MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rramadass | 2025-12-02 11:14:59+00:00
Another anonymous id posting the usual provocative narratives and instigatory tropes.

The Govt. of India has already clarified that the app can be deactivated/deleted by the user if they don't want to keep it.

Given the huge second-hand market for mobile phones in India (especially amongst the large uneducated/unskilled subset of the populace) and their troubling use for all sorts of Scams/Frauds/Terrorism-related activities etc. you need State help to manage the problem.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-02 11:15:14+00:00
> Is the company actually more productive now? Some McKinsey consultant has a slide deck showing that it has gone up from 6.5 to 7.2, so the bosses all pat themselves on the back.

Any productivity increases come from the fact that some employees would rather quit than come back to the office. Which makes it seem like less people do the same amount of work. Until they get overworked and output plumments. But that will land outside of the measurement window.
by amrocha | 2025-12-02 11:15:47+00:00
I disagree, and clearly most companies opting for some kind of RTO are on my side.

The biggest benefit of an office is collocation. People need to be forced to come to an office or they won’t do it, and team efficiency will go down.

Even if you think you’re performing well, the entire team suffers for it. Miscommunication happens. People get blocked for longer. Juniors can’t get the mentoring they need.

If you disagree that’s fine, go work for a remote company. But clearly the tide is turning against you with more and more companies enforcing RTOs.
by leo1200 | 2025-12-02 11:15:59+00:00
We created astronomix, a differentiable astrophysical fluid simulator written in Python/JAX and available on PyPi. Get started by running your own astrophysical simulation with driven MHD turbulence and stellar winds in Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Pg98IPGnoejaGvzmNNZ...
by defrost | 2025-12-02 11:16:14+00:00
All around, for everything, I cannot recommend the Chris Titus (and friends) WinUtil enough:

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

It's a suite of powershell scripts and tweaks that are open source for inspection frontended by a nifty powershell multi tabbed TUI (Text User Interface) widget.

There's a tab for upgrades and installs of common dev / tech / power user tools; a tab for tweaks; a tab for windows update options; a tab for building install disks / VM's (eg: minimal for gaming or for hosting windows applications in Qubes, etc).

Update Tab can select all updates / only critical / none ever / advise and let you choose.

To use, you do need to 'trust' (or inspect the work of and download source and self apply) a pool of windows tech nerds - you literally open a powershell admin window and pipe raw boot script over the internet and give it control to bring up the TUI.

This could be malware (but isn't, last I checked) - same risk with all such tools d/loaded from internet of course.

See Usage on github page - various writeups and youtube tutorials.

It'll rip the AI addons, Copilot, and Snapshot and Spy stuff right out of Windows 10 / 11.

Easy to use and follow.
by dvdkon | 2025-12-02 11:16:33+00:00
I feel like we're talking about completely different things. What's currently implemented in various EU countries is basically OAuth, where user attributes are verified by the state. Being able to map that account back to a specific person isn't a bug, but the whole reason for the system's existence.

Here's a marketing page for a WIP pan-EU project to implement this kind of digital ID: https://commission.europa.eu/topics/digital-economy-and-soci...

There are also various plans for age-verification schemes that should (partially) preserve anonymity, but those aren't implemented and it's not what people mean by "digital ID".
by Anamon | 2025-12-02 11:17:08+00:00
By this point you've burnt up any potential efficiency gains. So you spent a lot of hours learning a new tool which you then have to spend a lot of additional hours to babysit and correct, so much that you'll be very far from those claimed productivity gains. Plus the skills you need to verify and fix it will atrophy. So that learning curve earns you nothing expect the ability to put "AI" somewhere on your CV, which I expect will lose a lot of its lustre in 1-2 years time when everybody has made enough experiences with vibe coders who don't, or no longer can, enusre the quality of their super-efficient output.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-02 11:18:22+00:00
--- part2

> [spotify streams]

To me, we're in a difficult position because the only way you have to quantify the value of an artwork (music in this case) is the number of streams it has.

Call me a mad man but it is not rare for me to hate most streamed music and to prefer <none> streamed music.

Yet I seriously doubt I am "musically dumb".

What I find instead is that advertisment, reputation, exposure, a good label, radio streams will get you a long way to become a <most streamed> artist.

And no, that's not "an excuse" to not try and become skilled... What sense does it make to say "Dua Lippa is better skilled than J.S.Bach because she has more streams" (or the contrary) or "AC/DC is better skilled than Alan Vega because they sold more disks" (or the contrary).

> If I just mash my hand on the piano with no skill

Okay, that's pretty sure.

Now if you wrote a small piano piece, there is no way you could predict if it will become a hit or not. It depends on factors that are really far from being limited to "the piece in question".
by iteria | 2025-12-02 11:19:12+00:00
That's because you are not impacted I assume. If you are from the DEI bucket then there is nothing more important. Every few years they come out with a study where all they do is change the name on resumes. Having a black sounding naming still, in modern day, greatly reduces your chances of getting an interview. Except, during the most current rendition of this study found that wasn't true at all at companies that had DEI policies. That is huge if people can determine your ethnicity based on your name.

All your "more important" issues are predicated on the idea that you can get a job. For those who are unfairly discriminated against, they don't even get to your point. Who cares about employer healthcare when you have no employer?
by MonkeyClub | 2025-12-02 11:20:16+00:00
Modibhakting much?

I mean, it's one thing to parrot stuff like "inflammatory, biased, agenda driven and totally irrelevant", and another thing to state your point of contention.

After all, is it "inflammatory" to underscore discrimination and call it out?

And, yes, I am posting under an anonymous I'd - and so are you, as far as anyone is concerned. I came to the internet in the era of nicknames, not of full PII social networks, and I like it that way more.

Would it make the RSS and the BJP less far right if I posted under a real name?
by anon7000 | 2025-12-02 11:21:06+00:00
Risk is not the only factor. Premium cost is probably the more important one for most. If someone can afford the $40k deductible option, but not the $5k option, you’ll just have to accept the risk. Increasing earnings significantly right now is harder than hoping medical bankruptcy won’t matter in the long run.

30% of US households make less than $50k. That’s more than 100,000,000 people in homes with less than $3.6k/mo for all living expenses. The stories you ask for are simply inevitable
by 00taffe | 2025-12-02 11:22:33+00:00
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by greenavocado | 2025-12-02 11:22:53+00:00
It's pure facts. I used to live in a city where me and my wife were terrorized by homeless people on the light rail. Now we live far away from public transportation and no longer have to worry about the safety of ourselves or our children and our neighbors are fantastic people.

Car dependency and castle doctrine is essential in a low trust society with a legal system that puts violent offenders right back on the street.
by pcrh | 2025-12-02 11:23:06+00:00
I have now actually read Flemming's 1929 manuscript that first described penicillin [0]. It is a careful and well documented scientific report describing the action of penicillin on various species of bacteria, how to produce it, and some of its chemical properties. It describes how penicillin can kill bacteria isolated from the throats of nurses, and shows that it has low toxicity in mice, and is possibly safe for use in humans: "Constant irrigation of large infected surfaces in man was not accompanied by any toxic symptoms, while irrigation of the human conjunctiva every hour for a day had no irritant effect."

It is far from having a "lack of reproducibility" and in fact allowed others to quickly and accurately replicate his discovery.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2048009/
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-02 11:23:21+00:00
Try thinking of it this way: you're in highschool and your stats teacher gives you a homework assignment to flip a coin 200 times. You respect her and don't want to disappoint her, but at the same time the assignment is pointlessly tedious and you want to write down a fake result which will convince her you actually did it.

A slightly imperfect split is more likely to convince your teacher that you did the assignment. Intuitively this should be obvious.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-02 11:23:23+00:00
Using something like confluence religiously in a team is a big boon. Write docs about everything. Write to get decisions done, to plan, to celebrate, to retrospect, to architect, to help oncall. Everything! Doesnt need to be beautiful prose - just needs to be famn useful and ideally easy/quick to read.
by brewmarche | 2025-12-02 11:23:40+00:00
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by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-02 11:23:49+00:00
> It is already getting dangerously close to the duration of holiday freeze windows, compliance/audit enforced windows, etc.

How do those affect automated processes though? If the automation were to fail somehow during a freeze window, then surely that would be a case of fixing a system and thus not covered by the freeze window.

> Not to mention the undue bloat of CT logs.

I'm not sure what you mean by "CT logs", but I assume it's something to do with the certificate renewal automation. I can't see that you'd be creating GBs of logs that would be difficult to handle. Even a home-based selfhosted system would easily cope with certificate logs from running it hourly.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-02 11:24:16+00:00
I never understoof why google gave up so early on cloud gaming. Clearly it is the future, the infrastructure will need to develop but your userbase can grow by the day.

I live a bit remote on an island group, and even though I have a 500Mbit Fiber, my latency to the next GeforceNOW datacenter is 60-70ms (which is my latency to most continental datacenters, so not NVidias fault). That makes it unplayable for i.e. Battlefield 6 (I tried, believe me), but I have been playing Fortnite (which is less aim sensitive) for 100+ hours with that.
by shmeeed | 2025-12-02 11:25:27+00:00
Of course, but they're fiercely opposed to the notion of being subject to regulation by EU institutions. The Swiss are well capable of regulating themselves to death entirely on their own, thank you very much. ;)

On the other hand, this same thoroughness makes their trains run on time and their products well-respected for quality and precision. Two sides to a coin.

To get back to my nitpick: It's a bit like casually referring to the US when you're actually talking about Canada. Some Canadians might be offended.

And yeah, I'm fun at parties.
by ericreyes217 | 2025-12-02 11:25:28+00:00
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by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 11:26:16+00:00
6 tok/sec might be acceptable for a dense model that doesn't do thinking, but for something like DeepSeek 3.2 that does do reasoning, 6 tok/sec isn't acceptable for anything else but async/batched stuff, sadly. Even for a response with just 100 tokens we're talking a minute for it to just write the response, for anything except the smallest of prompts you'll easily be hitting 1000 tokens (600 seconds!).

Maybe my 6000 Pro spoiled me, but for actual usage, 6 or even 9 tok/sec is too slow for a reasoning/thinking model. To be honest, kind of expected on CPU though. I guess it's cool that it can run on Apple hardware, but it isn't exactly a pleasant experience at least today.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-02 11:26:31+00:00
they got feared into it by fear of being left behind. Pretending that majority can always make the good choice (even for their own benefit!) is, well, just look at state of US politics.

And it's WORSE, because there is no one person one vote, the amount of money have is directly proportional to the "voting power" in crypto currency.
by bluchen217 | 2025-12-02 11:28:16+00:00
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by SilentCoderHere | 2025-12-02 11:28:24+00:00
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by amrocha | 2025-12-02 11:28:45+00:00
No, it was never about choice, you misunderstood.

Yes, offices have downsides, but they also have benefits. To get the benefits the majority of a team needs to be in the same office. Having tried both, I prefer working in an office with coworkers around. The growing consensus seems to be that large companies agree with me. Are you saying you know more about employee productivity than Meta and Amazon among others?

If you’re unhappy and want to work remotely feel free to quit and go work in a remote company.

And on your comment about your office being disgusting, your coworkers being terrible, and your commute being awful: that’s a skill issue friend. My office is great, always clean and stocked with snacks; my coworkers are awesome, very thoughtful people and i consider some of them to be my friends and we hang out outside of work; my commute is a 15 minute bicycle ride that gets my day started with some exercise. I might change jobs to somewhere that has more office days though.

I’m sure you can also find a company with a great office culture. I wouldn’t want to work from your company’s office either. That’s why I specifically look out for that when job hunting.
by greenavocado | 2025-12-02 11:28:45+00:00
Your digital id is great until your leadership decides you need to be conscripted and sent to their meat grinder and the penalty for failing to appear for your death sentence is being cut off from food and water because everything is linked.

The idea of all these digital documents is never a problem until you go through the exercise of figuring out what it will all be used for (controlling you).
by tecleandor | 2025-12-02 11:29:10+00:00
This is for when you receive JPEG encoded DICOMs. You transcode them to JPEG XL (saving that 20% of storage) and then, if a modality/viewer/whatever that needs JPEG requests them, they're transcoded on the flight to JPEG losslessly.

Losslessly meaning, with the same quality than the original JPEG received by the storage.
by derangedHorse | 2025-12-02 11:29:44+00:00
Everything seems like a bubble to the people who got burned in the dot com era. Hype is automatically attributed to there being money disproportionately flowing to vaporware. That isn’t what I’ve observed. I think a lot of the current AI companies will fail, but I don’t think it’ll be from a failure to deliver a product or generate revenue. I also don’t think there have been valuations or investments that are any more extreme than they have been in the last decade.
by arevalolance | 2025-12-02 11:29:53+00:00
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by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 11:30:06+00:00
The article is behind a paywall.

It's probable the EU will develop alternatives to US products as they become less trustworthy. Microsoft seems to be developing Windows into adware and spyware.

The key question will be whether the EU and UK fully ban the use of US communications products in government, such as Whatapp. The idea that Western countries use private messaging apps to conduct government business, with no oversight, traceability or proper records, is absurd.
by mcdonje | 2025-12-02 11:31:11+00:00
The opinion that it is real is also not a fact. We're not talking about physical things. They're made up rules about made up things. It can all be different if we agree to make it so.

IP isn't a concept that has existed in all cultures for all time. It's not inherent to group dynamics or humanity. It's not even a concept that's fully respected by cultures that claim to care about it.
by dfawcus | 2025-12-02 11:31:41+00:00
Well even at the GE, his party was less popular than the previous offer by Corbyn. Labour only really got in because of the collapse of the Tory vote.

2019 GE Votes

Labour: 10,269,051 22% R 32% T Tory: 13,966,454 29% R 44% T LibDem: 3,696,419 8% R 12% T

2024 GE Votes

Labour: 9,708,716 20% R 34% T Tory: 6,828,925 14% R 24% T LibDem: 3,519,143 7% R 12% T

Also % Registered, % Turnout

So that he got even more unpopular seemed a given, unless he managed to be competent and actually improve things for the people who elected his party.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-12-02 11:33:38+00:00
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by jraph | 2025-12-02 11:34:21+00:00
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