MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ochrist | 2025-06-12 11:51:15+00:00
What does it mean to 'believe in UFOs'?

UFO basically means Unidentified Flying Object (now the term UAP is used more often)

If you believe in UFOs, do you believe that there can be observations of flying objects without any current explanation?

Or does it mean that you believe in little green men or something similar?

Please use the terms UFO, UAP and 'believe' they way they were meant to be used.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-06-12 11:51:21+00:00
I ended up running coax to my network cabinet and put the HDHR there, because my attic gets significantly hotter than the maximum rated operating temperature of the HDHR.

I'm also long-term concerned about how Plex as a company is moving away from its server product and towards FAST (free, ad-supported TV), a feature I almost never use. I'd love to see Jellyfin get some equivalent features.
by roblabla | 2025-06-12 11:51:36+00:00
A default linux install is incredibly silent on the network. You might be seeing some mDNS stuff, gnome/firefox may do some requests to detect captive portals, but overall the amount of network traffic is pretty small and manageable.

It's important to note that, generally speaking, Linux software does not come with default-enabled telemetry, and for those that do, distros like Debian will routinely patch out phoning home and telemetry from the software they package.
by rvz | 2025-06-12 11:51:51+00:00
> "Maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next year; or from a major materials science breakthrough one year to true high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces the next year," he said. Maybe. Or maybe not. We note that fellow futurist Elon Musk, who once cautioned about releasing the AI demon, predicted in 2016 that humans would land on Mars by 2025.

"Maybe"

What about the definition of "AGI" being changed again to mean something else? What does "AGI" actually mean anymore or was it hijacked again for the purpose of manipulation?

But this is the most important sentence of the entire article:

> Tech leaders simply pay no cost for misprediction.

They don't care if they are wrong on their predictions. So focus on what they are doing rather than what they are saying.
by robviren | 2025-06-12 11:52:19+00:00
I do still actively wonder what portion of the effects are real vs placebo in audio "treatments". I'm not certain I am sold on things like binaural beats and such, but I do believe that pleasing music that relaxes the brain for a person can be real. It's just highly person dependent. One persons calming effect with hard rock is another person's anxiety source. Would be incredible if it allowed for better understanding of this.
by Arch-TK | 2025-06-12 11:52:59+00:00
An intersection takeoff is a takeoff where you do not use the full length of the runway. When you are a large aeroplane with a full load, reaching the necessary takeoff speeds required to rotate (pull up and begin lifting from the ground) can take longer than normal, at which point the climb speed will also be reduced if not properly compensated for (e.g. you miscalculate something and set the wrong elevator trim/takeoff thrust/something else).

When you are taking off, you have a short portion of the runway which you can use to abort the takeoff depending on failures, but that portion can become even shorter depending on the length of the runway.

Usually the first part of takeoff you would abort for almost any reason, and the second part you would only abort in a serious emergency, once you reach a certain point you simply cannot afford to abort because you will not stop in time to crash into whatever is at the end of the runway at which point you must take-off even if you are going to immediately request an emergency landing afterwards.

So if you are heavily loaded, with a lot of people on board, and you do an intersection takeoff, you are taking a risk that if you made a mistake or something goes wrong you will not have the ability to safely recover. That's why it's a terrible practice in this case. All it does is save a little bit of time which would be spent taxiing to the actual start of the runway.
by transpute | 2025-06-12 11:53:00+00:00
Pixel device trees and other code used to adapt the AOSP release to specific (Made by) Google hardware was not released in a big change from precedent. Without the Pixel hardware repos (which include the device trees, driver binaries, and more), custom Android ROMs will have a hard time developing their OS updates. This might also have implications for security (vulnerability) researchers.

Some large organizations buy Pixel hardware for security properties and an ecosystem with multiple teams testing and contributing upstream. Their procurement teams may have opinions on this change.
by vintermann | 2025-06-12 11:53:18+00:00
A terrible idea, because

1. You will have to keep very secret that this is what you're doing

2. If you do, your own officials will randomly start to believe you. And why would they believe you when you tell them it's all a hoax - after all, you're admitting that you're a manipulative POS, why would they believe you now?

Organization-level lies fry people's brains - including that of the liars. Probably especially of the liars.
by Keats | 2025-06-12 11:54:15+00:00
I'm not sure if it's Rust related. It manages to write the Rust code just fine, it's just that it doesn't seem to

- think of everything that is needed for a feature (fixable via planning at the beginning)

- actually follow that plan correctly

I just tried with a slightly big refactor to see if some changes would improve performance. I had it write the full plan and baseline benchmarks to disk, then let it go in yolo mode. When it was done it only implemented something like half of the planning phases and was saying the results look good despite all the benchmarks having regressed.
by ic_fly2 | 2025-06-12 11:54:18+00:00
I have programmed batteries / algos to do this in some European markets. This is being done right now.

The yield you could make from batteries in the UK dropped from double digits to 2% in 8months once some hedge funds figured out how to build and bid (or commission companies like my employer) batteries in the UK short term reserve market.

There are a few firms in northern Jutland and London specialised in this sort of trading.
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-12 11:54:19+00:00
I hate so much how whenever something bad happens there's a huge rush to come up with theories that place the blame on some group or ideology you already hated for unrelated reasons. I've stopped paying attention to the news in part because I don't like how disingenuously giddy people get whenever there's a mass-casualty event. I don't even mind morbid curiosity about death and suffering but nobody should ever see it as a benefit to their chosen group-identity.
by fabian2k | 2025-06-12 11:54:30+00:00
I don't really know enough about this, but what would you expect the pilots to do with that control if they don't have any thrust? Unless there was a suitable landing spot very, very close I don't see what they could do even if they have full control of the plane. There is nothing they can do except getting the engines to work to avoid a crash, the only thing controls would give them is the option to choose a slightly different place to crash.
by gk1 | 2025-06-12 11:54:32+00:00
Nice to see container use mentioned (https://github.com/dagger/container-use). I work with the team that made it (a lot of ex-Docker folks including the creator of Docker.)

Running agents in parallel will be a big deal as soon as we learn (or the agents learn) how to reliably work with just one.

Even before then, if you're trying to get work done while the agent is doing its own thing or you find yourself watching over the agent's "shoulder" out of fear it'll change something you didn't ask it to change, then it's useful to run it in a containerized dev environment.

Container use is definitely early but moving quickly, and probably improved even since this post was published. We're currently focused on stability, reducing git confusion, better human<>agent interaction, and environment control.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-12 11:55:20+00:00
My last understanding was that they were firm they didn't sell user data. Did this change?

My understanding is they have a long term relationship with Google worth about $20 billion a year. Other than money, does anyone really know the full extent of what they exchange?

Maybe this doesn't technically count as "selling" your data but it certainly counts as selling access to something important to Google --- which most likely, ultimately involves your data.

In other words, I don't believe Google pays them $20B to help maintain user privacy
by jeanlucas | 2025-06-12 11:55:41+00:00
Disappointed but not surprised

That's the AI slop I love with, some very mediocre solutions to justify some strategy or acquisition without actually doing much.

Usually backed by some vendor. The vendor "sponsors" an executive to build this and then the merge/sell happens.

I bet you there's a very happy sales person that is beating their target with this project
by SimianSci | 2025-06-12 11:56:18+00:00
Polling domains when attached to the network like this doesnt suprise me in the least. Apple's ecosystem has often been praised for its tight integration, and this consistent network connectivity is the result. Anybody who has worked with large scale services that rely on messaging services to ensure people get timely notifications and data, knows that you need services which are continuously polling endpoints to check and see if they have new information.

Organizations like Apple who service billions of devices cannot rely on a "push data to system only when something has updated" type of system, as such a system doesnt operate at their scale. They have to operate a system where individual clients are assumed to have an unreliable connection to the service, and where the client does the legwork of checking for new data stored in a centralized system.

This is what you are seeing in the article. Domains like [gdmf.apple.com] which govern device management, are where the declarative device management system is checking Apple's various databases to see if they need to update their configuration.
by matt_s | 2025-06-12 11:56:26+00:00
I was just watching something the other day about how jet engines have gotten more efficient and powerful over the last 50 years where commercial airliners really only need 2 engines. All 2 engine aircraft also have to be able to operate on 1 engine as well if there is a failure.

One has to wonder if this was a bird strike incident on both engines that maybe having 4 engines would have allowed the plane to circle back around.
by manytoo | 2025-06-12 11:56:28+00:00
Ever been curious about how you actually compare in size, without diving into sketchy forums or misleading charts?

I built this tool out of pure curiosity — a clean, private calculator where you can enter your measurements (length, girth, erect or flaccid) and instantly see where you stand compared to global averages based on peer-reviewed research.

It also includes:

* Percentile ranking so you can understand how you compare globally * Unit switching (inches or cm) * Partner comparison mode * Fun visual comparisons with everyday objects (surprisingly helpful)

Everything runs in your browser. No data saved, no tracking, no nonsense. Just a simple way to gain some perspective and take ownership of your own body knowledge — without the judgment or noise.

If you try it, let me know what you think. Always open to feedback and suggestions to make it better.
by dimitrisnl | 2025-06-12 11:56:57+00:00
I tried various astro sites, and as a user, a few things keep bugging me. - Visit their docs https://docs.astro.build/en/basics/astro-pages/ - Click `Routes` in the navigation

Now: 1. There's a flicker in the content where the sidebar moves on the left 2. The title displays `docs.astro.build` for a split second before it says "Routing | Docs"

Especially the second is quite annoying. I see it in every Astro site.
by Arch-TK | 2025-06-12 11:57:56+00:00
The engines power the hydraulic actuators in an aircraft an aircraft of that size cannot be trivially controlled without that hydraulic system. The APU should have been started to provide backup power in the case of engine failure but during take-off there is already very little time to do anything and it's possible that the sudden workload overloaded both the pilot and copilot or some other human factors were involved.

That being said, in the video I saw, the aircraft was already going too slow to realistically recover. And all you would get at that point is just an extended duration of glide which at best would let you find a less populated area to crash into.
by jsjohnst | 2025-06-12 11:58:17+00:00
The level of hallucinations with o3 are no different than the level of hallucinations from most (all?) human sources in my experience. Yes, you definitely need to cross check, but yes, you need to do that for literally everything else, so it feels a bit redundant to keep preaching that as if it’s a failing of the model and not just an inherent property of all free sharing of information between two parties.
by jowday | 2025-06-12 11:58:24+00:00
Don’t ever use Next. Terrible developer experience, vendor lock in, weird undocumented conventions that make building anything other than some kind of B2B SaaS CRUD site full of undocumented foot guns. My favorite thing I’ve encountered is the Next <Image /> tag somehow dropping the FPS on a webgl scene on the same page to 2 FPS.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-06-12 11:59:32+00:00
How does Linux fit into the eco system that surrounds it? I have no idea what systems the Danish government uses, but being a "Microsoft shop" with Exchange, Active directory, Teams etc is not uncommon.

I hope they will address and fix or have work arounds for all of them.

I feel sorry for the people who work there havin to nmove to LibreOffice. IT is free, and it works, but if you have spent 20 years or more using Microsoft Office, it will feel quite foreign and it is missing a large set of features.

The ministry will slow down considerably for some time while the employees learn how to use LibreOffice in all the ways they are used to.

My experience from a few large companies and government institutions is that a lot of employees do not want to change, or learn a whole different system. Forcing this change upon all is guarateed to create friction.

Much more important than that the change
by barries11 | 2025-06-12 11:59:33+00:00
I used Perforce a lot in the 90s, when it was simple (just p4, p4d, and p4merge!), super fast, and never crashed or corrupted itself. Way simpler, and easier to train newbies on, than any of the alternatives.

Subdirectories-as-branches (like bare repo + workspace-per-branch practices w/git) is so much easier for average computer users to grok, too. Very easy to admin too.

No idea what the current "enterprisey" offering is like, though.

For corporate teams, it was a game changer. So much better than any alternative at the time.

We're all so used to git that we've become used to it's terribleness and see every other system as deficient. Training and supporting a bunch of SWE-adjacent users (hw eng, ee, quality, managers, etc) is a really, really good reality check on how horrible the git UX and datamodel is (e.g. obliterating secrets--security, trade, or PII/PHI--that get accidentally checked in is a stop-the-world moment).

For the record, I happily use git, jj, and Gitea all day every day now (and selected them for my current $employer). However, also FTR, I've used SCCS, CVS, SVN, VSS, TFS and MKS SI professionally, each for years at a time.

All of the comments dismissing tools that are significantly better for most use cases other than distributed OSS, but lost the popularity contest, is shortsighted.

Git has a loooong way to go before it's as good in other ways as many of its "competitors". Learning about their benefits is very enlightening.

And, IIRC, p4 now integrates with git, though I've never used it.
by zara_is_reading | 2025-06-12 12:00:24+00:00
I had a conversation with Michael Church about this. Yeah, that MChurch, the guy Dan Gackle and his ilk nonconsensually deplatformed here in 2015. He had an interesting observation. He’s been studying whether AIs can write fiction (they can’t do it well) and he said that while they can mimic style, well enough to fool all but the most attentive readers, they have no intentionality. In other words, the reason we’ll never see AI write a great literary novel is not that it’s impossible, but that no AI ever would. Intentionality is something AIs can’t fake, and the amount of handholding it would take to make an LLM write something worth reading exceeds what it would take to just write it.
by babushkaboi | 2025-06-12 12:00:25+00:00
Flight Crew

Sumeet Sabharwal – Captain - 8800+ flying hours Clive Kunder – First Officer 1 - 1100+ flying hours

Cabin Crew

Aparna Mahadik – Cabin Executive-1 Shradha Dhavan – Cabin Executive-2 Deepak Pathak Irfan Shaikh Lamnunthem Singson Maithili Patil Manisha Thapa

This was crew of AI171. Next time you're on a flight please take a moment to thank the pilots, CISF staff and cabin crew for all they do to keep us safe.
by Illniyar | 2025-06-12 12:00:26+00:00
It made it by default. It's also not much of an "opt-out". An opt-out would be called "disableStreamingMetadata". Names convey intent, and it's obvious this is intended to be the behavior for all users with maybe an exception.

The problem is that this is needed for a minuscule amount of users. This should've been an opt-in. The choice to make it opt-out is quite weird.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-06-12 12:00:53+00:00
Feels like fear mongering. What is wrong with CloudFlare?

The point is that we need EU services for this and that is ridiculous. The only ones who will benefit from this will be EU companies that might not offer the same quality of service as the US companies do.

There are for example zero hyperscalers in Europe. Sure, I would like to use something EU made, but for all that's normal, offer me something similar to what AWS/Azure/GCP offer.
by vidarh | 2025-06-12 12:02:12+00:00
After a few of those failures, it stopped being rational to think he'd make money from his art, yet he persisted with his art.

Your argument is entirely backwards.

Artists who dedicate a lot of their time to art sometimes want to sell for whatever reason, sometimes commercial, often ego, but also a lot of the time are forced to spend some of their time trying to sell because they want to eat and would rather not take another job.

That doesn't mean making money was their primary or even a motivation for their art, but a reflection that money is a necessity to survive, and that if you make the art anyway there's often very little reason not to at least try to sell it.

It is not rational to assume that this mean that if the odds of finding a buyer becomes even much smaller that it will cause fewer people to make art, or even try to sell it, given that the choice to continue making art to sell it is already an emotional, irrational choice already.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-06-12 12:02:20+00:00
??? I didn't say anybody using npm wants this. I'm saying npm had the wrong policy around deletion, that npm could have handled the situation differently, and also that Azer not knowing or caring about the effects of removing the package doesn't make him an asshole or even negligent (although it also doesn't mean he ISNT an asshole; that's a separate matter).

The point is that Azer didn't owe anybody anything; not even to know what he was doing. npm did.

That said, I'm glad the wake-up call came in such a relatively benign way.
by SimianSci | 2025-06-12 12:02:27+00:00
Anybody who has done similar checks for windows will see an order of magnitude more connections being made. As someone who got their start managing windows devices, and who has gone through the painful steps of mapping out what each such connection is meant for, I was suprised to see that there was ONLY 63 connections being made in an hour for this article. The last time I mapped such connections for a windows device, we had measured about 200+ similar connections within a single hour.
by i_am_proteus | 2025-06-12 12:02:34+00:00
Good point!

The good news would be that GPT-4o average energy usage per query would be lower than 20 Wh.

The bad news is that there's a quadratic increase in energy usage with the increase in a model's maximum context window. GPT 3.5 -> GPT 4 was an increase from thousands of tokens to hundreds of thousands of tokens.
by sali0 | 2025-06-12 12:02:35+00:00
Next and RSCs have become some of the most frustrating things I've worked with on frontend. Dealing with FE is already annoying enough, but having to wrestle the magic of Next and then vendor lock-in to Vercel to top it off.

Team is trying out Tanstack router + vite this week. Excited to build a regular ass CSA.
by blindgeek | 2025-06-12 12:02:35+00:00
Well, sharing someone's deeply personal post on here could be seen as unkind or inappropriate. I get the sentiment; I can agree with it to a point. If someone else wrote a similar thing on their blog, I wouldn't submit it here without asking. But I also think frank, honest, and open discussion of this sort of thing is a net good, which is why I published my post, and why I don't mind it being here.
by raphaelj | 2025-06-12 12:02:57+00:00
Couldn't the battery just do, as an example, 1 minute long charge then discharge cycles?

For example, if the electricity price is -28€/MWh (like today in Germany), and your battery efficacy is 80%, you could get paid 28€/MWh charging, then only pay back 22€ discharging, generating a 6€/MWh profit.
by tossandthrow | 2025-06-12 12:03:04+00:00
You might ask why the fed does not reduce the interest rate to "save" the usd.

The reason is that it makes no difference. The usd is a fiat currency and relies on trust in the institutions, in this case the fed.

If they bail out the government, then other investors will loose confidence and the rate will go up, manifest as inflation.

At this point the US citizens are going to pay massively for this. Either through hyper inflation or. Increased taxes to pay the debt.
by lipowitz | 2025-06-12 12:03:13+00:00
It's a very interesting solution. I've been thinking more about filling my online time sheet system in advance but I suspect its too impractical to stick to times or keep readjusting with interruptions, so maybe I will try post-its.

I notice a bit of a link in behaviors between people I know who have ADHD and/or OCD. I'm not really sure what someone who "gives-in" to OCD impulses would feel as side effects, etc.. But I'm kind of curious if you see a downside to having followed loops for their reinforcing effects over days of work, etc?
by incomingpain | 2025-06-12 12:03:17+00:00
I think Gemini 2.5 pro exp, openai o3, and claude 4 opus are already sort of publicly there.

I think there are others who are privately there.

>Rather, I think it’s genuinely hard to get normal humanlike labor out of LLMs. And this has to do with some fundamental capabilities these models lack.

There are a number of 'labours' which depend on things like scent sense that llms cant deal with.

Even with the latest models with millions of bytes of context, it wont remember deep stuff from weeks ago, but then again i dont either.

They'll also likely be bad at emotional manipulation. LLMs are going to be quite autistic in this sense.

>How do you teach a kid to play a saxophone? You have her try to blow into one, listen to how it sounds, and adjust. Now imagine teaching saxophone this way instead:

But you absolutely could do this. It's literally how we have starcraft, go, and chess engines that are better than humans.

Eventually someone will do this training.