MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frozenlettuce | 2025-12-12 21:55:43+00:00
The idea of my argument is that I notice that people project some "ethereal" properties over computations that happen in the... computer. Probably because electricity is involved, making things show up as "magic" from our point of view, making it easier to project consciousness or thinking onto the device. The cloud makes that even more abstract. But if you are aware that the transistors are just a medium that replicates what we already did for ages with knots, fingers, and paint, it gets easier to see them as plain objects. Even the resulting artifacts that the machine produces are only something meaningful from our point of view, because you need prior knowledge to read the output signals. So yeah, those devices end up being an extension of ourselves.
by bbkane | 2025-12-12 21:55:49+00:00
I haven't gone this far, but I get the same joy out of little side project CLIs and libraries.

In particular I've written a CLI framework and a few apps with it. The apps' requirements stretched the framework's capabilities, so I've rewritten large parts of it over the years.

It's incredibly satisfying to feel myself get better as a developer as I write and consume and improve my libraries.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-12-12 21:56:29+00:00
>When reached by TechCrunch on December 5, Home Depot spokesperson George Lane acknowledged receipt of our email but did not respond to follow-up emails asking for comment. The exposed token is no longer online, and the researcher said the token’s access was revoked soon after our outreach.

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>We also asked Lane if Home Depot has the technical means, such as logs, to determine if anyone else used the token during the months it was left online to access any of Home Depot’s internal systems. We did not hear back.

As soon as they realized that the researcher had contacted "the media", they probably escalated internally to their legal team before anyone else, who told them to shut up.

The response, if one ever comes, will be a communication dense in lawyer-speak that admits no fault whatsoever.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-12 21:56:38+00:00
> Depends, is there a labor shortage or a surplus?

That determines things like wages. It doesn't allow companies to do things like cause $1000 in damage to you in order to save $10, because then they'd have to pay you $1000 more than the company that isn't doing that or you'd still go work there instead.

Also, if there is a labor surplus then how is a union going to do any good? The company would just let them go on strike and hire replacements.

> In fact, slavery was contract/property law.

That seems to have the word "law" in it.

> It further recognized children as the property of their parents (and thus property of the slave owners).

Which is obviously not something the child consented to.

> You can consider indentured servants, for example. Someone willingly signs themselves into slavery to pay off the debt (usually the boat ride to america).

There are arguments to be made against this, but it's significantly more defensible than doing it without consent. Because then who is going to do it? And how is it really different than e.g. non-dischargeable student loans, a thing the government still does?

> The only role the government served in this situation was enforcing the slave contracts.

The only role the government serves in a contract to form a cartel is enforcing the contract too, which is why there are contracts the government shouldn't enforce.

> Libertarian ideology (particularly the free market form) has no problems with a monopoly.

Libertarian ideology assumes that monopolies form as a result of government rules. It obviously can't allow for unrestricted anti-competitive contracts because then someone with a monopoly on any necessity could force everyone into a contract to form a dictatorial government, which is anathema to the entire ideology. But contract law is the government. A government that didn't enforce contracts at all and only enforced laws against violence would be perfectly consistent with it, whereas a government that enforces contracts you never agreed to or that you were forced to sign under duress would not.

> But in a market without unions and government protection for workers, unions forming a labor monopoly is the only solution which can counteract the inherent power imbalance between employer and employee.

How is there an inherent power imbalance in a competitive market? They can choose a different employee and you can choose a different employer.

> I'd not classify them as "abusive" because far more people benefit from strong employee protections than the people harmed by those protections. The ultimate harm is it makes businesses less profitable.

The ultimate harm is that it makes the industry's products worse or more expensive to customers, or increases market consolidation if a union destroys a company in an industry with high barriers to entry and thereby causes there to be fewer of them.
by al_borland | 2025-12-12 21:57:30+00:00
I just got a PS5 and there are bunch of media apps available. I was looking at moving my AppleTV to a different TV and just using the PS5 on that screen.

On Apple platforms, for most of the things mentioned, web apps are an option and don't have any restrictions. This was Apple's original plan, but the people fought for local apps. Now companies fight for space on people's home screens. If they get an app on the device they can get more info and send notifications and things, which they apparently love. A lot of apps these days are glorified web apps. There are also the ones that exist for a one-time setup, which then sit on people's phones for years. It's kind of a mess the way companies use apps.
by F3nd0 | 2025-12-12 21:57:31+00:00
> One can be forgiven for thinking the author means to imply that all commercial software is non-free.

Do they mean to imply this? It can also be read as a clarification about the mentioned software, not all commercial software in general. Could just be poor wording.

> Open source was right to get rid of the intentional and unintentionally anti-commercial motifs that only got in the way of paid open source development.

Open source did succeed in avoiding the problem present in English language, but in doing so, shifted focus away from freedom and onto different confusing motifs. A rare word like 'libre' arguably does an even better job while staying true to the original ideas behind the term 'free'.
by captn3m0 | 2025-12-12 21:59:10+00:00
There's also a few plugins for KOReader that achieve the same:

- https://github.com/omer-faruq/assistant.koplugin, which is forked from:

- https://github.com/drewbaumann/AskGPT

The first one even has prompts for quick recaps, summarize, translations, and more.
by mpweiher | 2025-12-12 21:59:11+00:00
Intermittent renewables have capacity factors in the 10-20% range. So divide by 5.

34 nations have committed to tripling nuclear capacity, including the US, China, France, the UK and many others. And they are acting on this as well.

The tide is nuclear, no need to swim against it.

And no, countries also doing renewables in no way negates this.
by smlacy | 2025-12-12 21:59:59+00:00
Still doesn't exactly say what it is? I get that it's glyphs for printable characters, but honestly it could be a PDF, video, collection of PNGs or SVG files, an Adobe Illustrator file, a linux distribution, a web browser, or pretty much any other piece of software or data format. I presume it's a TTF or OTF font file?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-12 22:00:25+00:00
For example, the fact that they can't learn from few examples

For one thing, yes, they can, obviously [1] -- when's the last time you checked? -- and for another, there are plenty of humans who seemingly cannot.

The only real difference is that with an LLM, when the context is lost, so is the learning. That will obviously need to be addressed at some point.

that they can't perform simple mathematical operations without access to external help (via tool calling)

But yet you are fine with humans requiring a calculator to perform similar tasks? Many humans are worse at basic arithmetic than an unaided transformer network. And, tellingly, we make the same kinds of errors.

or that they have to expend so much more energy to do their magic (and yes, to me they are a bit magical), which makes some wonder if what these models do is a form of refined brute-force search, rather than ideating.

Well, of course, all they are doing is searching and curve-fitting. To me, the magical thing is that they have shown us, more or less undeniably (Penrose notwithstanding), that that is all we do. Questions that have been asked for thousands of years have now been answered: there's nothing special about the human brain, except for the ability to form, consolidate, consult, and revise long-term memories.

1: E.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 from 2020
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-12-12 22:00:48+00:00
> And the reason for believing these lies is because it's easier to listen to disgraced news outlets instead of reading a book or asking questions.

If it was just laziness, their belief wouldn't persist in the face of better information.

Willfully clasping onto an absurd premise this way strongly implies to me there is some sub-optimal psychology in play. There is a needful relationship inside that is being sustained (at a starvation level) by these exploitive external forces.
by FreakLegion | 2025-12-12 22:00:55+00:00
It really doesn't make sense for there to be an inheritance relationship between Mapping and MutableMapping if Mapping is immutable (it isn't, of course), but the weirder part is still just that the typing machinery is cool with unhashable key types like:

x: dict[list, int] = {} x[[1, 2, 3]] = 0
by clickety_clack | 2025-12-12 22:00:59+00:00
I think there’s a difference between _wanting_ something to work and _needing_ something to work. Enforced standardized invoicing might be a very tidy and neat solution, but tidiness and neatness are not a good enough argument to mandate it in my opinion. There’s no end to the areas of our lives that could be regulated if that’s the standard we’re aiming for, and I don’t particularly want to live in such a uniform, straightjacketed environment.
Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?
by pratchett | 2025-12-12 22:01:37+00:00
After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However, the AI boom seems like a short-lived, once in a life-time opportunity. Now I am considering if I should dive in fully even if it means sacrificing time with family?

Options: 1) Joining an AI startup 2) Founding an AI startup 3) Stay at my big-tech role

I make good money at my current role, but I am extremely passionate about the work I do. With the AI boom, there seems to be a lot of great infra, data movement and algorithmic challenges on the table. However, it is also clear that options 1 and 2 seem to require a lot more time commitment than a simple 9-5 job.

There are also financial considerations. If AI affects the SWE job market in a meaningful way, my future salary will be drastically low. Maybe it makes sense to devote myself to work for 3-5 more years and make a lot more money in the short term? I understand that there is also some probability associated with the final amount I walk away with.

Any others thinking about how to approach the AI boom vs leaning in fully to parenthood?
by ericmay | 2025-12-12 22:01:55+00:00
> When talking in the grand scheme of this case, the 15% arose out of these proceedings. It was 30 back on in 2018.

I'm not sure about the timeline, but in general the reduction to 15% for small developers was due to market signals as much as it was anything else. Both Apple and Google need small developers to continue to create new apps and if the 30% is onerous to small developers (which I think it probably is) they'll lower it to attract more products and services.

> But yes, overall most people will stick with Apple regardless. I still see it as a win that companies who want to put the work in to go around apple can. That simply seems reasonable in my eyes

When you think about it, there's maybe half a dozen companies that truly could put in similar work to Apple or Google in creating and maintaining these stores and platforms at the scale and with the features and security that they have built. Most people are going to stick with Apple and Google, except when one of those large competitors like Meta decides to bypass those stores and create its own and continue to nudge folks to their store for various features or downloads or whatever. It introduces friction for no obvious benefit to customers.

You can argue that 3rd party app stores will be more permissive in what they allow, but most of the things that people complain about "scary surveillance" or other onerous regulations for example have to also be followed by any legitimate App Store. So all you've really done is create worse versions of the Apple or Google App Store that siphon away applications. It reduces the profit margins of Apple or Google but it doesn't benefit customers.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-12 22:01:58+00:00
This number makes no sense. In the space of one month Tesla's market share increased by over 30%? On overall declining sales, including for Tesla?

Nothing about that makes sense.

> According to an Experian Automotive report on electric vehicles, out of the 292.3 million cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. in 2024, approximately 4,092,200 (1.4%) of those were electric cars.

So 43% would be 1.76M. Going to 57% would be 2.33M, i.e. nearly 600K sales. Except:

> Demand for Standard versions was expected to support sales in November, but the company's total sales fell nearly 23% to 39,800 vehicles from 51,513 a year earlier and were the lowest since January 2022, according to the data from Cox, which tracks sales across the industry.

Whatever "math" is happening in this article is fundamentally broken.

Unless they mean "the market sale of EVs in November", in which case 39,800 of 70,000 is Tesla, up from... 31,000?

So Tesla's monthly sales drops to a 4 year low, down 23%, but somehow 8,800 vehicles is enough to increase market share by 30%+? I have no idea what mashup of numbers is happening here.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-12 22:02:02+00:00
Simple: they create value for the right people. Namely, politicians who get their donations, and a generation that, despite not having enough children to grow the economy organically, doesn't want to work any... er... wants to retire.

Thus, they invest in retirement and pension funds, who in turn invest the money in businesses to earn a return. Since that return must increase constantly, and organic growth is no longer possible, you have to pull shenanigans as a businessman to meet the requirements of the shareholders, lest they kick you out of the plane with a golden parachute.

So we let them do those shenanigans and the politicians don't do anything about it.
by ray__ | 2025-12-12 22:02:32+00:00
This is awesome, and is a great example of the type of funding structure that government orgs (looking at you, NIH) should be offering. Government-backed research is the bedrock upon which the US economy rests, and as science becomes more expensive, we need to support research at the intersection of academia and industry more explicitly.

ARPA-H was a great step towards this goal for public health-focused efforts (-omics experiments aren't going to pay for themselves, at least at first) but a more general funding mechanism has been needed. I think this is a great direction for the NSF, and to be honest it's refreshing to see something like this given the horrible stance that this government has taken towards science (which has been compounded by the biotech bubble/correction).
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-12-12 22:02:39+00:00
I think the same people/platform made the Best Buy mobile website, they look very similar. Just absolutely atrocious design. It's slow, the UI elements bounce all over the place, it forgets your selections, and godspeed if for whatever reason you need to refresh the page because something chose not to render. That's outside of the store on a good connection. Doing this IN the store is a whole new level of hair pulling frustration.

Also I once asked an employee for help locating an item and they told me to pull up the app. I was like "you pull up the app", and we sat there for 5 minutes waiting for things to load until he decided he'll just help me locate the item lol
by measurablefunc | 2025-12-12 22:02:57+00:00
Please provide references for formal & programmable specifications of "neuronal arithmetic". I know where I can easily find specifications & implementations of boolean algebra but I haven't seen anything of the sort for what you're referencing. Remember, if you are going to tell me my argument is analogous to reductionism of neurons to chemical & atomic dynamics then you better back it up w/ actual formal specifications of the relevant reductions.
by TheJoeMan | 2025-12-12 22:02:59+00:00
The right to access standards that have been incorporated-by-reference into law is still being established by various countries' court systems.

For example, in the USA https://www.rcfp.org/briefs-comments/astm-v-upcodes-inc/

This is an especially hot topic in the EU in medical device regulations: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/insights-and-media/insights/b...
by ericmay | 2025-12-12 22:04:07+00:00
The flaw in the Microsoft comparison is that the web browser was installed in, what, 95% of actual computing devices? Remember phones and all of this other cool technology we have didn't exist.

Today there are many phones to choose from. You can buy an iPhone, or a Pixel, or a Galaxy. You can even buy a more open-source style phone with open-source style stores just like any other generic product feature. There is a marketplace and there is competition, it's just that, unlike what so many people here seem to desire, locked-down stores are what the market prefers.
by xg15 | 2025-12-12 22:04:20+00:00
> and then they engage with the app less or even churn

I wasn't aware engagement maximisation is the reason we don't get customization options anymore, but it makes perfect sense.

No one used to care about this because it was at the discretion of the user whether they want to keep using the app or not. Whereas today, it's the company objective to keep the user in the app as much as possible.
by danudey | 2025-12-12 22:05:07+00:00
I'm just happy that Best Buy recently added the ability to filter out items they cannot actually sell me. The amount of searches I would do where I had to scroll through page after page of 'not available online' 'not available in store' items in order to find a search result they actually had was ridiculous.

Now Home Depot for some reason just doesn't load on mobile (white screen) unless I disable content filtering in the browser. Classy.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-12-12 22:05:10+00:00
You should take your complaints to OpenAI, who constantly write like LLMs think in the exact same sense as humans; here a random example:

> Large language models (LLMs) can be dishonest when reporting on their actions and beliefs -- for example, they may overstate their confidence in factual claims or cover up evidence of covert actions
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-12-12 22:05:21+00:00
I thought there were many first and third party services looking for this kind of thing (AWS, Github, GWS, crypto, etc tokens). Seems weird that a F500 company repo was not receiving the regular, let alone extra deep scanning which could have trivially found these.

There was a recent post from someone who made the realization that most of these scanning services only investigate the main branch. Extra gold in them hills if you also consider development branches.
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-12 22:05:29+00:00
A lot of the modern tooling feels like a rube goldberg machine when it goes wrong. If you are forced (like I am) because of byzantine corporate rules to use older version of said tools, it is extremely painful. Don't get me started on stuff like babel, jest, ts-jest and all that gubbings. AI been a godsend because I can ask Claude what I want to do.

I use vendor directory in my C++ project and and git submodules and I've got a build that works cross platform. The biggest issue I ran into was MinGW and GCC implement the FileSystem library differently (I don't know why). It wasn't too difficult to fix.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 22:05:32+00:00
The right way to solve your problem is to go to Firefox Settings/Language and Apperance/Fonts, then click on "Advanced".

There you can set what fonts should be used by Firefox to display each script/language, including Chinese, Japanese and other CJK variants.

If you do not configure this, then it is indeed unpredictable which fonts will be used by Firefox to render the Web pages, unless it can match exactly a font requested by the page.
by culi | 2025-12-12 22:05:37+00:00
For anyone else confused:

Remix 3 is a continuation of the Remix framework that abandons React and is more experimental. The old remix did indeed "work itself out of a job" by simplifying all of its features down until it became version 7 of the react-router library

IMO it's an amazing story. Remix was once a paid framework that focused on "using the platform". Then they open sourced it. Then they realized all of their work could be reduced to some new features of the popular react-router library.

They're basically the exact opposite of Nextjs which has a reputation of advertising framework features that are actually more like Vercel features. Though I acknowledge nextjs has been making a lot of progress on reducing their "soft lock-in"
by nobodyandproud | 2025-12-12 22:05:56+00:00
You’re giving a technical answer to a question that’s actually about the economic and policy incentives.

Yes, electronic sensors can enable the car to react more quickly: But react how?

A buggy or unexpected reaction will just lead to equal or faster tragedy.

Individual drivers are incentivized to keep their behavior (or be taken off the road). What legal incentives are there when a faceless company is involved and creates one or two drivers “at scale”?
by tolerance | 2025-12-12 22:05:59+00:00
I understand that there are many good reasons not to want to use fonts where the lowercase L and uppercase I are indistinguishable.

But am I the only one who actually prefers both to be relatively identical? Or at least the lowercase L must not have any quiggles or crooks? I like em both north-south. 12:30.

I think typically the I will be a little thicker than the i for regular (text? roman?) weights and below.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-12 22:06:19+00:00
You're asserting that tricking, amazing, or beating a human is a reliable sign of human-like intelligence.

I don't know who's asserting that (other than Alan Turing, I guess); certainly not me. Humans are, if anything, easier to fool than our current crude AI models are. Heck, ELIZA was enough to fool non-specialist humans.

In any case, nobody was "tricked" at the IMO. What happened there required legitimate reasoning abilities. The burden of proof falls decisively on those who assert otherwise.
by chickenhun | 2025-12-12 22:06:30+00:00
Good news: Here's a cute video of Todd being habituated to the setup: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1999598643339227564

Bad news: no video of them playing on this setup, just on the previous version. We iterated on v2 too long, our pet rats grew old and couldn't be trained. We open-sourced the hardware and software so others can build upon it. You can TLDR the whole thing in this thread: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1996632980903620886?s=2...

...Also, here's my personal X, dm me if you have any questions, or would want to build it for a lab or for yourself: https://x.com/viktor_thoth