MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sircastor | 2025-06-30 19:18:37+00:00
Immich is what I'm using right now. I'm running it in a Docker container on my Synology. It was very advantageous to spin up another docker container on my laptop to do the face recognition work because the Synology was going to take forever on it.

We no longer are auto uploading to Google or Apple.

So far, I really like it. I haven't quite gone 100%, as we're still uploading with Synology's photo app, but Immich provides a much more refined, featured interface.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-30 19:18:57+00:00
No I don't. I've never had Sieg Heil lessons.

I am sure it must also be at exactly a 30 degree angle with even a degree off invalidating it as an official nazi salute.

There is definitely no history of deportations, loyalty purges, secret police, cowing of the judiciary and universities, provocations of anti-semitism, big lies, or attacks on institutions that might inform the greater context and there definitely aren't people who have studied fascism at our most respected universities who are warning us that fascism is here: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010157022/yale-c...
by michaelt | 2025-06-30 19:19:25+00:00
Right, but you have some laptops coming back from leaving workers. Laptops issued to interns. Windows laptops issued to people who come back and say they need Linux. Laptops loaned to people while their main laptop was being repaired. And of course the dreaded no-fault-found returns.

Of course you wouldn't want to be locked in to HP hardware only. And hopefully you've got an endpoint management tool which is gathering at least some of this data anyway...
by dietr1ch | 2025-06-30 19:19:32+00:00
> > What I see are more technological affordances for closed firmware behavior of the device, increasing complexity, and providing additional opportunity for, and cover for, secret surveillance, backdoors, and other malware.

All this surveillance just in case you want to have an easier time selling a laptop. I'd rather have this time spent building a better laptop that sells itself because it's a battery swap and a CPU re-paste away from feeling like new.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-30 19:19:37+00:00
Obsolete formats (especially with high performance mechanics) are fun, but VHS picture quality isn't. My idea of fun would be to try to get the best picture quality possible by throwing appropriate digital encoding + error correction + compression at the problem - the more anachronistic, the better.

We have crazy powerful DSPs (like a low end GPU), advances in coding and error correction codes, and highly advanced lossy compression algorithms now 8)

Previously on HN: film on vinyl LP (pretty terrible, not much to work with), super high quality VHS reading by hooking up ADCs directly to the video heads + software, and VHS tape streamers (IIRC 1-2 GB with circa 1993 cheap hardware).
by JLvL | 2025-06-30 19:19:42+00:00
• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl.

• Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl.

• Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research.

• Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.

• Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning.

• Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind.

• Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, o3 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAl.

• Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya.

• Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models.

• Jiahui Yu: co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Previously led the perception team at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini.

• Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and o3. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAl.
by lwn | 2025-06-30 19:19:48+00:00
This feels to me like HP is trying to formalize a whole new business around second-hand hardware — not just selling off returns, but really building a controlled ecosystem for trade-ins, refurb, and resale. My guess is they want to keep that value in-house rather than letting third-party refurbishers or resellers capture it.

The Carfax reference stood out to me. It seems more like a feel-good marketing move than anything with real substance — just enough to trigger that association of “trusted, inspected, certified.” Not necessarily bad, but definitely more about perception than transparency.

Overall, I think they’re trying to rebrand “used hardware” into something safe, premium, and profitable — under the HP umbrella, of course.
by georgeecollins | 2025-06-30 19:19:56+00:00
I agree with your argument that the metropolis (and the educated elite) creates the wealth that subsidizes the country. But if you are a politician in the non-metropolis you aren't going to frame it that way. No one wants to hear their region or lifestyle is unimportant. Also, regardless of the true economic value it is clear that lots of people in the US and the UK don't just vote their wallets, they vote their values. IMO Brexit was a populist self-own. It's hard to know what choice is going to make you better off in five years but pretty easy to know which choice makes you feel better about yourself. See: wars!
by lostdog | 2025-06-30 19:20:24+00:00
"Comprehensive Error Handling: Helix's error handling system is novel to helix, it allows for either complete error handling or a more pythonic approach to error handling, this allows for more control over how errors are handled in Helix."

Wow, these really do seem to be LLM written, and I would guess ChatGPT. This long README has a bunch of generic, redundant statements over and over again.
by tvier | 2025-06-30 19:20:29+00:00
> Claiming that not getting sunlight is the same as smoking is pure garbage.

So you're throwing out a whole study because it didn't cover a specific confounding variable you thought of, than stating a claim with no evidence backing it up?

That's pure garbage.

They specifically call this out in the abstract.

> We obtained detailed information at baseline on their sun exposure habits and potential confounders.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24697969/
by const_cast | 2025-06-30 19:21:03+00:00
> but to think that the right think trans people are "to blame for this misfortune" shows a huge ignorance of the right's politics.

Then perhaps the right should stop spending a large portion of their political messaging on trans people?

I mean, for fuck's sake, nobody is making up the right's weird culture-war obsession with children's genitals. It's real, it's happening, and it's disturbing. Last election cycle Cruz was running ads depicting trans kids as big burly men who beat up little girls - literally. I'm not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole. This is actually their platform.

If your platform seems fucking stupid and completely devoid of any substance, then maybe you should not be aligning yourself with those people. Nobody should be expected to hand-hold and coddle you in the face of what can only be described as complete and utter idiocy. We're all very tired of this - you have played stupid for far too long.
by exe34 | 2025-06-30 19:21:07+00:00
> Never really heard of one that didn't end up corrupted.

We have them across the pond and they work for us - they are us. We can run for election in them. We can run them.

> To call my argument "weird" tells me how little personal experience you have with unions.

Sounds like you are the one with a limited experience of the world. The world is much bigger than America. The idea that "unions can't work" is fed to you and you gobble it up.

> Not some. Practically all companies. In tech, maybe only the FAANG set would be able to shoulder that burden.

In Europe, companies have to pay a living wage and they still function. They just don't always turn into giant funnels to siphon wealth into the hands of the ultra wealthy. If that's failure, then let them fail!

> Some companies are viable in one environment, but not in another. If you're changing the environment to make fewer companies viable, then you're putting more people out of work. This should be obvious. It isn't, I think, because some second grade teachers pass children who should have flunked out.

We have unions in the UK/EU and companies are still viable. Only people who failed geography and don't realise there are other countries out there would think that.

> Dimwitted people will try to "improve" things right until the world burns down around them. Any attempt to point out to them that this is occurring will be met with even more ambitious-but-ill-conceived attempts at improving things.

Whereas the really clever people want to keep things the same, because they are terrified of change.
by uecker | 2025-06-30 19:21:30+00:00
You could put the dummy member into the embedded node. But for intrusive data structures you often want them to erase the type so that you write generic algorithms as regular functions. In this case, it makes more sense to have a run-time check do to down casts. I do this with my variadic type which has an intrusive "super" member: https://godbolt.org/z/ofdKe7Pfv The overhead is often completely removed by the compiler.
by thomasbetous | 2025-06-30 19:22:15+00:00
I recently participated in a CTF with GitHub Copilot as my AI assistant. In this article, I share how AI helped me solve challenges faster, where it reached its limits, and practical tips for anyone interested in using AI in cybersecurity competitions. While I focus on Copilot, the lessons apply to any AI assistant. I’d love to hear about your experiences or opinions on using AI for CTFs or security research!
by tikotus | 2025-06-30 19:22:38+00:00
In May I posted about Clues by Sam, a logic puzzle inspired by Murdle. It's been growing nicely, new players coming in every week. It's starting to look possible that it'd grow big enough that I could one day become a serious side hustle. So I've put all my "free time" in this for the past two months.

The levels are procedurally generated with heavy curating and additional manual tweaks. I'm also adding a narrative later to each puzzle myself. It's a rare type of puzzle, since few puzzles have means to convey any kind of narrative.

My next big additions will likely be a tutorial, and profile page where you see your results and how they compare to other players. But this being just a side thing, it's progressing really slow...

https://cluesbysam.com
by ashwinsundar | 2025-06-30 19:23:10+00:00
On my own finances, plugging my "preferred" numbers into the NYTimes calculator along with a plausible house price and financing that I would buy, changes the rent/buy difference by more than $1.5M over 25 years (!!!!).

You're not doing anything wrong, you're just plugging in some more accurate knowledge about the local housing market that you have. The calculator had to use some sort of assumptions, so they seemed to have gone with medians or averages that made sense at the time.

I tried playing this game too when I bought my house. I ran Monte Carlo simulations which concluded that buying a house was a bad idea, based on historical data. Plus, this whole new "Covid" thing was surely to crash the housing market, right? I ended up buying a house anyway, and found out a little later that my projections were completely wrong. You can't predict the future, after all...
by LUmBULtERA | 2025-06-30 19:23:21+00:00
There has been constant political discourse in the U.S. about keeping cheap Chinese EVs out of the United States (yes, I know Polestar and Volvo are owned by Chinese corporations, they are older and at higher price point). You may have missed this in the last couple years if you're not from the US, but it would be hard to miss if you're from here.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-30 19:23:26+00:00
I am French and I agree with you to some extend.

I would say that the small places are not advertized as the next place to go after the famous one.

Take Paris. Everyone will obviously go there first, than Versailles which is nearby.

But people will not possibly know that there is Chartres nearby. Or Normandy where you can spend a great week. Or the Loire region.

They will not replace Paris, but could be advertized as the next adventure, a great one very different from Paris
by rorylaitila | 2025-06-30 19:23:30+00:00
I've standardized on a couple defaults that save me a lot of pain down the road. First is I always tenant by an "Organization" as the article suggests, even when the initial organization is a user of one. This allows for creating teams or organization sharing. Which for anything other than "will always be a single user app" every app eventually wants multi-user organizations.

Two, I appear as RBAC but implement ABAC under the hood. Technically the App is ABAC, but to the initial users, all they see are Roles. They cannot configure their resources. Later on, I can build interfaces for ABAC to manage their own Resources and Roles.

Bonus third, all Resources resolve to URL routes GET or POST. The application firewall prevents calls to URLs that they do not have resource permission. The server strips links and buttons from the HTML that they do not have permission to (or decorates them with a style). Thus there is no "if has resource show" code all polluting my UI.
by maebert | 2025-06-30 19:24:20+00:00
Thanks for the shoutout!

I think it's funny that it's very similar to ensō in many ways, but also the complete opposite: ensō is calm, mindful, soothing. MDWa is hectic, terrifying, sadistic. Funny how a tiny difference produces products that look almost the same, and feel completely different.

huge props to rafal for creating ensō, personally really love it
by amingilani | 2025-06-30 19:24:45+00:00
https://clares.ca

Recently relaunched Clares.ca, a free website for Canadian amateur radio training.

The new site has modern basics: Fast and mobile friendly and will soon incorporate the latest updates to the Canadian test bank.

Additionally, I’m adding progress tracking, logins and notifications to keep users engaged. The previous version of the site was just the course and nothing else. This one is more usable.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-06-30 19:24:58+00:00
Thank you :)

> One piece of feedback and a gripe I have with a lot of these is that missed or extra characters throw off the entire next sequence and essentially require backing up to deal with them, as opposed to wrong characters which are fine to just be mistakes you move on from. It'd be great to have some detection for when the user is continuing that re-aligns their string.

Thank you for the feedback! I’m not entirely sure I can visualize exactly what you mean by this:

> It'd be great to have some detection for when the user is continuing that re-aligns their string.

Could you give an example of this?

I curious because I’ve been exploring alternative and unique UI ideas for typing practice so this could lead me into a new direction
by cs_throwaway | 2025-06-30 19:25:18+00:00
> It seems like no more than a year ago the prevailing narrative was problems with higher education and science: how predatory and insidious the student loan industry is, and how it traps people in a cycle of debt with special treatment from the government to not let them escape; the replication crisis revealing just how deeply flawed the incentives in science are, and how safeguards like peer review have failed to stop the slide.

All that is true, and fewer people should be pushed into pointless colleges.

ACM SIGOPS/SIGARCH does not represent that. This is a group of people doing fundamental work on computing systems, microprocessors, etc. They are largely at very technical schools, and lamenting that they won't be able to pay for PhD students -- who do not take loans, debt, etc.

(CS PhD students are paid well enough and have amazing post-PhD/dropout-PhD opportunities. Happy to have that argument.)
by Honga | 2025-06-30 19:25:52+00:00
I'm annoyed by LLM inference speed and latency. I want my disillusionment before dinner. I'm running some experiments of RAG-analogue approaches with post-attention cache encoding, and then thinking about how distributed caches could operate to reduce the computational latency, and how interesting it is that the key-value relationship mental narrative shifts into social dynamics. There's so many fun ways to approach the topic.
by kevinventullo | 2025-06-30 19:26:02+00:00
I don't see how it's reasonable to teach a subject with access to such a powerful tool and then to remove that tool to assess what the student has learned

Isn’t this basically the paradigm of a closed-book exam? I personally use LLM’s for learning by treating them like a textbook or Wikipedia article I can ask follow-up questions to.

Though to be clear, I am disappointed with the experience about 50% of the time.
by robocat | 2025-06-30 19:26:15+00:00
> but what if I replace the SSD?

Also many companies want to destroy the SSD on selling old laptops. Paranoid about security and thinking they need Pentagon level security theatre. But companies should delete potential liabilities.

But I'd never allow an enterprise SSD to be reformatted. If some old data leaked from the business and the business was taken to court, the prosecution might argue it leaked from SSDs and you couldn't prove otherwise.
by BearOso | 2025-06-30 19:26:37+00:00
The CPU has shown some variation, but yes, it's the APU that has a ceramic clock source that isn't even close to the same among units. Apparently those ceramic resonators have a pretty high variation, even when new.

When byuu/near tried to find a middle-ground for the APU clock, the average turned out to be about 1025296 (32040.5 * 32). Some people have tested units recently and gotten an even higher average. They speculate that aging is causing the frequency to increase, but I don't really know if this is the case or if there really was that much of a discrepancy originally.

It does cause some significant compatibility issues, too, like with attraction mode desyncs and random freezes.
by yesfitz | 2025-06-30 19:26:42+00:00
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

"...following a phaseout of livestock production would, through the end of the century, have the same cumulative effect on the warming potential of the atmosphere as a 25 gigaton per year reduction in anthropogenic CO2 emissions, providing half of the net emission reductions necessary to limit warming to 2°C." (emphasis mine)
by missedthecue | 2025-06-30 19:26:52+00:00
The UHC shooting involved a trust fund baby of millionaires murdering a man who grew up with very little. It was not an example of class warfare.

I wouldn't want to live in or near your community where crossing the invisible line between "small" and "large" business means it's open season on me. I prefer social contracts that prioritize stability and trust. Not envy and petulance.

If you're going to commit one of the seven deadly sins, choose a funner one!
by Veserv | 2025-06-30 19:26:59+00:00
Most of those boards have a separate physical JTAG connector (at least in development kits, this article indicates JTAG over USB is disabled in production systems anyways so no difference there) which is what they are expecting you to use for low-level debugging. It only costs like 1,000 $ for a JTAG probe which is like 1 fully-burdened engineer-day of cost. Even fully featured probes enabling hardware trace and time-travel debugging only cost like 1 engineer-week.
by waffletower | 2025-06-30 19:28:04+00:00
We keep hearing the argument that AI datasets are built via "stealing"; it is as if the Fair use doctrine does not exist. Large copyright holders are the obvious beneficiaries of such denials, and perhaps the OP isn't just a mindless parrot on this point, but an active participant in intentional subterfuge. Copyright infringement can occur at the output, not at the input of AI models, people. For the author to be ethically consistent on this point, they would never use a university library ever again.
by hinkley | 2025-06-30 19:28:07+00:00
I don't like how short the middle segments are on those example displays. There's no reason they can't have squarer top and bottom edges. The diagonals don't have double-beveled ends.

This one runs down some other designs for a 14 segment display and also has 16 segment displays (where all of the cross-bars are split in 2 instead of just the middle)

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/content/discovery/ideas-and-adv...
by jpc0 | 2025-06-30 19:28:23+00:00
Creating the user in your application before first logon.

Removing the user from your application immediately and not when their session eventually expires.

Doing those things in batch.

Querying that data at will to produce reports.

Updating a users group membership when needed and immediately and not when you decide to do so.

And then you only need an opaque userid from me and not a fat OIDC token that knows everything about my internal structure.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-30 19:28:35+00:00
Hell yeah. I typed in my first C program, a terminal emulator, from a 1984 issue of Byte magazine. It was painful seeing how 5 lines of real logic were intertwined with 45 lines of error handling logic that, in the end, did what exceptions did for free -- it was a formative experience for me as a programmer and when I saw exceptions in Java in 1995 (still in beta) they made me so happy.

In the async case you can pass the Exception as an object as opposed to throwing it but you're still left with the issue that the failure of one "task" in an asynchronous program can cause the failure of a supertask which is comprised of other tasks and handling that involves some thinking. That's chess whereas the stuff talked about in that article is Tic-Tac-Toe in comparison.
by onepremise | 2025-06-30 19:29:07+00:00
Thiel is one of many billionaires that have veered off track into a more dystopian future, he definitely intends to use AI to manipulate, distort truth, and create distractions, from what's really taking place. The dismantlement of democracy to networked monarchies. It's nothing secret, Theil an d Yarvin describe their motivation in great detail in interviews with New York Times and the Hoover Institution. How do you guys feel about destroying democracy for dictatorships lead by billionaires? They have been pushing the butterfly revolution:

Key elements of Yarvin’s proposal include:

A “full power start” or “reboot” of the U.S. government: This would involve dissolving the existing constitutional order and giving total authority to a single organization or leader, similar to the powers held by Allied occupation authorities in postwar Japan and Germany.

The "RAGE" strategy: Yarvin calls for the mass firing (“Retire All Government Employees”) of the federal workforce, replacing them with loyalists to the new CEO or monarch.

Bypassing traditional democratic institutions: Courts, Congress, and the press would be sidelined or ignored, with the new executive ruling by decree and suppressing dissent from universities and media—institutions Yarvin derides as “The Cathedral”.

Mobilization of popular support: Yarvin envisions a scenario where a charismatic leader (such as Trump) could call supporters into the streets to pressure institutions into compliance with the new regime.

Sounds familiar?