MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-29 21:41:15+00:00
> Whenever something somehow touches multiple jurisdictions, it's generally safe to assume that laws from all of them apply.

How do you suppose this is supposed to work on the internet? Is every globally-accessible social media site supposed to implement Saudi Arabia's blasphemy laws and China's censorship of Tienanmen?

> Countries can and do make laws that apply entirely extraterritorially. When that makes it difficult to do a thing while complying with all applicable laws, you either have to not do the thing or pick which jurisdictions' laws you want to break and deal with the consequences.

But that's the point. There will be services that actually are outside of any given jurisdiction and have no fear of penalties from it, and then those laws are pointless because they're unenforceable.

> I don't think most lawmakers will consider the potential embarrassment from difficult-to-enforce laws much of a deterrent against outlawing what they want to outlaw.

That's only because they have no shame. It's the government which is humiliated, not the politicians. Which is why the voters should learn to punish them for their vandalism of the public trust.

> They're more likely to put additional requirements on third parties to assist with enforcement (e.g. VPN providers are an obvious candidate.)

How is that supposed to work when the whole purpose of the VPN itself is to be in a different jurisdiction?

The typical go-to in these cases is to try to use the financial system, but that doesn't work in this case because there are plenty of foreign VPN services that will offer the service "for free" by installing a residential proxy on your machine or accept payment in cryptocurrency in an amount that a normal person could easily mine themselves. And then unsophisticated users do the former and sophisticated users do the latter and the only thing you get from banning payments to foreign VPN providers is the facilitation of DDoS botnets and increased and familiarity of your population with cryptocurrency.
by pamelafox | 2025-07-29 21:41:18+00:00
I love native bees, I've been trying to find ways to incorporate native bee facts into my tech talks. The "Insect Crisis" book was a nice overview of issues like overuse of honeybees, plus others. Highly recommend planting native pollinator-friendly plants in garden if you want to meet adorable, hilarious, beautiful native bees!

My current fav is the Fine Striped Sweat Bee, where the females are 100% turquoise. Dazzling! https://bsky.app/profile/pamelafox.bsky.social/post/3lv3eycl...
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-07-29 21:41:18+00:00
By the definition of every major nation in the world, which is that anyone under 18 is a minor, which is a child who should not be intentionally exposed to pornography. Kids shouldn’t grow up viewing content that demeans women and distorts their worldview on sex and relationships, much less having the trusted adults in their lives advocate for them to watch it!!

Very bold choice to argue the nuance of “But how do we define ‘child’?” in a discussion about showing pornography to kids, though!
by Alifatisk | 2025-07-29 21:41:20+00:00
I guess you're referring to the official link to quantumbreak.com. No one has probably noticed or pointed it out yet, I do not know where to raise it since I am not a member of the fourm. But the next sentence links to the presentation about the Game (Quantumbreak) and it's integration with Dlang.

You are not wrong, that should be fixed but no information about it is lost, I feel like you're a bit too harsh here.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-29 21:41:36+00:00
"The native pollinators, such as bumblebees, are outcompeted by honeybee hives"

... in urban environments, and it' still debatable. Your #2 source provides additional details.

There are a lot of other dubious claims here that the sources seemed to contradict each other.

Something you didn't bring up is that people raising honeybee can benefit other pollinators due to changes in human behavior such as planting beneficial plants and refraining from pesticide use.
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-29 21:42:30+00:00
Thank you for your comment. I deeply respect those who serve others without seeking praise.

We’ve supported people in poverty without seeking any profit. But in this capitalist society, acts of care that can’t be turned into money—so-called “invisible labor”—are often treated as worthless. Even those who received the support sometimes saw it that way. Kindness taken for granted often returned only as sadness.

That’s why we believe care and service deserve fair recognition. Don’t you think this could be possible—if we had an economic (or social) system that isn’t based on capitalism?
by carlmr | 2025-07-29 21:43:01+00:00
>I will very easily write a faster parallelizable program in Java, before I get the C one even remotely correct and then we haven't even taken into account every future maintenance cost.

Even better in Rust. You get great memory safety guarantees from the borrow checker helping guide your parallelization, while still being fast and GCless.

It's the best of both worlds.

>Also, the way C devs often hide the cost is simply.. less efficient code like copying stuff right and left, etc, which can actually be more "bravely" avoided in managed languages.

I'd say Rust is again the easiest way to avoid unnecessary copies without sacrificing safety.
by cestith | 2025-07-29 21:43:10+00:00
Likewise, some people love the ABC and Python model of syntactically important leading whitespace while others passionately prefer some sort of brackets (for this purpose brackets include parentheses, curly braces, square brackets, words like BEGIN and END, etc).

Some love short, mnemonic built-in variables and short built-in function names of the sort you see in APL or Perl (although Perl has longer-named versions optionally for a lot of things). Others love long, self-documenting names for keywords and functions. They might want no built-in variables at all.
by gt0 | 2025-07-29 21:43:34+00:00
For me these efforts feel like a solution to a problem very few people have. People who want a portable computer have settled on laptops. The people who want a portable computer, which needs access to a screen, keyboard, mouse and desk, just seems like a very small niche. Even when you get that computer set up, you end up with something quite slow with limited RAM and storage, unless you've bought a real flagship phone which is more expensive than a good laptop anyway.

I tried this with DeX, it's cool, but it's just really hard to see where I'd use it. Some sort of trip where for some reason I can't bring my laptop, but I do have access to the various peripherals required to make a desktop setup.
by zie | 2025-07-29 21:43:38+00:00
See RFC-6238: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238

This is all in the standard, most places have implemented one of the options. I've implemented all of the options at least once. It's configurable based on how lax/secure you want to be.

Most places I've dealt with allow the previous and next code to also be used, so instead of a 30s window you actually have a 1.5m window.
by jones1618 | 2025-07-29 21:43:51+00:00
I agree with this. Create a MVP for a side business, build your email list of users, and iterate, iterate, iterate with improvements until people are beating your door down to pay for specific pro features. Offer to put people on a pro-version waiting list (for a specific dollar amount) and you'll know if you can expect enough money to make your exit worthwhile.
by xg15 | 2025-07-29 21:44:12+00:00
> Technically from an international law perspective a siege is legal as long as civilians have a chance to leave. Israel can legally lay siege to Gaza city and the northern Gaza strip as long as it allows civilians to move south.

Yeah no, that's wrong on multiple levels.

It's not legal if there is no intention to ever let the civilians return - then you have forced displacement and ethnic cleansing.

But even just assuming it were - we can agree that "leaving" would mean actually leaving the besieged area and get out of danger, right? The IDF is laying siege to the entire strip, not just Gaza city. No one is leaving when they are being pushed - or "concentrated" as your defense minister lovingly put it - into ever-smaller areas inside the combat zone.
by bsimpson | 2025-07-29 21:44:38+00:00
That post is 6 years old, and yet Linux still sucks by default on a touchscreen.

I installed NixOS on a handheld nearly 2 years ago and tried a whole bunch of touch-oriented options (including tiny ones like Maui). The closest I got to good enough was running the mobile fork of GNOME, using someone on GitHub's custom flake to pull it in at HEAD. I'm very happy that Valve has released SteamOS for other devices so I can offload that tinkering.

Steam is very usable on a touchscreen, but the KDE desktop mode hasn't impressed me.
by pamelafox | 2025-07-29 21:44:39+00:00
I generally am impressed by Anthropic's focus on safety, but I was taken aback by this quote from Dario: https://bsky.app/profile/kylierobison.com/post/3lujbtfdzyk2e

“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

I agree, it is hard to run a business on that principle, but I also thought that if any AI company were to aspire to it, it would be Anthropic.
by codingdave | 2025-07-29 21:44:53+00:00
I hear very little actual skepticism that LLMs are useful. What I see is a set of use cases where they are great. As well as heaps of people who extrapolate a false idea that because they are good at use cases A, B, and C, they must be good for the whole alphabet. And they simply are not.

So when people push back against using LLMs in areas where they do not excel, that is not skepticism, that is realism. Take away the hype, take away the emotion, and they are what many people have been saying all along - just a tool. Use it where it makes sense, leave it alone where it does not.
by jez | 2025-07-29 21:45:21+00:00
I could commute to the office every day with nothing but the shirt on my back and the phone in my pocket if my work-provided device were my phone. I would not need a backpack or briefcase, which means that for any errands or dinner plans after work, I don't fumble with a backpack. I already leave my preferred keyboard+mouse at my office desk.

If I needed to fly to another office for a business trip, same story: I could sit down at any desk, grab a spare bluetooth keyboard from IT (if there isn't already one on the bookable desk).

If I'm over at a friend's house for dinner and get paged, I could just ask to sit down at their desk and plug my phone in.

I would love to not have to carry a laptop around to all the places that I do today.
by jononor | 2025-07-29 21:45:38+00:00
The government may only use 3% of the income from the oil fund. This law is in place since 2001. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_budgetary_rule

Education is free. Whether one considers the social support to be UBI is a matter of debate, I guess, but right now it would leave you decidedly poor/low-class.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 21:45:41+00:00
I don't believe it -- and I expect better from Lemire.

My understanding is that a lot of consumers are really pissed that industry is forcing AI products down their throats. I mean, I like Microsoft Copilot but a lot of people don't -- and I haven't heard a single good thing about the hallucinated trash results that Google adds to search without our consent.

When it comes to LLMs there were people doing abstract work on neural networks for sequences in the 1980s in academia which really didn't go anywhere, lots of work on language modelling with markov chains and conditional random fields, Hinton's work on deep learning in the mid-00's and then in the mid-10's I worked on

-- a deep learning search engine for patents (big success!)

-- an attempt to do language modelling of clinical notes based on LSTMs

-- foundation models based on CNNs for text classification (startup got bought by a leading fashion brand)

all industrial activity predating consumers having any idea any of this was possible.
by abeppu | 2025-07-29 21:47:07+00:00
But in high level competition people don't use handicaps right? But I think handicaps are also about your individual skill level based on your past performance relative to par on different courses right? (I'm not a golfer). I'm not saying we shouldn't celebrate deep skill. I'm imagining we should have a shared model that given some basic info (e.g. your biological sex, height, maybe some ratios about your skeletal proportions, age, hormones) gives a distribution on performance (e.g. marathon time, long jump distance, weight lighting combined score), and your normalized score is based on the quantile you get relative to that baseline. I think that behaves pretty different from a handicap based on personal past performance. I.e. a tiny old lady who throws a shotput pretty far gets a high normalized score, even if her performance is extremely consistent over time (and so on the day of competition she's not outperforming her prior record).
by Teknoman117 | 2025-07-29 21:47:13+00:00
That's also in line with my memory of it.

We still don't have all of the interesting C++ features in freestanding mode. It's still a fairly unknown component of libc++ and libstdc++. I've only been playing with it recently because I was curious about how many of the c++17 and newer compile time features I could get to work in avr-g++.

And the answer is ... not much.

I've been spoiled by Rust's "core" crate.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-29 21:47:14+00:00
> probably a touch oversold? I don't think people putting in a single beehive are doing much to impact a neighborhood

Probably not, especially if they’re in an urban environment. The bees being shipped to farms, on the other hand, are ecologically destructive (as well as economically invaluable).

My takeaway is not that honeybees are evil. It’s that we need more pollinators in more stripes, and that the agricultural industry has successfully confused pollinators in general with honeybees in particular.
by zeldasecurity | 2025-07-29 21:47:16+00:00
Microsoft confirmed a live ransomware campaign targeting on-prem SharePoint servers (2016, 2019, Subscription Edition). Multiple CVEs are being actively exploited. We broke down the attack chain, immediate response steps, and how organizations can secure systems now.

This is affecting public and private sector orgs — including the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration.

Our team at Zelda Security is helping orgs investigate, patch, and recover.

Curious if anyone here has spotted unusual SharePoint activity in your environments?
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-29 21:47:26+00:00
> People who want a portable computer have settled on laptops

Especially now with laptops like the Apple Silicon macbook air, with more than enough power and battery life.

I used to want a beefy phone that could run a full Linux desktop when plugged into a monitor, but that was a long time ago (ironically, Google is getting there with some of the Android 16 stuff...too bad the switching cost from Apple for me is too high at this point).

But then the M1 air came out, and that was pretty much game over for me. I've since upgraded to my M4 pro but it's still small and light enough to go everywhere, I have no need for an all-in-one phone.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-29 21:47:40+00:00
> Is it existential discomfort around intelligence no longer being uniquely human? Is it anxiety about potential job displacement? Or is it perhaps a concern about intelligence itself losing its perceived special status? Or are people simply trolling?

For me, it's none of those things. But the first three questions seem to be assuming that these tools are not only intelligent, but intelligent enough to challenge some human "special status". I don't think that's anywhere close to being true.

It's more that the harm I see already happening appears to be greater than the benefit, and the last thing we need, particularly lately, is more harm.
by sophia-martinez | 2025-07-29 21:48:02+00:00
Good question — we’re thinking about it as a way to support operator training and tactical development.

It’s not about giving you the answer, but about exposing the range of reasonable next steps in a given situation. Because the system tracks prior commands and environment state, its suggestions can help newer operators learn how context influences decision-making — not just what can be done, but why certain moves make more sense at that moment.

In that sense, it’s more like a guided sparring partner than a shortcut! Still early days, but we’re curious how something like this could help folks build intuition under pressure. Got any thoughts?
by octaane | 2025-07-29 21:48:11+00:00
As an aside, the disappearance of insects is noticeable elsewhere. I'm a big fishing guy, have been my whole life. Many old-timers I know have commented on the lack of insects.

We've all noticed that certain flies and lures have stopped working, or at least, have significantly reduced efficacy. We think it's because for at least several generations (fish have short lifespans), they haven't been exposed to those insects.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-29 21:48:51+00:00
Bacterial issues aren't that much of a concern for beekeepers. It can be used to treat European Foulbrood, but the only other issue is American Fouldbrood and that isn't treatable.

There are some interesting things being done in the biome research. Even stuff like bacteria related to mosquito dunks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01476...
by Atreiden | 2025-07-29 21:49:06+00:00
It seems to me we're stuck in an international prisoner's dilemma with climate change policy. Economies that defect and disregard environmental consequences will grow more quickly in the short term, especially so if other major players cooperate. So there is a perverse incentive that becomes increasingly impactful as scarcity increases. Poorer economies will have an extremely strong incentive to defect and ignore ecological consequences.

Measures like this will proliferate through an economy in proportion to how angry that population is. If your average voter feels like they can't even afford their groceries (whether or not this is actually true, in fact, is irrelevant), they will get angry at any administration that passes any GDP-hampering policy, and will support any administrations attempts at stripping away these policies.

I don't know what the solution is, but its clear that, from a game theory perspective, there will be large defectors to any kind of international cooperative agreement.
by FiatLuxDave | 2025-07-29 21:49:42+00:00
People desire to bad ads because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of them, especially of the lower value ones which don't do anything for them. It's not the entertaining informative ads for things they want that anger them, it's the ads for things they would never want that get repeated ad-nauseum that bother them.

So, what do you think about additional taxes aimed directly at advertising to reduce the overall amount of advertising? In the same way that increasing cigarette taxes reduces the rate of smoking, taxing advertising should reduce the amount of it. Less advertising means less other ads competing for attention, making the remaining advertising more likely to reach its intended audience.

An ideal ad tax would be based upon volume of ads, but I can't think of a good way to implement this without it being channel-specific, which is likely to introduce market distortions. Any ideas? But even just a simple ad revenue tax would help filter out the low-value ads from the market, as their ROI would go down fastest.
by dctoedt | 2025-07-29 21:50:18+00:00
> Only the patents that are deployed to the market and valuable will have high carrying costs.

You're assuming that "deployed to the market" means "actually making things that people want." That's sometimes the case, but far from always.

You're probably familiar with the term "non-practicing entities" in the patent world. (They go by other names as well.) Some NPEs are entirely legitimate, e.g., universities and other major research centers that actually do research and discover useful things. Other NPEs, though, are more-vulgarly but aptly known as "patent trolls."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
by bboygravity | 2025-07-29 21:50:19+00:00
Linux barely works on a limited set of hardware that it was designed for. Indeed I don't think it's reasonable to then also make it work on some completely different phone hardware that has a operational life of like 2 years + full of closed source hardware and drivers.

If you want users, the thing has to be usable. For the thing to be usable it needs software with perfect hardware support. Google, Android vendors and Apple (and to some extend System 76) understand this.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-29 21:50:20+00:00
Neat to see zero-copy networking get TX, after RX shipped a while ago. Good stuff. I wonder how it overlaps-with/interacts with the various kernel offloads? I forget if this is TCP only or UDP too: would be really nice with QUIC / HTTP3 to see more love for UDP. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Device-Memory-TCP-TX-Linux-6.1...

The filesystem Folio work has been yielding such amazing results. In general I'm just so impressed how much the storage subsystems keep improving! IO_Uring has totally changed the game in terms of iops delivered just on it's own. But then the various filesystems & upper level multi-queue support have also been consistently finding really nice wins. Folios have been incredible! https://lwn.net/Articles/1015320/

EROFS added compressed metadata support, which is showing a 2.5X win for readdir(3) (reading files from a directory). Given it's use in awesome works like composefs for next-gen & content-addressed based container overlay type systems, this is a nice win. https://github.com/composefs/composefs

Probably my favorite new feature is AMDGPU user queue (userq) work. Rather than the driver having to build out all the future work, now userspace can directly build the work of stuff to be done, sprinkling in various fences and what not. Some very interesting potential for GPGPU & perhaps ML! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-High-Priority-USERQ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-AMDGPU-User-Queues

The Kernel Newbies release log is one of my favorite things to read through. It wasn't bursting-at-the-seams with awesome as you sometimes get with releases, but 6.16 was still very fun. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44717122 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16