MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runako | 2025-12-19 14:55:51+00:00
> will mainly just socially ostracize their kids

Parent of a teen here. This is just flatly false.

If you have been a teenager or adult before, you will be familiar with the concept of the clique. For teens, there are athletes, nerds, theater kids, Lululemon kids, etc.

There are cliques of kids who do not use social media (because their parents won't let them, or they don't want to, or they prefer to do something else, or their parents do not use social media, or they cannot afford the devices). Teens who do not use social media sort into different cliques. That's it. They are not ostracized any more than theater kids or computer geeks are ostracized. (The latter inclusion was intentional, as it may cause some self-reflection among well-adjusted adults who at one time were members of school computer clubs.)
by alexfoo | 2025-12-19 14:56:00+00:00
Exactly. In order to prove you are not 15 online you have to prove you are >=16, even if you are 63.

And there's no "I'm an adult" proof with leaking exactly who you are.

This is thinly veiled "we want to know exactly who is behind every account" legislation. Expect it to be coupled with the usual "If you've nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" argument.
by freedomben | 2025-12-19 14:56:17+00:00
I agree this is a positive step, but this is like notch 1 on a scale of 0 to 100, 0 being maximum abuse of your customer. I think it's downright evil not to allow this for DRM free books, which they have been doing for many years now. It is positive that they reduced the level of evil by a little bit, and I'll give them credit for that, but this movement is so minor in the scope of things that it does not sway me whatsoever to go back to buying from their Kindle store
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 14:56:56+00:00
Schema.org is the dictionary for facts.

We map strictly to Schema.org for all transactional data (Price, Inventory, Policies). This ensures legal interoperability.

But Schema.org describes what a product is, not how to sell it.

So we extend it. We added directives like @SEMANTIC_LOGIC for agent behavior. We combine standard definitions for safety with new extensions for capability.
by DrScientist | 2025-12-19 14:57:00+00:00
Not sure fighters matter as much these days - Russia has air superiority in terms of jets over Ukraine - but it uses them infrequently - appears the problem is the ground based counter measures are quite effective and much cheaper.

If they want to attack by air - drones and missiles rather than planes appear to be the way to go.

Similarly aircraft carriers - they can only really be used now to bully small countries. To anybody with significant missile/drone tech they are just massive, slow, sitting ducks.

What matters is drones and missiles etc and how fast you can churn them out. Who would win that?

The US is going to have to find a way to live with countries like China and India, rather than trying to suppress them.

The current US policy of trying to dismant all the organisations that were set up post world war II in order to keep the peace is madness.
by docdeek | 2025-12-19 14:57:25+00:00
> one child's rules will seem draconian against their friend's lax parents

That’s how it has been for most everything. Someone else’s parents let their kids watch TV on a school night, or stay up past 10pm, or has a curfew of 1am instead of midnight, or lets them drink soda at the dinner table. The response from my parents to me, and from me to my kids, has always been to point out that families are different, they have different rules, and that in this house we do X.
by omnicognate | 2025-12-19 14:58:10+00:00
I'd rather my government control the narrative my children are exposed to than Andrew Tate.

Edit: To expand, this is not just a flippant remark. People ignore Andrew Tate because he's so obviously, cartoonishly awful, but they are not the audience. It's aimed at children, and from personal experience its effect on a large number of them worldwide is profound, to the extent that I worry about the long term, generational effect.

Children will be exposed to narratives one way or another, and to want to (re)assert some control that over that isn't necessarily just an authoritatian power play.
by caratamba | 2025-12-19 14:58:12+00:00
The design of Quill is terrible. It runs on marginal hardware, so you have to give the user clear and consistent feedback of what is happening. I want to see a textual boot with a lot of explanations of the interminable delays. I want to know what is happening when I press a button. It launches to a screen that says "InkBox" and sits there. Will it eventually do something? What? Is it hung? Is it broken?

The UX is absolutely awful. Do better. Score is -10 until you think of the user experience.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-19 14:58:25+00:00
I dunno about Windows Explorer, but macOS’ finder seems to hash completed transfers over SMB (this must be something it can trigger the receiver to do in SMB itself, it doesn’t seem slow enough for the sender to be doing it on a remote file) and remove transferred files that don’t pass the check.

I could see that or other safety checks making one program slower than another that doesn’t bother. Or that sort of thing being an opportunity for a poor implementation that slows everything down a bunch.
by yonatan8070 | 2025-12-19 14:58:50+00:00
Since everyone is complaining about the naming schemes of CPUs, I'll pitch in.

An Intel Core Ultra 7 155U and a Core Ultra 7 155H, are very different classes of CPUs!

If you're comparing laptops, you'll see both listed, and laptops with the U variant will be significantly cheaper, because you get half the max TDP, 4 fewer cores, 8 fewer threads, and a worse GPU.

This isn't to say the 155U is a bad chip, it's just a low-power optimized chip, while the 155H is a high-performance chip, and the difference between their performance characteristics is a lot larger than you'd expect when looking at the model numbers. Heck, if you didn't know better, you might text your tech-savvy friend "hey is a 155 good?", and looking that up would bring up the powerful H version.
by screye | 2025-12-19 14:59:12+00:00
Not sure if 'aware' is the right word. More like anxious.

Kidnappings and murders are exceedingly rare, even more so by strangers. Abuse primarily occurs at home, with acquaintances and at places of education. Moving a child from free form play to structured classes is moving risk around, but isn't reducing it.

When there is a big community of kids, there's safety in numbers. Highly supervised play reduces the kids involved, and takes away safety in numbers in exchange for constant vigilance.

An aware person would see the numbers and Calibrate risk accordingly. There is risk involved in everything and helicopter parenting has done little to reduce it.

It's an anxiety spiral.
by rimunroe | 2025-12-19 14:59:43+00:00
Apologies for the misinterpretation. I thought you were speaking of all prison jobs, though I don't think it makes much of a difference. From an ACLU report[1] on prison labor in the US which covers both labor for prison upkeep and labor for producing goods to be sold or providing services for companies or governments:

> They work as cooks, dishwashers, janitors, groundskeepers, barbers, painters, or plumbers; in laundries, kitchens, factories, and hospitals. They provide vital public services such as repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. They washed hospital laundry and worked in mortuary services at the height of the pandemic. They manufacture products like office furniture, mattresses, license plates, dentures, glasses, traffic signs, athletic equipment, and uniforms. They cultivate and harvest crops, work as welders and carpenters, and work in meat and poultry processing plants.

> From the moment they enter the prison gates, they lose the right to refuse to work. [...] More than 76 percent of incarcerated workers report that they are required to work or face additional punishment such as solitary confinement, denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence, and loss of family visitation, or the inability to pay for basic life necessities like bath soap. They have no right to choose what type of work they do and are subject to arbitrary, discriminatory, and punitive decisions by the prison administrators who select their work assignments.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/2022-06... (relevant quotes are found on page 5)
by wyldfire | 2025-12-19 15:00:19+00:00
> Absolutely none of these forms of naming have any way to correlate between them.

I've found that -- as of a ~decade ago, at least, ark.intel.com had a really good way to cross-reference among codenames / SKUs / part numbers / feature set/specs. I've never seen errata there but they might be. Also, I haven't used it in a long time so it could've gotten worse.
by rlupi | 2025-12-19 15:01:13+00:00
> Not only would I like to see "skills" but also "processes" where you create a well defined order that tasks are accomplished in sequence. Repeatable templates. This would essentially include variables in the templates, set for replacement.

You can do this with Gemini commands and extensions.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...
by freedomben | 2025-12-19 15:01:22+00:00
Genuine questions here, not rhetorical or trying to imply anything with them.

Why charge more on a DRM free site? Do you think people buying from there are doing so that they can share the book illegally?

If someone wants to share the book illegally, I would imagine they'll just download it from one of the pirate mirrors out there and not bother paying you at all. My guess is you're probably just reducing the number of people willing to pay the price. Classic supply and demand curve against price.
by gpt5 | 2025-12-19 15:01:35+00:00
I’m sorry, but you are completely missing the point.

Nobody disputed that mRNA, like all science, has many inventors. And that many people in the west as a whole has worked on the technology. Everything you said about the contributions to mRNA is correct, and doesn’t diminish US’s critical part in it.

The point was, and remains, that saying that the US has stopped becoming innovative, is just nonsense.
by jonplackett | 2025-12-19 15:01:40+00:00
Whenever anyone invokes ‘won’t somebody think of the children’ it’s almost always an attack on freedom somehow. In this case freedom of speech and anonymity.

If you need kids to verify their age, well they’re going to have to verify the adults too aren’t they.

Which is what they really want.

It isn’t the state’s job to police children - parents should do this. They should just mandate very good easy to use parental controls on devices and spend some money teaching parents how to use them.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-19 15:01:44+00:00
If you lower the standard to such a level that every “wallet vote” would actually be worse, how does one cast ones vote then?

Does Android have less ads? Which company does hardware integration so well? What are the alternative to an Apple tech stack?

So in the end, the consumer is left to sucking it up, counting their shareholder profits and suffering on a remote island in the sun.
by cannonpr | 2025-12-19 15:01:47+00:00
Actually you should look up the info there, you actually don’t which is what a lot of fansubs rely on, they mostly only will own your translation if they chose to formally translate and publish commercially a translation in that country. If they don’t, you can distribute your translation for free. There is a lot of variability on this per country too, with very interesting laws in greece and germany in particular.
by cestith | 2025-12-19 15:01:49+00:00
You skipped over the part where they were also still taking the standard hypoglycemic agents - in other words, medications to manage blood glucose. The study also tracked people who were both obese and newly diagnosed as diabetic. It says so in the conclusion.

Also, remember not everyone with T2 is obese, not everyone obese has T2D, and obesity doesn’t mean a little overweight. These are people with a BMI of 30 or higher. Other, lesser-used definitions from the past included a certain percentage of body weight consisting of fat. There are many people with Type 2 who are normal weight or overweight.
by tgtweak | 2025-12-19 15:01:52+00:00
Yeah the calculus on that becomes tricky when you have heat pumps since the coefficient of performance is >1 vs resistive heating (often 3-4 depending on the temperature).

I used a rack of GPUs to heat my house for a few years back when gpu mining was decently profitable, and my electricity bill was 3-4x more than with the heat pump - so you have to keep a close eye on the math when you're running at/under profitability.
by Bostonian | 2025-12-19 15:02:37+00:00
'The maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, iRobot, filed for bankruptcy Sunday after 35 years in business. An obituary might describe it as a victim of government assassination. Overzealous antitrust cops egged on by Sen. Elizabeth Warren stuck in the knife. President Trump may have dealt the death blow with his tariffs.

We explained at the time how Ms. Warren and progressives in the Biden Administration thwarted Amazon’s attempt to buy iRobot in 2022. They claimed the $1.7 billion acquisition would unfairly augment Amazon’s lead in robotics and home devices. They also said the Roomba would enable Amazon to hoover up data and spy on Americans.

Amazon is “‘almost universally recognized’ as the leader in warehouse and fulfillment robotics space,” Ms. Warren and other progressives wrote to Biden Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan in September 2022. The deal “would open up a new market to Amazon’s abuses.” Heaven forefend Amazon would use robots to make chores less laborious, as it has for warehouse work.

“Amazon stands to gain access to extremely intimate facts about our most private spaces that are not available through other means, or to other competitors,” leftwing groups wrote to the Biden FTC. They omitted that iRobot’s main competitors were Chinese companies, which were fast stealing market share. Beijing wants to dominate robotics.

In January 2024, Amazon and iRobot called off the deal amid opposition from Ms. Khan’s FTC and Europe’s antitrust regulators. The Biden FTC issued a statement saying it was “pleased.” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy quipped that regulators trusted Chinese firms “more than they do Amazon.” Less pleased are the U.S. workers who subsequently lost their jobs.'
by tungnt620 | 2025-12-19 15:02:37+00:00
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You can create multiple PocketBase instances for different environments and projects, all with controllable pricing.

We're working on more features, including: - Choosing the PocketBase version to deploy - Editing hook files from the UI - Server monitoring - Creating an on/off Node.js/Deno/Bun project to avoid complex logic in hooks
by ranyume | 2025-12-19 15:02:52+00:00
The targets to control are not children. They don't need to be controlled, from an intelligence point of view. Government's attention is not infinite, and between worries of losing power and worries about the wellbeing of children, one of the two is the winner, and it's not the children. If children's well-being was the priority, you would see other stuff being made.
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-19 15:03:14+00:00
Seriously, delusional take. I live in Manhattan and I’m considering a move to Westchester (large suburban county just north of NYC). Average cost per sq foot to buy in Manhattan is about $1500, and it’s about $400 in Westchester. That’s before you touch the other differences in cost of living (taxes, childcare, groceries, etc).
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-19 15:03:37+00:00
I think Opus + Claude Code is the more competent overall general "making things" system, while it makes sense to have a $20 Codex subscription to find bugs and review the things that Claude Code makes.

On its own, as sole author, I find Codex overcomplicates things. It will riddle your code with unnecessary helper functions and objects and pointless abstractions.

It is however useful for doing a once over for code review and finding the things that Claude rushed through.
by devnavigator | 2025-12-19 15:04:07+00:00
Translating natural language questions into executable SPARQL queries remains a major barrier to accessing knowledge graphs at scale. While large language models have shown promise in this area, many existing approaches such as Graph-RAG struggle with reliability, cost, and production readiness, especially when applied to complex or federated datasets. This post presents a high-level, executive-friendly overview of the SPARQL-LLM architecture published in ACM Transactions on the Web (2025).
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-19 15:04:11+00:00
I have 22k karma and I think it's a trivial claim that LLMs work and that software is clearly on the cusp of being 100% solved within a couple years.

The naysaying seems to mostly come from people coping with the writing they see on the wall with their anecdote about some goalpost-moving challenge designed for the LLM to fail (which they never seem to share with us). And if their low effort attempt can't crack LLMs, then nobody can.

It reminds me of HN ten years ago where you'd still run into people claiming that Javascript is so bad that anybody who thinks they can create good software with it is wrong (trust them, they've supposedly tried). Acting like they're so preoccupied with good engineering when it's clearly something more emotional.

Meanwhile, I've barely had to touch code ever since Opus 4.5 dropped. I've started wondering if it's me or the machine that's the background agent. My job is clearly shifting into code review and project management while tabbing between many terminals.

As LLMs keep improving, there's a moment where it's literally more work to find the three files you need to change than to just instruct someone to do it, and what changes the game is when you realize it's creating output you don't even need to edit anymore.
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn | 2025-12-19 15:04:12+00:00
This sort of makes sense if our governments are, on the whole, 'better' than Andrew Tate, for some definition of 'better'. But as the slide goes on there will be a tipping point where our governments are worse, meaning them surveilling me becomes problematic. Best shout about it now than then.
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-12-19 15:04:13+00:00
Hmmm makes sense. Sounds like I may have a misunderstood mental model of resource consumption. I ought to reread https://technology.riotgames.com/news/valorants-128-tick-ser... (specifically the section on “Real World Performance” where the engineer describes tuning) now that I have a better appreciation that they’re not trying to make resource utilization % higher, but instead making available more resources through tuning efforts.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-12-19 15:04:14+00:00
I have no idea. I’ve never messed with it, but maybe something like eBPF to intercept network syscalls? Not sure if that’s a thing—especially without root access? Mostly I was just thinking the project page could use a disclaimer since, in Go, it is common to bypass libc. :shrug:

This seems like a very cool, useful project though!
by lm28469 | 2025-12-19 15:04:24+00:00
Yeah but then again most people think "if it's not capitalism it's communism", there is a whole spectrum and China definitely does not belong in the communist part of the spectrum anymore. It's a mix of authoritarian socialism and state capitalism, you can add many other words to the mix but communism isn't at the top of it anymore

New things deserve new definitions, we have to get out of the ww2 lingo where everyone is a nazi, a fascist, a communist or a capitalist, it's overly simplistic and muddies the water. 2025 China is completely different than 2000 China which itself is completely different than 1980 China.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-19 15:04:52+00:00
> The Renaissance is really the tail end of the Middle Ages historically

And the Space Age is really the tail end of the Steam Age. Human history doesn't have any sharp divisors, aside from total genocides or the even rare natural disasters on the scale of Pompeii's demise.

The admittedly artificial definition of the start of the Renaissance, however, does help frame an explosive growth of useful new tools in art (and other endeavors), like perspective, oil paints, and so on.
by kevincox | 2025-12-19 15:04:56+00:00
BoringTun is unmaintained. There are various forks being developed.

I work at Obscura VPN and faced with boringtun bugs a few years ago we evaluated a few of the forks and switched our client to be based on top of NepTUN (https://github.com/NordSecurity/NepTUN).

I am curious why Mullvad started their own fork rather than building on top of one of the existing ones. It would be nice if there could be reconsolidation somewhere.
by anovikov | 2025-12-19 15:05:08+00:00
Internet economy already made a full circle with this once before: at first, ads existed to sell things online for advertisers, and make money for publishers (also as a machine for circular deals to propel stock valuations, during the dotcom boom). Then they became so pervasive and annoying that eventually they just became a method of making user experience worse, and get paid for ad-free, thus making money. Today, no one cares about performance of those ads, they are just a replacement of "nag screens" of the shareware era.

It sounds like AI will made this circle a lot faster.
by wtallis | 2025-12-19 15:05:23+00:00
No, I'm not talking about LACP, I'm talking about configuring four 50Gb links on the switch to operate as a single 200Gb link as if those links were wired up to a single QSFP connector instead of four individual SFP connectors.

The switch in question has eight 50Gb ports, and the switch silicon apparently supports configurations that use all of its lanes in groups of four to provide only 200Gb ports. So it might be possible with the right (non-standard) configuration on the switch to be able to use a four-way breakout cable to combine four of the 50Gb ports from the switch into a single 200Gb connection to a client device.
by internetter | 2025-12-19 15:05:25+00:00
Fairly recent teen here. This is simply not true. All my friends who started adamantly against social media had Instagram come end of senior year. At college, I could count on one hand the amount of people I met without it.

I know personally, I was never entirely without social media, but I switched to iPhone because I was so tired of being ostracized with regard to iMessage (this was pre-RCS, perhaps this particular concern has been alleviated)

Sure I guess all the Android users could band together and form a clique and maybe that happened to some extent, but I didn’t wish to associate as an Android user. I don’t imagine kids want “social media Luddite” to be their clique. I wanted to be an outdoorsy kid with tech interests at the most. My choice of phone brand isn’t a part of this identity.
by smaudet | 2025-12-19 15:05:30+00:00
I think when there's overblown criticism (does not take into account the positive things, seeks only to paint in a negative light), that's pretty clearly FUD.

Moreover, when there's a pattern of it occurring, for at least the past 5 years...

Not saying that firefox is perfect, I have issues with its project leadership too, but its nowhere near as bad as the (most vocal) critics like to claim.