MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joenot443 | 2025-07-28 14:25:10+00:00
> The ideal, therefore, is an automated Windows detoxifier with a solid chain of trust; one that's rapidly updated to track new outbreaks of unwholesomeness; one that's constructed to be usable by anyone, and to be configurable so that the user can dial in what they want to go.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I was certain something like this already exists?
by alexpotato | 2025-07-28 14:25:44+00:00
One of the wildest parts of geology from a "meta" level is that plate tectonics as a theory wasn't fully accepted until the 1960s!

"Plate tectonics came to be accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid-to-late 1960s." (from the Plate Tectonics Wikipedia page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
by niam | 2025-07-28 14:25:49+00:00
Re: #2

I've never really challenged that text is a suitable stand-in for important bits of reality. I worry instead about meta-limitations of text: can we reliably scale our training corpus without accreting incestuous slop from other models?

Sensory bots would seem to provide a convenient way out of this problem but I'm not read-enough to know.
by menaerus | 2025-07-28 14:26:55+00:00
Server CPUs are hitting those numbers already for many years, including the AMD. The thing here is that Apple optimized their core for a different workload than the rest. I don't think there's a secret sauce AMD isn't aware of given their other line of CPUs - they know how to achieve it.

In multi-threaded scenarios, for example, M chips are not better at all and AFAICR are worse than the Threadripper. So, a different trade-off really
by maxerickson | 2025-07-28 14:27:57+00:00
There certainly is rent seeking, but you also have a wealthy market where people are free to pay for treatments that have low returns.

As an example, rich people getting lots of testing done increases spending, but it's driven by their wealth as much as it is by doctors enthusiastic to increase revenues. And if they are healthy, it isn't going to provide them much value.

Couple this with the attempts to centrally plan capacity and you get a cost spiral.
by nzach | 2025-07-28 14:27:59+00:00
I'm working on https://leetprompt.io

It is a platform for prompt challenges, in leetcode style. But you act as a director for the AI writing the code. You ask what you need and the AI implements your request.

The idea is to create some awareness about the fact that you do need to know how to code to be able to steer the AI in the right direction.
by chistev | 2025-07-28 14:28:23+00:00
Yea, the email part was a problem I mentioned in the white paper. Problem was I couldn't think of a way to enforce plan limits while making the subscription model work. If usernames, then they could just abuse it by creating new usernames each time. But I understand you. Maybe if you have some suggestions?

So regarding the sender and recipient, let's say I wanted to send you something. A message or a file, but wanted to maintain plausible deniability on if I sent it. I wanted a way of doing this, and the solution I came up with was that the link you receive publicly is not the link you land on to access the message or file. Anyone who lands on the publicly shared link, gets redirected to a new url each time.

But even without the deniability angle, it could be a way of sharing files with one time links. The links work once. And there's password protection, if enabled.

The implementation might not be perfect, but open to ideas, of course.

On, and there's API feature for generating links, and uploading files - for what it might be worth.
by derelicta | 2025-07-28 14:28:37+00:00
Russia is very similar to the rest of western democracies, so I won't comment further on that.

Regarding China, their leading party hasn't switched in 80 years, but their policies have and have plenty actually. Changing parties matters only a little bit in the grand scheme of things. I'd argue, for example, that Japan, that has been ruled by a single party for all of his modern existence, is still considered by many in the west as a functioning democracy.
by worthless-trash | 2025-07-28 14:28:38+00:00
> Rather than give special protections to a certain class of people, why not define the crimes to not encompass normal investigative behaviors typical in the industry.

This would be an acceptable alternative, and may even be workable.

> failing to report in an acceptable manner (when, what, where, how?) might end > up sealing the fate of an otherwise innocent tech-adept person poking around.

You've hit exactly the problem, I feel like you too might be working in this area. Not many people come to this kind of logical conclusion.
by benmmurphy | 2025-07-28 14:28:42+00:00
You can have an epoch and now you can measure times before the epoch. In terms of the range of values you can represent it transposes to just having the epoch further in the past and using an unsigned type. So signed/unsigned it should not really matter except maybe for particular languages things work better if the type is either signed or unsigned. For example if you try to calculate the difference between two times maybe its better if the time type is signed to match the result type which is signed as well (not that it solves the problems with overflow).
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-28 14:28:54+00:00
There's a lot of team culture going on here. I manage 6 scrum teams and attend each standup a few times a week. Some are very short and to the point; that's what the team wants. A few start with movie trivia or a silly question which takes ~5 minutes. One team spends 30 minutes and it's their daily social time for the ~22 minutes after updates.

I do like having an adult (rarely me!) in the room who shuts down OT rabbit holes and redirect to appropriate time & place.

These are all remote, geo-distributed teams who only see each other in person about once per year.
by boroboro4 | 2025-07-28 14:29:24+00:00
I think there are two aspects of it, one political - we didn't have democracies with strong leaders for quite some time, but I don't believe it's inherent to it.

Another is economical - with tech (absolute) free-market would for sure benefit the biggest player. I don't believe in absolute free-market economy anyway (and we don't have it), and I think EU (and other countries) should protect their (tech) businesses. For example EU can start with above mentioned service tax, Trump started with tariffs anyway.

Side note - Russia had very strong domestic tech for a long time, and one of the reasons I believe was the fact it's a big market mixed with different language. I don't think dictatorship played as big of a role.
by turnsout | 2025-07-28 14:30:14+00:00
> As for the amber stream pouring into my gas tank as I stand at the self-service pump on my way to Walden, I now take it and all the other plant-based fossil fuels to be an infinity of petrified sunlight, best understood through the compound lens of the Lyell-Darwin eye.

This is the most nihilistic essay I've read in a long time. It contemplates climate change and the extinction of humanity with a lyrical nonchalance that is misanthropic at best. Keep pumping that liquid sunshine, Lewis.

Every single one of us needs to wake the fuck up. The author is right that the planet itself will be fine without us. If we want to survive as a species, we can't bask in decadence and romanticize the decline.
by SteveNuts | 2025-07-28 14:30:20+00:00
Anecdotal of course, but in my 20 years of driving I've never once seen a vehicle activate the red light override sensors that wasn't obviously a legitimate emergency vehicle.

IMO a huge majority of people realize how illegal it would be to mess with these things, and the risk/reward is very low. Anyone who would take that risk would probably just run a red light instead.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-07-28 14:30:36+00:00
This is really cool.

For the landing page, I think it'd be useful to see an actual screenshot of the UI. Also, what I'm looking for in a solution like this is to receive this information passively — I don't want to need to proactively watch a dashboard. I would want to receive email alerts when, for example, I'm running out of disk space. It says on your landing page that you provide this feature, but it also says it's configurable. Everything on Grafana is configurable, but tbh it's a PITA to configure. It'd be nice if SO just worked OOTB wrt alerts.
by Sesse__ | 2025-07-28 14:30:41+00:00
I've used Intel PT several times; it's completely unbeatable for some things.

In general, Intel is _way_ ahead of AMD in the performance monitoring game. For instance, IBS is a really poor replacement for PEBS (it still hits the wrong instructions, it just re-weights them and this rarely goes well), which makes profiling anything branchy or memory-bound really hard. This is the only real reason why I prefer to buy Intel CPUs still myself (although I understand this is a niche use case!).
by duxup | 2025-07-28 14:30:55+00:00
My local game rental store (rural independent shop, often kept photocopies of the original manual in the case that the game cartridge came in. I always assumed it was because the original manuals weren't going to put up with abuse for long.

Some of the cases had it taped to the inside. But generally we didn't even look at that ... we just figured it out as we went along.

It's interesting that Blockbuster felt strongly enough that they had to put out the manual, when I suspect most kids wouldn't care.
by firefax | 2025-07-28 14:31:20+00:00
>is TOR an answer to this ?

I've found Tor is mostly useful for reading, not participating. Exit nodes get blocked from registering on most sites. One workaround is to register at a café or library then use the account over Tor, but sometimes even if you're being civil (see my comment history for a a pretty good picture of the style of discussions I have anonymously) sometimes you'll wake up to find the account nuked.
by jerf | 2025-07-28 14:31:29+00:00
"Interested to know how you've been burnt by wireguard; what did it not do that you were expecting?"

Speaking just for myself, I expected it to be as easy to set up as Tailscale. Not to be set up in exactly the same manner as Tailscale, I understand they are not identical technologies, but I expected the difficulty to be within spitting distance of each other.

Instead I fussed with Wireguard for a few days without it ever working for even the simplest case and had Tailscale up and running in 5 minutes.

I think I recognize the pattern; it's one that has plagued Linux networking in general for decades. The internet is full of "this guy's configuration file that worked once", and then people banging on that without understanding, and the entire internet is just people banging on things they don't understand, 80% of which are for obsolete versions of obsolete features in obsolete kernels, until the search engines are so flooded with these things that if there is a perfect and beautiful guide to understanding exactly how this all works together and gives the necessary understanding to fix the problems yourself it's too buried to ever find. It also doesn't help that these networking technologies are some of the worst when it comes to error messages and diagnosis. Was I one character away from functionality, or was my entire approach fundamentally flawed and I was miles from it working? Who's to say, it all equally silently fails to work in the end.
by Retr0id | 2025-07-28 14:32:20+00:00
In principle I support taxes that disincentivise production of negative externalities (in this case, adverse health effects).

However the way this works out in practice is a reduction in consumer choice, one that I'm reminded of every time I walk into a shop.

> Most manufacturers reformulated their drinks immediately

This is the problem, really. Rather than adding new "low sugar" product lines, in most instances they're modifying existing ones to replace the sugar with artificial sweeteners. The "original recipe" is often no longer available to consumers at any price.

As someone who struggles to consume enough calories to stay healthy, this sucks! (Mostly unrelated to pricing, just as a matter of practicality)

Cigarette smokers for example can still walk into just about any shop and purchase their favourite cigarettes, they just have to pay more for them - this seems fine.

Overall I'm quite on the fence about the whole thing, but on a purely emotional level it feels like an instance of government overreach.
by hn_go_brrrrr | 2025-07-28 14:33:30+00:00
It's closer to 2-3°C in the drawers at the bottom and 3-4°C at the shelves at the top. However, it's very consistent otherwise.

I can't tell you how long it runs for because the compressor is too quiet for me to hear, sorry. Maybe if I had an energy monitor on it. Sounds like a fun idea.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-07-28 14:33:44+00:00
So that people can represent times that occurred before 1970? You could try adjusting the epoch to the estimated age of the universe, but then you run into calendar issues (proleptic Gregorian?), have huge constants in the common case (Julian Days are not fun to work with), and still end up with issues if the estimate is ever revised upward.
by WXLCKNO | 2025-07-28 14:33:52+00:00
You're gonna have to explain that one.

Do you mean the new One UI update that made the notification pull down split into left and right swipes instead swipe down and then swipe down again? Because if that's what you mean, you can configure it to be the way it used to be again.

Little pencil button, then panel settings and choose together instead of separate.
by firefax | 2025-07-28 14:34:05+00:00
>It's because this law isn't about protecting children, but about control of the Internet.

Also in an overpopulated world it's not a given that children should be protected if it comes at the expense of basic freedoms. We need to move away from this narrative that "think of the children" is a persuasive argument. Little Timmy needs to avoid danger or the ghost of Darwin will work his magic.
by rootnod3 | 2025-07-28 14:34:08+00:00
It seems apparent in this thread that any remote criticism of AI results in downvotes.

Yes, the article might have some wording issues, but for an operating system project to choose to not allow AI written code for a product that is inherently in need of good security, and rather opt for “think before you write and fully understand what you are doing”, I don’t think that their choice is invalid.

I wouldn’t wanna get into a plane where have the core systems are written by hallucinating AI.
by codingdave | 2025-07-28 14:34:10+00:00
There are a plethora of print shops with API access to set this kind of thing up. The problem these days is pricing, specifically shipping. While people may be willing to pay for the work itself, shipping canvasses or framed prints gets expensive fast. This is why so many artists and photographers who sell their photos just sell posters... they are cheap to ship and don't give people sticker shock.
by wolrah | 2025-07-28 14:34:24+00:00
Is that really a problem though? If you're washing another load at the same time as the dryer is running, wouldn't you generally want to wait until both are done anyways so you can swap the wash to the dryer after getting the dry load out?

Also at least in my experience the dryer takes longer to run than the washer, so if I've just rotated a previous load and started both at the same time I'm always waiting on the dryer to be able to do the next one.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-07-28 14:34:37+00:00
> They also strongly believe the hoi polloi have to be forced to do what is good for them - e.g. the sugar tax and other "nudge politics", or the currently Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill which is basically about imposing central policy on how children are brought up and educated.

A non insulting way to view that is that central goverments understand incentives, and in the same way there are child incentives for people starting families, having incentives for healthier eating is something a central goverment should use its taxation policy for.

More control over education standards is also a common purview of many good educational systems. Decentralisation is not necesirely better, with teh extreme being homeschooling failing every time its attempted. Centrally dictated standards was the method of the French revolution, believing that a society where everyone roughly understands the world the same way was a society that was more unified. French "equality , fraternity and legality " is a basis for modern liberal democracy almost everywhere, but they didnt get there without authoritarian imposition of their standards, with entire minority cultures getting trampled along the way.

The hyperbole and bad faith explanations of legislation is not a good representation or argument against why britain is more accepting of som legislation many feel intrusive.

A better argument is that this piece of legislation was passed late on the rule of a disastrous administration and the number of problems in day to day society largely are unaffected by it, so it got no time in the spotlight for people to complaint or know it was coming until it was days away from being implemented. Society is also largely technologically illiterate, this is pretty much the case everywhere in the planet, which means the nuances of tech legislation are lost even on the people writting and voting on it.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-28 14:34:39+00:00
I was talking about something else: Nick Griffin and Mark Collett (2004–2006) and Ann Cryer (2003) who got dragged through the courts for "race hate" for speaking up against the Muslim grooming gangs, which the political establishment brushed off as racism and hate speech, until they couldn't cover it up anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/6135060....

Now it would be naive to assume the political establishment only stopped at one cover up and there's not more under the rug that haven't been yet uncovered.

Just like with the post office workers scandal, you realize the political establishment doesn't exist to protect you the taxpayer, it only exists to protect itself from the accountability of its citizens and will go to great length in censorship, suppression and legal battles to defend itself, since there's nothing for them to loose if they loose, as none of them are ever going to jail for their mistakes, but if they win, then their image stays clean and can stay in power for longer.
by imtringued | 2025-07-28 14:34:47+00:00
This isn't as good of an example as you think it is. There are crazy communists out there that routinely associate criticism of the existing banking institutions with antisemitism.

By this logic we are no longer allowed to reform banking no matter how flawed it is, even if the flaws of the banking system give rise to actual antisemitism due to unaddressed economic dysfunction. Dysfunction that the banking critics point out and which they claim has more to do with how those institutions are structured and what policies they have enacted than the people inhabiting or benefiting from them.

Dumber yet. There are even more extreme offshoots of communism where simply criticizing capitalism without being a communist means you are a fascist or nazi. It's pretty clear to me that those communists believe they have a monopoly on criticizing capitalism and if you gave them enough power, they'd enforce that monopoly on everyone.

Even dumber. The moment their communist utopia fails, they will start looking for "capitalist" scapegoats rather than fix their institutions according to the non-communist criticism and commit exactly the crimes they projected onto you, which you never had the intention of ever doing, because you actually are somewhat of a pacifist and genuinely believe that your policies and institutions are inclusive to all and work without the need for scapegoats or enforcement through violence.
by jjbinx007 | 2025-07-28 14:35:08+00:00
My Huawei was still absolutely fine for me speed-wise. I moved to a Xiaomi 14 for a little while which was obviously faster but not in a "holy shit it's fast" sort of way.

The Pixel is slower than the Xiaomi in benchmarks but I can barely tell any difference in day to day usage.

Maybe if I went back to the Huawei it would feel slow but honestly I would still be using it if it had been updated. Unless the new OS slowed it down.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-28 14:35:14+00:00
>> and channel comes and go and people are quite "agressive" about routing discussion to the right channel or converting 10+ message thread into dedicated channel.

THIS. I had this at my last gig and it was very successful, but have not been able to replicate at the newer place, because the house keeping is not done, so people end up with the logical conclusion, wrong question that living with a few messy channels is better than living with a bunch of messy channels.

I like lighter weight tools that integrate & help like incident management bots, but the vendors will no longer sell you a cheap, useful & focused tool so instead you're faced with convincing your boss to spend a lot of money on an "enterprise-grade", AI-enabled do everything incident/schedule/status/issue/project management system.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-07-28 14:36:26+00:00
There are 2 kinds of meetings:

1. Briefings: meant to disseminate marching orders, find any last minute blockers/disagreements, and clarify any differences in interpretation of those marching orders. These should be infrequent, timed, and formal

2. Brainstorms: development meetings to identify, interpret, and develop action plans for problems, products, ideas, whatever. These should be frequent, open-ended, and informal
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-28 14:36:37+00:00
You're making some big jumps here. There's a chasm between the developmental level of 6-year-olds and 11-year-olds. Also, looking at a paper from the 1950s, when, as you say, research in this field is cyclical, seems to suggest that that particular finding wasn't sufficiently replicated. Finally, micro-computer use is inherently an individual task, because the user experience has been designed for individual use. Even with a teacher involved, each child is largely on their own and making their own learning. Young children learn instruments (including their own voice), and participate in both individual and group musical acivities. By your logic, that would be inappropriate, but it not only happens every day, across the country, but is the source of quite a few musical artists' later success.

I think, if anything, the key might be in the expertise educators have with the given instrument. Most music instructors are talented musicians or vocalists themselves, and I imagine most have a keen sense for how to encourage proper care of both the student and their tool. Maybe it'e changed, but most of the teachers I had growing up that were involved with computer use were largely trained in library sciences. I don't know that there even IS any effective deep training wrt computer use. It's not just that the technology is new, but also that most experts are going to be coming from a tech industry whose modus operandi is purposely cultivating unhealthy relationship with their products.
by betaby | 2025-07-28 14:37:51+00:00
MX has IPv6:

~$ host gmail.com gmail.com has address 142.250.69.69 gmail.com has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4020:801::2005 gmail.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com mail is handled by 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

~$ host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has address 142.250.31.26 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4004:c21::1a