MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-11-24 16:19:38+00:00
I never claimed anything about company safety policies. Let's keep separate the concept of an industry becoming safer from whatever policies those companies officially adopt after rounds of writing and rewriting.

To wit, three prominent examples of industries frontrunning safety advances well in advance of any regulation around them. One: In the late 19th century, early electrification was burning cities down. Private insurance companies banded together to form the Underwriter's Laboratory to test products, refusing to insure buildings that didn't use UL-listed devices. Manufacturers voluntarily submitted to rigorous safety testing not because the police would arrest them, but because it got them access to insurance at a considerably lower cost.

Two: In 1959, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt. Volvo gave the patent away voluntarily to all competitors, partly to establish a brand identity of safety and innovation, and partly because they genuinely recognized that seatbelts saved lives. If your claims were right, Volvo would have either kept the patent to monopolize safety or, worse, buried it to save manufacturing costs. Instead, the market rewarded them for being the "safe car," and other manufacturers had to follow suit to compete, decades before seatbelt laws became universal.

Three: There currently exists almost no federal law governing recreational scuba diving in the United States. Yet, the industry is obsessed with safety. Shops by and large will not fill your tank without a C-card. The PADI and the NAUI update their standards constantly. If tourists started drowning en masse, in a sport virtually custom designed to do so, the industry would vanish. They self-regulate to preserve their market cap.

With all that, let's return to the claim you are endorsing. You say you are "absolutely confident", >99.99%, that the FAA's dissolution would lead an entire industry to be less safe a century from now. This seems like, at minimum, a lack of imagination regarding how markets solve coordination problems. You are assuming that in the absence of the FAA, a vacuum would remain. History suggests the opposite. Indeed, it seems entirely possible that without a shield of regulatory compliance to hide behind in court, liability pressures might actually make airlines more risk-averse, not less.
by mjburgess | 2025-11-24 16:19:54+00:00
That you put quotes around 'promises' shows you already understand the issue with your comment. That you cannot disquote it, is the issue.

You seem like you're trying to find a way of strawmaing my position in order to score points, so I'm not going to reply further. If you have an interest in understanding the basis of economics, ask an LLM
by freeplay | 2025-11-24 16:20:01+00:00
The problem is creating a single point of failure.

There's no doubt a VM in AWS is exponentially more redundant than my VM running on a couple of Intel NUCs in my closet.

The difference is, when I have a major outage, my blog goes down.

When EC2 has a major outage, all of the blogs go down. Along with Wikipedia, Starbucks, and half the internet.

That single point of failure is the issue.
by double0jimb0 | 2025-11-24 16:20:16+00:00
I'm using Widex Allure. I only need to use one ear for now, and the low latency from the Widex was what won it, tried a couple Oticons that had a disorienting amount of lag. Also the Widex has really great high frequency transient filtering, much better than the Oticons in my experience. With a house full of screaming kids, this was also critical.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-24 16:20:17+00:00
>The article states rural areas tend to be served by a higher proportion of immigrant doctors. The densely populated coasts will probably be fine - the higher salaries will continue to attract US-born and limited immigrant doctors.

I had only anecdotal knowledge(I know Canadian doctors are all going to the big cities) and I looked it up before posting for who would be most impacted.

You are correct the article tried to suggest rural, but fact check false. It's easy to see why NPR did this.

NPR represents urban liberals; their readers won't like reading that their healthcare costs are about to go way up.
by briandrum | 2025-11-24 16:21:03+00:00
Shape Up was my first thought too. I just left a team where I introduced cycles of six weeks of feature development and two weeks of bug fixing, tech debt, and anything else the developers decided to tackle.

It depends on the stage and size of your team and company of course, but for us the result was more predictable delivery and happier, more-engaged developers.

For anyone curious to learn more: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08#cool-down
by nathan_compton | 2025-11-24 16:21:05+00:00
I think that unless we roll back to hegemonic religious values you cannot enforce anything with them. People need to feel an overwhelming social pressure for social pressure to work. As you say, now that things are secularized, I just don't see it happening. That is why the ban on premarital sex doesn't even work within religious communities today: people can see there are other options and (implicitly) they can see that their community is neither inescapable or always right.

I like this state of affairs, frankly, and I genuinely want to see religion swept into the dustbin of history, so I don't find the idea of relying on it to prevent bad outcomes particularly appealing. Maybe a nice secular set of ideas like stoicism could work. I have no objection to the idea of character formation, values, individual responsibility. But I just have no taste at all for enforcing those things with imaginary stories. In fact, its hardly individual character if the behavior is actually socially enforced.

People should not need to be moral paragons, however, to live a good life. If there are systems which are exploiting ordinary human cognitive biases to make profit the state can and should step in.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-24 16:21:16+00:00
> You are not, but he is and made his comment in this spirit.

He made the comment in the spirit of being a silly fanboy. Just like most respondents so far.

> Saying someone is your favorite X and someone is the greatest X are different things, you can think of someone as the greatest X and not like them (unlikely but possible).

Agreed. That's my point.

> When you say about a technical concept of your expertice, that X is the best way to do Y, it does not preclude, that there isn't a better way to be invented, or that exists elsewhere, that you just are not aware of. The same is true here.

We are talking about art. Not an objective "technical concept". Not only that, it's nearly impossible to say X is the greatest author/writer/etc, X is the greatest painter, X is the greatest musician, X is the great film director, etc. If we can't even decide within a particular art form, who is the greatest, it even more laughable to say X is the greatest artist FULL STOP. That's my point. Not to mention that it's is nearly impossible to have consumed and understood all art, even within a genre. And we haven't even addressed the subjective nature of art.

> In addition he [Bach] is also (jokingly) called the fifth evangelist, at least in Germany. Not sure, if this remark is known elsewhere.

Who cares? It just proves my point.
by vyshnavtr | 2025-11-24 16:21:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I built nobg.space — a fully client-side background remover that runs entirely inside the browser.

There is *no server upload*. Images are processed locally using a WebAssembly model, so nothing leaves the user's device. This makes it fast, private, and works even on slow networks.

Why I built it: - Most background removers upload images to the server - Many have paywalls, limits, or sign-ups - I wanted something instant, private, and simple

Features: - Runs 100% in the browser (no backend) - Instant removal (1–2 seconds depending on device) - No ads, no login - Works offline after load - Minimal UI

I’d love feedback on: - performance on different devices - model accuracy - UI/UX improvements - bugs or edge cases

Thanks for checking it out!
by bargainbin | 2025-11-24 16:21:54+00:00
Wild reading the news earlier to see Iran is making a concerted effort to influence Scottish Independence.

Is the idea to weaken the UK? To what end?

Also, if it’s being done to us, surely we’re doing it back? The CIA and MI6 are no stranger to destabilising regimes, and yet surely it would be more common knowledge if we were employing people to post anti-Putin propaganda on Russian forums?
by linguae | 2025-11-24 16:22:07+00:00
I didn’t know you like C++. I’ve been reading your posts for a few years now and your advocacy of the Xerox PARC way of computing. I’ve found that most Smalltalkers and Lispers are not exactly fond of C++. To be fair, many Unix and Plan 9 people are also not big C++ fans despite C++ also coming from Bell Labs.
by MajorArana | 2025-11-24 16:22:17+00:00
This was not a 'glitch'.

A well functioning marketplace will have step-changes in 'fair value' when there are step-changes in the underlying fundamentals (i.e. 'uncertainty' becomes 'certainty').

Don't blame the woman. Booking.com has a free cancelation policy. In the financial markets, options cost money. There is an intrinsic underlying value. In this case, the woman was given a free option and she took it. She did the smart thing.

Don't blame the hotel. Booking.com also offers a similar policy to the room providers - if the rate is clearly in error, they can cancel. The hotel likely operated in the same manner as the woman (i.e. they said "hey there's no penalty for requesting a refund... lets try it and see if we get away with it" or more sinister "hey Booking.com uses an automated system for these requests and any price discrepancy >50% is auto-approved by the system!"). While this feels adversarial, the hotel also did 'the smart thing' (... something about the "fiduciary duty to maximize value for the shareholders" ...)

The issue: Booking.com approved the hotel's cancellation request for a room with a rate that was (likely) correct at the time it was booked. (Given the well established dynamics around market pricing around events)

The policies of Booking.com led to this mess - ultimately Booking.com did the right thing by upholding the reservation and covering the difference.
by BruSwain | 2025-11-24 16:22:18+00:00
I thought there was a name for this(cant find it), but its not just devs, its most people with a deep technical expertise.

I remember watching a youtube video about this, where they used Neil deGrasse Tyson as a case study. Showing cases of him confidently saying wrong things in fields he's not very knowledgeable in.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-11-24 16:22:31+00:00
It's true that the alternatives may not be good, but if so it suggests that maybe publishing is a business that requires certain behavior.

I think the best thing that Doctorow could do is set up his own publishing business and show the big companies the right way to do it. If he's right, he'll get the best new talent and quickly succeed.

But I'm guessing he'll discover what the major companies know: the consumer is fickle, developing a new book/movie/song is expensive, and only a few hits pay for the rest.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-24 16:22:46+00:00
I'm more into only state change/differentiation exists.

Which of course means state is real.

Which mean langauge, syntax and semantics can be traced all the way down to fundementals.

Which means human meaning making is making the meaning of the universe, like an accidental organ of the universe.

And far from human meaning making being subjective its tied directly to physical existence and is objective.

And a cesium clock is all you need to derive everything fundemental.

That's what I play around with at least.

The idea that if stars are a process that emits photons and change energy gradients, humans are a process that emits complex meaning and change causal leverage gradients.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-11-24 16:23:33+00:00
When I was involved about a year ago, cilium falls apart at around a few thousand nodes.

One of the main issues of cilium is that the bpf maps scale with the number of nodes/pods in the cluster, so you get exponential memory growth as you add more nodes with the cilium agent on them. https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/operations/performance/scal...
by oersted | 2025-11-24 16:23:36+00:00
It's a shame that Pioneers of Pagonia doesn't stick to the same strict path-network mechanic, that was my favourite part of the earlier Settlers that later went away.

From the recommendation of another commenter, here's a more recent indie game that seems focused exactly on that style of path logistics:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/677340/The_Colonists/
by rolfus | 2025-11-24 16:23:41+00:00
Audiologist and hearing aid user here. It's a great time to be looking for new hearing aids! Speech in noise capabilities have improved massively this generation, and I can personally attest to this. For me, the most important performance metric is speech perception in noisy / challenging listening situations. For you there might be other considerations, so keep that in mind.

With that said, my recommendation are the new Phonak Infinio Sphere devices with with their "Spheric speech in noise" feature. It's a complete game changer in terms of speech perception in loud noise. Activating this program in a noisy situation feels like turning off the background noise, leaving only (nearby) voices.

The caveat is that to achieve this they use a separate, power-hungry processor and compensate by increasing the battery size (making the whole hearing aid bigger than other, similar hearing aids). The upside to this is that if you're _not_ using the spherical program, you'll have really good battery life. I use mine for exactly 16 hours a day and if I'm careful I can make them last almost three full days. The charger is much better than the previous ones; they use magnets to keep the devices in place instead of relying on plastic friction.

The Oticon Intent and new Starkey AI aids are also great. You should always try more than one model before you make a decision.

Happy to answer any questions!
by dataflow | 2025-11-24 16:23:56+00:00
> One other factor which comes in to play, some people can't stand his communication style. When disagreed with, he tends to dig in his heels and write lengthly responses that question people's motives, like in this blog post and others.

I don't have context on this other than the linked page, but if what he's saying is accurate, it does seem pretty damning and corrupt, no? Why all the lies and distortions otherwise - how does one assume a generous explanation for lies and distortions?
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-11-24 16:23:56+00:00
I read the "fantastic 1981 novel", too, and you know what? It wasn't very good. It had a lot of really interesting world-building and some cool ideas, but the characters were flat and the central mystery was terrible. Despite common wisdom, the book is not always better than the movie.

I mean, given that Disney wasn't doing anything new with Roger Rabbit, I'm glad he got the rights back. But I think part of the reason that very little new material got produced is that the first movie was kind of lightning in a bottle. It's possible other production companies would have had to be involved to get something new done, depending on how the rights were parceled out. (We're all talking about Disney here because that's who Doctorow focused on, but it was a co-production with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.) And I think you're right that he's unlikely to have the rights to do a sequel that's too close to the original.
by harrisonjackson | 2025-11-24 16:24:16+00:00
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1992382852328255743?s=20

> This is fake news. Location was not available on any gray check account at any point. Furthermore, the DHS has only shown IPs from the United States since account creation.

- head of product @x

Not to discount the impact of foreign powers over social media but maybe don't spread this misinformation.
by crote | 2025-11-24 16:24:26+00:00
Standards - especially security-critical ones - shouldn't be a simple popularity contest.

DJB provided lengthy, well-reasoned, and well-sourced arguments against adoption with his "nay" vote. The "aye" votes didn't make a meaningful counter-argument - in most cases they didn't even bother to make any argument at all and merely expressed support.

This means there are clearly unresolved technical issues left - and not just the regular bikeshedding ones. If he'd been the only "nay" vote it might've been something which could be ignored as a mad hatter - but he wasn't. Six other people agreed with him.

Considering the potential conflict of interest, the most prudent approach would be to route the unsubstantiated aye-votes to /dev/null: if you can't explain your vote, how can we be sure your vote hasn't been bought?
by kenforthewin | 2025-11-24 16:24:54+00:00
It's fascinating to see the evolution of HN sentiment towards LLMs in real time. Just a few months ago, projects like these were a dime a dozen and every AI-related post had a skeptical comment at the top. Now I'm almost surprised to see a project like this hit the front page.

I don't have any particular opinion about this project itself, I'm sure there are legitimate use cases for wanting to trick LLMs or obfuscate content etc. But if these sorts of projects are a litmus test for AI skepticism, I'm seeing a clear trend: AI skeptics are losing ground on HN.
by shadymoney | 2025-11-24 16:24:58+00:00
> Including headers isn't remotely "simple". There's so many considerations in linking, .SO version compatibility, architecture and instruction set issues, building against multiple versions on the same system. Or if you want to feel frustrated in a single word: GDAL (IYKYK)

I'd say for issues with instruction sets is a minor edge case, you could argue that having layers of abstraction gives even more room for fault.

That said I am not familiar with GDAL, but from google-fu it seems relatively heavy. Being said, I don't have much familiarity with compiling CXX programs as I do with programming C programs, and C with it's smaller footprint tends to not give me as many problems.

Again, this is from personal experience.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-11-24 16:25:02+00:00
Thanks! I have hearing aids too and, while I don't have profound hearing loss (severe one side, moderate the other), it's got to the point where I am starting to look at other solutions to supplement them. For those not aware: hearing aids are not like eyeglasses, where you can effectively have your vision restored to 20/20 with the right prescription. They help, but they don't get you up to the level of a person with ordinary hearing. This goes particularly for situations with high background noise, multiple voices, etc.: restaurants, bars, parties and other places where social life tends to happen.

Your recommendation has made me think I should finally take the leap on live-caption glasses, which I've been watching for a while now. It sounds like they've finally got to the point where they're effective.

A question: how do you find them in conversations with multiple people? Do the glasses help you distinguish speakers by breaking out text from different voices, or is it all just a stream of words? What if there are multiple conversations going on - do the glasses manage to "focus" captioning on the one you're closest to, or do other conversations creep in?

The captions on google meet have been useful for me as well, although I do wish they were more configurable, e.g. being able to give the captioning model a list of technical phrases, internal company terms, or acronyms that are likely to come up. There also seems to be a gap still between real time transcription, which is good, and after-the-fact transcription, which is excellent. (You can also use an LLM for the latter and prompt it yourself with extra context, although that may not be the best model.)

It's been great to see so much progress in this area in the past few years. I am hoping the current (over-)investment in AI at least has the side effect of improving the tech still further.
by stavros | 2025-11-24 16:25:38+00:00
> I can confirm not everyone is out for profit at all costs, even in America

Definitely, I didn't mean to imply that every business in the US wants to profit at all costs, I just meant that the culture skews towards that. The US culture towards work tends to have a certain response to cases like one where someone has a popular product/service/business but would rather maximize work/life balance than income.

In other cultures, that's seen as much more of a reasonable choice than in the US, where the response tends to be more on the "I can't believe you're giving up tons of profit for more free time!" or similar.
by hbosch | 2025-11-24 16:26:06+00:00
It wouldn't be difficult to include a little "" icon on each post that, when hovered, shows probable location or the creation origin. It's true that VPN's will often muddy this info, and even things like phone number confirmation for 2FA or billing address for Verified badges can't be 100% reliable... but it shouldn't be too difficult to say in those cases "User likely masking location" if the pattern is detected.
by nathan_compton | 2025-11-24 16:26:17+00:00
I never, ever, do development outside of a podman container these days. Basically if I am going to run some code from somewhere and I haven't read it, it goes in a container.

I know its not foolproof, but I can't believe how often people run code they haven't read where it can make a huge mess, steal secrets, etc. I'll probably get owned someday, I'm sure, but this feels like a bare minimum.
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-11-24 16:26:18+00:00
Brotli decompresses 3-5x faster than LZMA2 and is within 0.6 % of the compression density, and much better for short documents.

ZStandard decompresses ~2x faster than Brotli but is 5 % less dense in compression density, and even less dense for short documents or documents where the static dictionary can be used.

Brotli is not slow to decompress -- generally a little faster then deflate through zlib.

Last time I measured, Brotli had ~2x smaller binary size than zstd (dec+enc).
by antisthenes | 2025-11-24 16:27:01+00:00
Having insurance in the US doesn't mean anything, as the insurance itself does not provide any health care.

In fact they actively try to provide as little care as possible. It's a negative signal, not a positive one as you seem to think.

> The services are top notch

Healthcare is a plethora of services, ranging from something as simple as a blood draw to open-heart surgery. I can tell you from experience that many diagnostic services are definitely NOT top notch, and the service of getting billed after is an absolute nightmare.

Examine your priors.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-24 16:27:10+00:00
> To get the game to start you need one file from the original settlers 1 game because graphics and sounds are read from there.

Leaving aside the moral aspect of compensation for the artists who created the original graphics and sounds (who probably won't see any money from sales of the original game anyway), would it be legal to reverse engineer (intentionally simple) prompts for each piece of art needed, and then commission either humans or GenAI to create these, to then be able to distribute the remake without any dependency on the original?
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-24 16:27:14+00:00
If there is a risk of a 10+ million dollar issue there is also some manager whose job is to overreact when they hear the announcement that someone wants to eliminate thing X, because they know that thing X is a useful part of the systems they are responsible for.

In a reasonable organization only very minor systems can be undocumented enough to fall through the cracks.
by alwillis | 2025-11-24 16:27:27+00:00
> I don't think so: JPEG 2000, as far as I know, isn't generally supported for web use in web browsers, but it is supported in PDF.

Safari supported JPEG 2000 since 2010 but removed support last year [1].

[1]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178758