MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-23 23:58:16+00:00
It's actually cheaper now. the numbers I quote were from when my children were in barnehage many years ago. But remember that is the maximum one would pay, it's graduated according to your income. The rule now is not more than 6% of household income and not more than about 130 USD per month. Also remember that this is eight or more hours per day five days a week in a facility that doesn't only look after your children but also teaches them how to be independent, resilient, social, etc.

Could you get private child care for 300 USD per month?
by Manuel_D | 2025-11-23 23:58:37+00:00
Moderating and ranking content is distinct from editorial control. Editorial control refers to editing the actual contents of posts. Sites that exercise editorial control are liable for their edits. For instance if a user posts "Joe Smith is not a criminal" and the website operators delete the word "not", then the company can be held liable for defaming Joe Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#Application_and_li...
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-11-23 23:59:12+00:00
So municipal networks are a classic example of a natural monopoly, where it's more efficient to just have a single utility network vs redundant infrastructure.

Fiber is good for this because it's both cheap and effectively future proof vs consumer needs. Also, thanks to how IP works, a municipality can build out the physical network, then offer competitive options among ISPs delivering service on it if they like.

This generally results in much better service for consumers at lower cost, which is why Comcast, Century Link, etc, have been doing all the political maneuvering they can to pre-empt voters from choosing that path.
by ebbi | 2025-11-23 23:59:31+00:00
Are Azure VMs different to a VPN? Sorry I'm not the most technical.

Reason I ask is because there are few people I follow that use VPNs but their location is accurate on X.

Also, X also shows where you downloaded the app from, e.g. [Country] App Store, so that one might be a bit more difficult to get around.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-23 23:59:33+00:00
> This use is strongly derived from the sexual sense.

This appears to be a pure assertion on your part, justified by nothing.

> Maybe someone more versed in Latin than I am could look up "seduco" in pre-Christian contexts?

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
by bdangubic | 2025-11-23 23:59:37+00:00
security incident destroying a business is so rare and penalties for security breaches are non-existent and hence while everyone talks “security is important” it really isn’t all that important - in vast majority of the situations. I mean, fucking experian, the company whose sole purpose for existence is collecting and keeping data on everyone safe leaked everyone’s data and everyone was like “oh ok, thats cool, carry on…”
by Aloisius | 2025-11-24 00:00:52+00:00
The Penn Station passenger display was, according to the NYT, segmented LCD glass made by Signature Technologies in Arizona.

It had 43 segments (each character had a 13 segment column, 17 segments column, then another 13 segment column that was a mirror of the first). You can see the segment shape on the original sign:

https://media.wired.com/photos/59327db4aef9a462de983397/3:2/...

The same segment design was used on in Spain along with a more angular version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210602143217im_/https://pbs.tw...
I automated multi-deadline tracking with Excel and Outlook
by registrytracker | 2025-11-24 00:00:57+00:00
Keeping track of multiple deadlines can be tedious and error-prone. I built a small workflow tool using Excel and Outlook that:

Calculates remaining days to expiry automatically Flags items visually as deadlines approach Sends email alerts in real time

I’m curious how others handle similar challenges. Any interesting techniques or automations you’ve used for tracking tasks with deadlines?
by lurk2 | 2025-11-24 00:01:16+00:00
Anyone who follows the space closely has known about this for at least the last year. It was quite common for these accounts to make slip-ups that revealed their country of origin and to subsequently be doxxed by ideological enemies or rival influencers (they all want to be the leader and they all absolutely hate each other).

Almost all of these accounts are operating out of India or Israel. The Indians are usually in it for the money (though there’s probably some Israeli outsourcing going on there, too), whereas the Israelis were riding off 2010s Islamophobia to prime American Evangelicals for their activities in Gaza.
by lxgr | 2025-11-24 00:01:54+00:00
How can the "cartel" "blacklist" anyone? The only thing the FIDO alliance can do is not include a vendor's attestation key as trusted in their vendor database, and software solutions aren't on that list to begin with.

> The fundamental flaw is that enrolling an authenticator requires it to be present [...]

Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't backup the full authenticator state.

Here's a toy WebAuthN implementation that is backed by a passphrase that you remember or write on a piece of paper which works on many websites supporting passkeys and not enforcing attestation (which is the vast majority, since Apple, Google, 1Password, and Bitwarden all don't support attestation for synchronized credentials a.k.a. passkeys): https://github.com/lxgr/brainchain

> Making it hard/impractical to maintain a reliable backup yourself sure makes those proprietary sync-based services attractive

It's also completely open source and can be backed up :) (But again, it's a toy demo – don't use it for anything sensitive!)
by bcoates | 2025-11-24 00:02:04+00:00
It doesn’t have to be and almost certainly isn't some billionaire. Formulaic spicy political nonsense is reliable engagement bait and it's easy to churn eyeballs into (small amounts of) money. It's not even unique, there are similar grinds about sports, religion, cute animals, subculture jokes, etc.

The "control the narrative" stuff is mostly a PR campaign by social media intelligence companies trying to make their services seem more valuable than they are.
by paxys | 2025-11-24 00:02:53+00:00
Installing the Google keyboard has been step #1 on every new iOS device of mine for the last decade. Sometimes I'll accidentally switch back to the default one while typing and immediately notice how broken the experience is. And yeah, I have definitely run into the exact issue shown in this video.

As a side note, I can't believe not a single device manufacturer has been able to make a blackberry-style keyboard work with a modern phone. Texting is by far the #1 activity on smartphones and yet when it comes to typing we have somehow gone backwards since the mid 2000s.
by lazide | 2025-11-24 00:04:18+00:00
Suppressing what is going on tends to make things come out in even worse ways. If not suppressing it gets you murdered….

Not great. But could be worse, and it seems like it was done mindfully with minimal damage. That’s the pragmatic part.

He could have been hooking up with randos at clubs (dramatically higher disease risk), or worse, instead of what seems like a relatively stable (outside) relationship?

I’ve seen a lot worse. Not condoning, but the math seems obvious.

And his daughter may not like it, but she’s also literally only here because of it. So….

In most of the major Asian cultures, you have a very specifically shaped box to fit in. If you refuse to fit in it, you’ll be hammered on until you do. It’s not a great environment if you’re not box shaped. But society doesn’t particularly care - this was especially true 30+ years ago.

Some exceptions of course (Thai, some areas in big cities), but it’s largely still the case.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-24 00:04:29+00:00
To their credit, IBM is still making zArchitecture chips that aren’t completely humiliated by x86 and ARM. Note also since 2000 IBM helped improve the Linux kernel and got it working in zArchitecture so if a business that has old COBOL or CICS applications wants to run some Linux apps in virtualization on the same machine they can.
by vunderba | 2025-11-24 00:05:31+00:00
> So many people are looking for one gotcha to dismiss AI altogether.

That might say more about your own social circle. Most of my friends take a pretty measured approach to AI.

> The relationship between a chatbot and its user is transparent.

Is it? Depending on the LLM you are using, there might be quite a bit of alignment that's built into the natural bias of the model, and that's not even taking into account the usually massive system prompt that's automatically injected into the context window. Your average non-techie is simply going to be unaware of this.

> We're living in a Goldilocks time where AI chatbots are amazing search assistants and they have yet to be tarnished by sponsored content.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-w...
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-24 00:05:34+00:00
iPhone NFC will work for a while even when “dead”, not sure about the android world.

But in the edge case of the edge case, security can let you out. If it becomes a pattern, they’ll note it somehow.

Seems like the most important thing to do is _anything_. The current approach of doing nothing and shaming people who suggest public transport is a poor option because it’s full of druggies doesn’t seem to work.
by shalmanese | 2025-11-24 00:05:40+00:00
This article isn't much better than the genre of "Some rando on Twitter said" style articles. They're interviewing AI raters, of which there are millions in the world. It's not difficult to find a half dozen in any group that large to espouse any position. Some kind of polling would at least provide some statistical rigour but just "we managed to find a few people who espouse this position" is there purely to reinforce people's pre-existing biases.
by ebbi | 2025-11-24 00:05:53+00:00
My main use case is to get up-to-date news on things that mainstream media doesn't cover accurately.

And to be fair, a lot of these accounts that are exposed as grifters were called out as such for a while now. And most of them were so obviously griftery that the only ones that followed them were those that were already so deeply entrenched in their echo chamber.

It's funny that they're explicitly being exposed now though!
by josephg | 2025-11-24 00:06:56+00:00
Can you give some examples? C/C++ devs seem to be very upset about rust content. Where all these annoying articles claiming we should rewrite everything in rust? They must be all over the place given how much C/C++ devs are upset. But I don't think I've read any?

There was that article from the android team about how rust improved their development workflow[1]. Is that what you're talking about? Was that article emotionally upsetting? Do you wish it wasn't written? What in particular is upsetting? Do you want people to stop writing technical articles to protect your feelings?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918616
Show HN: PR Guard – A GitHub Action to ensure authors understand their PRs
by Two_hands | 2025-11-24 00:07:29+00:00
PR Guard is a tool designed to assist reviewers in dealing with the increasing number of PRs as a result of AI assisted programming.

AI assisted programming isn't inherently bad, but it does allow contributions from people who may not understand what exactly they are contributing. PR Guard aims to stop this.

It works by:

- Passing the diff of a PR to an LLM - The LLM returns 3 questions which the author must answer - The LLM then reviews the answers and decides whether or not they show the author understands their code

The point is to relieve some pressure on reviewers AND to enable users of AI assisted programming to learn in a new and engaging way.
by fragmede | 2025-11-24 00:07:52+00:00
This isn't about the later stuff. My statement was that being against lockdowns is an anti-social viewpoint and that you were rightly attacked for being against them. Nothing you've written challenges that. In a spherical vacuum of a society with no left right blue or China, no Epstein files, a pathogen has been introduced to your society. You don't know anything about it at all. It could be Ebola, it could be a total nothing buger. What do you do in response? Do you stay open and infect your populace, or do you lock down? It's a huge disruption, to everything and everyone. In the face of the unknown, what do you chose to do?

In the face of not knowing something, do we try and be safe, or do we say YOLO and fuck everyone who's role puts them in harms way?
by cyberax | 2025-11-24 00:10:17+00:00
DirectX also suffers from it, to a lesser degree. There are important HLSL intrinsics that are vendor-dependent ( https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki/Wave... or https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvapi/blob/main/nvHLSLExtns.h ).

Microsoft used to be more proactive. It pressured vendors to have rough feature parity with each other and then released the "harmonized" baseline as the next DirectX version. But as with many things, Microsoft dropped the ball there. The most recent DirectX revision is more than 4 years old, and it doesn't look like there's going to be a new one any time soon.

The only truly unified API is Metal, for obvious reasons.
by Taniwha | 2025-11-24 00:10:42+00:00
ESPOL was (is?) simply a version of the standard Algol compiler that let you do 'system' sorts of things.

The Burroughs large systems architecture didn't really protect you from yourself, system security/integrity depended on only letting code from vetted compilers run (only a compiler could make a code file, and only a privileged person could make a program a compiler) - so the Algol 60 compiler made code that was safe, Espol could make code that wasn't, could do things a normal user couldn't - you kept the espol compiler somewhere safe away from the students ....

(there was a well known hole in this whole thing involving mag tapes)
by ninkendo | 2025-11-24 00:11:03+00:00
I’ll take a stab: because twitter isn’t reality, it’s a microcosm. A tempest in a teapot. It’s something that if you step outside of, you realize it’s not the real world.

Leaving social media can be thought of as emerging from the cave: you interact with people near you who actually have a shared experience to yours (if only geographically) and you get a feel for what real world conversation is like: full of nuance and tailored to the individual you’re talking to. Not blasted out to everyone to pick apart simultaneously. You start to realize it was just a website and the people on it are just like the shadows on the wall: they certainly look real and can be mesmerizing, but they have no effect on anything outside of the cave.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-24 00:11:19+00:00
I'm not author of parent.

My impression of the joke is that intelligent and knowledgeable people willingly engage with social media and fall into treating what they see as truth, and then are shocked when they learn it's not truth.

If the allegory of the cave is describing a journey from ignorant and incorrect beliefs to enlightened realizations, the parent is making a joke about people going in reverse. Perhaps they have seen first hand someone who is educated, knowledgeable and reasonable become deceived by social media, casting away their own values and knowledge for misconceptions incepted into them by persistent deception.

I'm not saying I agree entirely with the point the joke is making but it does sort of make sense to me (assuming I even understand it correctly).
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-24 00:11:59+00:00
Yes. All leadership is supposed to be technical leadership. Outside of engineering-management, technical just means significant actual domain expertise. If you want an organization that can do stuff, you have to know stuff, there's just no substitute and everything else is basically fake. The "visionary", the "idea person", the experts at alignment / people / processes / ceremonies were always kind of mythical but to the extent they were ever real.. that kind of expertise tends to be removed in large orgs anyway because they are viewed as threatening by fakers who are better at maneuvering.

The fad is non-technical management, and the result is a general crisis in leadership that you can see everywhere across tech, politics, entertainment, whatever. Top leadership is out of ideas and just looking around for others to copy, or cruising on extraction/exploitation of value-creation that came before. It's a slow-motion disaster that's been picking up speed, which is why consumers, workers, and constituents are all pissed off. Seems like the shareholders will be effected soon, so then maybe it starts to change.
by pod_krad | 2025-11-24 00:13:04+00:00
> I personally feel that this plan has to proceed, or else the entire world is going to see the conflict expand to our own borders.

It looks like you completely don't understand what you are talking about. This plan just lets Russia a chance to accumulate more resources for further attacks on Ukraine. Why? Because there is no any guarantee for Ukraine against future Russia's aggression. Why? Because Russia will never agree with such guarantee for Ukraine. Russian plan is completely destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state.

I am from Ukraine. That is why I am confident I know that for sure.
by nvader | 2025-11-24 00:13:22+00:00
A couple of results that I was convinced of, and then memorized without also memorizing the proofs:

A perfect computer would only need to do "work", in the entropic sense, when it deletes information. Of course we're orders of magnitude away from these theological limits right now and computing today is very hot and very gross.

Reversible Computing is the ability to compute a function without actually deleting, or otherwise confusing the states of your program. In theory you could run the program backwards, deterministically, and return your input. Reversible computing could be implemented on a theoretical "cold" computing substrate to not require any loss of energy.

One fundamental problem with the schema this author decides is how to separate the running of the program from it's output. Essentially this has wired the cpu % load to stdout. Naively, you'll start to leak output in arbitrary programs. You could be clever and specifically cap "computation" below 50% and output above it, but then I'd argue that you're just using your CPU as an output device.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-24 00:13:28+00:00
Probably the thing I loved about it most was the fact that I could talk directly with people that I felt had a real impact in the world

Scientists/Researchers

Journalists

Activists

Politicians

Subject Matter Experts (for the fields I am interested in)

There were (when I was using it) a large number of "troll" accounts, and bots, but it was normally easy to distinguish the wheat from the chaff

You could also engage in meaningful conversations with complete strangers - because, like Usenet, the rules for debate were widely adopted, and transgression results in shunning (something that I rarely see beyond twitter to be honest)
by ro_bit | 2025-11-24 00:13:50+00:00
Reminds me of when Reddit posted their year end roundup https://web.archive.org/web/20140409152507/http://www.reddit... and revealed their “most addicted city” to be the home of Eglin Air Force Base, host of a lot of military cyber operations. They edited the article shortly afterward to remove this inconvenient statistic
by jjk166 | 2025-11-24 00:14:25+00:00
If the incentives of the team (team happiness) and the company (delivery of something of value) are misaligned, that's a much higher level failure. Either the engineering manager has been handed the wrong team or assigned the wrong task to accomplish. Setting high level goals for the engineering managers and allocating resources for them to achieve those goals is the entire purpose of senior leadership.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-24 00:14:26+00:00
> there’s pretty clear research now pointing to bad outcomes for early drug use

I wasn't aware. Or more specifically, I thought it wouldn't ethically be possible to do that research while it's legally forbidden.

I assumed We'd be bound to look at cases pathologic enough to warrant intervention, and the researchers tracking back the root cause at drug ingestion. While a useful approach, it would tell us nothing about all the other cases that weren't pathological.

On tobacco specifically I think most long term effects disappear in smoker below 25 ? Not arguing that kids should smoke, but like coming at th French situation, it looks like there is a dose where the effects on kids will be negligible.

PS: even for people withing the legal smoking range, studies on drugs still tend to focus on patients that had to enter the medical system

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10798824/

If you have any good study that encompasses a wider range I'd love to read it.
by afavour | 2025-11-24 00:15:30+00:00
People will read all kinds of political implications into this but IMO it reflects something simpler and perhaps more damning for X: that paying users for the engagement their posts make is a fundamentally bad idea.

If you’re looking to make some money on X you want engagement. If you want engagement you want to say controversial things people will argue about. What better than right wing US politics, especially when the X algorithm seems to amplify it?
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-24 00:15:49+00:00
Windows 8: some people in the early 2010s (me!) thought laptops were cooked…. My hackathon kit from then was a dirt cheap Android tablet, plastic clip, Bluetooth keyboard and Bluetooth mouse. It looked so sleek compared to the MacBooks and gaming laptops everybody else had. I don’t think Microsoft was crazy chasing the tablet dream but I was the only one.

Meta Quest: Facebook has users, advertisers and all sorts of people who depend on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and such. Facebook knows that platforms like that fail eventually and doesn’t want to be the next MySpace so it has been struggling to get them into a virtual reality platform that, on a certain level, is well executed, but that people don’t have enthusiasm for. VR games for the Quest platform are pretty good but there are so many good flat games that I barely have time for them. I’d make the case that the 8GB MQ3 has enough RAM to run carefully optimized games but not enough for ordinary people to author content (some of why Horizon Worlds is dead: no way McDonalds is going to build an experience if they can’t import an SVG or PNG of the Coca-Cola logo to out in the cups and instead have to painstakingly make it out of solid geometry using the controller by hand… and the same is true for small businesses and enthusiasts) —- we are seeing 16GB headsets from Apple, Samsung and Valve now and maybe it will be better but quite probably it won’t. I know though that if Zuck gives up and somebody else succeeds he’ll have the most terrible regret.