MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by usrbinbash | 2025-11-12 15:00:50+00:00
> It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays

Has nothing to do with video per se. Normal embeddings, using the standard `<video>` element and no unnecessary JS nonsense, still work the same way they did in the 90s: Right click the video and download it, it's a media element like any other.

The reason why user experience is going to shite, is because turbocapitalism went to work on what was once The Internet, and is trying to turn it into a paywalled profit-machine.
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-12 15:01:27+00:00
One of the really nifty things about having a stratum-1 time server on-site (because... reasons) is those graphs. You can very readily see the subtle temperature-dependence of timing crystals. At the facility I was at there was a large cycle every day during the week and then smaller cycle on each weekend day. Our HVAC system didn't heat/cool the building as much on the weekend when no one was there so the temperature swing -> frequency swing was smaller.

Really drives home one of my favourite half-jokes: every sensor is a temperature sensor; some of them measure other things too.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-11-12 15:01:58+00:00
Globally, people are getting richer (particularly east Asia), and consequently using more energy and resources. Sustainability is really contingent on demand versus innovation and land encroachment; some products use more than others, but basically all will use more land/energy if demand grows enough. There's no agreed-upon benchmark for what constitutes sustainable, it's vibes. You could just as easily say that a perpetually growing global population is not sustainable, but thankfully it is projected to stall. In a scenario where the population doesn't grow (or not much), no product can be considered unsustainable.

You can yield improved efficiency for almost anything. In China, fossil-fuel use has plateaued despite growing demands for energy, because they have so much solar. Their emissions growth is finally projected to stall, but the coal mining has hindered that somewhat.

The U.S. hasn't seen significant land-use increase for agriculture over the years, in fact there's been less. Some of that is innovation, but some is also cruel commercial practices. As the States move away from that animal products will get yet more expensive in the short-run, and consumers will more readily look to alts. Actually the subsidies have been driving down prices for those, but everyone seems quick to defend them as though farmers couldn't possibly do without. Animal products are cheaper in the U.S. than many developed countries. If you really wanted to scale back that consumption, all it would take is to allow the products to be more expensive; simple.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-12 15:02:16+00:00
He comes off like the quintessential grey haired ego maniac. Inflexible old minds coupled with decades of self assurance that they are correct.

I cannot remember the quote, but it's something to the effect of "Listen closely to grey haired men when they talk about what is possible, and never listen when they talk about what is impossible."
by chownie | 2025-11-12 15:02:21+00:00
> Gives you popcorn lungs

This is a myth. You could be confusing the story of the factory workers who had popcorn lung, or you may be thinking of the bootleg marijuana carts which had vitamin E in the mix, in either case the story is wrong and also about a decade out of date.

Vapes do not cause popcorn lung.

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/ready-to-quit-...
by trollbridge | 2025-11-12 15:02:43+00:00
It's a piece of software I've developed that is not publicly released, but eventually will be and will be AGPL3.

A few other people have also written such software. One guy still maintains it and surprisingly wrote a whole IRS / 1040 library in C. Mine is more oriented towards business and employer related taxes, though, than personal / investment sort of tax forms (although it will do the latter).

Biggest weakness is it will only support 1 or 2 states because I don't have the resources to make an accurate system for all 50.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-12 15:02:49+00:00
Yeah, that's quite unusual. Buisness was always terrible at being innovative, always dared to take only the safest and most minute of bets and the progress of technology was always paid for by the taxpayers. Business usually stepped in only later, when technology was ready and did what it does best, opimize manufacturing and put it in the hands of as many consumers as possible rakink in billions.

I wonder what changed. Does AI look like a safe bet? Or does every other bet seem to not have any reasonable return?
by EdNutting | 2025-11-12 15:03:11+00:00
So why aren’t they offering for an independent auditor to come into OpenAI and inspect their data (without taking it outside of OpenAI’s systems)?

Probably because they have a lot to hide, a lot to lose, and no interest in fair play.

Theoretically, they could prove their tools aren’t being used to doing anything wrong but practically, we all know they can’t because they are actually in the wrong (in both the moral and, IMO though IANAL, the legal sense). They know it, we know it, the only problem is breaking the ridiculous walled garden that stops the courts from ‘knowing’ it.
by stevarino | 2025-11-12 15:03:52+00:00
Its clearly propaganda. "Your data belongs to you." I'm sure the ToS says otherwise, as OpenAI likely owns and utilizes this data. Yes, they say they are working on end-to-end encryption (whatever that means when they control one end), but that is just a proposal at this point.

Also their framing of the NYT intent makes me strongly distrust anything they say. Sit down with a third party interviewer who asks challenging questions, and I'll pay attention.
by fragmede | 2025-11-12 15:04:12+00:00
throwaway94275 wrote:

> Phones are dominant now and have passed the PC generation by - in number, not capability.

And I'm saying phones have passed PCs in capabilities. Don't put words in my mouth, not all of them, obviously. I'm just pointing out that a desktop with a 5090 and 42" widescreen monitor doesn't fit in my pocket, and that fitting into my pocket is a capability that some people value.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-12 15:04:19+00:00
I get the feeling, but that's not what this is.

NYTimes has produced credible evidence that OpenAI is simply stealing and republishing their content. The question they have to answer is "to what extent has this happened?"

That's a question they fundamentally cannot answer without these chat logs.

That's what discovery, especially in a copyright case, is about.

Think about it this way. Let's say this were a book store selling illegal copies of books. A very reasonable discovery request would be "Show me your sales logs". The whole log needs to be produced otherwise you can't really trust that this is the real log.

That's what NYTimes lawyers are after. They want the chat logs so they can do their own searches to find NYTimes text within the responses. They can't know how often that's happened and OpenAI has an obvious incentive to simply say "Oh that never happened".

And the reason this evidence is relevant is it will directly feed into how much money NYT and OpenAI will ultimately settle for. If this never happens then the amount will be low. If it happens a lot the amount will be high. And if it goes to trial it will be used in the damages portion assuming NYT wins.

The user has no right to privacy. The same as how any internet service can be (and have been) compelled to produce private messages.
by jpmattia | 2025-11-12 15:04:32+00:00
> so IBM handled manufacturing of its first-generation CPUs.

I'm curious: Is there a consensus on which startup companies achieved success using IBM as a fab? or if not a consensus, I'd settle for anecdotes too.

My own company (which built 40G optical transponders) used them back in that era. While the tech was first rate, the pricing was something to behold.
by ben_w | 2025-11-12 15:04:36+00:00
That's not the only thing, not even in the USA. The New Deal happened, and things were a lot worse before it than they are even now for those entitled to SNAP payments — though of course, if SNAP stays off the way I suspect it will, and if the undocumented agricultural workers stay out of the USA, this may change very hard and very fast, and those invented stories about "immigrants eating pets" may turn into actual true stories about ICE agents being cannibalised, thanks to how hunger works and how the 2nd amendment seems to be part of the American New New Testament with Gospels According to John, Ben, Alex, and Tom.
by wtcactus | 2025-11-12 15:05:27+00:00
Oh, right. Those famous EU Schrödinger emigration laws that let in 30 million people while simultaneously not letting you - specifically - get in.

I'm sure that's your real reason for you not to follow your own advice. Advice that you feel the need to give other people when they don't want to indulge in your socialist fantasies...
by aryonoco | 2025-11-12 15:07:13+00:00
I work at a large enterprise where most of our backend js .NET and I can tell you that the dev team is nearly half and half split between Linux and Mac, and nearly half and half split on using VS Code and Rider.

Most of our code is deployed on Kubernetes and runs on AWS.

Developer experience means many things to different people. Personally for my most recent project, I used F# and the IDE was Rider and my OS was a form of immutable Fedora (Ublue OS) with devpod and devcontainers and the whole system was the most joyous developer experience I think I have ever had.
by soulofmischief | 2025-11-12 15:07:16+00:00
This is whataboutism. The Sovient Union does not represent all left-wing thought. Politics are more complicated than "left" and "right", and thus all manner of ideologies exist on the left. You could argue that many far-left people and organizations display extremist tendencies, but that is true of the far-right as well, and is not the topic of discussion.

> Are you familiar with Libertarianism? Conservatism is not the only right-wing ideology.

I am obviously familiar with libertarianism. You're implying that it is a right-wing ideology, which is incorrect. The umbrella of libertarianism contains both left and right wing political philosophies. You can be libertarian and anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian. You can also be libertarian and think you don't support fascism, even though it supports you.

In most of Europe, libertarianism manifests as a left-wing ideology. The idea that it is fundamentally a right-wing ideology is a distinctly American perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism
by izzydata | 2025-11-12 15:07:22+00:00
I think the most interesting aspect of this is how divisive something as innocuous as putting stickers on a thing is. What causes people to have a strong opinion on this one way or another?

Personally I don't find it hard to put stickers on things because I am worried about being silly, but I find defacing an otherwise clean object difficult. Like getting a brand new car or phone and trying very hard not to get a scratch. Once the first scratch is there you stop worrying about it.

Once you put down the first sticker I imagine that worry goes away. I think getting a tattoo is still an insurmountable problem for me personally, but I get it.
by raudette | 2025-11-12 15:07:31+00:00
I had equipped the family with identical corporate-refurb laptops - when you have any of 4 laptops in a family room, it was a way of not getting my laptop taken by my kids to school one day...

Back in the office days, it was also a way to identify a corporate laptop among a sea of identical models.

Also, like I don't wear branded clothing, I like to cover the device brand.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 15:07:54+00:00
> Maybe letting Ntp fail will wake up some of the employees of other companies to the absolute sad state of the software world.

Big companies run their own NTP servers (which you can use for free) and do not use the reference implantation.

There is nothing to “fail” in this project which would cause big companies to have infrastructure problems.

The saddest state of the software world is that some people here have convinced themselves to cheer for this project to fail because they don’t understand that big companies do not depend on this project that is asking for donations.
by mdhb | 2025-11-12 15:08:35+00:00
MALA: Make America Literate Again.

P.S which one is it? The best in the world or terrible? You didn’t seem to be able to hold a coherent thought for a full sentence. Between this and an inability to understand the advanced statistical concept of percentages I can’t help but think that things aren’t going particularly well for you at the moment.
by bluGill | 2025-11-12 15:09:18+00:00
I'm going from memory, but I recall that both 25 and 36 picture rolls were common and there were some 12 picture rolls. (maybe 15?) And of course there were a number of different sizes - 110, 120, 35mm, disc, each with different sizes and costs. (more film sizes at the professional level as well, but your local drug store had all of the above)
by doublerabbit | 2025-11-12 15:09:27+00:00
This.. seriously

“Digital House Arrest”: Teens under 16 face a blanket ban from WhatsApp, Instagram, online games, and countless other apps with chat functions, allegedly to protect them from grooming.

For which I agree.

“Digital isolation instead of education, protection by exclusion instead of empowerment – this is paternalistic, out of touch with reality, and pedagogical nonsense.”
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-12 15:09:46+00:00
> if using QuickJS, version 2025-4-26 or later is strongly recommended for performance reasons

Oh, I wonder if they got performance to a reasonable level then? When the external JS requirements were first announced, they said it took upwards of half an hour, and a QuickJS developer wrote in the ticket that they didn’t see a path towards improving it significantly enough.
by mzl | 2025-11-12 15:10:31+00:00
According to MDN it is expected to be an actual comparator: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

The specification says that if the comparator is not a consistent comparator, the sort order is implementation defined: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/indexed-collections.html#s... Further along, it is specified that only if the sort order is correct, are you guaranteed to get a permutation of the input as the result. I would not write code expecting this to work.
by cstub | 2025-11-12 15:10:31+00:00
Multi-party conversational AI is transforming how agents interact with user groups, moving beyond simple, direct queries from single users to enable smarter engagement in team collaborations. Instead of modifying existing AI agents, a separate group reasoner layer detects patterns (e.g., factual contradictions, stalled decisions) in group chats and translates them into self-contained queries for existing, downstream AI systems. This approach is showcased in open-source projects like Group Sense, Group Genie, and Hybrid Groups. Key challenges include detecting when and how agents should engage, and acting on behalf of individual group members. The article also highlights the need for flexible definition and evolution of engagement criteria and links relevant research for those interested in the evolving field of multi-party conversational AI.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-12 15:10:39+00:00
I've had my eye on this pack of stickers for my next laptop upgrade: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1133836260/cursed-programming-s...

(the joke here is that all of the tech has the wrong logo, ie the javascript sticker has a java logo, the vscode sticker has a vim logo, etc)
by bborud | 2025-11-12 15:11:44+00:00
I haven't tried it so I wouldn't know. But I'll have a look. Thanks for the tip!

As I mentioned, I've gone through a lot of jackets in order to try to find a model that consistently works and it is slightly baffling. I have a long discontinued 20 year old Bergans (https://www.bergans.com/) jacket in a horrific puke green color that works really well, but it is ugly as sin. (It is almost painful to look at :-))

It is one of the few jackets I own that combine good resistance to heavy rain with an ability to vent moisture really well, so it doesn't get clammy. It also traps heat really well so I have worn it in ~ -15C with just two relatively thin merino wool layers. Most of the other jackets I've tried tend to build up condensation when I ride in heavy rain. Which is pretty common weather where I live.
by righthand | 2025-11-12 15:11:48+00:00
From the previous comment.

> Google’s, for example, uses time-smearing to handle leaps. This is different than the standard and therefore you shouldn’t mix Google’s leap-smearing NTP system with NTP servers that don’t leap smear.

So we can use or not?

If we can then well good, then there will be no problem then if the funding fails.
by torginus | 2025-11-12 15:11:51+00:00
I feel like one thing that wasn't made clear - it's not necessarily the job of the programming language to prevent certain issues - SQL injection for example is something that should be handled by the framework (by not allowing to write SQL directly, but using commands with parameters). All the other higher priority issues are like that, it's not within the scope of a language to prevent such issues, just as Rust or Zig or whatever will never prevent phishing attacks.

As for temporal vs spatial memory safety issues, I agree that Zig does maybe help in that a bit (if component A sends an event to B, then A,B and the events having a separate allocator would work) - though I'm not sure if it doesn't introduce its own footguns (how do I know which allocator needs to free which object).

I don't know I haven't used Zig at all, so no idea how all this works out in practice. Memory issues are 100% solved by languages like Java with GC and I wouldn't say they have made software that much less buggy.
by glenstein | 2025-11-12 15:11:57+00:00
I suspect that many of those comments are from the Philosopher's Chair (aka bathroom), and are not aspiring to be literal answers but are ways of saying "OpenAI Bad". But to your point there should be privacy preserving ways to comply, like user anonymization, tailored searches and so on. It sounds like the NYT is proposing a random sampling of user data. But couldn't they instead do a random sampling of their most widely read articles, for positive hits, rather than reviewing content on a case by case basis?
by majora2007 | 2025-11-12 15:11:59+00:00
There are a few non-paid PDF libraries, but that is the biggest pain point in .NET, anytime you need advanced features for PDF, you're better off paying for a license (it's just insanely expensive unless you're a large company).

Having worked on some basic parsing of metadata from PDF spec, I would rather pay than have to code something myself. PDF is such a PIA.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-12 15:12:24+00:00
You disclose so that users can decide what mitigations to take. If there's a way to mitigate the issue without a fix from the developers the users deserve to know. Whether the developers have any obligation to fix the problem is up to the license of the software, the 90 day concession is to allow those developers who are obligated or just want to issue fixes to do so before details are released.
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by taschda | 2025-11-12 15:12:45+00:00
The average number of sexual partners has changed considerably over the decades. Baby boomers (1946-1964) report an average of 11 partners, while Generation X (1965-1980) has an average of 10 partners. Millennials (1981-1996) have a lower average of 8 partners. The lower average number of sexual partners could lead to bowel cancer. Joking aside. I would suggest that the world has become a bitter place. Water quality, pollution, microplastics, air quality, factory farming (meat production in general, drug distribution, multi-resistant germs). Average meat consumption per day is rising. Everything is getting worse because humans are causing climate change, suffering of living beings and nature and refusing to change the status quo.
by doodlebugging | 2025-11-12 15:13:10+00:00
https://Spaceweather.com has a link to some photos taken in El Salvador at 13N Lat. Last night was a great show for sure.

I enjoyed it for about 5 hours out here west of DFW. I hope the actual X5.1 event due to arrive in the next 3-5 hours will persist into the evening so I get another show.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-12 15:13:25+00:00
This doesn’t feel that new or surprising to me, although I suppose it depends what you consider the line between “science experiment” and “engineering R&D” to be.

Biotech has been a YC darling. Was Ginkgo Bioworks not doing science experiments?

Clean energy was a big YC fad roughly 15 years ago. Billions were invested towards scientific research into biofuels, solar, etc.
by Incipient | 2025-11-12 15:13:27+00:00
It's ABSOLUTELY a chip shortage. TSMC is booked out years in advance and jacking prices because they can.

On the dram side, because that's what I saw recently, sk hynix is down to TWO WEEKS of inventory: https://wccftech.com/sk-hynix-ddr5-inventory-down-to-just-2-...

I'd be curious what evidence there is to support its purely an end-product manufacturing shortage?
by MikeNotThePope | 2025-11-12 15:13:40+00:00
I worked at Transmeta. I remember for the launch of one of the Crusoe-powered laptops, there was a bug that prevented the BIOS from booting Linux. Since the laptop was only going to run Windows ME, they didn’t fix it. Of course when Linus got a demo unit to play with, the first thing he did was try to install Linux on it. He let everyone know, and the bug was fixed soon there after.
by haspok | 2025-11-12 15:14:01+00:00
> but i haven't used java in a very long time

What was the last Java version you used? There has been a huge momentum in adding new features lately, granted, it is slower than in C# (Java's top priority is backwards compatibility, so it does not have the luxury of shedding old stuff or changing them once they are in), but in the last couple of years it has improved tremendously. The JVM (especially in the garbage collection front) but also the language - half of an ML-style language is there (for example, ADTs and pattern matching), the other half is coming soon!
by sidewndr46 | 2025-11-12 15:14:02+00:00
It's entirely possible they don't have the ability in house to resolve it. Based on the report this is a user interface issue. It could just be some strange setting they enabled somewhere. But it's also possible it's the result of some dependency 3 or 4 levels removed from their product. Even worse, it could be the result of interactions between multiple dependencies that are only apparent at runtime.