MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 20:39:44+00:00
> I don't see how the cartel could win by doing terror attacks in the US.

Retaliation (if the attacks were actually impacting cartels at all, which most reports that don't come from the US government cast doubt on) does not require a rational plan for victory. (OTOH, the way they could win by doing that is to provoke a reaction by a government intent on being seen to be doing something about the attacks so that it responds in a way which has either direct [because of poor targeting] or collateral [because of lack of restraint] adverse impacts on uninvolved domestic populations sufficient to make the government campaign unpopular independent of how unpopular its nominal targets are. Of course, this would take an administration that is both unusually prone to poorly aimed violent actions and unusually unconcerned with due process and the rule of law, but that’s exactly what produced the current situation, anyway.)
by kragen | 2025-10-28 20:39:45+00:00
> 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

I would instead say that having a trustworthy channel for verified app loading is a valuable security tool. F-Droid is such a channel; the Google Play Store is not. So Google is trying to take this valuable security tool away from users.
by A1kmm | 2025-10-28 20:39:48+00:00
One thing here doesn't seem right. I thought the whole thread that this was about them negotiating down how much the executor of a deceased estate would pay to one hospital making claims against it. But the thread included things like: "She had been afraid of being sent to collections and asked why we wouldn’t just take their counter-offer", which suggests a (mis)understanding that it is a personal debt of the sister's.

This suggests an 'AI can't see gorillas' problem here in that, during an AI-human interaction, identification of relevant big-picture context that a human advisor could have helped with is also missed.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-28 20:39:56+00:00
> complaining about it being taken away even more so.

I mean thats fair game, if people take away free stuff I like, I'd get pissed off as well. Asking politely about changes is also fair game.

Moaning about it is not though.

Complaining about the quality of perfectly good food, thats a dick move.

I'm always fascinated at the thought process and frankly upbringing of someone who would publicly complain about food in such a whiny and rambling way. The lack of awareness to skip through the top posts, and note that the batshit ones are always the ones that get snarky comments.

for example[paraphrasing to protect the dipshit]: "The <meat dish, carved from the joint, on demand> was chewy. I find that all the red meat here is chewy. Is this due to the quality of the meat, or the skill of the cooking"

a bunch of people agree

Then someone pipes up and asks: "would you like the chefs to chew if for you first?"
by no_circuit | 2025-10-28 20:40:19+00:00
Are the benchmarks actually fair? See:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

It seems if the serialization object is not a "Fory" struct, then it is forced to go through to/from conversion as part of the measured serialization work:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

The to/from type of work includes cloning Strings:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

reallocating growing arrays with collect:

https://github.com/apache/fory/blob/fd1d53bd0fbbc5e0ce6d53ef...

I'd think that the to/from Fory types is shouldn't be part of the tests.

Also, when used in an actual system tonic would be providing a 8KB buffer to write into, not just a Vec::default() that may need to be resized multiple times:

https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/blob/147c94cd661c0015af2e5...
by LogicHound | 2025-10-28 20:40:31+00:00
It got nothing to do with someone being a developer and having tunnel vision. In fact I would argue that many people that work in tech would be the most likely to sold on such a feature.

It has everything to do with being frugal and whether you see the utility. There is very little benefit in being alerted when I am low on eggs because I can simply open the fridge and look. I can also normally buy eggs anywhere, at any time of day.

There isn't really a problem that needs solving.
by lisdexan | 2025-10-28 20:40:39+00:00
I knew Brazil was kinda weird with tech import taxes but I didn't know they banned non-certified phones, jezz. Here in Chile they get disconnected from the cell towers after 30 days, but you just need register it^.

Do you know if the Brazilian gov or regulators asked for this first from Google or something?

^: It's less spooky than it sounds, any phone in Chile needs to be compatible with the natural disaster alert system.
by damn_trolls | 2025-10-28 20:40:46+00:00
They get it from senior management, and pass it down like generational trauma. This was a problem even in 2013 when I worked there. Once, I was new and actually pushed back against a Director level person's poor behavior in a 70 person meeting, because I didn't know better. I was approached by multiple individuals afterwards telling me how "brave" it was of me.

At Amazon, unkind and downright unprofessional behavior by people higher up the chain is normalized, and has been for a very long time.
by lucideer | 2025-10-28 20:41:06+00:00
> Can you corroborate this?

I don't think this is so much a question of sources & corroboration as it is of language.

Regardless of the origins of the term "sideload", the language implies a non-standard practice. The prefix "side-" may be used in some software contexts to describe normal, non-deviant software, but only in cases where the software in question is considered auxiliary. In general, anything described as "side-*" is connoted to be surplus / additional / non-primary at best - adding that to the term "load" & the loading action itself is surplus/additional/non-primary. It's automatically considered non-standard.

> those devices don't have first party stores

This only supports the argument. If somebody felt an alternative term was required on Android because the first-party store was the primary source of software, the only reason they could have for needing such an alternative term would be to explicitly differentiate that alternative source as unofficial/non-standard.
by gruez | 2025-10-28 20:41:13+00:00
>Yeah, and they are the primary way to install software for nearly every distro that has them.

>And even when people install software on their user's home only, we don't call it anything different.

But even on Android the word used is "install". When you try to install an apk, the button says "install", not "sideload". "Sideload" is only used in the context of google's blog post, where it's there to differentiate between installs from first party sources vs others. This is an important distinction to capture, because their new restrictions only apply to the latter, so something like "installing isn't going way" wouldn't make sense. "sideload" captures this distinction, and is far more concise than something "installing from third party sources". Moreover this sort of word policing reeks of ingroup purity tests from the culture wars, eg. "autistic vs person with autism" or whatever.
by butlike | 2025-10-28 20:41:17+00:00
Yet, if you ask the word generator to generate words in the form of advice, like any machine or code, it will do exactly what you tell it to do. The fact people are asking implies a lack of common sense by your definition.

Sertraline can increase suicidal thoughts in teens. Should anti-depressants not be allowed near suicidal/depressed teens?
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-28 20:41:32+00:00
It's not silly, it is in fact a clear necessity to have both of these for something to be even close to AGI. And you additionally need it trained on many other tasks - if you believe that each task requires additional parameters and additional training data, then it becomes very clear that we are nowhere near to a general intelligence system; and it should also be pretty clear that this will not scale to 100 tasks with anything similar to the current hardware and training algorithms.
by cb321 | 2025-10-28 20:41:33+00:00
I'm not an expert on the case law, but supposedly United States v. General Electric Co. et al., 82 F.Supp. 753 (D.N.J. 1949) indicates that whatever design trade-offs might have existed, corporate policy makers were really just trying to screw consumers [1] (which is why they probably had to agree on short lifespans as a cartel rather than just market "this line of bulbs for these preferences" vs. "this other line for other people" -- either as a group or separate vendors). I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop where they figure out how to make LED bulbs crappy enough to need replacement.

EDIT: and, shucks, @kragen beat me to it! :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel#cite_ref-USvGE-...
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 20:41:43+00:00
>I've paid out of pocket for a medical procedure in Europe

For a second time in a row now you're deviating again from the topic of my point of debt collection just to go on an off-topic rant again on how expensive the US is compared to what you did in Europe. Why do you keep doing this? Are you trolling or is it some attention deficit disorder I should account for?

Forget about medical bills. Let's say you have 50 Euro debt from an unpaid internet/electricity bill if that makes it easier for you to get out of the medical conversation into the debt collation US vs EU topic. In the US you can doge unpaid bills and rack up debt with little to no consequences, while in the EU not since the government goes after you, which makes the debt situation for US citizens incomparable to Europeans. Are you following so far or are you still fixated on how cheap medical bills are for you in Europe?

>The 50 buck debt in europe will be collected because it is an actual debt, not something some hospital made up.

How do you decide what is actual debt and what is made up?

With that logic then all debt is made up because all money in circulation is made up and all prices are made up. I'm gonna walk out of the restaurant without paying the bill because we all know the 200 Euros for a steak is a made up price.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-28 20:42:15+00:00
How successful are those people being?

IIUC, there was a bit of a scandal where the companies the DoE where paying to manage those 10 year forgiveness plans where giving incorrect advice and so a lot of people aren't going to qualify.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bece...
by Etheryte | 2025-10-28 20:43:38+00:00
There is no way that's what they meant. 50k is an absurdly large dose that's way outside the safe intake range. 10k is used sometimes under medical supervision and even then it's a very short term measure. For long term intake, 4000IU is a widely accepted safe upper limit. 50k is an order of magnitude more than that.
by ghc | 2025-10-28 20:44:10+00:00
I've only been through a few cycles, but there's three flavors I've seen:

1. Better query language: QUEL, LINQ, etc.

2. Better data model or performance: CouchDB, Mongo, Redis, etc.

3. Better abstraction: Zope, Active Record, et. al.

SQL vendors keep absorbing the differentiating features from other approaches with enough success that they capture most business use cases. That's not to say there aren't successes outside of SQL! But I've seen it claimed SQL will be dead several times over thanks to some new tech and most of the time SQL instead kills that tech or makes it niche.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-10-28 20:44:45+00:00
Michigan.gov website references Merriam-Webster dictionary definition "an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance".

Then it says no one is at fault, but the definition specifically included carelessness and ignorance which does imply fault.

> Calling a crash an “accident” suggests no one is at fault. In reality, crashes result from preventable actions like distraction, inattention, or risky driving.

But all of these go under carelessness / ignorance.

And there is always a party that's at fault traffic accidents.

Normal dialogue:

Bob: I got into a traffic accident.

Alice: Who was at fault?

Bob: ...
by anyfoo | 2025-10-28 20:46:27+00:00
If they don't sync to a common clock source, they won't stay in sync for long. Probably not even for a few minutes or so.

You'd get the same phenomenon that you see when operating turn signals in traffic. They seem to weave "in and out" of sync. The frequency at which that happens is the beat frequency, i.e. the difference between the two blinking frequencies.
by tizio13 | 2025-10-28 20:46:33+00:00
I know it might sound cliche but walking is an easy habit to start and keep up with. I tend to walk when I get stuck on a problem and try to distract my mind with something else. Usually this turns into my subconscious working through the problem until I get an idea to try out.

The health benefits are very nice too if you’re just starting out. There are diminishing returns as your body gets used to it.

15 minutes in the morning/afternoon is my usually habit while at work. But on particularly tough days or just ones with nice weather I’d go for much longer walks.

It’s nice to explore the spaces around you when on these walks. You’ll end up discovering more of your surroundings than you’d ever expect. One nice benefit I’ve found is that I can do a 35ish minute walk to the movie theater I’d normally drive to. Doing this lets me just go see a movie on a whim, eat at one of the many restaurants near it. Maybe get a little drunk and be able to walk off a meal/buzz on the way back. I’ve had many epiphanies in this state of mind. You’ll just be a more relaxed individual if you adopted this.
by bsder | 2025-10-28 20:46:35+00:00
> It's probably no accident there's videos like [1] about how every restaurant tastes the same when supplied by Sysco (national distributor versus buying fresh/local, which means higher prices...)

Sysco is a secondary problem. Restaurants are so relentlessly focused on avoiding wastage that even if they prep their food, they coalesce around the exact, same cheap ingredients in a relatively small number of dishes.

For example, every single restaurant in Austin, TX used to have chicken-fried steak on the menu--to the extent that I used to joke about restaurants that you absolutely wouldn't expect to have it (the Chinese place that I knew served it eons ago made an excellent one).

Now, presumably because beef is expensive, chicken-fried steak is a relative rarity in Austin. And, even if you can find it, it's likely to be sub-par.

Sandwich shops are slightly different but prices are driving the quality decline here, too. The problem is that their primary meat ingredients mostly suck because they are getting the lowest tiers.
by paul_h | 2025-10-28 20:46:44+00:00
That book is new to me. I wrote https://paulhammant.com/2013/05/07/android-and-the-art-of-wa... on Google vs MSFT and phones before the book. Mine's a perspective that doesn't mention Nokia or its leadership.

I did own a Treo and loved it up to the OG iPhone - I repaired the eff out of it in the hope that something worthy would come along. I kidded myself I would write apps for it. I'd previously played with Simbian tech (and met a very bitter Simbian team dev in London one "eXtreme Tuesday Club" meetup in 2003). I had a Psion Organizer way back and Palm pilot. I thought Palm's WebOS stood a chance. I still own a Ubuntu Phone that I don't use - single script QML apps would have been the killer, but all that's passed now.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-28 20:47:18+00:00
Yes that's why I listed a couple reasons why adopting ECH everywhere is not straightforwardly all good. The network operator one in particular is I think quite important. It happens that the same company with the largest pushes for "privacy" (Google) has also been constantly making it more difficult to make traffic transparent to the actual device owner (e.g. making it so you can't just drop a CA onto your phone and have all apps trust it). Things like DoH, ECH, and ubiquitous TLS (with half the web making an opaque connection to the same Cloudflare IPs) then become weaponized against device owners.

AFAIK it's still not that widely adopted or can be easily blocked/disabled on a network though.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 20:47:44+00:00
The median family of 4 with private health insurance has a household income of around $115k not counting the gross cost of their employer-provided health care. Remember: being on private insurance puts you in a cohort that:

* Excludes everybody on Medicaid

* Excludes fixed-income seniors on Medicare

* Makes it overwhelmingly likely you have subsidized employer-covered health insurance.

Figure your employer "covers" half the gross cost of your $24k/yr health insurance (they aren't, really: that's money they'd be paying you directly without the distortion of employer-provided health care). Do the take-home pay math. Put them in, like, Ohio, or Iowa, or Colorado; just not SFBA or NYC.

Now move that same family to Manchester, take the wage hit for moving to the UK labor market, and work out the take-home pay. They'll of course pay $0 for the NHS.

Are they better off or worse off?

I'm not valorizing the arrangement, I'm making a point about how political tractable changing it is.
by SpicyUme | 2025-10-28 20:47:45+00:00
Baker's lung is a thing too. I think about that when I see the dust from my spice grinder when making various powders. No matter what there is airborne dust when I open the grinder. I try to do my wood cutting outside but I am not sanding much. When I refinished my floors I wore dust protection and a loose tshirt over the dust protection to make clean up at the end of the day a bit easier.
by phil21 | 2025-10-28 20:47:51+00:00
HSA is your money like a retirement account is. It’s one of the most tax advantaged ways to save money.

More or less all high income earners who do not have a chronic health issue are better off choosing a HDHP paired with a HSA - especially if the company provides any sort of matching benefit. Keep that account as an additional retirement account and pay out of pocket for most healthcare needs.

Think of it also as actual insurance vs. a pre-paid health plan.

The math of course changes for folks who are not highly paid, or have expensive chronic health conditions that would result in maxing out the deductible each year.

You are likely thinking of a FSA which is use it or lose it.
by mcphage | 2025-10-28 20:47:53+00:00
> If there's a settlement, that's as good as a win for those that believe this. They will look guilty as hell to everyone that wants to believe. I don't see any way a settlement is a valid choice for the defense.

Plus, Tylenol is... a pretty large product, and I don't think they're willing to just flush that entire product line down the toilet.
by Arainach | 2025-10-28 20:47:53+00:00
The threat model of HTTP isn't site owners, it's that anyone else can change the content and you can't tell that it didn't come from the original site.

It's not a strawman, it's a real attack that we've seen for decades.

The entire guidance of "don't connect to an open wireless AP"? That's because a malicious actor who controlled the AP could read and modify your HTTP traffic - inject ads, read your passwords, update the account number you requested your money be transferred to. The vast majority of that threat is gone if you're using HTTPS instead of HTTP.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-28 20:48:46+00:00
> I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.

Situation: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia "The crowdsourced encyclopedia is untrustworthy? How ridiculous! We need to develop an AI-powered black-box that replaces everyone's Wikipedia use-cases!" Soon: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia, and Elon Musk's website developed in response to crowdsourced encyclopedias

It's the Full Self Driving of online research. Who wouldn't trust it?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-28 20:49:00+00:00
I recall a video (I think it was Veritasium) which featured interviews of people specifically being asked to give a "random" number (really, the first one they think of as "random") between 1 and 50. The most common number given was 37. The video made an interesting case for why.

(It was Veritasium but it was actually a number from 1 to 100, the most common number was 7 and the most common 2-digit number was 37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98.)
by api | 2025-10-28 20:49:03+00:00
The reason subscriptions are spreading everywhere is that stock markets and private investors usually value recurring revenue at a much higher multiple than non-recurring revenue. The effect can be so large that it can be better to have less recurring revenue than more non-recurring revenue, at least if you are seeking investment or credit.

It creates a powerful incentive to seek recurring revenue wherever possible. Since it affects things like stock prices and executives and sometimes even rank and file employees often have stock, it's an incentive throughout the organization. If something is incentivized you're going to get more of it.

In the past it was structurally hard to do this, but now that everything is online it becomes possible to put a chip in anything and make it a subscription. We are only going to see more and more of this unless either consumers balk en masse or something is done to structurally change the incentives.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-28 20:49:48+00:00
I never asked for an infinite window of software support, though. I merely want the features that I had when I bought the laptop, for as long as the OS supports my machine. The response is always "blame the third-parties" when apps break, but oftentimes the devs already made their money and moved on. The onus is on Apple to support their OS' software if they want to have my money.

Open-sourcing is one solution, but knowing Apple it's not a likely one. Their "we know best" mindset is why I quit dailying Macs entirely - it's not sustainable outside the mobile dev business. A computer that supports 32-bit binaries, OpenGL or x86 translation when you bought it should be able to retain that capability into the future. Anything less is planned obselecense, even if you want to argue there's a silver lining to introducing new tech. New tech should be competitive on-merits, not because it's competitor was forcibly mutilated.
by aetherspawn | 2025-10-28 20:50:08+00:00
UniFi SFP modules work fine in Dell and Synology servers, so contrary to most of the anecdotes in this thread I’ve always just bought the 20 packs and had no issues.

Didn’t need reprogramming.

The quality is fine, oldest modules more than 5 years old and only 1 failure in 100.