MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-05-22 01:33:30+00:00
> we're talking about fucking Linux

Linux, the kernel? Sure, I bet there's tons of analysis and studies and reviews and scrunity on every merge. Lots of organizations are constantly looking at it. It's probably one of the most scrutinized code bases ever created. Same with some other core system things like the various parts of systemd and similar components. I bet there's a lot of packages related with a major Linux distro that do get a lot of eyes.

But then what about the other 900 or so packages on that desktop install? Are all of those getting some extensive reviews every check in? Constantly getting audited? Probably not. We probably don't really know who many of those people are. How many other Jia Tans are there out there, quietly managing widely used packages, people assuming they're being reviewed?

You're seemingly making a massive assumption there's much review happening on the vast majority of packages. And yeah, on most normal Linux distro there's going to be tons of packages that aren't routinely being audited and looked at. And once again, having the source sitting in the corner with nobody looking at it isn't going to do much for you.

Don't get me wrong, I use FOSS all the time, and I generally do end up having it cross the threshold of trust. FOSS is awesome. But for most FOSS I use, I don't really trust it any more than I'd trust some codebase from some other large and otherwise reputable software vendor. And sometimes, I trust it even less.
by indigodaddy | 2025-05-22 01:33:37+00:00
I combined this with a simple API to update a CSV file using Deno/deno-csv library, allowing an Ansible job to easily update a CSV file via the API with Ansible URI module, and then have that same CSV file viewable/downloadable in a simple and easy/dashboardy way (with CSV-to-html-table). Copilot created the Deno/deno-csv CSV API code and then with a little back and forth I added static website functionality (to serve the CSV table), and I had a /view and a /update route. I'm just a sysadmin but I love piecing together stuff like this. Thanks Derek!
by noisy_boy | 2025-05-22 01:33:52+00:00
> Honestly, even in that case it sucks to be a developer there knowing there’s a 50% chance that the work you did meant nothing.

Does it have to mean nothing? If there is a review at the end of the exercise, good parts from each of the teams can be explored for integration to build the best final product. Of course all these things are probably as much political as technical so it is always complicated.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-05-22 01:33:56+00:00
Do we know for a fact that Michael Jackson did anything wrong? On Wikipedia you can read that the original accuser suspect his son was being molested, and asked for money or he would go to the police. Doesn't this undermine the credibility of the accuser?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Michael_Jackson_sexual_...

> Chandler demanded money from Jackson, threatening to go to a criminal court, but no agreement was reached. After Jordan told a psychiatrist that Jackson had molested him, the Los Angeles Police Department began a criminal investigation. The investigation found no physical evidence against Jackson.

Update, I just read that entire page and it seems obvious the whole thing was a set up.
by rubitxxx10 | 2025-05-22 01:34:00+00:00
I’m old. I used one of the original boxed RH distros. It was cool then. That was almost 30 years ago.

I know they give back to Linux, and I’m thankful for the enterprises that pay for it because of that.

It’s not a bad company, though it’s strange that you could be a great developer and lose your position there if your project gets cut, unless another team picks you up, from what I hear.

But when Linus created Linux, he didn’t do it for money, and RH just seems corporate to me like the Microsoft of Linux, way back before Microsoft had their own Linux. I want my Linux free-range not cooped.

They don’t do anything wrong. They just don’t give the vibe. Anyone asking for money for it doesn’t “get it” to me.
by kirb | 2025-05-22 01:34:17+00:00
There are some strange passages in this, such as here where it suddenly decides to bring up the man page and how to exit man:

> There's an NFS app for macOS called NFS Manager from Germany's Marcel Bresink.

> On pre-15.5 Macs, see the Terminal AFP command mount_afp by opening Terminal and typing:

> man mount_afp and pressing Return on your keyboard. To exit the man system, press Control-Z or the q key.

> Several third-party NAS vendors, such as Synology and others, include AFP support in their products, but that's likely to come to an end soon too.

(Not clear why it would be coming to an end if they’re based on Linux!)

The cached headline I saw on Mastodon also called it “depreciated”.

Losing AFP sucks, because macOS’s SMB support continues to be abysmally slow, and really needs Apple’s undocumented proprietary SMB extensions to work halfway decent. Lately I’ve been accessing my SMB shares (from both Samba and Windows 11) through Cyberduck, because Finder is just unbearably slow and gets tripped up on file permissions for no reason. Deprecated or not, Netatalk will be more important than ever if users need a protocol that just works.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-22 01:34:46+00:00
Isn’t Ubuntu basically killing apt?

My Ubuntu became unusable because it kept insisting on installing a snap version of Firefox breaking a whole bunch of workflows.

I do want to try a RH based OS (maybe Fedora) so they don’t keep changing things on me, but just where I am in life right now I don’t have the time/energy to do so, so for now I’m relying on my Mac.

Hopefully I can try a new Linux distro in a few months, because I can’t figure it out yet, but something about macOS simply doesn’t work for me from a getting work done perspective.
by cameronh90 | 2025-05-22 01:34:48+00:00
It’s a company laptop that runs Windows, and the newer BIOSes now block undervolting because of the plundervolt mitigations.

I replaced the thermal paste with some of that PTM stuff which helped a bit, but not enough. I also found that for some reason it tends to BDPROCHOT-throttle when powered through the official Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock, even though it’s meant to be 230W and provides power separately to the USB port - but using the standalone AC adapter when docked fixes that.

Ultimately, until there are some decent X86-64 laptops released, the choice is between slow, thin and quiet vs less slow, but big, heavy and noisy. AMD is a bit better than Intel but still weak on mobile and nowhere near as good as the current Apple offerings.

On another note, why are PC manufacturers still putting fan intakes on the bottom. Maybe it’s theoretically more efficient, but tell that to my users who always do things like resting their laptop on a book then wondering why their Zoom screen sharing goes jittery.
by ggm | 2025-05-22 01:36:26+00:00
I don't understand the ballistic cargo story. It implies forward staging and a presence is being deprecated for some kind of rapid injection force response. But, that is a change in posture from prevention to reaction.

Isn't that actually less effective strategically?

Sure, for the "international rescue" Thunderbird puppets world, it's great. We all know it's not about rescuing little Timmy stuck down a mineshaft.
by neilv | 2025-05-22 01:36:32+00:00
> so now, i am one of those people that plucks their ears when an emergency vehicle goes by with the siren blaring.

You might get one of those low-end decibel meters that supposedly are calibrated at the factory (around $25 in the US), to measure how loud the sirens are. Maybe they're louder than they need to be, and you can request for them to be adjusted, as a public health improvement.

I've been meaning to do something like this. My city has sirens throughout the day, but one particular ambulance company's seems much louder to me than any other company or other emergency vehicle -- dangerously louder. As someone who walks miles every day, on major streets and near hospitals, the near-daily potential hearing damage risk has started to get a bit concerning. I'd like to have data (and make sure it's not just a frequency sensitivity specific to me), before I ask them respectfully if the volume can be adjusted.
by pizzuh | 2025-05-22 01:37:16+00:00
It sounds like you're looking for a Django/Rails type framework for JS-- you're not really going to find this. Javascript isn't really the ecosystem that's going to give you something opinionated, although it'd be a nice addition.

I'm not sure you're giving JS it's due. Prisma is an excellent ORM-- it makes Sqlalchemy feel clunky. I'm not sure about your comment on SSR performance either, although I do agree that Vercel tends to be a lot of pixie dust on top of EC2.

What have you used previously?
by synapsomorphy | 2025-05-22 01:39:00+00:00
Nit: Diffusion isn't in place of transformers, it's in place of autoregression. Prior diffusion LLMs like Mercury [1] still use a transformer, but there's no causal masking, so the entire input is processed all at once and the output generation is obviously different. I very strongly suspect this is also using a transformer.

[1] https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/introducing-mercury
by RHSeeger | 2025-05-22 01:39:12+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I'd like to point out, though, that some amount of poor schooling is beyond the schools themselves. For example, being raised in a poor family where both parents (or the only parent) are working long hours tends to mean

- The parents aren't there to help with schoolwork

- Nutrition is poorer (which leads to poorer learning)

- The parent's aren't as available for guidance

- etc

Now, to be very clear, none of this is "you're part of a minority, so it effects you". Rather, it's an impact of being poor; and minorities are more likely to be poor, so as more likely to be impacted. So the end result is the same, but it's not an automatic impact of being a minority, nor is it something that limited to minorities (just more likely for them).
by eqvinox | 2025-05-22 01:40:04+00:00
If people can send packets to you, they can DDoS your shitty plastic router CPU regardless of you blocking ICMP or not. And whether your router generates a reply is really ancillary to the question — so long as that reply isn't notably larger than the triggering packet. (Otherwise you're running a reflection amplifier and some people would like to have words with you.)

These days with cheap bandwidth about, the only way to really prevent DDoS is to catch them at the source(s). Hell, I have 25Gbit at home (Init7), I can blow entire small telcos off the internet. Once. Then Init7 terminates my service. And that's really the only thing that can prevent this…
by BugheadTorpeda6 | 2025-05-22 01:40:10+00:00
Only in very specific circumstances where there are clear moats to be built (mobile was one of these that Microsoft missed, but that's a PLATFORM in a way no AI product at the moment comes close to). As far as I can tell, there is no evidence of such a thing with the current applications of AI and I am unconvinced that there ever will be. It's just going to ride on top of previous platforms. So you may need some sort of service for customers that are interested, but having the absolute best AI story just isn't something customers are going to care about at the end of the day if it means they would have to say migrate clouds.

At the moment, I'd arguing doing much more than what say Apple is doing would be what is potentially catastrophic. Not doing anything would be minimally risky, and doing just a little bit would be the no risk play. I think Microsoft is making this mistake in a big way and will continue to lose market share over it and burn cash, albeit slowly since they are already giants. The point is, it's a giant that has momentum going in the opposite direction than what they want, and they are incapable of fixing the things causing it to go in that direction because their leadership has become delusional.
by technothrasher | 2025-05-22 01:41:02+00:00
> which I sometimes call “silence”

I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.
by obloid | 2025-05-22 01:42:39+00:00
I have had tinnitus for years, I suspect partly genetic and exacerbated by spending a lot of my 20s and 30s at loud concerts. But just recently I noticed I now have deafness to certain frequencies in one ear. I had an air leak a tire and realized I could hear the hiss of air escaping with one ear but not the other. Protect your ears, folks.
by drnewman | 2025-05-22 01:44:02+00:00
I'd think the preferred way would be to implement them as a separate class. That'd be more in line with the design of other core classes (like TrueClass & FalseClass). It'd also have created the opportunity to create a "Callable" protocol early in the design which would have been great, and would harmonize with the design of Ruby's many other protocols Enumerable, Comparable, Range-compatible values, etc.
by crote | 2025-05-22 01:44:27+00:00
> Maybe there are edge cases associated with this?

Plenty. There are a lot of information-only websites where you might want to keep your visit to yourself.

To give an obvious example: some parts of the United States are trying very hard to make abortion impossible. The state government could mandate that ISPs MitM your traffic, and alert the police when you visit a website giving you information about the legal abortion clinics in a neighboring state. Guess you'll be getting a home visit...

The same is going to apply with looking up info on LGBT subjects, civil rights, Tiananmen Square, a religion not explicitly allowed by the state, whether Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, and so on. Heck, even a seemingly innocent website visit could theoretically come back to haunt you years later. Just some bored scrolling on Wikipedia? Nope, you were planning a crime - why else were you reading pages about chemical warfare during WW I? That neighbor who died due to mixing bleach and ammonia was obviously murdered by you.

If it's unencrypted, you should assume it's being logged by someone nefarious. Are you still okay with it?
by vessenes | 2025-05-22 01:44:49+00:00
I feel like we must live in very different worlds! The major AI companies have in excess of 100mm customers each. There’s so much demand for compute that wise investors are literally buying up nuclear plant building companies.

LLMs have blown through every major test people have put in front of them invariably beating estimates as to how long it would take them. Pull up Dwarkesh’s podcast about ARC wherein the creator of ARC proposes it could likely never be super-human with current architectures, about 3 months before o3 provably became superhuman on ARC, spurring the creation of a new “better” (and it is better!) test.

To my outside eyes the OpenAI plan is simple: get too big to fail and be ready to navigate changing investor appetite. Plus maintain technical leadership if possible. And build an enduring consumer brand. Simple but hard. You will note that (as far as I know) they have invested in zero direct physical infrastructure, preferring compute deals with companies like Microsoft and Coreweave.

To my eyes their risk point would be: massive loss in quality/cost to a competitor (Gemini 2.5 pro underscores that Google is a real contender here, and has like six generations of custom chips that make their economics different), or somehow investors remain bullish on AI but bearish on OpenAI to the extent they can finance a legitimate competitor.

If investors lose interest generally, we will enter a new era of higher-cost inference and comparatively less demand. This is the intent behind doing compute contracts rather than owning data centers — a contract likely shifts most of this risk right out onto data center providers; OpenAI can just pay for less compute time. I don’t think this is a ‘death’ scenario for them, because this will be a general loss of interest and therefore all AI companies will stop being able to give away free inference. OAI might contract (probably would) in this world. They might slow down on new model training. (Probably would). But, so would everyone else.

Another way to say it - they’re spending single digit billions of dollars on training and research right now. Think of that as creating a strategic asset, and ALSO customer acquisition cost (e.g. image creation this year — new, better models = more paying customers).

Against a 200mm customer base, would you spend $20-50 to acquire a customer that pays $20/month? Their CAC is low right now. Really low!

This is why I’d propose the major risk is that they get singled out of the herd as ‘non-investable’ vis-a-vis other AI companies. To my eyes they don’t look to be at risk of this right now; if they somehow got there, this would be a real problem - it would lead to the scenario I think you’re imagining — they’d have no money to give away inference / train models, but competitors would.

So, you have to ask, are they sufficiently large, popular, technology leaders, embedded as a strategic US asset in the military industrial complex to avoid that fate? My outside assessment is: definitely.
by walrus01 | 2025-05-22 01:45:09+00:00
> Your TP Link hyper dreadnought super hawk that is taking up every inch of the 5ghz indoor spectrum in your home is probably already blocking icmp for you. Its probably also already part of a botnet

The more spiky black angular antennas you put sticking up on a router that makes it resemble a science fiction movie arachnid-form robot, the faster it goes. This seems to be the universal design language now.

For routers that consumers purchase themselves, the design language seems to have been optimized to look amazing and cool and grab the attention of someone browsing the aisles at the local Best Buy.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-22 01:45:32+00:00
And they would have lost a record increase in U.S. assets across the board, including the US dollar, which should have gone down if the problem was money printing.

It’s rare to have such a clearly evident case of cause and effect. We know why yields are going up. Because investors don’t believe the U.S. government can control their budget deficits.

The recent rising yields have little to do with money printing from 4-5 years ago.
by magicink81 | 2025-05-22 01:45:51+00:00
One explanation:

The models will not be a moat, but the products can be. More specifically "sticky" products / killer apps like ChatGPT, and whatever forthcoming products this acquisition of Jony Ive's company may lead to.

Windsurf acquisition may be explained in part by the same logic of owning a strong and sticky product, as well as a good source of data for training.
by meerinor | 2025-05-22 01:46:12+00:00
And Lumen... but no, the list is longer, altice, windstream, wow, brightspeed, astound... the trend is definitely towards consolidation the past five years now, Nitel buys Hypercore, Comcast buys Nitel, Zayo and CCF, Comcast and and massergy, sprint wireline to tmo... etc.
by neogodless | 2025-05-22 01:46:19+00:00
As a "not linux expert" I think distribution selection is... a pain point.

It's a bit like the Fediverse. I'm quite happy now, on Hachyderm.io, but it took some trial and error, and the median social media user is ill prepared to go out, select a Fediverse home, and begin piecing things together.

But back to Linux. It's hard to know which distribution, and why you'd select it, when you don't know about Linux. Coming from Windows, it was "Home" or "Pro" (once upon a time). Linux is... though you might not know it, Debian or Fedora, and then a dozen or two varieties off those branches, and then the Window Manager, and then the desktop.

I know nothing about Endeavour, but I've heard of Pop, and I thought it was a thin layer on top of Ubuntu? Not sure why Mint is so different? It's Ubuntu-based too? This adventure actually started with Nobara, which is "marketed" if there is such a thing, as being good for gaming. But I actually had no good experiences with it at all. And did some research and Mint seemed very friendly (and largely was!) But I didn't like Cinnamon much. Anyway, my point is... distribution can have a huge impact on overall experience, but it's very hard to decide on distribution without knowing a lot more about Linux. That pre-education is much more investment than most Windows users would want to make.

EDIT: Oof, I found EndeavorOS on Kagi and... the home page loads, and it says "Mercury Neo with Linux 6.13.7 and Arch mirror ranking bug fix"

I know a few of those words. What am I looking at? I think Linux needs a marketing team!
by rbitar | 2025-05-22 01:47:03+00:00
This looks great, glad to see this project and congrats on the launch. Having said that, how does this project fit in with the Shopify Hydrogen effort using Remix / React? There seems to be an ever growing number of ways to build a shopify storefront these days (ie, native templates, remix/hydrogen, web components, Shopify JS Buy SDK, etc.) so it's not clear what technology to "bet on" from a developer perspective.

Separately, nice touch adding the refined LLM instructions, this looks like a nice pattern for other UI frameworks to follow.
by mulmen | 2025-05-22 01:48:03+00:00
I have been using Fedora Sway as my desktop operating system for a couple years now and I am very happy. It’s definitely worth a try. I have access to flatpak when I need it for apps like steam but the system is still managed by rpm/dnf. There’s of course some SELinux pain but that’s typically my fault for holding it wrong. Overall very impressed.
by rietta | 2025-05-22 01:48:10+00:00
I have had a touch of it for a few years. I have been very careful to protect my hearing. Always listening to headphones on the lowest setting. Always wearing hearing protection while operating lawn equipment. I have been an amateur competitive shooter and always double up with plugs and muffs. Then in 2022, I had a terrible double ear infection the same week I competed in a local USPSA (IPSC) match and boom that was it. Ironically the ear doctor thinks it was the infection. I showed him the system I use for shooting. It doesn’t bother me anymore though it is always there when there is silence.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-22 01:50:20+00:00
Without TLS, people (service providers and intermediaries) can tell what pages I'm reading on your site. They can make the kind of inferences from these that get people convicted at trial.

TLS is more important on sites that are just serving information. It's easy to reconstruct your train of thought as you click around.

Librarians have fought (and lost) to defend our privacy to read.

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/privacyconfidentiali...
by int_19h | 2025-05-22 01:50:20+00:00
They are the fault of developers when developers hardcode their app UI around one particular theme on a platform that explicitly supports theming.

The linked website is basically complaining that 1) it's too hard, and 2) it precludes app developers from doing their own "branding". The former is just laziness, given that software 20 years ago managed to do it fine, and the latter is narcissism.
by smcin | 2025-05-22 01:50:59+00:00
JD Vance, Martha Stewart were on the board of this indoor vertical farming startup. It went public in 2020 via a Covid-era SPAC (Novus Capital Corp), in 2021 raised $700m then went public at a $1b valuation, was sued by shareholders for securities fraud in 2022 (Vance had left in 2021), then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppHarvest

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/appharvest-indoor-farming-bankrup...

[2]: Coverage of Plenty, Bowery, AppHarvest and AeroFarms https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/vertical-farming-company-p...