MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Renevith | 2025-06-30 18:54:36+00:00
Nice! I've been looking for a reliable book ranking site. The main rankings skew to the "classics" that don't always hold up (looking at you Moby Dick) but the books in the genre filters look more interesting.

A couple questions:

* Is this primarily intended for discovering new reads, or for people who've already read the books to debate which is greatest? I found the book descriptions sometimes give away too much, to the point where I stopped reading them for any book I might be interested in reading for pleasure. Examples include The Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary. Perhaps you could have a concise description that stays far away from plot points, and a more expanded description behind a "more" link.

* What dictates whether a series has one place on the list or separate places? Narnia has one for the whole series but Harry Potter has individual listings per book.

* Are ratings and reviews from your own site taken into account in the rankings?
by VirusNewbie | 2025-06-30 18:54:43+00:00
Used to drive 3 series BMW manual transmissions before I had a kid ~6 years ago. Since then I've had a Tesla model 3.

It's pretty decent, though I wish it had better sound insulation. But cost of ownership has been extremely low, and it's shockingly reliable more so than any other car I've owned. I don't really buy into the whole FSD hype, but overall I think Tesla makes very decent cars for the money.

For instance, it doesn't handle as well as my previous BMWs, the materials aren't as nice, but it is nicer than the average economy car and it's extremely quick. It's also quite a bit more affordable than entry level BMWs.

I'm tempted to drive it into the ground or at least keep it another five years. If stock pops a bit more, I'd like to buy a 'fun' sunday car (used 911 perhaps?), we'll see.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-30 18:54:50+00:00
The problem was that

> BitLocker essentially trusts self-encrypted drives to do their job, and defaults to the drive”s hardware encryption.

But that was 2018; the result was that in 2019 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/september-24-2019-... happened:

> Changes the default setting for BitLocker when encrypting a self-encrypting hard drive. Now, the default is to use software encryption for newly encrypted drives. For existing drives, the type of encryption will not change.

And in any event, I would tend to argue that the matter of reselling is secondary: The problem is that the affected disks are effectively unencrypted, and that's a problem regardless. If your disks are properly encrypted, then reselling them should be safe.
by empiko | 2025-06-30 18:55:59+00:00
To be honest, I expected the punchline to be about how randomly drawing lines is the same nonsense as using simplistic mathematical modeling without considering the underlying phenomenon. But the punchline never came.

Predicting AI is more or less impossible because we have no idea about the its properties. With other technologies, we can reason about how small or how how a component can get and this gives us psychical limitations that we can observe. With AI we throw in data and we are or we are not surprised by the behavior the model exhibits. With a few datapoints we have, it seems that more compute and more data usually lead to better performance, but that is more or less everything we can say about it, there is no theory behind it that would guarantee us the gains for the next 10x.
by jchw | 2025-06-30 18:56:03+00:00
Ultimately, I'd say it's all about trying to ensure a level playing field and trying to make sure nobody has an unfair advantage, and "unfair advantage" is always somewhat subjective. In real world sports, it often manifests in hard-to-interpret rules like F1's new-ish rules around moving under breaking. In "eSports" it manifests in many ways, like debate over what hardware and software is cheating.

> and I do think there are valid reasons to downvote without saying anything

I think people should be generally encouraged to reply. There's some comments where it's obvious why someone would disagree or take offense, but lately I've noticed that even comments that seem incredibly benign often get grayed out at least briefly. This is confusing and hard for observers to make sense of, less the poster themselves. With everything left implied, it's not even clear if people even agree on why they don't agree with the post.

Stack Overflow encourages people to explain themselves probably for the same basic reason. HN on the other hand asks commenters to not discuss votes. I do generally agree (in fact I wouldn't even really want people to start comments with "I'm down voting because...") but damnit, sometimes you just want to know why.

And of course, sometimes the reason why is someone mistapped on their mobile phone, or something like that, so you'll never know.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-30 18:56:14+00:00
Today I think of VHS as ideal for people who want to get into an obsolete format. I often see decks for sale for $12 that work great at our reuse center and prerecorded tapes with great moves up to 2005 or so are $1-2 there or the Salvation Army. The decks I see are late models which have automatic tracking and VHS HiFi and are highly reliable -- commercial movies are usually encoded in Dolby Pro Logic and often sound more cinematic than many DVDs because the average DVD has a NERFed 5.1 track because they assume you're going to play it on a two-channel system.
by diddid | 2025-06-30 18:56:22+00:00
I feel too, at least in the US, people have backed themselves into a corner where they are unable to dole out punishment. Not just for violating or abusing taking their dogs everywhere, but literally everything. Should someone be punished for a prank gone wrong? Of course not, they didn’t mean it, it was just a prank! Should someone be punished for faking a therapy dog? Of course not, it’s just a dog! Should someone be punished for speeding? Of course not, it’s just speeding and all cops are bad! Should someone get in trouble for minor theft? Of course not, it’s just minor theft, capitalism is bad! Eventually though they end up on the side being taken advantage of and now they have no recourse because they are all in on the no consequences society. If they speak up, their peers who are also part of the no consequences society disown them, until it then also happens to them. I guess that’s an oversimplified version of it. If nothing is a crime then you can have no criminals, society is better already, and you all get A+, yeah for us!
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-06-30 18:56:22+00:00
All of our VCRs lasted a very long time. My parents had a Toshiba VCR from the late 1980s as well as a Sony Hi-Fi model VCR from 1995, both of which lasted for years and years, even in spite of damage and neglect from use (and misuse) by young children.
by vladimirralev | 2025-06-30 18:56:31+00:00
He is not using appropriate models for this conclusion and neither is he using state of the art models in this research and moreover he doesn't have an expensive foundational model to build upon for 2d games. It's just a fun project.

A serious attempt at video/vision would involve some probabilistic latent space that can be noised in ways that make sense for games in general. I think veo3 proves that ai can generalize 2d and even 3d games, generating a video under prompt constraints is basically playing a game. I think you could prompt veo3 to play any game for a few seconds and it will generally make sense even though it is not fine tuned.
by KeepFlying | 2025-06-30 18:57:18+00:00
Under the ADA, the kind of dog youre describing would be a service dog, same as any other. "Therapy dog" isn't a term that the ADA uses.

You can totally have a legitimate service dog for invisible disabilities.

Licenses don't mean anything in the US btw. The law does not require it and having a "license" is meaningless. Sometimes a training organization might vouch for the dogs skills, but that isn't a license and doesn't legally mean anything.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-30 18:57:47+00:00
We could find out who is more serious about the debt by comparing the total debt in January 20th 2017 when Trump entered office and January 20th 2021 when he left office, with the size of the debt when Joe Biden entered office in January of 2021 and left office in January of 2025. If you do that you will see the former raised the debt from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion or by 7.8 trillion. While Joe Biden started with 27.75 trillion and ended with 36.2 trillion or an increase of 8.4 trillion.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-06-30 18:58:04+00:00
> I believe that this is true of most of the people you've worked with. However, polling in the West Bank and Gaza finds that to be a fairly unpopular position

Late response on my part, but it sounds like we're mostly in agreement.

I will add that I think what people would accept is different from what they will tell interviewers they want.

I agree that there will be antisemitism everywhere, and as a Jewish person doing organizing work with Jewish groups, there will certainly selection/sampling bias among the Palestinians I interact with.

I'll also say that the prejudice of the oppressed shouldn't be seen the same as the prejudice of the oppressor.

If a slave in the U.S. in 1840 believed white people were inherently incapable of empathy, I imagine that the only people focusing on their "anti-white racism" would be doing so to defend the status quo of slavery.

When Palestinians living under occupation talk about "Jews" it's likely that the only interactions they've had with Jewish people were with IDF soldiers enforcing their occupation, perhaps shooting at them during peaceful protests, killing their friends, their family members, and so on.

The focus should be on liberation, even if people with problematic beliefs are among the oppressed.

Even if it's the case that most people in Gaza and/or in the West Bank are antisemitic (and even if it was the case that most of them "wanted all Jews dead", which I think is a gross mischaracterization of the situation) that doesn't mean they would turn down a justice-oriented plan which would allow them to participate with full equality under the political systems that dictates their freedoms.
by Akranazon | 2025-06-30 18:58:10+00:00
American universities are important institutions and do a lot of good work. However, look no further than this article for the source of the "white hot rage". It's bloviating, vacuous, empty fluff, no meaningful point or persuasive argument, and the statements which come the closest to resembling coherent points are wrong and bad (see https://www.danmcquillan.org/questions_for_anthropic.html). The author feels threatened, because he realizes that an AI could do his writing style much better than he does, given the absence of original thought.

The author is a kind of free-rider: he persists in his position having read just-enough continental philosophy, and memorized the right incantations (buzzwords) to communicate the "aligned" political subtext. Academic left-wing jargon; you have to be against neoliberalism, "tech broligarchy", Palantir (the military industrial complex), technogenesis... Oh, and you have to shoehorn as many race politics subjects into your article on AI, even if they have virtually nothing to do with the topic (KKK, White Genocide, racial superiority, supremacy, eugenics). Points for creativity, I guess.
by rokeyzhang | 2025-06-30 18:58:45+00:00
Thanks for your feedback!

I’m home roasting too—using an entry-level FreshRoast SR800, which has been a ton of fun to learn on. I still buy from great roasters as well, since it’s a great way to rhetorically access to different processing methods and regions.

We also thought about home roasting. A few folks have mentioned wanting to log green bean origins, roast curves, and profiles—there’s a lot of potential there.

Right now, we’re focusing on making the bean & recipe tracking seamless for brewed coffee, we found good amount of people buying from roasters all around the world like us.

Appreciate you sharing your experience—it’s super helpful!
by maplemuse | 2025-06-30 18:59:11+00:00
The part about SNMP made me laugh. I remember integrating SNMP support into an early network security monitoring tool about 25 years ago, and how it seemed clunky at the time. But it's continued to work well, and be supported all these years. It was a standard, but with very broad tool support, so you weren't locked into a particular vendor.
by layer8 | 2025-06-30 18:59:19+00:00
The casting of the function type assumes that the item pointer type (e.g. Foo*) has the same representation as void*, which the C standard doesn’t guarantee (in standardese: the two types aren’t “compatible”). Calling the function with the converted type therefore constitutes undefined behavior. It also impacts aliasing analysis by compilers (see [0], incidentally), even if the pointer representation happens to be the same.

This casting of the functions to different argument types constitutes the core of the type safety of the generic invocations; I’m not sure it can be fixed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44421185
by mikeocool | 2025-06-30 19:00:12+00:00
What exactly would this report reveal? Laptops that have some sort gremlin in them resulting in lots of repairs over time?

If I worked for an organization that deployed or sold large numbers of used PCs -- and that problem cropped up frequently enough to matter, I think my take away would be: "let's stop deploying/selling used HP laptops and switch to a more reliable brand," not "let's try to use this fancy reporting to identify them before they get deployed."
by rorylaitila | 2025-06-30 19:00:40+00:00
There seems to be a need to be some kind of hierarchy to contextualization brought to LLMs and not a flat history stuffed into the context. For comparison, human memory is not just a compressing of linear history of which we rewind the tape when needed. Its more like a Russian doll of bounded contexts which we break out of, when our inner context is no longer sufficient to solve the problem.
by antisthenes | 2025-06-30 19:01:05+00:00
The cringiest hill to die on might be the hill of exaggerated moral panic.

There are about 931283918982 more important issues than someone being offended at seeing a dog in close proximity at a place where you have an opinion that they shouldn't be.

As long as your pet doesn't come in contact with my food or defecate near it, you really should focus on more important things in life.
by jamesgill | 2025-06-30 19:01:22+00:00
Having access to fine-grained usage and health information for each device in their fleet can help IT managers decide which devices are sent to which users, as well as when maintenance is scheduled

Based only my own experience in large enterprises, the usual process is to EOL new laptops after about three years, regardless of condition. There's a whole sandwich of business and financial agreements built around this, so this 'fine-grained data' doesn't seem very useful (or necessary).

If HP really wanted to make an environmental impact, why not start an HP recycling/refurbishment program?
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-06-30 19:01:41+00:00
What is the extra stuff that is provided compared to OIDC? I was implementing some of this stuff recently, and for my use case (who is this user? Do they have permission to use this application? Which parts of the application are they allowed to use?) OIDC seemed to cover everything, so I'm pretty curious if I missed some functionality that SAML provides.
by kube-system | 2025-06-30 19:02:02+00:00
> When buying a used car, dealerships and individual buyers can access each car’s particular CarFax report, detailing the vehicle’s usage and maintenance history. Armed with this information, dealerships can perform the necessary fixes or upgrades before re-selling the car.

Dealerships in no way use those reports for that reason, nor do they contain the information that would be necessary to do so. They inspect the car to determine its mechanical condition, and query manufacturer databases to determine if recall repairs are necessary. CarFax reports are a marketing tool to assuage concerns that used-car buyers have about inadvertently purchasing a lemon.
by oops | 2025-06-30 19:02:18+00:00
Nice observation ;-) If I'm reading the underlying data[0] correctly, it looks like the threshold for DEHT is significantly lower in the Vanilla tests (<4,500ng) vs the Strawberry tests (<22,500ng)

0: https://i.imgur.com/L1LVar1.png

Edit: I guess that should impact the Substitutes category, though, and not the Phthalates category.
Anything between exploratory testing and "traditional" testing?
by the-maximilian | 2025-06-30 19:02:25+00:00
Let me set the context first, I'll focus on RESTful APIs and Postman but the point can be applied more broadly of course.

Exploratory testing: all the spontaneous requests you might do with Postman.

Traditional testing: tests of any kind that are part of your codebase and CI pipelines. The data generated is part of test reports and can break builds in CI.

I think there is a gap between these 2 types of testing. There are valuable insights generated in Postman but they don't really give you consistent feedback like "normal" tests would. Yes, Postman does provide the Newman CLI tool but it still does not contribute to code coverage for example and it doesn't really fit into existing test tooling you might have in your project.

What's the point?

I think there is value in having a way to easily turn exploratory interactions into some kind of tests, this way you can hit the road more quickly and get to functionality that is working and verified. More testing can be added once required.

It can be easier to make sure that acceptance criteria of a ticket are met, sit down with your PO to figure out requirements and user flows and put them into Postman collections. Some tool then converts that into test cases in your codebase.

Similarly for technical consultants, communicating the situation that caused a bug could become simpler, handover to developer becomes more consistent. It could even be possible to create an MR with a generated test-case for the bug. The dev can pick up from there.

The job of mentoring junior devs could also be supported. Walk them through the functionality with Postman and then generate tests from that. The junior devs then have something tangible to support their work.

From my experience I think that there is substantial friction here that would justify an open-source solution.

I looked around the internet but did not find anything that fits the description.

Partially out of curiosity I started working on a tool that would fit the bill.

Does anybody know of any other project that has tackled this?
by darth_avocado | 2025-06-30 19:02:56+00:00
Most of the responses usually devolve into emotional ones, both from dog lovers and dog haters. As a dog owner I support common sense acceptable rules:

1. No dogs in stores that have fresh produce, dairy and meat 2. No off leash dogs in public areas except in dedicated off leash areas 3. No dogs in restaurants indoors 4. Severe penalties if you parade your unbehaved dog as a service dog

But at the same time, dog haters keep pushing it to the point where you cannot have dogs beyond the confines of your home (the home cannot be an apartment building). People don’t want dogs in apartments and they don’t want them in ANY public areas. The same people will also oppose dedicated dog parks or ensure these parks are extremely small.

Around half the households in the country have a dog. There needs to be a middle ground.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-06-30 19:03:04+00:00
I agree with you. People who talk about "good" most ofen conveniently omit the qualification "... for this group of people". Their purpose of course is to make every listener believe it is good for them.

If God is "good", who is he good to? For everybody, in equal amounts? Most intruding armies believe in, and preach the goodness of God, who helps them kill their enemies.
by citizenpaul | 2025-06-30 19:03:09+00:00
Cause some sociopath name Friedman wrote something that the ruling class/ generationally wealthy loved. That business should only serve the owner to the expense of literally everything else.

Since the rich and powerful get what they want. This race to the bottom mentality has saturated anything where a company accepts outside investment. This means any public company and any investment into the company outside of a bank loan. Which is basically every company nowdays since private equity company have bought stake in literally almost everything.
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-30 19:03:21+00:00
> Don’t care, because many people think it’s alright if things are slow, or inefficient ( the user can wait, or will live with 100ms instead of 1ms).

It's not that.

I've encountered code where someone wrote complicated "scale out" code instead of learning how to use a database and fix the n+1 problem; or another case where someone wrote complicated caching code instead of learning how to avoid cartesian explosion.
by graemep | 2025-06-30 19:03:53+00:00
A trustworthy source IMO.

https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/contraception-assessment/back...

The source you cite lacks an independent source for the Marquette model claims, and only single studies (cherry picked?) for the others. A recent Chochrane review states "the comparative efficacy of fertility awareness‐based methods for contraception remains unknown."

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
by cyberax | 2025-06-30 19:04:55+00:00
Nope. When given a choice between grade-separated level bike lanes, and an equally good road network, people overwhelmingly prefer cars. Actually, people prefer literally _anything_ else including transit.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/19/britains-1960... Another example is China, it had bikes as the main transportation mode in many cities, but it abandoned them as soon as they could.

Bikes are a freaking _miserable_ transportation mode. Try biking in subzero temps, or during rain/snow.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-30 19:04:57+00:00
There’s plenty of models of business notebooks and thin and lights, many of which are preferred by a certain customer segment over cheaper options due to higher grade design, materials, etc that can breach the $1k mark in the used market if sold within the first year or two of manufacture.

I don’t know how much value it’d add, though it would be pretty interesting to see exactly how much of a Ship of Theseus that used laptop you just bought is, if this system tracks part serials and such. Could also be useful for sniffing out use of substandard/knockoff third party parts, which could be of legitimate interest to buyers (I wouldn’t necessarily trust a third party power handling module from AliExpress for example).
by kevincox | 2025-06-30 19:05:45+00:00
I've used PhotoPrism and Immich. Everyone's definition is different I have about 100k photos and videos which are a bit over 1 TiB (original data, not thumbnails and previews). Nether had any performance issues with a few minor exceptions on Immich (I don't recall anything from PhotoPrism but it has been a while now since I switched)

1. The Immich app's performance is awful. It is a well known problem and their current focus. I have pretty high confidence that it will be fixed within a few months. Web app is totally fine though.

2. Some background operations such as AI indexing, face detection and video conversion don't work gracefully when restarted from scratch. They all basically first delete all the old data, then start processing assets. So for many days (depending on your parallelism settings and server performance) you may be completely missing some assets from search or converted videos. But you only need to do this very rarely (change encoding settings and want to apply to the back catalog or switch AI search model). I don't upload at a particularly high rate but my sever can very easy handle the steady state.

1 is pretty major but being worked on and you can work around it by just opening the website. 2 is less important but I don't think there is any work on it.