MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lutger | 2025-12-15 16:05:48+00:00
Maybe this is taking it too far, but anyway: corporations don't have any agency. They are not persons. The organization and constellation of interests of corporations may be such that:

1. immoral people (such as psychopaths) will be disproportionately at the helm of large corporations

2. regular people will make immoral decisions, because to do otherwise would be against their own interests or because the consequences / moral impact are hidden from their awareness

There is no way to act in life that isn't in some sense moral or political, because it also impacts others and you are always responsible for your what you do (or don't do). And corporations are just a bunch of people doing stuff together. To maintain otherwise is in itself a (im)moral act, intentionally or not, see point 2 above.
by m000 | 2025-12-15 16:05:52+00:00
Have there been any blind tastings for that? I mean, if people swear by beef tallow's taste, they should be able to also prove it experimentally.

This would also set a level field between beef tallow and other oils. I would expect that a lot have changed in the fast food industry supply chain since the "good old days". Frying oil is only one of the factors that may have affected the taste of fries. Not to mention that everything tastes better when one is young.
by dataflow | 2025-12-15 16:06:02+00:00
1. You're simply not going to achieve consistency across the board, because even if you dictate this by fiat, your dependencies won't be like this. The issue of the function name being hard to spot is easier to fix with tooling (just tell your editor to color them or make them bold or something). OTOH, it's not so nice to be unable to tell at a glance if the function return type is deduced or not, or what it even is in the first place.

2. It's incredibly rare for it to be required. It's not like 10% of the time, it's more like < 0.1% of the time. Just look at how many functions are in your code and how many of them actually can't be written without a trailing return type. You don't change habits to fit the tiny minority of your code.

3. This is probably the best reason to use it and the most subjective, but still not a particularly compelling argument for doing this everywhere, given how much it diverges from existing practice. And the downside is the scope also includes function parameters, which means people will refer to parameters in the return type much more than warranted, which is decidedly not always a good thing.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-15 16:06:12+00:00
> they are not really likely to be running the roomba.

You seem to assume that they have somehow physically disabled access to any kind of remote activation. That seems extremely unlikely given the overall selling points of the roomba.

The roomba doesn't have to "run" in order to be using its microphone, which as noted is likely the more valuable data acquisition source here.
by ghaff | 2025-12-15 16:06:40+00:00
No idea how similar it was to what's taught in the classroom. Of course you have access to TAs and other students IRL. And I have no doubt that assumptions about prior exposure and skills have changed over time.

I can only report that, had you dumped me into that content with those assignments, with no prior background I'd probably have been dropping that class.

The online version was more Grimson on the algorithms and Guttag (who wrote the Python book) on a bit of the programming. But the emphasis was more on the algorithms.
by mindslight | 2025-12-15 16:07:31+00:00
I too had wanted to embrace the idea of a race-indifferent society. But given that our country actually had enough seething racism that people voted for a political agenda of severely harming themselves as long as "those people" would get hurt more, I'd say that the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges has now been vindicated as being quite noble.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-15 16:07:42+00:00
That's a rather rose colored way of framing what Chevron was. It essentially removed the role of the judiciary in settling disputes. In cases where a regulator's action was deemed at least "reasonable", the judiciary was obligated to simply defer to the regulator's interpretation.

And due to widespread regulatory capture, this is hardly some social benefit. The original case Chevron Doctrine was based on [1] essentially came down to the EPA interpreting anti-pollution laws in a way enabling companies to expand pollution-causing constructions with no oversight. The EPA was then sued, and defeated, by an environmental activist group, but then that decision was overturned by the Supreme Court and Chevron Deference was born.

Other examples are the FCC deeming broadband internet as a "information service" instead of a "telecommunications service" (which would have meant common-carrier obligations would have applied), and so on. Another one [3] - Congress passed legislation deeming that power plants must use the "best technology available" to "minimize the adverse environmental impact" of their water intakes/processing. The EPA interpretation instead allowed companies to use a cost-benefit analysis and pick cheaper techs. And I could go on. Chevron Deference was an abomination.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cable_&_Telecommunica...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entergy_Corp._v._Riverkeeper_I....
by bibin765 | 2025-12-15 16:07:43+00:00
Have been working on an app to capture thoughts and to make sense of them with a timeline view. Have posted the first version here and got a lot of suggestions so that we continue working and now release an open testing version to play store. If anyone interested in trying please visit

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.upbrew.tho...
by n8cpdx | 2025-12-15 16:07:45+00:00
I’ve repaired a eufy vacuum without issue, pretty easy to find repair parts as others have mentioned. I replaced a wheel assembly that wasn’t working quite right.

Repair shops will refuse to look at them outright; pretty frustrating they wouldn’t take my money and I had to do it myself. But I think that was categorical for all robot vacuums.

In general though, robot vacuums as a category are improving so quickly I doubt repair is the right options many times. A 10-year-old (or even 3-year-old, because they were always so behind) Roomba is almost like running a 10 year old Intel Mac in 2025.
by Nasrudith | 2025-12-15 16:07:47+00:00
Paraquat seems like it should be banned on its acute toxicity grounds alone, but the Parkinson's link as phrased doesn't stand out given the article's statistics. A thousand out of a million is a thousandth.

A baseline rate or Parkinsons would be a good addition to the article. I have seen figures of 1 out of 331 for total or apparently about 1.1M total. Farmers make up about 2% of the population. Doing rough back of envelope math shows that you would expect 22K farmers to have Parkinsons assuming even distribution by population. The numbers aren't precise but if the article's thousands was taken literally it would ironically suggest paraquat has a protective effect against Parkinsons which is obviously absurd thing to assume from a known neurotoxin.

Not every farmer with Parkinsons is suing though. If we assume 1% of farmers are involved in lawsuits then thousands is alarming because it would imply 10x rates. 10% suing though and it is expected. 100% suing would be 1/10th the general rate which would fit with the absurd counterfactual hypothesis that non-lethal paraquat exposure prevents Parkinsons.
by tagsley | 2025-12-15 16:08:02+00:00
Leading this charge is the Tagsley Tracking Card.

You may have seen it popping up on social media feeds or tech blogs, praised for its razor-thin design and seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem. But does it actually live up to the hype? Is it reliable enough to trust with your most critical possessions? In this detailed review, we are going to dive deep into the Tagsley Tracking Card to see if it is the modern security upgrade your wallet has been waiting for.
by Eikon | 2025-12-15 16:08:12+00:00
Shameless plug :)

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by sleepyguy | 2025-12-15 16:08:26+00:00
>Zink voted for Trump but said he doesn’t agree with everything the president does. Zink clarifies he calls himself a “conservative” over calling himself a “Republican.” He doesn’t like Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric. “I prefer common sense in the middle,” he said.

So the dumb shit saw how Trump behaved the first time, voted for him again the 2nd time and now is complaining. I bet he would vote for him a 3rd time....
by kotaKat | 2025-12-15 16:08:30+00:00
Quiet red areas rolling over to Flock are what’s going to cause us all to lose in the end.

Another quiet little village in rural New York just signed on for 11 cameras, and it sounds like the county itself (2800 square miles(!)) is also playing around with them. The locals won’t raise the hard hitting questions - they’ll just roll over with the bullshit answers from Flock reps.

https://northcountrynow.com/stories/village-of-massena-enter...
by SirMaster | 2025-12-15 16:08:44+00:00
Are you saying Amazon isn't a positive? Or that Bezos didn't contribute to making Amazon what it is?

I think it's pretty clear Amazon is quite a positive given by how many people like using it so much for it's convenient 1-stop shop, quick shipping, and hassle-free return process.

Are you saying it would be better to have to shop at 1000 different little websites with probably crappy or at least inconsistent return processes?
by chuckadams | 2025-12-15 16:08:49+00:00
Docking computer was like the very first thing I would buy. That or a mining laser so I could more quickly get the cash to buy the computer. On the C64 version, it would play Blue Danube in a shout out to 2001, and I still remember the horribly flat note in it (it had to be deliberate, the same note is fine in the rest of the piece). Sometimes it would try to dock with the wrong side of the station, but that usually only happened if you turned it on when on the wrong side already.

Before then, just approach the bay straight on and if you go slow enough, you'll dock fine even if it's perpendicular. Probably differs with whatever version you're playing though.
by deathanatos | 2025-12-15 16:08:53+00:00
> Are UUIDs secure?

> Misconceptions: UUIDs are secure

> One misconception about UUIDs is that they’re secure. However, the RFC describes that they shouldn’t be considered secure “capabilities.”

> From RFC 41221 Section 6 Security Considerations:

> Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities

This is just wrong, and the citation doesn't support it. You're not guessing a 122-bit long random identifier. What's crazy is that the article, immediately prior to this, even cites the very math involved in showing exactly how unguessable that is.

… the linked citation (to §4.4, which is different from the in-prose citation) is just about how to generate a v4, and completely unrelated to the claim. The prose citation to §6 is about UUIDs generally: the statement "Do not assume that [all] UUIDs are hard to guess" is not logically inconsistent with properly-generated UUIDv4s being hard to guess. A subset of UUIDs have security properties, if the system generating & using them implements those properties, but we should not assume all UUIDs have that property.

Moreover, replacing an unguessable UUID with an (effectively random) 32-bit integer does make it guessable, and the scheme laid out seems completely insecure if it is to be used in the contexts one finds UUIDv4s being an unguessable identifier.

The additional size argument is pretty weak too; at "millions of rows", a UUID column is consuming an additional ~24 MiB.
by ColinWright | 2025-12-15 16:09:10+00:00
I couldn't find any way to opt out of cookies, so I used this:

URL0=https://abdulhamidhassan.com/post/802459222214410240 LEAF=how-to-be-exceptional-at-anything

lynx -dump $URL0/$LEAF | less

And in the spirit of the article, yes, I Copy/Pasted that into a terminal to check that it worked before hitting "Add Comment".
by andsoitis | 2025-12-15 16:09:12+00:00
There’s a certain amount of independence between municipalities, counties, states, and the federal government.

Except in a minority of cases (e.g. NYC), it is states and the federal government that taxes income and capital gains, and they are already not taxing citizens on the y realized value of their home.

So if one is upset about that, you have to take it up with local elections or introduce a measure with your state to prevent municipalities from levying this specific tax.
by humbugtheman | 2025-12-15 16:09:34+00:00
hello yes this blog post is specifically aimed at other people in the pastagang collective. i'm a bit surprised to see it shared (and upvoted!) here. but i'm thankful nonetheless!

for more info on pastagang go to www.pastagang.cc

or watch a talk i gave about it here youtube.com/watch?v=60SywbNuZA8
by guilleuy | 2025-12-15 16:09:40+00:00
Speaking from Uruguay, this characterization feels outdated. Our public universities emphasize problem-solving, experimentation, and strong theoretical foundations, and they produce graduates who work globally in engineering, physics, and software.

Programs like Plan Ceibal normalized hands-on computing early on, and there’s a healthy connection between academia, industry, and research institutes. Brain drain exists everywhere, but it’s no longer accurate to describe countries like Uruguay as stuck in rote learning or disconnected from real-world application. Latin America isn’t monolithic, and some of these critiques reflect a 1960s snapshot more than today’s reality.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-15 16:09:41+00:00
> each new Claude Opus is an incremental improvement at best, still unable to execute an entire business idea from a single prompt.

If your way of evaluating the progress of AI is a binary one, then you'll see no progress at all until suddenly it passes that bar.

But seeing that we do have incremental improvements on essentially all evals (and my own experience), even if it takes another decade we should be planning for it now. Even if it does require an entirely fundamental breakthrough like the attention paper, given the amount of researchers working on it, and capital devoted to it, I wouldn't put any money against such a breakthrough arriving before long.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-12-15 16:09:57+00:00
GraphQL appeals to the enterprise mind in a way that few technologies have. Like SOAP/WSDL before it. It fits the model of spotlighting some small and medium problems, and offers a solution that adds complexity and makes everything take longer to build, and if you follow the implementation guidelines closely enough, they say you can solve the problems. Meanwhile, your competitor just has 300 API endpoints and runs circles around you, and you eventually acquire them to get all of your customers back.
by ferguu_ | 2025-12-15 16:10:11+00:00
If a tool like this is currently only suitable for specific and minor cases under human oversight, how does it prove any better than a human? Wouldn't one of the only novel and useful cases of "AI" be general intelligence that is able to parse events in real time, instead of from manually selected information that we are so quickly running out of? We are so far from that and being sold Siri / Cortana for the third time.

I admit I'm definitely biased in this - even if information presented by one of these "AI" was factual, I would still take it upon myself to check. I don't trust their works at all.
by lysace | 2025-12-15 16:10:12+00:00
It's weird to me that we have had cheap and power-efficient gigabit ethernet for almost 20 years and 10 GbE is still not there.

In the 90s/00 we progressed from 10 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s and then to 1 Gbit/s in like 5-6 years per step.
by stuffn | 2025-12-15 16:10:25+00:00
I think you’re right and especially in regards to abstract concepts like linear algebra I don’t know anyone serious about learning who didn’t struggle with what turned out to be relatively simple things when viewed intuitively.

The problem as I see it

1. Professors themselves don’t understand it and are regurgitating pedagogy from books.

2. The material load is so high for your average bachelors degree you’d spend 8 years in school otherwise. I would hazard to say this is necessary and sufficient but schools wouldn’t get funding and our job oriented society would have it so then only the wealthiest could get education (like it was for centuries).

3. Tests are a benchmark and very expensive. You can consider a class’ total value to be loaded on the final exam. I recently wanted to go back to school casually. One of the cheapest universities available wanted 2600 dollars for a partial differential equations course. If I fail the course I lose 2600 dollars since I would need to retake it to proceed to higher mathematics. This alone does not allow a person time to explore - and that’s just one class!

4. Schools are simply a money laundering vehicle that takes money from students and moves it into administrator pockets. Education costs have skyrocketed yet education and pedagogy remains the same. This is money laundering by any other name.

- understanding leads intuition. There’s very little of either, anywhere.
by roguecoder | 2025-12-15 16:10:36+00:00
I have seen issues like that. Rebooting has always fixed it, but it is notable.

I really wish they would hire a strong frontend team. I can almost always figure out what happened just from the signal, and it's usually a state machine getting stuck. Which I have some sympathy for, but also you just can't have that happen in something that is going to feel polished and responsive.
by robotguy | 2025-12-15 16:10:36+00:00
I'm working on Mutacortechs, an ALife simulation where "organisms" each have their own emulated 16-bit processor with 64K RAM. Like Core Wars for the 21st century. It's a small project compared to what some others here are working on, but it's an order of magnitude larger than anything this embedded EE has ever written. I have the ISA designed, assembler complete, emulator stage 1 complete (160/204 instructions implemented), and the start of the simulation working. Last night I wrote a program in custom assembly for an "organism" that looked around, found food, moved toward it, and ate it. I'm pretty excited by the milestone!
by pfdietz | 2025-12-15 16:10:58+00:00
Glass is not entirely useless to recycle, but it's marginal. If the goal is to keep it out of landfills, then separating it can make sense, even if the recycling is just downcycling to a lower value use (like road aggregate or fiberglass insulation).

I've heard Glass Beach in California is nice; maybe we should create some more of those by dumping waste glass on a shore with wave action and waiting a few decades? (not entirely unserious)
by ragazzina | 2025-12-15 16:11:09+00:00
>I have a few really good hardware ideas, but I don't believe I could ever market them fast enough and far enough to make it worth spending the R&D to make them happen.

Then make a nice blog post, translate it to Chinese (hell, I'll pay a professional translator for you) and post it on the internet so that someone in Shenzen can try it.
by Boxxed | 2025-12-15 16:11:17+00:00
> The trick is just to know the numbers to aim for and ignore the instructions.

Interestingly, the instructions are actually all correct. If it says, "Left! Left!" for instance you will crash if you don't fix it.

I think the disconnect might be that altitude and speed somewhat feedback on each other and it takes time for your inputs to settle, so it always feels like you're chasing the instructions.
by jtrn | 2025-12-15 16:11:40+00:00
The chance this is a trustworthy source for me is close to 0. This just sound like fantastic pseudology:

“Even secondary exposure can be dangerous. One case published in the Rhode Island Medical Journal described an instance where a 50-year-old man accidentally ingested paraquat, and the nurse treating him was burned by his urine that splashed onto her forearms. Within a day, her skin blistered and sloughed off.
by mcone | 2025-12-15 16:11:54+00:00
https://www.jotbird.com

A small tool that does one thing: publish Markdown and give you a link—no accounts, no setup, no project scaffolding. Paste or write Markdown, click Publish, and you get a human-readable URL you can share immediately. You can update or delete the page later using the same link.

The idea came from frustration with how oddly hard it still is to put a Markdown document on the web without turning it into a repo, a static site, or a login-gated doc. JotBird is editor-light but publishing-first, and I’m now exploring CLI and editor integrations so it can act as a simple publishing layer for tools people already use.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-15 16:11:57+00:00
As the top comment in MR points out this is not that impressive.

> 12 hour ahead prediction is .0581.

The "ahead" is Before Markets Resolve. Brier score 0.0581 12h before markets resolve is usually not impressive score and information gained has usually little value.

Another issue is the difficulty of questions. You can get arbitrarily low Brier score with easy questions.

Low Brier score when the information is not already there and it has value would be impressive. Accurate Brier score when things are often already settled and information has little value is not interesting.
by basilgohar | 2025-12-15 16:12:22+00:00
I appreciate the alarm. However, I don't know if we should feel China having this is less safe than an America, European, or other country. I think we have seen that whatever alleged rights to privacy and data protection we have are becoming more-and-more meaningless as the corporatocracy of the US manifests itself more.

I mean to say, this should not be any more alarming than if, say, Oracle, Microsoft, or Amazon bought Roomba vs. any random Chinese company.

I say this not to say that China has no human rights issues to worry about, but rather, that the US and other Western countries have just as many concerning human rights issues (including privacy, freedom of speech suppression, and police state) that we're just more familiar with and used to, compared to the Other that is China.

Basically, 6 of one, a half dozen of the other.
by payerplayer123 | 2025-12-15 16:12:51+00:00
For the past eighteen months, the revenue world has been buzzing about the rise of the GTM Engineer — the operator who plugs AI into every workflow, automates the repetitive, and gives sales, marketing, and customer teams a level of speed and intelligence once unimaginable.

But there’s another role emerging that may be even more transformative for go-to-market teams.

Not because it replaces what AI can do, but because it maximizes what humans can’t be replaced for.

Introducing: The IRL Engineer.
by terabytest | 2025-12-15 16:13:09+00:00
No experience in the field, other than 2048, so take this with a grain of salt.

In my opinion it’s about your ethical stance and who your target audience is, and whether you’re trying to make a ton of money or just enough to survive. You’re obviously going to fight an uphill battle if you don’t employ any such (predatory?) marketing tactics. However, you could position yourself as explicitly standing against those and that might attract a smaller but loyal user base.

If you’re lucky, and build something good, and people talk about it, you might find that you’ll get users regardless. However, at the end of the day, what matters is whether you can keep the lights on, so you may have to relax some of your stances and rules or find ways to market your product that don’t fall into the categories you’ve described.