MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2025-11-05 20:45:30+00:00
The winds have shifted, politics has seeped into everything, consumers are voting with money, most people are rejecting contemporary right-wing policies and politics.

No longer are we going to tolerate the intolerant. If you are willing to look past the moral failings, you are seen as part of the problem and should expect consequences. Social dynamics are at work

> (Edit: three downvotes and a Godwin's Law reply drop within seconds, as expected. Seriously folks there are 125k people who work for that company, must everything about it be judged entirely on the last twelve months of one guys mania?)

It seems the answer is a definitive yes, reflect on why this is.

Also, it's far more than 12 months. He's been manic for far longer, if not his entire life. We just saw the unfiltered version for the last 12 months. Now we know
by jimkri | 2025-11-05 20:45:36+00:00
This is a really good callout. I think trying different types helps to see what works best for you and to fit into your lifestyle.

I also have plain psyllium husk, and I avoided it because I liked the sugar of the Metamucil. But I have been focusing on lowering my sugar, so I'm switching to the plain psyllium husk, and it's just as easy to drink; it was really a little mental game of how it would taste, haha.
by flounder3 | 2025-11-05 20:45:53+00:00
OP's 9to5mac article states:

Also under the agreement, Google’s model will reportedly run on Apple’s own servers, which in practice means that no user data will be shared with Google. Instead, they won’t leave Apple’s Private Cloud Compute structure.

Bloomberg states:

The model will run on Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers, ensuring that user data remains walled off from Google’s infrastructure.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-05 20:46:05+00:00
I remember finding joe back in the 90s, having come to Linux from mainly DOS, and bring overjoyed. The little Unix I'd used up to that point (mainly Xenix and a little SCO) had me using ed, which was enough like old DOS EDLIN that I could manage. When I found myself in vi I'd just hang up the modem because I never could figure out how to get out of it. >smile<
by fakedang | 2025-11-05 20:46:39+00:00
> It's absolutely crazy that a well designed TUI is so much faster. It turns out that if you never change the UI and every menu item always has the same hotkey, navigating the software becomes muscle memory and your speed is only limited by how fast you can physically push the buttons.

Bloomberg Terminal basically. And then because of muscle memory, it's so hard for users to get used to another system. And then they push it onto their juniors. And then you get to charge companies $250 per head to train juniors on how to use the system, with all of its textbased commands.
by griffzhowl | 2025-11-05 20:46:47+00:00
It's not capitalism, it's technology. That can often go together with capitalism, but Russia from 1917-60 and China from 1960-2025, say, are big counter-examples. As are the many poor countries with capitalist economies. Growth in electrification, transport infrastructure, manufacturing and mechanized agriculture will grow any economy, capitalist or socialist
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-05 20:46:50+00:00
> Why isn’t std::simd in stable yet?

Leaving aside any specific blockers:

- It's a massive hard problem, to build a portable abstraction layer over the SIMD capabilities of various CPUs.

- It's a massive balance between performance and usability, and people care deeply about both.

- It's subject to Rust's stability guarantee for the standard library: once we ship it, we can't fix any API issues.

- There are already portable SIMD libraries in the ecosystem, which aren't subject to that stability guarantee as they can ship new semver-major versions. (One of these days, I hope we have ways to do that for the standard library.)

- Many people already use non-portable SIMD for the 1-3 targets they care about, instead.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-05 20:46:51+00:00
Several African countries have also been fascinating for the growth of cellular telephone.

Grids require an amount of cohesion that isn't always on-hand in that part of the world (a fancy way of saying "When they built the grid in Europe, they could mostly put copper on telephone poles and assume nobody would just show up and steal it later"). But a cellular node can be built to be self-contained and protected by a single property owner with a shotgun.

It became a much faster and cheaper rollout solution and the demand created a market to justify the cost of improving and perfecting the technology.
by onraglanroad | 2025-11-05 20:46:56+00:00
You're attempting to be sarcastic but that's actually accurate:

> Capitalism is really centralized monopolistic oligarchical control in modern media parlance.

Of course, because the Capitalists try to control the industry they've invested in.

> Distributed empowering democratic grassroots level <word> allocation of resources that don't provide centralized control and administration is "socialism".

Yes, it is. When the people who actually do the work own it.
by rbanffy | 2025-11-05 20:47:07+00:00
> The image meant you basically got whatever state the developer ended up with, frozen in time, with no indication really of how they got there.

I worked with a similar language, Actor (Smalltalk with an Algol-like syntax), and the usual way to deal with distribution was to “pack” (IIRC) the image by pointing to the class that your app is an instance of, and the tool would remove every other object that is not a requirement of your app. With that you got an image that started directly into your app, without any trace of the development environment.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-05 20:47:39+00:00
Aside from politics, their cars have a reputation for poor quality control. Peeling steering wheels, leaking seals, funky air conditioner smells, etc. Then when there are problems you may be waiting months while it sits in a service center. Or the stupid thing may shut off (due to errors or updates) right when you need it.

I would not want to buy one of them for any of those reasons, regardless.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-05 20:48:21+00:00
I don't think I understand the change re: licensed professionals.

Is it also disallowing the use of licensed professionals to use ChatGPT in informal undisclosed ways, as in this article? https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapis...

e.g. is it only allowed for medical use through an official medical portal or offering?
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-05 20:48:24+00:00
>I've never seen a calculator come up with the wrong answer when adding two numbers.

Intel once made a CPU that barely got some math wrong that probably would not affect the vast majority of users. The backlash from the industry was so strong that intel spent half a billion (1994) dollars replacing all of them.

Our entire industry avoids floating point numbers for some types of calculations because, even though they are mostly deterministic with minimal constraints, that mental model is so hard to manage that you are better off avoiding it entirely and removing an entire class of errors from your work

But now we are just supposed to do everything with a slot machine that WILL randomly just do the wrong thing some unknowable percentage of the time, and that wrong thing has no logic?

No, fuck that. I don't even call myself an engineer and such frivolity is still beyond the pale. I didn't take 4 years of college and ten years of hard earned experience to build systems that will randomly fuck over people with no explanation or rhyme or reason.

I DO use systems that are probabilistic in nature, but we use rather simple versions of those because when I tell management "We can't explain why the model got that output", they rightly refuse to accept that answer. Some percentage of orders getting mispredicted is fine. Orders getting mispredicted that cannot be explained entirely from their data is NOT. When a customer calls us, we cannot tell them "Oh, that's just how Neural networks are, you were unlucky".

Notably, those in the industry that HAVE jumped on the neural net/"AI" bandwagon for this exact problem domain have not demonstrated anything close to seriously better results. In fact, one of our most DRAMATICALLY effective signals is a third party service that has been around for decades, and we were using a legacy integration that hadn't been updated in a decade. Meanwhile, Google's equivalent product/service couldn't even match the results of internally developed random forest models from data science teams that were.... not good. It didn't even match the service Microsoft has recently killed, which was similarly bragadocious about "AI" and similarly trash.

All that panopticon's worth of data, all that computing power, all that supposed talent, all that lack of privacy and tracking, and it was almost as bad as a coin flip.
by jimkri | 2025-11-05 20:48:27+00:00
I thought the same thing! My mom used it when I was younger, and I always passed on trying it because of that random memory and association.

I just got past the Metamucil to plain psyllium husk. I felt the plain version was going to taste bad, but it was just plain and not sugary. It's funny the concepts that can lead to certain small behaviors.
by dalke | 2025-11-05 20:48:30+00:00
That's "SMILES".

Yes. Here is the yacc grammar for the SMILES parser in the RDKit. https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/blob/master/Code/GraphMol/Smi...

There's also one from OpenSMILES at http://opensmiles.org/opensmiles.html#_grammar . It has a shift/reduce error (as I recall) that I was not competent enough to fix.

I prefer to parser almost completely in the lexer, with a small amount of lexer state to handle balanced parens, bracket atoms, and matching ring closures. See https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/opensmiles-ragel and more specifically https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/opensmiles-ragel/browse/opensmiles.r... .
by icedshrimp | 2025-11-05 20:48:42+00:00
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-atDnj5jE

video from sunking from 7 years ago where the cost of a basic system was 25¢ per day. Probably cheaper now.

the article wording/numbers seem mixed up but the overall argument holds up when you look at the actual products they're talking about here
by jajuuka | 2025-11-05 20:48:49+00:00
The question is, do you want freedom or do you want market popularity? Because as you said you can get Pixel and use Graphene or Lineage and do whatever you want. But if you want market popularity then that is something that is not the case right now. The overwhelming majority of people do not download and install apps outside the main store fronts.

And how does that freedom help anyone? If your grandparent just uses their phone to make calls, texts and playing Candy Crush then how is software freedom making their experience better? Or are we just imprinting our priorities and desires onto others?
by mothballed | 2025-11-05 20:48:52+00:00
Solar bribery is interestingly the exact opposite in some of the USA, where the solar contractors have basically gotten in bed with government for regulatory capture on the market.

Most places in my state you need an electrician license, permits, bonding, insurance, a special 'solar' warranty, and inspections if you want solar.

I built my house without any inspection or licensing and connected to the electric grid without anyone from the government ever even looking at it or taking money for it. If I wanted to add a solar system, it basically completely fucked everything and I would have had to gone through the normal permitting and inspection system for my house which would have made even building the house basically impossible for me.
by rograndom | 2025-11-05 20:49:01+00:00
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by cxr | 2025-11-05 20:49:32+00:00
> As with most things on the web, the answer is "They will if it breaks a website that a critical mass of users care about."

This is a (poor) attempt at gaslighting/retconning.

The phrase "Don't break the Web" is not original to this thread.

(I can't say I look forward to your follow-up reply employing sleights of hand like claims about how stuff like Flash that was never standardized, or the withdrawal of experimental APIs that weren't both stable/finalized and implemented by all the major browsers, or the long tail of stuff on developer.mozilla.org that is marked "deprecated" (but nonetheless still manages to work) are evidence of your claim and that browser makers really do have a history of doing this sort of thing. This is in fact the first time something like this has actually happened—all because there are engineers working on browsers at Google (and Mozilla and Apple) that are either confused about how the Web differs from, say, Android and iOS, or resentful of their colleagues who get to work on vendor SDKs where the API surface area is routinely rev'd to remove whatever they've decided no longer aligns with their vision for their platform. That's not what the Web is, and those engineers can and should go work on Android and iOS instead of sabotaging the far more important project of attending to the only successful attempt at a vendor-neutral, ubiquitous, highly accessible, substrate for information access that no one owns and that doesn't fuck over the people who rely on it being stable.)
by schiffern | 2025-11-05 20:49:53+00:00
You fell for the "we didn't say it so technically we didn't lie" clickbait headline, I see.

This article is the same recycled misinformation that's been repeated for years. What's actually happening is that Tesla does regional delivery waves, which results in large month-to-month fluctuations. Nothing new here.

Yes Virginia, the media will distort information to sell eyeballs. Color me shocked!
by throwway120385 | 2025-11-05 20:50:03+00:00
A lot of this is the direct result of trying to run a government like a business. If we instead left some things that are unprofitable but important to government then we'd probably get better results than having businesses do those things expecting a profit. This was the model in the 30's, 40's and 50's that led to the "golden age" that people are now trying to recapture.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 20:50:34+00:00
Way to move the goalposts. GGP asked for wars within the last century, and GP provided such a list.

Regardless, not sure why any of this matters. I'm not one of those "China bad!" hand-wringers, but if you don't believe the Chinese government is a threat to western countries' sovereignty and economies, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
by submeta | 2025-11-05 20:50:34+00:00
Elon promised too much (self driving cars coming next month, this time for real), and the market has realized that after the 25th promise, he‘s not going to deliver.

Also, Elon should have stick to cars and rockets. His venturing into politics, and into media (with buying X) didn’t help him either. He got demystified, and demolished his image of a super focused half-einstein, half-edison. Now more of an half-Trump. And that didn’t help his car sales either.
by basch | 2025-11-05 20:50:41+00:00
You can buy the supplies and make nano silver flouride now, relatively cheaply compared to dental work. If you have a non corporate dentist, you could even ask them to apply it. The basic mechanism has been used on teeth forever, and adding the nano particles prevents the chemical from permanently staining your teeth black or blue (which is why it hasnt ever been more popular to begin with.)

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/tooth-seal/
by api | 2025-11-05 20:50:44+00:00
Re: the image concept.

A lot of great ideas are tried and tried and tried and eventually succeed, and what causes them to succeed is that someone finally creates an implementation that addresses the pragmatic and usability issues. Someone finally gets the details right.

Rust is a good example. We've had "safe" systems languages for a long time, but Rust was one of the first to address developer ergonomics well enough to catch on.

Another great example is HTTP and HTML. Hypertext systems existed before it, but none of them were flexible, deployable, open, interoperable, and simple enough to catch on.

IMHO we've never had a pure functional language that has taken off not because it's a terrible idea but because nobody's executed it well enough re: ergonomics and pragmatic concerns.
by toast0 | 2025-11-05 20:50:53+00:00
If your NAT allows arbitrary connections out, and you're patient enough, you can probably finagle a peer to peer connection, eventually. Here's a discussion about that [1]. But that math is based on each NAT having a single external address; if your NAT spreads you over multiple addresses, the math gets much worse.

And there's a lot of other considerations; chances are your NAT won't be happy if you send all those probe packets at once, and your user may not be either. It's probably only worth it to do exhaustive probing if the connection is long lived, and proxying is expensive (in dollars because of bandwidth or in latency)

[1] https://github.com/danderson/nat-birthday-paradox/tree/maste...
by jjmarr | 2025-11-05 20:50:57+00:00
The military has a parallel system of officers (managers) and enlisted/NCOs (sort of ICs).

Even generals will have an NCO reporting into them whose job is to speak to the frontline and figure out wtf is actually going on.

e.g. The Sergeant Major of the entire US Army used to post on /r/army. If someone in the 950,000 person bureaucracy was really getting screwed, he or his office would step in.

https://reddit.com/user/sma-pao/?sort=top
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-05 20:51:12+00:00
I'm not personally in the business of maintaining a browser.

But if I were, and I were looking to decrease cost of maintenance, "This entire rendering framework that supports a 0.02% use case" would be an outlier for chopping-block consideration. Not all corner-case features match that combination of cost-to-maintain and adoption (after, what, decades at this point?).

We wouldn't be arguing the point if the feature in question were fax machine support, right?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 20:51:14+00:00
> Ukraine cannot target Chinese owned or associated assets without facing domestic blowback from China such as sudden loan repayments or export controls on intermediate parts

Fair enough for ownership. Don't think so for associated.

That said, China being sensitive to such attacks is itself leverage for Kyiv. China retaliating against Ukraine in the way you describe would be a massive geopolitical win for America, inasmuch as it would make clear the deal with the devil every adversary of Russia, Iran and North Korea's makes when they rely on China.

> Ukrainian missiles aren't reaching Vladivostok or Sakhalin unless we give them ICBMs

Launch from a container ship.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 20:51:22+00:00
When I was teenager (more years than I want to count) my mum went to Uni to do social science since I was a computer geek and she very much wasn't (and isn't) she used to write her essays longhand and I'd type them up for her/proof read them and I'd read her books if they seemed interesting - so much of what came up in those books was applicable to been an effective manager later - Framing as a concept goes back the 70's (it's older than me :D)

It was a cheat sheet to life in many ways.
Show HN: Arcitext, an AI assisted writing app to battle AI generated text
by madsmadsdk | 2025-11-05 20:51:27+00:00
It's time to put an end AI generated copy. It's had its time, and everyone is developing a nose for identifying when a robot did the heavy lifting.

Arcitext is different.

It assists you in writing creatively, by analyzing your existing content and extract a "writing fingerprint".

The writing fingerprint is used as a benchmark, along with relevant context for whatever you're writing, to give you relevant feedback - via AI of course.

Arcitext comes with a cool Markdown Editor (yes, it supports syntax highlighting as well), and while you write, you can select a sentence and get:

- Feedback on Tone Fit - Rewrite suggestions - Fact checks against credible sources

Finally, it also scores your text across several parameters, and gives you overall feedback and ideas for improvement.

It's live on Product Hunt today, currently sitting in the 10th spot behind Apple, Baidu and Snyk products.

I'd love your support if you think this is a cool idea.

Feel free to ask any questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Thanks for reading!
by sethhochberg | 2025-11-05 20:52:23+00:00
I know this is written to be tounge-in-cheek, but its really almost the exact same problem playing out on both sides.

LLMs hallucinate because training on source material is a lossy process and bigger, heavier LLM-integrated systems that can research and cite primary sources are slow and expensive so few people use those techniques by default. Lowest time to a good enough response is the primary metric.

Journalists oversimplify and fail to ask followup questions because while they can research and cite primary sources, its slow and expensive in an infinitesimally short news cycle so nobody does that by default. Whoever publishes something that someone will click on first gets the ad impressions so thats the primary metric.

In either case, we've got pretty decent tools and techniques for better accuracy and education - whether via humans or LLMs and co - but most people, most of the time don't value them.
by conductr | 2025-11-05 20:52:26+00:00
Isn't this the same thing they did with the internet? They skipped the wired revolution and just implemented it when mobile phone networks made if more feasible. If you look at it only in the present, it seems revolutionary, their mobile usage is through the roof - how modern of them. But if you dig in, they also had decades with essentially no data services when the rest of the world was surfing the web full tilt and they still have a lower access to actual computers which may be lost jobs/skills/etc. In this case, they've had decades of power instability and all that comes with it. So there are tradeoffs being had. It's not a bad strategy for some of the poorer parts of the world to let the rest of the world do the innovating until things are affordable, it's quite smart and should be expected actually.
by Muskwalker | 2025-11-05 20:52:39+00:00
In fact in this case, it's not the known limitation of floating point numbers to blame: this Calculator application gives you the ability (submenu under View > Decimal Places) to choose a precision between 0 to 15 decimal places, and it will do rounding beyond that point. I think the default is 8.

The original screenshot shows a number with 13 decimal places, and if you set it at or above 13, then the calculation will come out correct.

The application doesn't really go out of its way to communicate this to the user. For the most part maybe it doesn't matter, but "user entering more decimal places than they'll get back" might be one thing an application might usefully highlight.