MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-08 13:52:31+00:00
This is such a disingenous comment.

Yes. They did attack their sources of income and blocked protestors from accessing THEIR money to stop them from protesting.

You minimizing it like "just a few accounts, just a few days" is not only false but also doesn't acknowledge the fact that it should NEVER Happen.

But hey, there's always the one saying that reality doesn't happen even when the government attacks from all angles as a coercion mechanism. What's the euphemism now? What's the handbook? "Free speech but not freedom of consequences"?
by atombender | 2025-10-08 13:52:34+00:00
As a design enthusiast, they're not in the same league, regardless of construction quality. There's a beauty in the original designs (like Alvar Aalto's) that's completely missed by copycats.

Design objects are vastly, ridiculously overpriced, but to me that's unrelated to the issue of design. An Aalto chair might not be "worth" $2,000, but if you buy the $200 IKEA version you won't have the same chair, so it's not a direct comparison. That's like saying why go to Hawaii when there's Belgium?
by chronic74939 | 2025-10-08 13:52:40+00:00
> Hope they have ample backup power

Texas has more reliable electricity than California

considering the California electricity provider PG&E shuts off the electricity multiple times a year when it gets windy outside, to prevent power lines falling (due to lazy maintenance) and starting a wildfire

I wonder where the California’s additional 13% tax on capital gains is being spent? SF parking ticket enforcement?
by Hirehumain | 2025-10-08 13:52:43+00:00
HireHumain is an intelligent hiring system that uses AI to predict which job candidates will be successful.

It's not just a traditional Applicant Tracking System (ATS)... it's a predictive engine built from scratch with AI at its core.

The Core Function The entire purpose of HireHumain is to replace manual resume screening and gut-feeling decisions with data.

Prediction: It uses AI to analyze candidates and predict their future on-the-job performance with roughly 94% accuracy.

Discovery: It looks beyond keywords to find qualified candidates, including "hidden gems" that traditional search filters often miss.

Unbiased Screening: It helps eliminate common human biases by focusing screening criteria on objective success patterns rather than background or irrelevant profile details.

Support: It assists recruiters and managers through the entire process, from creating the ideal job profile to providing real-time insights during the interview.

Simply put: HireHumain finds the right people and tells you who will perform before you hire them.
by dgacmu | 2025-10-08 13:53:13+00:00
It really isn't, though.

1) there exist viable commercial competitors providing approximately equivalent functionality

2) the roll your own solution with, e.g., TrueNAS, also provides equivalent functionality and is about 90% as easy.

I say this as someone who owns and manages three Synology boxes and one more recent TrueNAS box. There was a time when Synology offered something quite better than the alternatives, but that time is no longer.

My newest one (192TB) I bought the hardware pre-assembled and tested from a VAR, installed TrueNAS, and was off to the races. It cost more than buying the individual components would have, but it had zero headache and was cheaper than buying the equivalent amount of storage from Synology.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-08 13:53:43+00:00
I mean, it gets really messy in hardware support.

Typically you'd want to tier it out

1. Fully supported drives: Synology branded

2. Support provided: Somewhat decent tested models that meet x features

3. Unsupported but works: list of drives

4. Does not work: list of drives.

There is no shortage of models of drives that do crappy crap that totally suck completely. Like lie about things going wrong in the drive. Or take a long break when dealing with failed sectors. Putting down a list of well supported drives is a must in that market. This said, only supporting branded drives sucks.
by simonw | 2025-10-08 13:53:44+00:00
I'm a pretty bad "industry evangelist" considering I won't shut up about how prompt injection hasn't had any meaningful improvements in the last three years and I doubt that a robust solution is coming any time soon.

I expect this industry might prefer an "evangelist" who hasn't written 126 posts about that: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/

(And another 221 posts about ethical concerns with how this stuff works: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/)
by balamatom | 2025-10-08 13:54:03+00:00
>decide what's warranted

Bingo. Having the right to decide what's warranted in a situation a.k.a. essential human autonomy: a thing which isn't meant to somehow cancel out with being considerate of others or having a role in society. That's the question which IMO the post and most comments here are either vaguely getting at, or studiously avoiding.

It's essential to empathize. Few things are more worthwhile than understanding others. It's by empathy that I've learned how when someone actually says something about "eMpAtHy" at you, they're usually trying to scam you out of genuine emotional labor. Beware this - chances are your own sorry ass would be your only recompense.

Tbh I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say this particular one to me (or anywhere around me, maybe I'm too unapproachable hehe) but do I tend to hear "you should be more empathetic" as "someone other than you has already decided what's warranted, which you're supposed to telepathically infer, except there's no such person and we don't actually understand in what ways we need you to modify your behavior or why; so you're gonna have to come up with that by yourself, too - on your own time ofc"

This happens because they don't have sufficient empathy to have a mature conversation with you about what's what, but have heard the word on the influence grapevine and are quick as ever to brand themselves with it.

It's always fun to pretend to take these dog whistles in good faith, the Pavlovians don't know what hit 'em. Your own dam treadmill, that's wha
by kragen | 2025-10-08 13:54:11+00:00
P isn't a metal, isn't a heavy element, and isn't toxic except in the form of white phosphorus. It's what holds your DNA together and what your mitochondria use to fuel your cellular respiration. Perhaps coincidentally, it's the only element in your list that is used in practice as dopants for silicon solar cells. The other dopant used in practice, which you omitted, is boron, which also isn't especially toxic, and also isn't a metal or a heavy element.

GaAs photovoltaic cells, InGaAs photovoltaic cells, etc., do exist, but aren't used in utility-scale solar power, because their cost doesn't compensate for their performance. Some of the other elements you list are never used at all for photovoltaic cells to my knowledge.

Wherever you got this information from, you should killfile it and make sure you don't trust any more information from that source.
by WillAdams | 2025-10-08 13:54:41+00:00
The checklist is one's own ethics and morale guideposts --- every interaction with others has to be done with a consideration for the long-term strategic goals rather than short-term gains --- Clausewitz argues that the will of the people of whom the military is an extension of and their ethics and mores have to be taken into account and all actions done in accord with what will make an acceptable news story.

Consider the old adage:

>Never do something which you wouldn't want your grandparents to read about in a newspaper, or to discuss with them over Sunday dinner.

By extension, a military force should:

>Never do anything which when shown on the evening news would result in a Congressional inquiry (or a War Crimes Tribunal).
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-08 13:55:10+00:00
I encounter this all the time with GenAI projects. The idea of stability and "frozen" just doesn't exist with hosted models IMO. You can't bet that the model you're using will have the exact behavior a year from now, hell maybe not even 3 months. The model providers seem to be constantly tweaking things behind the scenes, or sunsetting old models very rapidly. Its a constant struggle of re-evaluating the results and tweaking prompts to stay on the treadmill.

Good for consultants, maybe, horrible for businesses that want to mark things as "done" and move them to limited maintenance/care and feeding teams. You're going to be dedicating senior folks to the project indefinitely.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-08 13:56:36+00:00
> But then people buy Intel "NUCs" where the power adapter is larger than the computer box...

You say that like it’s a mystery why people by then but NUCs are fantastic little PCs.

The power adapter is just hidden under the desk whereas the NUC is sat on the desk (or behind the monitor/TV).

It’s the same as with Mac Minis and Apple TV. And other devices of that ilk.
by MYEUHD | 2025-10-08 13:57:00+00:00
> I disagree that you can’t own something that isn’t physically controlled by you.

We're not talking about "something" in general, but about digital infrastructure.

> Almost all of us have money which is not kept on our persons or property, in banks and investments. I think people would be outraged if someone told them it belonged to the bank.

A better analogy is if you have a cryptocurrency wallet managed by Coinbase. You don't own. And they can in fact suspend your account (and probably take your crypto) if they don't like you.
Show HN: MovePlay – An app that gets kids moving
by echamussy | 2025-10-08 13:57:06+00:00
Hi HN! I’m excited to share something I’ve been working on: MovePlay, an app that turns screen time into action time.

With MovePlay, kids don’t just sit and swipe — they jump, run, and move to play games. Using the device’s camera, the app recognizes and responds to their movements, turning passive screen time into active play.

I originally built it for my daughters. They really like playing games, but I didn’t want them spending all their time sitting on the couch. I wanted to see if I could make something fun that would get them moving instead.

MovePlay is built for iOS and Mac using Apple’s Vision framework. All video processing happens entirely on-device (no images or videos are ever transmitted). It uses real-time body pose detection along with a small custom ML model I trained for hand gestures (to start and stop games).

I’d love to hear your feedback — especially from parents or anyone interested in and active play.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-08 13:57:25+00:00
Yeah, a 28yo on a 'permanent holiday' has a very different life than someone like you who is doing, say, renovation work in the house you own. They are opposite stations in life in many ways.

As for your final question, I was living in a cheap country. Rent was $200/mo with roommates. Taxis/Uber was cheap. Food was cheap. I made a modest wage in software.
by noirscape | 2025-10-08 13:57:44+00:00
The point of this story is that open source can't protect you against a bully with a legal department at his command, and neither can it protect you against bad contract clauses. Frivolous legal threats may be frivolous, but you have to prove that in court and a lot of companies would rather take the easier way out to avoid having to do that.

The "FOSS" company never directly threatened the author, but the implication of it alone was enough to scare off both agencies. Given a lot of the tech is mixed up here on purpose, there's a few FOSS companies & vendors I can think of with legal departments that I'd describe as "pretty aggressive" and "expensive for a managed solution" that aren't solely about Exchange related services but would definitely behave like this, given their PR over the years at times has had slipped masks.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-08 13:57:55+00:00
OP was an intern - the potential commercialization of the tech would be left up to the rest of the team. And "costly" is a very relative term.. Exxon earned like $350 billion in revenue last year with over $30 billion in profit. They'd be happy to invest in cutting edge tech if it simplifies their supply chain or removes some steps or units from their refining process.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-08 13:58:21+00:00
Underrated point wrt intelligence is the extent to which it depends on fine motor control. Whether you're building tools, writing, or speaking a complex language, you need fine motor control to make that possible.

So it's not just brainpower, it's likely a combination of potential brainpower - which many species have/had - and fine motor control, which set up feedback loop that translated a mind/body synergy into practical evolutionary benefits.
by bapak | 2025-10-08 13:58:56+00:00
> it turns out

Correct. I never said that it was the right choice, I just said that it was a valid choice for them to make. Lots of companies substantially raise prices and still come up winning.

Netflix doubled their subscription cost since 2008, but market cap did 100x and subscribers are 30x. They even offer fewer good movies than they used to. You may still hate them, but their wallets don't care about your feelings.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-08 13:59:04+00:00
> Always take legislation like this seriously and hold your representatives responsible for it. Let them know that their political career in your constituency is finished for good if they support such moves

But it isn't. I've gone the route of writing my representatives but when most people support the measures or at least don't oppose them they can easily laugh in your face or outright lie to you, claiming that protests aren't banned when they are (e.g. covid times) and things like that.

Most people here probably called me some government/media pushed negative label just for protesting to uphold freedom/constitutional rights/human rights.

It's not that easy to advocate effectively once you realize gov/media funded propaganda permeates really well.
by ec109685 | 2025-10-08 13:59:04+00:00
Horowitz talks about this in-depth in “What you do is Who You Are.” There are waypoints in a company’s life that can change their trajectory and when you have the weight of employees, their family and company’s existence on your shoulders, it’s easy to compromise on a value like customer centricity. Your culture needs to be strong enough so that doesn’t happen.

https://a16z.com/books/what-you-do-is-who-you-are/
by wat10000 | 2025-10-08 13:59:17+00:00
The cost of providing customer support is clear and easy to measure, while the benefit is nebulous. This leads to incentive structures centered around controlling costs. That means rewards for handling more calls, and thus punishment for taking too long on a call regardless of the merits. In such an environment, it is inevitable that the reps will care about their call times instead of the customer. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

If you empower customer service to actually provide service, they will. Shitty service isn't because of shitty reps, it's shitty incentive structures. They're not trying to cut down on support effort because they want to play solitaire, they're doing it because serving too many customers with difficult problems will literally impoverish them.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-08 13:59:42+00:00
Their finances are publicly available. [1] Like always in these things it's somewhat obfuscated, but it's likely that viewer contributions are part of the "Contributions of cash and other financial assets" line which was about $40 million. By contrast their revenue from "corporate sponsorships" is $101 million.

In general I don't think impartial centralized media/reporting is possible in the modern era where any source of influence becomes immediately targeted by countless moneyed interests. And it's not like a comic book thing where some guy with slicked hair comes in, drops off a few bags of money and a list of talking points. Rather it's probably more akin to politics where extremely charismatic smooth talkers come in, present their heavily polished point of view, treat you like a king, and then leave a few bags of money on their way out as a no-strings-attached charitable donation to do with as you see fit.

For a slight tangent, I remember when AOC first took office, quite doe eyed, she posted: "Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance. Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?" [2] Those sort of critiques, which I was extremely impressed by at first, somehow disappeared pretty quickly from her. In lieu of that she started doing things like showing up at the $35,000/ticket Meta Gala with a gown emblazoned with "Tax the rich" worth thousands of dollars. I'm positive that in her mind she's still the exact same grass roots outsider fighting against a corrupt system.

Humans are very good at cognitive dissonance and it really ruins any centralized system.

[1] - https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2024/Nati...

[2] - https://x.com/AOC/status/1070764827533078529
by xp84 | 2025-10-08 13:59:49+00:00
An ITX isn’t the competitor for a Pi. I’d suggest a USFF prebuilt. I use an HP Elitedesk and Dell and Lenovo each have similar tiny PCs. They’re nearly silent or completely silent, and half the size of a Mac Mini. Cost is about $150 for hardware that is more than enough for me, plus they can have 1-2 SSDs and a hard drive inside the case.
by p2detar | 2025-10-08 13:59:55+00:00
You forgot to mention XSLT, which is just such a ridiculously powerful tool when you got XML data. It allows one to transform XML into XHTML or even other formats. Edit: Browsers also support this automatically, so you open an XML document and you get to see a rendered HTML from it.

I had been tasked at least several times in my past jobs to develop XSLT scripts to transform data into user-readable content. I don't know of anyone that uses XSLT today and I have no idea if there is a JSON equivalent.
by username332211 | 2025-10-08 14:00:01+00:00
I'm sorry but what?

Delaware law exclusively protects the interests of the board of directors. It allows for a unique provision - the hilariously misnamed "Shareholders Rights Plan" that enable a board of directors to issue shares as they please, in order to make sure every attempt at takeover isn't against the interests of the directors.

The only check on the power of the board in a Delaware corporation is the Delaware court of chancellery.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-08 14:00:01+00:00
> What is interesting here is that Synology leadership is quite technical

Vagueposting out of necessity: I worked at a different company that made popular consumer products and had leadership with technical backgrounds. That company also went through a period of trying to lock down the platform for profits, which everyone hated.

The root cause was that the technical leadership had started to think two things: That their customers were so loyal to the brand that they wouldn’t leave, and that the customers weren’t smart enough to recognize that the artificial restrictions had no real basis in reality.

I remember attending a meeting where the CEO bragged about a decision he made that arbitrarily worsened a product for consumers. He laughed that people still bought it and loved it. “Can you believe that? They’ll buy anything we tell them to.” was the paraphrased statement I remember.

Of course, the backlash came when they pushed too hard. Fortunately this company recognized what was going on and the CEO moved on to other matters, leaving product choices back to the teams. I wonder if something similar happened with Synology.

Regarding employee morale: It was very depressing for me during this period to open Hacker News and see threads complaining about my employer. I can confirm that it spurred a job search for me.
by clownpenis_fart | 2025-10-08 14:00:10+00:00
Some companies are just incredibly naive sometimes. Case in point: i work at a game dev studio, and our main competitor on the segment we are on is a game published by Microsoft.

The other day a coworker was talking about how that other game had a tendency to release similar content as us, sometimes right before us, with marketing material that looked eerily like stuff still in production from our marketing team, to the point that they suspected someone was leaking stuff.

Dude, all we do is discussed on teams and it's all in documents stored in office 365. They dont need us to leak anything, they can simply read our team channels and our documents. They probably spend more time discussing plausible deniability with their legal team than researching what we do.

We are also moving our analytics from Tableau to whatever Microsoft's equivalent, and nobody seems to see the issue with that either.
by sethcalebweeks | 2025-10-08 14:00:11+00:00
I love the idea! The creativity of (ab)using JavaScript type coersion is really neat. I did something similar using proxies to create a chainable API.

https://dev.to/sethcalebweeks/fluent-api-for-piping-standalo...

const shuffle = (arr) => arr.sort(() => Math.random() - 0.5); const zipWith = (a, b, fn) => a.slice(0, Math.min(a.length, b.length)).map((x, i) => fn(x, b[i])); const log = (arr) => { console.log(arr); return arr; }; const chain = chainWith({shuffle, zipWith, log}); chain([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]) .map((i) => i + 10) .log() // [ 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ] .shuffle() .log() // e.g. [ 16, 15, 11, 19, 12, 13, 18, 14, 17 ] .zipWith(["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"], (a, b) => a + b) .log() // e.g. [ '16a', '15b', '11c', '19d', '12e' ] [0]; // e.g. '16a'
by avgDev | 2025-10-08 14:00:24+00:00
"There have been 263 power outages across Texas since 2019, more than any other state, each lasting an average of 160 minutes and impacting an estimated average of 172,000 Texans, according to an analysis by electricity retailer Payless Power (https://paylesspower.com/blog/blackout-tracker/)"

Also in 2021 210 people died. This is a huge deal. This wasn't just a little outage.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-08 14:01:05+00:00
Nah, not really. They already have a compatibility page of known-good drives and they recommend people stick to it. They could also have an incompatibility list showing known-bad drives, and alerting if you install one of them.

If I put junk tires on my Toyota, I don’t blame Toyota. But if Toyota used that as an excuse to make it impossible to use third party tires, I guarantee you my next car purchase wouldn’t have that same limitation.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-08 14:01:24+00:00
The event handling alone is almost a hundred calls deep. Because a lot of the work is happening asynchronously, you won't see most of it when stepping through the debugger starting from a click handler for example, but try adding a breakpoint to the compiled JSX.

With fibers (React >16) and a couple commonly used hooks you'll easily hit a thousand high call stack.
by ajuc | 2025-10-08 14:01:57+00:00
> Empathy is when you try your best to build an accurate model of someone else’s world in order to better understand them.

That's cognitive empathy.

What most people ask you for is emotional empathy = experiencing (as opposed to modeling) the emotions of others.

It's not even that important to experience actual emotions of others. Even empathetic people are often mistaken about what emotions other people feel. Somebody might be sad for different reason than you think. Or they might actually be happy just pretending to be sad. An empathetic observer would still feel sad for that person, and it's still empathy even if the information it's based on is wrong.

What's important is the intent and the consequences of experiencing the possible emotions of other people. If you feel bad when somebody else is suffering, you're more likely to treat them well and less likely to abuse them.

That's what people are asking you for - to treat others better and not to abuse them.

BTW some people don't have emotional empathy, and it's not their fault. You can still be a decent human being. It's just harder.