MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by damnitbuilds | 2025-11-19 14:58:59+00:00
We need clear, direct punishments based on %revenue for websites not taking "NO!" for an answer.

Don't fucking rush, you useless bureaucrats.

"A mix of European legislation has resulted in cookie notices that use dark patterns to nudge people into accepting online tracking. And regulators aren’t taking strong action"

Wired, 20/5/2020:

https://www.wired.com/story/gdpr-cookie-consent-eprivacy/
by Y_Y | 2025-11-19 14:59:03+00:00
This is a strong point. Nobody likes a rapidly flashing light (extra annoying, seems broken, can be hard to differentiate from "on but dim"). Then again if you flash slowly then you'll have some appreiable amount of time when it's off and that can include the entire opportunity you have to look at something.

Ideally (for me) you could have smooth high-low alternation or colour alternation.

(I recognize that something that looks like emergency services, e.g. alternating blue/white may be illegal, and that colour-blindness may limit this approach.)
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-19 14:59:06+00:00
Why would I care when I am dead. It's just software and "bloody civil wars" is not something that happens over software governance. Oh no, some people might say mean things to eachother and someone might fork the software. Big Deal. Figure it out for yourselves like adults. Remember, the license says AS-IS and NO WARRANTY. Use at your own risk. I don't owe you anything. If you want work done on it - do it yourself or pay me.
by edent | 2025-11-19 14:59:11+00:00
I think you've read something into my post that I didn't intend.

I'm specifically talking about the community of people who do contribute. If you look at the recent shenanigans of WordPress and Ruby, they are causing discontent within the existing organisation of contributors.

Those contributors are, of course, free to fork off if they want. But if you're trying to build a long-term viable project, then you need a way to ensure that the people working with you are treated fairly.
by RamblingCTO | 2025-11-19 14:59:28+00:00
I have always found it so weird to go to a supermarket when you have a (somewhat) "clean" diet. I go from veggies and fruits to meat and dairy and then I'm out again. 95% of the shelves I don't even look at.

Also, the definition of (ultra) processed food isn't so hard: just buy original food, not extrapolations of that. Buy veggies and potatoes, not chips. Buy meat, not sausages or burgers. Buy an apple and yoghurt, not the yoghurt you can buy off the shelf. Just basic ingredients.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-19 14:59:54+00:00
I dunno; never looked. I worked through that, and when it popped I was, literally overnight, out of a job.

Company owner (startup) met us at the door to the office, said sorry but investors pulled out (or something), gave us all a cheque for the current month salary, and we walked off.

Luckily I got hired at a non-dotcom (not web-based) business after about a month.

In spite of maybe 90% of the dot-coms folding, some still stayed around (Amazon, Google, etc).

When the bubble pops, some hang on.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-19 15:00:05+00:00
It works just fine. No reason you couldn't adjust your billing cap on the fly. I work in a medium size org that's part of a large one, and we have to funnel any significant resource requests (e.g. for more EKS nodes) through our SRE teams anyway to approve.

Actual spikey traffic that you can't plan for or react to is something I've never heard of, and believe is a marketing myth. If you find yourself actually trying to suddenly add a lot of capacity, you also learn that the elasticity itself is a myth; the provisioning attempt will fail. Or e.g. lambda will hit its scaling rate limit way before a single minimally-sized fargate container would cap out.

If you don't mind the risk, you could also just not set a billing limit.

The actual reason to use clouds is for things like security/compliance controls.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-19 15:00:45+00:00
Why should they? I honestly think they would have been justified giving RCS the middle finger indefinitely. It's effectively google-owned and a shitty protocol (no e2e by default being top of mind).

Also, the idea of wanting the carriers more involved in messaging is hilarious, just use one of the 10+ 100x better messaging platforms. The carries horribly bungled SMS/MMS and they ceded all control of RCS to google, why in the world would anyone want them involved. They barely can do their jobs as dumb pipes.
by qsort | 2025-11-19 15:01:07+00:00
> How much mathematics is needed anyway? In the day job, how many people have to use maths skills beyond arithmetic?

A lot. It's also pretty funny that your examples of useless math are 3 of the most concrete and directly applicable concepts in the entire set of human knowledge. Try, idk, ergodic Ramsey Theory next time.

> What about trigonometry?

Ever heard about FM radio? Or anything that takes a Fourier series? Anything using complex numbers? Game programming? Graphics? Positional encodings in large language models?

> Differential equations?

My brother in christ, literally Newton's second law.

> Integration and calculus?

Ever needed to numerically find the minimum of a function or solve an equation? Newton-Raphson? Literally all of machine learning?

The thing with math is that if you aren't familiar with the concepts then you don't know what you don't know.
by belter | 2025-11-19 15:01:14+00:00
These topics are not advanced...they are foundational scenarios covered in any entry level AWS or AWS Cloud third-party training.

But over the last few years, people have convinced themselves that the cost of ignorance is low. Companies hand out unlimited self-paced learning portals, tick the “training provided” box, and quietly stop validating whether anyone actually learned anything.

I remember when you had to spend weeks in structured training before you were allowed to touch real systems. But starting around five or six years ago, something changed: Practitioners began deciding for themselves what they felt like learning. They dismantled standard instruction paths and, in doing so, never discovered their own unknown unknowns.

In the end, it created a generation of supposedly “trained” professionals who skipped the fundamentals and now can’t understand why their skills have giant gaps.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-19 15:01:39+00:00
No, it's not false dichotomy. It's Cruise.

I am annoyed to no end by all the LIDAR wankery - while in practice, LIDAR systems don't provide much of an advantage over camera only systems, and consistently hit the same limitations on the AI side of things.

Nonetheless, there is no shortage of people who, for some reason, think that LIDAR is somehow a silver bullet that solves literally everything.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-19 15:02:01+00:00
It was a lot more plausible when it is likely the judge has never clicked past an EULA. Today unless you've dug up some archaic fossil the judge is perfectly familiar with this nonsense so you're in a position where the person who decides what the law is knows EULAs are bullshit nobody reads.

I'd expect a situation like Somerset v Stewart. Mansfield clearly didn't want to rule you can't have slavery because that's going to be extremely disruptive to powerful people - so he suggests they settle and then the case goes away and he isn't called to say anything. But Stewart refuses to settle, apparently nobody could convince him that it's in his best interest - so, OK says Mansfield: fiat justitia, ruat cælum (Justice be done though the heavens fall). Somerset walks free.

Are corporations relying on EULAs smart enough to take the L? I guess we'd see.
by NiloCK | 2025-11-19 15:02:20+00:00
> “Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?”

Years ago when I was working in education (Canadian public schools) our school board had a conference ahead of the school year. The keynote was an inclusive-ed researcher / consultant / speaker who told an anecdote of how they had successfully lobbied for a student with a substantive intellectual disability to be registered for the high school physics courses.

Part of the anecdote was pushback from the physics head: "I've known Jake for years. Great kid. But what is he supposed to get out of physics class?"

The consultant's in-anecdote response: "what is anybody supposed to get out of physics class?"

Wild laughter and applause.

---

A surprising number of people in education seem to simply not know that there is substantive and consequential content in the curriculum.

Having never really learned math, they've never really used it. Having never used it, they don't recognize its utility.

They seem to earnestly believe that it isn't an actual tool but a gatekeeping mechanism devised by autistic persons to humiliate normies.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-19 15:02:38+00:00
Only in the Beta Android app for now... Signal is around for what, a decade now? And they still can't (or rather, refuse to) do the basic "copy the SQLite DB file to a folder". Edit: and even this beta feature is some bullshit proprietary thing with their own cloud and subscription rather than simply "let me export the DB file and stick it in a cloud provider of my choice".

Last time I had to reinstall my phone I ended up finding an implementation of their phone-to-phone transfer protocol to emulate a "new" device I'm transferring to just to get a dump of the data (I'd share, but don't want them to close this option, since clearly the lack of export option is very much intentional).

Then I deleted Signal and begrudgingly moved to WhatsApp (in addition to iMessage which I've already been using).
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-19 15:02:49+00:00
What's crazy to me is people like blitz_skull exist, who think that excessive identity politics in the democratic party is worth literally destroying the country. They call identity politics, a small subset of the liberal coalition platform (alongside rule of law, climate change acknowledgement, sustainable energy and better social safety nets) a virus, and authoritarianism and the destruction of the rule of law in the United States as the cure.

Someone who is presumably not a bot, on a forum like this, thinks that. If only they would dive deeper so I could attempt to understand.
by the8472 | 2025-11-19 15:02:49+00:00
That would require an effects system[0] like Koka's[1]. Then one could not only express the absence of panics but also allocations, infinite loops and various other undesirable effects within some call-trees. This is a desirable feature, but an enormous undertaking.

Absent that there are hacks like no_panic[2]

[0] https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/extending-rusts-effect-system/ [1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects [2] https://crates.io/crates/no-panic
by Aurornis | 2025-11-19 15:03:26+00:00
It’s been his statement all over: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/mamdani-schools-...

The phase out starts with kindergarten and “early grades”. In some places he’s said up through second grade which some assume is an upper limit, but really it’s just the natural length of phasing out gifted programs one year at a time over the 4-year course of a mayoral term due to the necessary delays to eliminate the program after his election date (kindergarten next school year, then 1st grade the next, then 2nd grade)
by bob1029 | 2025-11-19 15:03:46+00:00
Unless you would be planning to keep it at a race track, you would not want to own a car like this. It would almost certainly be miserable to drive at legal speeds. That 2.0L engine isn't going to make any useful power below 5-6k RPM. Keeping a turbo like that spooled for any meaningful duration is guaranteed to get you pulled over by the police.
by nirvdrum | 2025-11-19 15:03:55+00:00
If all you're looking to do is produce a design the quickest way possible, then sure Fusion often wins. Just as there was a time where buying Maya made more sense than using Blender. But, FreeCAD offers other niceties, like being able to work offline, using an open file format, performant non-web UI, generally avoiding vendor lock-in. And Autodesk already did a major rug pull with Fusion360 licensing once.

I mostly design functional 3D prints. I've found FreeCAD 1.0 fixed most of the annoyances I ran into and I'm pretty productive with it. But, I didn't come into it with an expectation of a SolidWorks or Fusion clone. I learned the tool with its own idioms and it seems pretty straightforward to me. It's not perfect by any means and I've run into the occasional bug. To that end, I've found reporting bugs with reproducible steps goes a long way to getting things fixed.

I'm not sure what it is about CAD in particular, but I find everyone wants the "Blender of the CAD world" while skipping over the decade of investment it took to get Blender where it is. For a long time, discussions about Blender were dominated by complaints about the UX. If we didn't have folks willing to work past a hit to productivity in order to make an investment into Blender, we wouldn't have the amazing open source tool we have today. FreeCAD has all the expectations of a high quality open source CAD tool with hardly any of the investment. Just getting people on /r/freecad to file issues is surprisingly challenging.

By all means, if you're happy with Fusion and don't mind the licensing, have at it. I'm sure there's functionality in there without an equivalent in FreeCAD. I'd personally rather not have my designs locked up in Fusion and see FreeCAD as the best option for me, even if it suffers from the challenges of open source UI design.
by eru | 2025-11-19 15:04:04+00:00
> [...] but an absence of recessions would imply perfect market participants.

No, not at all. What makes you think so? Israel (and to a lesser extent Australia) managed to skip the Great Recession on account of having competent central banks. But they didn't have any more 'perfect' market participants than any other economy.

Russia, of all places, also shows right now what a competent central bank can do for your economy---the real situation is absolutely awful on account of the 'special military operation' and the sanctions both financial and kinetic. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Nabiullina for the woman at the helm.

See also how after the Brexit referendum the Bank of England wisely let the Pound exchange rate take the hit---instead of tanking the real economy trying to defend the exchange rate.

> They can soften or delay recessions by socializing mistakes and redistributing wealth using interest rates, [...]

Btw, not all central banks even use interest rates for their policies.

You are right that the central banks are sometimes involved in bail outs, but just as often it's the treasury and other more 'fiscal' parts of the government. I don't like 'Too big to fail' either. Keeping total nominal spending on a stable path would help ease the temptation to bail out.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-19 15:04:05+00:00
> Couldn't drivers be built on some abstraction that would simplify some work?

That's like asking the alchemist to publicly publish their manuscripts.

In an ideal world, yes. However, we don't live there. Until a few years ago, GPUs and other drivers were guarded more carefully than the fucking Fort Knox.

Once you publish your drivers, you reveal a part of the inner workings of your hardware, and that's a no-no for companies.

Plus, what the other commenter said - getting hardware guys to design for a common driver interface is probably not gonna get traction.
by nl | 2025-11-19 15:04:14+00:00
> I'm not sure if this is a problem we want to solve

Who is this we you speak of?

I for one much prefer my cloud services and would love TEE I can control.

> A cheaper and more reliable solution is still on-premises computing.

I assure you that my use of Cloudflare services ($0 in nearly 10 years) is much more reliable and much cheaper than hardware I run.
by frm88 | 2025-11-19 15:04:35+00:00
I thought that the loss of trust would be self-explanatory in that regard? You don't buy stuff you don't trust, yes?

Anyways: https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-pro...

Researchers have found that including the words “artificial intelligence” in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers, suggesting a growing backlash and disillusionment with the tech — and that startups trying to cram “AI” into their product are actually making a grave error.
by crmd | 2025-11-19 15:04:49+00:00
I heard a fascinating theory a few years ago on the decline of Perl:

In the early aughts, Google SRE recruiting had such a strong, selective focus on A-player sysadmins with Perl expertise that it drained the market of top talent. Within google these people began to adopt, and eventually create and evangelize newer, Googlier programming languages.

In other words, Perl expertise was the skills filter, and Perl itself a technological ancestor of certain modern languages like Go.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-19 15:04:57+00:00
To me, enterprise low code feels like the latest iteration of the impetus that birthed COBOL, the idea that we need to build tools for these business people because the high octane stuff is too confusing for them. But they are going the wrong way about it; we shouldn't kiddie proof our dev tools to make them understandable to mere mortals, but instead we should make our dev tools understandable enough so that devs don't have to be geniuses to use them. Given the right tools I've seen middle schoolers code sophisticated distributed algorithms that grad students struggle with, so I'm very skeptical that this dilemma isn't self-imposed.

The thing about LLMs being only good with text is it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We started writing text in a buffer because it was all we could do. Then we built tools to make that easier so all the tooling was text based. Then we produced a mountain of text-based code. Then we trained the AI on the text because that's what we had enough of to make it work, so of course that's what it's good at. Generative AI also seems to be good at art, because we have enough of that lying around to train on as well.

This is a repeat of what Seymour Papert realized when computers were introduced to classrooms around the 80s: instead of using the full interactive and multimodal capabilities of computers to teach in dynamic ways, teachers were using them just as "digital chalkboards" to teach the same topics in the same ways they had before. Why? Because that's what all the lessons were optimized for, because chalkboards were the tool that was there, because a desk, a ruler, paper, and pencil were all students had. So the lessons focused around what students could express on paper and what teachers could express on a chalk board (mostly times tables and 2d geometry).

And that's what I mean by "investment", because it's going to take a lot more than a VC writing a check to explore that design space. You've really gotta uproot the entire tree and plant a new one if you want to see what would have grown if we weren't just limited to text buffers from the start. The best we can get is "enterprise low code" because every effort has to come with an expected ROI in 18 months, so the best story anyone can sell to convince people to open their wallets is "these corpos will probably buy our thing".
by purple_turtle | 2025-11-19 15:05:02+00:00
Post explicitly makes request to all project leaders: "I'm begging project leaders everywhere".

As one of them I want to state that others, including you, are not entitled to decide how I run my project. I want to express that I am thankful that this one is phrased as suggestion.

But I utterly reject that open source project is substantially similar to governing a country in responsibility and preferred setup.

So I reject your analogy and suggestions as highly flawed.
by UncleMeat | 2025-11-19 15:05:22+00:00
I don't have free access to the paper and dose response findings are not present in the summary. Can you reference the dose response findings for me?

Existing published research has not consistently found a dose response.

The authors are also not just saying "hey here is some science." They are advocating for policies that say that plain potato chips can be in schools but sour cream and onion potato chips cannot.
by monooso | 2025-11-19 15:05:32+00:00
> AWS and Cloudflare don't actually experience more downtime, it's just a bigger story when they are down because so many people use them.

This may be true over a long enough timeframe, but GP stated that their clients had experienced no downtime since switching at the start of the year.

That is clearly better than both AWS and Cloudflare during that time.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-19 15:05:48+00:00
> This really condescending. They are addicts and victims.

Not everybody who drinks is an alcoholic. Not everybody who gambles is a gambling addict. I was quite specific about who I was talking about.

> The reason forums of old were less toxic (and they often were just as toxic, I remember many old flamewars) was just that the participants had to turn off the internet and go outside.

In my experience, the toxic conversations stopped because a moderator stepped in and gave them a time out, forcing them to touch grass.

And that's ultimately the problem. All spaces can be toxic. Social media sees toxicity and thinks to themselves, "This is drawing eyeballs and engagement. Let's double triple and quadruple down on it.". The incentives of social media are totally maladjusted for creating good social spaces on a fundamental level. Not every old-school social space was run well, but at least the possibility was there and not being actively subverted.

The idea of having user-run social spaces without populism-driven moderation is thankfully an idea that is coming back. Discord has quietly become a 10,000 pound gorilla based on that exact model. I have also found that VRChat is also quietly amassing a following of VR enthusiasts, as it turns out that there is value in maintaining long-distance relationships with a sense of presence you don't get out of group chats and video meetings.

On the other hand, I don't really get the point of BlueSky. It suffers from the same underlying incentives as Twitter, and we all know how that story ended.
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-19 15:06:39+00:00
I don't often hear trans people say cis people literally shouldn't exist. I don't often see them celebrating official public corruption and the destruction of our country. I don't see them deliberately trolling and lying to themselves and the world for the purpose of facilitating hypocrisy and lawbreaking daily.

"Having a flag" is the only common theme they share, any other comparison is a stretch.
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