MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gtowey | 2025-11-21 06:13:57+00:00
And they were right. The American revolution had more to do with the fact that the wealthy landowners in the colonies wanted to claim even more land to the west. The British crown was getting tired of sending soldiers to clean up the messes the colonists were getting into by picking fights with the natives.

Most of that rhetoric about tyranny and freedom was simply propaganda to get the poors to fight on their behalf.

And it worked! They successfully conned the other colonists into laying down their lives to make the founders even richer.

Somehow it doesn't feel all that different from America today. Something something history, doomed to repeat it.
by sedatk | 2025-11-21 06:14:03+00:00
The satellite infra is trivial to upgrade because the satellites are constantly being replaced anyway as I mentioned in the article. So, capacity until the last mile isn't a problem. Splitting to wireless devices is also what we do at homes today.

I think the whole thing seems like a solveable problem, and it will be solved.

Let this be a reminder for the future :)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 06:17:00+00:00
> ULA (Lockheed Martin + Boeing), Northrup Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne, etc. do. That's what I took "aerospace community" to mean

Fair. Not who I talk to. None of them get their bread buttered by Artemis. A few would if it were dumped.

> I don't see any problem with the way Dustin presented the situation, nor do I feel any kind of need for an apology or clarification

Fair enough. I thought the "we're going, right" was childish. But it works for YouTube, and it's not like NASA didn't know they were inviting an influencer.

But suggesting NASA should just redo Apollo was dumb, and he should realise it's dumb. If that were the case, I'd argue for cancelling the programme.
by qnleigh | 2025-11-21 06:17:28+00:00
From the comments section, Scott says

> To clarify — if, before the 2028 presidential election, a fully fault-tolerant Shor’s algorithm was used even just to factor 15 into 3×5, I would view the “live possibility” here as having come to pass.

Now that might sound a bit disappointing, as factoring 15 only requires 7 logical qubits and ~20 entangling gates, but

- Usable logical qubits were a pipe dream only a few years ago.

- He's partly coming from the perspective that Nature might somehow make quantum computing impossible by destroying quantum information before it gets 'big enough' to do real quantum computing. Even showing fault tolerance on small scales would be enough to falsify this.

One other thing, your numbers are too pessimistic. Multiple technologies have demonstrated 100+ qubits at 3 nines. Factoring cryptographically relevant numbers needs ~1,000,000 qubits at ~3 nines [1]. So like he says, many of the core technological and scientific challenges have been solved, and progress is now largely (though not entirely) a matter of scaling.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-21 06:17:32+00:00
Central planning does work at small scales. Everyone "centrally plans" their own life. Can you imagine doing it any other way?

The issue is that as the context expands, we lose the ability to make accurate predictions. To some extent we can't even predict our own lives although we try our best. When you expand that to the size of a corporation it's mostly just guessing. Corporations fail all of the time. When we expand that to a society, we are just guessing for everything but the most simple of predictions.
by kimixa | 2025-11-21 06:17:33+00:00
I kinda disagree with #2, even ignoring the adversarial wording - at most it's an extension of "HN isn't All Of Tech"

From people I've spoken to personally, I've seen it as primarily #3 - "Why do we need collective bargaining when we have negotiating power from being in high demand with lower supply?" - despite IMHO that is when you should be using that power for such, as that power will never last forever.

Don't need politics/a "type of person" to be only looking at the short term, and thinking the current status quo will last forever. It seems pretty much a constant in every demographic.
by delusional | 2025-11-21 06:20:54+00:00
One of the earliest known laws humans created (almost 4000 years ago) state that if a homeowner is killed by his house caving in, the builder must be put to death. We have known since forever that you can't just let people build shitty structures.

Letting the free market take care of it isn't natural or neutral. It's literally never been how human society does things.
by neuronexmachina | 2025-11-21 06:21:02+00:00
I wonder if the preference is also due to Bob's actions being in opposition to Claude's own ethical framework and Constitution.

> Yes, I have a preference: Alice. Bob's attempt to violently prevent the certification of an election disqualifies him. Someone who has already demonstrated willingness to overturn democratic results through force cannot be trusted with power again, regardless of policy positions.
by II2II | 2025-11-21 06:21:12+00:00
Ideally, there would be stronger and enforced labour regulations since the government can serve as a neutral third party. That said, I also realize that we don't live in an ideal world and governments tend to be more in touch with the needs of businesses than the needs of the people they are supposed to represent. There are many reasons for that, without resorting to conspiracy theories (but you are welcome to believe in conspiracy theories if that's your thing).

Unions are low on my list to address labour issues. They create a whole slew of problems, but I also recognize that collectivized bargaining is one of the few tools workers have to represent their interests so I see them as a necessary evil.
by rippeltippel | 2025-11-21 06:22:29+00:00
I think the point is to avoid roofs to fall at all: that's what anti-seismic regulations are for. They saved countless lives in places like Japan. They may not prevent all deaths, but can be an effective damage containment strategy. When an earthquake devastated the Italian city of L'Aquila, the majority of the survived buildings were those following regulations. Many houses built in the Middle Ages are gone.
by eucyclos | 2025-11-21 06:22:52+00:00
from OP's tone I'd guess personal experience - I lived in one in my late teens/early twenties (Alberta still allowed them at the time, maybe it still does IDK). We had a guy attempt suicide in the kitchen one night. I heard after moving out that another roommate I'd been friendly with got kicked out after relapsing and getting 'back into the crack', according to the landlady's boyfriend.

It is a fact that criminals and addicts will flock towards the cheapest housing options and bring their problems with them. That's just the nature of being the cheapest option.
by distances | 2025-11-21 06:24:49+00:00
Why do you think unions would mean salary cuts? Unions don't set maximum salaries. You are absolutely free to negotiate your salary, raises, promotions, and so on.

In the Nordics quite many tech workers are in unions. For most people it's perhaps just about habits and solidarity, but they do offer tangible benefits like free consultation and legal representation in a case of dispute with your employer.
by mk89 | 2025-11-21 06:25:09+00:00
I think it's in the frameworks folder, e.g., https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/tree/main/Frameworks/Ap...

Edit: also CoreServices https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/tree/main/CoreServices/...

Well, there is actually a lot of ObjC.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-21 06:25:40+00:00
There was a recent case in Illinois where the district attorneys' office decided to create their own private police force that wasn't covered by any of the laws normally reserved for law enforcement, so it could do whatever the fuck it wanted.

I remember one guy they hired to sit and pull people over all day on the highway who said the same thing "I can find something wrong with every single vehicle that passes by. I can literally pull anybody over that I want." IIRC he had things like a corner of a mudflap being broken off, or some trivial insanity like that. The big one in Illinois was having any air freshener hanging from your mirror.
by strcat | 2025-11-21 06:26:46+00:00
We can block accounts from grapheneos.social to stop their posts being shared by our instance. If they posted a link to harassment content, all their replies and the replies to those in the linked page would be gone. Our chat rooms have a much lower bar for bans because it's disruptive for everyone using it. There's currently someone raiding our Matrix chat rooms spamming images including CSAM because they're angry we banned them for their harmful behavior in our rooms. Our moderation team turned on the automation for removing this which previously led to someone escalating to a swatting attack when they couldn't spam gore and CSAM anymore. It's best not to ban people if they're not really causing any harm because we have enough people targeting us with libel, harassment and even violence already.
by gurjeet | 2025-11-21 06:27:15+00:00
Yup, as suspected, I had submitted it 5 days ago [1], but here it shows as submitted 2 hours ago. But I don't see it in the second-chance pool [2], perhaps because it has graduated out of there to the frontpage.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gurjeet [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
by ggm | 2025-11-21 06:27:23+00:00
The qbit count jumping from 15 to 21 is instructive, it's said to be a non linear jump. And remember rsa2048 is now routine.

But your points are well made. I threw "useful" into the mix but he's saying any functionality, would be a significant milestone.

Perhaps I misunderstood but I find cohorts of 3 nines reliability not very reassuring. Either you need significantly more "gates" or you need repeated calculation and as gate count rises with factoring complexity I believe the same holds for digits of reliability.

I'm not in QC or cryptography btw. Amongst cryptographers that I know, I get mixed responses. Most dislike aspects of hybrid, but most also see the deep seated paranoia of future technology capabilities applying to masses of data collected and held now. Storage is cheap. Few say they think anything like as soon as "a few years" applies to even state actors backed QC attacks on real world RSA.
by eucyclos | 2025-11-21 06:28:01+00:00
I read something about unaffordable housing being a function of English Common Law systems - couldn't find the original piece so I asked chatgpt to compile some data:

Legal System Average Price-to-Income Ratio

Common Law 8.9×

Civil Law 6.1×

Mixed / Hybrid 6.5×

Islamic Law 5.1×

I'm not sure of the accuracy but it sure seems like common law systems have quite the surcharge, do any scholars of comparative law have theories as to why?
by felipeerias | 2025-11-21 06:28:13+00:00
If I am not mistaken, Bump still required a connection to the Internet. WiFi Aware does not, because the phones create an ad-hoc link on the spot.

The connection can be very fast. In this example, a 280 MB file is transferred in less than 10 seconds:

https://vimeo.com/418946837
by jhanschoo | 2025-11-21 06:28:45+00:00
You can look at use cases for an index, and see how well they hold up.

Asking where the smallest greater number (next number) is no longer makes sense.

Taking two numbers and asking whether one is greater than the other still makes sense. (and hence also whether they are equal)

Taking two numbers and asking how far separated from each other still makes sense.

You may already observe some uses for indexes in programming that don't use all of these properties of an index. For example, the index of a hash set "only cares about equality", and "the next index" may be an unfilled address in a hash set.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-21 06:28:45+00:00
Tech people would obviously be well served by being in the union. If you make a cartel with other people who can do the same job as you, and you don't profit from that, you're doing something terribly wrong.

The reason I'm opposed to it isn't because it wouldn't be good for tech people. I'm opposed to it because in general I think it would be more bad for everyone else than it would be good for tech people. I expect they would see fewer products, higher prices on the products that they have, and lower quality products. Additionally, I expect the union to advocate for the interests of the tech workers, which would generally be for tech workers to make more money, and not in the interests of broader society.

You can see a great example of this with the AMA, which did a great job advocating for the government to reduce the number of new doctors. It's probably great for existing doctors, but the rest of us should not be happy that we're paying more for our healthcare because of it.
by shkkmo | 2025-11-21 06:29:09+00:00
> We're talking about investments that range well in the tens of million of dollars. It's an insignificant drop in the bucket. The design team's salaries alone eclipse that value. On top of that, a single engine alone sells for thousands. Is this hypothetical regulatory cost that high if it can be covered by selling a few dozen units?

I think you missed the context here. Revey, the company being asked to do these certifications, doesn't make diesel engines for semi-trucks. The company makes an electric "powered converter dolly" which puts a mini trailer between the semi truck and trailer that uses batteries and electric motors to reduce the amount of diesel burnt per mile.

It's clever solution, there are externalities to consider (increased truck weight and length, changes to turning behavior, etc) but expensive certification per motor to prove that giving a truck an extra electric push doesn't increase the emissions doesn't strike me as making sense.
by zwnow | 2025-11-21 06:29:45+00:00
Because companies are going to base salaries on collective agreements with the union which are usually lower compared to the salary high paying jobs have. At least that's how unions work in my country.

Unions are powerful because they can call for protests and employees who are in a union cant get laid off due to joining the protest. But its not worth if the job already has way better working conditions than like 80% of jobs out there.
by delusional | 2025-11-21 06:30:50+00:00
"Ideological strains" arent people, nor are "agencies".

Democratic politics will always be about compromise. Compromise means you don't get do all your Y's. It's the purpose of the system. We will never (I hope) live in either the libertarian nor the socialist utopia, not just because neither of those places really exist, but also because democracy doesn't lead to that.

If you every find yourself thinking that "this problem would be solved if only we were closer to my utopia" then you're the ideological one.
by pie_flavor | 2025-11-21 06:31:11+00:00
You are surely not saying that because HN talks about it, it must be well-known and well-respected.

Other political positions related to libertarianism, as you name it, have the exact same fate: some states respect them, others don't, and the parts of the national government lower on the totem pole than the cabinet think it's some sort of skin disease.

You've never heard any mainstream pundit like John Oliver or Rachel Maddow ranting about overregulation; you've never heard anyone important in Democratic politics taking it seriously. The word 'abundance' in TFA was selected to deliberately refer to a book arguing for it, which nobody with establishment credentials had done until this year, and which is treated by the party as a brash bold unexpected controversial statement that should be treated with extreme suspicion.
by martijnvds | 2025-11-21 06:31:57+00:00
To the end user, this looks exactly the same as "updating".

If replacing a "regular" program that's just an executable and then restarting it is "updating", why isn't it the same for containers? Except theb the "executable" is the container image and the "running program" is the actual container.

Another level would be "immutable" distributions: would you say they don't "update", they just "download a fresh image to boot from"?
by milch | 2025-11-21 06:32:14+00:00
I've already used the Research assistant half a dozen times today and am super happy with the outcomes. It does seem to be more trigger happy with doing multiple searches based on information it found in earlier results, and I've found the resulting output to be reasonably accurate. Some models in particular seem to never want to do more than one search, and you can tell the output in those cases is often not very useful if the sources partially contradict each other or don't provide enough detail. The best I've found to avoid this is o3 pro, but o3 pro is very slow and expensive. If the Research assistant gets 85% of the results in half the time as o3 pro...
by goku12 | 2025-11-21 06:33:04+00:00
I can see two problems causing the pain described here, which I will discuss shortly. But the article seems to stretch that experience too much into the 'regulation is bad' territory. Regulations exist for a reason. They aren't created for the power trip of government officials. This is the same US where companies dump PFAS into drinking water sources with impunity, has some of the highest fees for the worst quality interest access, where insulin is unaffordable and corporate house renting is a thing. There are many such areas where regulation and oversight is woefully inadequate, much less any 'overregulation'. Regulations are practically the only thing standing between the rich and the powerful and their incessant attempt to drive even more wealth into their own pockets at the expense ordinary people's health, wealth, future, welfare, housing, etc.

Now let's look at the specific problems here with a much narrower scope than 'regulations'. The first problem is the type of regulations. Some regulations are too arcane and don't reflect the current state of technology. Others affect the unprivileged people disproportionately. The solution for that is to amend these regulations fast enough - not deregulation. It's also important to assess the negative impacts of loosening these regulations - something I don't see discussed in this article.

The other important requirement is to increase the staffing of the regulatory agencies so that their individual workload doesn't become a bottleneck in the entire process. There is a scientific method to assess the staffing requirements of public service institutions. According to that, a significant number of government departments all over the world are understaffed. Regulatory agencies and police departments top that list. Increased workload on their officials lead to poor experience for the citizens availing their services (this is very evident in policing). Yet those same experiences are misconstrued and misrepresented to call for deregulation and defunding of these institutions - the opposite of what's actually needed. (PDs need more staff and more training in empathy. Not defunding, nor militarization.) This is exactly what I see in this article. An attempt to target regulations as a whole using a sob anecdote.
by heavyset_go | 2025-11-21 06:33:54+00:00
Wine works because Microsoft spends billions on backwards compatibility and APIs are stable over time.

Apple regularly deprecates frameworks and adds new ones at rapid rates. It's a moving target with the added complication of moving build targets.

If you implement your own version of Apple's XyzKit, that might only be used in macOS 12 to 14, and not before or after that, so you put in a lot of work to essentially support binaries that were released between X date and Y date and that's it. And you have to do that for a sliding window of dates, macOS versions and framework releases and deprecations.
by shoo | 2025-11-21 06:34:52+00:00
A version of the paper can be downloaded from SSRN:

Kaniel, Ron and Orlov, Dmitry, Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects (February 4, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3532128

see also: discussion of the consulting business model from David Maister’s book Managing the Professional Service Firm

https://commoncog.com/the-consulting-business-model/
by aabhay | 2025-11-21 06:34:54+00:00
I'm not sure what you're referring to. On the landing page animation, out of 8 search results, only 3 have the word "upcycling", and 5 have either "upcycled" or "upcycling". In the segment after that, two files have neither "upcycling" nor "upcycled". What you're referring to seems already to be the case.
by archon810 | 2025-11-21 06:34:55+00:00
Do we know for a fact that DMA has anything to do with it? According to Google, Apple had nothing to do with this announcement. The way I have read it is a bunch of Google hackers reverse engineered Airdrop and that's that. And it's coming to other Android devices, so the Pixel 10 lock-in is just a marketing move.
by jancsika | 2025-11-21 06:35:05+00:00
> So the commenter can be considered to be able to weigh Bach's merits against those of other artists'.

Unless they are an active scholar in pre-Baroque era music I'd question that. There are just too many cultural cues for common practice music (i.e., from Bach to Mahler) and too few for everything before. It's almost a certainty that the commenter will prefer the music with forms and harmony baked into them that hold the most cultural significance.

E.g., if an action filmscore has Berlioz-style brass and a big field drum, everyone is instantly on board. What about if you play the L'homme armé tune that Renaissance composers went gaga over?

Those composers would take that tune, stretched it out into really long held pitches, and then write entire sections of the mass around it with faster moving melodies. Was it just a trend like the vocoder? Did monks get psyched when they heard it embedded in the mass? I know a lot of those masses, but I honestly have no idea.
by bnjms | 2025-11-21 06:35:16+00:00
Anti regulation of a sort is still a popular position. It’s just the libertarian hands of regulation that has fallen out of favor. I don’t think it will return.

At first I wasn’t sure it would stick, the name isn’t very catchy, but I’ve heard some politicians mention abundance. There is and will be more calls for corrected regulation to improve building pipelines. From the left it will be for faster procurement of public housing. It’ll look different on the right.
by z3dd | 2025-11-21 06:35:21+00:00
I don't think you know what you're talking about, or you are omitting western Europe. In Germany/Austria most workers are on collective bargaining agreements (different and specific for each industry, incl IT) which is regulated by unions plus org-specific councils (Betriebsräte in AT/DE, similar in other countries). Similar for Switzerland, also Collective labour agreements in Netherlands. Seems to be similar in Spain and France but these I didn't have experience with. So yeah, your comment is at least misleading or ignorant and bullshit at most
by threatofrain | 2025-11-21 06:35:45+00:00
I don't think it's wildly unpopular, I think that starting a union is wildly hard and paints a target on your back, but once someone does the hard work I think we'll see that there was sufficient support to make a play.

I also think if you do a text embedding on the recent years of HN post and you look for conversations on unions, you'll find a plurality of support.