MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fao_ | 2025-07-11 14:07:25+00:00
Things got a bit deep into the discussion there for a minute so I'm lifting it out

> Your lengthy response is a good example of Linux forums, that eventually I got tired to visit, though.

It takes four times as much writing to refute bullshit as it does to write it.

My system works out of the box with basically no Tweaking other than clicking "install" on a bunch of things in the software installer.

Meanwhile Windows complaints that I have seen in the last few months from people in communities I am in:

"Is there any way to get windows to stop updating applications at random times? I have bad internet so if I'm trying to play games it lags me out in the middle of a match all the time"

"On Windows it seems like every app has a background task when I boot up that lets it do what it wants regardless of if I want it to"

"(misc comments about Windows 11 blocking Google Chrome)"

"I love Taskbar Tweaker but it errors on startup saying it can't load libraries and doesn't support windows 11, and won't work, and then I click ok and it works"

"Why is destiny 2 not using my GPU? I had to manually go through and select it to use my GPU lol"

"I want to play sims 2 but it doesn't work under windows 11 and I don't want to install a bunch of modding tools to get it to work, but VMWare/Virtualbox doesn't work because you can't do hardware acceleration without disabling a bunch of Windows bullshit" (The Sims 2 works out of the box on Wine and is rated Platinum on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/3314070 )

"It is possible to keep the non-ai subscription to Office 365, but they hide it (link to article explaining how to tweak Windows)"

From what I've seen, Windows users tweak that shit just to get it to work normally, way more than I have ever had to touch my OS. Many of these things JustWork on Linux or are not problems.
by fao_ | 2025-07-11 14:07:47+00:00
Your claims that "Linux is not a good DAW" does not match up with my experience of opening the Pop_OS! store this weekend, clicking "install" on Furnace and Ardour, and instantly having a way to make music, or of setting up my headphones on Linux, which worked instantly when I plugged them in and let me open "Settings > Sound" to click which chipset of the headphone was used (digital/analogue) to fix the fact that 1% of volume was far too much (doing this is impossible in Windows, because I tried it back when I ran windows -- you just have to be deafened, I assume).
by jamal-kumar | 2025-07-11 14:07:54+00:00
Welcome to the USA. Psychedelics are just the tip of an iceberg here. There's shit like highly effective cough medicines or antidepressants available in other countries which show promise in saving lives but nope mired in patent stuff and corrupt regulation...

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/european-cough-medicine-...
by askonomm | 2025-07-11 14:08:03+00:00
In EU we mostly use debit cards (virtual and real), as having debt isn't something most people want to have, and credit cards inherently mean debt. Apart from that, you can't really use the card for payments without authorization. Someone types in my card's info in some payment form? I get a SmartID (https://www.smart-id.com/) verification request, further making credit cards not very useful (I understand security is why North Americans use credit cards?).
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-11 14:08:40+00:00
The Sopranos has an episode more or less about this, Commendatori. It's basically the glorified crew visiting their "home" in Italy and being your run-of-the-mill american tourists. Some interesting stuff is Paulie asking for pasta and red sauce because he doesn't like the fancy seafood he's been served, and Tony complaining about "lots of fish" to Carm over the phone.

When they get home they immediately resume their LARP and say they felt "right at home" lmao
by boogieknite | 2025-07-11 14:08:49+00:00
my favorite food from my visit was a mochi stand in Fujisawa station. it was a station of tables and had a sign that said MOCHI all over it

i wanted to give it a review but it didnt exist on google maps and it was even in a blind spot of Google street view inside Fujisawa

been thinking for a few years how crazy it was that my favorite place on our 10 day trip was completely invisible online in 2024. havent checked back recently but now i hope its still invisible online
by giantg2 | 2025-07-11 14:08:58+00:00
The backup camera has limited field of view and most require you in a heads down position. This is not helpful for maintaining awareness of your surroundings. It will not help you see a bicyclist speeding by. The blind spot detectors can fail and lead to a false sense of safety, especially on multilateral roads.

Show me the FARS data that supports these as actually saving lives.
by NalNezumi | 2025-07-11 14:09:18+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/funnysigns/comments/1getgra/a_resta...

Edit: The red text at the bottom says: この日本語が読める方は、 ご入店くださいませ = "if you can read this Japanese text, please come in"

Edit 2: just the original reddit post link then
by duncans | 2025-07-11 14:09:37+00:00
What is amazing is the engineers the Fujitsu employed would testify in court against some of the subpostmasters saying "there were no faults" where in unearthed evidence of their support logs they could be clearly acknowledging bugs that could create false accounts, manually updating records and audit logs to balance it out (and also sometimes screwing that up).

See Nick Wallis' coverage: * https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/03/the-smoking-gun.html * https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/ecce-chambers/

> [Anne] Chambers closed the ticket with a definitive: “No fault in product”.

> The cause of the defect was assigned to “User” – that is, the Subpostmaster.

> When Beer asked why, Chambers replied: “Because I was rather frustrated by not – by feeling that I couldn’t fully get to the bottom of it. But there was no evidence for it being a system error.”

...

> Chambers conceded: “something was obviously wrong, in that the branch obviously were getting these discrepancies that they weren’t expecting, but all I could see on my side was that they were apparently declaring these differing amounts, and I certainly didn’t know of any system errors that would cause that to happen, or that would take what they were declaring and not record it correctly…. so I felt, on balance, there was just no evidence of a system error.”

> No evidence. [Sir Wyn] Williams pointed out that it surely was unlikely to be a user error if both trainers and auditors had recorded the Subpostmaster as inputting information correctly. Chambers replied:

> “Well, yeah, I… yes, I don’t know why… I’m not happy with this one. But I still stand by there being no indication of a system error and the numbers that they were recording just didn’t make a lot of sense.”
by pjc50 | 2025-07-11 14:09:41+00:00
Indeed. "Deep" is a weasel word. "State" is all the operations of governance which don't change when the government changes.

However, the state is not a monolith. It's an organization of all sorts of sub-organizations run by individuals with their own agendas. They have names, faces, and honors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67925304

(The honors systems is deeply problematic because about half of them are handed out to insiders for complicity in god knows what and the other half are handed out to celebrities as cover for the first half)
by PaulRobinson | 2025-07-11 14:09:44+00:00
The Prime Minister can influence earlier in the chain though: they get to approve appointments to the Lords as a whole. Who then gets appointed to positions within the Lords is none of their business, but they can tip the scale if they need to.

It's actually for this reason that for hundreds of years until the early 21st century there was real concern about having a Catholic prime minister. There was even hand-wringing over PMs of other denominations, but the history of Catholicism in the UK in particular raised concern. Why? The PM has final approval of the Lords Spiritual - the bishops from the Church of England who are there to provide a protestant spiritual dimension to all debates before that House.

It's allegedly for this reason that Tony Blair (married to a Catholic) waited until after he left office to convert. I think it was either Brown or Cameron who then got the law explicitly changed to not bar Catholics and other religions to serve as PM.
by lloeki | 2025-07-11 14:09:58+00:00
> it emphasizes Jobs not Woz (the true nerd hero), including a stylized ascii art.

I rewatched it: https://youtu.be/XdBKuBhdZwg?si=nywGYWzsB5HmW2AB&t=184

Woz appears first, then Jobs shortly, then the Apple logo. Arguably Woz's face even appears slightly longer because there's a short pause whereas Jobs just flies by to the Apple logo.

Later there's both "Woz and Jobs holding Apple I".

The video description explicitly calls out "The Steve Wozniak-designed computer".

The by-name callouts in the video are:

- "hand-built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak"

- "in Steve Job's mom's garage."

- Jobs acting as a salesman

I'm not really sure how Jobs is emphasised at all.
by bradly | 2025-07-11 14:10:07+00:00
> A scroll blade is just like any other saw blade

No, not all saws are the same and treating your tools like that will cause injury to yourself. Different tools have orders of magnitudes of different consequences when a blade is touched.

I've worked in multiple production and educational woodshops. I've touched running scrollsaw blades and even touched a running table saw blade and seen live a hand into a joiner. These things are no where close to being the same.
by gadders | 2025-07-11 14:10:33+00:00
>>The BBC will have multiple people with differing view points on however.

Not for climate change, as that debate is "settled". Where they do need to pretend to show balance they will pick the most reasonable talking head for their preferred position, and the most unhinged or extreme for the contra-position.

>> they were accused so often, and usually quite falsely, of bias.

Yes, really hard to determine the BBC house position on Brexit, mass immigration, the Iraq War, Israel/Palestine, Trump etc
by vel0city | 2025-07-11 14:10:43+00:00
Are you strong willed enough to overcome the mind control abilities of the lizard people? I have a strong gut feeling they were involved in this, since they obviously control all the large corporations. There's about as much evidence for this theory as well.

We can just make things up and that's our reality these days. Write your own adventure.

Imagine if we made it harder for mentally unwell people to own firearms and required serial transfer databases. If he never owned a gun and was then found shot in the temple one day that'd be a bit more questionable. The gun most likely to end your life in the US is your own gun in your own hands.
by kragen | 2025-07-11 14:10:44+00:00
I have tried, actually. Maybe you can share what you've learned when you, hypothetically, investigated the question yourself. I'll start.

You do need materials, but you can source the materials anywhere on Earth; it's just a question of how expensive it is to refine them. Every element occurs as an impurity in every rock at some level. When you can import them freely, some deposits are uneconomic.

For building a plant to refine silicon, things like platinum and iridium, which are very scarce in most rocks, are very helpful. But they aren't ingredients in the solar cells themselves. Solar cells themselves are made of silicon, aluminum, silver†, lead, and tin, with trace quantities of phosphorus (or arsenic) and boron. These are mounted to "ultra-white" glass, which is made of silicon again, oxygen, sodium, calcium, and trace amounts of manganese. The mounting is done typically with EVA, which is mostly a hydrocarbon with a little oxygen in it.

The total amount of these materials is surprisingly small. The silicon wafer (2.33g/cc) is about 100μm thick, and the glass (2.5g/cc) is typically 2.5mm thick (3.2mm is "ultra thick"). So a square meter of solar panels, rated at some 200W, contains 6.3kg of glass (mostly oxygen and silicon) and 0.23kg of crystalline silicon, plus much smaller amounts of other materials.

So raw materials aren't a constraining factor unless you're living on a barge or a space station or something. Knowhow, organization, discipline, cooperation, etc., are the constraining factors. Sadly, those are in short supply almost everywhere.

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† Silver is used for large conductive strips on the surface of the silicon; it can be replaced with copper at a significant loss of efficiency. There is already pressure to do this because the raw-materials cost of silver accounted for about 10% of the wholesale cost of current PV modules last time I checked, and about 10% of global silver production went into PV modules. Since then production has increased and PV prices have dropped.
by tw04 | 2025-07-11 14:10:48+00:00
I'm not sure that's really fair. Within any organization there are subgroups. For instance there was an entire branch of AT&T that was dedicated to illegally spying on Americans for the NSA.

Most employees of AT&T had no idea it was even going on, so to lump every AT&T employee into the same batch of "you're bad because th company you work for was doing X" when they had no idea the company was doing X isn't really fair.

By the same vein, Stephen Miller trying to round up and cage innocent civilians just trying to live their life is a very different part of the government than Suzanne at NASA who's trying to better the future of mankind. To act as if there's no distinguishing between the two is just silly.

Whether you have an issue with the specific term "deep state" I'll leave be. But please don't try to oversimplify large organizations. The higher up the chain the more responsibility you can place for what the organization as a whole does, but the reverse isn't true when speaking outside of their specific area of ownership.
by parpfish | 2025-07-11 14:11:38+00:00
I think the more interesting story here wouldn’t be the “over tourism” of the globally desirable internet-famous locations— It’s all the little regional resort towns and tourism destinations that are now ignored.

All over the US are locations that used to be the place where a people would go for a three day weekend or summer getaway. But now they are ghost towns because the cost of travel and the algorithm have reframed travel as global and not regional.

Like… Niagara Falls used to be “the” honeymoon destination for couples in the northeast. Now it seems like every honeymoon is in a beachy tropical location and the falls have been gutted economically
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-11 14:11:46+00:00
> And a few more of the seedier bars just have a “no foreigners” sign out front.

Those have existed long before tourism to Japan became common. Those signs were there when the vast majority of foreigners in Japan were English teachers and soldiers. Many tabehodai (all-you-can-eat) and most nomihodai (all-you-can-drink) places had them.
by hamandcheese | 2025-07-11 14:12:07+00:00
> Only psychopaths love Manhattan because of Duane Reade.

That may be true in Manhattan, but Japan has amazing, lovable chains. The fact that you are never far from a 7-Eleven, Family Mart, Coco Ichibanya, or Ichiran (and they are often open late if not 24 hours) is one of my favorite parts of Japan.
by bilekas | 2025-07-11 14:12:51+00:00
> An administrative law judge decided that the economic impact would be more than the $100 million threshold.

I do find it fascinating that one administrator has the ability to claim, seemingly from thin air, that it would be more than 100mil and so cancel the entire rule. Wouldn't it be better if the rule was reviewed AFTER the year to determine if modifications or Analysis should be performed?

Seems that when it comes to consumer protections in the US the companies are ALWAYS given the benefit of the doubt.
by MBCook | 2025-07-11 14:13:19+00:00
The link is long dead and the Wayback machine doesn’t have a copy.

But in 2001 ATI was caught applying optimizations to Quake 3 when someone realized if you renamed the executable from “quake” to “quack” the score dropped a ton. It was a big scandal.

I know that’s common now but that wasn’t a thing that was done at the time.
by bitcrshr | 2025-07-11 14:13:27+00:00
love the syntax, and excited to mess with it, but man i’m sad to see it’s on the JVM. if i had to guess, a lot of langs like this are on JVM because that’s a lot simpler than writing a whole backend with anywhere near the same performance or reliability, and i totally get that.

that being said, bearing in mind that i’m not a Java/JVM developer and only rarely have to use it, for the few nontrivial projects i have shipped with it the build system was by far the most challenging and frustrating. it’s so complex and has such a large surface area.

no hate at all, and the trade offs are completely reasonable, but i am hoping during my career we’ll start seeing either a massive simplification of JVM builds or a lot of innovation that would make native compilers easier to build.

(as a side note, it is nice to have langs like this for when JVM is the only option)
by ajross | 2025-07-11 14:13:28+00:00
> regulatory environment so complex

The DMA really isn't particularly complex though. And what complexity it has only becomes complex once you're a manager of a whole consumer platform (a "gatekeeper" in its jargon).

To wit: your point is backwards, the DMA is structured such that the only companies that need to bear its burdens are "big tech or Europe's legacy players". If you're a little company wanting to add a paid app store to your Tiny AI Robot Virtual Experience or whatever, go nuts. The DMA absolutely won't stop you.
by kloop | 2025-07-11 14:13:59+00:00
> So it hurts my soul when I see words like "legalize" being thrown in this context. We know very very little about effect of such drugs.

That seems like exactly when we should legalize it. The default is legal, and without definite knowledge of serious harm, that should be the status.

The burden of proof should be on the people who want it to be legal, and by your comment, their case seems pretty weak.
by bevr1337 | 2025-07-11 14:14:12+00:00
Although I'm partial to a SPROC, I do not deploy them because I understand my colleagues might throw me from a window. But without going full tilt DB-as-the-application,

The DB can make much stronger guarantees about transactions and updates the closer that logic happens to itself. In the world of cloud computing, this can be a cost savings for ingress/egress too.
by dctoedt | 2025-07-11 14:14:29+00:00
> The constitution embodies a particular set of moral and political philosophies. Sometimes we add more (e.g. the concept of equal protection). But judges don’t get to be philosophers weighing in on moral issues the framers of the constitution and amendments clearly didn’t contemplate.

I'd agree with you — if we had more than one, largely-sclerotic way of amending the Constitution to accommodate new realities and new insights. "The only constant is change" is apparently a misattribution to Heraclitus [0], but it obviously has struck a chord to be in such widespread circulation.

Judicial lawmaking is a kluge, certainly. It brings to mind a passage in Tracy Kidder's 1981 The Soul of a New Machine: A "kluge" is like a wheel made out of bricks: No engineer would be particularly proud to have designed it — but if you need a wheel, and bricks are all you have to work with, then that's what you use.

In any case: Judicial lawmaking has become more-or-less accepted. You're part of the "or less" crowd, clearly. But ISTM that judicial lawmaking is a case of the (mythical) perfect being the enemy of the good-enough.

(A possible improvement: Congress could cabin the judicial-lawmaking process by stating — under the Exceptions and Regulations Clause in Article VI — that a 3/5 majority in each chamber, and perhaps presidential acquiescence, can override any SCOTUS pronouncement about constitutionality. And maybe impose a fast track for legislation to overturn a judicial interpretation of a statute. Both would be roughly akin to the Congressional Review Act for overturning administrative-agency decisions [1].)

[0] https://euppublishingblog.com/2021/07/19/misunderstanding-of...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10023
Show HN: SecUtils – A fast filterable CVE viewer, now with CVSS and CWE support
by SecOpsEngineer | 2025-07-11 14:14:34+00:00
I’ve been working on a simple tool for browsing CVEs that prioritizes speed and filtering flexibility. SecUtils is designed for security researchers, devs, and anyone who wants to slice vulnerability data without wrestling with bulky, non-responsive UIs or APIs.

Currently supports:

Filtering by CWE, CVSS score, and publication date

Searchable view per CVE, with fast indexing behavior

Simple UX with minimal fluff (no JavaScript frameworks)

Very early stages. So far I'm using it to monitor vulnerabilities for a few key products, but I’d love to hear how others approach this kind of workflow. If any part of it proves useful, that’s a win.

Next up, I'm exploring features like custom views tailored to specific products and lightweight alerting for new high-severity CVEs—still thinking through how those might work best without bloating the experience.

You can try it here: https://secutils.com/vm
by Levitz | 2025-07-11 14:14:42+00:00
On both of those cases there tends to be an abundance of comments denigrating either character in unhinged, Reddit-style manner.

As far as I am concerned they are both clowns, which is precisely why I don't want to have to choose between correcting stupid claims thereby defending them, and occasionally have an offshoot of r/politics around. I honestly would rather have all discussion related to them forbidden than the latter.

I don't think it takes any manipulation for people to be exhausted with that general dynamic either.
by alextheparrot | 2025-07-11 14:14:45+00:00
LLMs evaluating LLM outputs really isn’t that dire…

Discriminating good answers is easier than generating them. Good evaluations write test sets for the discriminators to show when this is or isn’t true. Evaluating the outputs as the user might see them are more representative than having your generator do multiple tasks (e.g. solve a math query and format the output as a multiple choice answer).

Also, human labels are good but have problems of their own, it isn’t like by using a “different intelligence architecture” we elide all the possible errors. Good instructions to the evaluation model often translate directly to better human results, showing a correlation between these two sources of sampling intelligence.
by mauvehaus | 2025-07-11 14:14:56+00:00
I think being aware of becoming complacent is a really good point. If you're doing a bunch of really repetitive work, it's a good idea to take a break and get your head back in the job at hand rather than letting it wander.

I'm fortunate in that I'm self-employed and get to arrange my work to switch things up as needed. I'm also not usually making a million of anything that would demand doing the same operation for extended periods. I realize that not everyone working in wood has these advantages.
by sdenton4 | 2025-07-11 14:15:14+00:00
When I was working in audio compression, evaluation was very painful because we had no programmatic way to measure how good some reconstructed audio sounds to a human. Any metric you could come up with was gameable, and direct optimization would lead to artifacts.

As a result, we always had a two-step evaluation process. We would use a suite of metrics to guide development progress (validation), but the final evaluation reported in a paper always involved subjective human listening experiments. This was expensive, but the only way to show that the codecs were actually improving.

Similarly, here it seems fine to use LLMs to judge your work in progress, but we should be requiring human evaluation for 'final' results.