MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petre | 2025-06-29 12:33:36+00:00
There were even Russians at some of the anti Euro protests. Probably proped up by the Kremlin through Tiktok and Telegram.

Bulgaria has a pegged currency to the Euro since forever, they got quite depopulated after 1991 and their only chance is to become a tourist destination and to attract some investments from Türkye and maybe Greece, because nobody else would invest. The fact that Romania isn't interested in builing more bridges over the Danube and that Serbia isn't part of the EU also puts the northern part of Bulgaria in a tight spot. If you want to see what a depopulated country looks like, travel through northern Bulgaria. It looks like the descriptions from the book The World Without Us.
by attendant3446 | 2025-06-29 12:33:45+00:00
On Graphene, create another user and install sandboxed Google Play Services there. Don't login into Google account, use something like Aurora Store to get the apps. Most of the apps I have to use (mostly banks) work this way (I have a separate user with 5-6 apps that don't work without Google Play Services).

I would prefer these apps had a standalone web version, but sometimes it's not up to you what apps you have to use :(
by heresie-dabord | 2025-06-29 12:34:36+00:00
> Kids are probably not an option. Although she very much wants it.

Like many (but not all) people, my bias is love of children. But extend that love to your dearest future hopes. A marriage will be a serious test of commitment and stable teamwork every day — for decades. Otherwise it is likely to crumble and the children will be victims too.

Even as an optimist, I will say to a HN brother... there are short hikes, but for the longest you choose your ascent, your kit, and the weather conditions.
by martin_a | 2025-06-29 12:34:44+00:00
> The % of europeans who have killed more than 10 civilians must be 1000x the US average over the last 100 years.

WTF did I just read?

Anyways, maybe have a look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
by cluckindan | 2025-06-29 12:35:28+00:00
Recursive (n choose 2) is my favorite.

https://oeis.org/A086714

If you think about it, it quantifies emergence of harmonic interference in the superposition of 4 distinct waveforms. If those waveforms happen to have irrational wavelengths (wrt. each other), their combination will never be in the same state twice.

This obviously has implications for pseudorandomness, etc.
by matt_s | 2025-06-29 12:35:45+00:00
I read somewhere that a professor is taking the approach with some assignments to ask students to have AI generate their paper, then ask for references and then evaluate the AI output. They were finding this is a good way for students to learn the material because they have to understand it well enough to scrutinize the generated text.

I think this is similar in concept to after you've learned something to teach or explain it to someone else and it helps you solidify your knowledge.

Generative AI is a tool, much like when search engines and massive internet use came about in the late 90's I'm sure college kids were sharing completed papers online and searching for them. Learning how to effectively use the tool in your daily work or learning is key, relying on the tool to do your work blindly, which is likely what the CA colleges are trying to prevent, isn't going to help learn the material.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-29 12:35:54+00:00
> they say that iMessage is end-to-end encrypted, and then the second you have an iCloud backup that's completely broken.

It’s not completely broken. For average users, erring on the side of being able to restore from backup is the best choice. For people who need more security, that’s what Advanced Data Protection is for. You have the choice of which option suits you best; I think the default is appropriate for typical users.

> Apple is also the company that tried to introduce client-side content scanning of user photos.

What happened was they put a huge amount of effort into building a system that goes as far as it possibly can to implement CSAM detection that could work on E2E encrypted photo libraries while maintaining as much privacy as possible.

The design of the feature demonstrates they put a lot of effort into privacy – competitors just scan everything that’s uploaded to them, while Apple went above and beyond to do something a lot more difficult. The entire point of it was to detect without Apple having to have access to your photo library. There’s no point to design a system like that if they weren’t prioritising privacy – they could just scan on the server like everybody else if privacy isn’t a priority.

And what happened – everybody freaked out anyway, so they cancelled the feature. It’s an example that supports my point. Apple respond to incentives.

Personally, I wish they hadn’t cancelled the feature. Virtually everybody complaining about it didn’t understand how it worked and thought it worked in a completely different way.
by a10r | 2025-06-29 12:36:04+00:00
That’s an excellent point, and thank you for raising it. You are 100% correct—relying on users to inspect a URL that could be spoofed with User-Agent trickery is a flaw in the original recommendation. It's a classic threat model that I should have addressed from the start.

Thanks to your feedback, I've just merged a PR to change the recommended installation method in the documentation to the only truly safe one: a two-step "download, then execute the local file" process. This ensures the code a user inspects is the exact same code they run.

I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your expertise and hold the project to a higher standard. This is what makes a community great.
by delib | 2025-06-29 12:36:21+00:00
Some of my gripes with Yazio:

- It freezes. all. the. time. For an app that I use 10+ times per day that's just not acceptable.

- When I update a shared recipe on my phone, it doesn't update for my wife. The only way to solve this is log out of the app and log back in. When you do this, you realize that not all your settings are saved, so you need to go back and fix those.

- They seem to use some aggressive caching in their UI: For instance, I update the amount of food, swipe back, and still see the old value.

- Can't do anything without an internet connection, not even look at how many calories you have left.

- Newest bug: Shared recipes don't open anymore. Just switches to the recipe screen. When I reported this to them, I got an AI answer on how to create recipes.

There are other funny things: For a few weeks now, you can collect "diamonds" when you track foods. I now have hundreds of these, but can't do anything with them.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-06-29 12:36:35+00:00
Similarly for us, siblings each required different treatment. Even when part of the same application. All born in the same UK hospital to the same parents and having the same home address. Fun.

It was interesting to speculate what exactly the one child whose passport came months later had done that warranted the Examiner's extra scrutiny. Something to do with reincarnation I expect.
by 986aignan | 2025-06-29 12:36:48+00:00
Even if that is true (and I'm not saying it is), practical limits on handling the combinatorial complexity, or variety if you will, severely limits its use. No realistic fist-fighter has the information required or the processing capabilities to do the "biomechanical optimization problem" to anywhere near optimality.

In city planning and building design, the problem is even more severe. The planner doesn't know what people are going to settle where, what their desired needs are (or are going to be), and so on. That doesn't mean that there's no such thing as an awful solution, nor that you can't say anything at all. (A house probably needs windows, and you probably shouldn't stick a polluting industrial zone right next to a bunch of them.) It just means that trying to "micromanage" a city or complex building fails - for the same reason that micromanaging an organization fails.

(This is a requisite variety or "seeing like a state" argument.)
by Xss3 | 2025-06-29 12:36:55+00:00
Depends on your brewing method tbh. If you're making espresso properly then each batch will need a different grind setting.

If you are brewing with french press, not so much.

I wish i could buy coffee so consistent that id never need to adjust the grind setting or pick out bad beans as i weigh my shots out for the week. Have tried about 30 roasters, none are THAT consistent because it probably isnt practical to be.
by bluGill | 2025-06-29 12:36:56+00:00
mentally ill is a plea and changes how the case is handled. if found guilty you go to a very different prison system where real doctors care for your issuse and then releas you when treated. It isn't easy to get this plea - many try thinking it is a fast track out of prison so the courts are onto that and put a lot of effort into checking if you really are. I doubt mom's testimony has much weight in that, though she would still be allowed to testify and that would be in the record maving it apear that it mattered
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-06-29 12:37:52+00:00
This isn't a really counter-argument.

It could be (and IMHO likely is) multi-causal, with several contributing factors, including lack of social welfare (leading to people with rough childhoods), gun availability and also lead exposure in childhood.

The question at hand is how to weight the last factor. IMHO it's not zero, but I don't know enough to say just how much.
by goldfishgold | 2025-06-29 12:38:56+00:00
Clearly there is disagreement in Israel to some limited degree about the reality and appeal of a two state solution, but it’s hard to see that as a realistic or desired outcome when Netanyahu keeps saying things like “everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our existence.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-boasts-of-thwarting-...

Certainly it’s the stated position and goal of the current government, which is what the initial post said.
by hackyhacky | 2025-06-29 12:38:59+00:00
First, what you're describing is not consistent with the definition of serial killer [1].

Second, even if we include governmental killings, it's not clear how to allocate blame. For example, how many people are responsible for the Holodomor [2]? Just Joseph Stalin himself? His deputies? Every employee of the Russian government? If we consider each instance of state-sanctioned murder as ultimately being ordered by the head of state, that would not greatly increase the number of murderers, and certainly not in comparison to the daily count of civilian-on-civilian murder in the US.

Third, if we are going to include governmental killings, we should definitely include the various illegal wars that the US has engaged in, and continues to engage in. I think that would nicely balance the tables. It's important to understand that fascism and Communism do not hold a monopoly on civilian deaths [3] [4] [5]. Let's also not forget the US's continued use of the death penalty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal

EDIT: formatting
by FlyingSnake | 2025-06-29 12:39:25+00:00
Nah man, I’m not aiming for any linguistic purity or any such thing. All I want is to experience the sounds, smells, quirks, slangs and unique things that make up the culture. e.g. when I read „Stasiland “, I knew exactly what Miriam felt. When I read the „Kite runner”, as an ex-kite runner, I felt one with Aamir and Hassan. Linguistic purity reminds me of casteism/accentism which I abhor.

I just want to be as close as the original experience as possible, and it maybe my naive thinking that original languages capture that nuance better?

However your point about English-Latin-Spanish triumvirate is interesting and may explain your reasoning. Indian works like Mrityunjaya or Godān can easily be read in many Indic languages without any drop of quality.

You might be surprised but I’ve actually found German translations of Mahabharata or Tripitaka to be much better then English ones.
by natnat | 2025-06-29 12:40:10+00:00
This reminds me of the "Natural engagement pattern" sketch that Mark Zuckerberg made about facebook content back in 2018: https://www.facebook.com/notes/751449002072082/

Content gets more engagement as it gets closer to the "policy line" of getting banned, and in a competitive information environment (an engagement maximizing algorithm) you end up with a lot of content close to the border of what's allowed.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-29 12:40:12+00:00
I don't think moving off IPv4 is on anyone's radar yet, unless you're buying VPS services that often come with a discount when you run on IPv6 only. In practice, you'll probably always have IPv4 connectivity of some sort, even though it's probably going to become more and more likely that that connectivity is attained through CGNAT.

Github is especially infuriating. For a few weeks, they ran a test, everything seemed to work great, and then they reverted to IPv4-only again.

Email servers live a decade or two in the past anyway. Disabling SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 support on email servers is still something you can't do without risking email deliverability problems. Microsoft Outlook's support and spam filters don't even seem to be aware of IPv6 capable mail servers (despite their headers showing they've been using IPv6 internally for ages).

I do wish IPv6 would be leveraged more, but the fear that maybe things work slightly less well for a minority of customers seems to be freezing every attempt at actually making use of the tech.

The reason you may be seeing weird IP behaviour from mobile carriers probably has to do with the way IP on mobile networks works, though. If you're on a call driving down a highway or sitting in a high-speed train, your phone will be doing handovers over and over again, and your IP address needs some form of stability. You may even cross a border and switch to a foreign network and the entire stack is supposed to maintain a seamless connection. There are special routing systems set up within cellular networks (some of which make excellent use of IPv6 features) that will make it very difficult to provide "normal" static GUAs to cell phones. Things are made as normal as possible, but it's not as easy to accomplish that kind of stability as you would with a fixed-line home internet connection.
by adverbly | 2025-06-29 12:40:44+00:00
Apis do not need to necessarily tell you everything about themselves. Anyone who has used poorly documented or fully undocumented apis knows exactly what I'm talking about here.

Obviously, for http apis you might often see something like an open API specification or graphql which both typically allow an api to describe itself. But this is not commonly a thing for non-http, which is something that mcp supports.

MCP might be the first standard for self-described apis across all protocols(I might be misusing protocols here but not sure what the word technically should be. I think the MCP spec calls it transport but I might be wrong there), making it slightly more universal.

I think the author is wrong to discount the importance of an llm as an interface here though. I do think the majority of mcp clients will be llms. An API might get you 90% of the way there but if the llm gets you 99.9% by handling that last bit of plumbing it's going to go mainstream.
by raincole | 2025-06-29 12:41:33+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean. First of all BB(n) is a function so it has value(s).

And in theory we can prove BB(748)=X, where X is a plain big natural number, as long as we just assume ZFC is consistent. It's practically impossible, but not fundamentally impossible like proving Con(ZFC) in ZFC itself.
by Chris2048 | 2025-06-29 12:41:33+00:00
There are plenty of things that are only "legal thing" once they are officially judged to be so. An obvious (to a layman HNer) crime isn't one until legally declared so.

The same standard applies to many of the apparently unconstitutional actions of the current administration.

Please stop with the paranoid "bot" nonsense, my account is over a decade older than yours is.
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-29 12:42:44+00:00
You mean the only country that has 800+ military bases around the world, and has started a never ending series of 'regime change' wars and proxy wars, is the only country to have used nukes, that has a military larger than the rest of the planet combined, and an extreme domestic mass shooting problem seen nowhere else, somehow still managed to have 1000x less 10+ kills than Europe?
by holowoodman | 2025-06-29 12:43:10+00:00
Actually, there are some things.

libGL/libVK for OpenGL and Vulkan support is a big one, you need that to be fitting the exact version of your kernel Nvidia driver if you are using Nvidia cards. Of course all other vendors play nice with Open Source and Mesa libs, but especially for gaming, a lot of people unfortunately still buy Nvidia. Games cannot just ship their own 32bit libGL for reasons of license and versioning.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-29 12:43:24+00:00
> The dilemma of what, continue doing what they've been doing; releasing and maintaining FOSS, without being paid for it?

From my earlier comment:

> If they take employment elsewhere, when the funding comes in, they will have to turn it down or quit the job they just got. Seems like it forces an unpleasant choice.
by mrkramer | 2025-06-29 12:43:54+00:00
It's not about race, it is about personality, even cats have different personalities which are shaped by their genes[0].

Evolution uses variation so you can adapt and survive but variation is experimental meaning its results are nor perfect nor conclusive.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250626-how-loud-a-cat-m...

This article was on HN frontpage 2 days ago.
by andyferris | 2025-06-29 12:44:43+00:00
I mean... did Oracle consult the government in Jakarta about their use of the term Java? There are more than 100 million people there and we squabble about the conotations of the name of a programming with the name of another programming language whose name has connotations about someone elses island which is actually a connotation about some coffee some programmers drank who felt Jolt Cola is so Microsoft and isn't as cool as freshly roasted beans anymore (...in 1996).

But WebScript I could actually get behind! (if the case fails)
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-29 12:45:36+00:00
One annoying caveat with these is that for streaming services, you will need to figure out how to disable those tunnels, because they're blocked as if they're VPNs for getting around region restricted content blocks.

Still works great, though. Thanks to the power of RAs, you can get all of your devices hooked up with an IPv6 address even if your router doesn't support HE tunnels, just have any device in your network advertise a /64 and it'll become an IPv6 router (assuming your router doesn't filter out RAs for security reasons).

Very useful for hosting stuff from within your home network without actually needing to mess with port forwarding rules.
by DonHopkins | 2025-06-29 12:45:37+00:00
Apparently not everybody got the Lawnmower Memo, so thanks for posting that again, as a reminder to people like sprash who think I should have "sincerely asked if you are allowed to publish the [NeWS source] code". As if sincerity would help, and as if I haven't been sincerely asking since 1986.

I'll also sincerely ask: Does anybody at Oracle know how I can get in touch with their HR department to find out what ever happened to my Sun 401k plan? Because nobody will answer my calls, and it's a lot of money of mine plus 33 years of interest they owe me that they're holding on to, which they inherited from Sun and then disappeared from all known records (except for a record that says it once existed and Oracle has it, but no other info), and they won't pick up the phone or return my email, no matter how "sincerely" I ask or how long I wait on hold.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370636

sprash 4 days ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Ancient X11 scaling technology

> 1994

Apparently you have to be criticizing X11 for more than three decades now. Since you seem to know your stuff, could you please post a link to your git repository containing your personal display server that solves all the problems?

DonHopkins 4 days ago | prev | next [–]

Since they bought Sun Microsystems, Oracle now owns the rights to the NeWS source code, so unfortunately I'm not legally allowed to post the NeWS server source code on my Github page, although I spent many years unsuccessfully fighting to make NeWS free and evangelizing it to anyone who would listen, like RMS and my colleagues and customers at Sun:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/rms.news.txt

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-ooo-review...

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/questionaire.tx...

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/grasshopper.msg...

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/sevans.txt

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/Explanation.txt

[...]

sprash 4 days ago | parent | next [–]

> Oracle owns the rights to the NeWS source code so I'm not allowed to post it on my Github page.

They are certainly not making any money with it right now. All patents should be expired by now. Have you ever sincerely asked if you are allowed to publish the code? [...]

DonHopkins 4 days ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

[...] Ha ha! Good luck, kiddo. Have you ever tried asking a lawnmower for favors? Do you really think "sincerity" would help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s

[...]
by somenameforme | 2025-06-29 12:45:51+00:00
Apple is basically a smartphone company at this point, and smartphone sales are plummeting. And I think they're plummeting for the same reason desktop sales plummeted. We went from a time where a new PC was a bit dated in 3 months and obsolete in 2 years, to modern times where a desktop from a decade ago is good for pretty much everything, even including high end gaming if you started with a high end card.

The exact same thing's happening to phones. I have a 6 year old phone that was cheap when it was new, and it still runs 100% of what I use my phone for, and most people use their phones for, perfectly. Tech hardware as a recurring business model only works when there's perceived significant improvements between generations. Trying to sell a few more pixels, or a fraction of a cm thinner case or whatever just isn't worth it for most people.

So, as typical with corporations in this spot, they start flailing to try to maintain revenue, let alone growth. Microsoft became a 'cloud' company paired with a side gig of spyware marketed as an OS. It'll be interesting to see what Apple transforms into.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-29 12:46:06+00:00
An interesting antidote for that is to read biographies --- even those of leaders often have a section where the subject is an ordinary person, subjected to the forces of those in power --- reading a series of them in chronological order (I read those of U.S. Presidents to my children as a dry-run for an unfortunately abandoned project to do this for the entirety of world history) yields interesting insights into history and its ebb-and-flow.
by qalmakka | 2025-06-29 12:46:33+00:00
That's always a good choice but

1. They need to also keep the multi arch support enabled in their kernels 2. Apps such as games and steam depend on Mesa, and you don't really want to ship Mesa

A good compromise would be for Valve to support Flatpak for Steam, but if they can't be bothered to build a 64 bit Steam they sure don't want to bother with that