MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by henearkr | 2025-10-29 01:26:01+00:00
It includes "DEI, that violates nondiscrimination laws" presented as an accepted fact. So that includes a statement that is opinionated and political, not based on facts or rationality, and roughly half the US population at least does not agree with it.

So, besides how dishonest your comment may be, at least all the readers (who somehow missed that unmissable point, but I digress) get the idea.

Edit: the presence of the comma forbids any interpretation as "{follows DEI} AND {violates nondiscrimination laws}", and instead it reads as "{follows DEI} AND {by the way you already know/agree that DEI violates nondiscrimination laws}". Which any project leader that doesn't believe that DEI violates nondiscrimination laws will reject instantaneously.

But I have the sense that you are not discussing in good faith anyway, so...
by litbear2022 | 2025-10-29 01:26:19+00:00
Commander, you should take a break from the conspiracy theories and anti-China political news. Take a moment to check the news[1] , then declare war on Silicon Valley startups and send a passenger plane to shoot down the balloons[2].

- [1] https://wpo.noaa.gov/windborne-weather-balloon-reaches-new-h...

- [2] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/the-mystery-object-tha...
by danans | 2025-10-29 01:28:14+00:00
In his commentary on Gen AI, Yuval Hariri points out that the initial type of publication that proliferated after the printing press was not scientific, but instead witch hunting manuals.

Perhaps Intel's ex CEO isn't attempting to incite oppression of non-Christians through AI, but his references to bringing about Christian Judgement Day as his main goal suggest exactly that.

After all, why would God need his help through technology (whether swords, ships, or AI) to hasten the second coming?
by plandis | 2025-10-29 01:29:16+00:00
I can reproduce this by covering one of the exterior mics used for ANC when there is a decent amount of background noise in the environment. It results in feedback that causes a high pitch ringing.

The AirPods Pro 2 don’t have this same issue. I can’t reproduce the same behavior regardless of how I cover the exterior on the pro 2s.
by jhbadger | 2025-10-29 01:29:25+00:00
I don't think there was ever really such a tension in terms of making money from art, but rather how. The idea of "selling out" was that, say, selling the rights to your songs to advertisers was viewed as crass. That I agree has pretty much evaporated -- nobody calls musicians who allow their songs to be used in ads "sellouts" anymore.
by lumost | 2025-10-29 01:29:48+00:00
Amazon pay had a 30% negative revision for most tenured staff this year. It’s unclear how it plays out with new hires - there are likely still a few very strong Covid era grants out there.

It’s not bad pay, but most mid-caps should be competitive with the pay band in 2025. Amazon paid very well in 2023-2024, and paid well up through 2022.

The back dated pay structure with a 15% YoY stock growth assumption means that unless Amazon grows at 30%+ per year you would be better off at any other medium to large tech company.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-29 01:30:19+00:00
There's little reason to expect to be run over when you're on a bike, jut like there's little reason to expect your website to be hacked because you use FTP. If you're a normal person.

We have to be proportional when we do risk assessment. Just because it's part of modern programmer faith to be against FTP, doesn't mean it's sensible. Most hackers are just repeating what others have told them, and a lie becomes common sense.

If FTP is considered unsafe, then riding any non-armored vehicle should also be unacceptable.
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-29 01:30:25+00:00
This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected?

The last few years of tech have been full of keynotes with AI that can make art, AI that can send heartfelt messages for you, AI to make music, etc - All things people actually like to do and want to do.

This is a $500/mo robot that can do household chores so you don’t have to. Many people in America (estimated >10%) spend a few hundred a month already on actually hiring cleaners to visit their house and clean biweekly. This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on.

This is a luxury, but it’s a top-25th percentile luxury not top 0.1%.
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-29 01:30:53+00:00
A summary of the above would be "...use abank of physical switches to directly input binary data to memory " while the computer is halted.

Back in the "old days" the 80's ... we would get a static RAM chip (6116) put a battery on top of the chip along with a bit of circuitry to make "battery backed" could use the physical switch method to load a program into such a setup and then plug this RAM into computer, would need to be a right location in memory map for it to work...

From Google - describes such a circuit / mod from Elektor magazine ...

"An Elektor article from June 1985 describes a plugin circuit for using two battery-backed 6116 RAM chips as a replacement for a 2732 EPROM. This circuit uses a 2-bit binary decoder to select the correct 6116 RAM chip, ensuring proper operation and data retention via a battery backup, a key feature of the low-power "LA" version of the 6116 chip. ..."
by PeaceTed | 2025-10-29 01:31:20+00:00
Out of the 150-isg games in my library, the only one I have had any issue with is 'From Dust' released in 2011. This is part because of the Ubisoft launcher and some video codex issues, but even so. Switching the too and from the game a few times seems to get past this.

About a month back, a demo for Lumines Arise came out and it fired up without issue, didn't even think to check ProtonDB because it has become so reliable. I suspect a big part of this is because Steamdeck has been popular enough to have it be targeted for Proton compatibility day 1.
by II2II | 2025-10-29 01:31:20+00:00
It's probably more like a rich person will spend $50 on a pair of boots that will last 10 years, while a poor person will spend $10 on a pair of boots that will last a year. The upper middle class person will spend the $40 on a pair of boots that comes with surveillance and useless AI, while a middle class person will spend $30 for the same, except it bricks itself on the next firmware update.
by tavavex | 2025-10-29 01:31:52+00:00
> I said it elsewhere in the thread, but the current model is already falling apart: it has led to random IoT devices becoming parts of widespread botnets, affecting Internet functioning, and putting unwitting consumers at risk.

But isn't this also exactly how the pitch will sound for what I proposed? You know, "The internet is too important and random people are allowed to upload and run random dangerous code within it with no oversight, this has to be stopped." The manufacturers will never bear the consequences of their choices, the consumers will. There might be a push to make the internet watertight by requiring all major websites and services to only allow access to "secure" devices and block all other traffic. After all, why spend money on cybersecurity when everyone can only use the (important parts of the) internet with their real names, and developers are de-anonymized?

Will this actually improve security? It seems very unlikely. But despite it, this move seems like exactly the kind of thing that's coming, because it massively benefits both companies and governments.
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-29 01:32:50+00:00
> i may not be involved in the debate but i’d love some indication and perhaps a hyperlink to where the debate is happening.

Are you familiar with Wikipedia at all? Here, for anyone who is unfamiliar, let's take a look at an example page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid - this is guaranteed to have controversial ongoing discussions given the political climate.

Note how at the top of the page right now there are two large boxes discussing ongoing changes to the article - one indicating that it is considered too long, and another indicating that some of the content is being split into a separate draft [0] page. Both of these boxes include links to the relevant pages and policies.

The first box, indicating that the article is too long and drifting off topic, includes a direct link to the Talk page [1]. Note that this page is also linked at the top of the article, and that goes for every single article on wikipedia.

That talk page is where the proper discussion that I want happens - out in the open. Note that you can even reply to talking points without needing an account. Note that replies and criticisms are reproduced and readable directly on the page.

This is what open collaboration and truth seeking looks like. "Grokipedia" requires you to create an account and funnel a suggested correction into an black box. It's the equivalent of a suggestions box in an HR office. On wikipedia, the discussion is out in the open, while the grok version just says "Fact checked by Grok" at the top, like we're supposed to blindly trust that.

Which of these is modeling open collaboration, and which of these is just deferring to priest grok, again? The grok page gives no indication that alternative interpretations exist, they don't show any indication that sections are being criticized as inaccurate. Comparing Wikipedia to the catholic church like this is divorced from reality, doubly so in comparison to this grok project.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:History_of_South_Africa_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Apartheid
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-29 01:32:55+00:00
> At Amazon, customer obsession isn’t just a value—it’s a constraint on every technical tradeoff.

Gauzy because the author simply fed his notes into GPT-4o or 5-instant. If the line above ain't rock-solid proof of this, I don't know what is. And I don't think that our, uh, author gave the model enough to work with.
by bavent | 2025-10-29 01:33:48+00:00
Most of the things I do with Neovim I could probably also do with VS Code (not sure about autocommands and macros though, I haven't used Code in years). I don't use a mouse much, I have a very keyboard-centric workflow. I was a Code user for years, but did most everything else in the terminal. I figured I would give it a try and I ended up just liking it. I like to tinker. I like to tweak my configuration. I like how I can set autocommands for things, pipe text into Vim and manipulate it, or record a quick macro for some repetitive task. I like that there are "Vim keymap" plugins for things like Firefox, so learning basic Vim keys has helped me outside of Vim. I like that I keep discovering new things Vim can do (and then promptly forgetting them most of the time, but still). I also like to spend 2 hours writing something to automate something that saves me two seconds.

It's absolutely not for everyone, though it looks like some of the pre-built configs (NvChad, LaZyVim, etc.) are decent enough of the box now that you don't need to go on the endless-customization journey if you don't want to. To me though, that's the appeal: tinkering, tweaking, refining. Generally when people ask if they should use Vim, I tell them probably not but try it for a few weeks and see if it clicks in your brain. I had a great VSCode setup, everything worked great, I was productive, but something about Vim just made more sense to me once I got over the hump of modes and all the keymaps you need to turn into muscle memory.

Edit: I also like that I can do abominations like:

("def" @keyword (#set! conceal "ƒ"))

("if" @keyword (#set! conceal "?"))

("unless" @keyword (#set! conceal "¿"))

("else" @keyword (#set! conceal "∶"))

("elsif" @keyword (#set! conceal "⁇"))

("case" @keyword (#set! conceal "⟨?"))

("when" @keyword (#set! conceal "→"))

("begin" @keyword (#set! conceal "⌊"))

to make Ruby look absolutely insane. Is it useful? No. Do people hate it when I share my screen? Yes.
by stOneskull | 2025-10-29 01:34:05+00:00
i have good memories of my Note 3. samsung was pretty cool back then. i bought some galaxy s 5 years ago for a lot of money, then it got splashed with water and died. stupid waste of money. i've had my current oppo for 3+ years and he's a trooper, and it was about half the price of a similar-spec samsung. samsung is overpriced shit.
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 01:34:39+00:00
Those are very good points and I agree to a degree ... but ...

You overestimate your and my ability to not get fooled, even when reading and thinking critically. In studies, more educated people are more easily fooled because they think they can detect it.

> "I know nothing more about the world than I did before reading this article, except for what Murdoch thinks about this".

Right, but how is that worth your time? It's not worth my time. There are still plenty much more trustworthy sources out there.

If I'm stuck reading a WSJ article, I do the same as you. But why not find something better?

Adding to my prior comment: The more important the subject is, the more likely they will try to manipulate you.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-29 01:35:27+00:00
I think it's sometimes tempting for people to spill logical fallacies trying to argue against Mac lovers, when actually they just have different priors (they just value different aspects of the computer).

Yes, Macs have incredible compute/watt, display quality, and design. However, I like to think of myself as logical, and I would not buy a Mac.

Given the choice between a M5 Mac and a latest-gen ThinkPad, I would not take the Mac. That is fine, and so are people who would do the opposite. We are just looking for different qualities in our computer.

It's all tradeoffs after all - similar to how we value personal freedom in the West, I value freedom to do what I want with the hardware I own, and am willing to accept a performance downgrade for that. (No Windows means that the battery life hit is relatively light. FWIW, there's no chance I would buy a computer locked down to Windows either.)

I also value non-commitment to a particular ecosystem so I prefer not to buy Apple, because I think a significant amount of the device's value is in how seamlessly it integrates with other Apple devices.

However, one day in the future when many of my beliefs have become "bought out", perhaps my priorities will change and I will go all in on the ecosystem. That's OK as well.
by PoorRustDev | 2025-10-29 01:35:38+00:00
Yeah, I'm graduating soon and all the jobs I'm looking at "require" a 3.8 or above. And these aren't huge rockstar companies or anything, just local/regional CRUD shops or basic web dev companies. I guess I should have played the game of taking all the easiest classes with the easiest professors rather than attempting anything with more challenge. Sorry for the rant.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-29 01:36:08+00:00
Regardless of reasons, it's a bit rich to call something a "standard" when only one vendor implements it.

> Apple for obvious reasons, but Mozilla's stance disappoints me.

AFAICT, both of them correctly point out that it's a huge privacy and security attack surface. Per https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ -

> Because many USB devices are not designed to handle potentially-malicious interactions over the USB protocols and because those devices can have significant effects on the computer they're connected to, we believe that the security risks of exposing USB devices to the Web are too broad to risk exposing users to them or to explain properly to end users to obtain meaningful informed consent. It also poses risks that sites could use USB device identity or data stored on USB devices as tracking identifiers.

And I can't see any reason to disagree with that.
by LennyHenrysNuts | 2025-10-29 01:36:11+00:00
I switched to Slackware in the early oughts, but gaming was hit and miss at best with Wine. The occasional native game (like Neverwinter Nights) was always welcome.

I've dual booted to game for the last seven or eight years because of coworkers and family nagging me to play games with them, but now I don't need to. I haven't come across a game that won't run flawlessly on Linux (through Steam) for a couple of years now. I can enjoy my nightly game of Deep Rock Galactic or Necesse without being part of the botnet.

No further requirement to run Windows!
by lossyalgo | 2025-10-29 01:36:17+00:00
When did you last live there? I was traveling/living in various parts of Greece for short periods of time over the last 30 years, the last time in 2018, where, due to EU economic sanctions, there were still regular fires happening in the anarchist district (Exarcheia). Googling shows that there are still regularly things burning there (as well as Zografou), though lately[0] it seems to be primarily vehicles. Just Google "Exarcheia fires" and you will find a lot of articles from almost every year going back to at least 2008.

Zakynthos is the island I was referring to. It's an illegal dumping ground, and even the EU has fined them for it. Also Kalymnos has a decades-old issue with burning trash - they even call it "trash volcano". Lots of other islands also have illegal dumping issues. Also many nature areas in mainland Greece are not in the most pristine state, often littered with junk, often junk that you can tell has been there for a long time. Whenever I went exploring by car, we would find the most beautiful areas but almost always trash everywhere :( Maybe it's gotten better though, I haven't been back since 2019, though I'm not sure I really want to.

[0] https://www.thenationalherald.com/arsonists-run-amok-in-athe...
by shridharathi | 2025-10-29 01:36:24+00:00
Here's a post I wrote on the Replicate blog putting these image editing models head-to-head. Generally, I found Qwen Image Edit to be the cheapest and fastest model that was also quite capable of most image editing tasks.

If I were to make an image editing app, this would be the model I'd choose.

https://replicate.com/blog/compare-image-editing-models
by jacobsenscott | 2025-10-29 01:36:57+00:00
Well, my point is AI won't produce a better commit message than just reading the code. So either write a good commit message or don't write a message at all. AI just produces step by step descriptions that are easily gleaned by skimming the code. In your case it would say

* "Add perl to print the string anyone gan zea tne gode" (I'm impressed gemini got that close tbh)

A human would write:

"Wrote obfuscated perl to see if anyone actually reads the PRs. If they don't my next PR will include an obfuscated shell injection script."
by ryan_lane | 2025-10-29 01:37:17+00:00
I'm saying it's not competitive because they're not competing to provide a better service, they're competing to provide the same service at a lower cost, but the quality of the service is effectively always worse than the original government provided service. That isn't capitalism.

Capitalism would be to provide multiple options to the users of the service, and have the providers compete against each other in a proper market.

I used to work for the government (Naval Oceanographic Office), and I worked with the contracting agencies on areas that had been privatized and it was a nightmare. Every few years you'd have multiple companies bid to run the service, but for the most part the same contractor would win the bid because they wrote the software in such a way that only they could run. It had relatively no documentation, had piss poor processes wrapping it, and the subject matter experts worked for the contracting agency. When the contract did change, everything would grind to a halt. For sure, that was more expensive than the original government provided service, but once something is privatized, it can never go back.

I agree we need to have more nuance here. You for some reason think I'm suggesting that "things such as requisitions of commodity items" shouldn't be private, which is not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying that existing government provided services, like the post office, for example, are run cheaper and more effectively by the government, and turning services like these private is for the sake of corruption.
by ehnto | 2025-10-29 01:37:23+00:00
I am an avid linux user but never switched my gaming PC to linux, until the Win10 > Win11 debacle which has made me switch.

I am using EndeavorOS, my first Arch flavoured distro, it's excellent. Honestly it has all "just worked". Drivers were auto installed, I pointed Steam to my existing library on an NTFS drive originally used by windows, and it just plays my existing library fine.

Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Starfield all objectively AAA modern games, working fine. I even get a bit better performance in some areas, comparable in others.

I can swap back to windows and it still runs the same library. I really didn't expect it to work like that.

The only thing I have had to troubleshoot is getting a Quest3 VR headset to work, and an Alpha stage game which others are getting to work, I just haven't bothered to chase it down.
by mountainriver | 2025-10-29 01:38:12+00:00
I also did computer agents with a vc backed startup, ran into the same issues, and we built a fairly similar thing at one point.

It’s useful but it has limitations, it seems to only work well in environments that are perfectly predictable otherwise it gets in the way of the agent.

I think I prefer RL over these approaches but it requires a bit more data.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-29 01:38:26+00:00
Oh, well, forget all that bullshit please. I can see how that "smart" is utter nonsense no one possibly wants. If you need an app and Internet connection to operate a home appliance that's stupid, not smart. Crapware vendors really ruined it.

Instead, please imagine your dishwasher has a standardized management and observation API that's exposed on a LAN and can be consumed by your local IoT management software (e.g. Home Assistant). Nothing here should have any WAN connectivity, except for a tightly firewalled channel for out-of-home user communications.

I run dishwasher overnight (YMMV) and I have forgot to turn the dishwasher on more than once before going to bed. It would be nice if it would be able to either start on a ping from a home hub's cron if it's loaded, has detergent and locked. Or if it's not in a good state, when the home hub would sense I'm about to start my night routine it could notify me that I forgot to do something about the dishes.

Or consider a smart washing machine. Home hub can observe its state and home automation can actually remind you that you forgot to move the wet clothes to the dryer. Or, well, if we're considering advanced robotics, it could summon a service bot with appropriate manipulators to do it for me.

Or a smart kitchen stove. If the hub senses I'm going out and the stove or oven are running, it should bug the hell out of me before I'm out of the driveway.

That's what I mean when I say "smart". Unobtrusive, helpful home automation, doing what I actually want from it, not doing anything I don't explicitly want, designed to be reliable, private and fault-tolerant.

Smart home should be about dwellers convenience and automatically meeting their expectations (as defined by dwellers themselves), not a data siphoning mess with constant risk of security breaches, that becomes dysfunctional if someone else's computer (cloud) fails.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-29 01:38:55+00:00
Like a dumbass, I ordered 20 aircraft galley carts from some aircraft recycling company in Austin, Texas many years ago. I think they were like $10K for the palette of them (that eventually arrived in my driveway).

I mean good ones were going for $1K a pop on eBay. I'm going to be rich, right?

After the market seemed to fall out, I did manage to sell perhaps a little over half of them at cost. What a pain to package and ship.

One guy though, I recall, had a flight-sim thing going and wanted to serve drinks with the real deal.

(And I have perhaps 8 or so of them around the house. A couple were converted to standing desks and have computers on them, one is actually in the kitchen and has alcohol in it, a few in the garage holding parts…)