MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lammy | 2025-06-17 17:43:04+00:00
I've already been living this life for half a decade, since my PC's motherboard only supports up to Windows 10 v1909 for some reason. No idea why or what component could be the cause, but the later updates indeed fail to install and automatically roll back to v1909 when I try. They eventually updated the product page to mention it: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SAE (at the very bottom)

> Note: Win 10 OS can't support beyond 19H2 version

Verdict: It's been actually amazing, and I had forgotten how much I love having a computer that never decides that it's acceptable to interrupt my workspace because it knows better than me. Anyone who wants to tell me to BE AFRAID is welcome to come haxx0r my Gibson and make me believe, otherwise I'll happily keep using this garbage forever ;)
by narag | 2025-06-17 17:43:20+00:00
Disclaimer: I can't really vouch for any of this, but let me tell you what's being discussed in the press over here.

This is Government's version and it shows.

REE boss was put there by the ruling party. Still they try to paint REE as a private operator now. It's not. Like many other orgs, it's a mix of private and public capital, ultimately controled by the government.

It's suspected that the blackout was caused because she overruled technicians' opinion, looking for a solar % record.

Not "enough thermal power stations" carefully avoids mentioning nuclear, that they want to erradicate.

Private companies are requesting the records of CECOEL conversation to be published, some have leaked their logs. In one of those, REE technicians readily admit that oscilations are caused by not enough nuclear in the mix.
by Henchman21 | 2025-06-17 17:43:26+00:00
Well my library was essentially destroyed by their actions. Albums that I own and ripped my damn self now have holes in them — all the wildly popular tracks on many of my albums are gone. The metadata still shows the track but it won’t play. The artwork I carefully curated was overwritten with unrelated junk albums, often $0.99 compilations that you might’ve found in a bargain bin 20 years ago. Even the data I created myself Apple felt zero issue with overwriting it themselves.

Oh and all my lossless got shit on.

Fuck me I guess??
by selivanovp | 2025-06-17 17:43:49+00:00
I don't think we have a totally verified number up to this day. It's definitely several thousands as Ukrainian army actively prevented civilians to leave the city, so significant number died under collapsed buildings.

Overall, according to UN "More than 12,654 civilian men, women, girls, and boys have been killed, and over 29,392 injured since 24 February 2022, as verified by HRMMU."

https://ukraine.un.org/en/289667-civilian-harm-and-human-rig...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293409/civilian-deaths-...

With the May of 2025 the total casualties are claimed as 13341:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293492/ukraine-war-casu...
by EvanAnderson | 2025-06-17 17:43:51+00:00
I'm having a lot of luck "upgrading" Windows 10 Pro to 11 24H2 on "unsupported" PCs with the setup command line arguments: setup.exe /Product Server /Compat IgnoreWarning

I'm sure an update will break the machines, down the road, but for now it's letting me eek a little more life out of some machines.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-17 17:44:13+00:00
Any agent of the state. If I were King(TM) it wouldn't even be possible to call in an anonymous tip to the most mundane of local government offices. Sure a few people would get some retribution initially but eventually it'd result in better alignment between the interests of the state and people. Anything not worth doing fully above the table isn't worth doing.
by etskinner | 2025-06-17 17:44:18+00:00
If you can figure out a way to do without the nasal cannula, the possibilities are huge. Maybe a good IR camera could look at the air coming out of your nose and determine the velocity. Seems like it's actually already a thing [1].

Cynically, you could use it for surveillance, similar to how they do face recognition or temperature scanning in airports.

The flip side of the coin is that it could be used for better authentication or medical purposes. Maybe your oxygen tank could realize you're breathing different than usual to warn you that you might be having a seizure, stroke, or heart attack. Or maybe we'd have "breathe to sign in" similar to FaceID

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J_EBMhrinNc
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-17 17:45:11+00:00
Folks who are into photography and want to introduce it to their family/kids want to gently introduce the skills of photography while enabling their interest in taking pictures. Smartphones are great at just "taking pictures" but don't offer a lot of creative input. Table stakes like depth-of-field and color balance are either impossible to configure or very difficult on a smartphone. Controlling exposure is very difficult as most smartphones try to just aim for neutral exposure. Software can change exposure settings, and on Android I use a paid camera app that gives me control of shutter speed and ISO to control exposure.

But you're correct that if picture quality and ease of use are the main points of contention, a used iPhone or used Pixel phone is probably all you need to get sharp pictures and decent auto-HDR.

That's not to say that an $850 Fuji body is the only way forward. I'd probably buy a younger kid a used point-and-shoot and buy an older kid one of those cheaper compacts. That Fuji body is almost as expensive as a real mirrorless that I shoot with for paid work.
by RajT88 | 2025-06-17 17:46:17+00:00
So - the cooked-ness of Tesla may depend on what you think Musk's goal was with Tesla.

If you believe he was out to change the world - maybe he'll let Tesla die. It's unlikely they are going to accomplish much else at this point, better, smarter more experienced competitors are sweeping the board.

If you believe he's out to make as much money as he can, he'll probably course correct at some point. Lidar it is clear will be the future of self-driving, and with all the adopters the economies of scale will kick in at some point.
by JCattheATM | 2025-06-17 17:46:17+00:00
I was using OpenShell with W10 so needing a thirdparty taskbar isn't horrible. I see people complaining they can't truly disable updates on 10, which I did without too much of an issue. Truly removing and shrinking down everything was a project, but it's been solid and fast since doing so.

I kept a lot of notes and a lot should still apply to 11, but it's still a chore. I'm actually looking at recreating Tiny11 as a base and figuring out what to manually add back on a case by case basis to have all the functionality I need.

I will need something to run GTA6 when it comes, if nothing else.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-17 17:46:22+00:00
I think it was the forced relocation of Native Americans to the worst possible land with no natural resources that destroyed them over generations, not the little free government money they received. If they had no opportunity to extract wealth from the land, and they were outside population centers (who were also highly discriminatory against them), then they had very few options.

(These days wealth is not necessarily created by extracting value from physical resources, but that is a very recent development.)
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-06-17 17:46:36+00:00
I've only seen it used by companies that cannot get out of their own way.

Instead of news.honda.com (their actual domain) or hondanews.com (actual domain, redirect from before, all owned by them, also has news) or honda.global (makes sense, but nothing there) or honda.com/news (makes sense, but nothing there) they go waste money on a new gTLD. So we have global.honda/en/newsroom/. .

At least they're using it: https://domainmetadata.com/list-of-all-honda-domains
by noworriesnate | 2025-06-17 17:46:39+00:00
But software developers often struggle to use sql and prefer using ORMs or analytical APIs like polars; the people who excel at sql are typically not programmers, they’re data engineers, DBAs, analysts, etc.

Maybe a similar bifurcation will arise where there are vibe coders who use LLMs to write everything, and there are real engineers who avoid LLMs.

Maybe we’re seeing the beginning of that with the whole bifurcation of programmers into two camps: heavy AI users and AI skeptics.
by silotis | 2025-06-17 17:46:42+00:00
> Because at the time those vulnerabilities could be exploited by executing malicious javascript in a browser to steal passwords

"could be" is doing a lot of work here. AFAIK there has never been a PoC or active exploit which actually exfiltrates sensitive data from a browser using these vulnerabilities. Anyways, browsers have long since implemented software mitigations.

IIRC the real criteria for W11 support has to do with TPMs. Microsoft really wants to have secure boot on all Windows systems.
by xp84 | 2025-06-17 17:46:47+00:00
You're all missing the point.

There are different attack vectors. Yes, 15 random chars is sufficient if random, but recalling and typing 15 truly random characters is a big challenge for most everyone.

You shouldn't be having to remember and type your password for Hacker News, for Gmail, or your bank, ever, not even one time.

By making them 30 characters, you're ensuring one of two things:

A. Users at least use a passphrase such as "my dad liked to drink 6 packs of Miller Lite" which is brute-force-proof so, that's fine

B. Users who aren't masochists use a password manager properly and never have to even see their password let alone type it.

That's it, that's the whole endgame. By keeping passwords short enough to memorize and type, you're just enabling people to use P455w0rd. And if you think that only impacts stupid people, most people are stupid and many of them are in charge of keeping your data (and infrastructure, and government, etc) safe. You need them to be protected, to protect you.
by blindriver | 2025-06-17 17:46:58+00:00
I have over $100k in Tesla puts.

There is no way Tesla survives this. They have plummeting sales every quarter, and Elon is pushing out a product that is going to get into an accident within the first week.

Robotaxis are glorified Ubers and will never level up to Waymos. FSD is useless if you have to keep your eye on the wheel and road.

I have a Tesla Model Y. It's my favorite car I've ever driven. I subscribed to FSD as recently as last month for one month to try it out. It doesn't work as well as a Waymo, not even close. It still feels like a really good high school demo but not close to being in the same ballpark as Waymo.

But Elon has killed his brand with his politics, and the robotaxi initiative is a desperate attempt to gain ground. But it's going to kill someone and it will be 100% on him because he's the one pushing this when there's no way it will ever be ready for real world situations the way Waymo is.
by djaychela | 2025-06-17 17:47:19+00:00
FTR no-one I know (other than in old school industry about 20 years ago) used the UK 'Ton' any more. One place of work made this clear by having different pronuncication ('Tonn-ey') as they were an old-school foundry. And the spelling is different from wherever I've seen it.

The nuclear industry was using metric weights fully when I did my apprenticeship in it in the late 1980s. Good job really as I think a conversion error could be catastrophic.

Same goes for gallons though, US gallon is smaller than a UK one.
by duxup | 2025-06-17 17:47:49+00:00
>Removing organizational complexity and empowering our engineers will enable us to better serve the needs of our customers and strengthen our execution

When it comes to factory workers, I don't think of them as folks who are getting in the way of engineers / organizational complexity ... that's more upper management and everyone who gets to say "no" to any given idea. Not a factory worker.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-17 17:47:53+00:00
Vibe coders? No. But I can easily see the electrical and mechanical engineers that I've worked with building modern versions of this. The software guys will laugh and say, "give me a 3-axis rate gyro and accelerometer and we can build it with no moving parts."

And I say that as a software guy who has a handful of resolvers in a drawer somewhere :-)

I think people radically underestimate how much capability we have. It's rarely necessary to do things exactly the way they were done 60 years ago.
by dale_huevo | 2025-06-17 17:48:04+00:00
Why is this e-waste when compared to old Mac laptops - many of which are in perfect working order, save Apple arbitrarily stopping OS updates because they were too lazy to maintain or update device drivers. Somehow MS requiring TPM2 for Windows 11 was the end of humanity as we know it, but a Mac with a T2 chip is heralded as progress.

If anything many of these PCs will enjoy a second life off eBay in someone's home-lab running Linux. One of the most popular "servers" in the home-lab community are those little Lenovo Thinkstations you see in hospitals.

Edit: if you're a sysadmin at a university, aren't you replacing machines every 3-5 years anyway?
by zdragnar | 2025-06-17 17:48:14+00:00
My brother's family and my parents all have iPhones and apple devices because the whole apple ecosystem Just Works for them, especially sharing pictures. They're far from tech saavy, and telling them to "just install this on your phone and this on your computer and this other thing on your other computer" is a non-starter.

None of them actually care that they are Apple products or iWhatevers. Most couldn't tell you what the difference is between what they use and windows or android. They just know to go to the apple store to get things that work for them.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-17 17:48:14+00:00
The magic was that you had to have iTunes Match or manually sync. Years later, few people remember or are still shaking their fist and babbling over U2.

Apple didn’t communicate that well and many folks lost stuff, particularly if they are picky about recordings.

All of the CD collection stuff has degraded everywhere as the databases of tracks have been passed around to various overlords.
by nopelynopington | 2025-06-17 17:48:27+00:00
I'm going to make a guess that you only began working from home during COVID, as a lot of people did. It takes discipline and doesn't suit everyone, and during COVID a lot of people who were not suited to it were forced into it.

Sure, some people are more effective in an office. No denying that. Even just for the social benefit, which some people sorely need. But it's not a universal truth. Some people are better off working remotely.

I live hours from where my company HQ is. RTO for me would mean a 7 hour round trip ever day or staying over for a few nights a week, just so I can sit in a room with other people with headphones on.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-17 17:48:37+00:00
Do you let guests shoot the 90mm in full auto mode? Personally I've found that the general population has a really hard time operating a camera. My partner and I can both do photography though I'm more serious about it and we frequently travel with cameras. When we want someone else to take pictures, even on Auto mode I find others have a hard time. If we're in a hurry and want a picture taken by someone else we just hand them a phone.
by mock-possum | 2025-06-17 17:49:05+00:00
I have an old MacBook that even after a factory reset or a wipe and reinstall from scratch is unusably slow and can’t update to the latest OS, and so isn’t compatible with updates to software I use or new stuff I might be interested in -

Like come on. Let’s not pretend this is a M$ problem. Apple is just as greedy in terms of what is effectively planned obsolescence.
by senkora | 2025-06-17 17:49:20+00:00
I had to look up some terms, so for anyone else:

Gish gallop = “a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.”, coined about a particular creationist’s debate strategy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

CADT = “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers”, describing a situation where software is re-written so often that filing bugs against it is useless, coined by jwz here about GNOME’s development approach: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
by staticman2 | 2025-06-17 17:49:35+00:00
That wasn't a real quote. I guess my sarcasm didn't transmit to text.I found the entire article so ridiculous that for a moment I thought it was satirical.

The actual quote was this:

"Em dashes are great for inserting clarifying details, quick shifts, or sharp asides—without breaking the sentence. I love them. When used well, they add rhythm and emphasis. They help writing flow the way people actually talk."
by theturtletalks | 2025-06-17 17:49:37+00:00
I feel like this is part of the AI playbook now. Launch a really strong, capable model (expensive price inference) and once users think it’s SOTA, neuter it so the cost is cheaper and most users won’t notice.

The same happened with GPT-3.5. It was so good early on and got worse as OpenAI began to cut costs. I feel like when GPT-4.1 was cloaked as Optimus on Openrouter, it was really good, but once it launched, it also got worse.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-17 17:49:40+00:00
Well. I got the very first Ryzen model, the 1800X, because it had twice the amount of cores that Intel was selling, and they were just a few percent slower per core. If they had been 40% slower, I would have passed.

My most important workload - compiling C++ - is atypically parallel, but even there, single-core is important, too.
by Juliate | 2025-06-17 17:51:07+00:00
There's a thing I don't get, as a non-USAmerican.

If someone unidentified, masked, showing no warrant, no legal justification of anything, kidnaps/attempts to kidnap someone, how are (organised) citizens not in their legitimate right to retaliate, according to what their local state allows them to?

Similarly, why/how are the law enforcement units not taking side against those kidnapping?

I mean, in my country, this would obviously call for immediate intervention of the police, but maybe that's because I'm still in a country where administrative enforcement is still ultimately under the control of the judiciary branch.
by mlsu | 2025-06-17 17:52:33+00:00
Another thing that is troubling is that immigration law is sort of a parallel system to normal criminal law. The rights for the accused are lesser and obligations for officers are more lax. The burden of proof is lower. It's easier to get warrants and the rules of evidence are more relaxed.

There is a parallel authoritarian system being built up, starting with the creation of DHS in 2001 and ending god knows where. The massive expansion of ICE should ring alarm bells for everyone. This power grab does not end. It will expand and continue.

Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now? We have masked feds rolling up and barging in without warrants...?
by steveklabnik | 2025-06-17 17:53:24+00:00
By looking at the pages it looked at and deciding for yourself, just like you would with a web search you invoked yourself. I’ve generally found it to use trustworthy stuff like Stack Overflow, Wikipedia, and university websites. But I also haven’t used it in this way that much or for very serious things. I’d imagine more obscure questions are more likely to end up involving less trustworthy sites.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-17 17:54:03+00:00
While the network of Usenet is pretty fascinating, the NNTP protocol is pretty bad. It's a stateful protocol which makes it challenging to write clients for and the protocol itself is textual and chatty which makes it fat on the wire. ActivityPub is a much better "modern" manifestation of the protocol and its capabilities, though unfortunately the actual AP standard is barely glanced at and most people write code for Mastodon's implementation of AP with a minority focused on Lemmy.
by lesostep | 2025-06-17 17:54:20+00:00
>> you bust someone for having child porn, you shouldn't have to keep hosting child porn.

Alternative question: if Google decides I had child porn on my account and deletes it, how can I prove that it wasn't a child porn?

It's my data, and until someone proves in court that the law was broken, how can they delete it on a basis of breaking the law? It would be offensive even if it happened due to human misunderstanding, but getting banned on an account I paid for, because their algorithms are shit -- that's beyond any reason.
by mbreese | 2025-06-17 17:54:23+00:00
Exactly. Phone cameras have completely absorbed the middle-ground for cameras. You either can find a cheap one where you don't care as much about the quality (for kids, or times when the phone could get damaged). Or you can find expensive ones like this where the fact that it's not a phone is the main feature. Any middle-range point and shoot has been out competed by the the phone you probably already have with you. That leaves the higher end DSLR style camera as the only other market segment for a standalone camera.

My kid recently asked about getting a stand alone camera. I found this one, but at that price, they needed to have a really good reason. In the end, I told them to use their phone anyway.

“¯\_(ツ)_/¯“
by 0xblacklight | 2025-06-17 17:54:25+00:00
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by ninalanyon | 2025-06-17 17:54:35+00:00
Arthur Clarke made this point in a story about high latency communication half a century or more ago. He made the point that one should simply keep talking rather than wait for questions and answers to ping pong back and forth. While one is providing an answer you can be asking the next question. I can't remember the name of the story though. The solution was expressed in slightly sexist terms: speak like to women having a telephone conversation exchanging news.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-17 17:54:36+00:00
when o3 pricing dropped 80%, most wrote the entire model family off as a downgrade (including me). but usage patterns flipped people finally ran real tasks through it. it's one of the few that holds state across fragmented prompts without collapsing context. used it to audit a messy auth flow spread over 6 services. didn't shortcut, didn't hallucinate edge cases. slow, but deliberate. in kahneman terms, it runs system 2 by default. many still benchmark on token speed, missing what actually matters
by theamk | 2025-06-17 17:54:37+00:00
> the most serious human-made risks include a bio-attack pandemic, a global exchange of thermonuclear bombs, the emergence of an artificial superintelligence that’s unfriendly to humans, and the spectre of nanotechnology-enabled weapons of mass destruction.

the article proceeds to have a lot of discussion about nanotechnology and other very sci-fi topics