MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sojsurf | 2025-10-28 20:01:16+00:00
I bought an iphone knowing that Apple has a review process and that I'm limited to apps sold in their store. Similarly, when I had an Android device I knew what I was getting in to.

I appreciate the fairly high level of review that apps get and I completely back Apple's right to control what runs on the OS they developed. Similarly, if _you_ want to run an OS you got from XDA on your Android device and install random stuff, I'll be the last person to stop you.

Hacker news readers are part of the small circle of people who have probably developed a decent intuition for whether software we download is clean or not. Most folks I know do not have this intuition, and many will not bat an eyelash when their new app asks for access to their contacts, etc. Sideload should absolutely continue to be a term that discourages the average person from doing it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-28 20:01:17+00:00
FedEx Office in person print experience is definitely unpleasant (both from a price and UX perspective). Print online, have mailed to you if you do not need it same day. https://www.printme1.com/ is an example (no affiliation, have used is all). Lots of providers out there is this space. Your local print shop might have negotiable rates as well, depending on job frequency and size.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-28 20:02:12+00:00
Disagree. Smart can be good, if you're actually in full control (whenever you contract the implementation to a company or own it).

The real problem is, there's not much on the market that respects the consumers in this regard. Ask for an SLA on a smart fridge functionality and you'll be met with a confusion and possibly a revelation there's nothing of a kind.

It's all ignored because most consumers don't ask questions about reliability, functionality, security and control - they don't think of those. And it's not a matter of technical or specialized knowledge, I'm sure even a caveman can understand "will this work tomorrow the exact same way it works today?" or "what happens to my fridge if you go out of business?" - it's a matter of awareness. People simply don't know yet how those new things can fail them.

Eventually people will learn about the issues, and start asking maker companies those questions. But it's all too new today.
by spelk | 2025-10-28 20:02:48+00:00
Then it'll come down to an individualist vs a collectivist take.

Triage priorities in referrals are an acceptable trade-off for broadly improved access to health care. The reality is that my eczema doesn't need to be seen before someone else's melanoma.

While I appreciate being able to see a specialist earlier in the US with my health insurance, I know that many ordinary American citizens aren't able to at all and that my insurance displaces incentives to serve underserved communities. I'm not yet an American citizen so I will not preach what the US should or should not do, but I do think it is unfortunate that is the case and I hope that improves.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-10-28 20:02:51+00:00
This memorandum proposes EuroAI, a comprehensive European AI sovereignty initiative structured as a Joint Undertaking modeled on ESA and EuroHPC. The program achieves three moonshot objectives by 2031-2035:

1. World’s #1 LLM trained entirely on European silicon (2031)

2. Complete European AI silicon autonomy via €43B semiconductor stack (2030)

3. Universal digitization of 132M legal deposit volumes creating world’s largest multilingual training corpus (2035)

Total investment: €58B over 10 years (€5.8B annually, 0.034% of EU budget)
by tim333 | 2025-10-28 20:03:00+00:00
I wouldn't say it's proven one way or the other but you can cite evidence on both sides, like in favour of a zoonotic origin, the previous SARS outbreak and other viruses have been zoonotic, there were cases near the wet market. In favour of lab, it's a bit of a coincidence that a novel form or SARS popped up near the number one lab in the world researching such stuff, and in a way that could be easily explained by research proposed by Ralph Baric, the no 1 researcher of such stuff who proposed such research in collaboration with the Wuhan lab.

My guess is that although a grant application for Baric's research was turned down, the Wuhan lab went ahead and did it anyway and had a screw up.

Evidence doesn't have to mean proven beyond all doubt.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-28 20:03:18+00:00
I think if you feed "repeat drama and you will live in drama" to the next token predictor it will repeat drama and live in drama because it's more likely to literally interpret that sequence and go into the latent space of drama than it is to understand the metaphoric lesson you're trying to communicate and to apply that.

Otherwise this looks like a neat prompt. Too bad there's literally no way to measure the performance of your prompt with and without the statement above and quantitatively see which one is better
by throw0101a | 2025-10-28 20:03:35+00:00
> It was something about just overwhelming people with pointless crisis and issues to keep you busy and preoccupied both physically and mentally so not to notice the truly bad things going when the democratic state was eroding.

This is something that Russia has been doing for more than a decade:

> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”2

> Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

> Interestingly, several of these features run directly counter to the conventional wisdom on effective influence and communication from government or defense sources, which traditionally emphasize the importance of truth, credibility, and the avoidance of contradiction.3 Despite ignoring these traditional principles, Russia seems to have enjoyed some success under its contemporary propaganda model, either through more direct persuasion and influence or by engaging in obfuscation, confusion, and the disruption or diminution of truthful reporting and messaging.

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

Steve Bannon used the same technique during Trump 1.0:

> While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His quote is like a compass that orients this crazy era of American politics. “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

> That’s the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon’s infamous quote, “This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.”

* https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-s...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Political_ideolog...
by wredcoll | 2025-10-28 20:03:45+00:00
> I feel like you're glossing over my main point, which is that this stuff 100% does breed resentment for the average person, which is how we end up with people like Trump (obviously there are many more factors to consider but this is definitely one of them).

I mean, having to cater to the feelings of overly sensitive men is how most of these problems started in the first place.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 20:04:17+00:00
I dunno, my family started buying LG stuff for our appliances and otherwise, and none of the stuff has forceful ads on them, at least yet. Currently I think we have LG TVs, fridge, dish washer, drier, washing machine and something else I can't remember, all of them working well, has nice and fast at-home support when needed and no ads even on the TVs.
by nonfamous | 2025-10-28 20:04:49+00:00
>>> And for most people, the healthcare system works fairly great. There are exceptions, like the denial described in this thread, and they usually get lots of attention because holy hell is that a messed up situation. But the everyday care that most people get is better than adequate.

As an individual who has lived in multiple countries in three continents, I dispute that “the care most people get is better than adequate”. Perhaps better than the world average, but certainly not better than in most first-world countries. And that’s not even counting the impact of delayed decisions and denied care, and the stress of dealing with the system overall.

And if you’re looking for more than anecdotes, there are plenty of studies that show that Americans have lower expected lifetimes than citizens of peer countries, despite much higher per-capita health care costs.
by VertanaNinjai | 2025-10-28 20:05:01+00:00
And how is YouTube becoming better? Because in recent years if they detect ad blocking on a network? They will shadow ban the entire network. I can no longer use YouTube without a VPN because every single video cuts at the 1:00 mark. No explanation, no pop up. The videos simply load indefinitely. I have tried numerous solutions, but when I’m on my home network? I either VPN or I don’t get YouTube access.

This has been my situation for at least 2 years across multiple devices and accounts.
by woodson | 2025-10-28 20:05:06+00:00
Yes of course. From the outside, I can’t tell to what extent and whether it’s being done sensibly, but there are projects where they are likely better off contracting them out, and others where there are benefits of keeping things in-house (e.g., involving subject matter experts with long involvement in some niche government area). My point was that such an organization already exists.
by bpye | 2025-10-28 20:05:12+00:00
> If i send a golang binary to someone with a mac via signal or other mediums, apple simply displays a dialog that the app is damaged and can't be run.

Has this changed? I thought it failed to launch, but if you go to Privacy & Security in Settings it would give you the option to allow it to run?

Though yes, macOS doesn't prompt you to do that, you have to know where to find it.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-28 20:05:17+00:00
If you consider the programming experience/UI to be the language along with the tools that support that language, then you don't need to concern yourself if using Haskell in vim is the same thing as using Haskell in an IDE that supports it really well, they aren't the same thing.

If you take it to an extreme, like with Smalltalk, you wind up with languages whose environment is considered essential, they are basically part of the language at that point.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 20:05:23+00:00
Since we're speaking in generalities here, I can tell you that generally things like crash cost, time delay like when we just had two semi trailers crash and shut down an entire critical interstate, etc. aren't taken into account.

If you wanted to include some of those factors, including travel time and travel time cost, etc. you'd be even more disappointed in the performance of your state and local governments with respect to transportation both in how we move people and money.

And that's just direct costs, we can also start looking at other societal costs, whether that's pollution due to exhaust fumes, the destruction of small businesses, obesity, etc.

Going back to the article though for a second, the CEO of Waymo (or whoever it was) was exactly correct. Society will tolerate these deaths. We tolerate them and their costs en masse today. It's just a matter for Waymo and whoever to figure out liability for crashes and make sure that it doesn't fall on them and that society instead bears that cost like we do for highway crashes and death, etc.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-28 20:05:28+00:00
This is entirely the fault of the software.

For planned key rotations, you could sign the new key with the old key and send that in the handshake, so the client could change the known_hosts file on its own.

For unplanned rotations (server got nuked), you could isntruct your users to use a secure connection and run "ssh-replace-key server.example.com b3f620", which would re-run TOFU, with the last param being an optional truncated hash of the key for extra security.

You could also do a prompt like "DANGER!! The host key has changed. If you know this is expected or of your IT administrator told you to do so, type 'I know what I'm doing or the IT admin told me to do this' ".
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-28 20:05:29+00:00
Unlike conventional businesses where a good or "binary" service (it works or not) is sold, advertising is a much more nebulous good whose efficiency can't be accurately measured. This means there are tons of inefficiencies where middlemen can skim something off the top:

* a product manager decides to include ads in some digital product. Their analytics show plenty of "engagement". The engagement is actually people accidentally clicking on the ad while hunting for the tiny "close" button, but even if the PM suspects it, they have no reason to volunteer that information. They keep getting their salary paid and even earn a promotion based on the engagement numbers.

* the developers are tasked with implementing the advertising infrastructure - they get paid while padding their resume about how they're building "scalable" systems.

* the "scalable" system runs on a cloud provider and earns them a ton of money. Cloud provider is happy.

* some marketing agency is given a budget to go and spend on ads. The person there maybe even knows that advertising in the aforementioned product is a bad idea because most of their clicks are fake... but if their client is tasking them with burning money, why would they refuse?

* a marketing person at a big company that doesn't actually need any more advertising to succeed is given a budget and spreads it across a few marketing agencies including the aforementioned one. They get paid, why should they refuse?

At every layer (and I haven't even listed them all), people get paid by skimming something off the top. It doesn't matter whether the advertising works, because nobody in the chain has any incentive to admit it while the status quo is so lucrative, so the rational thing to do for everyone is to not rock the boat.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-28 20:05:54+00:00
Also very true, and a good point.

Even people in the US don't understand why those $200K hospital bills aren't real.

Insurance providers (including government programs) have a fixed limit for what they pay for procedures. They pay min(billed_amount, allowed_amount) so providers don't want to risk leaving money on the table by having billed_amount < allowed_amount. To ensure this doesn't happen, they bill an arbitrarily high number with the expectation that insurance will lower it down to some much smaller number.

So every time you see posts on the internet where people talk about their "$200K hospital bill" they're always talking about that arbitrarily high value. If you have to pay cash for some reason, they will reduce the value to the cash pay amount which is in line with the insurance paid numbers.

Nobody ever pays those high hospital bill amounts.
by nymanjon | 2025-10-28 20:06:27+00:00
I build most of my personal websites with service workers. No need for the framework, I just build it for the specific use case I have at the moment.

Here's an offline-first soccer app: https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

And here's an MPA that caches the pages and save the updates for later when you are back online. So, you can navigate around and see the old data even if you are offline: https://github.com/jon49/cash
by kridsdale3 | 2025-10-28 20:06:41+00:00
I used "brew install bash && brew info bash" to get the path, then ran that shell (zsh doesn't work), then inside that new bash, ran the screensaver app.

I found the 4k fullscreen perf in iTerm2 to be not-great, so I did it again in the kitty (GPU powered) terminal macos app, and it was good.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-28 20:06:49+00:00
I just run it as a desktop and boost scaling.

No one in my family has an issue with it, use a years and years old integrated wireless mouse/touchpad and happy days, everything works as you'd expect, you can use it as a regular PC (surprisingly handy sometimes) and I can adblock the crap out of everything/use unhook to decrappify YT.

I happened to have an "old" Thinkpad (T470P, 7700HQ w/ 32GB RAM and the nvidia GPU) I wasn't using so it's left on all the time, runs the TV and serves movies over HTTP for family to watch via VLC (VLC will happily "stream" over HTTP)

One of those easy to do things where I'll never go back :).
by nawgz | 2025-10-28 20:06:51+00:00
You claim that React offers me multiple incorrect ways/footguns to do things, but you can't list a single meaningful API surface change besides Hooks when that was the point of my comment?

Saying React is a "bloated monster" and then not being able to provide a single example of ways it has bloated is a joke. The article we're looking at shows that the bundle size can be a bit bigger but the speed to render is equivalent to all these other frameworks.

If you really love minimal bundle sizes, go off, but bundle size is not how I would define bloat in a framework
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 20:07:02+00:00
And, in fact, the median amount of college debt for adults who don't hold degrees is sharply lower than the overall median (it's around $10k). It's not nothing, but it's also not a life-changing amount of debt.

(By way of policy bona fides: I'd strongly support forgiving student debt for all for-profit schools, but would oppose forgiveness for degree-holders from universities, which would be a sharply regressive policy).
by terminalshort | 2025-10-28 20:07:08+00:00
I think this misses the forest for the trees here. The platforms behavior here is a symptom and not the core problem. I think the following are pretty clearly correct:

1. It's your damn phone and you should be able to install whatever the hell you want on it

2. Having an approved channel for verified app loading is a valuable security tool and greatly reduces the number of malicious apps installed on users devices

Given that both of these things are obviously true, it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you install something outside of the official app store. 99.9% of users would never see the warning either because almost all developers would register their apps through the official store.

But there is a reason why Apple/Google won't do that, and it's because they take a vig on all transactions done through those apps (a step so bold for an OS that even MSFT never even dared try in its worst Windows monopoly days). In a normal market there would be no incentive to side load because legitimate app owners would have no incentive not to have users load apps outside of the secure channel of the official app store, and users would have no incentive to go outside of it. But with the platforms taxing everything inside the app, now every developer has every incentive to say "sideload the unofficial version and get 10% off everything in the app". So the platforms have to make it nearly impossible to keep everything in their controlled channel. Solve the platform tax, solve the side loading issue.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-28 20:07:24+00:00
It's enough to show that something isn't ultra rare, but it's not enough to show whether it's happening at 0.1% of companies or 90% of companies or where in between.

If someone is racist in a manner that's outweighed 10:1 by opposite racist practices, that's something we do want to stop, but it shouldn't be top priority and definitely shouldn't be treated as the example of what racism looks like these days.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 20:07:25+00:00
I don't think seeing the site is too important, although there are TLS extensions to encrypt that, too[0]. In practice, a huge chunk of sites still have unique IPs, so seeing that someone is connecting to 1.2.3.4 gives you a pretty good idea of what site they're visiting. That's even easier if they're using plaintext DNS (i.e. instead of DoH) so that you can correlate "dig -t a example.com => 1.2.3.4" followed immediately by a TCP connection to 1.2.3.4. CDNs like Cloudflare can mitigate that for a lot of sites, but not millions of others.

However, the page you're fetching from that domain is encrypted, and that's vastly more sensitive. It's no big deal to visit somemedicinewebsite.com in a theocratic region like Iran or Texas. It may be a very big deal to be caught visiting somemedicinewebsite.com/effective-abortion-meds/buy. TLS blocks that bit of information. Today, it still exposes that you're looking at plannedparenthood.com, until if/when TLS_ECH catches on and becomes pervasive. That's a bummer. But you still have plausible deniability to say "I was just looking at it so I could see how evil it was", rather than having to explain why you were checking out "/schedule-an-appointment".

[0]https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/edge-certificates/ech/
by Terr_ | 2025-10-28 20:07:30+00:00
First thing on the list for me is dramatically reforming the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), which currently makes it a federal felony to provide other people any information or tools they might use to control the devices they own, ex:

> Thanks to DMCA 1201, the creator of an app and a person who wants to use that app on a device that they own cannot transact without Apple's approval. [...] a penalty of a five year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first criminal offense, even if those tools are used to allow rightsholders to share works with their audiences.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/human-rights-and-tpms-...

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In some ways, I think this is even more important than attempting to bar companies from putting in the anti-consumer digital locks in the first place: It's easier to morally justify, easier to legally formulate, and more likely to politically pass. The average person won't be totally stuck lobbing the government to enforce anti-lock rules for them, consumers can act independently to develop lockpicks.

Plus it removes the corporations' ability to bully people using your tax-dollars and government lawyers.
by tsoukase | 2025-10-28 20:07:45+00:00
Health care is an extremely sensitive, personal, diverse and vital part of our life. It cannot be exploited in the USA like you are in a casino, because health is a roulette. It makes us Europeans our jaw to drop. It plays no role how much you earn. It is inhuman, cruel, mocking and severely impacting the society. Developing countries surely have better systems, I don't know about underdeveloped ones.
by airstrike | 2025-10-28 20:08:09+00:00
> because it's more likely to literally interpret that sequence and go into the latent space of drama

This always makes me wonder if saying some seemingly random of tokens would make the model better at some other task

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I think I'll start every chat with that combo and see if it makes any difference
by nawgz | 2025-10-28 20:08:30+00:00
> I've dealt with way too many shit codebases.

Congrats, it's the most popular framework, no doubt there are abuses out there.

I highly doubt raw juniors are actually writing beautiful vue/svelte code, if obviously emotionally charged anecdotes are your only arguments here, I think you can just admit you see "Facebook" and crash out...