MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nobody9999 | 2025-12-16 18:11:30+00:00
>I have trouble believing empowering people who have no risk of losing their job and no one knows they exist is the best model for making decisions for other people.

You mean like the (non-medical doctors) third-parties contracted by my private insurance provider who routinely deny important care[0] and even reject pre-approvals for antibiotics for MRSA infections even after multiple interactions with several medical doctors confirming both the diagnosis (with accompanying pathology) and the appropriate course of treatment.

Yeah, you keep that rolled up newspaper handy so you can "Gub'mint bad! Bad Gub'mint!"

I hope you never have to deal with a life-threatening situation where your insurer flatly refuses to cover treatment until after you're dead or have body parts amputated.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291740
by pndy | 2025-12-16 18:11:31+00:00
I'm afraid they're delegated to coding nowadays and even open source projects are run like corporations with attached "foundations" parasites where funneling out money on unrelated stuff occurs.

This piece linked is a dry marketing and nothing else, and I don't believe in a single bit this guy is saying or will ever say.

The line about AI being always a choice that user can simply turn it off: I need to go to about:config registry to turn every occurrence of it in Firefox. So there's that.
by dpark | 2025-12-16 18:11:38+00:00
> Americans want to put down $50k for 80 months for a MANLY man truck for MANLY MAN things

Most people buying F-150s are spending way more than $50k.

But the hate big trucks get isn’t because they are expensive. I don’t care if someone spends 25, 50, or 100 thousand on their vehicle and I doubt most others do either. Trucks get hate because they are more dangerous to everyone else. A collision with a truck is 2.5x more likely to kill the driver of a car than a collision with another car. [1]

But the attacks on the “manliness” and ridiculous cost of modern trucks are more emotionally satisfying than discussions about their safety profile.

[1] https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
by rapier1 | 2025-12-16 18:12:00+00:00
to be honest, there was a period of time in about 2010 or 2012 where I simply wasn't maintaining it as well as I should have been. I wouldn't have upstreamed it then either. That's changed a lot since then.

As an aside - you only really need HPN-SSH on the receiving side of the bulk data to get the buffer normalization performance benefits. It turns out the bottleneck is almost entirely on the receiver and the client will send out data as quickly as you like. At least it was like that until OpenSSH 8.8. At that point changes were made where the client would crash if the send buffer exceeded 16MB. So we had to limit OpenSSH to HPN-SSH flows to a maximum of 16MB receive space. Which is annoying but that's still going to be a win for a lot of users.
by runjake | 2025-12-16 18:12:07+00:00
I'm doubtful many businesses are requesting many of these features.

I don't think it's wise for them to want stuff like Recall (data exfiltration) or current state of the art agents doing calculations or analysis for them -- at least without a qualified human closely reviewing it's output and conclusions.

I do see businesses wanting simpler, more reliable software with fluid and consistent interfaces, but MSFT isn't focusing on that.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-12-16 18:12:36+00:00
There's a slight caveat here that you are sometimes forced to effectively buy and use internet-connected smart devices if you live in rented housing and the landlord of your unit provides it. This is probably not an issue for an internet-connected bed, because conventionally a bed isn't something a landlord provides, but you might get forced into using a smart fridge, since that's typically a landlord-provided item.

I lived in a building some years ago there where the landlord bragged about their Google Nest thermostat as an apartment amenity - I deliberately never connected it to my wifi while I lived there (and more modern smart devices connect to ambient cell phone networks in order to defeat this attack). In the building I currently live in, there are a bunch of elevators and locks that can be controlled by a smartphone app (so, something is gonna break when AWS goes down). I noticed this when I was initially viewing the apartment and I considered it a downside - and ultimately chose to move there anyway because every rental unit has downsides and ultimately you have to pick a set of compromises you can live with.

I view this as mostly a problem of housing scarcity - if housing units are abundant, it's easier for a person to buy thier own home and then not put internet-managed smart furniture in it; or at least have more leverage against landlords. But the region I live in is unfortunately housing-constrained.
by phkahler | 2025-12-16 18:12:50+00:00
Holding position with BLDC or FoC controlled motors is IMHO fairly difficult. Maybe less so in a printer where you can apply current to hold position. We usually do speed or torque control with them. Even with an encoder or equivalent it's tough to run 2 or 3 at once with a single MCU. But yeah that's why I asked about stepper drivers, my day job is FoC motor control and I'm running a pair of 2KW motors with a power board about the size of an RPi with no heat sinks.
by dgunay | 2025-12-16 18:12:53+00:00
I tried your app a while ago and I love the concept. I think the real sticking point for me (and maybe many others) wasn't that it wasn't engaging enough, rather that my partner just didn't want badly enough to learn my heritage language. At that point it was better for me to just go back to grinding Anki and consuming content. Automatically losing two users if one drops off is rough.
by pstuart | 2025-12-16 18:13:14+00:00
Are you a parent? Do you understand the challenges of parenting that includes the fact that "controlling" your child is ultimately impossible?

Yes, you can be attentive and engaged, ensure they're mentored and guided, are given discipline and instruction, etc. But they're still autonomous units that are going to do what the fuck they want to do.

Of course there are cases of abuse that can damage a child but that should not be a base assumption in this case (his other children appear to be fine).
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-16 18:13:22+00:00
Or you know, PUT A FUCKING GAS GENERATOR IN A GIANT BED THAT YOU HAVE OUT BACK.

Im legit suprised this isn't a thing yet. I saw the Rivian gear tunnel when it got first announced, and I was almost sure that they are gonna offer a generator+fuel tank to fit into there for range extension.

You can do an efficient diesel or multi gas 1 Cyl engine, and you can make a system where you can put one or 2 of them in the bed along with any aftermarket gas tank, and now you have something that is "mission configurable".
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-16 18:13:51+00:00
> Sounds like a great OS feature.

Cool, and some DEs make it possible to start implementing this for most applications today. But Mozilla is not KDE or Gnome, so the most they can do is to make this on their software, and make it easy to copy for the entire system.

> Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature.

Sounds like a bit of lack of imagination on your part. Do you think the same for text search?

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by ike2792 | 2025-12-16 18:13:52+00:00
I work at a company trying very hard to incorporate AI into pretty much everything we do. The people pushing it tend to have little understanding of the technology, while the more experienced technical people see a huge mismatch between its advertised benefits and actual results. I have yet to see any evidence that AI is "paradigm shifting" much less "revolutionary." I would be curious to hear any data or examples you have backing those claims up.

In regards to why tech people should be skeptical of AI: technology exists solely to benefit humans in some way. Companies that employ technology should use it to benefit at least one human stakeholder group (employees, customers, shareholders, etc). So far what I have seen is that AI has reduced hiring (negatively impacting employees), created a lot of bad user interfaces (bad for customers), and cost way more money to companies than they are making off of it (bad to shareholders, at least in the long run). AI is an interesting and so far mildly useful technology that is being inflated by hype and causing a lot of damage in the process. Whether it becomes revolutionary like the Internet or falls by the wayside like NFTs and 3D TV's is unknowable at this point.
by smaudet | 2025-12-16 18:14:20+00:00
> This really feels like the beginning of the end for Mozilla, sadly.

I really feel like every time Mozilla announces something, someone gets paid to leave comments like this around. I've seen many "beginning of the end" comments like this, and so far, it hasn't happened.

What I do see is a lot of bashing, and hypocrisy, and excuses for why its OK that you don't personally try to do better...
by varenc | 2025-12-16 18:14:20+00:00
Agreed. Though for reference, Apple's private relay has an architecture that makes it much more privacy preserving than most VPNs.

Traffic is sent through two independent relays: Apple sees your IP but not the destination, while a 3rd party egress partner sees the destination but not your IP, with encryption preventing either side from correlating both ends. It's some of the benefits of Tor. But of course you still need to put a lot of faith in Apple's implementation, which is the hardest part.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-16 18:14:36+00:00
Even in a compromised state, if given the choice between Firefox and Brave, I would choose Firefox 10 out of 10 times. A closed source chromium fork put out by a business that still isn't sure what its business model is and already has a fair number of "whoopsies" under its belt is a complete non-starter for me.

That is, given the choice between Firefox and Brave. For what it's worth, my current browser is Zen, and I'm quite happy with it.
by tyleo | 2025-12-16 18:14:38+00:00
I did a decent amount of work in MagicaVoxel in the past.

I like that Voxel Max works on iPad. It also allows 3D meshes to be imported and voxelized.

Voxel Max has a good amount of polish these days. It’s my top option with MagicaVoxel a close second.

I’ve also used Qubicle and Goxel. Qubicle is okay for specific things. I really like its masking planes feature. I really don’t like Goxel. It’s UI just feels clunky.
by upboundspiral | 2025-12-16 18:14:39+00:00
This argument has the unspoken premise that in large part, people's core identity is reacting to external influences. I believe that while responding to influences is part of human existence, the richness of the individual transcends such an explanation for all their actions. The phrase "game theory is inevitable" reads like the perspective of an aristocrat looking down on the masses - enough vision to see the interplay of things, and enough arrogance to assume they can control it.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-12-16 18:14:54+00:00
A large part of the deal is that ALPRs flag on hotlists and cannot be accused of racism. There's no way to argue a vehicle stop is the result of profiling when it's a machine recognizing a plate on a list and issuing an alert. The stats don't go in the same bucket.

At the end of the day, avoiding accusations of racism is behind much of modern policing's foibles (like the near-total relaxation of traffic law enforcement in some cities).
by xp84 | 2025-12-16 18:15:00+00:00
That's just the point. Selfhosted runners were the alternative. The only alternative for "runners" is Github-hosted, 200%-markup runners.

Now the only alternative is to move builds, CI, etc. off of GitHub's platform entirely, and maybe your source control as well. In other words, a big pain. Github seems to have entered peak encrapification: the point where they openly acknowledge rent-seeking as their product approach, fully deprecating "building the best, most reliable, trustworthy product." Now it's just "Pay us high margins because the effort to migrate off is big and will take too long to break even."

Basically the modern day Heroku business model.
by ZebusJesus | 2025-12-16 18:15:16+00:00
Not gonna lie this makes me want to learn Purrtran, you have to feed HEX, clean up after them and play with them or else it will misbehave or even die. Hex needs to be happy to help with code, I love it great way to make programming fun! Also pretty cool that they added print and for loop structures that are easier to use.

"In the following example, Hex leaves you a dead baby bunny rabbit because you have unused variables in your code"
by renhanxue | 2025-12-16 18:15:26+00:00
Heating with gas is absolutely not a thing in Sweden, I don't think even a single percentage point of homes use that. Firewood is way more common (it's relatively commonplace in the countryside still). Gas is used for stoves in some older buildings in a few specific cities but is almost extinct in that application too. Heating with gas hasn't really been a thing historically either - at first it was mostly wood, then coal and wood, and then district heating and fuel oil completely took over from the 1950's. For a while in the 1970's resistive electric heaters were popular because electricity was cheap with the then-new nuclear plants, while the oil crisis made oil expensive. That didn't last very long.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-16 18:15:46+00:00
The close button has always been there, you double clicked the top left menu button. That worked all the way until Microsoft started redoing window decorations in desktop mode with Windows 8.1, and even for a short period after.

This was also copied into other X window control styles. Even today, a Motif replicates the Windows 1.0-3.11 top-left menu+close button.
by mohamedattahri | 2025-12-16 18:15:48+00:00
This has nothing to do with the founder status.

Founders don’t face any competition when they get the job at their own companies, and they often have ownership to force it as an outcome if there’s ever a debate.

Baker, to her credit, probably faced brutal competition to get to the top job. It’s not out there to wonder why she was picked, and the answer cannot be because « she was there from the beginning ».

HN tends to like people who have a certain understanding of product and technology. Baker’s legal background probably didn’t help put forward her other skills, hence the questions.

If the argument is based on trends your personally noticed on HN, then I’m afraid there’s not much to discuss.
by pepperball | 2025-12-16 18:16:33+00:00
A civil war is needed. It’s clear that there are a handful of ideological blocs with inherently incompatible ideologies.

These people cannot all live in the same society and have peace exist. Logistically this problem can’t really be solved peacefully and will eventually boil up. We’re already seeing a sharp ramp up in terrorist attacks across the ideological spectrum

Sometimes, we should let nature play its course. Whoever comes out on top will subsequently canibalize themselves with infighting anyway.
by giardini | 2025-12-16 18:16:36+00:00
>"Meanwhile, left barely does anything. They are not rocking the boat, they are powerless."<

The left's judicial branch is very active: they sue every chance they get. And since they've diligently packed the court systems for decades, and since population centers that are predominantly Democratic are usually the locations for filing significant legal issues, i.e., they have left-leaning populations, therefore left-leaning juries and leftist judges, they usually get what they sue for.

Maybe someday we'll be able to look at Epstein's mail or Clinton's e-mails even.
Ask HN: How do I re-train myself to think clearly?
by jxmesth | 2025-12-16 18:16:50+00:00
What I mean by my question is: We all just pick up stuff when we're kids and our primary education, home, friends, etc. affect how we learn to think and see things or problems. As we get older this just becomes the way we see things and work with them which leads to some people being exceptionally great at solving problems and understanding stuff and others, not as good.

How can someone learn to re-train themself and see things the way real problem solvers do? I'm talking about stuff like first principles thinking, systems thinking, mental models etc. that people often associate with individuals like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett.

I usually lurk and I know there's a ton of super smart people here who I'm sure can offer advice/suggestions on this. So thanks in advance.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-16 18:16:55+00:00
They already announced side loading will continue to work, while making it slightly more difficult for average users to install suspicious crap on their phone or tablet. I can live with that:

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install...

Also, how sideloading works seemingly varies from vendor to vendor. On my Samsung devices I never had to fiddle with ADB or developer mode to install a APK from outside the Play store, I just download something, toggle crapware protection off, install, toggle crapware protection on and I'm done. Think it might has something to with all the customization work Samsung put into One UI (and just outright removing stuff from Google they didn't like).
by jamesgill | 2025-12-16 18:17:14+00:00
The part about Smalltalk's influence on Ruby is a good callout. Smalltalk has influenced many languages: Python's 'everything is an object (like Ruby)'; Objective-C's message sending syntax; JS's 'self'; and probably Scala. Not sure what else (besides Ruby of course).

As for Perl, I think besides Ruby probably PHP (began as "Personal Home Page Tools — a set of Perl-like macros") and JS (expressions, variable pragmas, loose semantics) have the clearest influence.
by netsharc | 2025-12-16 18:17:25+00:00
Maybe TikTok is controlled by people who are close to CCP leadership... oh that's bad, so now the US government wants to force its sale so it's controlled by people like Larry Ellison, known to be close to Trump.

Wowwww, what a world of difference. /S

Funny you keep picking on nits as if these assholes aren't 2 sides of the same coin. At least admit that you prefer your fascism Trump-branded, at least the alphabet is still legible compared to Chinese Communist fascism.
by ericmay | 2025-12-16 18:18:12+00:00
> There’s been mixed messaging from the administration on GLP-1s

Do you have any examples?

This is what I've seen:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/trump-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk...

Wegovy and Zepbound have not been covered by Medicare for weight loss, “and they’ve only rarely been covered by Medicaid,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “They’ve often cost consumers more than $1,000 per month, some a lot more than that. ... That ends starting today." "“This is the biggest drug in our country, and that’s why this is the most important of all the [most favored nation] announcements we’ve made,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during the briefing. “This is going to have the biggest impact on the American people. All Americans, even those who are not on Medicaid, Medicare, are going to be able to get the same price for their drugs, for their GLP-1s.""
by kortex | 2025-12-16 18:18:34+00:00
Does anyone else find it painfully ironic that the one CO cop said "You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing," [0], in light of the George Floyd BLM rallying cry "I can't breathe!" and the common metaphor describing surveilance states as "suffocating"?

Like what are we doing as a society? Stop trying to build the surveilance nexus from sci fi. I don't want to live in a zero-crime world [1]. It's not worth it. Safety third, there is always gonna be some risk.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-col...

[1] Edit to add: if this raises hackles, I encourage folks to think through what true zero crime (or maybe lets call it six-nines lawfulness) entails. If we had literal precrime, would that stop 99.9999% of crime? (hint: read the book/watch the movie)
by 9rx | 2025-12-16 18:19:08+00:00
> Germany can't compete with US wages in tech because their companies don't generate as much revenue or profit

Right, because, thanks to heavy regulation driven by the USA, it is illegal to compete on a direct basis. The only hope Germany could have is to compete on being more innovative, but how do you out-innovate when you don't have much of a revenue basis to use to fund innovation and are trying to challenge businesses in the USA that have secured the moat that gives an effectively unlimited money printer? Not going to happen.

Like was pointed out earlier, you cannot successfully operate in a highly regulated environment (well, except where those regulations are to your favour, as is the case for Silicon Valley tech). While Europe tends to want more balance in IP laws, what practical choice does Germany have but to comply to the USA's demands? There is no benefit to Germany in allowing Dinsey nearly endless copyright terms, but the USA has a lot of leverage that it isn't afraid to use and that is something everyone else does have to concern themselves with.
by devnull3 | 2025-12-16 18:19:35+00:00
The points I had written are from an individual p.o.v.

I agree with what your implying, but my take is that Brits cannot (and should not) wait for Govt to come to its senses.

I am saying take inspiration from Brits of few generations back who ventured out, took calculated risks and endured sea travel for months to reach far out places to find opportunities. I mean do the modern equivalent of this. They did the grind so that the next few generation benefited.

Also, industrial revolution happened because of individual brilliance and not some govt policy. The only thing govt did was not get in the way.

Not everyone will be able to do this but sometimes it takes few people to inspire millions.
by exceptione | 2025-12-16 18:19:35+00:00
neonsunset shared an interesting article, but his comment is dead: https://em-tg.github.io/csborrow/

/btw, I am not affiliated with neonsunset, but could people please comment to explain what is wrong instead of downvoting? If there is any substance to a comment and it isn't obviously a misinformation or disinformation one (Paradox of Tolerance), we should have a discussion instead.

On topic: Could F* unlock even more possibilities, like crossing the gap of the heap and the stack in terms of direct access? It has a very powerful type system and it can eject an F* program to F#.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-16 18:19:38+00:00
Oh man. I never thought about how Ken Burns might use that.

Already you sometimes see where manually cut out a foreground person from the background and enlarge them a little bit and create a multi-layer 3D effect, but it's super-primitive and I find it gimmicky.

Bringing actual 3D to old photographs as the camera slowly pans or rotates slightly feels like it could be done really tastefully and well.
by fainpul | 2025-12-16 18:19:46+00:00
For years I've thought about doing an "art project" to make people more aware of the fact they are being observed – but I never actually got up and did it.

The idea was to seek spots in the city where public web cams are pointed at, and paint QR codes on the ground at those spots (using a template), linking to the camera stream. So when curious passerbys scan the code, they see themselves in a camera stream and feel "watched".
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-16 18:19:57+00:00
On the Mac Plus and other Macs in a similar chassis, yes, there wasn't much room to move windows around, but it was still possible. Apple also released several larger Mac displays (around 16 by my count) prior to 1995, including two 21" models (in 1989 and 1991, respectively). Workstation-like window management absolutely happened on Macs in the late 80s and early 90s.