MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beeflet | 2025-12-12 04:16:17+00:00
All operations as a public institution should be transparent. We fund them through taxes, we have a right to know what is going on.

I don't know what you are getting at with "self serving and harmful to other citizens"? Like a private institution? a company? Of course private companies are self-serving. All of them could be described as perpetrating some subjective and nebulous "harm". There are already transparency requirements for businesses, and they are subject to warrants. To the extent that they are public institutions (monopolies, publicity-traded companies), there are increasing demands for transparency and vice-versa.

Individuals have a right to privacy and protection from undue search, regardless of scare quotes employed, unless they are living on a prison island such britan.
by jtuluve | 2025-12-12 04:16:51+00:00
Hi! I'm Jnanesh, a full stack developer with a keen interest in backend. As a freelancer I have worked on multiple project, from building a full fledged website for an institution to building automated tools for marketing or web scraping. I would really love to work in a challenging startup environment where I can build products that actually matters. Something unique. One of my project includes working on the backend of a college fest website which handled thousands of users with ~500 registrations, where I optimized the website with caching and other techniques.

Even though I'm interested in backend roles, I'm open to related roles too.

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by Thrymr | 2025-12-12 04:17:00+00:00
What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they're calling it "investment" (that's what's hypothesized above, but I don't think we know). Disney surely gets something for the license other than the privilege of buying $1 billion in OpenAI stock at their most recent valuation price.
by robocat | 2025-12-12 04:17:27+00:00
The US taxes worldwide income therefore anybody with significant worldwide income would not want to become a US citizen (unless they also have other motivations apart from money).

A country offering a passport is hoping the applicant will spend their money in the country: however most wealthy applicants are capitalists that want to grow their wealth not shrink it. Therefore applicants would choose qualifying investments that don't cost them money (and thus don't increase income for the country). In theory angel/VC investors could grow the pie, but I'm skeptical.

From what I have seen the investment schemes have significant loopholes - almost as if the schemes are just shams with lies that appease voters.

It would be interesting to see an analysis of whether the schemes are net positive for countries.
by christiangenco | 2025-12-12 04:18:18+00:00
Wow, what an exquisite piece of writing.

The core idea of modernity's tendency to take a Good Thing and chop it up into tiny pieces and bind it into Something Resembling Good Thing[1] hit me hard. I've long felt a discomfort with things that pretend to be other things[2]; just be the thing that you are! There's something particularly macabre about the fake version of the thing being built from the ground up bones of the actual thing.

Also: the Incas invented a natural freeze drying method‽ Totally tracks that would lead to a big military advantage before there were many effective ways to preserve food. But also like, what? It took ~500 years for us to rediscover that.

1. examples from the article: McNuggets, American cheese, instant coffee, deli ham, Pringles, particle board, sheetrock, video compilations, gig economy jobs

2. like fake window shutters on houses, brick siding that's meant to look like the house is made of brick, artificial food dyes, the fiberglass shell on the outside of cars, things painted look like they're a different color.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-12 04:18:58+00:00
Since it's been a while now, what are the thoughts on the snowden leaks contributing to the rise of distrust in the government and governmental institutions in the US?

I'm wondering if trump could have ever succeeded without that path being prepared for him by snowden's leaks and occupy wallstreet. I'm not saying snowden did anything wrong, to the contrary, he thought things would change and they didn't, I'm wondering whether that contributed to the feeling of americans feeling disenfranchised. Relations with europe also started souring around that time.

I think snowden did the right thing, but like many in tech (especially here on HN), he didn't understand that American's didn't care about what's in the leaks all that much. it wasn't his burden to weigh the pros and cons, his burden was to do what he thought was right. But looking back, nothing good came out of the leaks, I wish they didn't happen to begin with. Of course if you're not an American lots of good things came out of it. I'm certain we have less privacy now, more governmental spying, and even more support for it. at least before we had the illusion that we had some rights to privacy from the government. Now that they're exposed and gotten away with it, I fear they've become more emboldened.

I guess I am glad the whole thing was exposed, but I am regretful of how things turned out. Would it have been better if there was more trust in governmental institutions, and if the US IC kept their capabilities secret for longer? would they have been able to interfere with russian influence campaigns in 2015-16 if so? Is the world better of now?

I suppose in 5-10 more years these things will be historical events and historians might answer these questions with a more objective perspective.
by picture | 2025-12-12 04:19:12+00:00
It's because the phone design needs the battery to help stabilize the voltage under load. As we know, digital devices can nearly instantaneously change the amount of current they consume and thus require layers of energy storage to accommodate the transient currents quickly. However, the changing current consumption doesn't just happen briefly. It sometimes continues to ramp for more than milliseconds (a glacial time frame for modern electronics). Thus generally every component in the power supply network of a design serves some stabilization and filtering role, including the batteries.

It appears that in this case, as the original battery aged, its internal apparent resistance (ESR) increased beyond the original design expectations, to a point where the phone won't work when plugged in to a charging cable because despite the charging cable most likely being able to deliver sufficient power at DC, it had too much impedance to supply it quickly enough. When current is demanded from a source that has too high impedance to supply it, the voltage drops. This will result in significant voltage ripple to the power supply of the digital circuits, which can cause logic to not function correctly.

Adding a large capacitor basically replaced the filtering and stabilization role of the original battery.

Interestingly people often intentionally remove capacitors for side channel measurements and glitching attacks.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-12 04:21:18+00:00
There is no paradox. The optimal amount of crime is non-zero. You must tolerate some crime in order to keep your humanity and dignity. Orwellian dystopias with omniscient surveillance can reduce crime to zero but you wouldn't want to live in one.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

This is just something people need to accept no matter how angry they get about it. If they don't, they will be manipulated through their fears into trading away their freedom for a false sense of security.
by tauchunfall | 2025-12-12 04:21:22+00:00
The article is measuring full project build performance. That includes type-checking and compilation.

Maybe the `tsc` type-checker was already fast (so we only get some speed improvements in `tsgo`), or the `tsc` compiler was not that fast (so we get a lot of speed improvements in `tsgo`)?

*Update:* There was a performance regression in incremental type-checking between `tsgo` preview 20251209 and 20251211 [1]. But `deno` is using `tsgo` 0.1.11 which was already released last week (before this regression). So, does not seem to influence the type-checking times here.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/issues/2341 [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/v2.6.0/cli/tsc/go/tsgo...
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2025-12-12 04:22:37+00:00
From the perspective of someone who worked in printing and publishing starting in the 1980s, there's more to it than that. PostScript was and is terrific as a page description language and as a printer control language. It absolutely revolutionized the printing business. For the first time, you could get complete pages (as opposed to unpaginated galleys) out of high-end imagesetters.

But it was not all that good as a way to send documents to be printed elsewhere. Postscript files were in some ways too dependent on the printer they targeted, so the person creating the PS file had to know too much about the printer that would be used to print it: its resolution and optimal halftone screen frequencies, media sizes, etc. With high-resolution output on photographic film costing around $10 per foot, mistakes could be expensive as well as time-wasting.

Fonts could also be a problem. Ideally, the PS file would contain all the fonts it required but this did not fit very well with the terms of most font licenses. And some applications would include a copy of every font used once on each page on which it was used. This was in line with Adobe's recommended Document Structuring Conventions and had the advantage of making pages within the file independent of one another, but for documents with hundreds of pages, this could add up fast and make the PS file literally hundreds of times larger than if all the fonts were included just once. With small storage media and slow network links, this was a real problem.

The "P" in PDF is for portable, and these are the problems it solved. Unlike a PS file, a PDF file is not targeted for a specific printer model, and most font licenses allowed the licensee to include subsetted fonts in PDF files. I personally prepared PS files for a few thousand books to be printed at various places around the US and later, PDF files for thousands more. There is no comparison: PDF was and is better in every way for this purpose.
by tomhow | 2025-12-12 04:22:47+00:00
Please don't fulminate on HN. We're here for curious conversation, not rage. This question has been debated here for the past couple of years now, and that debate will no doubt continue. This kind of indignant rhetorical question adds little of value to what is an important topic. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by oefrha | 2025-12-12 04:23:41+00:00
Yes, I say this every time this topic comes up: it took many years to finally have mainstream adoption of client-side interactivity so that things are finally mostly usable on high latency/lossy connections, but now people who’re always on 10ms connections are trying to snatch that away so that entirely local interactions like expanding/collapsing some panels are fucked up the moment a WebSocket is disconnected. Plus nice and simple stateless servers now need to hold all those long-lived connections. WTF. (Before you tell me about Alpine.js, have you actually tried mutating state on both client and server? I have with Phoenix and it sucks.)
by echelon | 2025-12-12 04:24:00+00:00
Rubber ppm over some threshold safety level is a negative externality worth maybe a few billion in remediation, healthcare costs, etc. (As a society, we're still not convinced pulmonary health as impacted by particulate inhalation is important - which is a mistake. It absolutely is a big deal and negative externality driving a whole host of bad health outcomes.)

Malinvestment into public transit in a way that serves only a limited few of the population and that costs 10x the already high initial estimates is a negative drain on the balance sheet worth 500 billion or more. And this infra is woefully inflexible and static.

California HSR alone is already suboptimal vs. flights, and once we have long distance autonomous self-driving, that'll meet the same demand with 1/100,0000,000th the cost (if you average out the costs and benefits of self driving over all other routes).
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-12-12 04:24:28+00:00
At the risk of committing the same error as the author, I am wondering if they may have been exposed almost exclusively to American English. Many of the examples of things you can't say feel perfectly natural to me, and many of the examples of what you "would" say felt a little outlandish, but certainly more "American coded".

That said, the author isn't pulling this out of his ass, more like vastly overstating it and drawing some pretty questionable conclusions.

When I'm both reading and listening to Mandarin, there does seem to be a much stronger preference for expressing positives as negated-negatives, or even sometimes expressing fairly neutral things as the absence of their opposite, than there is in any variety if English I know. But the author has latched onto that difference a little too hard I'd say.
by bruce511 | 2025-12-12 04:25:26+00:00
The article even refers to AWK as being the initials of the authors. And posits this as "reasonable"?

Naming is hard, not least because "a million" new projects are spawned every day. And if you're going down a path of "rule the world" (even in a niche like infrastructure) you start by getting a .com domain, so choices are limited.

Plus the name has to be unique enough to Google.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-12 04:25:51+00:00
meet tastes great and all, but I wonder where science is at (if at all) on making original food that tastes good. How about food that doesn't taste like any natural food we've had, but still tastes really good?

Jell-o (gello?) is a good example, nothing tastes like it naturally. Why aren't there tasty food that are original in terms of taste and texture but good for health and the environment? I suppose part of the struggle is that food is entrenched into culture so much. burgers and bbq are inextricable from july 4th and memorial day for example.
by jeffro_rh | 2025-12-12 04:26:22+00:00
The 3rd letter is the key here. If you are going to look up a possible word that a user is typing, iOS waits until the third letter typed to do the lookup. Too many possibilities before then. So at the third letter typed, in the video it displayed the U, but his finger was low on the button. It displayed, then did the lookup, and while it was doing that lookup the u was still displayed, but the input moved to J without the display being updated. Maybe the lookup being spawned on the background thread caused enough delay on the main thread to not update the highlighted key before the touchUp event fired?
by array_key_first | 2025-12-12 04:26:27+00:00
Everyone has gotten so used to software being extremely shitty and hostile that they just think this is how it is. People work around the jank sometimes hundreds of times a day and don't look at the big picture.

I know at work I get work around windows taskbar jank at least a few dozens times a day. Granted, I can't do anything about it.
by tomhow | 2025-12-12 04:26:46+00:00
Please don't post personal attacks like this on people, no matter who it is or how dislikable you find them. HN is for curious conversation, not this kind of venting. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines if you want to participate here. HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to keep the standards up. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by rifty | 2025-12-12 04:27:06+00:00
With numbers like this, it feels like OpenAI is selling at this point the value of an IPO if everyone consolidates around OpenAI more than on the competitive value of its product.

For every extra company they get effectively exclusive usage with the more believable the strategy becomes. As it wouldn't be the first time that beating out competitors in enterprise distribution led to users making what they are used to using at work what they use personally.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-12 04:27:19+00:00
I doubt that the porn in the 70s was less bad than the porn today. Legal CSAM was being sold openly so what makes you think that it was more tame than modern stuff?

The fact is that as difficult as it was to get, you got a hold of it and watched it. Why would 'ease of access' make any difference if you didn't have easy access and got it anyway?
by staticassertion | 2025-12-12 04:27:29+00:00
I think you're still not getting my point. Yes, a rare event of data loss may not be a big deal. What is a big deal is being able to reason about how rare that event is. When you have durable raft you can reason by using straightforward MTBF calculations. When you don't, you can keep adding nodes but you can't use MTBF anymore because a single failure is actually sufficient to cause data loss.
by shigawire | 2025-12-12 04:27:49+00:00
I'm biased since I work for Epic but this part is just not true:

>Epic controls who can access this data, when they can access it, and the terms by which they can access it — despite the simple fact that it is the hospitals’ and patients’ data, not Epic’s

The data is owned and controlled by customer orgs. Most of it is even on customer premises, not in Epic's cloud.
by rasz | 2025-12-12 04:28:11+00:00
I was wondering about the reason and suspect lack of advertising. There was an ad campaign in Computer Gaming World Magazine http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=40698&pagenum...

CGW issue 144 1996/07 small piss poor banner

CGW 146 1996/09 full page but confusing with only two tiny bad game screens and wall of text

CGW 147 1996/10 - month of release - same wall of text and one slightly better tiny screen

CGW 148 1996/11 half page ad but finally full of good screens and actual description what the game is all about

CGW 151 1997/02 they finally got a hang of this, detailed description of what to expect from teh game

CGW 152 1997/03 CGW 153 1997/04 CGW 156 1997/07 reverting to 148 style

CGW reviewed in very late in 1997/02 giving it 100%.

I cant find any ads in period correct PC Gamer. They reviewed it great, but annual PC Gamer Top 100 1996 didnt even mention it, and 1997 put it far back at 25 https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/pc-gamer-top-100-1997...
by lazarus01 | 2025-12-12 04:28:58+00:00
My god, what terrible marketing, totally written by AI. No flow whatsoever.

I use Gemini 3 with my $10/month copilot subscription on vscode. I have to say, Gemini 3 is great. I can do the work of four people. I usually run out of premium tokens in a week. But I’m actually glad there is a limit or I would never stop working. I was a skeptic, but it seems like there is a wider variety of patterns in the training distribution.
by rramadass | 2025-12-12 04:30:57+00:00
> The idea that all non-western practices, language included, have a deep and amazing and metaphysical quality that westerners simply couldn't understand is so tiresome.

The author did not say this; this is your unnecessarily negative take. However the author is comparing Chinese with English where this is somewhat true and well studied; eg. A Comparison of Chinese and English Language Processing - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/abs... Google will give you lots more info. on this.

> No language is more expressive than another,

Objectively false. This is the same meaningless logic that since almost all programming languages are Turing Complete and can simulate any Turing Machine therefore they are equivalent. In a abstract sense they are but for all practical purposes the notion is useless as anybody trying to program in C++ vs. Haskell vs. Prolog will tell you. This is why you have the concept of "Paradigms" and "Worldviews".

Every culture imposes a "Philosophical Worldview" on the Languages it invents.

An ancient Indian Philosopher named Bhartṛhari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhart%E1%B9%9Bhari) actually founded a school of philosophy where language is linked to cognition-by-itself with cognition-of-content i.e. subject+object+communication as a "whole understanding". He called this Sphota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spho%E1%B9%ADa) defined as "bursting forth" of meaning or idea on the mind as language is uttered. This is the reason why in ancient Sanskrit literature there is so much emphasis on oral tradition i.e. using right words, right utterances, right tones etc.

Previous discussion Words for the Heart: A treasury of emotions from classical India - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249766

Also see the book The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language by Bimal Krishna Matilal which gives an overview of Bhartrhari's (and others) ideas - https://archive.org/details/wordandtheworldindiascontributio...
by array_key_first | 2025-12-12 04:30:58+00:00
I switched from iOS to Android and it's actually kind of insane how much higher quality a lot of parts of the OS are. I wasn't expecting this, I was expecting customization and the associated jank. But no, it's been pleasantly surprising.

There's still some jank. Sometimes searching for something in setting takes upwards of 5 seconds. I can only assume it's downloading a bitcoin miner or something.
by digdugdirk | 2025-12-12 04:32:08+00:00
It's not. And any effort to do this at scale would be quickly shut down by physics and economics, not the government. Modern computing technology is a wildly complex supply chain, with extremely specialized manufacturing equipment and facilities. Billion dollar fabs are worth billions of dollars for a reason, and it's not for the real estate or the views.

Trying to determine the best "diy chip" sounds like a fun project and an admirable goal, but if you actually wanted something useful I'd wager you'd be better off buying esp32's in bulk so you'd have all the spares you might need.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-12 04:32:42+00:00
Your comment made one word immediately pop to mind - rotten? But I'm increasingly of the opinion that the 'dark stuff' on the internet isn't really the problem, so much as the seemingly innocuous stuff like people posting extremely 'select', if not outright fabricated, sections of their lives on social media. It gives people a mistaken perception of what their own life is like or what it could/should be like. Even more when this is taken to the next level with insecure kids consuming and interacting with one another in this context.

And then there's the issue with ourselves even. We pretty much all do, say, and believe dumb things when we're younger. It's just a part of growing up. But I can't imagine what life must be like if you mix this reality with social media. Not only does this then stay attached to you forever, but pretty much anything can be artificially reinforced. With both factors probably working to impair general maturation.

These are all just consequences of 'normal' things that you'd have even if we censored 100% of vice on the internet, and it's still quite awful.