MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 15:18:05+00:00
Yes, but where does the culture change begin? My conundrum in trying to solve it is:

- Companies that pay in the top 1% of compensation already don't have a retention problem.

- Only 1% of companies can pay the top 1% of compensation.

- The other 99% have issues with retention.

- Companies only have $X to allocate for 10 years of employment compensation.

- Any 99% company that structures $X of compensation to provide bonus $Y for staying a long time will necessarily offer salary $(X-Y) until the reward is granted.

- Any 99% company that does not provide a reward for staying a long time can offer salary $X, which is higher than $(X-Y).

- A rational employee cannot depend on bonus $Y, and rationally should take competing offers of Salary $X over offers of Salary $X-Y.
by acureau | 2025-10-02 15:18:21+00:00
This is what I took away from the post too. I'm not going to invite someone out for a coffee so I can use them down the road. I feel the same way about "networking". The people around you are not tools.

I want no part in "it's not what you know" kinds of situations. I'm paid for what I know. The author seems to think being apolitical means not giving your input or making decisions. If I'm not allowed to do that without sucking up to the higher-ups, I'll find another job. Everyone I respect is above politics.
by hobs | 2025-10-02 15:18:28+00:00
"Study hard, get good grades, follow the formula and ultimately merit wins."

That's really funny, I remember the day I watched a kid's femoral artery get slashed in a fight and watched my teacher use his belt as a tourniquet, thankfully the kid lived because of that.

Most of my schools were taught by burnt out underpaid angry folks who wanted you to stay in line, that's it, any other behavior would be met with derision, verbal abuse, and targeted violence by other students.

Meanwhile rich kids get into good schools because they can afford after school activities and tutors since birth.
by pixel_popping | 2025-10-02 15:18:43+00:00
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by freedomben | 2025-10-02 15:18:49+00:00
I think golden handcuffs are a bandaid, but it can stop the bleeding. It didn't work on me (I was willing to walk away from huge ISO incentives long before vesting because I (probably foolishly) valued job happiness more than money), but it does work on a lot of people.

I don't know a long-term structural solution, for exactly the reason you mention:

> I'd be hesitant to rely on these as a candidate, because I'd have to assume I'd get fired at year 6-7 or something so that the company could save money.

Trust is at an all-time low right now, and for good reason. It very well might take years to turn the ship around. I think it will have to start with the big companies as a small company trying to do this will only put themselves at a disadvantage, but any exec at a big company proposing this would probably be dismissed as they heavily favor short-term over the long-term (by their actions, not necessarily words, but IMHO actions are all that really matters). Basically it's a Tragedy of the Commons problem.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2025-10-02 15:18:53+00:00
I think Blood Meridian is his best book by far. The first time I read it, when I got to the end, I didn't even get up from my chair, just went right back to the beginning and started reading it again.

I also like the border trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. Sort of surprisingly, never actually read No Country for Old Men although I've seen the movie three or four times.

I think The Road is overrated.
by dyauspitr | 2025-10-02 15:19:27+00:00
We said the same thing about language to be honest- the nuances of words and concepts are too hard for a word generator to correctly put together and now we have LLMs. We said the same thing about video generation where the nuances of light and shadow and micro expressions would be hard to replicate and LLMs are doing a pretty good job with that. We’re just waiting for physical LLMs, it will happen at some point.
by ketzu | 2025-10-02 15:19:35+00:00
Yes I am. I prefer the window placer thingy in win11. As I use an ultra wide monitor, having the menu centered works better for me, too. Win11 seems more performant and snappier to me, but that might be an illusion. Other things I amnot sure exist in win 10, as it has been a long time since I ran it on my personal hardware: Passkey support with windows hello.

In the end, the chances seem so minimal, I am surprised how much disdain people have for win11, when it feels nearly the same as win10 to me.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-02 15:19:54+00:00
Shortcutting much of the discussion here (what are you goals / why would you do that / don't use format X): a key problem is that neither HTML (as published on today's Web) nor PDF are reliable as canonical document formats. Tagged-markup such as Markdown (or otherlightweight markup languages) or LaTeX (or other heavy markup languages) are far more robust. Markdown has its variants, but all are pretty simple and easy to produce. LaTeX is slightly more complex, but remains quite straightforward for simple works.

Once you've got an appropriate canonical version in any of these options, you have an embarassment of riches to convert to any given document format (what I call endpoints) you'd care for: PDF, HTML, RTF, DOCX, or many, many others. I generally reach for Pandoc first, which itself, yes, of course, often relies on additional tools/libraries to parse or generate endpoints, but is quite versatile.

You can simplify the intake of HTML by stripping out cruft. Readability, Beautiful Soup, or other HTML filtering tools can target the core content and metadata you most likely want.

Otherwise, think through what you're doing and why to more narrowly define your goals and tools. E.g., if you want a faithful printed representation of a mainstream-browser-rendered page (that is, Google Chrome), you'd probably do best to use its print-to-PDF options (mentioned several times here). If you want to extract core text, filtering out much of today's WWW cruft will be a high priority.
by thayne | 2025-10-02 15:19:54+00:00
But windows 10 was marketed as being different. They said that you would continue getting updates for "the lifetime of the device". They even said it was the last version of windows, and it would just keep receiving updates. And then they changed their minds and made windows 11, which didn't even run on most hardware that was running windows 10.

I wonder if that could be grounds for a false advertising suit.
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 15:20:32+00:00
You're proving my point. You are catastrophising.

A response to a "spurious defamation letter" does not cost "high four figures". Substantive does not refer to the cost of the response. Substantive means that it addresses the substance of the complaint.

The "high four figures" you spent for a lawyer to respond (I disagree with the word "defend") to a legal threat was unnecessary. You paid a bunch of money for some low-paid legal assistants to fill out a template, and then a high-paid solicitor to sign off on it.

As an individual, you can respond substantively to a legal threat for free. And even if you choose not to respond, courts are not punitive, the standard that courts hold individuals to are different to the standards they hold law firms to. A court will not rule in a claimant's favour in a libel case because an individual didn't follow procedure correctly.

If you, as an individual, make a truthful statement about A Big Corporation and A Big Corporation spends £100,000 on a team of lawyers to write an angry letter to you demanding you retract, a simple single-sentence self-composed response of "The statement is true, I will not retract." is substantive.

Despite what catastrophisers like yourself (catastrophisers who are encouraged by participants in the legal system who profit from this misapprehension) might suggest, civil courts are interested in adjudicating fairness, not trapping individuals in an endless legal quagmire.

Can you share examples of individuals who have been sanctioned by the U.K. courts for anything that comes close to not engaging in the Pre-Action Protocol?
by jabroni_salad | 2025-10-02 15:20:34+00:00
There is a death by a thousand papercuts situation with being disabled where you will have to explain yourself dozens of times a day and you get stuck with having only one conversation subject with any given stranger you meet.

For some people, masking is just an easier, freer form of existence. It's like asking for a dressed up coke at a happy hour so your coworkers wont grill you about abstaining from alcohol. Or how people who work in callcenters seem to converge on a way of speaking that makes the interactions a little easier.

It's just that for autistic individuals, they are highly analytical about how everyday social interactions work and doing this costs them more cognitive load than you would expect.
by mbrumlow | 2025-10-02 15:21:31+00:00
I think people think masking is just for those who have Autism. I think at some level all people mask. Most people behave differently outside of work or in public places when they are alone or with close friends.

I think with Autism the process of masking is just harder, and the ability to read social queues takes extreme focus to understand the general emotional state of others around them.
by greggsy | 2025-10-02 15:22:15+00:00
Unfortunately, the ‘best’ option for her is to get ESU until she can replace the device. It’s free for private EU users, and I hope it will be expanded globally.

The awful thing about all this is that they’re essentially turning a (perceived) perpetual license into a subscription license.

I’d expect to see a lot of scammers attempting to fleece unsuspecting users around upgrades and support.
by Towaway69 | 2025-10-02 15:22:29+00:00
Had the same idea - not with doom - but with a Quest 3D and watching videos of me riding in the summer. First make a film using an 3D camera (something like a Insta360) and then view that on the Quest in winter while riding exercise bike.

Video speed would sync to the exercise bike speed, giving a feeling of reality.

The core problem is that sweating inside a Quest isn't a good idea ...
by burkaman | 2025-10-02 15:22:30+00:00
Don't really understand this comment, I'm looking at the latest Pulitzer and Hugo winners and seeing what sound like pretty classic masculine tropes. James is about a man who escapes from slavery, fends for himself in the wilderness, violently avenges his wife and daughter, etc. Alien Clay is about a man who rebels against an evil government, is sent to a prison camp in space, bangs his boss (a woman), starts another rebellion, etc. I haven't read these books so maybe the descriptions are misleading, but I don't feel like I'm having any trouble finding masculinity here.

On the other hand I (a man) have read Blood Meridian, and while I loved it, anyone who reads it and thinks "fuck yeah these are real men" is a psycopath. Nobody should want to be associated with those characters (or the real people that inspired them) in any way.

> people feign to wonder where the male readers have gone

I haven't heard this concern, but if this is an issue I can't really believe awards have anything to do with it. Nobody is saying "yeah I used to like books but Hugo nominees these last few years weren't to my taste, so I just stopped reading". At least in my experience the average person doesn't really care about media awards, they are mostly for industry insiders and a small subset of major enthusiasts.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-02 15:22:35+00:00
If something is found by Valgrind, we can reproduce it ourselves. Here we get private bug reports found by "his set of AI assisted tools".

The set seems to be:

https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools...

So he likes ZeroPath. Does that get us any further? No, the regular subscription costs $200 and the free one-time version looks extremely limited and requires yet another login.

Also of course, all low hanging fruit that these tools detect will be found quickly in open source (provided that someone can afford a subscription), similar to the fact that oss-fuzz has diminishing returns.
by cratermoon | 2025-10-02 15:22:46+00:00
It's the user data. Buy a bunch of properties, correlate across them to find matches of the same person on different services, aggregate, sell to data brokers. Or and probably sell the content to AI companies.

Evernote. Meetup. Brightcove. Komoot. Vimeo.

After buying them they lay off most or all of the staff, because they aren't really going to keep them going, they just need them to keep going long enough to

a. Change the TOS to say "we can sell you data to whoever"

b. hoover up all the data
by oofbey | 2025-10-02 15:22:48+00:00
Fine speculation. But they should be smart enough not to fly into their own blind spots e.g. the sun. They would tack back and forth I bet. They have a lot of tricks like this.

I bet it has to be a confluence of factors. I hope Amazon reports openly what went wrong. FAA should demand it. Will be a very interesting report if we ever get to read it.
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-02 15:23:01+00:00
Retired Red Hatter here.

I wouldn’t be quick to blame IBM. Red Hat and IBM both take security very seriously, and regard it as central to the mission. IBM also has deep enough pockets to devote serious resources to whatever they put their mind to.

Security is just hard. Procedures can be written, but people make mistakes, forget rules, etc. The procedures also have to be constantly updated to keep up with new and innovative attacks. It’s a never ending battle.

Sorry to see this happen to Red Hat. I am confident that right now all hands are on deck working on remediation.
by Philpax | 2025-10-02 15:23:23+00:00
Immich alone may not be sufficient, but immich-public-proxy might be: https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy

Check out the sample gallery: https://immich-demo.note.sx/share/gJfs8l4LcJJrBUpjhMnDoKXFt1...
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-02 15:24:17+00:00
Holocaust had 6M jewish victims[1] (depending how you count). Current confirmed gaza death count is -as yet- ~65K [2], with projected ~600K at risk by year's end [3][4][5]. The original population of gaza was ~2M [6] which sets the upper bound to the crisis. (If you look at it as a % of population, it's quite a large number already.)

Of course, one can argue that if the allies had been able to intervene sooner, the holocaust would have been less severe. Obviously we'd like to demonstrate some lessons learned here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Nazi_Germany

[2] https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-updat...

[3] https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-fo...

[4] https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/syste...

[5] https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ipc-alert-un-agencies-wa...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
by cmoments | 2025-10-02 15:24:31+00:00
Yesterday in our lab, we hit something that feels like a turning point. We’ve been developing a multi-modal, long-form reasoning model built around emotional AI—not just processing text, but reasoning across video, audio, and symbolic context with an ability to reflect human emotional states like loss, empathy, and resilience.

Why does this matter? Because once machines can reason across modalities and emotions, the implications for industries are profound:

Film & media: Storytelling that feels human but can be generated at scale.

Education: Tutors that understand when a learner is frustrated vs. confident.

Healthcare: Systems that can reason about a patient’s condition in context, not just data points.

This isn’t just about another LLM. It’s about collapsing the gap between human-level reasoning and machine-level scalability.

We expect to release early demonstrations within 3–4 weeks, but the disruption is already clear: models like this will reshape the way humans and machines collaborate.

Curious what HN thinks: Is emotional, multi-modal reasoning the next frontier—or does this open a Pandora’s box of risks we aren’t ready for?
by happymellon | 2025-10-02 15:24:33+00:00
Vista had a number of QOL improvements, and later in the cycle once the drivers and apps were fixed to stop demanding admin access all the time, and the terrible Intel GPUs that struggled with XP and died under Vista were replaced, it was pretty good.

Arguably better than XP. 7 and 10 didn't really give most folks much better experience, they benefited from Vista already forcing everyone to update their crap.
by skygazer | 2025-10-02 15:24:40+00:00
SPR AVS is probably confusion -- it's likely the new USB PD3.2 Standard Power Range Adjustable Voltage Supply used to fast charge the iPhone 17 Pro phones with Apple's new 40/60watt charger.

It seems improbable that SPR AVS is same the initialism for two distinct new separate features. Apple announced the charging one. This bluetooth alternative is pure unfounded speculation.
by jmull | 2025-10-02 15:25:14+00:00
I doubt it's a good idea to cut off 40% of your users.

They probably need to do more to resolve the issues keeping people from updating. (Well, they should have been doing this all along.)

$dayjob issued me a Windows 11 laptop. I asked what to do with my old Windows 10 laptop and they said "dispose of it responsibly"... I put linux on it.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 15:25:14+00:00
In fairness, homes in Detroit can be quite affordable. There are quite a few 2,000 sq. ft. homes listed for <$150,000 that may be 80 years old but are updated with a modern interior look. These would be affordable to a 22-year old factory worker making $80,000 ($40/hr) with no college debt, even if they didn't perfectly optimize their budget.

Good school districts are likely to be less affordable though, but cost of raising children is a whole other can of worms.
Show HN: I built a SOC2 policy generator after auditors hated the existing ones
by adam_ftt | 2025-10-02 15:25:20+00:00
Hey HN, I’ve been helping small SaaS teams get through SOC 2 / ISO 27001. Every “policy builder” I tried (10+ of them) spat out generic stuff that auditors basically shrugged at (same as if you asked ChatGPT).

So I ended up building my own tool. Nothing magical — just a lot of research, plus layering in the right context (implementation controls, company specifics, testing conditions, etc.).

The outcome: three companies I worked with recently passed SOC 2 Type 2, and the auditors actually called out the policies as well-structured and clear.

You can also try and generate any policies in ~60 seconds

Curious if you’ve run into the same issue and would love your feedback if you give it a spin.

Thank you!
by dylan604 | 2025-10-02 15:25:39+00:00
The local Walmart nearest me has also started using drone delivery using Zipline drones. It's not a store I frequent, but recently drove past and the landing/launching site has a very unique look to it. At first thought, I thought it was a small carnival type of set up, but realized the rides looked really weird. There's large towers that remind me of the sculptures in Singapore near the ship on stilts building. I just perused Zipline's website hoping to find some imagery, but the site is clearly focused on promotional aspects with happy people receiving packages. zzzzzz.

https://www.zipline.com/
by bilekas | 2025-10-02 15:25:40+00:00
From their brief on the drones themselves: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-drone...

> Our approval includes the ability to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight, using our sophisticated on-board detect and avoid system. This is an historic, first-of-its-kind approval for a new drone system and a new operating location following a rigorous FAA evaluation of the safety of our systems and processes.

It's true the FAA would have had to have signed off on these so that will be interesting.
by JenilDesai | 2025-10-02 15:26:09+00:00
Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Remote: Open to All

Willing to relocate: Yes, Canada Wide

Technologies: Microsoft 365, IT support roles, desktop Support, Azure AD, AD

Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenildesai

Email: Jenildesai.23@gmail.com
by oofbey | 2025-10-02 15:26:24+00:00
Why do you think there is any problem with battery endurance? I’m quite sure Amazon has run the numbers on battery life for individual flights and for the lifetime of battery packs many many times. It’s just economics. And has basically nothing to do with safety. Unless a battery fails suddenly and spectacularly, which is rare and probably isn’t what caused it to crash into a crane.
by mayhemducks | 2025-10-02 15:26:39+00:00
If the expectation of the job is to "type meaningless stuff at a computer desk", doesn't this point to a problem with the expectations of the role? I would submit that if the work is truly meaningless, and it often is in my experience, it doesn't need to be done. Of course anyone would choose a pleasurable activity over meaningless, mundane busy work - regardless of their unique expression of the autism spectrum.

I also think that there are many wage workers who do not revile that existence. My intuition says it is more common in "office jobs".

I think the implication is that someone without autism can recover from these stressors more easily. And they tend to be able to absorb these stressors with less of an impact on their mood. People without autism have more control over when their brain is engaged with something, and have to expend less effort when exerting that control. It's not just about physical energy.

The brain of a person dealing with these types of symptoms is kind of like an engine running near red-line 99% of the time. When someone is masking, for every thought they express, there were likely dozens you didn't hear or see expressed over the course of a short social interaction.

Other times, they are caught in mental loops. Reading the same line of text over and over, or replaying someone else's comment over and over, and not comprehending because of an auditory stimulus that is monopolizing the comprehension processes within the brain. When this happens, it's easy for them to miss important context or body language when working with others. That requires even more masking to cover up because it's a social faux pas to admit you missed something important. So then your brain goes into overdrive trying to derive the missed information from followup conversation.

Using sustained, intense thinking to overcome challenges that others don't encounter as often can become the default coping mechanism for this kind of thing. It's not something that is easily noticed, because it's part of masking, but it tends to be more draining than many people realize.
by jorangreef | 2025-10-02 15:26:42+00:00
Joran from TigerBeetle!

Our investors (Spark, Amplify, Coil) are different to most, in that our partners are all highly technical.

Engineers, coders, CTOs who read the same research papers and attend the same technical conferences (CIDR, VLDB, SIGMOD, HYTRADBOI etc.).

In fact, that's how we met.