MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almosthere | 2025-12-12 19:49:13+00:00
It is weird to me that we got to a point where we are being literal about the law again, instead of the spirit.

I guess laws should no longer say:

A license plate should be attached to a car.

Instead it should say:

All vehicles that don't display their license plate for cameras of any kind are illegal, the spirit of this law is to make it so we can identify through the number assigned to the vehicle from the state that identifies it is obvious if a picture is taken of the vehicle from the front or the back.

Better yet, judges and legal experts should just stop playing these games with words and figure out a new way to make things that are supposed to be legal, legal.
by parpfish | 2025-12-12 19:49:42+00:00
as much as i hate tech bros that think the solution to every social problem is a new saas app, there are two pieces of tech that would be great for workers:

1) for people that aren't in a union, make labor lawyers easy to use. there could be an app used to walk you through gathering evidence about various workplace violations (osha/safety stuff, wage theft, etc) and then hook you up with lawyers in a two-sided marketplace. workers would get easy represenation, lawyers would get a stream of clients that show up with a nicely formatted bundle of evidence. it could even work to find conneted cases could get bundled into class actions.

2) when everybody worked in the same office/shop floor, you could easily commiserate and start discussions about unionization and collective action. if you're an app-mediated gig-worker (uber drivers, door-dashers, etc) you don't know how to connect with your coworkers. there needs to be a social platform where people would be able to make these connections. to do this, you'd need a way to verify that users are actual employees and put in various protections to make sure management isn't spying on them.
by medicalsphere | 2025-12-12 19:49:59+00:00
We built Medical Sphere, a public platform for objective evaluation of AI models in healthcare. You can think of it as LM Arena, but purpose-built for the medical domain, which we believe is large and specific enough to warrant its own dedicated evaluation effort.

Instead of static multiple-choice benchmarks, we let people upload real medical cases (text + images), optionally anonymously, run frontier models (open and closed) side-by-side, and compare where they agree, fail, or hallucinate, all for free.

We also verify medical professionals who want to participate and connect them with research and industry collaboration opportunities.

We’ll be frequently releasing open benchmarks, with PHI/PII carefully redacted, as we’ve already started doing.

The goal is to enable transparent, real-world benchmarks and a data flywheel for more trustworthy medical AI. Live and free to use. Would love feedback from folks working on AI evaluation, healthcare ML, or safety.
by jrowen | 2025-12-12 19:51:56+00:00
It could be argued that it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" to attract developers to the platform by keeping it open. They would just figure out how to capitalize on anything that got big enough, much like Google.

Apple really pioneered the walled garden (which I would assume was previously taken to be shooting yourself in the foot), and it's proven to resonate with the wider less tech-savvy population.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-12 19:52:49+00:00
I sometimes wonder what fraction of the peddlers of this nonsense know exactly what they’re doing but have no problem raking in the cash. Close to 100%? I feel the same about the elected politicians.

On more than one occasion I’ve thought it would be nice to retire wealthy by milking the easy money that seems to endlessly flow, but then I realize I wouldn’t be able to look myself in the mirror if I did that.
by xhan0o | 2025-12-12 19:53:06+00:00
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by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-12 19:53:16+00:00
I'm pretty sure this clearly runs afoul of anticompetitive laws, no? Altman is intentionally sabotaging the global electronics supply chain using their existing market dominance to prevent competitors from being able to operate.

And, tangentially, I really don't know what world you lived in. The US has arrested civil rights leaders and overthrown countries and went through an entire era of McCarthyism to get here: where the US president is having investigations into his political enemies for what amounts to "disloyalty". It's basically a national given that cops plant evidence on black folk regularly.

Since when has America been this bastion of lawfulness?
by Byron_t_Bulb | 2025-12-12 19:53:21+00:00
In my opinion we are witnessing the market influences of a new type of public-private "Phoebus cartel" except at a total global scale where anti-terrorism laws require pricing businesses and individuals out of owning their own compute forcing them to rent compute from multinational hyperscaler cloud businesses who are integrated with military intelligence operations. Computing technology after all is a weapon of mass destruction and the peaceful are being punished for the non peaceful. It is too dangerous for governments around the world to allow individuals to posses the immense power of computing technology. Call me chicken little but we are witnessing the end of publicly available private general computing. Market changes influencing cost effectiveness analysis to favor public cloud is a deliberate goal to secure national critical infrastructure. I also think this coincides with the limits of MOSFET scaling and RISC-V permissive licensing. My only credentials for this is 15+ years working in fintech I&O for a US Fortune 500 company.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-12 19:53:52+00:00
The cost of overflow checks turns out to be largely about missed optimizations due to heavier constraints wrt. how the program should behave if overflow occurs (e.g. preserving partial results). Having an overflow check instruction in the ISA just doesn't matter all that much, it can even hurt in bignum computation (often cited as a favorable case for overflow checks) by introducing unwanted insn dependencies.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-12 19:53:54+00:00
> The problem is the police can make up intent just to mess with people. How easy is it fro the cops to say "You purposely splattered mud on you license plate" and fine you or put you in jail. Or even use it as an excuse to pull you over.

That's not the problem. The fact that intent is considered by the law is a good thing, because it allows you to use the defence "I didn't intend for the mud to obscure the number". Without that, the cops can just say "there is mud on your license plate" and you have no recourse.
by seec | 2025-12-12 19:53:55+00:00
Most people who do not have the ideological inclination are against tofu. Not because it is imported or anything, but because it doesn't taste good and has a terrible texture. Even the people who originally ate it in Asia are switching up to more meat as they become richer.

I have vegan/vegetarian friends, one of whom is a chef and worked at a pretty good vegan restaurant, and not once have I eaten tofu that I would like to eat again. It's just bad, but it's one of the cheapest and most convenient ways to get your proteins on a vegan diet, so that's that.
by RobRivera | 2025-12-12 19:54:05+00:00
Let's try to be honest when we discuss this kind of thing; Unions are like people. They have unique agendas, unique executive decisionmaking trends, and affect their members differently.

No single union is 1:1 alike.

When I had a family member get a job as a local grocery store bagger, then job stipulated he HAD to join the union and give his dues out of paycheck within 1 month or he would be fired from his job.

He quit. He was a 15yrold teenager just trying ro have an after school job and he got squeezed.

Unions are not good. Unions are not bad. Unions are.

I am eager to see how this specific union engages with the game development industry.
by iknowstuff | 2025-12-12 19:54:24+00:00
We deploy 10x the capacity in renewables and batteries than we do in nuclear and its only accelerating. We are trending towards 1/10th the cost of nuclear per GW. There is no going back just due to the sheer scale of mass manufacturing renewables.

We are below $1B/GW for solar. China just opened a $100/kWh ($100M/GWh) battery storage plant. All deployable within a year.

Contrast this to $16B/GW for recent nuclear plants, and you don’t benefit from starting a build for another 20 years
by tdb7893 | 2025-12-12 19:54:39+00:00
I think unions are great but they are deeply flawed, like any human organization, but for my family they really worked and both my parents had good jobs in unions. My dad's union both saved him from being fired and also tried to get him fired themselves (he pissed off an up and coming union leader who then proceeded to lie about him). They always seemed like an important counterweight more than actually a great organization (and you actually have a vote, unlike most companies).
by hu3 | 2025-12-12 19:54:45+00:00
Not your parent commenter but:

> You can frame that as an architectural concern...

"Go also offers excellent control of memory layout and allocation (both on an object and field level) without requiring that the entire codebase continually concern itself with memory management."

"The TypeScript compiler's move to Go was influenced by specific technical requirements, such as the need for structural compatibility with the existing JavaScript-based codebase, ease of memory management, and the ability to handle complex graph processing efficiently. "

If memory management and ability to handle complex graph processing efficiently isn't related to architecture to you I don't know what to tell you.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411

> The cult is in your imagination.

CTRL+F "rust" on the Go issue and see how many results you get. 31 for me and that's before expanding spam.
by josephg | 2025-12-12 19:55:33+00:00
Well yeah! A Nintendo switch or PlayStation is technically similar to an iPhone. But you can’t make the same monopolistic dealing argument there as you can on phones.

Why? Because a console is bought as a gaming device. And because you can reasonably have multiple consoles and there’s healthy competition between them.

In comparison, people buy a phone to have a phone. Then the App Store lock-in is tacked on the side. iPhone and Android compete on who has the best cameras. But once you’ve bought your phone, you’re trapped in the manufacturer’s App Store, who can charge monopolistic pricing. And normal people don’t buy multiple phones for different app stores.

The App Store monopoly is like if your electricity company somehow made it so you could only buy an Xbox. Games on steam and PlayStation aren’t compatible with the electricity in your house. And your friend down the street could only use a PlayStation. Not for any technical reason, but simply because locking you in to a single console manufacturer means they can make you pay way more for games. And you’ll pay it, because you don’t have a choice and can’t shop around.

The problem comes about because phones and app stores are glued together. They use a captive market created by one part of the business to trap consumers and developers elsewhere. If Google and Apple had to compete on app stores - like how Nintendo, PlayStation and Microsoft have to compete - then there’s no way Apple could get away with charging their extortionate 28% for App Store sales. If chrome charged a 28% commission on all purchases I made through the browser, everyone would switch to Firefox. Apps on my phone should be more like that.
by swores | 2025-12-12 19:55:58+00:00
The person you replied to didn't explain the full concept - it's not just nail polish, it's nail polish with glitter in to create a unique pattern that the attacker wouldn't be able to replicate.

Unfortunately... I've seen a video of somebody defeating this concept before, not by trying to recreate the pattern with new nail polish and glitter, but by using a chemical (I can't remember what) that lets them, gently and very carefully, remove the whole layer of nail polish in one piece rather than having to break it apart, and then afterwards they stuck it back in place such that it looked identical. So it's not as secure an idea as it's often considered to be.

Edit: actually my memory was slightly wrong. The video I was remembering wasn't about defeating glitter in nail polish on a screw, but about "tamper proof" stickers which are made for the same purpose. I don't know for sure if nail polish could equally be defeated, but I suspect so. Here's that video (LockPickingLawyer defeating a tamper proof sticker): https://youtube.com/watch?v=xUJtqvYDnkg&
by rigrassm | 2025-12-12 19:56:00+00:00
Nah, I use both the website and their shitty web wrapper app on a regular basis and it's been a dumpster fire for at least the last 2-3 years. 3-5 years ago when they first rebuilt everything it was much more pleasant but at this point it's clear no one is maintaining it and have just let it bloat and rot
by rhdunn | 2025-12-12 19:56:53+00:00
The testable predictions would be at the places where QM and GR meet. Some examples:

1. interactions at the event horizon of a black hole -- could the theory describe Hawking radiation?

2. large elements -- these are where special relativity influences the electrons [1]

It's also possible (and worth checking) that a unified theory would provide explanations for phenomena and observed data we are ascribing to Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

I wonder if there are other phenomena such as effects on electronics (i.e. QM electrons) in GR environments (such as geostationary satellites). Or possibly things like testing the double slit experiment in those conditions.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/646114/why-do-re...
by linuxhansl | 2025-12-12 19:57:07+00:00
Nice. Someone is doing something. Apple's app store monopoly together with a 30% commission is a modern form of way-laying.

Meanwhile Google is trying to go the opposite way with mandatory developer registration/verification. In the US we will likely let them. Who needs freedom if there is money to make (and Google is just making a fake security argument.)

It shouldn't be that hard to do with my phone what I want, including accepting the consequences of my actions.
by retrac | 2025-12-12 19:57:10+00:00
Here in Ontario, residentially we pay about 0.09 USD per kWh at night and 0.18 USD with demand peak pricing on weekday afternoons. Or if you have flat rate it's about 0.13 USD per kWh. This is considered very expensive by Canadian standards and it's due to our nuclear power program where about 55% of electricity is from nuclear, the rest from a mix of wind/hydro/solar/biofuel and gas. The increased price during the day is due to the need to burn a bit of gas at peak demand. The grid is otherwise nearly carbon neutral, and the long-term plan is to phase out the gas with a mix of wind, nuclear and pumped storage.

We pay less in practice than the rates given above for power, because the government also subsidizes it. But even without that I understand such rates would be relatively cheap in most European countries.
by noone_important | 2025-12-12 19:57:11+00:00
Well this is just an early example of the lorentz breaking string theory niche. You can find a lot more. In the short time frame where opera had this supposedly faster than light neutrinos, a lot of papers were published in that regard.

For example you can have string theories that lead to finsler spacetimes, which were used to explain the opera results.
by trueno | 2025-12-12 19:57:15+00:00
depending on the size and needs of distributed system or application im kind of really excited about postgres + pg_lake. postgres has blown my mind at how well it does concurrent writes at least for the types of things i build/support for my org, the pg_lake extension then adds the ability to.. honestly work like a datalake style analytics engine. it intuitively switches whether or not the transaction goes down the normal query path or it uses duckdb which brings giga-aggregation type queries to massive datasets.

someone should smush sqlite+duckdb together and do that kind of switching depending on query type
by willio58 | 2025-12-12 19:57:33+00:00
I think it’s a little more nuanced than that. They are against things that would lessen the collective bargaining power of those in their union. This is the whole point of unions, to collectively bargain.

If those immigrants were forced to join the union upon entering the U.S. and entering that sector of work, I don’t see the union having a problem with that. The issue is that would lead to those immigrants and all other members of the union being paid more, which is a no-no for the billionaire class.

So they’re not anti-immigrant. They’re against billionaires abusing immigration to pay people less.
by gruez | 2025-12-12 19:58:31+00:00
>He does realize this. The problem is the police can make up intent just to mess with people. How easy is it fro the cops to say "You purposely splattered mud on you license plate" and fine you or put you in jail. Or even use it as an excuse to pull you over.

Except in this case, it'll be pretty obvious that you used a carefully crafted pattern, because it's a custom printed license plate rather the state manufactured one. Moreover, of the list of plausible excuses capricious cops can use to arrest/ticket you, this is pretty near the bottom. Something vague like "speeding" or obstructing traffic (for driving at or below the speed limit, since most people speed) already exists, for instance.

>This is not about the right to drive. This is about a database of collected data on you that can be searched by anyone. ANYONE.

My point is that the courts (and to some extent, the public) have generally accepted that you have less rights while driving, so it's going to be an uphill battle. This is in spite of the fact that I oppose ANPRs.
by rationalist | 2025-12-12 19:58:39+00:00
Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own one, you should know how they work and how they are used properly.

Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school. Public schools used to have indoor ranges (I've seen one with my own eyes).

When someone learns gun safety, they are less likely to accidentally shoot themselves or someone else if they come across one.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-12 19:58:43+00:00
The econ 101 observation feels like it falls apart under light scrutiny. The market sets a rate, but which rate is more "natural?" When individuals negotiate directly with employers, they tend to be at a disadvantage. An individual has less knowledge and bargaining power than an employer in almost all cases; so can we call the rate set by these negotiations to be the "natural" rate? Conversely, when bargaining collectively, employees are able to pool knowledge and resources to bargain more effectively, and they have more leverage as a group which allows them to negotiate on a more even field to the employer. I would consider this outcome to be more "natural," and would argue that it is not that collective bargaining results in higher wages than the market would set but that individual bargaining results in wages that are artificially lower than those of the market clearing rate.
by ccvannorman | 2025-12-12 19:58:51+00:00
I would personally pay $2x market price for a Phone, Computer, Tablet that guaranteed privacy (via whatever technical means necessary) for all my interactions with the internet.

Is that so much to ask?

Could the next "Apple" produce such hardware/software stack to black box this for the consumer -- simply buy "Pineapple" products and guarantee this stuff can't touch you (user obsfuciation for all external platforms could be a hard technical challenge, I know - hence the big value if delivered)
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-12 19:59:01+00:00
Btw what was the outcome of that? AFAICT the bandcamp union still exists and I don’t see any public news about the case from after December 2023, so wondering what happened

Edit: last news i see on their mastodon are from April 2024 and seems they negotiated some severance pay for the laid off workers and that it; so I guess the union busting was successful?
by cogman10 | 2025-12-12 19:59:12+00:00
I think you can have a nuanced view on immigration.

I'm fairly pro-immigration but I think the current immigration system in the US is highly exploitive to just about everyone. H1B, in particular, is pretty much entirely a system of putting immigrants in a bad situation that makes it hard for them to challenge their employers.

So much of the US immigration system is built on undercutting wages for native workers.

IMO, more than anything immigrants need a lot more protections particularly from deportation. If we want to punish someone for using undocumented immigrants it shouldn't be the immigrant, it should be the business owner that employed them. But also, if someone has been here for 10 years without causing problems there should be a fast path to citizenship.

I've know a family of undocumented workers that have been in the US for the last 30+ years. They don't have citizenship because it's too expensive and to complex for them to get through. Yet there they've been working on cattle farms, babysitting, paying taxes, and teaching me a bit of Spanish.
by Daishiman | 2025-12-12 19:59:26+00:00
> An econ 101 observation

Econ 101 observations are utterly useless without the specific context in which they're made. This is like talking about spherical cows in a vacuum in the context of aerodynamics.

In the specific case of unions, they always forget to mention that a higher proportion of a company's income going to salaries generally means increased consumer spending for workers, which spurs other kinds of industry and services that may mean a net benefit for the global economy.

Of course second and third-order effects are not really talked about in Econ 101.
by 9rx | 2025-12-12 19:59:35+00:00
> Duplication is for me something like cloning or a perfect copy.

That's fair. But if you aren't offering a perfect clone, then you're offering something novel that will 'wow' your customers, no? The market will never take interest in what you are selling if there is no 'wow' factor.

> Which I think is unusual.

You make a fair point that unreasonable terms on intellectual property laws has made it much more unusual than it should be, but isn't unusual historically, and shouldn't be unusual given our system of trade that assumes that clones will be produced. It's the only way most people can participate in the economy (and why they currently feel left out; but that's another topic for another day).