MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andy99 | 2025-12-11 02:34:54+00:00
I tried at some point to sign up for whatever IBMs AI cloud was called. None of the documentation was up to date, when you clicked on things you ended up in circular loops that took you back where you started. Somehow there were several kinds of api keys you could make, most seemingly decoys and only one correct one. The whole experience was like one of those Mario castle levels where if you don’t follow the exact right pattern you just loop back to where you started.

It makes sense for IBM, seems like google is just reaching that stage?
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-12-11 02:35:05+00:00
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by manindahat | 2025-12-11 02:35:31+00:00
That is an argument and worth monitoring, but IMO it's not a strong enough argument to stop this.

This sort of ban is the same as existing laws banning the sale and consumption of alcohol or driving until kids are of age they will (on average) have sufficient maturity to handle the responsibility. Something we accept.

Kids are not banned from digital communication. My daughter can still send text messages and make phone calls.

Kids are not banned from the consuming content on those platforms. They simply can't have an account to create their own content as it was too often abused. For example, my 12yo daughter was asked by a friend to message bomb and abuse a 12yo her friend had a crush on. That's mild compared to some of the stories I've heard from platforms like Facebook, and between about 10 - 16 many kids are just nasty.

I believe that the line in the sand over which platforms this applies to is the ones that leverage account history to supercharge the already addictive behaviours caused by UI designs optimised to manipulate your attention and direct your purchasing power towards whoever is paying them. Something kids are particularly vulnerable to. The algorithm doesn't care if it is pushing you towards radical content as long as you are watching it for as many hours in a day as possible.
by iambateman | 2025-12-11 02:36:20+00:00
You know what they always say…never waste a good crisis.

This is our opportunity to tell our friends that neither Times New Roman nor Calibri are very good fonts.

If they’re using Word—and they definitely are—Aptos is a better choice than either.

If they want to look fancy and have a serif in their life, maybe they could try a little Cambria.

But if they have a twinkle in their eye and seem like they want to learn, take a moment to introduce them to the wide and glorious world of Roboto. Tell them about the wonders of medium and light and semi-bold and extra-bold and wide and display and condensed and custom ligatures. Give them a taste of what real office typography could’ve been if Microsoft didn’t absolutely destroy it in the 90’s.

Open their mind. Show them the truth. This is your time.
by omneity | 2025-12-11 02:36:22+00:00
While not solving everything (such as a single bill), I implemented borgllm[0,1] as a way to get some of that convenience and development speed with no lock-in or even infra.

Perhaps you’ll find it interesting.

0: https://github.com/omarkamali/borgllm

1: https://borgllm.com
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-11 02:36:56+00:00
@dang Here is another comment of mine on this thread that is substantive, responding directly to the issue, and not a personal attack, but was still flagged. I'm an HN user for 15 years, have reviewed the rules, and don't think this violates any (except that I used the word "balls"?). I agree with the other commenters that flagging is being abused here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223274
by timr | 2025-12-11 02:36:56+00:00
The kind of products hidden behind sales calls are generally the sort where the opinion of IC-level tech staff is next to irrelevant. With these kinds of products, the purchase decision is being made at a group level, the contract sizes are large, and budgetary approvals are required. It’s a snowball the size of a house, and it started rolling down the mountain months (or years) before it got to your desk. Literally nobody cares if you buy a single license or not, and if you (personally) refuse to try it because it doesn’t have self-service, you’ll be ignored for being the bad stereotype of an “engineer”, or worse.

About the only time you’ll be asked to evaluate such a product as an IC is when someone wants an opinion about API support or something equivalent. And if you refuse to do it, the decision-makers will just find the next guy down the hall who won’t be so cranky.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-12-11 02:36:59+00:00
I've not seen any mention of how this affect families.

A lot of my family growing up lived in different cities. We kept in touch via social media. PSTN was expensive and impractical. Postal mail was obviously less practical.

Does this new ban move kids to using email to keep in touch with friends and family? Are they now completely isolated from the rest of the world?
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-11 02:37:04+00:00
And there were a number of State supreme court elections that were alleged to have heavy monetary investment from a couple of billionaires that did not end up working in their favour.[1]

For that matter there is an Australian billionaire whose "investment" also does not appear to have worked in his favour [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer
by brailsafe | 2025-12-11 02:37:10+00:00
I think you established too broad of a scope for discourse to be within the parameters you were hoping.

Immediately upon reading your comment, I thought about the general overprotection and over-supervision of kids which leads parents to drive their kids everywhere, prevent them from learning to use the subway on their own, or even live in cities. But what I think you were getting at is more about smaller hypothetical physically analogous places, but it's hard to think about what those places are in real life without relying on assumptions that may be more likely to occur online than in any significant concentration in the real world.

Imo, the most threatening place for kids to be in real life in terms of external factors, day to day, is around cars, bullies, bad actors within the family, and then maybe church/sports teams, but all of those are usually safe unless they're not, you can't realistically do anything productive about that without sacrificing their development as a human, except prepare them and guide them.

Online, it's just a whole different beast, and I'd think it would be games and social media, anywhere a gaurd would be let down, but imo the greater threat isn't criminality as much as it is nearly every other aspect except basic chats.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-11 02:40:01+00:00
Perhaps it's worth considering an algorithmic review of flagging abuse. You can feed a table of flagged comments with the user, the comment the user flagged, and the context, as well as HN's rules, into GPT or a similar AI to get a first approximation of which users are abusing flagging, and on which topics flagging is most abused. I bet you'd find some interesting data!
by tpmoney | 2025-12-11 02:40:29+00:00
> Let's say, in an alternate universe where Rubio's department genuinely thought there were cost or coordination issues with Calibri. They could have reversed the decision and cited that.

So apparently Daring Fireball (of all places) got their hands on the full memo text[1]. And in all of the text, there are 2 sentences total that refer to DEI at all, the rest of it is talking about those coordination and cost issues. So I guess they did do that, they just also had to take their shots at DEI because why be in politics these days if you can't virtue signal even the most standard of decisions.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/12/state-department-ret...
by rogerrogerr | 2025-12-11 02:40:42+00:00
I'm reminded of the talk where the "Larry Ellison is like a lawnmower" meme came from. One of the things the presenter (who was acqui-hired, IIRC) said was that Oracle's "company mission" is to make money. Full stop. Not to improve people's lives through whatever - just to make money.

That kind of corporate clarity might be a sort of competitive advantage? But yeah, you have a point that on the level we can see there doesn't seem to be much that differentiates them.

(Compare Oracle's about page[0] - a single pithy phrase, and then a bunch of "look how much money we make" numbers, to others: HP[1], Apple[2], Google[3], Nvidia[4] are the first four that I thought of; they have a notably different flavor)

[0]: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/ [1]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/hp-information.html?msockid=28a3ae7... [2]: https://investor.apple.com/our_values/default.aspx [3]: https://about.google/company-info/commitments/ [4]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/careers/diversity-...
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-11 02:41:43+00:00
Great point! Owner’s reps and commissioning teams are becoming one of the fastest-growing user groups for us. At SD/DD we can surface coordination risks early, highlight spec–drawing mismatches, and give owners a clearer picture of design completeness before things get locked in. If you’re open to it, we’d love to run a sample SD/DD set from your world and see what’s most useful.
by userbinator | 2025-12-11 02:41:51+00:00
Crenshaw's tutorial doesn't quite reach the point where it becomes useful, but precedence-climbing is a rather straightforward refactoring of recursive descent that becomes extremely useful when there are many precedence levels.

Naturally, the author has also written an article about it, albeit without the explanation of the refactoring that links it to RD:

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions...
by tptacek | 2025-12-11 02:42:05+00:00
Just start from the premise that Israel targeted exclusively handheld military comms devices that would in ordinary practice only be in the custody of Hezbollah combatants, and from the additional premise that the explosions in the strikes were relatively small, so small that the overwhelming majority of the Hezbollah casualties were wounded and not KIA. Then try to make another story make sense.

We have significant evidence for both these premises!

This is not an argument that the strike incurred no civilian casualty, that no child of a Hezbollah combatant was in close proximity when one of the bombs went off, anything like that. It's rather a sanity check on arguments based on statistical claims about the casualties. There might have been quite a lot of civilian casualties! But for there to have been significantly more of them than combatant casualties, I would argue that you have to break one of my two premises.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-11 02:42:17+00:00
Go visit the popular hangouts for folks of the far right persuasion and you learn pretty quickly that this stuff is absolutely important to them, and they get spun up about it. What you don't see discussed is policy. It's almost 100% outrage about cultural issues and pretty much any reason to hate the left. Never substance.

To be fair, in response to this dynamic the left has gotten pretty good at focusing on hate for the other side, too. We all lose when nobody wants to talk policy any more.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-11 02:42:27+00:00
It’s worth calling this by its other name: the taking away of anonymity and pseudonymity.

To date, proving you are old enough is almost always (over-)implemented by having to reveal your legal identity and the exact date you were born.

If the whole world goes down the route of AV / age-bans then I hope we at least get some kind of escrow service where you visit an official office, prove your age to a disinterested public official, and then pick a random proof-of-age token out of a big bucket. The bucket’s randomness is itself generated when it was filled up with tokens at the Department of Tokens, and maintained by a chain of custody.

You could do it on polling day: ballot boxes get sent out to polling stations filled with tokens and get sent back filled with ballot papers, with the whole process watched by election monitors. Now everyone has (a) voted (b) picked up a proof of age/citizenship token. It would improve turnout, though I believe that’s already mandatory in Australia.
by brailsafe | 2025-12-11 02:42:36+00:00
> Does this new ban move kids to using email to keep in touch with friends and family?

You had social media but no ability to send DMs?

In an attempt to not deliberately misinterpret you, next to zero of my current ability to keep in touch with anyone in my life via the internet, distant or otherwise, depends on social media, so forgive me if this seems like a strange take. Kids need access to YouTube in order to talk to their family?

> Are they now completely isolated from the rest of the world?

It's only in extremely recent history that anyone, especially kids, had access to the rest of the world in any meaningful way, or at the resolution available now. I don't think it's remotely healthy for adults to concern themselves with the hourly regional issues wherever they're occuring in the world; it costs society a great deal more than it earns imo (but it's very profitable for the companies on this list)
by mullingitover | 2025-12-11 02:42:59+00:00
> In an effort to curtail the organization’s outsized influence, Facebook announced Monday that it would be implementing new steps to ensure the breakup of the U.S. government before it becomes too powerful. [1]

I'm old enough to remember when The Onion didn't just report the news.

[1] https://theonion.com/facebook-announces-plan-to-break-up-u-s...
by andai | 2025-12-11 02:43:15+00:00
We're making slave morality obsolete. The sense of self dependent entirely on external performance. Reality is making it so that we will have very little value in that domain very soon. Because everything we do now will be done better faster cheaper by the machines.

That's going to be a pretty rough transition. I think the economic aspects will be pretty straightforward by comparison to the psychological upheaval!
by mbirth | 2025-12-11 02:43:29+00:00
I did a fun experiment once to confirm it’s not me sausage-fingering but the stupid iOS keyboard. There’s an app called xKeyboard which lets you design your own keyboard. I remade the FITALY[0] keyboard in it and even though the keys are slightly smaller than on the original iOS keyboard, I can type without making any error. Yet the iOS keyboard often detects the wrong key because of those stupid hitboxes. I wish there was a way to turn them off.

[0] https://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm
by archargelod | 2025-12-11 02:44:07+00:00
Terminating condition in Bubble sort is "did we swap any values during this loop"? Yes -> continue, No -> list is already sorted, exit the loop.

I don't believe that insertion/selection sort is easier to grasp. Can you type it from memory, without looking it up? Here's bubble sort:

var swapped = true while swapped: swapped = false for i in 0 .. list.len-2: if list[i] > list[i+1]: swap(list[i], list[i+1]) swapped = true
by B-Con | 2025-12-11 02:44:09+00:00
I have a theory: They realized the right approach is to focus purely on the yes/no of what you choose to consume, rather than trying to optimize the consumption experience itself.

Remember how YouTube and Netflix used to let you rate things on 1-5 stars? That disappeared in favor of a simple up/down vote.

Most services are driven by two metrics: consumption time and paid subscriptions. How much you enjoy consuming something does not directly impact those metrics. The providers realized the real goal is to find the minimum possibly thing you will consume and then serve you everything above that line.

Trying to find the closest match possible was actually the wrong goal, it pushed you to rank things and set standards for yourself. The best thing for them was for you to focus on simple binary decisions rather than curating the best experience.

They are better off having you begrudgingly consume 3 things rather than excited consuming 2.

The algorithmic suggestion model is to find the cutoff line of what you're willing to consume and then surface everything above that line ranked on how likely you are to actually push the consume button, rather than on how much you'll enjoy it. The majority of which (due to the nature of a bell curve) is barely above that line.
by Illniyar | 2025-12-11 02:44:12+00:00
I think he might be misrepresenting it a bit, but from what I've seen every software company I know of heavily uses agentic AI to create code (except some highly regulated industries).

It has become a standard tool, in the same way that most developers code with an IDE, most developers use agentic AI to start a task (if not to finish it).
by rtkwe | 2025-12-11 02:44:20+00:00
True though the confusion about that is largely when you're not dealing with words like passwords or hashes. In the context of words it's going to be generally disambiguated by context, I can't think of an example off hand in writing where I and l will that ambiguous. The removal of serifs probably has a higher impact to more people unless I'm missing some common situation where they'd be easy to confuse in context.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-11 02:44:22+00:00
> As I understand, there are no fully open source implementations of a video decoder for Blu-Ray discs. (Is that still true in 2025?)

As far as I am aware VLC Media Player is capable of playing blu ray dics:

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1ke5ysq/how_to...

but you have to install some additional files:

> https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Usage:Blu-ray/

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1ke5ysq/commen...

If this does not satisfy your claim "there are no fully open source implementations of a video decoder for Blu-Ray discs" tell me where I am wrong.
by andai | 2025-12-11 02:44:28+00:00
I wouldn't read too much into it. Anytime I post something silly and stupid, it becomes the top comment. Anytime I post something important, I get downvotes. That's just normal. I think that's just human nature...

And the votes are pretty random too. Sometimes it'll go from -5 to +10 in the span of a few hours. Just depends on who's online at the time...

And yet don't they pull on our heartstrings? Isn't that funny? A random number generator for the soul...
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-11 02:44:29+00:00
> The Lebanese Ministry of Health stated that the attack had killed a confirmed 12 civilians, while killing 30 Hezbollah members.

Source? AFAIU The Lebanese Ministry of Health stated 12 total were killed in operation grim beeper, this number did not appear to exclude Hezbollah members.[0] They listed 2 children which AFAIU were friends/family members of Hezbollah members. They list four of those killed as healthcare workers but don't appear to identify if those healthcare workers were also Hezbollah members. Keep in mind the attack was more designed to injure rather than kill, with nearly 3000 injured.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kn10xxldo
by jcelerier | 2025-12-11 02:44:55+00:00
The vision is "being compatible with protocols used in my field". There's hundreds over hundreds of those. Example: this app supports more than 700 protocols, hardware, etc. (https://bitfocus.io/connections) and still it's missing an AWFUL LOT and only handles fairly basic cases in general. There's just no way around writing the code for each custom bespoke protocol for whatever $APPLIANCE people are going to bring and expect to work. Even if each protocol fits neatly in a single self-contained class or two.
by momojo | 2025-12-11 02:45:09+00:00
> But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of.

But isn't the drama between the billionaire heiress and her starving-artist lover more interesting than the lawyer girlfriend deciding whether she wants to marry her below-average-salary boyfriend?

Or maybe I don't understand your complaint.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-11 02:45:37+00:00
I only upvoted to send a msg to the moderators not to upweight uni/company press releases :) sadly the energy of VC-culture goes into refining wolf-crying despite all the talk of due dilligence,"thinking for yourself" and "understanding value"

The core section from paper (linked below) is pp8-9.

2mW for 100s of picosecs is huge.

(Also GIANT voltages,if only to illustrate how coarse their simulations are):

As shown in Figure 6(a), even with up to 1 V of noise on each Q and QB node (resulting in a 2 V differential between Q and QB), the pSRAM bitcell successfully regenerates the previously stored data. It is important to note that higher noise voltages increase the time required to restore the original state, but the bitcell continues to function correctly due to its regenerative behavior.
by mcpeepants | 2025-12-11 02:45:48+00:00
The incentive seems very thin/weak. Pay extra now to push DP adoption and hope that in ~10-15 years you can drop the HDMI port? Meanwhile you still pay the cartel, and they invest your money directly against your interests. And it all hinges on predicting consumer adoption which is nearly impossible. I honestly don’t see how they could justify making such a step in that direction let alone a significant one.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-11 02:45:51+00:00
CGP Grey does a similar video — spanning the sizes of our entire observable universe — called "Metric Paper" [0]

[0] https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

Even if you've never taken a mild psychedelic, this video hits in a similar manner (as sober metaphor).

----

I still drive with Neal.fun's Internet Roadtrip (same OP link author), every time I'm out in my workshop.
by rat87 | 2025-12-11 02:46:21+00:00
> did, in effect, target civilians.

That's ridiculous

> If you attack a military target that is surrounded by civilians, and that attack injures or kills those civilians, then those civilians were also targeted.

They are not targeted.

You could say that depending on number of innocent casualties or the likely number the attacked could be reckless and/or disproportionate in attacking in a way that was likely to cause such injuries. In certain cases you could claim they broke the laws of war although the laws of war are practical (they're not meant to prevent all deaths of civilians, the countries who agreed to them didn't intentionally make it impossible to fight including in defense).

And even if something is not a war crime you could still claim it might be immoral but that is a more complex argument.