MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-21 23:50:56+00:00
The other wealthier boomers and rich assholes have long decided they'd rather squeeze even more blood from the stone because they have the money to cover any senior care they need. This was a problem slowly coming down the tracks for decades but why fix it when it can be used to turn a profit. Especially when people continue to act against their own self interest.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-21 23:51:08+00:00
There's some chance LLMs contain representations of whatever's in the brain that's responsible for consciousness. The text it's trained on was written by humans, and all humans have one thing in common if nothing else. A good text compressor will notice and make use of that. As you train an LLM, it approaches the ideal text compressor.

Could that create consciousness? I don't know. Maybe consciousness can't be faithfully reproduced on a computer. But if it can, then an LLM would be like a brain that's been cut off from all sensory organs, and it probably experiences a single stream of thought in an eternal void.
by thrance | 2025-11-21 23:51:14+00:00
Creating digital sovereignty requires economic protectionism, which directly contradicts a core value of the European Union: bringing down trade barriers.

> contribute to solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights [0]

Notably absent from these values are wishes to make the EU more resilient against foreign threats to the global supply chain.

[0] https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor...
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-21 23:51:42+00:00
Fascinating. Is it fair to state that you are the type of person that would rather have an innocent be trampled by the system than a guilty go free? Because, unironically too, you managed to do just that to ~3 million Buddhists in US[1] -- quite literally a religious minority.

Naturally, this is before we get to the fun parts like definition of a nazi, that a sane system would normally not focus on 'true positives', but whether it is reasonable.

Honestly, you make me smile. Do you know why? Because I know, just as you do in your heart of hearts, that if dura lex sed lex came after you, you would be trying to tell me how unfair the system is and that it should let you slip through the cracks.

Still, know that I love you; as flawed as you are.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_States
by djmips | 2025-11-21 23:52:07+00:00
As Steve Jobs muses that Snow white was enjoyed 60 years after it's release but computers go to the sedimentary layer. While it's true that you can't re-release the 1984 Mac debut to fanfare and profit 40 years later - a small group of dedicated enthusiasts are still running their original Macs and others in emulation - so they arent' completely fossilized!
by blakesterz | 2025-11-21 23:52:20+00:00
I was wondering what the definition of "niche" was going to be:

Kottke is one of the better known blogs that does not have a specific speciality.

I think that's a good one to highlight as NOT niche, and niche is much more specific. Like I've had a librarian blog since 1999. Pretty much niche.
by weinzierl | 2025-11-21 23:52:44+00:00
"The thing to do is to monitor your dependencies and their published vulnerabilities, and for critical vulnerabilities to assess whether your product is affect by it."

Yes

"Only then do you need to update that specific dependency right away."

Big no. If you do that it is guaranteed one day you miss a vulnerability that hurts you.

To frame it differently: What you propose sounds good in theory but in practice the effort to evaluate vulnerabilities against your product will be higher than the effort to update plus taking appropriate measures against supply chain attacks.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 23:54:04+00:00
And I bet you a paycheck that those developers are making at least twice the median local wage and definitely more then they would make in Europe. Why weren’t they saving money? My first goal out of college back in 1996 was to build up savings and this was in 1996 when I was working as a computer operator making $33K in Atlanta.

Fast forward to 2020, I used all of my RSUs/signing bonus to rebuild savings, pay off debt and when Amazon started Amazoning, I had 9 months worth of savings in the bank. But people are being laid off from BigTech after working there for decade having an existential crisis. I’m thinking WTF have they been doing with their money.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-21 23:54:30+00:00
> And I'm being driven crazy on how I should use the subtitle track flags that indicate if a track is Forced or Default, because it seems like the auto-selection behavior based on those flags arbitrary from player to player.

Oh, this seems to be more or less completely ignored when selecting subtitles, though some players will at least list "English (forced)" or "English (default)" &c. when selecting a subtitle. Quite a pain with dubbed foreign-films when the subtitles are used for translating on-screen text; you really want the forced subtitle in that case!
by tzs | 2025-11-21 23:54:45+00:00
Yeah, the McD app is ridiculous. For some items it gives me an add to order dialog and then an add to bag dialog (I might have the order of those two swapped). I'm not sure what the distinction is between adding to the order and adding to the bag.

It also has some ridiculous restrictions. Nearly every week I take advantage of their in-app deal for free medium fries on Friday if you spend at least $1 on other stuff. I make a sandwich at home, order a couple cookies plus the free fries in the app, then go pick them at the McD that is about half a mile from my home.

Occasionally though instead of making a sandwich I decide I'd like to use my McD reward points to get a free burger. But you can't get both a rewards points item and a deal item on the same order.

I end up doing a rewards points order for a free burger, picking that up at the drive through, parking, then doing a cookies plus free fries deal order, and going through the drive through again to get that.

What's the point of not allowing both a rewards item and a deal item on the same order? If the rule was you could only use one reward or deal per day, then it would make some sense.
by integralid | 2025-11-21 23:54:48+00:00
>but no one bothers to take the time out to sit down and figure out WHY they feel sad and FIX THAT FOR THEM. That takes too much work

Out of curiosity, have you ever been depressed or do you know people with diagnosed depression?

I ask, because when I first visited a psychiatrist my life was going great - very good job, great financial situation (i think i could FIRE today), happy marriage, perfect health. It didn't save me from recurring self harm and suicidal ideation, and it doesn't explain why I had weeks when I couldn't even open my work email.

Sometimes your brain is just causing your trouble for no reason. Drugs work, or may work, and may save lives. I write this because I had a similar opinion before being personally affected, so I see where you're coming from.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-21 23:55:15+00:00
What is the value (to the company) of the consumer saving 25c on the purchase price and then having such a godawful experience with the product that they say "I would never buy this again, nor ever tell anyone else to buy it"

The company very much doesn't want the customer to know that it spent $20 of the customer's money in wasted productivity to save itself 25 cents
by dgacmu | 2025-11-21 23:55:44+00:00
I mean, yes, if you're designing a microcontroller you need a clock source, but from the perspective of implementing a circuit as a more normal designer, the UC has it already. And lots of small UCs have an internal clock source so you can omit the external xo unless you need a particular frequency, accuracy, or in some cases a precisely timed micropower sleep. For example, the sub-$0.10 32 bit PY32F002A can do 24MHz internally -- but I would bet it doesn't have great temperature compensation or other things you'd want for timekeeping or being a good frequency ref. (But you're not going to get that out of $0.20 of components anyway.)
by me-vs-cat | 2025-11-21 23:55:46+00:00
> Taking a photograph of a car with its license plate is legal. As is selling a photo you've taken, whether it has a license plate or not.

Does it have to be?

What if selling more than 1,000 license plates with location and time in any calendar year starts down a path of increasingly severe penalties proportional to the gross income gained? What are the negative ramifications that I'm missing which would be hard to solve by following how other laws work?

Example: If you exclude location but effectively have an agreement with someone else that sells corresponding location data, then you can both be found guilty with a penalty multiplier for attempting to evade the law.

We write laws against stalking individuals, and we can write laws against similar behavior towards groups.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-21 23:56:44+00:00
I think it's pretty well understood that Cloudflare does not actually deploy a VM/container/etc per tenant, but you guys are relying on something like detecting bad behavior and isolating or punishing tenants that try to use attacks in the style of rowhammer: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/security... -- so there is secret sauce that is not part of workerd, and one cannot get the same platform as open source.

Meanwhile, somebody like Supabase is making the claim that what you see as open source is what they run, and Deno says their proprietary stuff is KV store and such, not the core offering.

Now, do these vendors have worse security, by trusting the V8 isolates more? Probably. But clearly Cloudflare Workers are a lot more integrated than just "run workerd and that's it" -- which is the base Supabase sales pitch, with Postgrest, their "Realtime" WAL follower, etc.

(I am not affiliated with any of the players in this space; I have burned a few fingers trying to use Cloudflare Workers, especially in any advanced setup or with Rust. You have open, valid, detailed, reproducible, bug reports from me.)
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-21 23:57:15+00:00
Reminds me of IBM TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) - the system that powered airline reservations for decades. TPF used per-transaction logging with restart/recovery semantics at massive scale. You could literally unplug the power mid-transaction, plug it back in, and resume exactly where you left off.

The embedded database approach here is interesting though - low latency, no network calls, perfect for single-agent workflows. TPF assumed massive concurrent load across distributed terminals. Different problems, similar durability patterns.
by vorpalhex | 2025-11-21 23:59:55+00:00
Your entire premise is simply incorrect, through and through. Discard it entirely and begin again.

You have a hundred people, they have a GDP of N. Tomorrow, their productivity doubles because of a technological innovation. Your GDP is 2N.

Prices matter extensively to the rich and poor. The cost of a given compute capacity has gone from "literally the entire United States can't afford it" to "my lightbulb has this much compute because it's cheaper than choosing a dumber processor".

What happens tomorrow if eg ChatGPT 5.1 performance becomes doable for $500 of tech? $50? Swap this for grain harvesting, waste bin collection, etc if you don't like the LLM case.
by ruszki | 2025-11-22 00:00:16+00:00
If technology had been the same for the past 20 years, basically none of these would have existed, or would be even close as large as today. We needed way faster cable and mobile internet, and smartphones. Probably even smaller laptops. It was possible to predict these more or less, however, it was impossible to predict when or whether people start to really utilize the internet. Even now, we needed COVID to have another shift regarding this. The general acceptance of “internet first” kind of worldview maybe would have never happened without forcing us to have.
by pfooti | 2025-11-22 00:00:16+00:00
Looking forward to the highway expansion next. I had to get from mountain view to san francisco yesterday, and waymo was _able_ to do this trip, it was going to take several hours and get routed up el camino real the whole way. Luckily I was standing very close to a caltrain station when I needed the ride, so i just caltrained, and then waymo'd from the SF station to where i needed to be.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-22 00:00:19+00:00
Cool article. AthenaEnv is an alternative follow-up to, also by same dev, Enceladus which uses Lua instead. Besides games they're used, and even more popular for this use case, homebrew apps. Examples being RETROLauncher & POPSLoader for Enceladus, and OSD-XMB for Athena.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-22 00:00:30+00:00
Your article reminds me of Elon's run-ins with insane regulations for the Starship development, where he had to evaluate the risk of rockets landing on top of endangered sharks, but the department he was dealing with kept the density of sharks in the ocean a secret from themselves because they were worried about the information leaking out to illegal sharkfin poachers. Then SpaceX having to put headphones on seals and play sounds of sonic booms for them to see if they're terrified or not.

Lots of people right here on HN were making the argument that yes, yes, it makes perfect sense to nail humanity's feet to the ground, that we shouldn't reach for the stars, because there's an infinitesimal chance that one shark could be hurt by a falling rocket one day!

The main problem I see is that in some sense regulators have infinite power to say "no" or make demands, often with no recourse available to those applying for permits.

What might be needed is some sort of independent arbitration, where a CEO could go and say: "Hey, random paper-pusher here is holding up a $10 billion dollar project because they think it's hilarious to make me wrangle seals." and then have that result in a real consequence for the bureaucracy in question. As in: Your dumb arse is fired, because you wilfully mis-interpreted the intention of the law, doing millions or even billions in economic costs, you're doing more harm than good, etc...

There's precedent for such monopolistic organisations. For example, the telecommunications industry ombudsman in Australia. Individual citizens can submit complaints to the ombudsman and the result is always spectacular: Suddenly the impossible is possible, the unfair sneaky bullshit charge becomes miraculously reversible, etc...

Something like that could work for government bureaucracy also. Something vaguely like DOGE, but actually useful, and independently controlled and funded in some manner so it isn't captured by the special interests it is meant to curtail.

Think it's hilarious to make someone fill out paperwork where the required input is a secret nobody is allowed to know? Let's go see the ombudsman and have you risk getting kicked out of public office for life. Still need the paperwork filled out? No? Funny that.
by rramadass | 2025-11-22 00:01:05+00:00
From the article;

After the shooting, Andersen told investigators he had previously watched videos about what to do if someone tries to enter your home and had devised a plan for a potential break-in, according to court records.

Convinced that was happening, he did not approach the door, turn on a light or call out, court records state. Instead, he allegedly moved to the room he called his “safe room,” unlocked a Pelican case and loaded his Glock pistol.

Note: he did not approach the door, turn on a light or call out, court records state.

All he had to do was yell out loudly, turn on the lights or do something to let whoever was outside know that somebody was inside and armed. Instead he just shot without any notice.
by benatkin | 2025-11-22 00:01:09+00:00
It appears not to be. Here are the ones in Santa Clara County:

- Milpitas

- Mountain View

- Palo Alto Santa

- San Jose

- Sunnyvale

- Unincorporated Area (Lexington Hills area, overlapping Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties)

I don't know why it says "Palo Alto Santa"

Edit: I guess it's "Palo Alto Santa" to disambiguate between Palo Alto, which is in Santa Clara County, and East Palo Alto, which is in San Mateo County (BTW the westmost point of East Palo Alto is east of the westmost point of Palo Alto, but the eastmost point of East Palo Alto is not east of the eastmost point of Palo Alto).
by mystraline | 2025-11-22 00:01:35+00:00
> Not a lot to be blamed for if the ship can't be wrighted.

'Not being wrighted' means a whole lot of boomers won't be getting in-home care, or absolutely terrible minimum "care".

But this started with the Mergers and Acquisitions crisis back in the 80's, and vulture capitalism has really taken off in the last 30y.

Oh, and my SO was a in-home healthcare person. They got paid a WHOLE $14/hr, no benefits naturally. You can probably guess the type and quality of most the candidates and workers. Even a few of them did the petty and felony theft from their dementia/Alzheimer's clients. Not like they'd miss what was stolen :(
by 64718283661 | 2025-11-22 00:02:29+00:00
Same, so what should one do if AI ruins it? It hasn't yet. It's not good enough, but with the amount of money pouring in I think it could be cracked within 5 years. I hope not.. Coding with AI ruins the enjoyment. And willfully falling behind others using tools to be better than anyone without it isn't good either. I enjoy computers because my skill level is high enough that I can make money on my own and do what I want by using my skills to beat competitors. My research and experiments are meaningful because it is not all so trivial and instantly replicable yet.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-11-22 00:02:32+00:00
I think it’s a bit more general than that because I didn’t have any “childhood friends”, just bullies who were never punished.

What I did have was a great number of excellent adults in my life. In many ways, they were more my peers than anyone my own age.

Their example and support made my parents instruction significantly more effective despite the serious challenges with my mental health that they didn’t know how to handle.
by integralid | 2025-11-22 00:03:24+00:00
>Then how could a drug fix it?

Many things that are not necessarily caused by anything external can be fixed by drugs. I don't understand your point.

If the problem is brain not working correctly (because some organ is not doing it's job properly) then no sequence of words will make the brain physically fix itself, just like no sequence of words will cure a heart attack.

Of course it depends, and many people just need a correct therapy. I'm not dismissing talking and figuring out the root cause.
by keithba | 2025-11-22 00:03:32+00:00
LLMs can definitely write programming languages. I used Gemini CLI (once it came, AI Studio before that) with Gemini 2.5 Pro to create one with Rust and LLVM:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether

This was completely vibe coded - I never had to edit the code, though it was very interactive. The whole thing tool less than a month of some evenings and weekends.

(Note: it’s ugly on purpose, as I’m playing with ideas around languages that LLMs would naturally be effective using.)
by nodesocket | 2025-11-22 00:04:11+00:00
Unfortunately ETRADE for example does not make exporting all transaction easy. Last time I looked at their API it involved manually authing via a http flow signing into your ETRADE account to get a temporary token that expires. Not exactly a flow that can be used for long polling account activity.

I haven't researched much on Robinhood or Coinbase but I suspect they have much better APIs. That's an idea where a plugin system would be awesome, something like Plaid but for brokerages and Crypto exchanges only.
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-22 00:04:24+00:00
Android permissions began to ask for individual confirmation on first use in Android 6.0 (released in 2015) so the grant-all-on-install model hasn't been how it works in a very long time.

Also your narrative about iOS moving from locked down to opening things up over time isn't entirely accurate, when iOS (iPhoneOS) was first released, it didn't have any concept of permissions at all! Apps could use whatever API the OS offered with the user none the wiser. At that time Android Market forcing developers to disclose which permissions were required was seen as unusually transparent and secure. Random iPhone apps scanning contacts deceptively pushed Apple to adopt a permissions model several years after the iPhone was first released.

The two platforms have historically leap frogged each other in various ways but at this point have started to converge as mobile settled into a boring appliance instead of groundbreaking new computing paradigm. Apart from sideloading, notifications and some minor annoyances here and there I can almost forget which OS I'm using as I switch between iOS and Android (thanks to gestures removing the trademark home/back navigation distinctions).
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-22 00:04:33+00:00
From https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2026-79270-001.pdf

The income data: ------------------------------ Student status Part-time 34 (4.9%) Full-time 61 (8.7%) Employment Part-time, for pay 85 (12.1%) Full-time, for pay 516 (73.7%) Individual income <US $10,000 78 (11.1%) US $10,000–$29,999 167 (23.9%) US $30,000–$49,999 179 (25.6%) US $50,000–$99,999 213 (30.4%) US $100,000+ 63 (9.0%) Household income <US $20,000 75 (10.8%) US $20,000–$49,999 163 (23.5%) US $50,000–$99,999 248 (35.7%) US $100,000–$149,999 126 (18.1%) US $150,000+ 83 (11.9%)
by aaronmdjones | 2025-11-22 00:04:56+00:00
It saved them time on switching the fuel they were using. Within US waters they were required to either burn cleaner fuel or scrub the dirty (high-sulfur) diesel fuel they would use in open waters.

They didn't have a fuel scrubber and they didn't want to spend the time flushing the dirty fuel out of the fuel lines to switch to the clean fuel, so they bypassed the fuel lines and fuel pumps for generators 3 and 4 and used the fuel line flushing pump as a fuel pump to feed generators 3 and 4 with clean fuel (marine gas oil) instead.

They would then presumably start generator 1 and/or generator 2 once in open waters, feeding them with the regular, cheaper, dirtier diesel fuel, and shut down generators 3 and 4.

Bypassing the fuel lines and fuel pumps for generators 3 and 4 made them prone to the very failure they experienced.

The ship would not have been built this way; it wasn't up to code.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-22 00:06:04+00:00
I know a ton of home-schooled kids and this is far from universal.

Yes, kids who were home-schooled because their parents didn't want secular society interfering with them raising their kids in a niche religion are more likely to experience this. Even in those cases, however, I found that the kids adapted rather quickly.

In most other cases[1], the parents were explicitly worried about their kids' socialization, and found many opportunities for the kids to interact with other kids their age (e.g. typical after school activities like sports or such).

Many of the kids I know who were both home-schooled and socially awkward started in public school and were pulled due to bullying &c. To say that the home-schooling stunted their social growth is a counterfactual; it's just as easy to see them ending up worse off.

For the most part, I would say that socializing in public school vs. homeschooling is a bit like communication with in-person companies versus remote; in the former it just "happens" to some degree, sometimes well, sometimes poorly; in the latter it requires intentional work to happen, but can still happen.

1: A notable exception is one person I know who was homeschooled by parents, with a father that traveled a lot for work and took his family with him. She was often in situations where she had fewer than 5 kids around close to her age who also spoke English.