MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quantummagic | 2025-11-21 18:32:22+00:00
No offense taken; you're likely in the minority. The loudest voices anyway, believe the "bubble" and hype are going to burst. That all the money is a scam and bound to fail.

Enron, Theranos, FTX, were all massive propaganda successes, until they weren't. Same with countless other technologies that didn't live up to the hype.

And what counts as propaganda anyway? I can only speak for myself, but have had great success with the use of AI. Anything positive I say about it, isn't motivated by a grand conspiracy I secretly want to bolster, it's just honest feedback from personal experience.
by rincebrain | 2025-11-21 18:32:35+00:00
I don't think they want to kill it entirely in the next 5 years, at least, but I do think they just want to stop supporting the non-enterprise users because that lets them significantly constrain what hardware and features they have to maintain, and all their big software offerings are very content being sold as cloud-based recurring revenue sources.

I would assume after 11 LTSC finally EOLs might be the earliest they'd be considering anything more drastic, but I wouldn't speculate whether it'd look like a good idea by then.

It may sound wild, and certainly possible time will prove me wrong, I'm not an oracle, but the ongoing failures in basic functions in Windows seems like they're removing significant investment in it as a reliable platform for general use going forward, and their recent introduction of things like the Xbox handheld running Windows makes me suspect their goal is to constrain where it's still used, and trim how much it costs to maintain that way.
by f1shy | 2025-11-21 18:32:44+00:00
I do not think this is exactly true. People may stop eating junk outside. But having a healthy balanced diet is more expensive than buying junk and eating at home; and not only in money, but more importantly (maybe) in time. Cooking takes time and effort, which families with both working parents may struggle with. Please do not forget often those people have more exhausting and abusive jobs.

I know from first hand, how difficult can it be in that environment with limited money, time, and energy to go to the grocery store often, buy fresh things, and cook. It is much more convenient to buy things that go in the freezer, when they are in offer, and throw them into the oven when arriving home.
by empath75 | 2025-11-21 18:32:46+00:00
Peoples interior model of the world is very tenuously related to reality. We don't have a direct experience of waves, quantum mechanics, the vast majority of the electromagnetic spectrum, etc. The whole thing is a bunch of shortcuts and hacks that allow people to survive, the brain isn't really setup to probe reality and produce true beliefs, and the extent to which our internal models of reality naturally match actual reality is related to how much that mattered to our personal survival before the advent of civilization and writing, etc.

It's really only been a very brief amount of time in human history where we had a deliberate method for trying to probe reality and create true beliefs, and I am fairly sure that if consciousness existed in humanity, it existed before the advent of the scientific method.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-21 18:33:09+00:00
I think this is an overly tendentious reading. Nobody else seems to have gotten hung up on this, because they understand that it's a policy, not an immutable law of nature.

The argument advanced in the post is IMO clear: cooldowns are a sensible default to have, and empirically seem to be effective at mitigating the risk of compromised dependencies. I thought I took sufficient pains to be clear that they're not a panacea.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-21 18:33:12+00:00
The "No Kings" protest had absolutely no subject or issue other than repeating Trump's name. What would it have meant for it to have been successful? What I mean by that is what could "X" be in the sentence: "If X policy had changed, the No Kings rallies would have accomplished one of their goals"?

It was just an astroturfed Democratic party rally that drummed up participation by mass text spam from Indian call centers. The turnout was positively geriatric.

Incidentally, the Democratic Party has started running into a severe issue with text spammers and fake orgs asking for donations and raking in millions, and the people doing it are people who are actually involved with the party.

Those Constant Texts Asking You to Donate to Democrats Are Scams

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mothership-strate...

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-...
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-11-21 18:33:14+00:00
I know a teacher who said one of their colleagues adamantly believes the moon landing was faked.

>So if someone can please suggest what is the suggestion here? Keep working with public school? To be honest, the damage was done by their previous public school where the situation deteriorated to the point I had a fight with the principal, and their current school (since 1.5 years) is actually undoing part of the damage done there.

Look up school ratings in your area and move is by far your best bet if you wish to continue public school. There is also the difficult truth that maybe your kids are the problem, but again school shopping could help with that depending on what programs they have.
by buu700 | 2025-11-21 18:33:14+00:00
I think AI nudges the economics more in this direction as well. Adding a non-core dependency has historically bought short-term velocity in exchange for different long-term maintenance costs. With AI, there are now many more cases where a first-party implementation becomes cheaper/easier/faster in both the short term and the long term.

Of course it's up to developers to weigh the tradeoffs and make reasonable choices, but now we have a lot more optionality. Reaching for a dependency no longer needs to be the default choice of a developer on a tight timeline/budget.
by KK7NIL | 2025-11-21 18:33:33+00:00
If you ask PRC shills, it's just around the corner because this one Chinese lab demonstrated a very small part of the system. And a surprising number of westerners fall for that crap.

My guess is that it's at least 10 years away, but that could obviously change depending on what resources they're willing to commit. But even at that point they'll be 2 decades behind ASML's EUV tech so it probably won't be competitive.
by ryanchants | 2025-11-21 18:33:55+00:00
From my experience:

Back of House: schedules are pretty much set. The only time things change is working around someone being out.

Front of House is famously a giant pot exceptions. Mix of professional waitstaff and folks who are just picking up some shifts to finance their passion/true focus(art, music, non-profits, teachers). So you'll need to work around some fun priorities.

How do you flag special events? This will require extra people on a Monday that is historically forecast-ed to be slow. Large parties is a specialist skill in a lot of restaurants. Pretty much any server can make a large party work, but normally a few of the staff really shine with that kind of work, and you'll want them staffed.

Respect everyone's availability/time-off: FOH usually has a good mix of full-time and part-time. And a lot of people are willing to pick up an extra shift with some head's up. And that's both part-times going full-time for a week, and full-timers working extra shifts. People have preferences around working/not working doubles and clopens. One of your full-timers requests a few shifts off next week because their band is playing the next town over. The human process is just to ask a few people who are working if they want to pick up those shifts. Often the person taking off will have found someone to cover for them before requesting the time off, so you'll need that input. Often the GM/AGM making the schedule has all of the human parts in their head and just works through it.
by daeken | 2025-11-21 18:33:56+00:00
So, it is possible to use the machine consumable forms of the ISA, but realistically you'll spend way longer fighting it than finding other strategies.

Years ago, I ended up creating my own aarch64 definition, which I use to generate disassemblers, interpreters, and recompilers (dynamic and static) automatically: https://github.com/daeken/SharpRetro/blob/main/Aarch64Genera...

It doesn't have perfect support, but it has served as an incredibly useful resource. I've since generalized it to work for other architectures, and that same repo has definitions for MIPS (specifically the PSX CPU), DMG, and the groundwork for an x86 core. The goal is to be able to define these once, then generate any future targets automatically.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 18:34:16+00:00
Both things can be true, you know. Yes, its food is abysmally unhealthy, but it’s effectively the de facto national cafeteria of the continental United States by virtue of its widespread footprint and (previously) low prices.

In an ideal world, we should be challenging both, rather than throwing up our hands and pleading confusion because someone can’t hold two truths simultaneously.
by filoeleven | 2025-11-21 18:34:24+00:00
European honeybees do not behave the same way as their native solitary counterparts. They gather honey by visiting every flower on a plant, then moving to the next plant. Native bees OTOH visit only one or two flowers per plant. So if imported honeybees outcompete natives (and studies show they do), it very much affects the viability of monoecious plants, which experience a drop in genetic diversity. I don't want to find out the long-term results of that experiment.

I don't think that's a reason to eradicate honeybees in the US or anything like that, but it does point to a misplaced focus on "just" solving colony collapse disorder while ignoring the plight of the native pollinators.

If you don't keep bees, or if you do but have a large enough property, you could put up a bee hotel. They can be bought or constructed pretty easily, and you'll get to see a wide variety of who's around your area!

https://bugguide.net/node/view/475348
by dpedu | 2025-11-21 18:34:29+00:00
It's worth noting that the Gaza Health Ministry is a government agency and the de-facto government of Gaza is Hamas, and therefore the health ministry _is_ Hamas. Casualty numbers released by the ministry have already been statistically dubious, and seeing that Hamas would only benefit from inflating these numbers, it is likely they are not accurate numbers.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-he...
Show HN: Hirosend – Simple Encrypted File Sharing
by nextguard | 2025-11-21 18:35:19+00:00
I built Hirosend because I needed a fast and secure way to send files to clients without asking them to create accounts or navigate permission screens. Dropbox/Drive were too heavy for one-off transfers, WeTransfer felt clunky for quick sends, and I really missed the simplicity Firefox Send had before it shut down.

Hirosend lets you upload a file, set expiration, add an optional password, or generate a one-time magic link. Recipients just click and download — no signup required on their side.

Files are encrypted before being stored and automatically deleted after expiration. There are basic access analytics so you know when a link was opened.

I’d love feedback on whether this solves a pain point for you, and what features would you like to see added.
by kakacik | 2025-11-21 18:35:59+00:00
But if people cook more (like its typical in european folks around Mediterranean), who will then do all the necessary TV watching and doom scrolling on social cancers to make them feel even more miserable and inadequate?

Btw that portion you mention won't be 0.5$, more like 2-3$ if if balanced and healthy enough. Tons of rice as is still very common in south east Asia ain't very healthy neither. But its sorta proven once folks start to cook for themselves more, they cook healthier than preprocessed junk food. And I don't mean some exquisite stuff, spending even 10-20 mins ever second evening can provide enough for whole family.
by coldtea | 2025-11-21 18:36:31+00:00
>I don't like it personally, but I fail to see what's controversial. It's a private business with rules.

It's controversial for people who believe that society is about more than merely doing what's allowed, and who think that this is a dick move, regardless if the business can get away with it legally or not.

I, for one, hope his fucking bar loses business and is shut down.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-21 18:37:24+00:00
In the same vein, I always wondered if

* the vast majority (including me) are not really very intelligent. We have a lot of "state" that's transferred from generation to generation. Once in a while, a very small percentage of people make advances and they filter through society and improves (or maybe just changes) the state. We collectively gives humans credit for these improvements but it's not the species but those specific people who created that jump in capabilities.

* this notion of inherited pride or inherited achievement is very common. This leads to being proud of membership in a group (country, religion, tribe, corporation, university etc.) and also of instinctively rejecting ideas put forth by others (e.g. see the amount of derision vegetarians and especially vegans attract).

* achievement/progress is also time-scale dependent. While we get smug about our progress, if it ends up destroying the one planet we have, it will be incredibly stupid. Humans fundamentally are not capable of thinking long-term.

Everything around me was not made by me. I don't even understand how I would potentially make most of these from scratch without using machines made by other people or knowledge acquired over time (see first bullet above). Within the framework provided to me, I can convince myself to reason and act but the framework itself is my operating system. Of course, I like to think I am intelligent and reasoning but it's all in a box. I feel this describes almost everyone I know except for a few outstanding scientists I have worked with.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-21 18:37:28+00:00
Agreed. Food now is made to order, rather than being ready and waiting (likely to reduce stock waste). Last time I went there was hardly a queue, wasn't rush-hour (was quite dead actually, few staff, fewer customers).

Food still took 15 minutes, fries were cold, the main meal was nice but was overall disappointing for the eye-watering cost compared to days gone by.

And a few guys collecting for delivery which has split their focus from in-resturant customers.

Can see why people have moved on.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 18:37:50+00:00
Wage is not a determining factor for McDonald's pricing and has nothing to do with that.

They successfully converted from a neighborhood fast food shop into a new chain of automats with almost no staff once touchscreens got cheap enough and the necessary software could be suitably amortized. They ditched the employees, minimized community features like playplaces and tables, dropped the low margin dollar menu that many poorer people relied on, and focused on getting higher-margin products with better photography to busy professionals with brand attachment.

Trying to turn this into the tired debate about minimum wage just distracts from a discussion about what's actually happening to this brand.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-21 18:37:59+00:00
It's a completely different thing. Single-board computer versus a microcontroller. It might not matter for some applications, but it's a major tradeoff.

But the only value of Arduino is the community (and the compile-time layer of syntactic sugar, if you like it). Otherwise, it's just an expensive breakout board for a cheap chip you can buy from Mouser or DigiKey. If you know how to solder, you don't really need the board in the first place.
Ask HN: Reinstated Anthropic account still says "disabled"
by mhalle | 2025-11-21 18:38:15+00:00
I am an open data science researcher and use Claude and Claude Code extensively. Last week my Anthropic account was auto-suspended. I appealed, and three days later I got an email saying the suspension was an error and that my account had been reinstated.

I still can't log, even a week later (web, app, console, Code). After entering my email, the login screen immediately shows a "Your account has been disabled" message -- no password step or email-link login involved. Automated support tried to clear the problem and I got more "your account has been restored" emails, but the login behavior never changes.

This feels like a "two systems out of sync" situation: Trust & Safety reinstates, but another part of the system still thinks the account is suspended.

Claude is important to my work. I have a lot invested in my existing chats, so I'd prefer not to start over with a new account.

My questions:

* Has anyone encountered this "reinstated but still banned" state? What was the fix?

* Is there any way to escalate for debugging?

Hope this helps someone else as well.
by compumike | 2025-11-21 18:38:58+00:00
There's a tradeoff and the assumption here (which I think is solid) is that there's more benefit from avoiding a supply chain attack by blindly (by default) using a dependency cooldown vs. avoiding a zero-day by blindly (by default) staying on the bleeding edge of new releases.

It's comparing the likelihood of an update introducing a new vulnerability to the likelihood of it fixing a vulnerability.

While the article frames this problem in terms of deliberate, intentional supply chain attacks, I'm sure the majority of bugs and vulnerabilities were never supply chain attacks: they were just ordinary bugs introduced unintentionally in the normal course of software development.

On the unintentional bug/vulnerability side, I think there's a similar argument to be made. Maybe even SemVer can help as a heuristic: a patch version increment is likely safer (less likely to introduce new bugs/regressions/vulnerabilities) than a minor version increment, so a patch version increment could have a shorter cooldown.

If I'm currently running version 2.3.4, and there's a new release 2.4.0, then (unless there's a feature or bugfix I need ASAP), I'm probably better off waiting N days, or until 2.4.1 comes out and fixes the new bugs introduced by 2.4.0!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 18:39:31+00:00
Yes I’m sure “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

With iCloud, if I drop my phone in the ocean by mistake, I can walk into the Apple Store, buy another phone, log in and my new phone looks and acts like my old phone with all of the bookmarks, icons, app data, settings etc being restored.
by wredcoll | 2025-11-21 18:39:41+00:00
I feel like most of my exposure to the term "common sense" has been people trying to justify with rhetoric positions that don't actually stand up to detailed logical discussion.

The "expert guidance" thing is an interesting point, our american system seems to make the existence of this dependent on the whims of the executive who is elected for completely unrelated issues.

I suspect that if you presented a simple poll question: "should donald trump have (more?) expert guidance available", the vast majority of people would say yes.

Of course, donald trump is famously not someone who would ever try to get access to or listen to expert guidance and everyone voting for him knew this and he was still elected.
by polalavik | 2025-11-21 18:39:45+00:00
sort of different but I built https://paperright.xyz budgeting app to address some of my frustration with budgeting apps, bank connections, ease of use, privacy, etc. It doesn't connect to your bank or take any info other than your email (+stripe if you sign up for pro). I built it because i needed a budgeting app for my brain. Also research shows AI/automated financial management doesnt work you need to manually track things to really understand whats going on.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 18:39:48+00:00
> The C++ aliasing rules map quite poorly into hardware.

But how much does aliasing matter on modern hardware? I know you're aware of Linus' position on this, I personally find it very compelling :)

As a silly little test a few months ago, I built whole Linux systems with -fno-strict-aliasing in CFLAGS, everything I've tried on it is within 1% of the original performance.
by alganet | 2025-11-21 18:39:50+00:00
> "Take a look at those tests!"

A math module that is not tested for division by zero. Classical LLM development.

The suite is mostly happy paths, which is consistent with what I've seen LLMs do.

Once you setup coverage, and tell it "there's a hidden branch that the report isn't able to display on line 95 that we need to cover", things get less fun.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-21 18:39:51+00:00
They have only discovered what lots of small operators in youth sports already knew. Parents will pay stupid money to have their kids participate.

My kids played some travel sports, the tournament organizers were all in it for profit, they also had deals with local hotels and parents were required to stay at the "tournament approved" hotels. They were inevitably rather premium hotels such as Marriott brands and the room rates were high. The tournament organizer got a kickback on every room sold.

Hockey is particularly expensive because the costs to operate a hockey rink are high. Costs to run and maintain chillers are high, especially if you are open in the summertime, and you need trained staff who can drive a Zamboni and otherwise maintain the surface, and you can't just switch that off if nobody's using it. Usually a community-owned ice rink runs at quite a loss to the municipality. A privately-owned rink will have to charge hundreds of dollars an hour for ice time and they often are barely profitable. There's no way to scale beyond about 12-16 hours a day where anyone wants to use the ice, and often 5pm-midnight is the only ice you can sell.

Then there are the "academies" for the parents who think their kid is the next NHL or NBA superstar. They are private schools, operated at or near the sports facility, where kids go to school as well as play/practice their sport. The tuition rates are what you might expect: exclusive, to say the least.
by ibgeek | 2025-11-21 18:39:54+00:00
Maybe two different things here: SBCs that run Linux versus microcontrollers (MCUs).

MCUs are lower power, have less overhead, and can perform hard real-time tasks. Most of what Arduino focuses on are MCUs. The equivalent is the Raspberry Pi Pico.

In my experience, the key thing is the library ecosystem for the C++ runtime environment. There are a large number of Arduino and third-party high-level libraries provided through their package management system that make it really easy to use sensors and other hardware without needing to write intermediate level code that uses SPI or I2C. And it all integrates and works together. The Pico C/C++ SDK is lower level and doesn’t have a good library / package management story, so you have to read vendor data sheets to figure out how to communicate with hardware and then write your own libraries.

It’s much more common for less experienced users to use MicroPython. It has a package management and library ecosystem. But it’s also harder to write anything of any complexity that fits within the small RAM available without calling gc.collect() in every other line.