MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnvanommen | 2025-04-17 02:12:32+00:00
> convincing my parents to drop me at the electronics-nerd-utopia for a lazing weekend afternoon - "Won't you get bored?" . . . "No Mom!"

I had a traveling job for a while, I was away from home every single week.

When you first start doing a job like that, you imagine that you'll be doing all kinds of sightseeing. I thought I'd be traipsing through Central Park and eating Cubanos in Miami.

None of that happens IRL; you're so busy working, by the time you have a few hours to kill, all you want to do is space out. Doing tourist stuff gets to be WORK.

After a few months of this, I started to just obsessively spend time at Fry's.

I didn't even really need anything from Fry's. It was just this place I could reliably visit at any tech hub on the west coast. Doesn't matter if you're in Burbank or San Diego or Sacramento or Portland or Seattle: if it's 2010, there's a Fry's you can wander around in for a couple of hours.

I've never been to The Space Needle in Seattle, but I've been to Fry's Electronics numerous times.
by luxardo | 2025-04-17 02:13:15+00:00
TouchID is better than any other login type on any other system. Who uses a password that often on a computer anymore?

The red x doesn't quit apps, it closes windows. CMD-Q quits apps. There are certainly times when you want an app to be running, but with no open documents. This is basic PC stuff, not sure why you don't seem to understand it. Not every app running even has to have a window, so your paradigm doesn't make sense.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-17 02:13:37+00:00
> Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft

I wouldn't go that far. I've professionally seen storage pools with a compression factor of 2-3x, and it really mattered at that job. For that matter, my home directory on the laptop I'm writing this comment from is sitting around 1.2-1.3x, and that's pretty nice. I dunno if I'd make a whole lot of effort (although if I was getting paid to save money on storing terabytes, it might be worthwhile), but the technology has evolved in ease of use.
by alisonatwork | 2025-04-17 02:14:39+00:00
I don't usually recommend software that isn't open source, but MusicBee is really great for organizing tunes. You can build really deep auto playlists based on any tag you like, you can do bulk updates across lots of fields, you can have it reorganize files into folders around any of the tags, including with fallbacks for missing tags, there's configurations to download metadata from online, all kinds of stuff. Plus it's a super customizable music player too.
by autoexec | 2025-04-17 02:15:00+00:00
I decided zoom was a bad company very early for security and privacy reasons

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/8/20687014/zoom-security-fla...

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

The endless stream of news on privacy problems and vulnerabilities that have come to light since then have only made me feel better about that initial opinion.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/zoom-data-mining-for-ai-te...

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes

https://cybersecuritynews.com/zoom-app-vulnerability/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/zoom_privilege_escala...

https://gbhackers.com/zoom-security-update-patches-multiple-...

https://thecyberexpress.com/multiple-zoom-vulnerabilities-de...
by stackskipton | 2025-04-17 02:15:06+00:00
I guess but if MarkMonitor accidently suspended it, it would be ClientHold but it was widely reported it was showing as ServerHold.

ServerHold is used with Registry (GoDaddy in this case) is disabling vs ClientHold is when registrar is pulling the plug (MarkMonitor)

So what would have MarkMonitor said to GoDaddy to cause them to ServerHold a domain?
by hatefulmoron | 2025-04-17 02:15:17+00:00
I'm a World of Warcraft & Dota 2 player, using "the meta" in that way is pretty common in gaming these days I think. The "meta" is still the 'metagame' in the competitive ecosystem sense, but it also refers to strategies that are considered flavor of the month (FOTM) or just generally safe bets.

So there's "the meta", and there's "that strategy is meta", or "that strategy is the meta."
by wahern | 2025-04-17 02:15:33+00:00
> Unikernels aren't meant to run as a bare metal OS on a standard computer like a PC.

Originally this absolutely was one of the selling points. NetBSD's rumpkernel, for example, clearly was intended to support bare metal. In practice, though, unikernels are typically run within VMs, for the reason you hinted at--you usually still want a regular OS to multiplex your hardware and (unikernel-based) applications.
by perryizgr8 | 2025-04-17 02:17:28+00:00
Spotify prices are quite reasonable, especially when you consider what has happened to video streaming services like Netflix. Plus Spotify has a large portion of all music ever, and mostly has close to 100% of new music that is being released.

Hosting my own, even though it appeals a lot to me on principle, just would be either too costly to maintain legally (buying new music) or too cumbersome illegally (torrenting any music I want to listen to).

I guess if someone is really into music, they will spend a lot of time on finding new music, and will be inclined to spend more money on the hobby too. But for casual listeners like me, it's far too convenient to simple select a song on Spotify and click "play radio" and get an unending playlist of new songs.
by lucb1e | 2025-04-17 02:18:52+00:00
Streaming services could price themselves out of the market in an attempt to generate the income needed to pay artists fairly. (Google/Apple could temporarily draw money from coffers and outcompete Spotify temporarily)

Or artists could sell the music directly at a fair price (no streaming service but vinyl or downloads). Or more people could go to concerts

Either way, consumers need to pay more before all good artists can make ends meet. The (comparatively) pocket change that many of them get from streaming won't be enough even if Spotify turns into a non-profit and improves payout from 70% of their income to 99.9% of their income

Most consumers seem to disagree, judging by the reactions to Spotify's recent price increase in the netherlands (even though the increase was lower than inflation or median income growth). With the money simply not being on the table unless you get lucky and get massively popular, there is no realistic alternative, but some options feel more fair than others. I could totally see myself doing music as a hobby and seeing what I can sell on Bandcamp rather than supporting Google and having them/Youtube stream my music to people
by Semaphor | 2025-04-17 02:19:13+00:00
> I have no idea on when artists I like release new albums and would not encounter them on a self hosted solution, etc.

Depending on what you like, bandcamp makes it easy. You can follow any artist (which is also offered whenever you buy), and from then on get release notifications. But of course, what’s available differs by genre. For metal, most bands are on BC, except most Japanese artists and major label stuff.

I buy, download, and put the flacs on my Jellyfin server.

There are, of course, also piracy solutions for that, pretty sure the *arr stuff has automatic downloading per artist.
by Alupis | 2025-04-17 02:20:52+00:00
If this is the case, then it seems to be a very clear-cut example as-to why we should reject these sort of automated "take downs". They can and are abused, including copyright violations on Github, YouTube, etc.

Since when did we accept, as a society, guilty until proven innocent? I recognize GoDaddy is not the government - but this is unacceptable. A human spending 3 seconds looking at the domain would understand it's a false-positive and should not be removed.
by keithnz | 2025-04-17 02:21:24+00:00
Nothing. It's pretty cheap, and saves all the hassle these people are going through to self host. I'd guess for most people here paying for music streaming service isn't really a problem. Buying all the music would likely be more costly, though seems a bunch just want to pirate music and make out that they are "saving money". Music discovery would be more problematic.
by monetus | 2025-04-17 02:22:37+00:00
We had lots of modeling that showed the payback around FSD [Full Self Driving] and Robotaxi was going to be slow. It was going to be choppy. It was going to be very, very hard outside of the U.S., given the regulatory environment or lack of regulatory environment.

I wonder how they originally thought it would roll out?

Somewhat related, but did anyone see the EV event in China a few days ago? Have any opinions?
by sitkack | 2025-04-17 02:23:06+00:00
> So what that data spike correlated with was data that was transferred off of an internal record-keeping device that was only used for internal case data. So this system only has the private information about union organizers. The privileged business proprietary, technologies, competitors, those kind of things are in that system only. There's no other data. There's nothing else except that.

...

> This is a difficult topic for Dan to discuss, but prior to our filing the whistle-blower disclosure this week, last week, somebody went to Dan's home and taped a threatening note, a menacing note on his door with personal information.

> While he was at work, and it also contained photographs of him walking his dog taken by a drone. So…
by orionblastar | 2025-04-17 02:24:04+00:00
Political Lawfare. Trump files an EO against those who did him legal harm and makes deals with them after being challenged. Trump is doing the same thing with 80 countries and the tariffs. Each country makes a deal with Trump to reduce tariffs, make things in the USA, etc.

It is all in Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal". He uses leverage to get what he wants.
by nickspacek | 2025-04-17 02:24:08+00:00
Look into Backblaze B2. Use rclone, or another backup tool that has S3 compatibility (though B2 API has some additional bells and whistles).

With rclone, you can also have a step to seamlessly encrypt the contents on the client side before sending to an external provider like B2.

I chose B2 because it is the most affordable option, but rclone supports many backends.
by BoorishBears | 2025-04-17 02:25:07+00:00
Who cares if you agree as a buyer?

In the early days the value proposition for both sides was staked on curation, but yeah you're totally right: their install base expanded until it encompassed enough people who don't mind having barrels of slop shoveled down their way... and that allowed them to do away with the curation.

But if you're on the other side of the equation that's paying for the privilege of being in dumped into the slop trough it's not a good deal.

You're paying the same amount to get dumped into a cesspit with minimal support as the earliest titles were paying to be hand picked like a golden child and paraded around high-intent buyers.
by scoresomefeed | 2025-04-17 02:25:13+00:00
The original version nailed all of my accounts with terrifying accuracy. Since then I make a new account every few days or weeks. Against the rules I know. And I’ve learned a lot about HN IP tracking and funny shadowbanning-like tricks they play but dont cop to. Like I get different error messages based on the different banned ips I use. And j see different behavior and inconsistency with flagged messages (like one that got upvoted a day after it was flagged and not visible to other users).
by anenefan | 2025-04-17 02:25:28+00:00
Ok the article's writer has been caught up in the idea that all hypothesis are equal and deserve equal representation. The fact is it does not.

As a hypothesis there's always the possibility a person may be expending valuable energy in their immune system fighting off some other additional inflection / parasitic load, that completely separate to the hypothesis, treated with ivermectin a net positive result is observed. Sadly not a great deal of common infections are documented which responds to ivermectin administered at safe levels for humans and herd animals alike ie levels of ivermectin at a fiftieth to a hundredth of levels reported where ivermectin reportedly can interfere / kill infective agents.

A more worthy (valid though would be very hard to observe given not everyone will respond the same) hypothesis to the same end would have been the better and more direct way to increase the bacterial load such as use of supplements that encouraged Bifidobacterium sp. to produce known beneficial outcomes. eg [1] [2] [3]

I am familiar with ivermectin, especially in its on label use in cattle, but also in off label uses once practised a bit over three decades ago as a treatment / prevention of heart worms in dogs being perhaps preferential than an arsenic based compound used from time to time where heart worms (by way of test) were already present in the dogs system. What stands out here is no wow!!!! look at how well the cow or dog is afterwards apart from removing the parasites, especially so in dogs who were merely given ivermectin as a preventative against heart worm. Not one f'in time, but that's merely my own observation. It's for poor calculations of a dogs weight I'm also familiar with its issues when administered at slightly higher levels and the blood brain barrier - short answer, not very good.

https://www.nature.com/articles/1601829 (Lactulose ingestion increases faecal bifidobacterial counts: A randomised double-blind study in healthy humans)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37845315/ (Bifidobacteria metabolize lactulose to optimize gut metabolites and prevent systemic infection in patients with liver disease)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24667318/ (Kefir fermented milk and kefiran promote growth of Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010 and modulate its gene expression )
by smittywerben | 2025-04-17 02:25:37+00:00
When Windows forces me to sign in to install it, I can't help but feel it's subsidizing this entire design silo. In the next episode, now lets make everyone (including dyslexic people) jump through even more hoops to install Windows to subsidize the creation of a font that even if it did help dyslexic people that I would not be able to use since it was at the expense of everyone else. YMMV.
by db48x | 2025-04-17 02:25:39+00:00
Starlink is amazing, but not as amazing as an actual fiber running to your house. If you can get actual fiber then you should. The primary reason is that it has very high headroom for future expansion. You might be getting 1Gbps today, but any individual fiber can actually carry 100Tbps (or 100,000 gigabits per second) using commercial equipment. The speed record is higher still, so there is plenty of scope for further upgrades in the future.

Do keep in mind, however, that residential service is usually provided by GPON or XGPON. Instead of a single fiber running from every single customer to the ISP, optical splitters are used so that up to 128 customers can share a single fiber. The fiber is run at 50Gbps or 100Gbps or whatever, and the individual customers share that using TDMA. That does somewhat limit the available headroom. Speaking just for myself, I would be entirely satisfied by a 1Tbps slice of that 100Tbps of available bandwidth.
by labrador | 2025-04-17 02:26:31+00:00
Appreciate you sharing this. The idea of using LLMs as an interface layer to the internet, skipping over traditional UI and talking directly to APIs, is a direction a lot of folks are starting to explore. You might want to check out IFTTT or Zapier to see how people are connecting tools without UI clicks. Google Gemini 2.5 actually just walked me through some reasons this isn’t mainstream yet—stuff like authentication, context-switching, and user control. But the core vision—treating the LLM like an OS—is definitely in the air. Keep refining it.
by trylfthsk | 2025-04-17 02:28:34+00:00
Thank you for this; surprised I haven't heard much about him prior, since I've been digging into political economy lately.

Specifically, his notes on consumption / full employment are refreshing - it never sits right with me that the goal of economic policy at a high level is so often at odds with doing things in a "smart" way (measuring projects in jobs created, for example).
by benbridle | 2025-04-17 02:28:50+00:00
With character sets, I was initially going to support non-Unicode text by adding a --char-set flag to the assembler, but I decided that the character set should be defined somehow inside each program. My thought was that they could be defined as large table-like macros, something like the following:

%BYTE:n #nnnn_nnnn ; %CHAR:n ?[n 'A' ==] BYTE:0x01 ?[n 'B' ==] BYTE:0x02 ?[n 'C' ==] BYTE:0x03 ?[n 'D' ==] BYTE:0x04 ; CHAR:"ABCDABCD"

This is, admittedly, quite unweildy for character sets exceeding a few hundred characters, but it would work passably for small character sets like those used for HD44780-style LCD screens. What character sets did you have in mind?

Octal was another feature I couldn't make up my mind about, just because I wasn't familiar with any architectures that require it. It'll be trivial to tack on though. For the Z80 instruction set, since the instruction encoding tends to cleave along octal lines, I used the following macro to pack octal digits into bytes, which has the advantage of allowing variables to be passed into each digit (the ADDr macro shows how it's used):

%XYZ:x:y:z #xxyyyzzz ; %ADDr:r XYZ:2:0:r ;

Thanks for the heads-up about the table of contents, the links should all work now.
by progmetaldev | 2025-04-17 02:29:22+00:00
I appreciate your response, and I have spoken out against using animation for anything that contains text or can be distracting to anyone (like a shifting pattern beneath static text). I try to talk people out of using carousels, but unfortunately, it often does come down to the executives and marketing people that are paying for the product.

I think that it does get a "wow" in presentation, but better writing and description of your product delivers a more long-term "wow". I just think that most marketing people reach for something easy that is pre-built, than taking the time to really think about how to market their product effectively.

Unless you can go against the wishes of those higher up than you, and show high sales growth, it's often a much easier life to show off a little animation and go after the idea than the presentation when needing to discuss low sales. I work for a digital marketing agency, and often disagree with choices that are made. I just have the ability to influence the backend technology and choices made, so pick my battles. I worked in both front-end as well as backend for a while, but I got burnt out by front-end from management and customers that didn't know any better, more than the constant churn in technology and techniques.

I do agree with you, but 20% is a low number to the type of people that want something to "pop" so they can not know what they are selling, but can show off some fancy animation and let the presentation do all the talking for them. I don't agree with it, but it is negative that the world does work like that most of the time.
by addicted | 2025-04-17 02:29:48+00:00
> It’s adding another 1.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar module manufacturing capacity at its Brookshire factory, bringing the site’s total to 3.2 GW. The company didn’t indicate a timescale for when the capacity increase would be complete. The move is part of its strategy to reinforce its “larger strategy of de-risking its global footprint.” > The company first announced it would open the Texas factory in December 2023, its first footprint in the US. Its original plan was to have an initial capacity to manufacture 3 GW of solar modules annually by the end of 2024.

Sounds like PR trying to spin delays in planned investments as “doubling their investment”.

Basically they were supposed to be up to 3GW in Dec 2024, didn’t make it by then, and are now trying to spin the delayed capacity as new capacity.
by jnaina | 2025-04-17 02:30:12+00:00
wrote a python tool to do daily scrapes from a russian music tracker site and sync all the titles onto a mariadb database. led me to discover all sorts of music which I would otherwise not able to stumble up on across all my 4 paid music subscriptions (Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and Amazon Music). Some that I could not find on these music services, now live on my private Roon server. Mostly ancient multichannel formats, DSD/SACD and vinyl rips. And some precious private live recordings from concerts long gone, as in decades ago.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-04-17 02:32:00+00:00
There's a bit of a skill to it.

Good architecture plans help. Telling it where in an existing code base it can find things to pattern match against is also fantastic.

I'll often end up with a task that looks something like this:

* Implement Foo with a relation to FooBar.

* Foo should have X, Y, Z features

* We have an existing pattern for Fidget in BigFidget. Look at that for implementation

* Make sure you account for A, B, C. Check Widget for something similar.

It works surprisingly well.
by ralfd | 2025-04-17 02:33:30+00:00
Starship test flights have to be rushed, because they can only test it in flight.

Before the last flight they static fired Ship 34 (the upper stage) for an unprecedented 60 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Z7fnikKB8

But the new theory is flight 7 and flight 8 failed because of harmonic resonance developing after tanks (which big mass dampens resonance) emptying to a certain percentage. And you can’t replicate that on ground with full thrust and clamped down, or else the ship would take off, you can only test it during flight.

The test flights are relatively unimportant though compared to building up infrastructure like the launch towers in Texas and Florida. The goal is supporting +50 launches per year, so while at the moment launches are multiple months apart this will change rapidly when the second (third, fourth..) launch tower is operational.
by alain94040 | 2025-04-17 02:33:41+00:00
[I'm not a lawyer but spent way too much time with intellectual property lawyers]

Not true either for a digital book. However, since you are in possession of a digital copy of something that is definitely copyrightable, you have two options to defend yourself and not go to jail: either use the license terms that give you the digital rights to the book (and pay the $100), or not have a license, not have a defense, and let the judge decide what the penalty should be. Will it be more than $100?
by vikramkr | 2025-04-17 02:34:02+00:00
Spectroscopy is cool! Basically whenever light shines through a thing, the thing can absorb or emit light, and that happens at specific wavelengths depending on what the thing is made of. You can get small spectroscope pretty cheap and play around with a bunch of hone experiments - a common lab project in class is putting salts in a flame and based on the spectra figuring out what atoms are in the salt. It's how we discovered helium must exist in the sun before actually finding any on earth. So basically we just do that, except on a planet that's far away. When it's between it's star and us, we look at the spectra of the light that goes through the planets atmosphere
by swores | 2025-04-17 02:34:15+00:00
They wrote that they were talking about country code TLDs vs not, not about US vs. other countries. (Which is what I would've said too, it's a more general point than thinking about anything specific to one country.)

Ironically that one country happens to be the one that also controls gTLDs like .com, as others have pointed out, so arguably .us is the one ccTLD that isn't any more or less likely to be reliable.
by MrLeap | 2025-04-17 02:34:25+00:00
It's a cute package, but that resolution is wild. 24x24? I suppose it might have a place in manufacturing automation tasks.

I don't know where you'd have room for one of these but no room for something like the D435 which has a resolution of 1280 × 720 on the depth side and an RGB sensor. Maybe robotic vacuum cleaners or something.