MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 12:37:55+00:00
If I tried to be obnoxious and got paid for it, I would still be less obnoxious than that asshole.

Looking at their website, "denis bider" is not just "support" but the main person beyond Bitvise, FYI. He also seems to think that "Biological viruses are made up. Virology is a fake field of study. [..] Virology, like journalism, is where an entire field is fraudulent".[1] When you're so triggered having to wear a mask for public safety you just start dismissing entire fields of science that don't fit your ideology and offend you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's no surprise the reasoning in that email is so bizarre and barely connects to the actual question. It's just this person's personality.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250417152336/https://blog.deni...
by Gys | 2025-07-14 12:38:11+00:00
Your comment made me do some research and I found this on wikipedia, which very much proves your point: the 'dumping' of US comics was hurting the local Belgium comics.

Interestingly, the quote below is only in https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgische_strip - only in the Dutch version of the wikipedia article, not in the English version.

> In 1936 verscheen het stripblad Bravo, dat voornamelijk vertaalde Amerikaanse strips bracht. Ook het in 1938 gecreëerde Robbedoes publiceerde aanvankelijk veel Amerikaanse strips. De lage kostprijs van de Amerikaanse strips verhinderde voor een groot deel dat Belgische auteurs kansen krijgen. In de loop van de jaren 1930 verschenen er ook steeds meer strips in het katholieke blad Zonneland / Petits Belges.

> Door de Tweede Wereldoorlog viel de aanvoer van Amerikaanse strips stil en Belgische auteurs als Jacques Laudy, Sirius en E.P. Jacobs kregen meer kansen.

Translated:

> In 1936, the comic magazine Bravo was launched, which mainly published translated American comics. Robbedoes, created in 1938, also initially published many American comics. The low cost of American comics largely prevented Belgian authors from getting a chance. During the 1930s, more and more comics appeared in the Catholic magazine Zonneland / Petits Belges.

> Due to the Second World War, the supply of American comics came to a halt and Belgian authors such as Jacques Laudy, Sirius, and E.P. Jacobs were given more opportunities.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-07-14 12:38:20+00:00
Much of what makes art fun is human effort and show of skill.

People post AI art to take credit for being a skilled artist, just like people posting others art as their own. Its lame.

If I am to be a bit controversial among artists; we're exposed to so much good art today that most art posted online is "average" at best. (The bar is so high that it takes 20+ years to become above average for most)

Its average even if a human posted it but fun because a human spent effort making something cool. When an ai generates average art its ... just average art. Scrolling google images to look at art is also pretty dull, because its devoid of the human behind.
by webdevver | 2025-07-14 12:38:26+00:00
forget the cubesat nonsense.

the aim should be to get a dudebro to quadbike on the surface. redbull & gopro will be the sponsors, plus polymarket for people to bet on the outcome of the mission.

actually i dont understand why this hasn't already happened! what is more extreme sports, that doing it on other planets?

its hard to get people to care about the sciencey stuff.

I've even got the tagline "Yeah, we found life on mars." and its a picture of the dude looking like a pirate in a spacesuit. people would (could?) love that i think.
by staticman2 | 2025-07-14 12:38:53+00:00
You're right about Switch but the other context is one of the Matrix directors said the original idea for The Matrix was a trans metaphor.

Somehow this became "the Matrix is a trans metaphor" to people with poor media literacy skills.

There was also an unfinished plot thread in The Matrix Online that a woman who emerged from a coma at the same time Neo died may or may not be a reincarnated Neo. This story setup was never concluded or followed up on.

"Fans were quick to note that "Sarah Edmontons" is an anagram for "Thomas Anderson," leading many players to believe Neo may have been reborn as Sarah after dying."

https://www.cbr.com/the-matrix-resurrections-online-female-n...
by craftkiller | 2025-07-14 12:39:09+00:00
Laptops also optimize for displaying a fully static screen. It's called "Panel Self Refresh" or "PSR". https://hardwaresecrets.com/introducing-the-panel-self-refre...

On my laptop, I can check if it is enabled with:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0000:c1:00.0/eDP-1/psr_state cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0000:c1:00.0/eDP-1/psr_capability
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-07-14 12:39:41+00:00
what the hell are you talking about? The budget cut for Webb (i.e. the new satellite) literally from the article you are reading is 187M to 140M. If Biden's FY2022 budget was 172M, that's 189M 2026 (from inflation), so this remains a 25% cut.
by anthonyryan1 | 2025-07-14 12:42:21+00:00
As the only developer maintaining a big bounty program. I believe they are all trending downward.

I've recently cut bounties to zero for all but the most severe issues, hoping to refocus the program on rewarding interesting findings instead of the low value reports.

So far it's done nothing to improve the situation, because nobody appears to read the rewards information before emailing. I think reading scope/rewards takes too much time per company for these low value reports.

I think that speaks volumes about how much time goes into the actual discoveries.

Open to suggestions to improve the signal to noise ratio from anyone whose made notable improvements to a bug bounty program.
by voidUpdate | 2025-07-14 12:42:46+00:00
I mean the soviets had a good go at landing big metal probes on there and they melted and failed pretty quickly. I'm not sure we have the technology to make a space suit or a quad bike that can function on the surface of venus. You'd also need to transport over 100 days of water and snacks so your dudebro doesn't starve on the way there
by armchairhacker | 2025-07-14 12:42:49+00:00
You could charge a fee and give the money back if the report is wrong but seems well-intentioned.

I see the issue with this, it's payment platforms. Despite the hate, cryptocurrency seems like it could be a solution. But in practice, people won't take time to set up a crypto wallet just to submit a bug report, and if crypto becomes popular, it may get regulations and middlemen like fiat (which add friction, e.g. chargebacks, KYC, revenue cuts).

However if more services use small fees to avoid spam it could work eventually. For instance, people could install a client that pays such fees automatically for trusted sites which refund for non-spam behavior.
by webdevver | 2025-07-14 12:42:54+00:00
i think in retrospect naming the OS after the browser was a mistake. the browser is like a public town square with god-knows-what going through it every day. its dirty, filthy, and totally chaotic.

which is precisely not what you want your actual personal computing environment to be like. my computer is mine - or, should be mine. when i close the browser, its like closing your front door. the world outside is gone for a bit so i can chill with my own private library etc.

as long as its called "ChromeOS", it will always be associated with landfill-ware, government-issued laptops that arent worth the box they come in. paperweights.
by komali2 | 2025-07-14 12:42:59+00:00
> Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google. For each 1% browser market share that Apple loses for Safari, Apple is set to lose $200 million in revenue per year.

Right now in many MRT stations throughout Taipei, there's ads for Safari. I don't think I ever in my life have seen an advertisement for a web browser until now. I guess now I know why.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-14 12:43:12+00:00
The cost isn't an issue. If I'm a well paid pro looking at 10 interview pipelines. I ain't taking say 3 weeks off work to do my top 3 interviews. It's insane. Pay my flights and 20k might consider it.

It might work for grads or people out of work if it is well paid e.g. at least pro rata od the target salary. But that's a subset so if the employer chooses this they narrow their pool.
by ho_schi | 2025-07-14 12:43:32+00:00
There is also a readily installable Flatpak:

https://github.com/sonnyp/Eloquent

It is restricted by Flatpak (i.e. Control Groups and Namespaces):

* No file-system access * No access to devices * Network Access is allowed (API of Languagetool is only reachable via REST?)

It is fat. But that's more an issue of Java itself. I only wish Languagetool didn't use Java, which is fine on a servers but horrible on personal-computers. Implemented in C, C++ or Rust and it would be probably already part of LibreOffice. Sonny Piers is the packager Flatpak, a prominent ex-member of GNOME board. He was removed due some Code-Of-Conduct thing which nobody can explain, due to issues within the Code-Of-Conduct.

PS: LibreOffice had to fight years to remove Java which plagued the project.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-14 12:44:30+00:00
Brave's ad blocker tries to hide a consent popup but fails, leaving an unusable website. That's a bug in Brave, I've already reported it but the more the merrier.

This stuff is why I don't like it when tools ship cosmetic filters with their ad blockers by default, because the website looks broken when the issue is actually Brave (and various other ad blockers) messing up.
by kbos87 | 2025-07-14 12:46:38+00:00
Day to day I use a home body composition scale (Withings Body Scan), the results of which have been corroborated by two Dexascans I've done at my gym a little less than a year apart.

For me personally, the little bit of help in the form of forward progress on weight loss has given me a reason to be a little more methodical in my strength training, and I'm seeing a slow but consistent payoff. And as far as I can tell, I'm not fighting an uphill battle in terms of adding muscle mass at all because of the GLP-1.
by aceofspades19 | 2025-07-14 12:46:44+00:00
I find it difficult to believe that AI will ever be able to clone your voice with just one word being said. There is a lot of variety in someone's voice thats not captured with the word "hello". Additionally, people have been saying for years that they can simply record you saying "Yes" and use that to agree to things but I have yet to see an epidemic of that being an issue either.
by CerebralCerb | 2025-07-14 12:46:53+00:00
It's an interesting idea. I did some napkin math based on the Solaris Urbino 18 bus. The buses have about 45 square meters of ceiling area (18m by 2.5m). Assuming efficient solar panels you could get 250w/sqm. That works out to 11.25 kwh/hour. The bus advertises with 600km of range with 800kwh of batteries so that is 1.33 kwh/km. Hence it could do ~8km/h on average when it is sunny.

The math does not really work out to a viable product with this bus, but it is not too far off. A city bus that has been purpose-built for low speed in urban areas without other traffic may work as it can make some sacrifices. For instance, since it runs much slower on average it would need smaller engines. It could also use more light-weight material since it won't need to handle high speed collisions. If it is just used for short distances within a city center it could also do away with seats. Lower speed should also lead to lower consumption.

The Solaris Urbino 18 weighs 17.5 tons curb weight. Assuming fuel consumption is pretty linearly related with weight and you could get it down to less than half, you could get a bus with a range of 10 miles per hour of charging. If it drove for 6 hours a day, but got charged for 12, 20 miles on average per hour is possible.
by wrasee | 2025-07-14 12:47:07+00:00
I've found being able to read assembly more useful than writing it.

For those writing in compiled languages like C/C++ and particularly with an interest in performance it's been very helpful just to be able to read compiler output and see what it's generating. Takes the guesswork out of it, removing the uncertainty by simply being able to see what the compiler is actually doing. You can just write code and see the result, who knew!. It's actually helped my understanding of C++ in seeing the bigger picture.

Of course it's also much easier to learn just to read a little disassembly than actually write the stuff. I'm sure I'm not alone in that for me Compiler Explorer (https://godbolt.org) was my gateway into this. You can get quite far even if just knowing the basics (I'm no expert).
by alwahi | 2025-07-14 12:47:17+00:00
ROG Zephyrus G14 2025 with the 5070Ti, comes as close to it as is possible imo. If you want more battery life and/or don't want to game then you can literally run it on the 890M and disable the Nvidia GPU, as easy as never installing the driver for it in the first place (I am imagining you as using Linux)....

MacBook Air M4 is sufficient for almost everything (except maybe gaming), but that depends on how much you want to get caught up in Apple's ecosystem.
by cjs_ac | 2025-07-14 12:47:26+00:00
It's an old meme: https://imgur.com/thats-bit-harsh-steam-XCEdD8W

In the UK, it's considered good form to be humorous when making an argument; I gather that in the US, you're supposed to sound like you're making a speech to prepare troops for war. I apologise if, in the course of describing how a product is unsuitable for use in my culture, I made that argument according to the norms of my culture.
by potato-peeler | 2025-07-14 12:47:27+00:00
Much of the companies/startup’s and vc’s are dominated by immigrants coming in from europe and asia. That ecosystem was fueled by immigrants before them. The only reason people seek out this geography is most global media attention is given here.

There is nothing special about US in itself that makes it lucrative for any one to stay. No wonder these calls of promoting local ecosystems in their original geography is heard again and again.
by imtringued | 2025-07-14 12:47:33+00:00
Agreed. I personally am interested in Rust after doing some research for parallel semantics. The state of the art language is usually some pure functional programming language coupled with a garbage collector, which is not suitable for the type of embedded development I'm thinking of.

Doing alias analysis on mutable pointers seems to be inevitable in so many areas of programming and Rust is just one of the few programming languages brave enough to embark on this idea.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-14 12:47:48+00:00
It also has the I/O effect. You don’t need to call or make use of an effect to be “tainted” by it; it just needs to be in the closure (or whatever scope is relevant in the language).

Intuitively: if you mark a function as async, it doesn’t stop being async “colored” just because you don’t actually perform any async operations in it. This is the same thing.
by reconnecting | 2025-07-14 12:47:58+00:00
Nice to meet you, Adriaan.

This is slightly incorrect. By sending a request from your business website (SimpleAnalytics) to your personal domain (Adriaan), you actually transfer personal data. In this case, it’s the IP address, which according to GDPR is considered PII.

Taking into account the scope of privacy terms provided on your business website, it doesn’t include data sharing with your personal entity through your website. So this is basically illegal, unless adriaan[.]com belongs and operated by SimpleAnalytics company.
by nmstoker | 2025-07-14 12:48:15+00:00
It's going to present interesting challenges.

The scope to overlook/ not address certain things could easily make this a mess. For instance the difficulty distinguishing apps to install on your Android phone and a Google Watch is already pretty bad - checking on the phone directs the phone's Google Play Store to open, and you then can't tell if it's going to realise you're trying to install to the watch or to the phone. The mental models for each blur even though you need to be able to tell them apart for legitimate reasons.
by jawilson2 | 2025-07-14 12:48:55+00:00
I can't drink whatsoever now. I've been on Wegovy for ~4 months. I used to be a VERY light drinker, i.e. like 10 drinks per YEAR (rum and diet coke, glass of wine, or 2-3 beers in a night). I would usually get a drink when my band played. A month or so ago, I got a bourbon, which I'll happily sip for an hour while talking, and I had to force it down, and left over half of it. Same with a beer; I went to a baseball game with some friends, someone bought the group some drinks, and it was disgusting.

It was like whatever enjoyment lightbulb that is usually activated was completely unscrewed, or like trying it for the first time as a kid when an adult lets you try a sip on a holiday. Just sitting here typing and thinking about it has me slightly nauseated. I've been telling people recently I CAN'T drink because of some new medicine I've started.
by dathinab | 2025-07-14 12:49:16+00:00
> is unfixably slow

it's not at all unfixable, I mean sure there is a limit to speed improvements but many of the things you mention aren't really as fundamental as they seem

one one hand you don't have to go crazy with generics, `dyn` is a thing and not being generic is often just fine. Actually it's not rare to find it projects code guidelines to avoid unnecessary monopolization e.g. use `&mut dyn FnMut()` over `impl FnMut()` and similar. And sure there is some issue with people spreading some "always use generics it's faster, dynamic dispatch is evil FUD" but that's more a people then a language problem.

on the other hand rust gives very limited guarantees about how exactly a lot of stuff happens under the hood, including the rust calling convention, struct layout etc. As long as rust don't change "observed" side effects it can to whatever it wants. Dynamic/Static dispatch is in general not counted as a observed side effect so the compiler is free to not monomorphe things if it can make it work. While it already kinda somewhat doesn't monomorphize some part (e.g. T=usize,T=u64 on 64bit systems) there is a lot of untapped potential. Sure there are big limits on how far this can go. But if combined with not obsessing with generics and other improvements I think rust can have very reasonable compile times, especially in a dev->unit test loop. And many people are already fine with them now so nothing I'm overly worried about tbh.

> neatness of the generated machine code

Why would you care about that in a language where you close to never have to look at assembly of it or anything similar? It's also not really what any other languages pursue, even in modern C that is more a side effect then a intend.

Through without question kilobytes large type signatures are an issue (but the mangling isn't, IMHO if you don't use a tool to unmangle symbols on the fly that is a you problem).
by pavel_lishin | 2025-07-14 12:49:18+00:00
> by then they've cloned your voice and left a message on your parents' answering machine that sounds like you begging for them to transfer money because you're in danger.

You don't need to clone someone's voice for that; that's a scam common enough that one of my parents almost fell for it. Cloning someone's voice might tick up the likelihood of success by some amount, but would the investment in the research-and-infrastructure (spinning up the machines to clone the voice, researching the person you're planning on scamming to find their relatives' phone numbers, etc) be worthwhile when you can just dial every phone number in the tri-state area and just try it with a panicked-sounding young woman's voice?
by jimmydorry | 2025-07-14 12:49:21+00:00
>Strong claim. How are you quantifying this?

We could start with the article [1]:

>"Hubble... produced a record 1,073 peer-reviewed publications last year... JWST is performing better than NASA expected, has produced around 1,200 papers since beginning operations in 2022...

Last I checked, 1000 paper a year is more than 1200 papers in 3 years. It will take JWST many years to catch up to Hubble, and Hubble still has atleast another 8 years left in it. If you divide the cost of each telescope by the number of papers tied to it, the cost of the knowledge Hubble advanced humanity by will be many times cheaper than JWST, and that doesn't look like it will change given JWST may operate for 10-20 years.

[1] https://www.astronomy.com/science/james-webb-hubble-space-te...
by amelius | 2025-07-14 12:49:30+00:00
We have to put more power in the hands of one organization that fights for our rights.

Consider adding this to your website:

<script src="https://eff.org/defend_the_web.js"></script>

This link does not exist right now, but it will allow EFF to take control when necessary. E.g. by nudging people away from Chrome if it becomes too powerful.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-14 12:49:51+00:00
I’m sure the case could be made before a more focussed project, but I think this is orthogonal to bad (or stupid) actors using AI to overwhelm bug reporting channels.

The issue highlighted in the article is people using AI to invent security problems that don’t exist. That doesn’t go away, no matter much you stripped down or simplify the project.

I’d bet an AI writing tool will happily generate thousands of realistic looking bug reports about a “Hello World” one-liner.
by komali2 | 2025-07-14 12:51:29+00:00
It's not just that people go to jail in the PRC, after all it's not like Tim Cook or other western executives need fear extradition to the PRC or something, it's more like because for better or (mostly) worse the PRC is a single party government, if one aspect of that government says "do this, or we close this 1.3 billion person market to you," it's a threat with actual teeth.

In the USA any given administration can try something like that and one party or the other will work with whatever company is being sanctioned out of pure spite, or will know that divisions in the USA mean that all that a company needs to do is play just enough lip service to appear respectful to the current admin. Worse case scenario, they wait four years. See: nvidia flagrantly selling cards to the PRC through Singapore.

I disagree with the "dictatorship of the proletariat" ideology, but to be fair the remnants of it that survived Deng Xiaoping does seem to somewhat work in resisting the influence of foreign capitalists.
by Veliladon | 2025-07-14 12:51:49+00:00
Transfer switches are trivial to have installed. I already have a manual, interlocked one for a portable generator.

I have a 13kW array on the roof and live in a place where ice storms make power outages a thing most years. My solar inverter is grid following. Even if I can't get grid forming from a car I'd only have to pay for a small battery and grid forming inverter to cold start the whole operation rather than $10K of extra batteries for them to do the grid forming. Then I can let the solar and vehicle do their thing and follow the islanded grid during the outage.
by shireboy | 2025-07-14 12:52:58+00:00
Well, sometimes I will, but for example take a simple list+form ontop of a database. Instead of building the UI and the database and then showing the stakeholder, who adds/renames fields, changes relationships etc. I will intentionally build just the UI not wired up to database. Sometimes just to an in-memory store or nothing. Then, _after_ the stakeholder is somewhat happy with the UI, I "bake" things like a service or data layer, etc. This way the changes the stakeholder inevitably has up front have less of an impact.
by lysace | 2025-07-14 12:53:08+00:00
> The survey was announced on the curl-users and curl-library mailing lists (with reminders), numerous times on Daniel’s Mastodon (@bagder@mastodon.social) on LinkedIn and on Daniel’s blog (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog). The survey was also announced on the curl web site at the top of most pages on the site that made it hard to miss for visitors.

It's not hard to imagine how that would miss the 99.x% users who just want to download an HTTP/S resource after reading an instruction on some web page.