MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DSingularity | 2025-06-12 21:12:01+00:00
Nobody is disputing that at all. That’s just a byproduct of zero-sum games and at least the fact that victims of abuse tend to grow into abusers themselves.

The problem is the blanket statement which effectively becomes “the ordained group of humans can have these tools while the others we judge as less-than and prohibit”. The more they talk the more they reveal about their views which are either outright racist or extremely disingenuous when it comes to obvious historical contexts.
by blixt | 2025-06-12 21:12:22+00:00
This is very interesting, and nice learnings in there too, thank you for sharing! It seems the author monitored the LLM, stopped it from going off-track a few times, fixed some unit test code manually, etc. Plus this is strictly re-implementing a very well-specced library that already exists in the same programming language. So I think it's still a bit hard to say we can let an LLM work for multiple days, if we imply that this work should be domain-specific to a particular company. But it's very promising to see this was possible with very little interaction!
by johnfernow | 2025-06-12 21:12:30+00:00
exFAT is widely used but it not being journaled has led to so many thousands (if not more) people losing tons of data, many of which wouldn't have lost so much data had they used a journaled filesystem (or even one with redundant file tables.)

If you need to connect a portable drive to machines of different OS's, there is no safe filesystem that supports read and write on both Windows and MacOS.

Alternatively, cloud storage works until the files are larger than the space you have left on Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive/etc., and local network sharing (on certain networks at least) is more complicated than what the average user is willing to put up with. In practice, many use USB flash drives or external HDDs/SSDs with exFAT. Yeah, people should have more than one backup, but we know in the real world that's not what many do. That requires them spending more time (e.g. configuring local network sharing or setting up an old machine lying around to be a NAS) or money (more on cloud storage.) In practice, having a cross-platform, journaled filesystem would lead to a lot less data loss.

Aside from exFAT, the only alternative with native cross-platform R/W capability is FAT32, but while it has a redundant file allocation table (unlike exFAT), it has a max file size of 4GB, which limits its usefulness for many workflows.
by dstroot | 2025-06-12 21:12:43+00:00
Came here to say this, upvoted. Both Apple and Microsoft have "corporate IT" settings that can be used to turn off "trust my device", "remember me", etc. Auditors and CISO offices tend to lean in on checklist security - in other words it doesn't matter if it's actually more secure, it only matters that it passes the checklist audit. Many of the settings are user hostile and incentivize users to work around them. Making real security worse of course...
by api | 2025-06-12 21:14:05+00:00
I’ve been telling people this is a terrible idea since many people on this site were literal babies.

I’ve also been telling people centralized OIDC identity owned by a couple oligopoly vendors that have no incentive to care about normal users is a terrible idea for the same length of time.

Unfortunately convenience is the most powerful force in computing. People will trade security, privacy, autonomy, resilience, ownership of their own data and even ownership of IP, and vendor neutrality (avoiding lock in) for something convenient that “just works.” 90%+ of people will make this trade every single time.

It’s a big reason that FOSS never makes it outside techie circles or the back office / cloud. The cost and difficult of making a product easy to use for regular people increases exponentially as you go up the “easy-ness” gradient. Only businesses with real money can afford to make software usable.

Often making software usable is many times harder and more labor intensive than making the base software work. This is because computers are actually very hard to use and confusing. If you don’t agree it means you are an expert and don’t see the difficulty any more, in the same way that e.g. an athlete might not understand what’s so hard about difficult physical tasks.
by jfengel | 2025-06-12 21:14:23+00:00
Gaza is a challenge, to be sure. But the West Bank is a largish chunk of contiguous land, and is at least potentially a stable state.

But there are also Jewish settlements on the West Bank land, so it's not exactly the contiguous territory that it might be. Two-state solutions usually require either removing those settlements or putting them under Palestinian control, and the current Israeli government is extremely reluctant to accept either of those outcomes.

One could imagine a future government that is more amenable to that. That would still leave a disconnected Gaza, but it might just tamp down some of the hostilities.
by maxbond | 2025-06-12 21:15:00+00:00
(No affiliation, just what I've picked up.)

HN doesn't depend on Firebase, the HN API does but HN isn't built on top of it (and presumably the API is down). HN is a monolith which uses a disk as it's database, it goes down sometimes when eg the disk fails, and it can't scale so under heavy load it starts failing requests, but it's about as robust to cloud outages as it's possible to be.
by ang_cire | 2025-06-12 21:15:57+00:00
> What kind of job market is this.

One which is reeling from layoffs caused by short-term profit-maximizing bandwagoning in the tech sector. CEO see, CEO do.

We didn't just magically have tens of thousands of new programmers/ IT pros. pop out of nowhere, they were laid off. There is no situation in which this brain-drain will benefit them. They can't wait around for 10 years for it to get really bad, in the hopes that at that point they'll be back in high demand.
by vfclists | 2025-06-12 21:16:37+00:00
What I see in this thread is industry shills making excuses for a corrupt Navy and its corrupt suppliers, make that a corrupt military.

If the Navy admirals truly believed they had real wars to fight and thus needed field serviceable equipment, would they write contracts that expected manufacturers to fly civilian service technicians into battle zones to fix equipment when the navy itself has technicians that are way more skilled than the manufacturers technicians?

Take the sheer nonsense coming from the Government and the Navy.

> The ship was struggling to feed its crew of over 4,500 because six of its eight ovens were out of action, and sailors were barred by contract from fixing them themselves.

Are we to believe that the US has placed its defense into the hands of people who will refuse to fix the equipment the nation's defense depends on when it is very necessary because doing so would breach contractual obligations?

Why doesn't the Navy then design its own equipment and subcontract the manufacturing so they don't have to deal with commercial suppliers restricive contracts? They surely have people with the knowledge and skill to do so. I hope in real war if such a situation arose their enemies would bomb the heck out of them on account of this foolery.

This nonsense sums of the title of the book - "War is a Racket"
by giantrobot | 2025-06-12 21:16:53+00:00
While I've ripped hundreds of discs with mine, they do have some downsides. It can be a bitch and a half to get a disc out if it can't be read properly. Even drutil wouldn't eject such discs.

There's also no way to use mini CD/DVDs with them. Not that those were ever super popular but if you have any it's an annoyance.

I replaced my SuperDrive with an 5.25" internal drive in an external powered enclosure. I can always get unreadable discs out easily, have no problem with mini discs, and I'm not stuck with an extremely short USB cable.

A SuperDrive isn't a bad option but there's better available.
by standardUser | 2025-06-12 21:17:23+00:00
For me, a stable job is key. The structure and accountability makes it hard to fail, and my (relative) lack of ambition ensures I don't over-commit or stress too much over work. It's everything else that I get lazy about! I have plenty of time, but it's too easy to do fun but unproductive activities.

If something doesn't trigger my "oh no, this will lead to more responsibility" alarms, I can be very productive. For example, I love to plan a trip, because it has a discrete start and end and is entirely within my control.
by DSingularity | 2025-06-12 21:18:03+00:00
Unfortunately I don’t think he is capable of what you are asking him to do. Remember that the majority of the Israeli population think Israel hasnt gone far enough in Gaza. Yes that’s after starvation and murdering over 30k women and children. On top of that most Israelis see no problem with the Nakba which is the origin of the problem as it displaced the majority of Palestinians turning them into scattered refugees who were robbed of their land and property.

Such mindsets would never allow for achieving peace with neighbors through any strategy that isn’t built around dominance through violence.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-12 21:18:11+00:00
> Might need to flash the firmware.

I’m a fan of LibreDrive, but have you heard about any similar firmwares for this purpose?

More info about LibreDrive on the forum that hosts discussion about it and tools that it works with:

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18856
by tacker2000 | 2025-06-12 21:18:36+00:00
Yes, running 2 php versions at the same time is quite tricky. One can do it using symlinks, but its a pain.

Its the same like running multiple versions of python (python vs python3, etc… cue the xkcd meme pic).

in the end its all a mess and thats why docker is such a nice thing.

Thanks for the heads up i will check Jails out.
by tstactplsignore | 2025-06-12 21:19:03+00:00
Useful to whom?

Well first and foremost to these people:

https://pepfar.impactcounter.com/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/children-die-after-usaid-... https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipat... https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5413322/aid-groups-say-... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z
by smusamashah | 2025-06-12 21:19:35+00:00
There is something in motion heavy videos that is making me nauseas/sick in my stomach. Last time I felt this was with first Sora release. It's not as bad as Sora, but its there. Veo 3 didn't gave me these feelings or may be I haven't seen its motion heavy samples.

Does anyone else feels same looking at motion heavy samples of Seedance?
by mannyv | 2025-06-12 21:20:14+00:00
I'll take your kingdom!

ISO 9660.

https://www.iso.org/iso-9660-images-for-computer-files.html

VMDK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDK

Amiga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Disk_File

UDF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

Apple Disk Image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image
by muzani | 2025-06-12 21:20:29+00:00
Research should not be done in surveys. The old way was at least a powerpoint presentation, vertical slice, or a wishlist. However, people have gone wise to wishlists. Prototypes are the new PPT and faster to set up.

Customer interviews tend to exclude a lot of things too. Do people want a browser without a million tabs open? Sure. Do people want a payment gateway that can be set up in an hour? That sounds like a scam, but why not? Do people want a game about a plumber jumping on tortoises who shoots fireballs whenever they eat a flower? Probably not.

I do believe people have a good idea of what they want to bring to the world and at some point it's just easier to show what they had in mind.
by xp84 | 2025-06-12 21:20:31+00:00
Try it yourself and see. Something about macOS cloud file provider system that they all use now has a built-in requirement that you must locate that “OneDrive” or “Google Drive” folder on an “internal” drive. Assuming you have a $6000 Mac Pro you can have as many internals as you want, but for the rest of us “internal drive” means the one single drive soldered directly to your motherboard.

Of course, predictably, iCloud Drive gives you no configuration of where you store the local copy, so it’s stored in some weird path specifically on your boot volume.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-12 21:20:47+00:00
> Switch to a phrase-based password.

I assume that's why it's 50+ characters long, as opposed to 20 gibberish characters. Because phrase-based passwords are longer. And whether it's 40 or 50 or 50+ doesn't even matter, the point is it's not short like a 6-digit PIN.

I have the exact same problem. It's still incredibly annoying to type on a touchscreen keyboard. If you mistype one character...

So no, it's not the commenter's fault. And it's certainly not mine. I'm doing the best with the tools I have available. It's Apple's fault, mainly.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-12 21:20:54+00:00
> Now the good news with Chinese stuff is that a war is not imminent and we have the benefit of hindsight and can do something about that.

We are and we have been at war with China (and Russia and North Korea, fwiw) for many years at this point. The ongoing cyberwarfare from either country is more than enough to warrant this label, the problem is we were and are governed by chickens who refuse to accept the reality we are living in and still think that kowtowing to China's every demand will save our economies.
by msgodel | 2025-06-12 21:21:45+00:00
Lol I remember arguing with someone on here that children can't consent to the surgery and other trans gender stuff they were pushing on them back in 2018. I think somewhere in the rules it says you're specifically not supposed to ask if HN is getting worse because people say it is so often.

Personally I think it had a rough few years after 2020 (which sites didn't?) but it doesn't seem much worse than I remember it.
by brundolf | 2025-06-12 21:22:06+00:00
Feedback: the UI feels like a direct reference to VSCode, which is familiar to software developers, but not to lawyers. If you're hoping this will be adopted by lawyers, I would focus on making the UX familiar to them. Look at software that they already use, and mimic those idioms insomuch as it makes sense to do so. I would also have the base web domain link to a normal home/info page, not to the demo directly. And maybe prefill the demo with some actual content (documents/etc) so people can really see what it does and how

Good luck!
by LtWorf | 2025-06-12 21:22:13+00:00
Wow 3 months! I stayed 2 days!

I was still a student and I immediately had to fix a bug they had about hitting the memory limits with an awful SQL query. I fixed the query and they said "no we will just keep patching sqlite to increase the memory limits forever instead". So I quit because I didn't want to be the most senior person when I was still a student and I didn't want to be ignored.
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-06-12 21:22:48+00:00
First of all I have to ask: Do you work for them? Be honest.

As long as I cannot access their data, cannot see their systems on a continuous basis, they can collect my data. The same applies to DuckDuckGo and the same applies to VPN services.

So at Kagi they are aware of Tor, they are aware of the Dark Web. If you even talk about this on your website, of course you find ways to circumvent privacy there.

I tested Kagi and my experience is the results are even with or worse than what other services present like Google or Bing or even Perplexity. And if you don't like advertising, just use an ad blocker. I'm so surprised that so many people don't seem to do this and they always complain about ads. Just use an ad blocker already.

So they allow me to modify my own website ranking. Well, if almost nobody uses this website, that's pointless. Besides, if I could modify my website ranking, so can everybody else. And now we are back to search engine optimization.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-12 21:23:11+00:00
You're not wrong, but look at it from a user's perspective. The documentation (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sd_n...) explicitly says:

using this library should be preferred in order to avoid code duplication

Then, if you're not intimately familiar with systemd you might wonder which is more standardized and less likely change between the API and the protocol. Maybe you make the reasonable assumption that it's the API.

Then, you look at the reference code and see some reasonably nontrivial stuff that's a bit outside the maintainer's remit to add.

All of that is going to lead people in the direction of linking the library rather than reimplementing from scratch.
by kiitos | 2025-06-12 21:23:57+00:00
In any kind of minimally-effective engineering team, engineers will only ever be working with and maintaining code that's "mission critical" in the sense you're describing here, there won't be any meaningful amount of "non-mission-critical" code worth considering or optimizing.

This is in some sense a didactic assertion: if it's not the case, then your engineering team isn't providing any value beyond what a bash script, gluing-together JIRA tickets and GitHub PRs via the LLM-du-Jour, could do autonomously.
by al_borland | 2025-06-12 21:23:58+00:00
Apple ships to satisfy the 80%. 3rd party devs generally fill the needs of the 20% in various ways.

This is no different with Linux. How many Linux users use a desktop environment as-is without any plugins or tweaks? How many Arch users don’t have a single package from the AUR?

There are tools like Little Snitch on macOS to monitor and block all kind of network traffic.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-12 21:24:11+00:00
> So when Israel does do what Palestinians supposedly want - completely remove all its citizens from the territory and hand it over to Palestinians to control

They didn't actually do that; they continued to assert a set of layered security exclusion zones within Gaza where Gazans were forbidden to enter except under limited conditions, and continued to shoot unarmed civilians across the border within and beyond those zones, whether or not they were complying with the unilaterally-asserted terms.
by haswell | 2025-06-12 21:24:30+00:00
This is an apples/oranges comparison for a number of reasons:

1. The Bigscreen Beyond 2 is still a tethered device and can't do anything without a beefy computer. It wouldn't be so small if it contained a computer capable of driving the screens at 90hz.

2. The AVP displays are 3660x3200 pixels per eye at 90-100hz vs the Beyond 2's 2560x2560 per eye at 75hz (can only reach 90hz by upscaling 1920×1920 per eye).

3. The Beyond devices don't have video passthrough which is a core use case of the AVP and its OS and adds to the computing needs and resulting form factor.

Presumably Apple could have made a smaller device if they had limited themselves to the specifications of something like the BB2. The existence of the BB2 is not evidence that the tech existed to miniaturize the AVP since the BB2 is simply not able to achieve the same outcomes as the AVP. They're just fundamentally different devices.
by piker | 2025-06-12 21:24:34+00:00
Great feedback; and I do agree. The HN link goes to the app itself because we're impatient, but there is an actual landing page most visitors hit.

I've gone back and forth on the UX idea, and while I do agree, it's important that Tritium selects for users that are going to be able to quickly adopt the newer concepts. Just simply presenting a "better Word" isn't really going to move the needle. It's really a shift in expectations. That said, I have recently backed off defaulting to dark mode to make it feel slightly more familiar.
by SkyeCA | 2025-06-12 21:24:41+00:00
> It drives me crazy that em-dashes are supposedly a smell for AI now.

They're an excellent tell for comments written on places like HN, Reddit, and other forms of social media. The average person (myself included) simply does not write very well and I would wager the majority of English speakers are not able to properly use an em-dash.

I expect them in books and suspect that's where the AI models are getting them from, but those are being written largely by professionals.

It's at a point where the moment I see an em-dash on a social media post I cease reading it and move on to the next.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-12 21:25:16+00:00
Yeah I knew about the Brits but you're correct, it escaped my mind that the Nordics run their own zone [1]. But you're a bit outdated too, turns out - the most North point is the Baltics these days, they switched away from the Russian grid a few months ago [2].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verband_Europ%C3%A4ischer_%C3%...

[2] https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2025/02/09/entso-e-confirms-succe...
by yoavm | 2025-06-12 21:25:18+00:00
The idea as I understand it (and I'm not expressing personal agreement with it) is that similar things can be done by non-Jews and they will not be newsworthy. For example, Assad murdered around 500k Syrians and yet Google searching for "Genocide Syria" yields 1/4 of the results "Genocide Israel" gives, even though the number of deaths in Gaza is 1/10. Similar story for "Famine Yemen" vs "Famine Gaza". Or the fact that the UN has condemned Israel more times than the rest of the world combined. No Jews No News means that bad things are happening everywhere all the time, but they have higher likelihood of reaching the news if the one to blame is Jewish. In other words it's not about how you phrase the story, it's about which stories are told more than others.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-12 21:25:35+00:00
I have on mine, and yes it always prompts for a password anyways if I haven't used the App Store extremely recently (like within the past 24 hours).

I'd assume it's a straight-up bug on Apple's part, but they haven't fixed it for years and years, so at this point I think they're just being sadistic.

Because yes TouchID works everywhere else. This is App Store-specific. It's literally the only reason I keep a password manager app on my home screen, since it autofills everywhere else but not there so I have to always copy my Apple password manually from the password manager app.
by at_a_remove | 2025-06-12 21:25:38+00:00
I am keeping an eye on this thread, as I plan to eventually rip my somewhat large collection, but would prefer to do it just the one time.

Exact Audio Copy, the author seems to have moved on to other interests, which is a shame because I was looking for something compatible with an autoloader. And it looks like dbpoweramp is the only one left in that arena.

I am allllll about the metadata. Also, a thumbnail, synced lyrics if they could be found, custom metadata for hyperlinks back to entries on Discogs and MusicBrainz, perhaps some ReplayGain values in fields on the FLAC, depending on my MP3 processing case ... but I have so many unanswered questions.
by mbreese | 2025-06-12 21:25:46+00:00
Yeah, but passphrases don’t require switching keyboards as often in mobile. And if you’re using a 16 character P@s5w0R6, a 50 character passphrase can be just as secure.

What I can’t stand if when I’m prompted to type a password on my Apple TV and can’t use my phone for some reason. Scrolling across the alphabet for a passphrase is torture.
by gtsop | 2025-06-12 21:26:24+00:00
> , it attempts to normalize the intimidation and censorship of truths

Very muddying statement. The normalization of intimidation and censorship has already happened by those in power, a comment can only acknowledge the reality of it.

> when we know that isn't the consensus nor desired.

by who? Crearly a lot of very powerful people desire it very very much.