MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taeric | 2025-07-11 16:11:05+00:00
Apologies, I debated whether to add to this, as I don't even disagree that the fobs are largely uselessly easy attack vector.

My argument was also to the doors, though. Again, I got used to just leaving keys in the car at all times. I know movies make a cliche of the keys being above the visor, but I legit did stuff like that for a long time.

My grandparent's car didn't even need a key in the ignition to start. You could just turn it and have it get going for a while. He debated getting it fixed, but ultimately really liked how convenient it was.

My father had one of those vehicles with a keypad on the outside. I thought that was super convenient and quite nice. Especially good for traveling, as you didn't have to bother taking your keys with you.

And my argument was largely around norms. I don't like excessive punishment based societies, in general, but I also don't know why or how some grow to accept that some theft is just expected.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 16:11:33+00:00
Depending on the HDD vendor/model. We had hot spares and cold spares. On one build, we had a bad batch of drives. We built the array on a Friday, and left it for burn-in running over the weekend. On Monday, we came in to a bunch of alarms and >50% failure rate. At least they died during the burn-in so no data loss, but it was an extreme example. That was across multiple 16-bay rack mount chassis. It was an infamous case though, we were not alone.

More typically, you'd have a drive die much less frequently, but it was something you absolutely had to be prepared for. With RAID-6 and a hot spare, you could be okay with a single drive failure. Theoretically, you could lose two, but it would be a very nervy day getting the array to rebuild without issue.
by contingencies | 2025-07-11 16:11:37+00:00
1. cheaper 2. different form factor 3. more choice of battery/kb/mouse/screen/camera 4. not landfill when you have to replace battery/kb/mouse/screen/camera 5. doesn't have an annoying chunk out of the screen 6. doesn't have a video camera pointed at you all the time 7. keyboard that suits large hands 8. keyboard in preferred layout 9. not subject to apple tax on most components/upgrades
by mock-possum | 2025-07-11 16:11:50+00:00
What’s interesting to me about all this is it sounds like people are defending appropriating religious practices but de-mystifying them. Even though belief in god is explicitly mentioned in the 12 steps, people claim to have had success by just ignoring the god parts -

But at that point, why is The Twelve Steps as an institution still pedaling belief in the supernatural, when it’s ostensibly just as effective with the Christian mythology removed?

Why not make the atheist version the baseline, and allow members to mix in religion if they find it to be useful - as opposed to making religious belief the default, and allowing users to substitute other things for religion if they find that to be useful?

I think the thing that most atheists are objecting to, with ‘religion as default’ situations like this, is the way religious belief is treated as the norm. I remember growing up and going to church, hearing about how “everyone had a god-shaped hole in their heart” - and each person would inevitably find a way to fill that hole, but nothing would ever quite fit, because that hole was god-shaped and could only properly be filled by god.

So when you run up against this kind of language in a system that’s supposed to be helping people free themselves from addiction, it’s off-putting to run into language that coerces them into making themselves beholden to magical thinking and supernatural beliefs, in gods and higher powers. “It can be whatever you want” feels like a cop out - it’s merely a softened stance on what I described above - “everyone has a god-shaped hole in their heart, and it’s okay if you fill that hole with love for your daughter or pride in your work.”

It’s still a turn-off for people like me, for better or for worse - maybe it’s a filter, maybe I’m not the kind of person who would need or would do well in that kind of program.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-11 16:11:50+00:00
> I have a few die hard Apple friends (Non-professionals) that have recently got so frustrated with being pushed into corners that they have given up the fruity ecosystem altogether.

I'm nearly there myself. The problem is, and what the EU in theory is trying to solve, is there's no real competition. My choice is Apple, which while an anti-competitive PITA, provides some real nice quality of life features and some privacy protections, or Android which can be a mixed bag from needing to connect every new phone to my computer and use ADB to get rid of crapware, or Pixels where Google is increasingly expanding Gemini's tentacles into every aspect of your life to harvest data all while taking actions to slow down Graphene OS by limiting access to device trees.

Linux is fine enough on the desktop, but for everything else? (Phone, watch, etc.) I can either live within the walled garden and just accept it, or take my pick of crapware loaded devices, or sketchy vendors that don't patch their stuff, and have all my data sold to the highest bidder.

We desperately need more competition in the mobile & wearables space, and I don't mean many different flavors of Android, I mean more competitors that care about user experience, preserve your privacy to an extent, and aren't using the platform as just yet another way to serve ads and harvest data.
by ratorx | 2025-07-11 16:12:22+00:00
It does say that they collect this information in their “Data and Privacy Policy”. Specifically section 2.2 (Data Collected): https://quad9.net/privacy/policy/

Which policy are you referring to that implies they don’t?

Also I think you are assuming they store query logs and then aggregate this data later. It is much simpler just to maintain an integer counter for monitoring as the queries come in, and ingest that into a time series database (not sure if that’s what they actually do). Maybe it needs to be a bit fancier to handle the cardinality of DNS names dimension, but re-constructing this from logs would be much more expensive.
by azemetre | 2025-07-11 16:12:57+00:00
The old internet has never left, it's just the vast majority of people went to the corporatized internet instead. You can still find small communities of a few dozen or hundred people posting on forums that aren't reddit or facebook.

You aren't going to find them because Google does not care about discovery they care about ads.

Webrings are one trick to find your people, but it's hard and most webrings don't point to "gathering spots."
by ar_lan | 2025-07-11 16:13:18+00:00
I refuse to use the word "simple" in my docs writing for this precise reason. I have come to view the word to seem condescending/elitist, even if that's not the intent.

If something is written as simple, but I as an entrant to something view it as not simple, I'm going to be severely discouraged - "if this is the simple thing, what is the hard thing?"

It's often an unnecessary adjective.
by the_snooze | 2025-07-11 16:13:37+00:00
I don't know what 2010 era Facebook is, but I'm talking about small SMS, iMessage, Signal, or WhatsApp groups among people who know each other outside the platform. These groups are no more than maybe 10 people each, so you don't fall into the problem of context collapse [1]. You can have offshoot subgroups, and groups can also be ad-hoc for a particular event. The personal small-scale nature means they're governed entirely by shared social norms, not algorithms or formal moderation.

If you want actual meaningful social interactions online, it needs to be small-scale and completely useless for advertisers. Group chats are that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse
by techpineapple | 2025-07-11 16:13:54+00:00
A lot of people jump to adapt your curriculum to the AI era. And. Maybe.

Education is weird because of course there are two goals to education. One is to grant a credential, and the other is to actually teach information.

Of course business want an accurate credential, that's I think a lot of the controversy about lowering standards in university education. And people who dig in and do their job well want peers who do so. But I don't think I know anyone who is really good at their job who doesn't try to figure out their job at least one level below what they need to.

So the point is, prior to AI you had to learn programming by learning computer science. You had to learn a certain level of fundamentals, those were the requirements of the course. In the future? If we adapt the courses to AI? I think we'll necessarily run into the Codeschool problem. Sure some people can go to code school and really dig in and learn and have a great career as a software developer. But the people who only learn what they're taught, at the level it was taught? Will really struggle.
by Drew_ | 2025-07-11 16:13:56+00:00
I did the same, but I'm still holding on to Reddit with many restrictions:

- No mobile apps

- 10 min/day time limit on web

- Only browse 6 subreddits individually

- Filtering all posts below a certain karma level (depending on the subreddit)

- Collapsing all comments by default

This has completely changed my relationship with the platform for the better. I would quit it entirely, but unfortunately it's the best news source for a few of my hobbies.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-11 16:14:09+00:00
Healthy, sane people in good situations don't kill themselves.

It follows from that fact that if someone kills themselves, at least one of those things was not true. And those things can and often are thrust on people, or at least occur against the will of the person.

In this case, a bad situation was thrust on a whole bunch of people, and it ended up killing some of them.
by arrowsmith | 2025-07-11 16:14:10+00:00
The UK already has extremely strong defamation laws, to the point where we attract "libel tourism" - foreigners find dubious excuses to bring their libel cases to the UK courts so that they have an easier chance of winning.

Lots of people in my replies are telling me that I'm wrong, but no-one has yet answered my question: what specifically should the government do?
by pydry | 2025-07-11 16:14:31+00:00
>The claim, which I disagree with, is that spreading those taxes across nearby land incentivizes those property owners to sell their land to someone else who will improve it.

The only claim here is that if you own land which makes you $1000 in income and pay $2000 in taxes for that underutilized land you'd probably prefer to sell up.

Which has to be the least controversial part of LVT.

>Which gets at another LVT problem that is glossed over in discussions: Everything assumes that selling properties and moving is cheap and easy. If grandma's forever home is surrounded by apartment complexes when she's 85 years old, her taxes would become unaffordable because she's paying her share of those apartment complex value taxes. She would just pick up and move, which we're supposed to assume is cheap and easy.

We're seeing the net result of your desired policy right now where retired boomers sit on 4 bedroom houses with 3 empty bedrooms while anything resembling this type of family home is unaffordable for actual families.

Personally I think I preferred it when retirees were given tax incentives to sell up and downgrade to a smaller property, because even though moving day is stressful, not easy and costs money, it's not worth sacrificing an entire society over trying to avoid it.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-11 16:14:37+00:00
> The article speculates on why Apple integrates the SSD controller onto the SOC for their A and M series chips, but misses one big reason, data integrity.

If they're really interested with data integrity they should add checksums to APFS.

If you don't have RAID you can't rebuild corrupted data, but at least you know there's a problem and perhaps restore from Time Machine.

For metadata, you may have multiple copies, so can use a known-good one (this is how ZFS works: some things have multiple copies 'inherently' because they're so important).

Edit:

> Apple File System uses checksums to ensure data integrity for metadata but not for the actual user data, relying instead on error-correcting code (ECC) mechanisms in the storage hardware.[18]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Data_integri...
by legacynl | 2025-07-11 16:14:41+00:00
I think it's a bit much to criticize being contrarian, when being a conformist is basically the same thing.

A conformist does exactly what the public does, and a contrarian does exactly what the public doesn't do.

Either way the public decides.

If you independently decide that you don't like social media, then that's not being a contrarian. Just as independently deciding that you do want to engage in social media doesn't make you a conformist.
by karohalik | 2025-07-11 16:14:51+00:00
Yeah, I’ve been noticing the same. But let’s be honest, most people don’t really get to choose their relationship with tech. The whole analog tech and minimal phone thing sounds nice, but it’s still a luxury. You need a certain level of stability to even consider disengaging. So while I’m hopeful and happy to see those small changes, I’m also skeptical. Real change won’t happen until it stops being a lifestyle choice and becomes a bigger shift (or its part).
by lbrito | 2025-07-11 16:15:04+00:00
>One evening, as I made my husband walk our dog past the same scenic view multiple times so that I could get the best shot of it for a video, I experienced a sudden wave of revulsion for myself and what I was doing.

There's a beach in Northeastern Brazil called Maragogi. The water is calm and warm, and you can easily see schools of fish passing through your legs in many points. "Brazilian Caribbean" is its moniker, but if you ask me, the Caribbean should be called the "Central American Maragogi".

Anyway, I rented a small apartment there for a while, and this one morning I observed this couple acting quite strangely. The young lady was repeating some movements -- none of them naughty. She was going in and out of the sea, splashing theatrically through the surf. Then I noticed the man of the couple: he was chasing after her maybe 4 or 5m away, holding and looking at the phone all the time. I went about my morning, walked a bunch, enjoyed the water, and started back after a couple of hours - the Sun gets dangerously strong around noon. The couple was still at the same spot, tirelessly repeating the same sad, pathetic choreography, again and again.

I still can't understand those people. What a miserable existence we've built for ourselves.
by x3qt | 2025-07-11 16:15:05+00:00
Just yesterday, I talked to a neighbor who has two kids attending a local school in Mitte. He told me that the children are constantly indoctrinated into group conformity, obedience to authority, and fear of "wrong-think," with a good splash of wokie-talkie on top of it. To me, that sounds like a complete erasure of agency. Schools must provide knowledge, not override the nurture given by parents.

I have personally observed how locals are bullied by overseas guests and choose a delusional escape into virtue signaling rather than defending themselves. I consider German upbringing to be that of a defeated people.
by unfitted2545 | 2025-07-11 16:15:11+00:00
We have become less social as a result of social media, when I walk outside almost every single person has earbuds or headphones in, and people won't even look at me when I walk past, let alone say hi or anything. There's just too much going on, people are drained by these opaque algorithms that does not care about us, created by people who do not care about us.

How do LLM's assist us in this regard? It creates more content, but it's not even made by anyone, whilst guzzling up resources that we actually need (this applies to physical things like water as well as our own attention/time).

It feels like technology gets put out to the world and then humanity gets dragged "forward" by it, when there's nothing inherently wrong with resisting change if the current evidence points towards further problems.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-11 16:15:21+00:00
I don't see how that is compatible with 2.2. They don't say anything about counters per label. It says counter per RR type, and watermarks of least and most recent timestamps by label, not count by label.

If an organization is going to be this specific about what they count, it implies that this is everything they count, not that there may also be other junk unmentioned.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-07-11 16:15:24+00:00
> Conspiracy belief is a growing issue, thanks to an “expanded marketplace for conspiracy theories” online and on social media platforms, Pennycook said.

Biases that are strengthened by for-profit disinformation business.

Which raises an interesting point: In another time is sociological history, fringe thinking would have had to overcome a much more robust social challenge.

People "on the edge", who might have re-calibrated effectively, have become less likely to self-critique.
by philistine | 2025-07-11 16:15:26+00:00
You are not describing anything resembling what kids today are exposed to. There is no scarcity. Any phone can access an endless scrolling list of pornographic videos. Kids can spend hours scrolling and watching new-to-them pornography for free.

The first step in solving the problem of those prudes trying to build an inescapable surveillance state because there is way too much porn online, is accepting that they’re right that children are going to suffer because of the porn accessible online.
by pstuart | 2025-07-11 16:15:39+00:00
This is correct, as it's clear that if they had the goods they would have trumpeted the fact. But that didn't matter, it was simply the story itself that mattered (as the intended audience wants to be told what to think).

Again, that's not behavior that should be acceptable but it's SOP in politics by default.

What continues to blow my mind is that if "their guys" are corrupt they're totally fine with it. In my world, no corruption is acceptable corruption, regardless of who's doing it.
by sm00thbr41n | 2025-07-11 16:15:53+00:00
who.

gives.

a.

shit.

> If all of this — a non-famous writer with a podcast deciding she's replacing Instagram with blogging — feels too inconsequential to write 4,500 words about, then you're not alone. I think so too, but I also couldn't not write this.

Crazy that she gets it but doesn't get it at the same time.
by Rantenki | 2025-07-11 16:16:04+00:00
This paper runs very parallel to Dunning-Kruger, and it's surprising that nobody here has commented on it (although the paper itself DOES reference Dunning-Kruger). It's a bit sad, really. When you realize that most people that buy into this stuff are trapped by a lack of cognitive ability, rather than being rooted in malice. There's a dose of https://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidi... in there too, as even well educated, otherwise intelligent people can get trapped in these conspiracy theories.

"Conspiracy believers not only consistently overestimated their performance on numeracy and perception tests"...

Compared to:

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability."
by kmarc | 2025-07-11 16:16:07+00:00
For those who don't even open TFA: she is a creator, not a consumer in social media, and she only started two years ago.

It's a long ass post about how fake those people are and how fake you yourself become once you start creating that content.

Wishing the best of luck for the journey.

This was a refreshing exception among all those "enough, I quit social media". OTOH, here I am still surprised how many people find it fulfilling to either be a performing monkey in this palm-sized vertical cage, or the opposite, why is it so fulfilling to watch those monkeys hours long, daily. "monkey" sounds harsh, I know, but in reality, these performers are barely more than just copying, mirroring other ones, with possibly more followers.

What a time to be alive in.
by puetzk | 2025-07-11 16:16:11+00:00
That's a rotating spindle, which indeed can catch a loose thread and reel it in. An oscillating cuter moves back and forth, so it unrolls just as much as it rolls, with no net pull.

And if the oscillation strokes are short enough it can saw rigid material while just vibrating jiggly flesh (this is how the saws used for cutting off casts work). Though cardboard is also pretty floppy, so the mechanism here is probably different (mostly the puck guard keeping fingers out)
by timr | 2025-07-11 16:16:55+00:00
> So, much like every restaurant that becomes popular, anywhere in the world?

No, but thanks for the spot-on imitation of an entitled foreign visitor. The insinuation that somehow it's the local people's fault that they don't want their quaint neighborhood restaurants to become McDonald's is indeed part of the problem.

Many restaurants in Japan (my friend's included) are quite obviously one-man, standing-room only operations. They weren't designed or intended to accommodate big groups of people, pulling huge rolling suitcases, ordering off menu, getting offended when the proprietor doesn't offer vegan/gluten free/snowflake options, and tons of other nonsense that goes along with serving tourist hordes.

I realize that you can't un-make the baby, and that Japan's government asked for this, but a lot of locals are still upset about this kind of stuff and I have empathy. Tourism inevitably turns anything authentic into a high-volume, Epcot-center version of itself. That might be fine if you're visiting, but it sucks if you live there.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 16:17:25+00:00
Yeah, particularly if you ask young men, minorities, working class people, etc. But it is not so much ‘is that predicate false’ or ‘did they come to the wrong conclusion?’ but ‘how does it make me feel?’ ‘Illegal alien’ hits people hard because we all obey laws we don’t like. I hate seeing people walking in through the emergency doors in the subway because I am paying. Illegal aliens mostly keep their heads down to keep out of trouble but when you conspicuously defend people who commit terrible crimes you look unempathtic to victims. Empathy for the in-group but not for the out-group is a destructive force.

A distinction we don’t make enough in politics, marketing, McLuhanism and more is between early adopters and laggards. Zohran Mandami played well with young cosmopolitans and people in racially integrated areas but Clinton and Cuomo play well with laggards in all-white and all-black areas because they’ve been around, so does Bernie Sanders. Walking into a group of black nationalists as a 22 years old vanguardist and getting rejected was part of my origin story as an activist and lead but spending years listening to those people and telling the story I saw turned things around.
by guardiangod | 2025-07-11 16:17:38+00:00
I was in a Shikoku hotel's public bath a couple month ago, and a guy with full on Yakuza back (and arms) tattoo came in to shower. No one batted an eye. Granted no staff was present, so no one enforced the rule. I also did not try to get a glimpse of his pinkies.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-11 16:18:06+00:00
No, some of us just have apps that let us know when someone replies.

Whether you were logged in or not, the decision to reply to this thread after a week was the sad bit. But I'm here for you to let off whatever steam you need.

I can admit defeat more if that will help you? Or should I try to give you an opportunity to say "triggering intensifies"? Or something else? Just let me know what will let you feel better.