MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-12 19:38:33+00:00
Once technologies mature enough, they converge to roughly the same set of features. Case in point: I was an avid Windows user, but then decided to switch to Linux. While it was problematic, it was much less so than I had anticipated.

Imagine switching between Firefox and Chrome. Between Ford and Toyota. Between Seagate and Western Digital. Between USB-C and Lightning.
by bloomingeek | 2025-12-12 19:38:48+00:00
And the reason for believing these lies is because it's easier to listen to disgraced news outlets instead of reading a book or asking questions. It's a double edged sword: duped on one side and willful ignorance on the other.

Some might say, who cares about what idiots think? Well, these idiots get one vote, just like the rest of us.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-12 19:39:18+00:00
I get your point, but looking at it at a glance without any other context, 12% feels like a pretty reasonable amount IMHO.

Like, if all major marketplaces only charge 12% from the get-go, we probably would have had much less fuss and lawsuits over this.

This issue was always the disproportionate size of the fee, not the fact that they charge a fee.
by nerdsniper | 2025-12-12 19:39:21+00:00
So let's say I'm in charge of $COUNTRY_A, and `codeddesign is in charge of $COUNTRY_B. Every time someone tries to go to $COUNTRY_B to get political asylum from me, all I have to do is claim that they should be found guilty of embezzlement and that's enough for you to return each and every person to $COUNTRY_A to face trial?

You say that you are "all for political asylum". What's a good example of how political asylum should be used, or has been used in the past that you support?
by analog31 | 2025-12-12 19:39:26+00:00
I suspect more people worked on solving quadratic equations in what I estimate to be the 1000 years since the problem was formulated, to when it was solved. The ancient Greeks knew that they could solve some quadratic equations but not others, and Al-Khwarizmi came up with the general solution. And then it was even further generalized with complex numbers.
by try_the_bass | 2025-12-12 19:39:31+00:00
> On a related note, when I lived in FL, I often saw cars with this opaque plastic cover on number plates. I think these are installed by the drivers so that they can avoid paying road toll (FL has many road tolls). I also noticed that these drivers tend to be more aggressive in driving than others (that's how I noticed their license plates are covered).

I've noticed the same thing in my area of CA. Lots of folks with different devices to obscure their plates, and a strong correlation between the obscured plates and very poor or aggressive driving.

I've started to quip that the obscured plates + tinted windows + blacked-out taillights is the "frequent moving violation starter kit".

Or "tell me you violate the rules of the road without telling me you violate the rules of the road".

> Will the same punishment be applied to those drivers?

One could imagine that's actually the targeted demographic, and not the subset of folks trying to circumvent Flock cameras.
by Animats | 2025-12-12 19:39:59+00:00
Funny how the "story" doesn't link to the announcement it mostly copied from the CWA.[1]

Here's the link to the union organizing page.[2] No draft union contract for Id, though.

Interestingly, this is an industrial ("wall to wall") union, rather than a craft union such as The Animation Guild. IATSE Local 839, in Hollywood. TAG only represents specific jobs, mostly animation artists.

A key point in TAG contracts is how "crunch time" is handled. It's allowed, but overtime rates go way, way up as the hours go up. This is standard procedure in Hollywood. Some terms from TAG's standard contract:

All time worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. Time worked on the employee's sixth workday of the workweek shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. Time worked on the employee's seventh workday of the workweek shall be paid at two (2) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification. All time worked in excess of fourteen (14) consecutive hours (including meal periods) from the time of reporting to work shall be Golden Hours and shall be paid at two (2) times the applicable hourly rate provided herein for such employee's classification.[3]

This encourages management to schedule realistically. The Id/CWA deal isn't far enough along for those terms to be visible yet. But such terms are common in CWA contracts.

[1] https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/video-game-developers-te...

[2] https://code-cwa.org/

[3] https://animationguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2024-2...
by danaris | 2025-12-12 19:40:11+00:00
> Why are americans so obsessed to make everything about race?

Because the political party currently in power in our country is an actual, literal, (Christian) White Supremacist party.

They are deliberately rounding up people that look like they might be Hispanic (and various other non-white ethnicities), declaring them to be illegal immigrants regardless of their actual status, and deporting them or putting them in camps.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-12 19:40:15+00:00
I provided zero depth of reasoning.

Coding is as much a method of investigating and learning about a problem as it is any sort of specification. It is as much play as it is description. Somebody who views code as nothing more than a formal specification that tells a computer what to do is inhibiting their ability to play imaginatively with the problem space, and in the work that I do, that is absolutely critical.
by nickthegreek | 2025-12-12 19:40:35+00:00
Pay is a but a single way in which an employer can attempt to unfairly exploit you.

The rest tends to hide behind culture and opportunity. Unpaid overtime framed as dedication, scope creep framed as growth, on-call expectations framed as ownership, understaffing framed as efficiency. You might find these game developers being abused by a few or all of these examples.

Exploitive companies can borrow against your pride, your fear of falling behind, and your desire to be seen as competent until your baseline becomes always available.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-12-12 19:40:37+00:00
So you want to create a completely new industry. From the ground. With all existing experts having retired. Demanding high quality, no-fault tolerance production. Dependent on resources not found in Europe.

Look, I love nuclear technology. But time has moved on. The costs to rebuild this industry is astronomical and means we lose out on key-future technology like batteries.

Edit: But then there are bombs. And especially French love their nukes due national security. This is the only reason to keep pushing for nuclear, since Russia, the US and China are not gonna change direction on this either. But the very least we could do is be honest about it.

Edit 2: Changed from "World has moved on" to "time has moved on", since evidently China has invested for a good 2 decades to build their own fully functional nuclear-industry. Proving my point that it takes dedicated investment, network effects and scale to rebuild this industry. After all, they too want to mass produce nukes.
by cmiles74 | 2025-12-12 19:40:47+00:00
> In a press conference, Powell said that staffers at the Fed think that the government could be overestimating the number of jobs created by 60,000 each month. With published figures stating that the U.S. has added an average of 40,000 jobs each month since April, the true numbers could be closer to a loss of 20,000 jobs a month.

Earlier this month ADP reported that private payrolls cut ~32k positions.

> With worries intensifying over the domestic jobs picture, ADP indicated the issues were worse than anticipated. The payrolls decline marked a sharp step down from October, which saw an upwardly revised gain of 47,000 positions, and was well below the Dow Jones consensus estimate from economists for an increase of 40,000.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/adp-jobs-report-november-202...
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 19:41:00+00:00
Sorry, but this is the kind of ridiculous reply that the RISC-V fans give when they are asked why their ISA lacks many of the features that any decent ISA has and which have a negligible implementation cost, therefore no reason to be missing.

The workaround suggested by the RISC-V documentation consists in replacing a very large fraction of all instructions of a program (because there are a lot of integer additions, subtractions and comparisons in any program, close to a half of all instructions) with 3 or more instructions, in order to approximate what in any other CPU is done with single instructions.

The other ridiculous workaround proposed to save RISC-V is that any high-performance implementation must supplant its missing features by instruction fusion.

Yes, the missing hardware for overflow detection can be replaced by multiplying the number of instructions for any operation and the missing addressing modes can be synthesized by instruction fusion, but such implementation solutions are extraordinarily more expensive than the normal solutions used for 3 quarters of century in the other computers, since they were made with vacuum tubes.

Because of the extreme overhead of checking for overflow, I bet that most programs compiled for RISC-V do not check for overflow, which is not acceptable in reliable programs (even when using C/C++, I always compile them with overflow checking enabled, which should have been the default option, to be disabled only in specific cases where it can be proven that overflow is impossible and the checks reduce the performance).
by seneca | 2025-12-12 19:41:07+00:00
> It's just a market reaching equilibrium. It's always weird how employees are forever to be expected to be at the mercy of market forces much greater than they are, while employers have to be shielded from them.

It's not a market, at all. It's only possible because of federal law that prevents a business from firing employees for unionizing. If it were a market, the business would have to choose to keep unionzed workers voluntarily. The fact that they don't means it's more like the business being held hostage.

The equivalent would be employees being required by law to stay at a company they don't want to work for. Essentially indentured servitude.
by Spivak | 2025-12-12 19:41:30+00:00
Well I have to imagine any downvotes will come because most of this is pseudoscience. But you seem like you're replying in good faith so it's all good to me.

* There is some research that the age of first exposure to porn is lower and there's speculation that this might affect attitudes towards sex in teens but there's nothing conclusive.

* YourBrainOnPorn is most charitably a misreading of scientific literature juxtaposed with people's personal experiences of porn becoming an issue in their lives, but is probably more accurately pseudoscience manufacturing a specific narrative by citing studies that don't actually support their conclusions but are banking on people not actually checking. It's "The Body Remembers" bullshit all over again.

* Porn Induced ED isn't a medical condition and was made up by NoFap. There is an increase in ED prescriptions among young people but there's no evidence whatsoever that this is connected to porn and is much more plausible that there's just less stigma about it, it's just easier to get using an app, and more people are using it for enhancement and performance anxiety rather than ED.

* And there's this awkward problem that men actually care about size and performance significantly more than women do so this objectification angle is a bit silly. Like these two things aren't even in the top 5 of priorities for women's sexual partners. And uhh… can confirm personally as a woman. Larger becomes painful faster than most guys think and my ability to climax is more mental than physical. I've had more than one friend go home with a guy pull down his pants and laugh being like, "wow but also that's not gonna fit."

* I'm not even touching the beetles thing.

And look a ridiculous number of people bought into The Body Remembers and it's still going to be years and years to shake the public out of that one. I don't expect this to be any different. The good news is, outside of a few people with an unhealthy relationship with porn, that in general things are actually fine. Whole generations aren't being addicted to and made impotent by porn.
by kccqzy | 2025-12-12 19:41:53+00:00
Since OP is using Haskell, the actual code most likely won’t really touch the JSON type, but the actual domain type. This makes migrations super easy to write. Of course they could have written a fancy in-house way to do that, or just use the safe-copy library which solves this problem and it has been around for almost two decades. In particular it solves the “nested version control” problem with data structures containing other data structures but with varying versions.
by overfeed | 2025-12-12 19:41:58+00:00
> What are you talking about?

I am pointing out that some commenters here are grading Unions and CEOs on different curves on the issue of negative outcomes, and the alleged union bogeyman is a frequent occurrence at ununionized organizations.

> Multiple people were convicted over the Enron scandal, including some serious prison terms.

That is great, and should have been a deterrent for more ruinous shenanigans. Which CEOs got arrested for the subprime mortgage heists that triggered the 2008 GFC? The GFC made Enron look like jaywalking, I'm sure dozens of executive received life sentences and entire banks shuttered for their malfeasance and lack of internal controls. Right?
by jack_nclx | 2025-12-12 19:42:05+00:00
Copy and paste this into your bash terminal to get a 14B param text+image model on your local machine in two minutes (you can change 14 to 72 or 7 based on your hardware):

git clone https://github.com/JackJackJ/NeocloudX-Labs.git

cd NeocloudX-Labs

chmod +x launch_chat14b.sh

./launch_chat14b.sh

(there's nothing shady in the repo here, but of course check the content of shell scripts before copy-pasting them in)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-12 19:42:19+00:00
That's a good point, really there's no reason to waste time on anything but popular platforms. Obviously, of course, this means dropping support for everything except Windows (x64 and maybe ARM) and macOS (ARM). (\s)

In all seriousness, I guess you can make this argument if you only care about Windows/macOS, but the moment you run anything else I have to ask why, say, Linux deserves support but not other less-common platforms.
by jayd16 | 2025-12-12 19:42:20+00:00
Yeah even further, does that mean that SAAS like S3 shouldn't exist because it has multiple users?

I guess one possible solve would be to separate shared services into separate private deployments. Every upstream service gets its own imagine hosting service. Updates can roll out independently. I guess that would solve the blast radius/single source of failure problems but that seems really extreme.
by didibus | 2025-12-12 19:42:35+00:00
I think there's a false perception that unions negotiate against the companies best interest.

Unions negotiate for a bigger slice of the same pie against leadership, executives, and shareholders/owners.

They have the same incentives as those to see the pie grow, but band together to negotiate that their pie be bigger and those of the above smaller than what would have been otherwise.

Most of the time when it results in squeezing the company itself it's because leadership wasn't willing to share downsides.

And this is the primary reason for unions. When things go well, leadership is rarely willing to share upsides. When things go bad, leadership is often unwilling to share downsides. Workers join union to pressure leadership in sharing both upsides and downsides.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-12 19:42:42+00:00
I think Fukushima rather than Chernobyl looms over us as a more realistic disaster that could happen again.

When you look at the data though, its political fallout was much worse than the actual toll on human life, etc. Fukushima released a small about of radiation into the environment. But modern reactors don’t have the same runaway reactivity flaws that Chernobyl did.

Not zero risk. But not the level of risk resulting in half a continent potentially being uninhabitable.
by codemac | 2025-12-12 19:42:54+00:00
Please reread (or.. read) the paper. They do not make that mistake, specifically section 7.1.

A reward function (R) may be hackable by a model's response, but when asked to confess it is easier to get an honest confession reward function (Rc) because you have the response with all the hacking in front of you, and that gives the Rc more ability to verify honesty than R had to verify correctness.

There are human examples you could construct (say, granting immunity for better confessions), but they don't map well to this really fascinating insight with LLMs.
by antonymoose | 2025-12-12 19:43:20+00:00
I get hit up for gutter guards every trip at my Lowe’s. I have a stationary woman hawking Generac and HVAC installs at my Home Depot.

I’d agree though, it’s department dependent. The electrical at my HD is an unorganized mess, but their plumbing section is world-class. Lowe’s is oddly flip-flopped. To Lowe’s great credit, their staff has those little tablets with inventory locations on them including all the top-shelf and end cap locations the website doesn’t show. Those usually save my trip, HD doesn’t seem to have an equivalent.
by 9rx | 2025-12-12 19:43:24+00:00
It is simpler than that. You only want microservices in the same cases you want services (i.e. SaaS). Meaning, when your team benefits from an independent third-party building and maintaining it. The addition of "micro" to "service" indicates that you are reaching out to a third-party that is paid by the same company instead of paying a separate company.
by sshine | 2025-12-12 19:43:44+00:00
Yes, unions can be protectionist about their work force, but there are international worker unions; maybe this is a European thing.

An econ 101 observation: unions contribute to structural unemployment: Keeping wages above market-clearing levels, and by preventing wage adjustment.

Through collective bargaining, unions can negotiate wages that are higher than what the market would naturally set. This can lead to the cost of labor being too high for some employers, resulting in fewer jobs. Similarly, unions can prevent wages from adjusting to market conditions.

So for the common good, individuals may go without a job.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-12-12 19:44:04+00:00
>Could you elaborate on what you mean by this? I don't know how you'd sell them otherwise. How do you do you process a payment without a network connection? The only thing I can think of is offering a catalog in the OS which users could browse and physically order stuff from, but I wouldn't call that a store.

Not GP but, processing payments absolutely does not require a network connection. Doing so is absolutely not nearly as convenient, but in my adult lifetime it was pretty normal for retailers to pick up a phone, give a customer service rep and/or automated call handler CC info and dollar amounts and get appropriate confirmations.

As for a business without an OS interface not being a "store," that's ridiculous on its face. If that were true, we'd have to call 7/11 or any similar place (like those at most gas stations) convenience "locations with items for sale but not a store, because stores are only places with catalogs in my OS," and "places which sell stuff but aren't stores because rimunroe says they can't be a 'store' without a catalog in their OS."

Touch grass, friend.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-12-12 19:45:26+00:00
The entire point of the remark is that you can throw these pseudo-justifications for any and all forms of tracking, since "tracking all the shows you watch" is precisely the issue that motivates TFA.

At the end of the day, they could be taking screenshots of everything you do with your TV and argue it's because of some AI system that will allow you to more easily launch whatever it is you normally do at that time of the day. If you do not see any issue with that, why would you be on this thread?
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-12-12 19:45:46+00:00
Lol. When I first came to the US I was amazed how backward it was compared to the EU. You still used checks. I had to carry a fucking pen to buy things. Cell phones? Lol no. We're all using phones literally in the Matrix movie, and what did the US have? Nada. You are funny. Let me guess, the USA is #1 in education, #1 in health outcomes? What is the USA #1 in? #1 in dumping toxic waste into the watertable, I think, is that the innovation you're talking about?
by Noaidi | 2025-12-12 19:46:02+00:00
Anyone, by that I mean anyone that matters, or a very large group of people that you should be afraid of to have this power. I mean, excuse my hyperbole, but is this not enough?

Like an ex boyfriend: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...

Or the Feds: https://centralcurrent.org/federal-immigration-agents-access...

Or a cop anywhere: https://data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/flock-gives-law-enforcemen...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flo...

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/atlanta-police-flo...
by phantasmish | 2025-12-12 19:47:54+00:00
I think the core trouble is that it's rather difficult to simulate anything at all without requiring a human in the loop before it "works". The simulation isn't anything (well, it's something, but it's definitely not what it's simulating) until we impose that meaning on it. (We could, of course, levy a similar accusation at reality, but folks tend to avoid that because it gets uselessly solipsistic in a hurry)

A simulation of a tree growing (say) is a lot more like the idea of love than it is... a real tree growing. Making the simulation more accurate changes that not a bit.
by wingspar | 2025-12-12 19:47:56+00:00
Those covers in FL are now fully illegal (Oct 1) along with most license plate frames.

Have a friend who got pulled over recently and given a warning for the clear cover on his plate. Apparently, they can be a felony in some cases.

I recall on an old Top Gear episode years ago, in the UK, people were selling mud in a spray can. You apparently sprayed the mud up the bumper and across the plate so it looks like it’s just slung mud, but it just so happens to block the plate. Plausible deniability in a can…
by biophysboy | 2025-12-12 19:48:25+00:00
I can respect this view, but at the same time, infectious diseases are public problems by nature. I am skeptical state coercion would work (didn't even work in China), but I don't think a laissez faire attitude on the cultural level is rational. We should "pressure" people to be vaccinated in the same way we pressure people to not do other dangerous things!
by SvenL | 2025-12-12 19:48:45+00:00
Your first point is correct, they are not that old. And while Nokia is still a company, it does not have the market power it once had. And that's what I meant with it might not vanish - Oracle will still be a company. Still, I think age is not really a good metric for success.

Your second point is right on the spot! Its valued. By what? By others, right? Somebody says a company has a value, which might not reflect its worth. As mentioned by some other commenters, Oracle has a lot of competition. Good competition. That's why I wrote it needs to change in order to stay competitive.