to flee too, when justice comes a calling.

I too have been thinking that lately. It wouldn't be ideal for any of them but, from their perspectives, it surely would be better than the alternative.
by ryandv | 2025-10-21 03:27:49+00:00
People are coming to the realization that Ruby is a fundamentally insecure language. I've given my reasoning for this, though with respect to a discussion on static analysis, here [0]. Ruby, Rails, the library ecosystem, and the entire language, are actually one giant monolith, in that any one package, or really anybody with access to the runtime, can modify and monkey patch any other package. This is not a glaring security flaw at all, but rather a result of how "awesome" Ruby is in letting you make "Extensions to All Objects," [1] including core data types such as String, Array, Hash, and Integer.

Point the second: People are feeling emboldened to bypass rule of law and take matters into their own hands, up to and including taking other peoples' lives. Not only is this time fraught with political tension, it is also approaching the most crucial time of the year for ecommerce and online retailers - the holiday shopping season.

Put two and two together and it's not hard to see why people are scrambling to secure the software supply chain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104910

[1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extension...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-21 03:27:56+00:00
> I can’t understand why banks keep lending money for deals like that.

Because if they ever stop lending the music just abruptly stops. The entire US economy grinds to a halt and takes the entire world down with it. Even just raising the interest rates is enough to provoke cataclysmic events that wipe out billions and billions of dollars overnight. I can't even fathom what would happen if banks stopped lending money.

The US economy is so addicted to cheap credit it would rather forgive debts and bail out banks than let it all come crashing down. Debt is so pervasive, everyone is so thoroughly leveraged, that if there's too many defaults it would cause an endless cascade of further defaults that could threaten the entire economy. It'd take an act of god to fix this.
by tock | 2025-10-21 03:28:17+00:00
And I'm saying this has nothing to do with moral goods like democracy. The US has toppled plenty of democracies and killed millions of innocent people for its own benefit. "Might makes right" is what we always practiced. The current administration just doesn't care to hide it.

This has everything to do with maintaining economic and military superiority. That's the reason why people consider China a "adversary" not morality. If you don't understand this you won't understand why such a huge percentage of the world's population is wary of the USA just like they are wary of China.
by teunlao | 2025-10-21 03:28:33+00:00
METR study is brutal. 20% faster vs actually 19% slower - that's not rounding error territory.

Productivity measurement is a mess though. Spent three weeks last spring chasing metrics on a "microservices will save us" project. Spoiler: they didn't. Could've been TDD, could've been GraphQL, could've been AI - same story. We suck at measuring ourselves.

But that asymmetry thing - yeah, that's real. Spammer generates 10K bot accounts, never checks if they work right. I write code with Copilot, gotta verify every function or I'm debugging hallucinated bugs at 3am. Harm scales unlimited. Benefit hits human bandwidth ceiling. Hard ceiling.

Slot machine comparison works for coding, breaks everywhere else. I use it for boring CRUD boilerplate, ticket categorization, email templates I'd write anyway. Not life-changing. Not gambling addiction either. Just... mildly useful sometimes? Context dependent.

Hallucinations aren't fixable - author's right there. But calculators can give you garbage output too if you fat-finger 7 instead of 4. Still use them. Just don't blindly trust them.