MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maerF0x0 | 2025-06-24 16:36:22+00:00
> people won't rent places out if they aren't covering their mortgage

btw this is usually false, and mostly irrational.

1. Realize that every landlord has a different capitalization structure. Many likely bought decades ago and thus only owe a fraction of what the current market selling price is. Additionally we also have had a long period of ultra low interest rates so their interest rate is different than what new entrants are paying. Because their capital cost is lower they can actually offer for far less than the (Interest+Taxes+Insurance+Maintenance) costs that a home owner would have to bear.

2. The rational move of a landlord is to price competitively based on what the market can bear, even possibly losing a little money per month in cashflow (but less bad than the appreciation rate and cost of disposal/selling/defaulting).
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-24 16:36:30+00:00
> I.e. a literal roof over their head, that they can’t be taken away with little notice by their landlord for reasons completely beyond their control.

Yeah. Before I bought my home four years ago, three of the last four landlords I'd had had promised long term stability, only to non-renew the lease after the first year (for "other" reasons: "Wife thought she'd like the country, we're moving back to the city", "We want a smaller mortgage payment on our primary home", We're going to renovate and sell"). It's a lot of fun moving a family every year. Especially when around here you also have to come up with first, last, security and other fees and can easily be looking at $10K+ just to move.
by jajuuka | 2025-06-24 16:36:53+00:00
It's odd since they updated to 64 bit to run on macOS when they dropped 32 bit years ago and haven't transitioned to Apple Silicon native yet but I imagine they will when Apple drops support for Intel next year.

Maybe a bit of "if it's not broke don't fix it." Not like moving to 64 bit would see any real improvement in their client.
by techpineapple | 2025-06-24 16:37:06+00:00
Two thoughts:

1: there’s been this blurring of public and private life with the internet. Public life, at least in the eighties and nineties was very anodyne. Excessively so, but it feels like the idea you would self censor in public was an inherently conservative value. As public and private life have merged, and the window of acceptable behavior has broadened, it’s changed the way we think about acceptable behavior to me in bizzare ways.

2: did it used to be controversial that people should watch what they say? This feels like a new thing. Like a very normal ethic.
by labrador | 2025-06-24 16:38:09+00:00
You're assuming a cold approach from a stranger. They knew each other and were friendly. He asked, she declined. That should’ve been the end of it. But instead, she chose public shaming, which wasn’t about boundaries, it was about performing victimhood. That kind of social punishment teaches men to disappear, not to grow. What do you think that does to a generation of men already struggling with connection?
by remram | 2025-06-24 16:38:16+00:00
I tried using MCP to run some custom functions from ollama & openwebui. The experience was not great.

Doing anything with LLM feels more like arguing than debugging, but this was really surreal: I can see the LLM calling the function with the parameters I requested, but then instead of giving me the returned value, the LLM always pretends it doesn't know the function and tries to guess what the result should be based on its name.

The protocol itself is really weird, almost based on standards but not quite. It was made by one vendor to fix one problem. It has the benefit of existing, but I don't know if it is worthy of any praise?
by dale_huevo | 2025-06-24 16:38:23+00:00
You don't think the proliferation of inexpensive dogshit IoT products from the Far East, running already-10-years-out-of-date versions of Linux (bonus if it has a hidden Telnet daemon with hardcoded root password!), hooked to ever-expanding 1Gbps residential fibre lines, has anything to do with it?

This represents like 75% of surveillance camera systems out there btw.
by jabroni_salad | 2025-06-24 16:38:31+00:00
The merchant pays a fee for it, and they do it to get a sale that they otherwise would have missed.

If you decide to save $25/mo for a $100 product, that is 4 months for you to change your mind, have an emergency suck up that money, or score a lower price by waiting for a sale. But for some segment of the population, they will close on a pay-in-4 right now instead of waiting, and that is guaranteed money.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-24 16:38:41+00:00
No offense but if you truly believe that and it’s not sarcastic, you have been brainwashed. It’s not particularly difficult at all to only buy local or through local intermediaries.

Amusingly the internet brought us both the scourge of ultra large distant foreign corporations and easy access to local supply chains because it made discovering suppliers close to you easy.

Where you do your shopping is actually extremely significant and meaningful. You can support your community and its prosperity very easily with your wallet this way. I think a significant part of why this is not put forwards more is actually because of how impactful it is and how contrary to the interest of the few it goes.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-24 16:39:08+00:00
> Users still have to do command line stuff

You absolutely don't have to. There's no reason for normal users to ever touch the command line, every essential task (installing stuff, updating) can be done through the GUI on most distros. Certainly the main ones like Ubuntu, Fedora and openSuse.

> the software you are used to is not available

This is the main issue. The average user has a meltdown if a single button moves. I still remember the Office ribbon fiasco, Windows 8 fiasco, etc...
by taude | 2025-06-24 16:39:13+00:00
I think there's going to be a lot of places where you want the middleare that's only exposing a sub-set of apis. and the Ideas that you copy some URL, put it in your LLM Client, and then it magically gets all the tools/endpoints available to you, and you start interacting with it, simplifies the process greatly for a lot of users. No swagger, no http post, body vs params, etc....just play with with your prompt sentance until you get it to do what you want.

(edit: sorry, I responded to wrong thread.)
by luketheobscure | 2025-06-24 16:39:21+00:00
It's interesting how quickly my brain developed an AI detector for written language (this blog post screams ChatGPT).

I wonder if it will stay effective, or if LLMs figure out a way around it? Or maybe it's just that this is the new way that technical blog posts are written, sort of how nearly all press releases feel univocal.
by mindslight | 2025-06-24 16:39:29+00:00
I made an obtuse reply to an obtuse wrong assertion. You then baselessly claimed I didn't know about different branches of government. That second bit is what tends to crater conversations.

The distinction of the judiciary is most certainly relevant to the actual legal analysis here - the judiciary often reserves sweeping authoritarian powers for themselves, even when they do act to restrain the legislative/executive. So without even really analyzing the details, I am pretty sure that the law as written supports this action.

But the comment I was responding to wasn't making a larger more nuanced argument - rather it said that the government was not involved, defining away the actions of the judiciary as somehow not being governmental action, regardless of them being done with the authority of government.

The overall analysis is that if people are up in arms about this, it just reinforces the need for some actual privacy laws in this country - both to protect from corporations themselves abusing our data, and in this case to prevent the government from creating overly broad judicial orders that may only target specific companies but end up running roughshod over many individuals' rights.

(and just to be clear to avoid going off into the terminology weeds again: the definition of rights I'm using is the one of imagined natural rights, not merely what has been codified into law)
by ben_w | 2025-06-24 16:39:31+00:00
Kinda, but do also consider that most people can only afford (and have space for) one car, perhaps two if they're upper-middle class or have really old second hand ones, which means what they do buy has to cover most or all needs over the year.

On the other hand, if there were a way to rent any vehicle for about the same price as ownership (not that I think Musk will deliver this, but in principle someone else might), you can rent the one with the big boot once a week for shopping, the truck once every two months for a trip to the hardware store, and the tiny cheap city car for your commute.
by dataflow | 2025-06-24 16:39:36+00:00
That... has nothing to do with what I said?

I was saying that the government can and does coerce people to do a lot of things without violence. For many laws, just cutting off access to essential goods or services forces compliance without ant violence whatsoever - even if you never comply with anything. Heck, even mere arrest and jail time isn't violent - they can occur pretty darn peacefully.

Of course if you become violent at any stage then that's what you get in response, and the government has a monopoly on doing that legally, but that's not a response to your noncompliance - it's a response to your own violence, which is separate and has nothing to do with the initial law you were actually breaking.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-24 16:40:02+00:00
Circularity is still a property of the process. One requires perfect circles to describe it.

It is also easy enough to construct circular state spaces, and the like.

The idea that what's real is simply the geometry of macroscopic visible matter, or even of matter alone, is a nonesense.

The world is "immanently abstract", and possess primeness, circularity, etc. in itself -- not as something merely imagined. This is obvious from the physical description of its evolution.

Irregularity, of this kind, is derivative of a geometrical reality. The irregular doesn't govern the irregular, if it did, there would be no structure whatsoever.
by cyberax | 2025-06-24 16:40:05+00:00
> It's a long way off, due to the amount of old laptops with no TPM about, but a plausible future

TPMs can't create hardware-attested passkeys, at least they couldn't do that with the TPM 2.0 spec.

And you can just use a USB hardware token to get attested keys. Or you can use WebAuthn over Bluetooth to your phone, essentially using your phone's secure enclave (or its equivalent) as the key source.

Being able to require attested passkeys is a _good_ thing.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-24 16:40:32+00:00
Authoritarianism works... as long as leaders are effective.

The reason democracy historically wins out in the long run is not because it always picks better leaders, but because it picks fewer really bad ones. And checks/balances those it does.

For all his faults as a leader, Xi has also come down hard on actual corruption and malfeasance.

Imagine Trump in charge of China.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-24 16:40:59+00:00
> have the touchpad work the same as it did on Windows", "plug in an extra monitor and have it behave somewhat normally", or "play this game".

I have no idea how touchpads behave on Windows, but in, say, Gnome or KDE, you can adjust it through the GUI. Extra monitors work fine on Gnome. Steam works fine in general, across distros.
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-24 16:41:16+00:00
Structuring.

I’ve used them several times, mostly because they are relatively cheap forms of credit for short durations (<12 months). I have plenty of credit available via traditional credit cards, but BNPL —- to this point —- haven’t reported usage rates to the bureaus.

Last summer our A/C went out. It ended up being about $4.5k to replace, and it was a heat emergency at the time. So I put the whole thing on Affirm for three months, at 0% interest. I paid about $50 in fees. That got us through the immediate emergency and gave me time to shop around for a better way to fund it.

I ended up taking out an auto loan with my credit union. The rates were much cheaper than a personal/unsecured loan, and I have three vehicles in the driveway without liens. The loan was for four years, but I’ve already paid it off.

In a tighter situation, BNPL not impacting your credit utilization rates is a big benefit.
by jajuuka | 2025-06-24 16:41:20+00:00
Yeah I don't understand this argument of "it's holding back the platform". Keeping around 32 bit makes the platform better since it keeps more software usable and relevant. Even if it hasn't been touched in ages.

I wish Fedora was in it's own bubble where its decisions didn't affect anything else but as we've seen numerous times what happens in Fedora eventually cascades through the other major distro's as well.
by lxgr | 2025-06-24 16:42:11+00:00
> > Theoretically, credit should be used for one thing: to make more money.

> I disagree.

> You use credit to buy a car or buy a house when you don't have the cash to buy them up-front.

There's no contradiction with GP here.

Financing a car or buying a house on mortgage might well save somebody money in the long term (e.g. by allowing them to take on a job to which they have to commute by car, or saving on future rent payments).

If that's the case (and that highly depends on individual circumstances), this still counts as "making more money" – via spending less money.

The real question is: How do you feel about borrowing money used to buy depreciating assets or consumables?
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-24 16:42:20+00:00
> Now with LLMs, I simply prompt the same with a little bit more of context "pros and cons of using mysql vs mongodb when storing photos. Link references".

In near future, companies will probably be able to pay lots of money to have their products come up better in the comparison. LLMs are smart enough to make the result seem "organic" -- all verifiable information will be true and supported by references, it will only be about proper framing and emphasis, etc.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-24 16:42:43+00:00
Why not?

Not all narratives are fictional. They're just all stories.

Although the part I always find a bit weird with climate change is that all the counter-arguements seem so poor. Like even if somehow it's not man-made, if the earth is going towards a less habitable climate for humans then we should make it man-made in the other direction!
by jbuch | 2025-06-24 16:42:47+00:00
Thanks!

Sounds like a fun project, best of luck! Would love to see what you come up with. One word of warning with the misting: using them in an "upside down" configuration as I'm doing can be a bit finicky. I've encountered some that slowly drip due to the pressure of the water above them. Look for misting discs with small hole sizes (<=4uM) and expect that some percent of them won't work well. However, the ones that do drip at the start typically stop after a day or two of use and are fine from there on out.

I have not really considered decontamination and I don't think it's much of an issue for terrariums because the plants and soil in the enclosure already contain a lot of bacteria, etc. I could see it being much more important for your use case with mushrooms where a small number of mold spores can ruin an entire mushroom grow.
Ask HN: HN: Why do we code review?
by abhisek | 2025-06-24 16:43:17+00:00
This is not a click bait but I am really curious about revisiting the most obvious activity in SDLC - code review.

IMHO we code review to ensure quality, security and other guardrails beyond automated tools. There are also people aspect like mentoring and grooming junior engineers into best practices & new team members into coding standards and other conventions.

Let’s ignore the people aspect for a while. Linux Foundation survey says 70-90% of modern software constitute open source code. We only look at popularity, maintenance, known vulnerabilities of direct dependencies while adopting an open source dependency in our code base. We implicitly trust all the code brought in by transitive dependencies. I can confidently say my production projects has 50% or more code from open sources that I have no idea about.

We somehow assume that some magical database (CVE) will have all vulnerabilities in OSS code and tools like Snyk or Dependabot will take care of it. Who is responsible for running even a linter or a static analysis tool on an open source project and spending the time and effort in responsible disclosure with CVE.

Given this, is code review of internal code enough to trust quality & security of what we ship? Does anyone ever realistically considered reviewing OSS code used in your projects?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-24 16:43:56+00:00
Tennessee enacts several genAI laws July 1st; interestingly (perhaps due to state legislator misunderstanding of terminology?), these generic bans are sooo sweeping that they effectively ban owning any GPU.

>Oy': you got a license for that tensor core, mate?!

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But hey at least we're outlawing marijuana beyond what the Federal 2018 Farm Bill authorizes, nationally /s

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Our neighboring Friend down in Texas, the goodly-astute Gov-nuh, was wise to veto similar legislations in his own jurisdiction (due to perceived unconstitutionality / legal challenges).
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-06-24 16:44:03+00:00
Your perspective on religious institutions is very different than mine and I'm very curious how that came to be and how much different your experience was than mine. I'm in my thirties and since I was very young I've known *not* to trust most religious institutions and --being raised on Sesame Street and Mr Rogers-- instinctively was not fond of the people in them. Most church goers I would meet were usually not friendly to others who were different than them and were seemingly interested in their own "salvation" before others. Leadership was mainly interested in power/money and would be aghast if anyone dared question anything about the church - even something as stupid as a talking snake. Oh and Pikachu, Harry Potter, music and asking questions were all a ticket to eternal damnation even though you are loved. 25+ years later, I'm not at all surprised about the catholic church's rampant sexual exploitation of children or christians' downright hatred of others and complete lack of Jesus's teachings. Even the rise of christo nationalism and fascism in the US seemed like an inevitability. Seeing a church organization lie about a for-profit chat bot seems on-brand and has seemed on-brand for as long as I've been an inquisitive child.
by acuozzo | 2025-06-24 16:44:19+00:00
FWIW, I grew up in Brooklyn, NY. I know about both urban and suburban living. I now live in Columbia, MD: a suburb from the late '60s planned with high ideals.

My three children each have their own room. They can ride their bicycles on our sleepy street without having to constantly worry about reckless drivers. They can explore the walking trails and wooded areas our community maintains. They can play baseball in one of the nearby fields without having to worry about breaking a car window in doing so.

My wife has a large crafting area. I have an office. We have a home theater. We have a workshop in our garage. We have a large sunroom which opens to a large deck suitable for entertaining many friends at once.

Getting even a fraction of what I described above in a city would cost a fortune.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-24 16:44:28+00:00
I don't know about this place in particular, but I've lived in places that attracted lots of tourists.

Tourism brings a whole bunch of problems, and the more tourists there are, the worse those problems get. The locals often (barely) tolerate tourism because it also bring economic benefits. But if those benefits don't filter down adequately to the locals (at least adequately enough to compensate for the losses), then tourism just becomes something that makes everything worse for them.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-24 16:44:42+00:00
> If you expect two emergencies

Emergencies are unexpected.

And a lot of people simply don't have the money to build up that kind of fund. To suggest that they "should" is to be pretty out-of-touch with the realities of a lot of people. Sometimes they need to rely on credit, because there aren't any alternatives. So that credit becomes a lifeline, a good thing.
by agl | 2025-06-24 16:44:43+00:00
Setting a signature counter to constant zero is explicitly supported[1] and it's not a bug that it works. Google does not require the signature counter to increment; it's something else invalid about the response that's tripping it up.

The security story for signature counters is subtle[2] and the vast (vast) majority of sites are correct not to require them.

Using the Chrome virtual authenticator indeed works, and from the DevTools UI directly (three dots -> More Tools -> WebAuthn), no sockets required. It's not a vulnerability that it works. If it didn't, Apple, Google, and Microsoft would be effectively the only possible passkey providers. You can lock it down in enterprise environments if you need[3].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#sctn-sign-counter [2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebauthn/tourofwebauthn... [3] https://www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebauthn/tourofwebauthn...
by lxgr | 2025-06-24 16:44:46+00:00
Just one sentence after the one you quoted:

> However, the javac compiler is affected because it assumes that .java source files are encoded with the default charset, unless configured otherwise by the -encoding option.

Interestingly, in Windows, Java programs were supposedly encoded in CP-1252 before this...?

> In JDK 17 and earlier, the default charset is determined when the Java runtime starts. On macOS, it is UTF-8 except in the POSIX C locale. On other operating systems, it depends upon the user's locale and the default encoding, e.g., on Windows, it is a codepage-based charset such as windows-1252 or windows-31j.
by phil21 | 2025-06-24 16:44:47+00:00
> But the biggest tell that housing is valuable is that nobody is spending $500k on housing to rent it out if they could make more money pumping $500k into the stock market.

Of course they are. I do. I do so knowing full well that my expected returns are going to be nowhere near my brokerage account invested in public equities. The past decade has followed that expectation.

I and many others do it as a form of diversification. It’s risk aversion in the end. Most people with capital don’t want to be putting all their eggs into one basket, so for wealth preservation and diversified income streams it’s a good option even knowing up front you are expected to lose money via opportunity cost.

That ignores other benefits of housing being a privileged investment category by the current government and monetary/tax policy. If you seek cheap leverage this is probably one of your few options as a “two bit” player in the market at that $500k level.
by imnotlost | 2025-06-24 16:45:01+00:00
This work great for me too, when learning something new the LLM brings in all sorts of perspectives and contexts I don’t know about yet.

It pulls in info from the docs, forums, code samples, shows me how things are connected, and may even suggest why something is good or bad.

Plenty of opportunity to look up docs I didn’t even know about yet.
by cyberax | 2025-06-24 16:45:03+00:00
> Apple does not attest because they were lazy.

It's not "lazy", it's "impossible". If you want to have synced keys, you need to have them unencrypted. Otherwise, you need to be able to establish secure links between various secure hardware storage devices.

Apple can do that within their infrastructure, perhaps. But there's just no way to do that across multiple vendors.

> FIDO should have rejected this approach but from the very beginning they were captured by the largest corporate interests.

Why? Passkeys are a perfect replacement for login/password pairs. Their implementations can also be secured as much as possible by each vendor.

And you _can_ require attestation in your WebAuthn implementation, if you think that your data is too precious.