MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JulianChastain | 2025-11-13 18:26:13+00:00
I am not claiming my experience generalizes here. But my experience was absolutely saturated by a narrative that men are oppressors who are the cause of many/most of the ills of society. The nuance of only including men who are "evil" was not present in my experience. A conversation might go like:

A: "Kill All Men! They are disgusting"

B: "Well, surely not all men, some men are noble or allies to your cause"

A: "When I look at who the evil people are, they are almost all men, and they are supported by many men. Men are responsible for the evil and for failing to stop the evil. For every man that commits date rape, there's 5 men that hear about it and don't do anything. They are all responsible, and just as guilty."

I'm certainly not claiming that there is widespread oppression towards men, but at least in my generation (particularly in higher education) the overton window includes denigrating masculinity but doesn't include admiring it.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-13 18:26:24+00:00
> Historically when a pendulum swings one way, eventually it swings back. But I'm having trouble how we're going to swing back, when both sides have swung to and then doubled down on polarization.

It doesn't matter how polarized "both sides" are. Both sides is a subset of the whole society. As they become more and more insane in their polarization, more and more of society realizes that they are insane, and becomes repulsed. The pendulum is restored not by the other side becoming dominant. The pendulum swings back by the middle looking at the extreme and saying "No, you're insane, we aren't going to walk down your road."
by sunnyps | 2025-11-13 18:26:36+00:00
> Despite attempts to make Atom—an Electron application—more responsive, it never reached the performance standards the team yearned for.

This feels like an attempt at deflecting blame. VSCode is another Electron application that ended up having better performance than Atom. There's another Electron adjacent application that has good performance, the one you're probably using right now to read this page.

Depending on page content of course
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-13 18:26:43+00:00
I like Zed. I pay for pro. I like the integrated agent stuff (though my usage model has changed a bit after 5 months of use).

I'm happy that others can type in each others' space, but this post reveals a tension here. They are building a tool for building the tool, and their own team. I think that's cool, but at a 2-3 person shop heavy polyglotted across 4 OSes and 5+ programming languages, this is not what I really need.

What I'm looking for is a snappy tool (check) that lets me explore, understand, modify code at a next level (marginal). And I want it to not only be snappy by virtue of execution efficiency, but cognitive load. I want the less-is-more experience. I don't need it to do Swift, Kotlin, or Python, because there are bespoke IDEs for each of those that focus on the environments where I deploy them best. What I mostly want from Zed is the ability to see the outline panel at the same time as the directory panel, and to separate the search outline from the file structure outline. I spent too much time toggling views in Zed.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-13 18:26:53+00:00
What is the point of this? Shopping is the primary reason people work, people love shopping. Not only that, people don't know what they what to buy so they learn in by looking at the options for ideas.

Also, the point of buying presents isn't charity or wealth transfer but thinking about the person.

This is a the case of having a solution looking for a problem.
by spankibalt | 2025-11-13 18:26:59+00:00
I don't see a problem here. And as long as they're hurting nobody IDGAF.

> "The experience of young men is that they have grown up in a world where they've consistently been told that everything is their fault because they have male privilege."

Men had and have privilege, that's a simple sociological and sociohistorical fact. That, because of that fact, "everything is their [i. e. men's] fault" is a reductio ad absurdum.

> "'You think I'm the problem? I'll show YOU what it looks like if I BECOME the problem!'"

Ah, the old classic: threats and blackmail. Trad dudes just don't get, do they? After hundreds, if not thousands, of years of "I'll show YOU!1!!", that song and dance is stale. People become more empowered individually, with more individual freedom(s). So they are less inclined to settle for bad compromises.
by chubot | 2025-11-13 18:27:00+00:00
It's not an apples-to-apples comparison, because EC2 and Google Cloud have ephemeral disk - persistent disk is an add-on, which is implemented with a complex and frequently changing distributed storage system

On the other hand, a Hetzner machine I just rented came with Linux software RAID enabled (md devices in the kernel)

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I'm not aware of any comparisons, but I'd like to see see some

It's not straightforward, and it's not obvious the cloud is more reliable

The cloud introduces many other single points of failure, by virtue of being more complex

e.g. human administration failure, with the Unisuper incident

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366867

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-acciden... - “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

Of course, dedicated hardware could have a similar type of failure, but I think the simplicity means there is less variety in the errors.

e.g. A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable - Leslie Lamport
by lelanthran | 2025-11-13 18:27:26+00:00
> I can understand the MIT license, and my corp lawyer can easily understand all the consequences of using something under MIT license. With the GPL, not so much.

Any IP lawyer who hasn't come across the GPL yet is probably not worth listening to.

I mean, would you listen to a bridge engineer who hasn't yet heard of a calculator? Sure, they may understand their shit, but if they haven't heard of calculators yet they are clearly not in the industry.

Any IP lawyer who hasn't yet read the GPL and formed a professional opinion on it isn't equipped to handle IP matters at all.
by sfpotter | 2025-11-13 18:27:27+00:00
I agree with the thrust of the article but my conclusion is slightly different.

In my experience the issue is sometimes that Step 1 doesn't even take place in a clear cut way. A lot of what I see is:

1. Design algorithms and data structures 2. Implement and test them

Or even:

1. Program algorithms and data structures 2. Implement and test them

Or even:

1. Implement 2. Test

Or even:

1. Test 2. Implement

:-(

IMO, this last popular approach gets things completely backwards. It assumes there is no need to think about the problem before hand, to identify it, to spend any amount of time thinking about what needs to happen on a computer for that problem to be solved... you just write down some observable behaviors and begin reactively trying to implement them. Huge waste of time.

The point also about "C-style languages being more appealing" is well taken. It's not so much about the language in particular. If you are able to sit down and clearly articulate what you're trying to do, understand the design tradeoffs, which algorithms and data structures are available, which need to be invented... you could do it in assembly if it was necessary, it's just a matter of how much time and energy you're willing to spend. The goal becomes clear and you just go there.

I have an extensive mathematical background and find this training invaluable. On the other hand, I rarely need to go so far as carefully putting down theorems and definitions to understand what I'm doing. Most of this happens subliminally somewhere in my mind during the design phase. But there's no doubt that without this training I'd be much worse at my job.
by next_xibalba | 2025-11-13 18:27:41+00:00
> "Behind the scenes, AI does the work for you, calling to see if stores nearby have what you're looking for, how much it costs and if there are any special promos...This feature is powered by our Duplex technology"

RIP anyone who has to answer phones at a store. Also, I'm excited/horrified that Duplex is making an appearance. It seemed like it disappeared after they announced it in 2018.
by Herring | 2025-11-13 18:27:53+00:00
I was reading about Austria recently. It's a nice place, but it turns out they have their far-right Nazis in rural areas too. It's pretty common around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%E2%80%93rural_political_...

I think the world is still figuring out how to deal with this. The German firewall looks quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_against_the_far-right...

Of course things like the electoral college, filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, lifetime appointments etc don't help.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-11-13 18:27:57+00:00
That is the UK. The big issue has been:

* Government is unable (for various reasons, the primary one being massive levels of corruption) to invest in expanding capacity. Demand on certain routes is multiples of the capacity that exists. * The trains are owned by private companies, this was a bad idea. * Operating companies have had to put prices up because of all the things outside of their control. Government has been happy to let them take the blame, it has allowed things to be moved into public ownership, more power, more control. * No-one is making any money because the idea is for no-one to make any money. Making money is dirty so operating companies make no profit, and prices are sky-high.
by hathawsh | 2025-11-13 18:28:05+00:00
While I agree with you in principle (people should do their own thinking if they want gifts to be genuine), I thought I would go ahead and see how well Gemini can advise someone on choosing a gift for you.

https://gemini.google.com/share/88b694a09a89

The advice seems very good. What do you think? A donation to EFF or an open source project, a rare book, or handcrafted headphones seem like a good start for someone who can't afford anything extravagant.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 18:28:16+00:00
Before the EU law, Android would release monthly bulletins, and patches would take about a month before being released on Pixel devices, once known as 'best in class' security. GrapheneOS have themselves admitted this has changed from 1 month to 4. This has been done to comply with this new EU law.

Now, we have patches already for March 2026 in November 2025. Once the March 2025 patches are shipped by Google, OEMs have 4 months for all OEMs to ship it (deadline being July 2026).

Consider this scenario:

Patch for bug lands January 2026. Google decides to either release a Pixel OS update or release the source code in 8 months time containing this patch for whatever reason. Then a 4 month timer starts for all OEMs to ship that patch. Meaning a patch that has existed from January 2026 can now be shipped by January 2027 under this system and fully comply with the law. This patch may be under active exploit as OEMs have leaked it which again, GrapheneOS have admitted is happening.

Previously, patches would be landing within the month. All google must do is ensure this patch is not included in any pixel OS update or public source code release.

Yes, Google is responsible, but when the EU touts laws as fining 4% of global turnover (in the case of GDPR), then they are going to be taken seriously, which means OEMs demanding Google not release the update for Pixel/source code until they are ready and use this loophole as they are doing.

The loser is ultimately the end user who has a weaker more exploitable device for months.
by mulmen | 2025-11-13 18:28:23+00:00
> Look, the Mint has one job, to make money. If it's losing money, it doesn't make cents. :P

I realize this is a joke but again, my objection is that this is the actual reason given.

> But, while coins are durable, the Mint has been making billions of pennies every year since the 1950s, and yet retailers have trouble sourcing enough pennies to make change. They do tend not to be recirculated, even if they're not disposable.

These are all better reasons than the one we were given.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-13 18:28:28+00:00
What is the points of gifts? For children it is of course obvious why they enjoy gifts, they have no/few other means of obtaining these things.

But why do adult humans, who almost always have the ability to just buy the gifts, give and receive gifts?

I personally hate gifts, but I can imagine why people enjoy giving and receiving them. The reason is that it demonstrates that someone else cared, that they took their time and spent energy for you. Likewise giving a gift is an act of appreciation for the other person for the same reason.

But this also means that the idea of automating gift selection makes the whole thing redundant. What purpose is there in AI gift selection? It becomes just a stupid ritual, in which people spend money to fulfill some social obligation.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-13 18:28:30+00:00
Gabe is a former MSFTy, left in 1996 to found Valve, he saw games as more popular than Windows. It wouldn’t surprise me if he got into games in order to compete against his former employer which would suggest to me that this plan has been in motion since before 1996, almost 30 years. At least from my point of view, if I wanted to take on Microsoft, doing what he did for the past 30 years is how I would go about doing that.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 18:28:41+00:00
I absolutely agree with the role of social media on our rising polarization.

Many people have talked about and analyzed this. But the analysis that I find most insightful is also the first one that I read. https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulato.... It not only discusses how the dynamics of what goes viral leads to polarization, it also explains how the economics of how news is delivered today mirror those that created the yellow press over a century ago. And why both wind up delivering polarizing conspiracy theories with limited factual accuracy.

I have no idea what to do about the problem. But at least I feel that I can understand it.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-11-13 18:28:51+00:00
Removing pennies from retail is a software job at least as time-consuming as: Y2K or converting to Euro (yes, as a US programmer, it gave me a lot of work and missed holidays.)

For one, think of all the POS systems stuck on old firmware. These are the details.

Sure a lot of "easy" solutions come to mind.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-13 18:29:36+00:00
i'm still waiting for the first recording of an interaction between two AIs that each think the other is a human

>Hello and greetings! I am a customer at your store and would very much find it ingratiating if I were to purchase a gift for my mother -- a piece of jewelry or a small trinket would be great.

>Hello! What a wonderful idea! Let me see what's available in our inventory. Would you perhaps like an ottoman, or some floor mats for her car?

>An ottoman is a great suggestion! It is not, however, a piece of jewelry. One could potentially call an ottoman a trinket as there is no clear definition of "trinket" that eliminates small furniture.

>You're absolutely right! Floor mats may be jewelry but an ottoman is not!

etc...
by scoofy | 2025-11-13 18:29:48+00:00
Your concern is with the executive powers, that's an issue for the judicial branch. Our discussion is about the legislative branch and the electoral process. That's how we create law. This discussion is about the consequences of nullification of law that we don't like that does not violate some inherent human right (and no, I think it's fairly absurd to suggest that overstaying a visa is some human right, and I also think it's even difficult to suggest that seeking asylum in one nation specifically, and not a neutral third-party nation is some human right).

You're talking about the specific day-to-day of enforcement, which I've repeatedly said I don't like, and is probably a problem in many cases. That is important, it's also worth discussing, it's just very much NOT relevant to a discussion of the risks and consequences of states going down a path of nullification of a law that is popular on the federal level.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-13 18:29:58+00:00
It would violate our privacy policy.

It's important that "delete all my information" also deletes everything after the user logs in for the first time.

Also, I'm not sure that Apple would allow it. They insist that deletion remove all traces of the user. As far as I know, there's no legal mandate to retain anything, and the nature of our demographic, means that folks could be hurt badly by leaks.

So we retain as little information as possible -even if that makes it more difficult for us to adminster, and destroy everything, when we delete.
by xpe | 2025-11-13 18:30:03+00:00
> Code by mass live committee. Yikes.

Let's lean into the chaos and see what it might give us. Imagine a production application deployed directly from a non-version-controlled directory. Anyone on the team can edit the files, at any time. Insane? Probably. The disadvantages are easy to see.

But the positives are really compelling: 1. make small, granular testable changes; 2. use feature toggles; 3. refactor intensely and concurrently; 4. always work on the latest code; 5. use in-code documentation instead of GitHub/etc workflows; 6. explore continuous, incremental, hot-swappable code deployment.

Doesn't thought of ditching all the wasted motion and ceremony around logging async work and just coding sound glorious? I'm actually not a "move fast and break things person" usually. But the idea of moving so fast that broken things will only stay broken for a tiny fraction of the time is pretty compelling. There is also an intensity that comes from real-time interactions where a team needs to reach consensus quickly.

Feature Toggles: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

BEAM (Erlang, Elixir) provides hot-swappable code and lots more
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-13 18:30:30+00:00
Literally everything even vaguely construction-ish is rife with crap like this.

It would be one thing if people were actually asking for this regulation because they wanted it. They're mostly not. The trade groups, the professional organizations, the big industry players, they push it and the legislature just writes it knowing full well that the "lives somewhere with good schools" part of their electorate will go to bat for just about any regulation, the landlords can mostly afford it and tenants don't see the true cost. This just leaves the few non-wealthy homeowners (mostly in rural areas where homes are still cheap-ish) and slumlords to complain and so the legislature knows they have nothing to fear at election time.

I don't even live somewhere rural. I live in a proper city. It's just poor enough that stupid rules like that are a massive drag on everyone who wants to do anything. It's hard to amortize needless BS into whatever it is you're doing when the local populace can't afford it.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-11-13 18:30:42+00:00
Theres lots these models can do but I despise when people suggest they can do edits with "with only the necessary aspects changed".

No, that simply is not true. If you actually compare the before and after you can see it still regenerates all the details on the "unchanged" aspects. Texture, lighting, sharpness, even scale its all different even if varyingly similar to the original.

Sure they're cute for casual edits but it really pains me people suggesting these things are suitable replacements for actual photo editing. Especially when it comes to people, or details outside their training data theres a lot of nuance that can be lost as it regenerates them no matter how you prompt things.

Even if you
by blobbers | 2025-11-13 18:30:55+00:00
Are you unable to engage with the full context of the situation? You repeatedly refer to the OP in your comments but there is a much larger context.

Simple logic, see if you can follow:

1. Sophie publishes flawed research (nitroglycerin for osteoporosis)

2. Sophie practices medicine and gives patients nitroglycerin for osteoporosis, with knowledge that her study is a lie. This causes harm to patients, because she knowingly gives them a therapy that doesn’t work. This is malpractice.
by sophacles | 2025-11-13 18:31:35+00:00
So intellectual ventures - notably a different company than transmeta - is being a patent troll. That means transmeta became a patent troll too?

Why should I believe what you say anyway? Wendy Verlander - notably a different person than you - is a well known patent troll. That means you are just another patent troll not worth my attention. (At least according to your reasoning).
by mindslight | 2025-11-13 18:31:39+00:00
The problem I have with this line of thinking is that food is also pretty necessary for human survival, yet we've got a vibrant for-profit market that provides it, plus government subsidies to provide for those who cannot afford it (constantly creeping anticompetitive schemes, and autocratic fascists' attempts to withhold said subsidies, notwithstanding)

Boiling down the problems with healthcare being "for-profit" is like blaming an infection on the bacteria and calling it a day. In reality the bacteria have only been allowed to fester due to deeper problems.

I'd say the real problem is this industry has used regulations, both government and shared corporate "policy", to except themselves from most standard forms of accountability and market (aka patient) responsiveness. What other industry cannot tell you how much something costs ahead of time, and operates by sending you an arbitrary bill after the fact that is still fraudulent with amounts of 3-4x the actual prices? What other industry prevents new competitors from opening without a "certificate of need" ? What other industry is allowed to negotiate amongst itself to blatantly fix prices ? What other industry has had a lauded attempt at reform that included making patronizing that industry mandatory ?!

This certainly isn't a call to blindly "eliminate regulations", as history has shown that kind of thing mostly eliminates remaining checks while not going anywhere near the regulations that actually need reform (which are a lot of entrenched industry wide "business practices" at this point). But rather these are the terms we need to be thinking in rather than knee jerk blaming "profit".
by infamouscow | 2025-11-13 18:31:44+00:00
This line of reasoning is genuinely stupid, it deserves to be derided and mocked.

You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding by all traffic laws.

By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.

What you don't understand is suicidal empathy eventually corrects itself with extremely violent vigilantism. And when (not if) that happens, you'll be begging for the state to come in to restore order, but they will be unable to. The state has already ceded legitimacy by not performing their duties, and what you're left with are violent gangs and warlords.

Dark triad sociopaths view this as a way to cease power. What they miss is real power comes from groups of armed individuals, not from a ballot box.
by mkagenius | 2025-11-13 18:31:50+00:00
> Nano Banana is still bad at rendering text perfectly/without typos as most image generation models.

I figured that if you write the text in Google docs and share the screenshot with banana it will not make any spelling mistake.

So, use something like "can you write my name on this Wimbledon trophy, both images are attached. Use them" will work.