MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toss1 | 2025-12-18 18:10:39+00:00
Yes. The point is that it started out as a wonderfully explicit and expansive statement.

And even THAT explicit and expansive statement was abandoned to the point where the very same company is now a global leader in surveillance capitalism, which is widely considered a massive net-negative for society if not flat-out evil.

So, when a CEO won't even make anything more than wish-washy "I don't want to do it" and "feels off mission" statements, people should be concerned that those weak good intentions will hold up even less well.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-18 18:10:40+00:00
The linked blog post is a complaint about a different blog post[1] being briefly popular on HN and then dropping off into the weeds rapidly, becoming flagged, and mysteriously becoming unflagged.

Obviously, this must the result of proactive, willful censorship or maybe some kind of deep-state conspiracy.

By extension, it could never have been the result of HN's automated flamewar detector reacting to 29 of the 145 comments being from just one user who seemed to spend most of their efforts telling others that they were wrong.

(That user may in fact be authoritative on the topic, but it looks like a flamewar from my own 10,000-foot overview of this discussion that I have zero personal interest in.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309
by DamonHD | 2025-12-18 18:10:53+00:00
Authors may NOT be paid at all for their work, or may even pay to do it.

I am a self-funded PhD student and no one paid me for the work that went into my open access paper. As it happens in this case the journal waived the publication fee, so no one paid anyone anything except I suppose the nominal pro-rata portion of my university fees that I paid.
by reducesuffering | 2025-12-18 18:10:54+00:00
The point GP made was that Mossadegh was not democratically elected. There hadn't been representative democratic support for Mossadegh. Mossadegh was installed by the Shah and Majles, stopped an election that wasn't going his way, and then tried to dissolve parliament to concentrate power with himself.

"Iranian people voted in their beloved leader, who was then toppled by the mastermind West" is a cartoonish level of geopolitical understanding by those who have read the first couple paragraphs of wikipedia
by haritha-j | 2025-12-18 18:10:57+00:00
I bought and ipad on the online apple store, on their back to university programme (in the UK). I was overcharged by around £80 (the price of the gift card they gave me as part of the back to university offer, basically the web site charged me for the gift card). I called up their support and explained the situation. For about 10 minutes I had the lady explain to me in the politest tone possible how I didn't understand the calculation, because naturally she believed that the Apple web site wouldn't make a mistake. She finally realised that it was wrong after a while and refunded me really quickly, but I think she could've easily gaslit and anverage person into believing they were in the wrong.
by strangattractor | 2025-12-18 18:11:33+00:00
Better busness or are their customers demanding it? PLoS is a Non-Profit - feel free to look up how much they make. I believe it is public record.

If researchers cannot pay the APC then PLoS often reduces the fee. Also - half of that grant money is used by the Institution as administrative overhead. An part of that overhead is paying Elsevier for journal access. If you want to decrease the cost of research that may be a better place to start.

I agree that volume often tends to result in garbage but the review is supposed to lessen that. Again that garbage did get funded some how.

I am not pushing PLoS - they are simply a publisher I am familiar with that uses this model.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-18 18:11:47+00:00
Absolutely. I can't tell you how many times I've been starting at a project that I basically know how to do, but it's got a bunch of moving parts that I need to account for. I'll just stare at the screen, drink more coffee, read HN, basically do anything besides actually work on it, because it's too big and unactionable. Some of this is actually useful brain-organization time, but some is just time wasting.

Eventually I'll get the bright idea to make a notes doc listing all the things that are bothering me. Just writing them down gets them out of my nebulous headspace into a permanent record, which inevitably makes it less scary - and before you know it's I'm either halfway to a runbook or technical design, and it turns out this project actually will only take a day or two once I have all the prep work done.
by MMAFRAZ | 2025-12-18 18:11:48+00:00
`We’ve been experimenting with Google’s Veo and other generative physics models to see if we could fully automate commercial production.

The results are finally crossing the "Uncanny Valley." We built a pipeline that takes a static product image, applies 3D depth mapping, and hallucinates realistic motion (fluids, light reflection, camera pans) to create 6-15s ads.

It basically allows a single dev/founder to act as a Director of Photography. Wrote up a full guide on the architecture and the prompt engineering required to get broadcast-quality output. Would love feedback on the motion quality.`
by ThrowawayB7 | 2025-12-18 18:11:59+00:00
As I recall, that is not correct. There was a gargantuan internal effort to refactor Windows 10 to run on everything from mobile devices to servers. Windows Phone 10 was running Windows 10. And the tile UI was well received by those who had WP devices.

As others have said, lack of critical apps and shenanigans from Google is what killed sales which led to the death of Windows Phone.
by zak-mandhro | 2025-12-18 18:12:08+00:00
Author here.

Everyone's focused on AI writing code. But the shift to AI reviewing code moved faster - 1 in 7 active PRs now have an AI reviewer, up from 1 in 100 eighteen months ago.

A few things that surprised us:

- Copilot overtook CodeRabbit in November despite CodeRabbit being purpose-built for review - native GitHub integration matters more than we expected

- Gemini went from near-zero to #3 in 10 months (43X growth). Google isn't marketing this aggressively yet

- AI agents authored 99K PRs but participated in 5.9M -automation is still heavily weighted toward review, not generation

- Some early entrants like Korbit have already shut down

Data is GitHub Archive + our anonymized corpus. Happy to answer questions on classification or edge cases.
by bko | 2025-12-18 18:12:15+00:00
From what I understand, two groups of unemployed persons got €560/mo. One group was required to look for work while the other wasn't. And one group was required to report to unemployment offices, and "satisfy bureaucrats".

The results were that the one with unconditional payments had "better mental health".

Apparently they used a "validated five-item mental health screening instrument that identifies people at risk of mood and anxiety disorders", but realistically how much of this is just people prefer money with no strings attached. Seems pretty obvious. I'm sure a lot of things are linked to "poor mental health" like having to go to work, doing chores and basic maintenance to stay alive. Don't really know is this kind of observation has broader implications
by stavros | 2025-12-18 18:12:23+00:00
It's the description that gets inserted into the context, and then if that sounds useful, the agent can opt to use the skill. I believe (but I'm not sure) that the agent chooses what context to pass into the subagent, which gets that context along with the skill's context (the stuff in the Markdown file and the rest of the files in the FS).

This may all be very wrong, though, as it's mostly conjecture from the little I've worked with skills.
by AStrangeMorrow | 2025-12-18 18:12:25+00:00
If I understand correctly from the paper what qualifies as an edit distance of 1 is pure Levenshtein distance-1 right?

Just curious because while the edit-1 space can be fairly big, I’d assume all edits have very different probabilities. So the squatted domains probably skew to a higher probability edit. By that I mean mostly keyboard edit typos, eg on a phone: the “cwt” typo is more likely than “cpt” for “cat” because of an and w keyboard proximity. Wonder what the squatting rate is when you filter for edit within one key stroke for example (only really change the add and replace types of edits, not delete or swap)
by nec4b | 2025-12-18 18:12:27+00:00
I'm sorry, you are right I mixed you up with another user. You didn't make those claims.

The numbers I remember from when I was more into History:

* Hitler is responsible at least for 10 million to 15 million deaths.

* Stalin from 15 million to 20 million.

* Mao from 40 million to 70 million.

* Pol Pot from 2 million to 3 million.

* Kim Il Sung for over a million.

There are of course others, but I don't remember numbers for them.
by rayiner | 2025-12-18 18:12:29+00:00
Yes! Iran baffles me. Iran has a tremendous intellectual tradition. It has quite advanced technology. And Iranians are quite orderly. Tehren is clean, well organized, etc. They even have relatively functioning democratic systems at some levels of government. Candidates are screened for conformity with theocratic dictates, but at the local government level--where the focus is on roads and bridges and stuff like that--there is functioning multi-party democracy. In Tehran, the city council is directly elected, and then appoints the mayor of Tehran. In the early 2000s, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then mayor of Tehren, made a list of the world's 10 best mayors, alongside Atlanta's Shirley Franklin.
by JohnMakin | 2025-12-18 18:12:33+00:00
> Less than 1% of workers make minimum wage.

federal minimum wage, which is lower than many, many states, so stating this is a little misleading. It's also at or around 1% (for federal), not less - per this 2023 source: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/

In states like california, this number is much higher: https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-18 18:13:51+00:00
And note that actually getting work removed the controlled money. That's quite a disincentive to actually finding work. Welfare systems very often end up being a trap because of this--people can't afford to succeed because they'll hit some tripwire that makes them worse off.

I'd like to see welfare systems and tax codes modified with a rule that no situation can cause more than a 50% marginal "tax". (Which would mean many cutoffs in the tax code would effectively be replaced with phaseouts even if Congress didn't specifically fix them.)
by johnfn | 2025-12-18 18:13:52+00:00
I would be happy to discuss more. I am genuinely curious (though I do hold a pretty strong belief that React is a good abstraction).

When you say that the DOM is the authority on state, I’m not sure if that addresses my concern. Let’s revisit my example of the button. Image I look at the DOM and see that it’s in a “Submitted” state, and I think that’s a bug. How can I determine how it got into this buggy state? The DOM can’t answer that question, as far as I can see, because it is only an authority on the current state of the system at this exact moment. The only way I see you answering this question is by scanning every single API endpoint that could have plausibly swapped out the button for its new state - which scales at O(n) to the side of your repository! And if one API could have added HTML which then added more HTML, it seems even worse than that.

The advantage of React is that you get a crisp answer to that question at all times.

> I built multicardz on this: 1M+ cards, sub-500ms searches, 100/100 Lighthouse scores.

I believe you! But I am more concerned about readability. React makes some tradeoffs, but to me readability trumps all.
by pas | 2025-12-18 18:14:07+00:00
Sure, but now there's a deadweight loss by allocation inefficiencies (plus the disemployment effects are strongest at the margin, so now many people are working less than they want to, because they cannot sell more of their work for less, so ie. they have part time jobs).

The "obvious" thing is to subsidize employment (by negative income tax for low-incomes to avoid discontinuities), and sectoral/collective bargaining (to avoid divide-and-conquer information asymmetry), and unemployment payments (to allow for the market to find new "healthy" equilibrium, so people don't have to take the first shitty job).
by pcaharrier | 2025-12-18 18:14:39+00:00
Just about, indeed!

"Nonprofit hires woman, but she quits after a few days, asks for pay for that time; they refuse, and things get worse from there. But! They don’t turn off her email access to a board member’s email. She and a friend comb through the account, download internal documents, and then ask for a lot of money. Federal crime? Third Circuit: Not until they actually revoked her access."

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/233017p.pdf
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-18 18:15:03+00:00
> Today, someone can post a Telegram group message and make thousands of people rally to a town square. I see the dangers, and I see why governments think they are doing this to protect the people. No one wants civil war.

The solution for government is simple: stop being scumbags whose only purpose is making people's lives more and more miserable by optimizing for total control and corporate profits.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-18 18:15:08+00:00
> Funny that we’re using this example when the ICC has issued a warrant against someone who isn’t the US head of state

The ICC seems to have no problem issuing arrest warrants for government leaders of countries allied with the US involved in conflicts located in territories where there are no fully UN recognized State Parties to the Rome Statue. Additionally the ICC has ongoing investigations into US personnel directly. The ICC has arguably given the US sufficient justification for some form of retaliation(i.e. sanctions) for jurisdictional overreach.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-18 18:16:49+00:00
> This was the reason why free trade was removed from RuneScape back in the day and it wasn't even a Jagex issue. People would go to 3rd party gold selling websites and then pay for gold with stolen credit cards. They could easily keep the money because the trade cannot be reversed without a moderator and what they were doing was against the rules so everyone would just get banned.

Gold farmers were paying for bot memberships using stolen credit cards, which Jagex had to refund along with a chargeback fee.

The blackmail scenario you’re describing wouldn’t make any sense since all of these gold farmers used mule accounts to launder their gold before making the trades. The changes to the trade system were intended to interfere with this laundering so that farming would no longer be profitable.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-12-18 18:16:54+00:00
ChatGPT didn't validate your tinfoil hat beliefs. It simply didn't like the words I used to call them out. Once again, you believe that the government is doing massively illegal spying despite the fact that numerous leaks have shown it is not. You originally based your beliefs on misreporting of the leaks, but when that was corrected, you clung to your silly beliefs by using speculation from somebody who never claimed to have seen anything illegal that also goes against the leaks.

I use the words I do because I have known people who talk about ice bullets, chemtrails, and silent black helicopters, and the way they come to their beliefs is exactly the same as the way you have come to yours. If you see them as silly, you should be able to understand why I feel the same about you.

Now unless you engage with the facts of whether the NSA has access to all your FAANG data or not, I think we're done. You don't like the way I characterize your beliefs, and I accept that, but what I'm looking for here is evidence against my assertion.
by beardyw | 2025-12-18 18:17:06+00:00
,> There is actually a moral aspect here. Morals in society is that you work to earn your own living and that you don't abuse kindness.

That is true, but it leaves out the question of who's morals we are discussing. If the recipient is not under any obligation, and yet gets a job, that morality is played out in them.

If the person is under obligation and gets a job as a result, their moral position is unknown but likely unchanged

Or perhaps we are talking about wanting other people to live out our morality?
by devgoth | 2025-12-18 18:17:16+00:00
while not exactly $500/month, my side project Whenish (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749) makes me some beer money.

I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.

recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!

hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.
by czhu12 | 2025-12-18 18:17:20+00:00
> Most teams don't fail because they picked the wrong framework. They fail because they picked too much framework. HTMX is a bet on simplicity, and simplicity tends to win over time.

I've built enough stuff in my time to know this is hyperbole at best and an outright lie at worst. I've never seen a team fail due to complexity. Team fails because the thing they built was wrong.

You should spend 99% of your time paranoid that the thing you're building is useful enough to justify its existence. Whatever tool you use along the way makes up the last 1%
by AStrangeMorrow | 2025-12-18 18:17:36+00:00
My guess is also that not all typos are equal. Should have a stricter edit version for 1-keystroke-away filtered edits (that is delete, swap or add 1 key away / replace one key away) instead of pure Levenshtein. Like Fqcebook is a more likely typo than Fjcebook but they are both edit-1
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-18 18:17:53+00:00
Hate to be “that guy”, but this isn’t regulation or government. Rather it’s the free market with actors willing to do anything to make gentrification profits. Which are, unfortunately for our society, quite sizable.

You can have flophouses. Officially or under the table. But you can’t have them in areas with the vultures circling so to speak.

Not saying gentrification is good or bad. Just saying, if gentrification profits are there to be had, it’s a bit foolish to expect people to not do whatever it takes to secure those profits.
by ThrowawayB7 | 2025-12-18 18:18:04+00:00
> "Also: turns out that, if you put enough effort into it, Linux is actually a quite-usable gaming platform."

Valve is the one putting in the effort and paying for it at their own expense. If they ever lose interest in paying for it, like GabeN retiring and Ebenezer Scrooge replacing him, then it's game over for Linux gaming (literally).
by shiandow | 2025-12-18 18:18:04+00:00
The best way I have of knowing code is correct on all levels is convincing myself I would write it the same way.

Thr only way to be 100% sure is writing it myself. If I know some one reasonable managed to write the code I can usually take some shortcuts and only look at the code style, common gotchas etc.

Of course it wouldn't be the first time I made some erroneous assumptions about how well considered the code was. But if none of the code is the product of any intelligent thought well, I might as well stop reading and start writing. Reading code is 10x harder than writing it after all.
by _heimdall | 2025-12-18 18:18:18+00:00
That's a very pessimistic view. That boils our system of three branches of government to a purely partisan game of capture the flag in which we all lose if one team captures all three at one.

SCOTUS is a bit different as it both isn't driven by political parties and justices have a history of more frequently breaking with the party they are seen as aligned with.
by unbalancedevh | 2025-12-18 18:18:47+00:00
> requiring my team to review their own PRs before they expect a senior developer to review them

I'm having a hard time imagining the alternative. Do junior developers not take any pride in their work? I want to be sure my code works before I submit it for review. It's embarrassing to me if it fails basic requirements. And as a reviewer, what I want to see more than anything is how the developer assessed that their code works. I don't want to dig into the code unless I need to -- show me the validation and results, and convince me why I should approve it.

I've seen plenty of examples of developers who don't know how to effectively validate their work, or document the validation. But that's different than no validation effort at all.
by rvz | 2025-12-18 18:19:17+00:00
Well, these agentic / AI companies don't even know what an RFC is, let alone how to write one. The last time they attempted to create a "standard" (MCP) it was not only premature, but it was a complete security mess.

Apart from Google Inc., I have not seen a single "AI company" propose an RFC that was reviewed by the IETF and became a proper internet standard. [0]

"MCP" was one of the worst so-called "standards" ever built since the JWT was proposed. So I do not take Anthropic seriously when they create so-called "open standards" especially when the reference implementation is in Javascript or TypeScript.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards
by metadope | 2025-12-18 18:19:33+00:00
> you’re essentially facilitating censorship.

Yes, please.

I want the facility to censor. I want and need to exercise it all the time.

I start with the headline, taking one full second of my time and attention. Not interested? Skip it (censored). I'll never know what lied (lay) within. So be it.

Content? I might load one or two of the first 30 pages pointed to by /active, but I'll rollover first, and my personal censor will often reject loading of certain sites, based solely on their URLs.

Comments, finally... active pages get the most comments, and there's a lot to learn here, so it's often worth the effort and the time to segregate the wheat from the chaff, the signal from the noise. This requires the usual selective reading: the first sentence of the first paragraph determines whether the rest of the graph will be consumed, parsed into a gist, or skip the rest. Only slow down for recognized experts (or inherent/exhibited expertise). Build a quick TL;DR as you scan, backtrack if you find a nugget. Panning for gold!

Not censorship based on 'a tribal mentality' but a pure self-interest in not wasting the limited time I have at my disposal. Wanting knowledge and insight and perspective, not willing to slog through regurgitated shittalking.

> We’ve reached a point where people cannot tolerate

Exactly.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-18 18:19:40+00:00
Why shouldn't it be non-linear? Non-linear is what I would expect--the educated know enough to avoid a range of stupid behaviors that lower life expectancy. You see few of the life-destructive behaviors in the degreed group. You also would have seen the same effect in many of the non-degreed individuals but the data didn't separate them. More degrees, more of the careful people move from the non-degreed pool to the degreed pool and the gap between the pools rises.

There's also the factor that simply getting a degree screens out many of the people that engaged in such behaviors.