MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-20 20:13:07+00:00
So what? At worst, it's no worse. But by default, it's already way better.

Why? Because all of our E-mail addresses are on thousands of spammers' lists. So if you hammer that list with a dictionary of popular passwords, you're going to get a bunch of compromised accounts right there.

But even worse: When you force non-tech-savvy people to use their E-mail address as their ID, many are going to think they need to use their E-mail password as well. So now if one poorly-run site suffers a data breach, all of its users' E-mail addresses AND passwords are out there. Identity theft ahoy.

Not to mention the loss of people's accounts when they change E-mail addresses; When Apple started requiring that Apple IDs be E-mail addresses, it created a massive problem of people having purchases scattered across multiple accounts because they'd create a new one when their E-mail address changed.

After the outcry, Apple huffily declared that it wasn't going to let people consolidate their accounts.

But back to the point: Allowing people to create a proper user ID as free-form text doesn't preclude them from using their E-mail address if they insist on doing so. But they should be encouraged not to.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-20 20:13:37+00:00
We are in an age where the technology of oppression gives the rich the feeling that they are above consequences. That people can be controlled in a way they will not be able to break free from.

Malicious AI swarms are only one manifestation of technology which gives incredible leverage to a handful of people. Incredible amounts of information are collected, and an individual AI agent per person watching for disobedience is becoming more and more possible.

Companies like Clearview already scour the internet for any public pictures and associated public opinions and offer a facial recognition database with political opinions to border patrol and police agencies. If you go to a protest, border patrol knows. Our government intelligence has outsourced functions to private companies like Palantir. Privatizing intelligence means intelligence capabilities in private hands, that might sound tautological, but if this does not make you fearful, then you did not fully understand. We have license plate tracking everywhere, cameras everywhere, mapped out "social graphs," and we carry around devices in our pockets that betray every facet of our personal lives. The vast majority of transactions are electronic, itemized, and tracked.

When every location you visit is logged, interaction you have is logged, every associate you communicate with known, every transaction itemized and logged for query, and there is a database designed to join that data seamlessly to look for disobedience and the resources available to fully utilize that data, then how do you mount a resistance if those people assert their own power?

We are becoming dangerously close to not being able to resist those who own or operate the technology of oppression and it is very much outpacing the technology of resistance.
by b112 | 2025-06-20 20:14:19+00:00
Setup web forums, include ToS which indicates service is denied using automated tools.

People have been charged with telecommunication related crimes for hscking, and the tos csn indicate access denial.

This gated access won't stop AI, but will make account usage illegal.

People have been convicted for far less. May as well use such laws to our advantage for once.

That's the best path I can see.
by Groxx | 2025-06-20 20:14:32+00:00
On rereading the thread, maybe I'm just misreading? I read your question as "they're popular, why do people think they are not" but you could also have meant "why doesn't anyone want them".

For the latter: because it's far higher friction than a phone call (or any similar tool). On the extreme end, I can walk into a meeting room and push a couple buttons and have a zoom meeting. And doing that with your computer or phone is significantly easier, often just one or two buttons whether you're a two person business or 200k.

Versus telepresence robots at the simplest: it requires charging, far more complicated UI to do anything that a video call cannot do, and is many times more expensive so you almost certainly do not have one everywhere you have a video-call-capable display. And the display is probably dramatically smaller, so you still need a separate display if you want to show anything useful. For very nearly everyone, that's just "a video call with extra baggage".

They can work just fine where those tradeoffs are offsetting vastly more expensive and higher friction things, e.g. in highly specialized surgery, and you do see them in those areas. That's just a rather small niche compared to "has a computer or phone".
by ionwake | 2025-06-20 20:14:49+00:00
Absolute masterpiece both the Anime and this blog entry.

I remember as a skinny 80s kid, walking barefoot into a videostore near the beach in Spain where I lived. No internet, TV only had 4 channels, and aside from the gift of Dragon Ball on TV nothing else that interested or inspired me.

Then out of hundreds of videos I saw this, I had no idea who Ghibli, anime, even was and had few friends as I was autistic.

Yet I could tell from a couple of pictures on the cover it had themes of flying and war beautifully painted.

I ended up watching that, in the late 80s on a crt , in my swim trunks, and although we had next to no money, and plastic furniture in the house ( ironically we lived in the spanish "malibu")... just my family were common workers... I ended up spending a couple of dollars to rent it out a number of times.

Thank you Miyazaki and Studio Ghlibli for your work, it elevated souls in far reaches.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-20 20:14:55+00:00
This article is alarmist clickbait and doesn't stand up to scrutiny:

> this could mean unexplained failures after a Windows update

I'm not sure how the author concludes that. From https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/hardwaredevcenter/r...:

> The first phase targets legacy drivers that have newer replacements already on Windows Update.

So only outdated drivers with replacements will be removed.

Likewise:

> Technically, expiring a driver means removing all its audience assignments in Hardware Development Center, which stops Windows Update from offering that driver to devices.

I don't interpret that as Windows Update proactively removing a driver that's already downloaded to a computer.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-20 20:15:25+00:00
Presumably US-centric reactions to this stuff on other social media is 100% consistently "lol EU", other than when I'm fired up enough to make a late stage Americana quip. (Ex. This morning, buncha nonsense making fun of Macron tweet re: EU should buy France fighter jets turns to lolol omg the Frenchie surrender monkey is selling war)

As a US citizen, I'd like to thank any of you imposing costs on us for how intellectually lazy & stupid we've gotten en masse. Reality intruding over and over and over is the only way things start getting better.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-20 20:16:26+00:00
Azure Europe is located in data centers in Norway, Germany, Netherlands, France and others.

The only US sovereign services in Azure is Azure US Government. Microsoft isn’t rolling out Azure US Government in Europe. It does offer like Azure Germany in the past which is sovereign.

There typically is a delay in rollout of features from US to Europe though.

But you could make the same nationalist argument for their dependence on all sorts of things like Microsoft Office. They could go to LibreOffice which some places have but it doesn’t have parity with Microsoft Office

Another argument could be made that Europe shouldn’t rely on places like Dell either for corporate or business PCs such as how in many sectors years ago the US stopped using Lenovo.

Microsoft is still subject to US laws like the CLOUD Act. That’s the real issue policymakers are reacting to. They’re not necessarily anti-Azure; they’re pro-control over sensitive systems
by unvs | 2025-06-20 20:16:40+00:00
Any chance of open sourcing the model instructions for this? Do you feed it all the Phoenix/LiveView/Elixir docs, or have you written more specialised instructions?

I find Claude to have quite a bit of problems trying to navigate changesets + forms + streams in my codebase, just wondered if you had any tips of making it understand better :)
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-20 20:16:51+00:00
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/hardwaredevcenter/r...

One can spin anything.

> But there’s a catch. Microsoft may demand a business justification before allowing a republish. And if the partner doesn’t respond within six months, the driver is deleted permanently.

Ok.. and? You're complaining that 6 months isn't enough for a hardware vendor who published a driver that has a replacement and they believe there is a newer replacement for (but they could be wrong)? You're complaining that they might ask "why?"

Say Debian maintainers want to get in touch with a package maintainer. They are thinking of removing it from their repository because no one is using it and there are tings about it they are not sure. They ping the package maintainer. Is it unreasonable to expect a reply in 6 months? should it be 12? 24? Is is also unreasonable for Debian maintainers to ask "Why?" if the package owner's answer (oh no, please keep it)?

> And while the company claims this is about improving security and reducing compatibility issues, the reality is that it’s cutting support for a lot of older devices in the name of modernization.

Ok, editorializing is fine, but literally nothing in the Microsoft post says they are removing drivers from devices and leaving them without drivers. They are removing older expired versions of drivers. Is it possible that a particular old version of a driver is very important for a particular scenario that newer version of the same driver don't cover? Of course. How in the hell would Microsoft know that? They presumably have telemetry on downloads, loaded drivers, etc. But they still can't cover everything.

> In other words, things that used to work might just stop working.

In other words, never make any changes. Things that used to work might just stop working. ok..

> Microsoft’s cleanup may sound responsible on the surface, but for anyone still clinging to older hardware or niche accessories, it might feel more like abandonment. Once a driver disappears, finding it again could become a scavenger hunt.

oh a scavenger hunt, sounds fun.
by ge96 | 2025-06-20 20:16:52+00:00
I wonder if registrars provide lists of bought domain names vs. trying to map IPV4 which has multiple domains pointing to same ip

would be interesting to do mapping yourself though probably pointless with how much effort/time it would take

does remind me of this fun video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
by kunzhi | 2025-06-20 20:17:44+00:00
> I really enjoyed the Oakley Flak series, the fit was superb.

Oh for sure, they were quite good, there was a real reason they became popular. But like you said, it got to be annoying that wearing Oakleys was a statement. (Plus, at least where I lived, they were part of the "douche uniform.")

In terms of recommendations, I'm still getting lots of mileage out of my Ray-Ban Wayfarers, and they're polarized.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-20 20:17:45+00:00
Seems highly likely that Microsoft have better data on which hardware is actually in use.

Linux is more likely to have a driver for some obscure hardware, because no one has actually been comfortable removing it in the past decade, but it's also not actually tested on actual hardware. Unless it's an Itanium CPU, in which case the code is gone.

We had the same story regarding file systems last year. Technically Linux had a driver for an old Unix filesystem, but it had only been tested on filesystems made with the same driver/filesystem-code, not on actual disks with the original filesystem.

The Linux advantage is that if you really need that hardware to work, you might get lucky, and if not, you're not starting from scratch.
by WASDAai | 2025-06-20 20:18:36+00:00
It does not. What it does is, if you take consider delta phi then if you compress it more each step, the more it gets closer, the more you compress then you get near to golden ratio with like 10^-31 error only. The point of this equation is, at first it seems like just a not working serie generated by ai. But if you analyze correctly then you see it has something more inside. I already developed several python codes to do experiments with this graph and have graphs to see how this equations acts. What also interesting is, it always acts differently. People wanted to see if it can generate the golden ratio this is why I spent my time on showing that yes, It can. But the main purpose of this equation is not input and see bunch of 1.618033988749894848204586834365638...... It is just an illusion for me the keep eyes on it. Otherwise people would not understand the key point of this equation.
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-20 20:18:40+00:00
Yeah, in a sense.

The US' software domination has really spooked a lot of people and nation states. No one really trusts US tech companies.

And sure, "everybody spies", but that in and of itself will bring a lot more competition and privacy focus, hopefully.

China will take advantage of that sentiment. They don't have to win the war personally, just the US has to lose it. India is already trying to develop its own phones, China will only keep going.

No one really trusts US tech on a global scale.
by zemvpferreira | 2025-06-20 20:19:20+00:00
I think you can extend this transposition across a lot more career paths: athletes, entrepreneurs, musicians, models, film directors, etc. Any career where the financial outcome can be described by a power law follows the same dynamics, has the same gatekeepers, who have the same abusive/sycophantic relationships to market participants.

When I was raising VC I related more to struggling artist than employed technologists. Being constantly rejected, needing to be seen as more gifted than the competition and the goddamn urgency to catch on fire yesterday were the same and we got along great even if we understood and cared nothing about each other's work.

People who are considering one of these paths have an opportunity to learn from folks who might not do what they do exactly, but have been in the same sort of system. To realise the relationships they're buying into, the price they'll need to pay for a shot at stardom and to think if it's really an experience they can afford.
by RivieraKid | 2025-06-20 20:20:14+00:00
> progress has been kind of "slow"

Isn't it simply because it's a fundamentally hard problem that may not even be solvable? Simulating a 50 amino acids long protein in water for 1 ms on a top supercomputer using molecular dynamics would take about a week.

Can the current approach lead to models that are even remotely as useful as a full molecular dynamics simulation? The current approach requires us to first discover the hard stuff, the myriads of tiny mechanisms happening in the cell.
by const_cast | 2025-06-20 20:20:29+00:00
> For end-user application, it's a mess. You can't compile once and run everywhere.

Yes you can, you said it yourself: flatpak, snap, and appimage.

Okay okay, those technologies have problems. But all technologies do. That's why Microsoft has half a dozen GUI frameworks and then they build their own in-house applications in Electron :P
by Terr_ | 2025-06-20 20:20:37+00:00
Yeah, if waste management was as viable as proponents claim, places like Hanford [0] would already be an inactive site with a memorial park on top.

Whether it's technology, economics, or politics, clearly the state of the art is deficient because we currently have persistent deficiencies.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
by nine_zeros | 2025-06-20 20:21:00+00:00
There is some truth to avoiding whiney echo chambers. But these watering holes also give insights into the dirty.

E.g. Amazon, Meta etc. have terrible work cultures. Their terribleness got exposed via whiney digital watering holes, at scale. This is useful information for anyone considering jobs at these places. Without these insights, you wouldn't know that you are merely being hired to be fired.

Avoid whiney watering holes but after collecting required information.
by jitl | 2025-06-20 20:21:53+00:00
Just because borgcfg is painful (?) and YAML is a better option for the public, doesn't mean we can't continue and improve on YAML with more limited expression syntax. Terraform/HCL is often annoying because it doesn't give users tools like easy function declarations for re-use. You get one re-use abstraction: create a module, which is heavy-weight - needs a new directory, "provider version" declarations, a lot of boilerplate per input and output. In return this means the amount of creative shenanigans one needs to understand is typically pretty low.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-06-20 20:22:26+00:00
> Then they'll have to find a way to separate the "smart" frame from the prescription lenses, so you can change the glasses when your sight changes without having to buy smart frame each time - or the other way around, upgrade your frames without having to buy prescriptions lenses again.

Ehh, there is nothing special about the lens, all the magic is in the frame, and the rayban and oakley frames look very similar to their standard versions. Getting new lenses for sunglasses is very common.

Have you never had prescription sunglasses?
by Duanemclemore | 2025-06-20 20:23:40+00:00
Klong was among the languages I looked at when I was trying to pick a language for a project (ongoing but back-burnered at the moment). Ultimately I went for Dyalog APL, but looking at the documentation - and the great website - for Klong I found it quite... charming? If you're familiar with the array paradigm it's pretty straightforward.

Unrelated editorializing - Klong has come up in passing on the Array Cast [0] before, but I'm surprised they haven't interviewed Holm. They seem to be doing less of the "forbears tell awesome stories" episodes lately. Which is a shame because that's probably the single best sub-set of Array Cast episode types...

[0] https://www.arraycast.com/
by all2 | 2025-06-20 20:23:52+00:00
I've tried a few times to get into ROS for personal projects. I guess I understand the gist of it, but I still don't understand it.

Suppose I've got a motor, a motor driver, and an Arduino. How does ROS work with that? There's all this message passing and distinct blocks of stuff, but how do I get my motor to turn?

I'm sure there are tutorials out there... I get tired trying to approach their docs. I typically understand things from the ground up or from the top down. Their docs seem to start in the middle and work up/down at the same time.

[edit]

What are my alternatives in this space? What is better than ROS?
by hbcondo714 | 2025-06-20 20:24:06+00:00
Thanks for posting this. I tried using your Guidelines instructions format[1] in my app but no matter what, the LanguageModelSession always returns very lengthy / verbose responses. I set the maximumResponseTokens[2] option to various small numbers but it doesn't appear to have any effect. Did you by chance encounter this issue as well?

[1] https://github.com/slipboxai/swift-scribe/blob/7952c9e845cff...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels/g...
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-20 20:24:13+00:00
The same way a lot of cool video content/research/products are: crowd source.

Even air can be monetized if you have the right legal team and tech. And we're all random working class people who can't afford a good lawyer even when we need it so... go figure.

Copying is built into all of our hardware/software. To keep extending copyright you have to either end privacy or neuter hardware/software.
by imiric | 2025-06-20 20:24:14+00:00
That's not centralization. Specific providers might be more popular than others, but the user always has a choice of which to use. It's a myth that it's not possible to run your own mail server. Many people do so without issues.

DNS is hierarchical, so of course every provider will ultimately peer with the same root servers. And TLDs definitely aren't centralized. They're managed by different companies, and users can use any number of registrars.
by guilhas | 2025-06-20 20:24:24+00:00
100%, I won't replace x11 it until I feel all my automation tools work correctly or the "way.." alternative is better

Was just making the parallel with Wayland, how frustrating it has been for a lot of people, how everyone preaching correct software design, should be simple/protocols/standards/modular with correct responsibilities between projects... and how fast everyone forgot it
by jitl | 2025-06-20 20:24:43+00:00
Hashicorp ships official packages that wrap hcl2json:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cdktf/hcl2json

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/tree/main/package...

I use the package to implement module dependency graph tracking across our terraform monorepo for things like code reviews and CI triggering.
by ianburrell | 2025-06-20 20:24:49+00:00
The new theory is that they came along the coast. Clovis culture arrived 13-16,000 years ago through corridor in ice sheets. But earlier sites, including these footprints, suggest that people arrived another way. These footprints are 21-23,000 years ago. I don't think there is any evidence how they got there, but the coast is plausible explanation.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-20 20:25:30+00:00
> Once you learn the difference between a valid and a sound argument and then realize just how ambiguous every English sentence is the idea that just because you have a logical argument you have something useful in everyday life becomes laughable rather quickly.

Ironically, that reminds me of "37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong", written by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008...
by LtdJorge | 2025-06-20 20:25:31+00:00
Yep, but seems like the discussion was around solid titanium, that's why I mentioned sheet titanium. I can't see how making the fame out of thin titanium with hard bends (like how computer cases are made of steel sheets, but on a small scale) would make it weigh more than the solid acetate version. Should also be much stronger.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-06-20 20:25:32+00:00
I'm on the free plan and have been using it via GitHub copilot instead, as the current project is a work one and they pay for that.

Before this I did a small project and I hit the 50 free tier limit through Zed by the time I was about 90% done. It was a small file drop app where internal users could create upload links, share them with people who could use them to upload a file. The internal user could then download that file. So it was very basic, but it churned out a reasonable UI and all the S3 compatible integration, etc.

I had to intervene a bit and obviously was reviewing everything and tweaking where needed. But I was surprised at how far I got on the 50 free prompts.

It's hard to know what you really get for that prompt limit though as I probably had a much higher number of actual prompts than they were registering. It's obviously using some token calculation under the hood and it's not clear what that is. All in all I probably had about 60-70 actual prompts I ran through it.

My gut says 500/mo would feel limited if I was going full "vibe" and having the LLM do basically everything for me every day. That said, this is the first LLM product I'm considering personally paying for. The integration with Zed is what wins for me over Claude, where you'd have to pay for API credits or use Claude Code. The way they highlight code changes and stuff really is nice.

Bit of a brain dump, sorry about that!