MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rakejake | 2025-11-16 08:19:28+00:00
My point was more that MS hasn't had an industry changing product in a while. Google became joint-SOTA in AI and seems poised to take the crown with the next Gemini, and also in self-driving cars and quantum computing. They've kept their cash cows going while also being up to date on the tech that might upend their business model, so in a way they've cracked the innovator's dilemma which is definitely not an easy thing to do. A lot of HNers even wrote them off after ChatGPT and the disastrous Bard. Apple has a successful mass product in Airpods, a moonshot in Vision Pro and the insane Apple Silicon which they executed over more than a decade.

Nadella did well in the last decade to consolidate the MS stack (Teams, Azure, Office) and to invest in OpenAI when he realized MS's internal efforts wouldn't yield the expected output. He has protected their turf and made some strategic acquisitions like Linkedin and Github to keep their lead in enterprise software. From the POV of Wall Street performance and stock returns, he is a definitely a great CEO but so are Cook, Pichai even Ellison.
by Yoric | 2025-11-16 08:20:15+00:00
Not the exact same problem, but a few months ago, I tried to block youtube traffic from my home (I was writing a parental app for my child) by IP. After a few hours of trying to collect IPs, I gave up, realizing that YouTube was dynamically load-balanced across millions of IPs, some of which also served traffic from other Google services I didn't want to block.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same with LLMs. Millions of workers allocated dynamically on AWS, with varying IPs.

In my specific case, as I was dealing with browser-initiated traffic, I wrote a Firefox add-on instead. No such shortcut for web servers, though.
by microtonal | 2025-11-16 08:21:41+00:00
If the incentive is for consumers to buy more devices the incentive change.

I think it also has to do with the shift in computing population. It was easy to convince tech people to buy a new OS based on a feature list. When computers became more widely used, it became harder and harder. E.g. when OS X still had paid upgrades, it was very hard to convince non-tech family to buy the update. Buying a new device is easier, because the features are immediately visible to people and carrying a newer devices is also a form of social signaling.

At the same time, the internet became far more hostile and running an OS that has all the security updates is important. So, it's easier to get people to update when the updates are free.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-16 08:23:29+00:00
Just price, I'd say.

I don't think it is price. Intel has had a bigger R&D budget for CPU designs than Apple. If you mean manufacturing price, I also doubt this since AMD and Intel chips are often physically bigger than Apple chips in die size but still slower and less efficient. See M4 Pro vs AMD's Strix Halo as an example where Apple's chip is smaller, faster, more efficient.
by apparent | 2025-11-16 08:26:08+00:00
The Ionic 5 N is not for "car-ignorant people". It's a high-performance car that has some pretty great reviews among professional reviewers. That doesn't mean it isn't impossible to repair by yourself, but I'd bet that most people who buy this vehicle are enthusiasts (it's quite a bit more expensive than the base, and the differentiation isn't aesthetic).
by adobrawy | 2025-11-16 08:29:52+00:00
They rely on residential proxies powered by botnets — often built by compromising IoT devices (see: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-fro... ). In other words, many AI startups — along with the corporations and VC funds backing them — are indirectly financing criminal botnets.
by watwut | 2025-11-16 08:31:51+00:00
I find this attitude super weird. Adults are responsible for what kids eat and problem of kids taking multiple lunches can be solved by allowing them to go only once.

What is weird is that American kids seems to be taught to refuse "healthy" food. Somehow the problem of kids refusing fruits and real food is something that happens only once in a while with few kids elsewhere, but is apparently epidemic in america.
by dijit | 2025-11-16 08:33:36+00:00
absent sufficient income, basically yes.

Does your employer have an “infinite commitment” to pay your salary?

Of course they do, but it isn’t framed as such.

We’re talking about social support networks here basically, the majority of actually poor people have nowhere to turn (or too much pride to turn anywhere).

There are some people who will be a bottomless pit of investment, and it is because of those that we think social support cannot work at all. The drug addicts, the gamblers.

but for each of those, immediately visible and obvious deadbeats there are 2 or more of people like my mother, who had no family to speak of and was raising a child alone. Or someone like the sysadmin in this thread, who has gainful employment in the first world, but can never get out of his debt hole.
by happymellon | 2025-11-16 08:34:05+00:00
I would agree with this.

Jobs blasted folks for bad experiences, whereas I get tripped up by updates making me run through the OOBE, that doesn't contain anything, because its already set up.

The last update ran through the "connect to WiFi" process, and failed because it was already set up and connected to WiFi, but blocked everything until I managed to get through the pointless Next Next Next process. It felt like Windows in 2000.
by rakejake | 2025-11-16 08:34:39+00:00
Ballmer doesn't strike me as an idiot and definitely not bland. He's one of the more colorful tech personalities. MS's almost unassailable lead in enterprise could be attributed to him and the pivot to cloud could not have happened without this. But he definitely fumbled hard on mobile (Windows Phone), Surface (IIRC the initial ARM laptop was a major flop and had a close to 1B+ writeoff) and the disaster that was the Nokia acquisition. I'd say he left at the right time, just as it was becoming clear that MS's bets on Windows Phone and hardware in general weren't paying off.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-16 08:34:54+00:00
Even if we somehow guard against <img> and <iframe> and <script> etc., someone on a webforum that supports formatting links could just trick viewers into clicking a normal <a>, thinking they're accessing a funny picture or whatever.

A bunch of CSRF/nonce stuff could apply if it were a POST instead...

It may be more-effective to make the link unique and temporary, expiring fast enough that "hey, click this" is limited in its effectiveness. That might reduce true-positive detections of a bot that delays its access though.
by jibal | 2025-11-16 08:34:54+00:00
Nonsense. Many emacs users spend their whole lives inside of it so they're quite sensitive to what is actually an improvement and what is not. The arrival of the various modern completion packages -- vertico, orderless, consult, etc. have been welcomed ... but note that these are all add-on packages. Likewise, all of the "improvements" provided by the OP are a matter of loading and configuring packages.

People who aren't regular emacs users tend not to understand it and are not reliable reporters about the editor or its community.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-16 08:36:25+00:00
Too late, some suggest 50% of www content is now content farmed slop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTrOCQZoQE

The odd part is communities unknowingly still subsidize the GPU data centers draw of fresh water and electrical capacity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8TDOFqkQA

Fun times =3
by Epa095 | 2025-11-16 08:36:26+00:00
Thanks for the analysis...

But as I said, I have no problem facing my envy. I can be envious of independently wealthy people, and the feeling I have for billionaires is not the same. I don't know why my psyche would accept the envy for some but not for others.

I also really don't feel the shame you seem to project to me regarding envy, I tvink it is a complicated emotion with good and bad sides, certainly nothing to feel ashamed of.

But before I continue, is there any point continuing? From the comments so far you seem pretty settled in your believes about my emotions, and if you have decided apriori that whatever I say it's my mind defending itself, there is not much point continuing.
by dijit | 2025-11-16 08:37:33+00:00
He’s indicated in a sibling thread that he’s not looking for sympathy.

He’s trying to help you empathise that in reality these kinds of holes are really difficult to escape from; moreso than you think on first glance. It’s also very easy to fall into them even if you think you’re immune. Most people are about 2 bad decisions from poverty.

In light of that, your response is just horrible.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-16 08:40:30+00:00
This is absurd. I’ve kept an iPhone 12 for 4 years, only replacing it last month with a 17 Pro.

Throughout that time my 5 year old phone got every OS and security update. And it’ll get the OS update in 2026 as well. So the phone released in 2020 gets software updates till 2027 - 7 years. The main issue that makes people want to upgrade is battery life degrading. Good thing Apple offers cheap and quick battery replacements in store. I replaced my battery at the 2 year mark for a small amount of money and it felt like a new phone.

What more could Apple possibly do to make their devices more sustainable? The processors are insanely overpowered, so they don’t feel slow. The batteries are easy to replace. The software updates are there. Being a bit cynical, Apple only making small incremental changes each year reduces the need to upgrade even further.

If people want to replace their devices every year or two that’s on them, not Apple.
by Anamon | 2025-11-16 08:41:13+00:00
Every Mac user I know complains about this regularly.

I don't own one, so I genuinely don't know, but when are you supposed to charge it then? I turn my laptop on when I start working, and I turn it off and slip it in my bag when I stop. My coworkers all seem to do the same. There is no time where the computer is on but I don't want to use the mouse. I have never charged my Logitech trackball while not also using it.
by OrderlyTiamat | 2025-11-16 08:43:03+00:00
> It can easily become a pinball of calls around the hierarchy.

This is why hierarchies should have limited depth. I'd argue some amount of "co-recursion" is to be expected: after all the point of the child class is to reuse logic of the parent but to overwrite some logic.

But if the lineage goes too deep, it becomes hard to follow.

> every time you modify a class, you must review the inner implementation of all other classes in the hierarchy, and call paths to ensure your change is safe.

I'd say this is a fact of life for all pieces of code which are reused more than once. This is another reason why low coupling high cohesion is so important: if the parent method does one thing and does it well, when it needs to be changed, it probably needs to be changed for all child classes. If not, then the question arises why they're all using that same piece of code, and if this refactor shouldn't include breaking that apart into separate methods.

This problem also becomes less pressing if the test pyramid is followed properly, because that parent method should be tested in the integration tests too.
by bruce511 | 2025-11-16 08:43:46+00:00
Clearly monetary policy is a big subject, and yes the Fed has specific targets etc in mind.

But I was talking more about a mindset. And of course speaking generally- lots of people (everywhere) have budget constraints.

Having traveled in the US and Europe I'd suggest that in the US "volume" is rewarded as "good". For the same amount of money, "more" is preferred to "good". In contrast in Europe it's less "look how big the plate is" and more about "better quality."

So, to rather over-simply things, I'd describe US food as "bland, loaded with sugar, lots of it", whereas Europe is more "smaller quantities, less processing, more farmer's market".

Not just food. But across the board. Cheap = good.

And yes, I'm talking generally big-picture here - it's a culture thing - there are lots of counter examples if you look hard.
by gloxkiqcza | 2025-11-16 08:45:46+00:00
Doesn’t really surprise me. I remember reading the article linked below from which I quote:

> Forced to raise their game, carmakers are only now realizing they cannot repeat past mistakes such as letting others build up parts and services businesses off the back of their core product. "They stole the business from us," Martinet says, referencing as an example windshield replacement companies. "So I don't want them to steal the next one."

Xavier Martinet is the President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Europe.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-global-car-reckoning-is-here...
by IshKebab | 2025-11-16 08:45:51+00:00
I think they should just implement position-independent borrows. So instead of the borrow being an absolute pointer that gets broken if you move the self-borrowing struct, you can move it just fine.

Yes it would add like one extra add to every access, but you hardly ever need self-borrows so I think it's probably an acceptable cost in most cases.
by Two_hands | 2025-11-16 08:46:56+00:00
Sorry, I haven't gotten around to gathering examples yet. I ran the models on some example videos which is where the accuracy stats come.

Perhaps I have been jaded by the Mac webcam, I agree on most old webcams it wont be great but on newer webcams I have had success.

I did try a calibration approach but it's simply too fragile for in the wild deployment, calibration works great if you only care about one user but when you start looking at other people it doesn't work so well.

Good idea, it may be more fruitful to do that. At least then for the primary user we can be much more certain.
by Yoric | 2025-11-16 08:47:47+00:00
Ah, that might explain some communication issues I've had.

Looking it up, it seems that marxists use the word "capitalists" to refer to the class of owners of capital. I've always used "capitalist" to refer to a market-led country or to people who believe in capitalism. My dictionary helpfully uses "capitalist" to mean anything related to capitalism.

At the very least, I'll have learnt something from this conversation :)
by thethingundone | 2025-11-16 08:50:05+00:00
That text is describing my life since 10 years or so. I am in my 30s and lost the capability to do the thing, _any_ thing, with the exception of going out with friends/family/my partner to do social activities. Everything else is literally impossible for me to do.

I’m currently kicking off my second attempt to fix this by talking to a psychologist about it. But I am not very hopeful. Still searching for the root cause. I have all the ground works set to having a good life, except that I am incapable of moving to start that damn thing.

Where is my interest in stuff gone? Why do I prefer my couch over just typing "git clone" and play with some new tech? Why is my 3D printer sitting dusty in the corner even though I was one of the first adopters? Why is the act of hand-craft wood working, that I am dreaming of since forever and would now be able to do, impossible for me to start?

My motivation is high. My brain thinks whole projects through. I start fixing things in my head. But I am not even capable of dumping all that planning into an speech-to-text-LLM to build an actual design document out of it.

It feels like I played everything through already, so no point in starting that thing.

What the fuck is my problem?
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-16 08:50:22+00:00
The best Apple products that I have bought werde made in the Cook area. The M* MacBooks changed the game in terms of overall package. It's hard to overstate how much better I think they are than what was around during Jobs times and the gap has been closing only very slowly.

Whatever he facilitated, it worked for me. Execution matters.
by davydm | 2025-11-16 08:52:58+00:00
The biggest problem I have with ai is the inaccuracies. When you're making a meme, no big deal. When you're asking a question and you get back garbage, it's a reminder that the machine knows nothing. It's just less effort to do a proper web search and find an article or forum thread with the validated information than to waste time with the ai companion. The problem is ai perfectly nails the Dunning Kruger curve - people far to the left don't know how wrong a lot of it is, so they report major confidence gains in the few valid results they get, discarding all the trash on a gamblers high. But the moment you are actually capable in the field, you'll start to see the flaws in aigen, and confidence (and usage) drops off. Regular people are also more likely to be pulled in by all the grifter hype, lacking the understanding to resist the shitty tool.
by port11 | 2025-11-16 08:55:23+00:00
Many countries have their variation of the USAID. In fact the UK, France, Canada, etc. have such programs.

I'd argue that these are an investment in the future and end up being positive for the countries investing in them, in the form of the world being a better place, putting less pressure on immigration flows, and so on.

Per capita, other countries contribute more, so this wasn't such a wasteful use of American resources.

And absence of such a program elsewhere doesn't take away from Musk's DOGE wilfully destroying the program. Yes, that's in his legacy, the deaths that will be caused.

Examples: https://impactfunding.substack.com/p/beyond-usaid-alternativ...
by Terr_ | 2025-11-16 08:55:33+00:00
At the risk of making unqualified self-diagnoses, the phrase that always comes to my mind is "anticipatory anhedonia": On some level I do not expect the thing will actually be that fun, and I'm not filled with bubbly joy now about how awesome it'll be when it happens tomorrow.

I may have fun during the thing, but beforehand it's mostly trying to plan for what might go wrong, and afterwards it fades to the satisfaction of checking something off of a list.

https://www.britannica.com/science/anhedonia
by James_K | 2025-11-16 08:55:38+00:00
History is filled with bubbles and crashes. At this very moment, there are trillions of dollars invested into companies with no clear profit model who are openly and obviously fraudulent in their accounting practises. Do you think this allocation is driven by a rational consideration of the risks of investing in a business with massive obligations and no possible way to service them? Or take bit coins. They are fictional products with clear negative value, and yet some financial professional push to integrate this funny money into the real economy.

Compare and contrast: resource allocation in finance-heavy Western nations with the same in the finance-light China. It's abundantly obvious to me that, through suppressing their financial sector, China has reached a superior economic outcome than they otherwise might have. We have elected to make traders the managers of our economy, and I think they have done a clear bad job and that we aught to reassess treating their decisions with such primacy.
by baubino | 2025-11-16 08:56:14+00:00
I don‘t. I read through most or all of a thread, make a comment, completely forget about it, and never return. I find it kind of freeing actually, especially because HN comments tend to be fairly thoughtful and complete. There‘s rarely the kind of short quips, snarky comments, or tit-for-tat back and forth that drives most social media discussion. It‘s like the old school forums (and I never checked back on my comments there either).
by noosphr | 2025-11-16 08:57:59+00:00
The amount of effort we are putting into transcribing doodles into pixel accurate text is astonishing. In my undergrad days I loved LaTeX and friends because it let me convert my notes to digital paper and websites without having to change how I thought.

Now that I'm older and wiser I think the whole thing is a waste of time and a perfect example of cargo culting. The current maths notation was largely invented by Euler so he could write to his contemporaries with parchment and quill, e.g. https://www.themorgan.org/blog/all-math-nerds-out-there

That we are still using his notation three centuries later on computers is both astonishing and saddening.

It's much better to use a sane and consistent notation that can be entered as ascii in the first place (or Unicode if you hate long names), viz. s-expressions.

| TeX | S-Expression | |--------------+-------------------------------| | 1 + 2 | (+ 1 2) | | 1 - 2 | (- 1 2) | | 1 \times 2 | (* 1 2) | | frac{1}{2} | (/ 1 2) | | a_i | (map a (range 0 n)) | | \sum_i a_i | (apply + (map a (range 0 n))) | | \int x^2, dx | (integrate '(expt x 2) 'x) |

Not only are the expressions consistent between all the normal mathematical operators, they force you to think about what you're doing. E.g. a sequence is a function from the nats to whatever objects you are enumerating and an indefinite integral is a symbolic operation - not a numerical one like the definite integral - both of those are something that everyone is aware of, the same way they are aware of a "Wet Paint" sign on a bench before they sit down.
by port11 | 2025-11-16 08:58:25+00:00
They're building their own little world, a parallel reality where owning submarine garages and yachts and island hideouts is appropriate; but helping the rest of humanity isn't.

I hope we — the People — realise this faster and decide we don't want to help them out. Divest from their properties, stop using their tools, and keep being nice to other humans. The rift isn't our design, we just have to do what we can. We may lack the ability but not the will.

Teach your kids right, folks. Let them aim for a firm kindness and honesty rather than monetary success.
by az09mugen | 2025-11-16 08:58:31+00:00
Agree with you. Coming from sublime and always wanting to give emacs a fair try, I found ergoemacs [0] that wanted to expand the cua mode for beginners, but that was not enough for me. I wanted more, and now with IDEmacs it is almost like what I want. With emacs you can do pretty much anything, why not a full cua mode ?

[0] : https://ergoemacs.github.io/
by bob1029 | 2025-11-16 08:59:15+00:00
My problem with the EPB is that it seems to encourage drivers to simply not use it. The convenience of a zero effort digital switch disconnects the user from the physical reality of the vehicle's heft.

I've had to instruct several family members and friends to engage their parking brake when on my very steep driveway. We had to shove a car up the hill to get it out of park one time. Leaving 2 tons of car resting entirely on the parking pawl can cause trouble. I always lecture drivers to let the brake take the load before putting transmission into park (or a low gear). It can be challenging to do this with digital everything.
by kakacik | 2025-11-16 09:00:41+00:00
This is patently incorrect. Wife switched from iphone 13 mini to samsung s24, and airpods pro 2nd gen immediately started behaving extremely annoyingly to the point of becoming completely useless for any serious use and she just gave them away to her sister which still is on apple, although she loved them before.

Literally all other earpieces work flawlessly with that phone including dirt cheap chinese stuff, apart from apple.

Now somebody could come and claim multi trillion company couldnt just nail that pesky bluetooth protocol well, but everybody else can do it better than them, including 15 bucks products. Its all by design. They clearly dont need hardware revenue to have products who can compete on open market, they need their closed ecosystem revenue, hence these dirty practices. There is hopefully a billion or ten lawsuit in the making by courts with balls, ie EU.

All the downvotes in the world won't change above.
by bigfudge | 2025-11-16 09:04:14+00:00
But people and corporates are demonstrably not rational actors. There are thousands of studies documenting our inability to properly track and think about risks.

Plus, as this story shows, if the fines are large enough they just phone up their friends to have the fines quashed.

Naming culpable individuals inside corporations and regularly holding them accountable is the only way to make this stop.