MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IlikeKitties | 2025-06-24 15:40:04+00:00
> Again, this is a fallacy.

Okay, maybe you are not a native speaker, so you might mean a different thing with fallacy.

Here's the dictionary definition of fallacy

> an idea that a lot of people think is true but is in fact false [0] > a false belief [0]

My comment was

> Again, no one is locking down GrapheneOS you can literally download the source and try to get it to run on any device you like. You just want someone else to do the work for you because you lack the skills and it's not available for the particular phone you want.

Here is the link to the GrapheneOS Source: https://grapheneos.org/source

Here's the GrapheneOS FAQ regarding other Devices [1]

> Many other devices are supported by GrapheneOS at a source level, and it can be built for them without modifications to the existing GrapheneOS source tree. Device support repositories for the Android Open Source Project can simply be dropped into the source tree, with at most minor modifications within them to support GrapheneOS. In most cases, substantial work beyond that will be needed to bring the support up to the same standards. For most devices, the hardware and firmware will prevent providing a reasonably secure device, regardless of the work put into device support.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/fall... [1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

Where's the fallacy?

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Now after editing he makes this argument instead:

> And while I am searching for a way for GrapheneOS to grow, you are searching for a way to keep it limited to corporation made phones. And it is corporations that have the most interest to make it insecure trough hardware, SOC is just one day to do it. So you are failing even on security perspective.

There are no not-corporation made phones on this planet. Every conceivable part of a phone is made by a corporations from parts extracted from this planet by corporations, shipped and assembled by corporations. Do you think that the Fairphone, made by the fairphone corporation is not made by a corporation? From There Wikipage [2]

> Fairphone B.V. > Company type Privately held company

> And it is corporations that have the most interest to make it insecure trough hardware, SOC is just one day to do it. So you are failing even on security perspective.

So google, spending literally billions [3] on cybersecurity with a direct interest and industry leading track record in keeping pixel devices secure has an interest to make it insecure?

I stand by judgment: The required retardation for this kind of argument is amazing.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone [3] https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/why-were-comm...

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So, i'm dealing with a first grade tech student that learned some cybersecurity words. Here's how you can prove me wrong, answer the following simple questions:

1. Why should the GrapheneOS Developers do the work you want them to do? They seem uninterested and I don't see you paying them the 100s of thousands of dollars to hire someone to do the work for them.

2. Name a Phone that's not made by a corporation.
by wglb | 2025-06-24 15:40:07+00:00
> Seems that a judge does not understand the impact of asking company X to "retain all data"

You can count on the fact that the judge does in fact understand that this is a very routine part of such a process.

It is more like the users of ChatGpt don't understand the implication of giving "the cloud" sensitive information and what can happen to it.

It might surprise many such users the extent that the data they casually place at the hands of giant third parties can be, and has routinely, been the target of successful subpoena.

As an illustration, if two huge companies sue each other, part of the legal process involves disclosure. This means inhaling vast quantities of data from their data stores, their onsite servers, executives laptops. Including those laptops that have Ashley Madison data on them. Of course, part of the legal process is motions to exclude this and that, but that may well be after the data is extracted.

For understanding of this topic, pay attention to what DannyBee says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361478 and not what HN users wish were true.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-24 15:40:22+00:00
> Almost all real numbers are normal numbers, which don't even have a finite representation.

Plenty of normal numbers have a finite representation from which digits can be efficiently extracted. E.g., Champernowne's constant (in any base) is normal, and you can find its digits with a relatively simple algorithm.

All computable reals can similarly have their digits extracted by some algorithm or another, even though it may take a long time. I wouldn't call that "not having access to the value". Of course, uncomputable numbers are a different story, but they have nothing to do with normality in any base.

And of course, radix representations are not the only way to evaluate real numbers. E.g., you could represent them with simple continued fractions (which would still allow addition, multiplication, comparison, etc.), and then you could write out any quadratic irrational with a periodic expansion.
by coldpie | 2025-06-24 15:40:37+00:00
Video games are a good place to start, especially for old consoles like the NES. The impacts of your experimenting are immediately visible, and they're simple devices (though the hardware "APIs" can be pretty unintuitive to a modern programmer), and there's a lot of tooling already built for hacking and reversing them. Try loading up your favorite NES game in Mesen and poke around its debugging tools with nesdev.org open in a browser. If the game you're working with has already been reversed by someone else, you may find some useful info on https://datacrystal.tcrf.net , too.

Reversing more modern software is tricky. I wrote a couple articles a while back about hacking a Gamecube game that you might enjoy:

https://www.smokingonabike.com/2021/01/17/hacking-super-monk...

https://www.smokingonabike.com/2021/02/28/hacking-super-monk...

Accompanying HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26315368
by didntcheck | 2025-06-24 15:40:43+00:00
If anything I'm worried that corporate security people will hear of "attacks" like this and blindly add "must use attestation with passkeys" to their checklists, and desktop computing will end up in the same state as mobile, where you have to have an unmodified OS install from one of a handful of authorized fiefdoms to log into your bank. It's a long way off, due to the amount of old laptops with no TPM about, but a plausible future

Edit: I may be misunderstanding the scope of attestation in a FIDO/Webauthn context. Is it a legitimate concern that it would lock out other OSes, or would you simply need a hardware key (or perhaps a TPM), but could run what you want above it?
by ludsan | 2025-06-24 15:40:57+00:00
I'm glad you responded (i'm assuming you knew i wasn't criticizing the effort, but just in case -- I wasn't). I was assuming asteroid trail, but I've read that green stars can't exist and _could_ be a technosignature of "little green men". :) Your work on this is lovely. The combined effort of so many smart people over decades of work is truly heartening. Thank you.
by dcminter | 2025-06-24 15:41:09+00:00
Yes I know, I read it. I was responding to the parent "of course" insinuation that it was motivated by jealousy of the credit for the Mac. His established promotion of the identity of the contributors gives the lie to this view.

It was probably driven by the same kind of pragmatic business drivers as the later Microsoft ban, i.e. the perception by the market of how "serious" Apple was as a company.

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Edit: According to Gizmodo in 2012:

> He justified the credits ban as a way to avoid headhunters and other companies trying to poach Apple engineering talent. At a time when Apple was sinking rapidly, he said that it made no sense to make the life of the competition easier. He also argued that they were all responsible of the stuff they created in Cupertino. This was a complete change from the 1980s.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-24 15:41:42+00:00
> Like piracy sites did in 00-10s (abuse-proof hosting in Ecuador, shady domain registrar from SEA, zero search indexing) or crypto companies now (net of shell companies where not a single one is responsible for anything).

And they were only able to do so under the auspices of corrupt politicians in said country. For example, Crypto firms in UAE purchasing property in projects closely affiliated with the Emirs of the Emirate they are domiciled in [0]. And Vietnam cracking down on shady domain registrars for streaming in order to unlock trading opportunities such as not being treated as a "Non-Market Economy".

Tech will always be subordinate to the government, and any techno-libertarian ideal faces that harsh reality fairly quickly.

[0] - https://www.occrp.org/en/project/dubai-unlocked
by kzrdude | 2025-06-24 15:41:53+00:00
> I think 2 languages are enough, we don't need a 3rd one that nobody asked for.

Look at the number of stars ruff and uv got on github. That's a meteoric rise. So they were validated with ruff, and continued with uv, this we can call "was asked for".

> I'm against it creeping into an existing eco-system for no reason.

It's not no reason. A lot of other things have been tried. It's for big reasons: Good performance, and secondly independence from Python is a feature. When your python managing tool does not depend on Python itself, it simplifies some things.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-06-24 15:42:08+00:00
It's not their irrelevance, it's their intrusion. The difference between going to Costco and seeing an ad for tires while I'm shopping and being forced to watch some ad online is like the difference between getting punched in the gut during a water polo game (not necessarily pleasant, but expected and to a degree necessary) versus someone kicking down my door in the middle of the night and beating the shit out of me.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-06-24 15:42:31+00:00
yeah but there don't seem to be conclusive studies that show that "microplastics" are a detriment at all.

You'd assume that there is a study that tested 200 people with more and less microplastic intake over a year to show that it actually has an effect, but I guess you'd have to do 20 studies to get a p<0.05...
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-24 15:42:46+00:00
One class of items not listed here, which I'd recently started to think might be less-than-optimal: pepper sold in jars with built-in, plastic, grinders.

I'd long since noted that as the jar emptied the grinders were increasingly ineffective. Thinking on why that might be ... I realised that this was because as you grind the pepper, you're also grinding plastic directly into your food.

There's surprisingly little discussion about this that I can find, though this 5 y.o. Stackexchange question addresses the concern:

<https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/103003/microplas...>

Seems to me that plastic grinders, whether disposable or sold as (apparently) durable products, are a class of products which simply shouldn't exist.

Searching, e.g., Walmart for "plastic grinders" turns up five listings presently, though it's not clear whether it's the body or the grinder itself which is plastic. In several cases it seems to be the latter.

<https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/plastic-grinders>

(Archive of current state: <https://archive.is/yIIX4>
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-24 15:43:28+00:00
You've been mislead by an overloaded term. Urban in an academic context is a much lower bar than urban in a "any reasonably layman's meaning of the word" context.

Pretty much any time you hear "city" or "urban" it's either a direct or indirect reference to US census data (or follow on research by other academics that uses their definitions) which play fast and loose with the word urban in a way that results in the population of even the most far out municipalities within a city's economic area being countable as urban in some capacity depending on what data set you want to use (some of the data sets draw economic distinctions rather than lifestyle ones, so a rural farmer who exists in the eoncomic gravity well of a major urban area will be counted as urban).

This is all magnified by substantially less than honest people omitting the potentially misleading nature of the term when it suits them and the people who they've informed going on to parrot it without actually understanding it.

INB4 nitpickers, it's been a decade since I've done any work with this data, if my knowledge is out of date and it's no longer misleading to the layman then good.
by LaVoixDuFutur | 2025-06-24 15:43:44+00:00
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by ghc | 2025-06-24 15:43:48+00:00
In this case the certification program is extremely onerous, having experienced it myself. A government testing agency will not give you an authorization to operate on a given network or given data impact level until they can independently verify you meet very specific standards, including keeping data at different impact levels physically separate and encrypted at rest at specific encryption standards, keeping processes that access such data on different machines, allowing only one way data transfer across specialized hardware, having a physically separate network from the internet, etc.

Just getting a well-known Python package authorized for install on a single machine can take multiple years. People are used to corporations engaging in security theater, but in the DoD world it's much the opposite: the security apparatus is so paranoid and strict that nobody can get anything done.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-24 15:45:26+00:00
Not Ubuntu, but we need a Linux that's pretty, standardized, simple, fail-safe, developed as an immutable whole, consistent, and integrated as macOS and long-term compatible similar to Windows without the M+MAANG corporate bullshit of either, perhaps through a non-profit, employee-owned co-op social venture.

Perhaps a far more polished and documented version of Qubes with various btrfs trees selectively presented cleanly to appropriate VM containers. Focus on the user UX meets the dev/ops UX but without gimmicks, not-invented-here, or fragility. All of the various desktop-laptop things need to work without surprises and be easily configurable with a UI. For fleet management, a desktop OS really needs simple, programmatic/declarative/imperative MDM- and/or chef-like configuration agent or hooks.
by f_devd | 2025-06-24 15:45:32+00:00
It's really not worth my time finding the research for every single fallacious claim made; the Netherlands is not in the top 10 for physical or digital surveillance[0], nor is it likely get close to China or USA even if they wanted[1]

[0]: https://www.tooltester.com/en/blog/the-worlds-most-surveille... [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2020/10/06/eu-co...
by joseda-hg | 2025-06-24 15:45:47+00:00
At work we have some old computers which entire existence is running a legacy program from back when software didn't have gigs to spare

Those computers efectively have fixed requirements measured in a few megabytes + Whatever Windows needs

This eventually will mean that either those apps get rewriten for no good reason and moved to other platforms, or they get stuck on 'unsupported OS, AirGapped from as much as possible' limbo

Effectively nothing about them changed, they didn't need anything new, the API's didn't change, Microsoft just decided to do the thing
by tristor | 2025-06-24 15:45:50+00:00
> Of those who carry credit cards in the US, 60% of them carry a balance [0].

Carrying a balance is not automatically the worst choice. I have a massively positive net worth (for a working stiff), so could effectively have $0 debt at any point in time, inclusive of my mortgage, but all debt is not equal, nor are all investments. Credit card debt is clearly one of the worst forms of debt with the harshest interest rates, yet even in that case selling investments and paying taxes on them and forgoing future earnings on those investments to pay off a credit card immediately vs over a few months is not necessarily the right decision.

Credit cards are about providing you float so you can smooth out cash flow. As an example, I am about to do some home renovations, I expect to spend ~$40k to do so, I also expect to earn and pay off that $40k over the following 4 months. My options are I can carry a balance on a credit card, I can keep my home in a partially renovated state for longer to pay cash, or I can take our a HELOC which has a high origination cost and acts as a secondary lein on my house. The credit card + carrying a balance for 4 months and having my home back in a finished livable state faster is clearly the best choice, but it means I'm in that 60%.

These choices aren't binary, the problem is that many people are not financially literate enough to consider their options and outcomes and choose the best choice, they either have a default choice with no consideration, or no real choice, both with negative outcomes.
by tsumnia | 2025-06-24 15:45:51+00:00
Around 15ish years ago, there was a heavy push for things like parallel computing, hosting things on 'the cloud', and managing "big data". So the overarching recommendation was for devices and data to be accessible through a server. It was cheaper to use a third-party for high end compute and large storage rather than storing locally. Remember this was a time when Dropbox was still quite popular.

My original comment is mostly saying that it is too critical of staff saying "how did they not know" when we're now starting to return to in-house solutions. The prior solution was "Go Cloud", now its "Stay Home". In a decade, once enough people learn the struggles of having everything in-house, the next solution will be "Go Cloud" again, or whatever the future equivalent is.

The overall purpose of my comment was more akin to "calm down, we're just in a new tech cycle, no one's an idiot for following the last cycle's solution".
by jbn | 2025-06-24 15:45:52+00:00
or a port of the lock-free hash map from https://preshing.com/20130605/the-worlds-simplest-lock-free-...

But really, the premise of using a shared map with concurrent readers and writers seems like a good generator of hard-to-reproduce bugs. IMHO shared-nothing (when feasible) is much easier to reason about, and possibly do periodic merging of thread-local updates, but I would avoid concurrent updates entirely (in particular if 2 threads race to update the same key... that goes to deeper design issues in the application).
by lesuorac | 2025-06-24 15:46:06+00:00
A common thing I hear is whats the difference between if I study a bunch of painters and then paint an impressionist painting versus train an AI and then have it generate one?

I guess the difference is that you (ideally) paid for a ticket to the museum to study the artwork.

> "Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic’s storage of the authors’ books in a “central library” violated their copyrights and was not fair use."

I have to imagine that terabytes (petabytes?) of copyrighted content is not going to be cheap even if you only have to pay once per work. This might not be the win Anthropic wants.

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There is some really interesting text in the order.

"Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies."

Did Alsup just declare emulators as legal? Assuming you ripped the rom yourself, all you're doing is playing the game in a more convenient manor.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058235/231/bartz-v-an...
by jbuch | 2025-06-24 15:46:08+00:00
Thanks!

> To protect the ultrasonic mister from bad firmware frying it, you could probably replace R6 with a sufficiently sized capacitor to make an effective DC block

That is an excellent idea - I'll definitely keep that in mind for a future version.

> I've also had issues with a thermal sensor just reading board temp, best solution is to make the sensor a separate board. Short of that, one can mill slots around it and reduce copper pour to reduce thermal conductivety from the PCB.

I ended up just moving the sensor offboard and as far away from the heat source as I reasonably could. I did consider the milled slots + reduced pour option, but given the amount of heat generated by the LEDs, it seemed best to move the sensor further away.
by bfmalky | 2025-06-24 15:46:18+00:00
I would love to replace Lightroom, but unfortunately the alternatives just aren't as good.

There are good alternatives to Ableton, but once you get to know a DAW it is hard to switch. And running a DAW with an ecosystem of 3rd party VST plugins and low level access to audio hardware on Wine sounds like a recipe for a bad time, but I confess I haven't tried it.

So, yes, these things are possible, but it is still easier to just use Windows.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-06-24 15:46:22+00:00
Have you ever uploaded 100's of Gbps over QUIC from your residential connection to a single IP?

And the aggregate across the ISP's network could in theory be monitored - so if you were uploading 1Gbps, yes, it could be legitimate. If you and 582 others were all uploading 1Gbps to the same IP at the same time, much less likely legitimate.
by the-anarchist | 2025-06-24 15:46:53+00:00
From the limited information that appears to be available I would assume that the reasons to move operations from the US to NL were largely personal. Reading through the other comments in this thread and some of the content on the founder's own website gives some clues.

My theory is that they are eyeing to get rid of their US citizenship and naturalize in the Netherlands, which is possible after 5 years when certain criteria is met. Having economic ties to the country you're trying to get citizenship in helps immensely. The logical next step for them would be to open a physical location and employ Dutch citizens to further solidify their case.

You have to remember: As long as the founder is still citizen of the United States, they will inevitably support the country and its policy with the taxes on their world income. After all, the US is one of only three countries in the world that taxes based on citizenship rather than residency.

Having that said, there have been various attempts across Europe to change from residency-based taxation to citizenship-based taxation in the past decades. All of which have been unsuccessful so far.
by lproven | 2025-06-24 15:47:11+00:00
> ACCESS (the company that made NetFront, one of the early mobile webbrowsers)

I think that Access provides the web browser in the Kindle. That's probably the most widely-seen product by the most people.

It also tried to made a multitasking multimedia-capable PalmOS, PalmOS 6 "Cobalt."

https://www.palmsource.com/palmos/cobalt.html

My submission of it here got some discussion 9mth ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522434
by kebokyo | 2025-06-24 15:47:45+00:00
This seems like something you could make yourself for under $50. Pi Zero W2, battery, cheap LCD screen, and 3D-printed case. The only exceptions would be a) the extra physical buttons (requiring a custom PCB) and the amber backlight (not sure if you can get a screen that comes with one, or if you’d need to get it separately and install it yourself).

If I had more experience in making stuff like this (and money to buy the components and other tools I’ll need to make it), as soon as I saw the price of this thing I would have started making my own clone right away and thrown the code and hardware specs on GitHub.