MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by malvim | 2025-11-06 13:33:35+00:00
Except it’s not a screw up, is it? I’m not saying it’s malicious, and I feel your caricature of “twirling mustaches” is useless and detracts from the point.

It’s not a “screw up”. It’s also not malicious per se. It’s insensitive and shows a lack of care for the community. They deliberately turned on a bot that would overwrite work done by people, and make these people work with diffs and proofreading, without them having a say in it. In production!

It’s not like they can’t test it. Or involve everyone. There are locale leaders, as the Italian person alluded to.

This is shitting on community, and then going “sorry not sorry”, because they’re not rolling it back and they’re saying “I’m sorry you got your feelings hurt, wanna talk”?

This CAN be sorted out. And I believe it will. But it WAS insensitive and it WAS a case of not caring for the people who put their time and effort in voluntary work that benefits you. It’s really bad, no matter the intentions.
by kaicianflone | 2025-11-06 13:33:37+00:00
You’re absolutely right that many nations were converted by force or politics. History is full of that tension. The message of Christ abused in ways completely opposite to what He taught in the Scripture.

What’s always struck me, though, is how the faith survived despite those abuses. Every empire that tried to use Christianity as a weapon eventually crumbled, but the core message kept resurfacing through people who lived it voluntarily. Saints, reformers, monks, ordinary believers who loved instead of coerced.

Christianity spreads most truthfully through witness, not power. The fact that so many who first met it under pressure later kept it freely says something deeper is at work than politics or force.
by joenot443 | 2025-11-06 13:33:48+00:00
> It's a computer designed to help you learn, create, play, and explore. It's a space to focus, free from distractions. A return to the simple joy of computing: just you and your ideas.

One of the bigger tells is this tendency to triple up on an idea in three separate sentences, each with a slightly different rhythm but with nearly identical meaning.

It’s just not the way I’d imagine a native English hacker would talk about a project like this whose audience is other nerds.

I don’t think the author is grifting or vibe coding, I just imagine they’re not much of a writer and figured they could cut a quick corner and work on the project itself. Writing good product copy is actually really difficult, IMO.
by ck2 | 2025-11-06 13:34:04+00:00
imho her half-ironman times are exponentially more impressive

she has a SUB 7 HOUR half-ironman, that's bonkers

very healthy well-trained 40yo would have a hard time matching that

some people just have excellent genetics and then pair that with excellent training

https://www.athlinks.com/athletes/94494810/results
by nkohari | 2025-11-06 13:35:31+00:00
I feel like DI frameworks for JavaScript/TypeScript are always too complex, and rely too heavily on decorators to make up for the lack of RTTI. You'd be surprised how far you can get with using string identifiers for dependencies:

https://github.com/nkohari/forge

(For context: many years ago, I wrote Ninject, one of the more popular DI frameworks for .NET)
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 13:35:56+00:00
> it’s a trivial issue that can be easily fixed by "jumping on a quick call."

Where are you getting this from? Nowhere is it suggested that a quick call will resolve it. You're inventing that. The actual text is:

> Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further? We want to make sure we trully understand what you're struggling with.

This is the first step towards fixing something. Understanding it.

The idea that this is dismissive or unproductive is frankly absurd.
by BillinghamJ | 2025-11-06 13:36:09+00:00
Changing/layering architecture adds risk. If you've got a standard way of working you can easily throw in on day one whose fundamentals then don't need to be changed for years, that's way lower risk, easier, faster

It is common for founding engineers to start with a preexisting way of working that they import from their previous more-scaled company, and that approach is refined and compounded over time

It does mean starting with more than is necessary at the start, but that doesn't mean it has to be particularly complex. It means you start with heaps of already-solved problems that you simply never have to deal with, allowing focus on the product goals and deep technical investments that need to be specific to the new company
by nmeagent | 2025-11-06 13:36:41+00:00
IME an n vs. m written discussion in a public forum can be clearer, more productive, and a hell of a lot more accountable than some potential n vs. 1 adversarial corporate firing-squad 'discussion' intended to reinforce whatever policy the n have already decided upon. IMO, much of the benefit of voice over text is likely offset by the latter scenario being real time with potential translation issues.
by ryanMVP | 2025-11-06 13:36:43+00:00
Reading the whitepaper, the inference provider still has the ability to access the prompt and response plaintext. This scheme does seem to guarantee that plaintext cannot be read for all other parties (e.g. the API router), and that the client's identity is hidden and cannot be associated with their request. Perhaps the precise privacy guarantees and allowances should be summarized in the readme.

With that in mind, does this scheme offer any advantage over the much simpler setup of a user sending an inference request:

- directly to an inference provider (no API router middleman)

- that accepts anonymous crypto payments (I believe such things exist)

- using a VPN to mask their IP?
by eesmith | 2025-11-06 13:36:46+00:00
Yes, people do all sorts of nasty and cruel things because they think it's kinda amusing. That doesn't justify the behavior.

The act of riding a bicycle in and of itself is not "preachy". That happens. "six bicyclists training for a road race were run over by a 16-year-old who was rolling coal", at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal .

Rolling coal nearly always implies deliberate intent, not coincidental timing. Some examples from state laws listed at that same Wikipedia page: "knowing release of soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions", "with the intent", "may not knowingly or intentionally cause", "intentionally release significant quantities of soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions"
by snowwrestler | 2025-11-06 13:37:09+00:00
Some companies may have only one Brenda, but what really makes accounting work is multiple Brendas. In the case of my employer, we have a pretty small finance dept but we pay a big firm to come in once a year to check the books. “Brenda as a service.” (BaaS)

Brendas actually aren’t totally perfect so the tools between Brendas need to deterministically store and show their work so they can reliably check each other. If the tool itself has a Brenda baked into it—even if it’s a very good Brenda simulation!—it seems like a company could run the risk of losing that deterministic basis for double-checking. And therefore lose track of their accounting reality.

Some people will for sure over-trust the AI in the spreadsheet and make some dumb mistakes. Let’s all remember though that dumb mistakes in business are not illegal, and the whole point of a private market is to enable “natural consequences” for businesses that make them. Some people will need to touch the hot stove of AI to understand how it could hurt them. I’m not sure there is any way to stop that, or even if we should.
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-06 13:37:32+00:00
This is no longer reliably the case, because the carrier is legally required to provide a minimum set of information about the caller (its location) to the emergency services, which many cannot fulfill if the call was made without a SIM.

In the past they handled the call without that information, but after an incident in 2013 the court ruled that the requirements also must be fulfilled without a SIM (0).

So some carriers (notably all German ones) stopped accepting Emergency calls without SIM, first to not be in violation of the law but nowadays apparently due to "misuse" (?) (1).

(0) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

(1) https://www.heise.de/en/background/112-Emergency-Call-Day-No...
by zigzag312 | 2025-11-06 13:37:34+00:00
> I always thought the usability/ergonomics of the Flutter framework was slightly poor, but the Dart language itself is pretty darn awesome!

I think a lot of ergonomics issues of the Flutter are because of Dart language lacking in some areas. Flutter team even demonstrated how Flutter is expected to improve when certain features land in Dart. (Not sure if/how cancelation of macros will affects this.)

I'm (im)patiently waiting for augmentations and declaring constructors to be completed. Augmentations alone will help with so many things.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-06 13:38:58+00:00
Someone mentioned that you could install it using Brew. I was a little surprised how quickly it installed. Installing anything via Brew normally take a while, but apparently that's not the fault of Brew, stuff just have a large number of dependencies and a large package size.

The lack of JavaScript is an issue in terms of what sites work or even render properly, but damn everything is fast without it.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-11-06 13:39:10+00:00
In my experience, the corporate request of a "let's talk" by a staff member is literally like automatic ticket creation and a reference number being assigned to it, and then just sitting on it and possibly claiming "we had a productive discussion and looking forward to working with the community and we are always keeping Mozilla users in our hearts and minds... " and the person who raised the issue in public is like "…wait… what?… damn… why did I even agree to that call".

Seeing what that person has said in the first and seemingly last message, it indicates that; especially the history mentioned. Also, this should definitely be looked at with the colours of what has been Mozilla the Corp's modus operandi – again and again and again - w.r.t users and contributors.

So that thread has more than "one person listed grievance, another wants to talk" as you have kindly tried to put across.
Do you know how much I hate the AI bubble?
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-06 13:39:13+00:00
For people on the bottom side of the K economy this is like a hellish purgatory, we get closer to death without having been able to live. The AI bubble might be great for Altman, but it's basically canaibalized the rest of the economy, sucking in so much resources that it suffocates everything outside of it. I hate this so much, I would be okay if the Supreme Court said "these tariffs are illegal but keep them anyway". I don't know how to describe just how much hell the rest of the economy is going through. It doesn't even feel like living, just barely surviving as the costs eat me alive.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-11-06 13:39:24+00:00
Or Floridians will move to New York...

A new Florida Atlantic University poll reveals that nearly half of Florida residents have considered moving due to rising costs of living, despite the state’s continued reputation as an affordable destination for many who live in northern areas of the U.S. The poll, conducted by FAU’s Business and Economic Polling Initiative, surveyed 1,000 Floridians and found growing economic frustration as property taxes, home insurance, and housing costs continue to climb. “Insurance. That’s the biggest one,” one resident said when asked about financial pressures. The findings come as a surprise to researchers, given Florida’s traditional appeal as an escape from high-cost northern states.

Source:

https://www.wflx.com/2025/11/04/florida-residents-weigh-leav...
by gilbetron | 2025-11-06 13:39:48+00:00
The pandemic induced the major change. Schools were forced to put everything online, and so screens became the default learning environment. What's the difference between them being on a laptop/chromebook/tablet and a phone? Not really that much. Plus parents allowed their kids get phones at a younger age to keep track of them. Now we are trying to claw it back, but the big problem is that the parents are the ones preventing it. They need to be constantly attached to their kids. Our son is 16 and while he loves screens, he also is enjoying kids spending less time on them at school so he can chat with people more.
by kaicianflone | 2025-11-06 13:39:54+00:00
I actually appreciate how clearly you put that. The honesty in what you said is exactly where most people’s quiet struggle lives. You’re right that faith doesn’t begin with airtight logic. It begins when reason finally runs out of things that can satisfy the soul.

The point of Christianity isn’t to switch off rational scrutiny. It’s to realize that reason itself points beyond its own edges. The disciples didn’t follow Jesus because they stopped thinking. They followed because they met a Person who made sense of what their thinking never could.

As for “why this faith and not another,” for me it wasn’t about comparing systems. It was that every story in Scripture, from Genesis to the cross, keeps tracing one pattern: God coming toward humanity, not demanding that we climb up to Him. Every other belief I studied started with what we must do. This one begins with what He already did.

I don’t expect that to “prove” anything to you, but maybe it’s something to sit with and find Faith in. The story of Jesus resonates with billions of followers, more than other religions, not because it’s the best or default religion.
by mtrovo | 2025-11-06 13:40:19+00:00
I know you have some bias for the education solution, but I can't see why this is not a market problem. You have broken devices; you send them to get fixed; you have to travel one day to get them fixed; you have someone take them for a fee.

You would be surprised at the amount of product repairs that are deemed not worth solving in a developed country that you can sort out in a couple of hours in a developing country.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-06 13:40:30+00:00
Two observations: You are probably right. But if a random spelling error would allow a person to get away with using AI in professional communications then you can expect that pattern to show up all over the place.

I'm trying to imagine the prompt here.

"Hey, ChatGPT, it looks like our org fucked up and now a hotheaded volunteer makes us look like idiots. Please generate a flippant response that pretends to show we care and meanwhile ticks them off even further. Oh, and I don't want my boss to know I'm using AI to generate this response, so make it good this time, and make it look human."
by Retric | 2025-11-06 13:40:40+00:00
A great number of people believe they can when they can’t, the reverse is less frequent. Which is likely the outgrowth of saying to anyone “you can do it” being much easier and safer than a more realistic assessment.

Instead I like to say “that will be a lot of work” which is generally true, can help someone succeed by focusing on something productive, and even failure at the given goal often results in something positive. Hard work simply pays better dividends than dreaming about what comes after success.
by varjoranta | 2025-11-06 13:40:42+00:00
Started as weekend project tracking abandoned git branches. Ended as philosophical investigation into what we actually build vs. what customers need. The Sven character is composite of 3 developers I've worked with across Spotify/F-Secure/startups.

Every absurd metric (almost) came from real observations, just amplified to satirical extremes.

Happy to discuss the real patterns behind the fiction.
by drfuchs | 2025-11-06 13:40:49+00:00
Oops. Anyway, I remember attending a talk by one of the IBM engineers back when they first released the XT/370. He said that they looked at all possible ways to integrate their production line as a kind of secondary track off of one of the main production lines for the PC/XT, but the most economical option ended up being a separate facility that would receive normal pallets of regularly boxed, end-user XTs from the main factory, unbox them, make the mods, and pack them back into XT/370-labeled boxes for shipping.
by etruong42 | 2025-11-06 13:40:53+00:00
This is an easy mistake in large organizations. Any project often already has so many stakeholders and politics that they are incentivized to avoid adding more stakeholders to the project if they are politically capable of doing so.

Unless there is some sort of blowback, this sort of thing is likely to happen again to someone, and I understand how some people may not want to be involved anymore, and I understand how Mozilla will keep being Mozilla (just like other organizations will continue their current behaviors until some catalyst changes that behavior).
by MrsPeaches | 2025-11-06 13:40:54+00:00
Cheap crap = lasts only as long as the warranty period.

I did a survey in partnership with a the African Leadership University in a Rwanda, where we surveyed people living in two rural villages and found 90% or units had broken within 3 years of purchase. This is the logical end point when 1/5 stop working after 6 months, which you can find in Cross and Murry 2018, linked in other comments.

10x mark up (i.e. the mark up on cost of the unit) comes from knowing that the COGS for one of these units is ~$20-30 and the premium sellers sell up to $300.

Sure it’s at the top end of the range but 10x markup on each unit is not an exaggeration, let alone a massive one.

Gross margins are indeed tight but that’s is a separate issue to markup. You can sell at a huge markup and still make a loss: for example if the default rate of loans you make turns out to be much higher than you expected.
by moshib | 2025-11-06 13:41:44+00:00
IKEA's Zigbee devices have been some of the more stable smart devices I owned. I wasn't running their hub, opting to run with deCONZ in the past and moving to Zigbee2MQTT in recent years.

I do wish the new range would include blinds; the previous generation (FYRTUR) is out of production, and it doesn't seem like there's a replacement yet.
by grvbck | 2025-11-06 13:41:45+00:00
> This is horrifically patronizing after someone's volunteer work was effectively destroyed

This, 100 %.

"Your bot just destroyed 20 years of my work."

"Naaaw, sorry you feel that way! Let's hop on a quick call so I can explain to you why you're wrong, mkay?"

> It's one of those "they live among us" moments, where you realize that you're surrounded by psychopaths.

Or has this kind of corporate language/attitude become so common that people just gave up fighting it? If so, that's…terrifying.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-06 13:42:23+00:00
Parents are insane and demand access to their kids at all times.

My son goes to a private school, and I was on the board of trustees when we basically did the same thing the NYS requires three years ago. The drama and insanity was beyond anything I expected. One parent left me a three minute voicemail excoriating me as being no better than a school shooter - in the event of an emergency her son would die alone, because of me. (I introduced the motion and was called out in the minutes)

It’s great that the state passed a pretty sane law on the matter. Crazy people already think the governor is <insert terrible thing>, and the school boards can just nod, point to Albany and get on with their business.

There is leeway as well, our school (and some others that I know of), allow 7th graders and up to email parents via GMail. So little Tommy can keep folks in the loop about scheduling changes or whatever.
by danaris | 2025-11-06 13:42:25+00:00
Any "other entity" would, in practice, be either beholden to the same government, or concerned with profit over safety.

Our current crisis is not one we can or should base new structures off of. There is no realistic way to run a modern society that can take into account a government utterly hostile to the very notion of governing. We have to get rid of the bad actors and restore some semblance of sanity before we can even consider how to make things more robust against this sort of treasonous single-party capture in future.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-11-06 13:42:26+00:00
It probably is bullshit, but everything you've written is a straw man. A phone is useful for the kid on their journey to or from school, which by secondary level I would hope is on their own. Even just, "I'm going to Steve's, I'll be late for dinner".

But it doesn't need to be a smartphone for that, and it doesn't need to be out during school hours.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-11-06 13:42:53+00:00
"I'm sorry you feel that way" is a canned non-apology, worse than a canned apology. At least a canned apology admits fault.

I wouldn't want to get into a call with someone with that attitude. If I'm quitting because no consideration was given to me or my work, and the first response I get shows no consideration to me, my work, or even acknowledge my list of grievances, a "quick call" is the last thing I feel like getting on.

In fact, even that word, "quick", is insulting, because there's no way this is getting fixed with a "quick" call. "Quick call" implies the grievances are minor. More insults.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-11-06 13:43:11+00:00
The few 0.1%ers I've known had no other goals in life other than running up the score on the balance sheets. While others in their twilight years are exploring the world, deepening ties with family, or going all in on hobbies, these people are on endless defense of their wealth. Resisting any type of tax that doesn't benefit their wealth growth goals is a natural outcome.

While not the only reason and probably not even the primary reason why they resist wealth taxes as a group, the four or fiveish I know are very much motivated by personal score.
by viridian | 2025-11-06 13:43:15+00:00
The main rifles I've seen depicted in this conflict are AK pattern rifles, with the rare ancient armalite pattern rifle scattered among them, and a singular SCAR.

Based on where most modern AK manufacturing has moved to (China, like manufacturing writ large), you should instead be asking the Chinese populous to protest. That said, I wouldn't hold my breath on China forming a mass protest culture any time soon, Tiananmen Square is in most people's living memory.
by jdpage | 2025-11-06 13:43:20+00:00
Point of order: "enshittification" does not mean what the author's using it to mean. It does not just mean "the product got worse". It means "the product was purposefully made worse in order to capture additional value from the customer," i.e. a rug pull.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I'd hate to see such a useful term for corporate malfeasance diluted.
by pron | 2025-11-06 13:43:57+00:00
The problem is that too many people just don't know how to weigh different probabilities of correctness against each other. The NYT is wrong 5% of the time - I'll believe this random person I just saw on TikTok because I've never heard of them ever being wrong; I've heard many stories about doctors being wrong - I'll listen to RFK; scientific models could be wrong, so I'll bet on climate change being not real etc.