MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bArray | 2025-06-02 13:33:57+00:00
> The "The Digital Sovereignty Revolution" survey found 84 percent of UK IT leaders are now concerned that geopolitical developments could threaten their ability to access and control their data, and 61 percent of organizations say sovereignty is a strategic priority.

The joke is that it's the UK government that actually want to snoop on the data, apparently in the name of child safety [1], the same people that have repeatedly failed to act on child safety right in front of them [2].

Bare in mind that the UK can just issue a TCN [3]:

> Technical Capability Notices - TCNs – are secret orders that could compel any company in any jurisdiction, so long as they have sufficient connection to the UK, to make changes to their service to facilitate the UK's use of its investigatory powers. These changes could reduce the service's security, including by removing electronic protection (such as encryption).

You can't even say it's not a real threat, because it just happened to Apple [4], which they tried to hold in complete secrecy [5]. Apple is struggling and have an almighty legal team and almost bottomless resources, your little UK company has no hope.

I think that the article's framing is wrong about Trump and tariffs, and that de-clouding is more about getting off the hype-train and reducing costs. I suspect multiple companies realised that they don't need a thousand micro-services and that they can run comfortably from several bare metal servers.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-to-end-encryp...

[2] https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-w...

[3] https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5547/our-challeng...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/07/uk-confro...

[5] https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/investigatory-powers-tr...
by tax | 2025-06-02 13:34:45+00:00
> Just ask people what the base land value of each location is.

This “step 1” mentioned in the article doesn’t scale, as for example to get enough individual-reported valuation data for each parcel of land that one would have to get an entire community to “vote” (answer) on the land value for each part of their jurisdiction (for example the entire county of San Francisco). For areas outside of one’s jurisdiction (to reduce bias by asking people to vote on land value outside their jurisdiction), the amount of information one has is limited and thus the reporting can be biased. The safest way to get the best valuation of any asset, is to take a playbook from the financial markets for whereby buyers have a direct incentive to best judge the valuation of the asset of any financial instrument for in order to maximize profit from the direct sale of the said asset. However, with the above valuation method cited in the article that there is no direct incentive for people to get correct or incorrect about their answers to land parcel valuations.

Furthermore, the part which LVT doesn’t address well is the valuation adjustments for the property built on the land itself, for example a good Leed certified building with a “good view” versus a run-down building requiring maintenance would have different valuations for which only a property taxation system (based on market value of the property value) will be able to infer. However, overall having a world where built properties on valuable parcels of land can be monopolized, just “seems” wrong.
by jjice | 2025-06-02 13:35:08+00:00
I switched from a Kindle Paperwhite (2023 is the year I got the Kindle, not sure what model that is, but it was the most recent version at the time) to a Kobo Clara BW right after it came out (pretty sure it's the same as the Kobo Clara 2).

I personally really value the "sideload" mode on the Kobo where I have no internet connection and can drop my files onto it via USB without any work-arounds. That's enough for me to keep using the Kobo.

That said, the Kindle Paperwhite's display is incredible and the store is pretty good (you risk losing your book "license" on all platforms), plus the extra small bit of screen size on the Paperwhite is just the perfect size IMO.

But the Kobo is the one I use most. I connect it to the internet like twice a year to get an update and then turn it back off. It's absolutely perfect at showing me text of files, which is all I need.
I want to learn about Web3 by open source, which project should I choose?
by gustavofortti | 2025-06-02 13:35:14+00:00
I want to learn about web3/etherium/blockchain/Defi/solidity by participating in open source, which project should I choose?

I work with data engineering, I have always learned from real projects, I have the theory, now I want a project to practice, to learn how web3 works.

The idea is to know the fundamentals, for example an engineer who programs in python, but has already programmed in C, that is, he knows what is behind python.
by csantini | 2025-06-02 13:35:28+00:00
The market is like an ecosystem. There are huge mammals (investment banks, hedge funds) that look at certain type of preys, and there are smaller rodents that only eat very tiny worms.

In high volatility regimes, ie. stocks with low market cap, the market is far from efficient. Hedge funds are not even looking at stocks with 100M market cap.

There are traders that act in these regimes that beat the market, exactly because they play small.

Anyhow most people would be better of by assuming the market is completely efficient.
by ALLTaken | 2025-06-02 13:35:40+00:00
I am sure about that, I also thought about hallucination, but it was precise in the first prompt. 2nd and follow-ups had plausible denial and created similar, but clearly different code.

It could even print the list of files and their exact names if triggered right. They may have surely patched that, so that nobody sues them with digital proof. But we recorded it. It was when their new model came out. Don't remember the date, but a few months ago. We have two videos and different repositories it should not have access to at all.

Microsoft owns GitHub. OpenAI has a multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft and access to their Infrastructure "for training" and seems likely, they got access to GitHub. Something that they shouldn't do, since that's illegal and very unethical.
by naasking | 2025-06-02 13:35:42+00:00
> Your last point is what I was trying to get at — eg, reasoning just about your math expressions.

I think it's borderline criminal that programming languages haven't added units of measure to their type systems yet, and then required every numerical type to be associated with a unit. We've known how to do this for decades now. All numerical code has latent units: either a specific unit, or polymorphic over the unit (like scalar transforms). Even memory copies and moves operate on byte units.
by igitur | 2025-06-02 13:36:05+00:00
Long time user of HeidiSQL here. I respect the author a lot. He's been tirelessly working on this project for many years, mostly alone. Of course, that's due to the closed nature of Delphi.

It's great news that this is now available for Linux, but the better news for me is that I can now build it on Lazarus / FreePascal. Even if it doesn't support all the features (eg MSSQL), at least I can now contribute fixes for some UI issues that have been bothering me.

I can successfully build the FreePascal version on Windows and it runs... fine. Feels a little less snappy than the Delphi version and there are some UI padding issues. But it's a massive step in the right direction.

If you can, please support this project, either financially or through code. contributions. IHMO what is dearly needed is for the different SQL dialects to be abstracted out properly. It's currently done in a bit of a crude way (no disrespect to the author) and it will require a big refactoring to get it right, but will open doors to more dialects.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-02 13:36:06+00:00
Yeah, at £20 it becomes throwaway, that's in the same price range as a physical book; you'd see publishers selling these e-readers with a single book preloaded on it, possibly even locked down so you can't get anything else on it.

E-readers don't need to become cheaper, ebooks do, and at the moment there's still a huge gap between "pirated" or "borrowed from the library" and "bought". That, plus DRM and lock-in makes people think twice about buying ebooks.

I had to find a source, but [0] shows that physical books out-sell ebooks by a huge margin still. I think this chart would only change if ebooks are as readily available for cheap as streaming music.

Come to think of it, I remember now; during that time, tablets also quickly became popular and were the direct competitor to e-readers. The low-cost e-readers were often regular tablets with LCD screens, since both then and now, e-paper is expensive. But you can buy a tablet for cheap.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/24709/e-book-and-printed-book...
by EvanAnderson | 2025-06-02 13:36:07+00:00
> I miss being able to reach the whole screen with my thumb.

This. Oh, so much this. I have hated every phone after my OG iPhone SE so much because of this lunacy in design. It's ridiculous that we can't use our phones one-handed.

I know-- people don't want small phones. >sigh< I wonder if we're getting to the point that most phone users have never actually used a phone with a screen they can reach across with one hand.
by goodpanda | 2025-06-02 13:36:17+00:00
Oh I see what you are saying. Yeah I guess if we didn't know what the signalling server was doing, that would be a valid argument. But in my case we can see the server code is pure and simple. Unless you mean there's a bug that allows an attacker to do that?

Either way, would love to know your thoughts on improving trust with this.
by beklein | 2025-06-02 13:36:20+00:00
If you want to make something, have a look at https://huggingface.co/lerobot For hardware check: https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100

There will be a world wide hackathon in two weeks time, no better way to get started and get to know some people: https://huggingface.co/LeRobot-worldwide-hackathon
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-06-02 13:36:44+00:00
Well put. And this happened back in 2000, and 2009. I had people who I knew from direct experience to be non-technical slackers tell me about their IT Director jobs. I knew it wouldn't last then, and I'm not surprised now. Just get out of your comfort zone and start looking, and if you are in a bad situation don't be cowed. If you are truly technical this is always valued, despite the easy answers from ChatGPT, you must understand what it is telling you to really make use of it.
by JohnBooty | 2025-06-02 13:36:59+00:00
If the prequels taught me anything, it's that these questions are usually better left unanswered.

What's cool about the Force isn't the mechanics of how it works. What's cool about the Force is that it's a mystical thing that's everywhere, binding all living things together.

And we honestly don't need to know how the Rebellion started. It doesn't matter! They are the good guys, and they are messy but kind and loving and cool and they are rebelling against the cold and mean (but also sometimes cool) bad guys. In fact, the more dumb shit I know about them the less I can project myself onto them and see myself in their eyes. Because I have rebelled against mean authoritarian shit before, or at least dreamed of it, but I have never been involved with trade disputes or galactic senates or weird old religions.

This is true IMO 99.99% of the time.

Shockingly to me, Rogue One and Andor are so well done that they are exceptions to the rule.
by silcoon | 2025-06-02 13:37:01+00:00
That’s the marketing that they do, one gadget to replace them all. In reality I’ve an analog watch at my wrist, I’ve a powerful flashlight (mostly using my smartphone tho), I’ve a dslr camera and TV. One friend of mine his into boats and has multiple GPS devices properly adapted to boats. So the one fits all is good for generic users, but if you rely heavily of certain technologies, specialised gadgets are better, less distracting and more reliable.
by jamespattn | 2025-06-02 13:37:17+00:00
If the "edge" is ephemeral (I agree that it is), I always wonder how quant/HFT firms like Jane Street, RenTech continuously make insane profits out of such strategies.

I suppose it could be a combination of things that isn't necessarily just related to finding edge over markets. Having an entrenched market position or access to data faster perhaps?
by 77pt77 | 2025-06-02 13:37:31+00:00
If you are useful but not valued all that creates is extreme resentment.

Competence, especially when objective and irrefutable but not accompanied by what are assumed to be mandatory associated traits (see halo effect) is seen as an affront to nature and creates a very intense sense of dissonance and injustice that prompts corrective measures, usually in the form of scapegoating.
by r2_pilot | 2025-06-02 13:37:52+00:00
Start by deciding its purpose. The form will follow the purpose. If you know electrical engineering, you won't make as many mistakes as I have. If you know mechanical engineering, you won't take as long to design the components as it took me. If you're a competent programmer, you won't be as slow integrating the hardware into a cohesive whole as I am. If you've read The Design of Everyday Things, you're ahead of the curve in terms of making it accessible.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-02 13:38:06+00:00
It says pretty much what I said at the start of the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157026), and yet this is what Linux is having problems complying with:

> A file identity is uniquely determined by the combination of st_dev and st_ino. At any given time in a system, distinct files shall have distinct file identities; hard links to the same file shall have the same file identity. Over time, these file identities can be reused for different files. For example, the st_ino value can be reused after the last link to a file is unlinked and the space occupied by the file has been freed, and the st_dev value associated with a file system can be reused if that file system is detached ("unmounted") and another is attached ("mounted").

I still think POSIX says exactly what it needs to say, and Linux ought to either comply with it, or lead the standardisation process on what should be done instead.

Don't say "tar is old". Tar's problems with Linux are the same problems that find, zip, rsync, cp and all other fs walking programs have. If memorising st_dev and st_ino are no good, tell us what cross-platform approach should be taken instead.
by mikesabat | 2025-06-02 13:38:07+00:00
I built a side project during COVID and after. I started recording videos explaining everything that's happening in the world for my kids to watch in 20 years.

Then I wanted to capture my parents life story. I thought it might be a good little project and others might find it valuable. So I built viography.co

The problem is that I'm not really promoting it and not getting customers. So I'm spending a few hundred dollars a month to record videos, save them for later and of course fix bugs that I find.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-02 13:38:54+00:00
That's one way to upsell a design flaw tbh. I preferred the anodized and scratch resistant case of the Mini.

That said, I too miss long time daily use Things. I haven't worn a physical wallet in years, it's some cards in my (tatty) phone case. The phone case doesn't age gracefully either, it's pleather, fabric, cardboard and some magnets. I suspect the only thing I really own (but rarely use) that would age like that is a leather shoulder bag.
by spacechild1 | 2025-06-02 13:39:08+00:00
Yes, the design of std::atomic probably favors x64 in certain areas. However, you initially claimed that std::atomic has been designed with only x64 in mind. This is simply not true, which is easily proven by the fact that they explicitly support weak memory models.

> std::atomic is about 30% to 40% (with outlined atomics on, which is the default) slower than handrolled asm

Only for certain CAS operations. A 30% or 40% performance penalty doesn't sound too dramatic and certainly makes it "usable" in my book.

I appreciate your insight, but it could have been delivered with less hyperbole.
Ask HN: Earth's Pulse
by michaeljx | 2025-06-02 13:39:40+00:00
TIL that the earth is pulsing every 26 seconds, the so called earth heartbeat. However, it seems impossible to verify from a reputable source. Gemini very assertively declares the fact to be true, but it only cites an article from Discover Magazine, which I've never heard before. Is it possible to verify such claim?
by giantg2 | 2025-06-02 13:39:49+00:00
The short of it is that the team just wants high throughput but doesn't care about improving the system health or process efficiency. I tend to consider multiple aspects of the work including those areas. But if you just want someone to turn out tickets, I tend to be slower unless the task is simple or repetitive. I have a disability and graying hair, so my options are limited. I'm going to fail my PIP later this month and I'll probably end up working at Walmart.
by Zak | 2025-06-02 13:40:12+00:00
I think the way I'd put it is for things that are an important element of someone's daily life, their understanding should be one level deeper than they usually need.

The average person who drives a car, for example does not need to know that the stoichiometric ratio of air to gasoline is about 14.7:1, but they do need to know that their car will run worse if the air filter is clogged. They should probably also be able to change a tire, and have practiced it in the past decade.

Understanding computer fundamentals shouldn't be a specialty field when nearly everyone uses computers (smartphones included) every day in a way that would yield better results if they had some idea what they were doing.
by azathothas | 2025-06-02 13:40:36+00:00
Since /dev/tcp doesn't work with https, complex redirect chains or even dns sometimes, almost all mentions of it in the hacking articles online are not that useful

We had to make soar's install script be able to work anywhere, In the article you get to know about http://http.pkgforge.dev & how you can use it to make /dev/tcp finally practical & useful in the modern https age
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-02 13:40:51+00:00
I get that reaction, and Anderson’s style can definitely create a sense of emotional distance for some. Throughout this thread - and I want to jump in to so many comments - you can see it.

I found Asteroid City to be one of his most emotionally raw films. Beneath the precise framing and deadpan delivery that characterizes his work, the movie is wrestling with true grief, uncertainty, and the need to keep performing your role (in life, and in a metafiction sense, in the movie). This driving need is there even and perhaps especially when you don’t "understand the script", and when you feel isolated and other-ed.

The scene with Margot Robbie is the fulcrum of the entire movie, it’s brief, but devastating, and probably the most emotionally exposed Anderson has ever gotten. I think this scene is also in part in dialogue with the audience. If you ever do revisit it, I think there’s a lot simmering under the surface worth your time. But it's not my intention to try and convince someone to enjoy a movie that doesn't click for them.
by Gracana | 2025-06-02 13:41:20+00:00
This reminds me of something Bill Moggridge said in the industrial design documentary Objectified:

> I like the concept of wearing in rather than wearing out. You’d like to create something where the emotional relationship is more satisfying over time. You may not worry about it or think about it very much, and people don’t have to have a strong love relationship with their things, but they should grow a little more fond of them over time.

That was an idea he applied to the Grid Compass, which was an early laptop with a black-painted magnesium chassis, which you can imagine would patina quite nicely.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-02 13:41:27+00:00
I find much more useful to memorize the inverse of that table, i.e. the decibel table.

The numbers corresponding approximately to 0 dB, 1 dB, 2 dB, 3 dB etc. (1.0, 1.25, 1.6, 2.0 etc.; more accurate values, like 1.26 or 1.58 instead of 1.25 and 1.6 are typically not needed) are also frequently encountered as such in engineering practice as belonging to various series of standard nominal values, which makes them more useful to have in mind.

Then for any mental computation, it is trivial to convert mentally a given number to the corresponding dB value, perform the computation with additions and subtractions instead of multiplications and divisions, then convert back the dB value to the linear number corresponding to the result.

Doing mental computations in this way, even if it has only about 2 correct digits at most, is enough for debugging various hardware problems, or even for catching software bugs, where frequently an impressive numbers of significant digits is displayed, but the order of magnitude can be completely wrong.
by ALLTaken | 2025-06-02 13:42:08+00:00
Maybe they optimized for one of their TREEE SOLUTIONS:

- https://Jules.google

- NotebookLm

- GoogleCollab

How can a company have 3 contenders to Windsurf and Cursor, which are VSCode forks with a little sugarcoating and not make any impact?? The CPO should be fired.

I think also after seeing Google Gemini's Video that their entire department is now fully Indian, including the CEO. If that isn't racially biased, then idk. See yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GO7bPb5cTA&t=2270s
by cameronh90 | 2025-06-02 13:42:12+00:00
It is complicated, though. Not as complicated as quantum physics, but still far more complicated than it needs to be - especially if you care about multiple architectures and platforms. At one point I was making builds for X86, AMD64 and Itanium on Windows, MacOS, Linux (which itself was subdivided into various distributions with different glibc/openssl/whatever versions). It took more work maintaining the build pipeline than working on features.

Go and Rust prove you can get most of the benefit of C/C++ without paying that complexity cost.
by bArray | 2025-06-02 13:42:49+00:00
I generally treat SD cards as memory that will almost certainly fail at some point. Once you accept that, they are more easy to deal with. If you want reliable memory, get somewhere external to store it.

I had a HGST spinning disk in my laptop from prior to the WD acquisition, and it failed perfectly. It dealt with errors all of the time and never lost data, but most importantly was that when it finally kicked the bucket, it became read only and I was able to recover all data without issue.
by quitit | 2025-06-02 13:43:00+00:00
Where school kids tend to get stuck is that they'll hold contradictory views on how fractions can be represented.

First it'll be uncontroversial that ⅓ = 0.333... usually because it's familiar to them and they've seen it frequently with calculators.

However they'll then they'll get stuck with 0.999... and posit that it is not equal to 1/1, because there must "always be some infinitesimally small amount difference from one".

However here lies the contradiction, because on one hand they accept that 0.333... is equal to ⅓, and not some infinitesimally small amount away from ⅓, but on the other hand they won't extend that standard to 0.999...

Once you tackle the problem of "you have to be consistent in your rules for representing fractions", then you've usually cracked the block in their thinking.

Another way of thinking about it is to suggest that 0.999.. is indistinguishable from 1.