MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aurareturn | 2025-11-09 05:58:59+00:00
just make iPad more useful and support MacOS - it's not gonna canibalize Mac, they sale each year 2x more iPads than Macs and 12x more iPhones than Macs.

Am I the only one who does not want this? An iPad is an iPad. It's so simple that my old parents have no trouble figuring out how to use it.

By adding macOS to it, I can't get it for my parents anymore because it's way too complicated for them. That's bad for business for Apple since the iPad is designed to be a bigger iPhone.

But wait.. what if you can choose iPad/macOS mode? Ehh... so what should iPad hardware/software engineers optimize for? They're totally different use cases. The market for people wanting to run a hybrid iPad is likely much smaller than you think. Tech communities on the internet is loud but I'm going to guess that 95% of iPad users do not care/want macOS on it.

make macbook Pro standard with 32GB RAM / 1TB drive (macbook air with 500GB) and cheaper upgrades. It's not like those chips are expensive. Better to sell 2x more devices with smaller margin than holding to your margin like virginity.

Macbook Pros already provide excellent value. Where else can you find the fastest and most efficient chips, outstanding high solution display, excellent metal build quality, keyboard, speakers, touchpad, and a polished OS in one? They make the margins on RAM/SSD upgrades. I have no problem with that. The base models provide outstanding value.

make powerful Apple TV or cheaper Mac Mini for all users. Create a distributed computing platform that user can opt-in. Now you are competing with CloudFlare. Those devices normally do nothing during night but could generate/compute stuff, execute some lambda in sandbox, work as a proxy. Give 30-50% for device upgrades for such users that opted-in for 2 years.

Ok if you do that, you'd have to increase warranty cost, calculate complex formulas for electricity, bandwidth for profitability since each customer will have different parameters. I fail to see how this is more efficient than just doing things in the cloud. I don't think customers want this stuff. I think mac Minis are cheap enough. I got my M4 Mini for $500. It's a steal.
by deaux | 2025-11-09 05:59:21+00:00
They didn't make anything on par, they gave an example of the US government enforcing US laws on foreign entities abroad.

Another example is that e.g. AWS Europe, even if every single one of its employees, board and what have it are all Germans, are still compelled to hand over their data if Amazon US is the parent company, under the likes of the CLOUD Act or FISA. That's a foreign entity comprised of foreign citizens and concerns the assets (data) of foreign citizens.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-11-09 06:01:26+00:00
> That’s a decision we, as a civilization, need to make. I personally hope we manage to enact transnational policies that effectively price environmental and social externalities in my lifetime. Or else witness “free market” capitalism continue to degrade our planet and the lives of millions of less privileged people.

Name one decision that the entire human civilization has ever consciously made
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by IdKaiser | 2025-11-09 06:02:01+00:00
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by theptip | 2025-11-09 06:02:32+00:00
Elon did some napkin math along the lines of “we will make tunnel boring ~10x faster by: 4x lower boring surface area, 4x faster boring because the industry are currently idiots not operating their machines at the limits that physics dictates”. (I can’t remember if there was actually another factor of 2 in there)

Making a much faster TBM was absolutely part of the initial plan.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-09 06:03:00+00:00
> That doesn't imply that their journalism is low-quality or inaccurate

Anecdote: in some early reporting, I noticed a citation to a paper that didn’t support the purported argument. (It said the opposite.)

I emailed the author, one of the founding journalists at Pro Publica and an award winner. He basically thanked me for the feedback and then left the article unchanged.

Pro Publica is reputable for a small publication. But they are not authoritative.
by jeswin | 2025-11-09 06:04:06+00:00
> For instance if you wrote a type to extend number to something like range<min,max> - obviously a toy - it would look very similar to what you’ve posted.

Why would Range need a sentinel?

My point is that using a sentinel to bridge TypeScript's lack of generic arity-based specialization is a non-trivial problem. After you mentioned it, I looked for examples on Google and couldn't find anything that matches precisely.

I'm not claiming humans can't solve this, or that gpt5 invented something fundamentally new. My original point was about productivity at scale. Having a model apply the right solution across dozens of similar problems, rather than me manually figuring out each one.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-09 06:04:20+00:00
When people are hired into a job it is with the generally explicit expectation of certain job duties listed in the job description. This forms a very basic contract as to what they're hired to do. While they can be fired for not doing something else that's suddenly assigned to them, at least in "at will" states, they would have the right to collect unemployment for such a firing, as the new requirement is explicitly not their job! In other words, the firing would not be for (legal) cause.

But sure, many people do take PR jobs, where the general job duties include making the company (and by extension its officers) look good. Such a person could be fired for cause if they didn't want to make posts about how great the CEO is, and would generally be ineligible for unemployment.
by mmooss | 2025-11-09 06:04:26+00:00
The conservative message machine is determinative, and they would find something to effectively raise a storm about: immigration, inflation, etc. If Biden cut inflation, they would have demonized him regarding employment. Or just make something up - they can say anything at this point, and the Dems and others have made themselves helpless. They will always find something - Biden and Dems were being called pedophiles in 2000, the election was stolen, etc.

Remember that the GOP stopped immigration reform in Congress for many years, including killing the agreed-upon bipartisan immigration reform bill at Trump's behest during the election. If your theory is correct, that would have disqualified the GOP among those voters.
by wltr | 2025-11-09 06:05:43+00:00
On the other hand, I migrated from macOS, and chose to stick to Gimp. Its interface is the worst I’ve seen, but with PhotoGIMP it’s tolerable. Now, when I’m used to it, I don’t care about Affinity or Photoshop to ever come to Linux. I want Gimp to consider rewriting their interface. And maybe to change this idiotic name nobody in the real world thinks is funny. Then it would be quite good product to promote.

Also, I use Pinta for simple tasks. And Krita for something bigger (or more drawing), but I wish it to be Wayland-ready.
by hansvm | 2025-11-09 06:06:00+00:00
It's only a tax evasion concern in the first place because the US started the trend of hoovering up wealth generated in other countries, which in-context still sounds like US overreach.

They weren't arguing for anyone's right to be corrupt in the first place though. If US citizens really have to pay extra taxes and have arduous reporting requirements then so be it, but why is the rest of the world dragged into that mess? This isn't a "dirty banks" issue; it's nearly impossible to get a bank account at any reputable institution as a US citizen abroad just because of the PITA of the reporting requirements. It's a mediocre law from questionable authority.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-09 06:07:28+00:00
> I still write about C anyway. It may not trend, but it lasts.

> I have never deployed any production C code and I would not choose C for professional work either

What do you write about C, if not for practical usage in the industry? Can you post some links?

FWIW, since you seem interested, here are some blog posts of mine specifically about practical usage of C, some of which got a little discussion here on HN in the past:

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap5/content.html
by troupo | 2025-11-09 06:07:35+00:00
> One exception, advertisers can artificially restrict saying "I want only men between 30-40" in their targeting filters.

> Then what Meta can do ? Not much.

--- start quote ---

“We do not allow advertisers to target these ads based on gender,” Settle said in a 2023 statement.

--- end quote ---

Meta can start by doing what they claim they are doing?
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-09 06:08:02+00:00
100%. This person is a very specific anti-* hater, for something that was such a rampantly popular hatred 10 years ago. But the FUDites rarely bother with bona-fides, with real argument.

We should feel bad for them, those decoupled folks who needs help. It's sad pathetic and remarkable how these weird software enmities crop up, are let to grow and never addressed. Their time of their outrage being popular & hip fades but the disdain-without-argument sticks around.

Thankfully container hatred is a pretty tiny frakking force, of very disparate widely scattered eccentrics these days. But there's so many weird FUD proclivities folks can opt into, can find to stoke their lifelong hatreds against. Theres just so few warnings: such audience acuity is required to parse, realize the windmill tilting, & move along.
by Retric | 2025-11-09 06:09:02+00:00
Drugs expand what helping yourself means to the point where people will actually do so.

Statins, GLP-1 antagonists, etc isn’t magic, but it changes people’s behavior and bodies in such as way as to diminish the importance of willpower. Thus, it’s not that people are lacking instead our medicine is simply to primitive to help with a wide range of issues.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-09 06:09:02+00:00
That's still the same thing. What matters here is if people expect an actual penalty of any kind. Draconian penalties never help.

On top of that, people are less likely to know whether there is even a law against those things since it's much less intuitively obvious.

What you need to do is make them understand that it's dangerous, not to make them understand that it's illegal. People don't care about penalties unless they expect to be caught and this is one of the things where it's hard to consistently catch people in the act.
by quacked | 2025-11-09 06:09:22+00:00
> Airbus prevailed because it was the least European version of a European industrial strategy project ever. It put its customer first, was uninterested in being seen as European, had leadership willing to risk political blowback in the pursuit of a good product, and operated in a unique industry

This really buries the lede, given that over the past 40 years Boeing sawed off both its own feet and drank cyanide. Total cultural change at the executive level that prioritized returns over good engineering.
by hamasho | 2025-11-09 06:10:58+00:00
Love `TOTALLY RIGHT` and `COMPLETELY WRONG` as boolean, but `TRUTH` and `FAKE NEWS` sounds better. Too much social media consumption makes me feel that "truth" or "fact" are kinda sarcastic.

It also reminds me TrumpScript: https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript
by apical_dendrite | 2025-11-09 06:12:30+00:00
> Do companies run by Elon Musk violate ethical and environmental regulations much more often than other similar companies, or does it just seem that way as a casual news reader because it is more worthwhile for outlets to publish a story when it happens?

He's contemptuous of regulators, doesn't care about his or his company's reputation (or at least negative publicity doesn't seem to change his behavior, although he whines when people criticize him), has an extreme tolerance for risk, knows that he has unlimited resources to fight off lawsuits and regulators, has donated vast sums of money to the current president, and at least at Twitter, got rid of all the people who were working on safety issues.

So it's not a surprise that there are more ethics violations then at a company where the executives still go by the "don't do anything that would get your name in The New York Times" rule.
by crazylogger | 2025-11-09 06:12:46+00:00
Anecdotally, a Max subscriber gets something like $100 worth of usage per day. The more people use Claude Code, the more Anthropic loses, so it sounds like a classical "selling a dollar for 85 cents" business to me.

As soon as users are confronted with their true API cost, the appearance of this being a good business falls apart. At the end of the day, there is no moat around large language models - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot... any company can make a SOTA model if they wish, so in the long run it's guaranteed to be a race to the bottom where nobody can turn a profit.
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-09 06:13:40+00:00
I had multiple services before Gmail was even conceived as I do now. I've had several Gmail accounts, the first was in the early days when one had to be introduced by an existing member (Gmail address) before one could join—a colleague sponsored me. The others were 'anonymous' accounts for testing email crested somewhat later after Google had realized that cliquey club memberships made no money.
by ayewo | 2025-11-09 06:14:14+00:00
Congrats on shipping!

Apart from the obvious question of why you didn't opt to open source the tool :), I'm genuinely curious about how you approached development.

How did you decide for this feature A: "I'll just spawn child processes and read the output of `x-y-z` and `a-b-c` CLI tools, while for feature B: "I'll drop-down to BSD sockets"? Perhaps you have a performance budget: if using the Apple-provided CLI utilities are not fast enough then you drop down to writing BSD sockets?
by rkagerer | 2025-11-09 06:14:19+00:00
Separate from the fines, why doesn't CCWRD litigate to get their cleanup costs back?

CCWRD says that its crews ultimately had to clean 12 cubic yards of “drilling mud, drilling spoils, and miscellaneous solid waste” from one of its sewage treatment facilities due to Boring’s discharges across two of its project sites
by dundarious | 2025-11-09 06:14:26+00:00
Most programmers don't prefer thread local mutable state over a single pointer argument. Especially for general purpose code (i.e., not specific to a single purpose/project). With the mutable state version, you have to clearly define which state you're using and when (which named allocator/arena variable), and if you're mutating it in place and then restoring it, there can be some pretty obvious issues.

Given this thread is completely off the rails from anything specific to allocators or arenas, and even Zig, I will now exit.
by jacobolus | 2025-11-09 06:14:42+00:00
> foreign government maintain 40 colonies within your boundaries with ~200,000 of their colonists?

Instead of speaking in riddles, can you be more explicit? Which foreign government are we talking about, and who are "their colonists?"

> no other war [besides WWII is] ever used to belittle and degrade any other people [than Germans]

This is an absurd claim.
by hvb2 | 2025-11-09 06:16:10+00:00
Profit margin? What a weird point of view.

They should just follow the rules, period. And any fine should be larger than the amount of money they saved by their illegal behavior and cover the corrective actions.

Here's a thought experiment. They're tunneling beneath your house and, because they skip all normal precautions, your house collapses. Sure, you don't mind as long as they're fined a decent amount, right?
by UmGuys | 2025-11-09 06:16:12+00:00
KIDNAP: To abduct or confine (a person) forcibly, by threat of force, or by deceit, without the authority of law.

Care to explain the distinction? They have authority of law?? haha It's terrorism. No crime, no warrant, no due process. Obviously it's not kidnapping by law, because no law applies to ICE.

The apartment building scene was a mass kidnapping of US citizens. They've shot US citizens for recording their actions with live bullets, pepper balls, and gas grenade launchers. They tear gassed kids on the playground, attacked a Halloween parade, the horrors are endless.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-09 06:16:22+00:00
Gobsmacking article. I had no idea.

I wish there was some way for the people for the world to collectively build faith in their systems, in the face of these incredibly beyond the pale usurpations of democracy. The people deserve to have some trust in elections, and every democracy everywhere should be working to make heinous acts against democracy like this much harder to pull off & much more resisted when foes work against the voices of the people.

I hate citing Ministry for the Future, but there really aren't that many bad nation-corrupting people in the world, and MftF portrayed acutely the asymmetry of what these ratios and modern guerilla warfare would reap. To be sure more years of hideous lead would be ghastly, but if we keep losing our nations to such injustice it's hard to see what people in these nations feel like they would have to lose.

It shouldn't come to that. There should be multi-polar reactions there should be actions before hand by all nations to make democracy a path that is respected.
by xdennis | 2025-11-09 06:16:42+00:00
> He sent the Illinois State Police to help protect ICE from protestors as Broadview, freeing up their resources

You're literally saying the quiet part out loud.

So many people here are complaining that ICE is arresting US citizens, but you literally admit that they're interfering. And yes, it's illegal to "forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere" with a federal officer. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/111

You can do up to 1 year in prison for minor offenses, or up to 20 for using weapons and causing injuries.
by solresol | 2025-11-09 06:16:50+00:00
> The volume of cargo carried by sailing vessels in the old days was orders of magnitude lower.

Surprisingly, no, it wasn't. I'll slightly fudge the numbers and talk in terms of proportion of world trade that was carried by ocean-going vessels (because if you double the population then it's reasonable to talk about doubling the number of ships).

The world economy was very globalised in 1913. That level of globalisation in trade wasn't matched again until the 1990s.

We're only a little more global now than we were in the age of sail.

The British navy and merchant fleet was a wonder of its era.
by kaycey2022 | 2025-11-09 06:17:14+00:00
Your reasoning seems clear enough to me. cmiiw, you’re saying Marcus says LLMs don’t really understand language and only present an illusion of that understanding. And that illusion will noticeably break at a certain scale. And to be honest when context windows get filled up to a certain point, they do become unintelligible and stupid.

In spite of this, I think LLMs display intelligence and for me that is more useful than their understanding of language. I haven’t read anything from Chomsky tbh.

The utility of LLMs come from their intelligence and the price point at which it is achieved. Ideally the discussion should focus on that. The deeper discussion of AGI should not worry the policy makers or the general public. But unfortunately, business seems intent on diving into the philosophical arguments of how to achieve AGI because that is the logic they have chosen to convince people into giving them more and more capital. And that is what makes Marcus’ and his friends’ critique relevant.

One can’t really critique people like Marcus saying he is being academic and pedantic on LLM capabilities, are they real, are they not etc when the money is relentlessly chasing those un-achieved capabilities.

So even though you’re saying we aren’t talking about AGI and this isn’t the topic, everything kind of circles back into AGI and the amount of money being poured into chasing that.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-09 06:18:32+00:00
Their polities weren't then part of the US polity, so they'd have a separate we. Now they are part of the US polity, so they could include themselves in that we.

But to honestly answer your sarcastic question: There were a bunch of them, and they typically didn't include their fellow natives in their collective understanding of "we" until later years. At the time, and even prior to colonization, various tribes did indeed commit, or participate in, genocide on other tribes. Just like the pseudo-collective "Europeans" did among their tribes.

Some history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_Wars#Indigen...
by maxglute | 2025-11-09 06:18:33+00:00
Again, Nvidia sells every chip it produces. TSMC sells every wafer Nvidia contracts. Money is not the issue. Think about the kicker. Jensen said this in Taiwan of all places with specific emphasis on scope of PRC talent. Rude.

What Jensen wants is is Nvidia chips in PRC so PRC, the generator of plurality of global AI talent works to improve Nvidia ecosystem, because even 10-20% penetration means expanding Nvidia developer / human capita by 2x/3x in future where PRC AI talent generation likely to get more disproportionate relative to RoW. Of course PRC is going to continue pouring resources into indigenous solutions, but instead of 100% of PRC talent, aka 50%+ of global AI talent working on Huawei solutions, maybe only 60-70%, which means instead of Huawei getting 50%+ of global talent, they get <50% and RoW + segment of PRC talent. That gives Nvidia plurality talent to keep building CUDA moat.

And as long as Cuda remains an option in PRC, the 70% working on Huawei has avenue to cross train over to Nvidia ecosystem, which is supported by US tech, aka $$$, so the chance of crosspolinating and braindrain the best from PRC AI is higher. Without Nvidia at least having some relevant share in PRC, that braindrain beach head and knowledge transfer route is gone. Here's the flip side, Silicon valley AI is going to be built off PRC AI talent for foreseable future, whatever happens in SV WILL filter back to PRC in one way siphon unless Nvidia has a spoute in PRC to siphon back, otherwise PRC AI remains relative blackbox, with talent advantage, intelligence (as in knowledge diffusion and espionage) advantage, that's ready to go at 200% the second hardware catches up. They will go from 5 years behind to 2 years ahead in a flash because their talent lead is no longer being constrained.
by indolering | 2025-11-09 06:19:50+00:00
The publicly available exploit prices put a browser zero day at $200k-$500k. That's the same cost as firing a few Javalin missiles. OS RCE runs into $1-$2 million. Much less than a cheap Russian tank. [1]

The cost of internally developed exploits is probably much lower. They aren't one shot assets either, they can be used until someone plugs the hole.

There are private companies selling devices to law enforcement that can extract information from locked phones [2]. Availability of that sort of access to anyone's phone by local law enforcement is absurdly cheap.

[1]: https://opzero.ru/en/prices/

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which...