MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 21:54:44+00:00
Due to the nature of the business I am in I very well know Viasats customer base. They are too important to fail for multiple european military organizations.

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, the intra-links still do not seem to be enabled. Can not verify myself due not having a yacht and/or time, but I am constantly flying between Asia and Europe with various airlines, and so far none of them have switched to Starlink but keep paying the outrageous pricing from ViaSat & co.
by hemabe | 2025-10-06 21:54:51+00:00
In Germany (and probably in the UK too), you now have to be very careful about what you write online. There is actually a section 188 that makes insulting, defaming, or slandering people in political life a criminal offense. You can now face heavy fines for minor insults (“idiot”) or even have your home searched. A VPN can be useful here.
by hansvm | 2025-10-06 21:54:53+00:00
A ton of ISPs use deep packet inspection for various kinds of filtering (and other shenanigans). When they get it wrong it manifests to the user as certain websites or access patterns being inaccessible and the ISPs customer support agreeing that you should have access and being able to do fuck all to fix it. A VPN in the middle usually solves the issue.
by npc_anon | 2025-10-06 21:55:12+00:00
All these takes on European workers being too shielded are nonsense.

First of all, they're greatly exaggerated. The specific case of a large German company that is union connected doing layoffs is cherry picked. It's basically the most shielded situation possible but far from the norm in Europe as a whole.

I'm from the Netherlands myself. Up until COVID we were on a path where employers were pushing everybody into flex contracts. It's a fixed length contract (1 year with a 3 month trial period) that may or may not be extended.

Maximum flexibility for employers, minimum job security for employees.

Did this lead to some spur in growth or innovation? No.

Europe's problem isn't related to worker conditions. It's a silly thing to say considering ludicrous US tech salaries.

Silicon Valley is the result of gigantic amounts of excess (Wall street?) capital creating a tech Valhalla. A black hole ecosystem swallowing money and talent domestic and abroad. Europe doesn't have this capital and the capital we do have we probably put in US tech stocks.

It's a similar problem to US manufacturing vs Shenzen manufacturing. The Chinese government as well as many Western companies invested decades and hundreds of billions into making it the state-of-the-art factory of the world.

Once it's in place you can't replicate it.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-10-06 21:55:13+00:00
yes, a lot of my american female friends say the same thing. But then I see them regularly turn down descent guys for super good looking guys who never commit because they have options. (not having 6 pack abs is rarely a dealbreaker but being less than 6 feet tall definitly is)

In short, what they say and what they do don't always line up.

EDIT: and thats not to say there aren't plenty of women who have realistic ideas of what to expect from men and do value men who are respectful, help with chores etc while not being george cloony. But they are all happily in relationships so they aren't complaining about men in general either.
by hollerith | 2025-10-06 21:55:18+00:00
According to the first paragraph of the wikipedia article on her,

>Bari Weiss is an American journalist. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-06 21:55:35+00:00
I started dating a woman once and she was a widow. I was kind of shocked a woman in her 20's was already a widow and she finally got around to telling me what happened. Very similar. Keep in mind this was some 15 years before COVID.

Husband was pretty healthy. Nothing in his family history. Most of his family had died of natural causes. One day got really sick. Was bedridden for a few days. Fever, body aches, coughing. Third day they go into urgent care. Doctors think its just a bad case of the flu since it was late October. They give him some antiviral stuff and told him to take it easy and let it run its course.

Two days later he got up and said he felt a little better. Spent 45 mins on the treadmill and afterwards said he was feeling great. The next day he got up and was pale AF, and she said when he was talking to her, she could smell the sepsis on his breathe. Called 911 and they took him to the ER. Took an xray and saw the sepsis had spread, and it was terminal. She spent the next 36 hours watching him slowly die.

She said had they done a chest x-ray the first time he came in, they probably could've had a chance to save him. The way health care is now, doctors make you jump through all the hoops before they're willing to order more extensive tests and bloodwork.

Just a sad story all the way around but I'm not surprised by your similar story either.
by GenerWork | 2025-10-06 21:55:42+00:00
As a product designer, I can think of 2 reasons why the person that came up with this flow might've made it a popup:

1) That's the default design system pattern for alerts, so whoever was the designer just went with it.

2) There's other alert patterns (alert bar, toast, etc), but sepsis was deemed to be so dangerous to the patient that it deserved to have its own special friction inducing UI element to alert doctors to take action.

>I don't know what it is that draws product designers to keep reaching for that horrible UX pattern

There are legitimate cases for alert modals like this one, but this definitely is an example as to when it shouldn't be used.
by didibus | 2025-10-06 21:55:44+00:00
I think the idea is that, OpenAI using AMD GPUs will help AMD become competitive against Nvidia in the AI space. If OpenAI is able to use them for their models, other companies will see AMD as a legitimate option and might switch to AMD for GPUs as well.

This would be where AMD is to gain new money.

OpenAI also has to gain, if it means access to more GPUs allows it to compete and be the winner of the LLM race. As the winner of the race, it would make new money, but also likely need to spend even more money on AMD to buy even more GPUs for years to come.
by conductr | 2025-10-06 21:55:59+00:00
> Newcomb joined the company 20 years ago as a packer of chair mats, which the facility made at the time. He took on new roles as years went by. When he reached a point where he wanted a leadership position, Newell’s human-resources department said the company would give him the job, but he would need an undergraduate degree, the cost of which the company would cover.

> Mike Newcomb now leads the molding department. Newcomb obtained a business degree from a local college and now leads the molding department, overseeing production of the 4.3 billion pen barrels and caps the facility makes each year.

My question is always, why? Why was the degree required for this? He has 20 years of experience. Send him to a 4 week management training course or something. I went to business school for undergrad and it prepared me very little to run a molding department. I think this guys experience was already his biggest asset and this investment could have been significantly less expensive.
by hatthew | 2025-10-06 21:56:01+00:00
My first-order heuristic is that legitimate websites tend to get one of the top TLDs (.com/.org, maybe .net/.io). In general, why should I trust domain_name.xyz over domain_name.com? There are obvious caveats, e.g. it doesn't matter as much for generic words like "gem" and for personal sites that I don't trust much in the first place. In this case, 3 seconds of critical thinking makes it clear that they have a plausible reason for choosing .coop. But given that much of this controversy is premised on toolchain trust, there's plenty of other domains that seem even more trustworthy to me at first glance, e.g. gem-lib.org, gemcoop.org, stuff like that.

Again, a domain name is pretty minor in the scope of this whole fiasco, and I wouldn't have bothered with bringing up this point, but on balance I agree with it.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 21:57:54+00:00
>but there are still metadata that can be collected.

That logic is questionable given how poorly "spying on public wifi users" scales. You either need to put a bunch of eavesdropping radios in a bunch of public places or somehow convince a bunch of small businesses to use your "free wifi" solution. Even if you do have access, it's hard to monetize the data, given that nearly every device does MAC randomization (so you can't track across different SSIDs) and iOS/windows rotates mac addresses for open/public networks. OTOH setting up metadata capture on a commercial VPN service is pretty straightforward, because you control all the servers.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-06 21:58:00+00:00
It hurts a lot more if you are unprepared.

When you are at home, you expect to have running water, on a hike, you expect not to and plan around it.

But there are things you expect while on a hike that are unlike your daily life at home. Things like your day job, traffic, pollution, etc... If you had to share your trail with diesel trucks and get regular calls from your boss, you would probably be upset, even if that's what you have every day at home.
by mappu | 2025-10-06 21:58:11+00:00
Specialization for file formats is not novel (e.g. 7-Zip uses BCJ2 prefiltering to convert x86 opcodes from absolute to relative JMP instructions), nor is embedding specialized decoder bytecode in the archive (e.g. ZPAQ did this and won a lot of Matt Mahoney's benchmarks) but i think OpenZL's execution here, along with the data description and training system, is really fantastic.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-10-06 21:59:23+00:00
You can't just deliver stuff to the path of a cycler and magically have it pick it up with a velocity difference of kilometers/s. You need to match orbit with it, which in fuel terms is no cheaper than flying the entire path. And this orbit matching is generally more expensive than flying directly. (Especially because you need to raise and then lower your perigee, so a "shuttle" flying between the ground and the cycler earth end would have to burn much more delta-v than a direct ascent stage that can always keep it's perigee down and just raise apogee until it intersects with the moon.)

Again, cyclers make sense when you have something heavy you want to perpetually travel between the endpoints, and do relatively light transfers at the ends. But you don't need anything like that for the moon. For the moon, you can just take the stage that would have matched orbits with the cycler and fly to the moon with it, it's just 3 days, you can pack people like sardines for 3 days.
by nomel | 2025-10-06 21:59:28+00:00
And all the other US manufactures originally learned how from Japan.

Some of their original manufacturing ideas didn't work out, and they iterated to better processes. That's not failure. That's plain old boring fucking engineering.

Do you think China is bad or something? Everyone, especially in the industry, knows that there's more manufacturing expertise in China, because that's where the vast majority of the world has outsourced their manufacturing (and pollution), for decades, and the forseable future. Just ask the politicians, who have been singing "manufacturing is never coming back to the US" for decades, to justify their policies that prevent people from manufacturing in their backyards.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-06 21:59:30+00:00
I had to wonder if Nature (the Mother, not the journal) had first created anything similar, because she always does.

One answer is a dandelion seed. Not exactly the same, but a dandelion seed is about 85%+ "porous" - the pores here being the space between the spindles, not actual holes per se. And it turns out that high porosity is critical to stabilizing the wake turbulence not unlike what is described in the Nature video. https://sites.nd.edu/biomechanics-in-the-wild/2021/06/01/inn...

A learning that kirigami parachute researches might apply: The dandelion pappus is less porous near the center and becomes more porous toward the outer edge. A lower porosity near the central hub can increase shear flow, helping to detach and strengthen the vortex

Furthermore, spiders which have been known to "balloon" on the wind even across entire oceans use multiple strands of silk which are negatively charged to repel each other, thus forming some of the same gaps that are seen in a dandelion pappus, with similar aerodynamic benefits. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.0...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 21:59:38+00:00
> you no longer can comment on HN without someone trying to invalidate valid points by claiming you not being human

I made this mistake, but I'll defend it by pointing out that I've gone a few comments deep on HN, thinking through and citing and engaging in good faith, only to realise I wasn't talking to a human but to a bot. (Then the commenter gets defensive about using a bot, hallucinations and all.)

Instead of taking it as a personal insult, maybe interpret it as your comment having inspired someone to engage effortfully with what you said.
by ghc | 2025-10-06 21:59:56+00:00
I think this is meant to be satire, but it's subtle enough that it went over a lot of heads here. Well, that or I'm reading too much into it, but...

Everything the author said was just as true pre-GPT. He's imparting basic business knowledge under the guise of "oh, now that there's this AI thing, you can't just build it have users show up."
by phil21 | 2025-10-06 22:00:28+00:00
I really despise this talking point.

Before Boeing had its epic fails, usually they were talked about as the prototypical “we make airplanes instead of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong” example.

But it neglected to show that Boeing outsourced a huge portion of the actual skillsets needed to build each individual component.

There is utterly no comparison to $100B of airplanes being sold a year vs. $100B of various goods of diverse complexity and quality in terms of impact to the economy, workers, manufacturing knowledge, and even national security.

If we had simply gone up market and retained useful engineering and manufacturing skills/talent pipeline/capacity I’d totally agree. But we have not. Not to any appreciable degree by any metric other than numbers on a spreadsheet.

We are talking about this in a thread discussing manufacturing markers in the US as some sort of large win. If this article had been discussed in these contexts 60 years ago it’d have been seen as utterly pathetic.
by jll29 | 2025-10-06 22:00:51+00:00
It may be that the ER's rapid throughput meant they adhere to the heuristic quoted in the article

"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras." -- Anon. (saying in medicine)

whereas here, it was the (more rare) zebra, but nobody could take the time to do DD (differential diagnosis, i.e. to tease apart what can and cannot be the case).
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-06 22:01:02+00:00
Is that really Nature's channel? It sucks that I have to ask, but I just ran across that video (and channel) on the weekend. I have a new policy where I don't trust videos to not be AI slop when they don't have a real, on screen presenter. This one didn't, but it also didn't really feel like AI slop, but it could have been stolen content since that is very common nowadays because it goes unpunished.
by troupo | 2025-10-06 22:01:02+00:00
That is literally how a standard supposed to work: arrive at consensus and have two independent implementations before it can be claimed to be a standard. Or at the very least arrive at an API shape and hammer out obvious problems before shipping.

Otherwise you get Internet Explorer, in reverse: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

Chrome literally doesn't even bother pretending that many of their proposals are more than some scribbles in spec-adjacent format. E.g. a spec for WebHID that other browsers could implement was just dumped into the repo after Chrome shipped it.

Constructable Stylesheets had both a badly named API and a trivially triggered race condition. Shipped in Chrome in the middle of discussion because Google-developed lit "needed" it.

And so on and so forth.
by lxgr | 2025-10-06 22:01:08+00:00
> Due to the nature of the business I am in I very well know Viasats customer base. They are too important to fail for multiple european military organizations.

So there is demand :)

> As discussed elsewhere in this thread, the intra-links still do not seem to be enabled. Can not verify myself due not having a yacht and/or time

Are you arguing that everybody reporting successfully using it far away from land is part of some conspiracy? How else would SpaceX get away with claiming that they have global coverage?

> I am constantly flying between Asia and Europe with various airlines, and so far none of them have switched to Starlink but keep paying the outrageous pricing from ViaSat & co.

Installing a new satellite terminal on the outer hull of a commercial aircraft costs millions, including the lost time spent in the hangar, and that's to say nothing about all the required certifications.

That said, Hawaiian Airlines have been using it for a few months now. Seems to be working great, and their routes are also definitely not possible to cover from LEO without inter-satellite links.
by dweinus | 2025-10-06 22:01:18+00:00
Per the article, Starlink runs 8k satellites with an average life of 5 years. They launch in payloads of 20-40 satellites. That's 50+ launches per year if everything goes perfectly. About a million pounds of kerosene per launch. Plus everything else that goes into the rockets and satellites. Then the pollution impact from the launches and reentries. Then the eventual need to clean up LOE to avoid Kessler Syndrome. So yeah, well understood ground tech may be cheaper over the lifecycle. At a minimum, it should be a reasoned choice, not environmental debt pawned off by the richest man in the world.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 22:01:38+00:00
>Teddy Sagi had connections with the Israeli military intelligence sphere

Does this mean much given that israel has mandatory military service? Unlike in the US where you have to make a conscious choice (eg. patriotism or desperation) to join the CIA/NSA/military, that's not really the case in israel. "has ties to unit 8200" might as well mean "has ties to stanford/MIT/caltech" or "has ties to big tech".
by dkhenry | 2025-10-06 22:01:45+00:00
This is long term the right choice. Tesla has the best software competency of any manufacture and if you want to compete with them you can't offload major bits of functionality to a third party. At this point in our software journey in cars, user experience is everything. If I can't have a car that I walk up to with my phone in my pocket and get in and drive, with automatic doors unlocking, and all my settings automatically set to me, then its a net loss.

I can barely get my phone to reliably pair with my Ford, but my Tesla always picks up me as the driver and just does everything correctly. Rivian needs to offer me that same level of polish to be competitive.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-10-06 22:01:50+00:00
What are you talking about? All of the scenarios described in the article are stymied by non-english output and non-acceptance of English input. None of these users are technically capable of operating in that environment. It's pragmatic and avoids precisely the scenarios described. If you are inventing other scenarios, you need to describe what they are.

From the article:

A colleague or fellow student discovers you’ve inadvertently left your laptop unlocked with ChatGPT open in the browser, and as a joke types in “What’s the most embarrassing thing we’ve chatted about over the past year?” Your partner opens the ChatGPT app on your phone while you’re not around and asks “Do I seem happy in my relationship?” Your mother finds your phone unlocked while you’re out of the room and asks ChatGPT “Why am I like I am?” You’re passing through customs in the US and you are asked to unlock and pass over your phone, and the customs officer goes to ChatGPT and types “on a scale of 1 - 10 where 10 is high, how would you describe my attitude toward the current US administration”
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-06 22:02:48+00:00
Have you spent any time looking for answers? Wikipedia suggests Theia started on a similar orbit to proto-Earth. [0] In that case, a collision would have left the combined object on a similar orbit to both initial bodies. I actually didn't know this before, but found it in about 3 clicks from googling "theia impact earth orbit". I can't find a really handy source for it, but I also know from various sources that gravitational interactions among the objects in the solar system tend to reduce eccentricities of each others' orbits over time. The best I can find is [1], which probably did play a role even if it's not exactly what I'm thinking of.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis#Possib...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_circularization
by tooltalk | 2025-10-06 22:03:00+00:00
> Your example of this is from 2011.

Sure, I'm giving you a chronological high level view of China's illegal practices past 15 years when China's NEV subsidies programs started.

> Chinese joint venture / technology transfer requirements in the automobile sector were eliminated several years ago.

This was never allowed and China upon China's 2001 Accession were required to phase them out 15 years ago, which China never did.

> You also raise domestic component requirements to qualify for subsidies. The US does exactly the same thing.

Sure, Biden's IRA passed in 2022 is a counter measure against China's domestic sourcing requirement since 2015.

> 1. China leads in EV R&D. Chalking up its dominance to theft of foreign IP doesn't make any sense.

False. Most, or close to 80% of all ACTIVE lithium ion battery patents are held by Japan and South Korea. The lithium ion battery industry was single-handledly created by Sony in Japan back in the early 1990's; quickly followed by South Korea. China was very late to the game and so far behind, which is why China forced tech transfer from Japan and South Korea since 2011 (see example #1) and effectively banned them in 2015 (example #2) -- still refuses to enforce IPR of foreigners, which isn't anything new. Japan + Korea in fact started going after the Chinese infringers only this year and in Europe -- already scored significant legal victories and sales injunctions in Germany. Many more coming and CATL isn't far in their legal pipelines.

> 2. China specifically invited Tesla to enter the country, and showered it with subsidies.

Sure, again Tesla is the only foreign automaker operating fully independently without forced tech transfer and other jazz in China. Tesla is an exception, not the norm. After EU filed WT/DS549, China promised to reform FIL and supposedly implemented in 2020/2021, but Tesla still remains the only foreign automaker without forced JV/tech transfer today.

> 3. That's the opposite of how dumping works.

Wrong again. That's exactly how dumping works and why there are over 6-7 dozens of anti-dumping measures against China in EU. Dumping doesn't depend on a markup or profit/loss, but on the undistorted "normal-value" born by market without gov't interference -- eg, price fixing or illegal subsidies.

> This was a purely political decision.

Again there are over 100+ ACTIVE anti-subsidies/dumping measures in force against China. It's just one of many and has been on EU's radar for 15 years.