MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by djoldman | 2025-11-12 13:47:47+00:00
My understanding is that one of the huge barriers to a lot of DoD projects is seemingly unending feature creep:

1. let's make the "next-gen airplane" 2. (work 5 years) 3. ok now we want it to have better radar cloaking 4. (work 5 years) 5. ok now we want it to be faster 6. (work 5 years) 7. ok now we want it to lift off vertically

Eventually every vehicle has all capabilities as opposed to focusing on some limited number.

We saw the same thing with the new USPS vehicle.
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 13:48:31+00:00
> ...[The State is] now taking an average of 57% off our salary...

Hello. USian here.

Looking at my taxes from last year, The State took 35% of what I earned.

I'd gladly pay 22% more if I got

* Healthcare that I'm not (or am hardly) billed for using and don't have to pay extra every month for [0]

* Mandatory six weeks minimum paid vacation

* Actual employment contracts that mean my employer can't up and say "Whoopsidoodle, this is your three month notice that we're requiring you to stop working from home and either move across the continent to sit your ass in one of our offices or quit. Severance? What severance?!?"; they actually have to justify upending the lives of their workers

* Governments that diswant to waste enormous amounts of money on pointless decades-long occupations of foreign nations

[0] In my state, bottom-end publicly-available health insurance (where I'm expected to pay ~7,000 USD out of pocket before anything is covered) costs ~500 USD a month and is expected to double in cost soon. [1]

[1] The current cost of the health insurance combined with the deductable raises my effective tax burden to 38%. The expected doubling in monthly cost raises it to 40%. [2]

[2] Yes, one typically gets USian health insurance through one's employer. The big appeal of the European system is that if you're unemployed (whether by choice, injury, or the cumulative injuries of advanced age), you don't have to pay out the ass for basic life-sustaining services. I think wonks call this the "social safety net".
by constantcrying | 2025-11-12 13:48:36+00:00
What the article calls "collaboration" is not collaboration, but performative work, in other words wasting time.

People love to invent reasons why they can not do something. "I need help", "I don't know", "I don't want to decide this", then they use these reasons to do performative work, meetings, pair programming, etc.

Collaboration happens when multiple people want to achieve a goal together. What the article calls "collaboration" is multiple people not wanting to achieve a goal, while pretending to want the opposite. These shouldn't be conflated, as actual collaboration is enormously powerful.
by cess11 | 2025-11-12 13:48:51+00:00
I don't get the impression that you actually help people migrate to Linux.

When I do, I give them a flash drive and if necessary help them change the boot order, then they just answer what they understand and accept defaults on the rest. This typically works well and they are surprised that when install is done, it's really done, no messing about with license keys and downloading install binaries and whatnot.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-12 13:49:14+00:00
Steam is the most dominant game tool on the planet and landed when there was not yet a market for it. Very few other projects will get to the level of success it has in any sector, anywhere.

GabeN was also a MS developer back in the day and likely would have been well off regardless, but he didn't need to play the YC A-B-let's-shoehorn-AI bullshit games that are 100% de rigeour for all startups in 2025.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-12 13:49:41+00:00
I worked at a Microsoft shop, and this was my experience.

1. Process, process, and more process. Doing anything required layers of management approval. Trivial tasks become month long, or even years long, processes.

2. You have no power or agency. Something is broken? You're a developer, you should be able to fix it right? No. Broken things stay broken. You swim in your lane and keep your head down. Mediocrity is the goal.

3. Optimization doesn't exist. If a process is manual and takes you, a developer, 10 hours, then that's what it is. Nobody gives a flying fuck about tooling. Nobody cares if you spend 50% of your dev time doing random stuff. And if you even dare try to fix it, you will be told it's impossible and you're wasting your time.

4. Management is king. You will have to lie to them. You will have to spend time re-entering the same data in 5 different places so they can read it conveniently. You will have to make Excel workbooks. You will have to dumb things down, and then dumb them down again, and again. Everything is about Jira... Unless they're a really high up manager, in which case you have to take whatever is in Jira and put it in a word doc and send it to them, because they don't know how to open Jira.
by indolering | 2025-11-12 13:50:27+00:00
WINE, CodeWeavers, Mesa, Red Hat, and plenty of others have been pumping money into the Linux graphics subsystems for a very long time. It's cool that Valve was able to use its considerable wealth to build a business off of it. But they came in at a pretty opportune time.

Windows support had gotten a boost from .NET going open source as well as other stuff MS began to relax about. It also helped that OpenGL was put to rest and there was a new graphics API that could reasonably emulate DirectX. I don't know much about the backstory of Mesa, but it's pretty cool tech that has been developing for a long time.
by rpaddock | 2025-11-12 13:50:36+00:00
In Tom Beardens book "Excalibur Briefing: Explaining Paranormal Phenomena" on page 166 he states:

"...Briefly, two groups of cells were selected from the same cell culture and one sample placed on each side of a window joining two environmentally shielded rooms. The cell cultures were in quartz containers. One cell culture was used as the initiation sample and was subjected to a deadly mechanism - virus, germ, chemical poison, irradiation, ultraviolet rays, etc. The second cell culture was observed, to ascertain any transmitted effects from the culture sample being killed.

When the window was made of ordinary glass, the second sample remained alive and healthy. When the window was made of quartz, the second sample sickened and died with the same symptoms as the primary sample. The experiments were done in darkness, and over 5,000 were reported by Kaznacheyev and his colleagues. The onset of induced complementary sickness and death in the second culture followed a reasonable time - say two to four hours - behind sickness and death in the primary culture.

The major transmission difference between window glass and quartz is that quartz transmits both ultraviolet and infrared well, while glass is relatively opaque to ultraviolet and infrared. Both quartz and glass transmit visible light. ..."

Based on this work:

V.P. Kaznacheyev et al, "Distant Intercellular Interactions in a System of Two Tissue Cultures," Psychoenergetic Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1976, pp. 141-142.

https://rexresearch1.com/BeardenLibrary/
by jorams | 2025-11-12 13:50:46+00:00
> this does possibly have a chilling effect if the vendor's CNA refuses valid vulns

The Linux kernel went in the opposite direction: Every bugfix that looks like it could be relevant to security gets a CVE[1]. The number of CVEs has increased significantly since it became a CNA.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/978711/
by GeoAtreides | 2025-11-12 13:50:50+00:00
Yes, it's called: Web Environment Integrity + hardware attestation of some kind

> "the technical means through which WEI will accomplish its ends is relatively simple. Before serving a web page, a server can ask a third-party "verification" service to make sure that the user's browsing environment has not been "tampered" with. A translation of the policy's terminology will help us here: this Google-owned server will be asked to make sure that the browser does not deviate in any way from Google's accepted browser configuration" [1]

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrit...
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-11-12 13:51:09+00:00
Learning Algorithm Of Biological Networks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-OLgbdZ3kk

In this video we explore Predictive Coding – a biologically plausible alternative to the backpropagation algorithm, deriving it from first principles.

Predictive coding and Hebbian learning are interconnected learning mechanisms where Hebbian learning rules are used to implement the brain's predictive coding framework. Predictive coding models the brain as a hierarchical system that minimizes prediction errors by sending top-down predictions and bottom-up error signals, while Hebbian learning, often simplified as "neurons that fire together, wire together," provides a biologically plausible way to update the network's weights to improve predictions over time.
by nickstaggs | 2025-11-12 13:51:12+00:00
For me there are 2 components to staying motivated.

1. Measurable, manageable goals. Don't toil for hours on end. I set the goal of 1 hard, 2 medium or 3 easy problems a day. And if I get stuck I consult chatgpt study to help direct how I should think about a certain problem.

2. Make it competitive. At least for the actual leetcode site you see how your run time and memory consumption stacks up against other users. I try to be the best in one or both. This can also get at run time and space complexities. You can also see the solutions for the fastest run times which can teach you some lower level ideas for the language you are using. I learned about holey arrays in Javascript due to this and how certain conditionals are better optimized for v8.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-11-12 13:51:20+00:00
Yep. This is the way. Even if you don't want to/are not able to have a daily routine and such, detaching as many activities as possible from volatile things like motivation,mood,etc is extremely useful. That is the most important part. Early on in life it is easy, since you have a clear set of objectively great things to do - do great in school, do great in exams, do great in college, get a great first job, don't screw up health in growing years. So you can force yourself to do those no matter what. Later on in life (post college) it gets harder, since you have to ensure you're not forcing yourself to do something counterproductive, especially in new fields like SWE, where there's no clear industry standard career path yet, or an industry standard anything really. Academia in contrast you can apply this strategy until a lot later.
by shlip | 2025-11-12 13:51:55+00:00
Might seem obvious to some, but after trying for half an hour for llama.cpp/gemma3-1b to correctly tell me how many 11mm tall sugar cubes I should stack to get to the moon (the model insisted that 11 mm == 0.011 km for its calculations), this might shed a light on why this seemingly easy task is not for LLMs.
by JCM9 | 2025-11-12 13:51:59+00:00
For all the AI slop and studies saying AI is more hype than substance I will say that this use case is one that seems very legit.

The stock photo industry was always pretty bad and silly expensive. Being able to custom generate visuals and photos to replace that is a good use case of AI IMHO. Yes sometimes it does goofy things, but it’s getting quite good. If AI blows up the stock photo industry few will shed a tear.
by xela79 | 2025-11-12 13:52:16+00:00
what a short sighted and close minded person. I hope she uses the same rule for everything. "as soon as he opened a book to read a receipt I stopped being interested".

> ‘OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause?’

look at this garbage reasoning. "oh no a shopping list, IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD"
by danielbarla | 2025-11-12 13:52:23+00:00
I've heard this argument before from the perspective of C# having more keywords and language features to be aware of than something else (in my particular argument, the other side was Java).

From this perspective, I can't say I disagree as such. If you look at the full set of language features, it sure is a lot of stuff to know about. The argument that it is too much, and that we should sacrifice expressiveness and signal to noise ratio in the code to keep the language simpler, I don't agree with.
by lproven | 2025-11-12 13:53:40+00:00
> I can't say I have ever missed the ability to select and copy text from the UI chrome

Good heavens. I boggled at this.

It's not every single day, but probably at least once a week I am frustrated by this, and have been since the rise of PC GUIs -- so, coming up on 35 years now. It was often doable on DOS-era PCs, especially if you had a mouse, or a multitasking environment like DESQview, or best of all, both.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 13:54:00+00:00
> Researchers are getting rewarded with VC money to try what remains a science experiment. That used to be a bad word

I’ve worked for multiple startups and I’ve watched startup job boards most of my career.

A lot of VC backed startups have a founder with a research background and are focused on providing out some hypothesis. I don’t see anything uncommon about this arrangement.

If you live near a University that does a lot of research it’s very common to encounter VC backed startups that are trying to prove out and commercialize some researcher’s experiment. It’s also common for those founders to spend some time at a FAANG or similar firm before getting VC funded.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-12 13:54:04+00:00
So they started with 663 sources and then decided to exclude all but 16. They clearly cherry picked their data.

Whereas the timeline of Phenacetin(which becomes paracetamol) became extremely popular to use in the 1890s; especially in germany because of Bayer.

1911, autism was coined because of ~10 year old kids in germany.

Autism wasnt super prevalent, then we got rid of Phenactin in the 1970s for straight up paracetamol. Autism has been skyrocketting in prevalence since.

The theoretical damage that it would cause the fetus matches up well with our disabilities. The theoretical fixes also match up well with how our community tends to treat themselves.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-12 13:54:15+00:00
Or does this just prove lawyers are artificially intelligent?

yes, a glib response, but think about it: we define an intelligence test for humans, which by definition is an artificial construct. If we then get a computer to do well on the test we haven't proved it's on par with human intelligence, just that both meet some of the markers that the test makers are using as rough proxies for human intelligence. Maybe this helps signal or judge if AI is a useful tool for specific problems, but it doesn't mean AGI
by vanderZwan | 2025-11-12 13:54:20+00:00
> Vinyl literally cannot be brickwalled because the needle can't handle it.

Interesting, I did not know this! I'm not doubting you, but I'm a little confused and curious about how the physics of that works out. Wouldn't being brickwalled mean the volume stays pretty constant, meaning there's less work for the needle? Or is there some kind of limit to how many overlapping waveforms a needle can pick up at once?
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-11-12 13:54:21+00:00
“Regulate”? We can’t, and shouldn’t, regulate everything. Policymakers should focus on creating rules that ensure data safety, but if someone over 18 years wants to marry a chatbot… well, that’s their (stupid) choice.

Instead of trying to control everything, policymakers should educate people about how these chatbots work and how to keep their data safe. After all, not everyone who played Doom in the ’90s became a real killer, or assaults women because of YouPorn.

Society will adapt to these ridiculous new situations…what truly matters is people’s awareness and understanding.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-12 13:54:29+00:00
I know I am a bit late to the party, nothing of value was lost here.

I never signed up for it because I know this is really a method for giving telemarketers a list of good phone numbers. I hardly get any calls were people I know who signed up gets lots.

That is because these companies opened up subsidiaries in foreign countries and used the list to call people. Many calls people I know get are from spoofed numbers located in other countries.
by wtcactus | 2025-11-12 13:54:29+00:00
57% is the average. If you are here writing on HN, it’s safe to assume you are way above average salary and taxes.

But you are right, I don’t have to pay out the ass for my basic life-sustaining services… what I do have to pay out of the ass, every month, is for someone else’s basic life sustaining services.
by maffyoo | 2025-11-12 13:54:34+00:00
ive always wondered why, in "day stay" car parks (commuters etc) they dont have 6 to 8 cables from a charging point that can all connect to different cars and then do round robin charging. This solves the problem of one person being connected all day and preventing others from benefitting. This way a number of cars can be charged up without the inconvenience of just one person being constantly connected. We have chargers at work where this solution would prevent all the car shuffling and aggro associated with people managing access. in our case 3 cars could charge in a day, so 3 cables available to three spaces and charging done round robin. Probably not a novel idea but one id like to see implemented
by elmerfud | 2025-11-12 13:55:05+00:00
That nebulous label is creep has been dismissed by any reasonable person. Because the same words spoken by two different people and it's creepy in one case and not in the other all through the subjective lens of the receiver. Something that is impossible to know in advance.

So if you have actual evidence of inappropriate things that have been said, especially after someone has indicated it's unwelcome, please share that for everyone to see. Otherwise you're just spouting nonsense with nothing to back it up except arbitrary feelings.

Sorry you didn't want to be approached by Richard Stallman but even people who look like Richard Stallman are allowed to shoot their shot without being called a creep.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 13:55:10+00:00
Political messaging I am completely fed up with and I am sure I am not the only person fed up with it. I go out of my way now to make sure that I see almost none of it.

When I see overt political messaging outside of someone that works for a particular organisation or political party, I steer clear.

I've found that most people (doesn't matter what political persuasion) have a very poor understanding of what they are actually supporting if they understand it at all. Often they simply parroting what they've elsewhere.
by raeroumeliotis | 2025-11-12 13:55:11+00:00
Be afraid, be very afraid! It’s that time of year again, when all the horrors come out of the shadows, including those produced by #GenAI This Halloween, join us to hear about unexpected model drift, security breaches, miscommunication between agents, and much more!

*Agenda* Conjuring Code with AI (Thierry Damiba) Phantoms in the Network: Agent-to-Agent Exploitation (Deborah Dahl) Don't Answer the Door! It's GenAI Security Threats (Katherine Druckman) How AI Will Kill Us (Steven Pemberton) *Horrors from the Past - How we're still making the same ML Mistakes from TEN YEARS AGO (David Aronchick)
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-11-12 13:55:22+00:00
Begin by acknowledging that Stallman is insane. But that is not enough.

The second, mandatory step is to pivot to his work -- and stay there.

The third step (which, regrettably, must be optional) is to consider the relationship between insanity and exceptional innovation/productivity. We've been trying to ignore that one for centuries, but it is responsible for much of what we use and value.
by edot | 2025-11-12 13:55:27+00:00
This is a fake AI generated article from an author who claims to have invented a new algebraic system that links math, AI, and information together. The algebra system is named after himself and his “paper” (on arXiv) has two references. This is junk and shouldn’t be posted here. If you Google “solar storm chances next decade” you’ll get an AI summary citing the same 12%, this time posted on https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2014/07/28/126748.htm with essentially the exact same story as this post.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-11-12 13:55:36+00:00
maybe to stop the .01%. switching to app only, sign in only would get them pretty much all the way there.

They own the os, with sign-in, integrity checks, and the inability to install anything on it Google doesn't want you to install they could make it pretty much impossible to view the videos on a device capable of capturing them for the vast majority of people. Combine that with a generation raised in sandboxes and their content would be safe.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-11-12 13:56:07+00:00
Curious about this piece:

"By up-to-date, I mean that the follower will grant its vote only if the candidate’s last entry term (included in the RequestVote) is higher, or the candidate’s last entry index (also included) is higher for the same term. If the candidate’s log isn’t more up-to-date than the follower’s, the latter won’t grant its vote."

Is this why election timeouts are random? To guarantee that at least one candidate is more up-to-date than others, as measured by the last entry term?
by lproven | 2025-11-12 13:56:32+00:00
Oh my yes.

I want every app and every web page to be 100% navigable if I do not have a pointing device attached to my computer.

And I want this enforced by law, by large rich countries. Accessibility to people with disabilities would be a good way: if your product or service is not accessible to people who can't see, can't use a mouse, or can't use their hands at all, then you can't sell it.
by foofoo12 | 2025-11-12 13:56:59+00:00
My friend went to see the doctor. A very attractive nurse took his blood pressure, which turned out to be off the charts. She goes out, comes back 5 minutes later and repeats, same results. Goes out and 10 minutes later and old bearded doctor comes in and repeats the tests.

Doctor ends up telling him that he was hoping it was just the attractive nurse, but no. He'd be starting medication today.
by goku12 | 2025-11-12 13:57:30+00:00
> Moving to native app makes it much easier to prevent downloading and denying access to the unencrypted content.

It would still be possible with native apps. Somebody will have to reverse engineer it continuously. So it will be slower, but still possible.

However, that won't be the case if they start using some secret (like a private key) that you can't access directly from an app, or if they decide that you can't run custom/modified apps. That's what I believe to be the true intentions behind their push to adopt dystopian technologies like secure enclaves and platform attestation. Not really about security as they claim.
by ta12653421 | 2025-11-12 13:57:43+00:00
I HAVE FOUR WORDS FOR YOU: "I ... LOVE .. THIS .. COMPANY ... yeeeaaaahhhhhh1111"

Since Nadella took over, MS made some substantial steps forward: On Azure, around 30% is Linux; MS went cross platform with some of its most successful apps/ecosystems. Its not that MS behaving like a friend today, but their Dev-tools are really great - at least they care for Devs, i wish they would care for Office users as well.

C# + .NET is from my perspective the most developed and most mature eco system when it comes to business applications.

I really like it!