MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-07-21 20:43:09+00:00
A large part of the force multiplier is just that she would sit on hold for you. Web sites rarely get so slow that you can't book the ticket yourself when it occurs to you.

Note again that I'm using "she" intentionally. When females are considered unable to do "real work" we don't value their time and so it is a force multiplier for the men who don't have to sit on hold, and we ignore all of her time that is wasted. I agree with those who are glad such days are over.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 20:43:13+00:00
No, I read his full comment, but I have a problem with "I'm not planning on committing a crime and nothing I do now is considered criminal" which is commonplace these days to say. I laid it out as to what.

So, as for the rest of his comments, such as: "The author also makes this like a weird dichotomy with online tracking, I ALSO care about being tracked on the internet and my personal privacy is pretty important to me in general.", I agree.

I edited my comment as it was deeply misunderstood, and I am not interested in having it derailed even further. Maybe another time.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-21 20:44:14+00:00
I work in rail. In any automated system, you don't assume anything; you either know it absolutely (fail-safe systems), or you revert to pure manual control at line-of-sight of the operator, which is far slower.

And yes, all the technology has been tested together. Before a train can enter a new region of authority, it must have permission from that authority, which means they must prove that the train can work with the local tech.
by bagacrap | 2025-07-21 20:44:15+00:00
> There might be a story here about the hypocrisy of a CEO and an HR officer having an in-house affair that might get lesser-ranking employees fired.

Uh, what? They did get fired. It doesn't matter what level of the company you occupy, it's going to be against company policy to have a relationship with another employee over whom you have any degree of control (i.e. for a CEO, literally anyone).

They will probably both have a hard time getting another job since they both breached a very core workplace policy. Their reaction was not even shame so much as a (somewhat misguided) attempt at self-preservation.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-07-21 20:44:21+00:00
Again, no one forced anyone to vote for her; they chose to do so of their own volition. Bernie did not win because, for whatever reason, not enough people voted for him. I say this as someone who voted for him in 2016

To muse he would have beaten Trump is like saying the Bills could have beaten the Eagles in the Super Bowl. Maybe they could have, but they didn't beat the Chiefs. It's not a forgone conclusion that he would have beaten Trump, but even so it really doesn't matter because he lost in the primaries
by david-gpu | 2025-07-21 20:44:55+00:00
Let's take a step back and understand the context of this discussion. This isn't a forum where unemployed people talk about poverty finance. This is a place primarily made by and for tech bros. Said tech bros are far more likely to fall into the category of "workaholic overachiever" than "unmotivated NINJA" [0]. My comments in this thread are written in that context.

As for the rest, I will take your kind insights to heart. If you want to work longer hours because your spouse asks you to make more money, that's your own choice to make. I thankfully didn't have to face that situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_income,_no_asset#No_income,...
by anonfordays | 2025-07-21 20:45:17+00:00
>Lol, charliebrownau's antisemitic mails don't get blocked, they get approval:

In that exact mailing list numerous members say he is off-topic and should be ignored/blocked and that the project does not claim him: https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for...

>See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

He was banned from the Xlibre GitHub Project specifically for using this dog whistel and being antisemitic: https://github.com/X11Libre/misc/issues/75#issuecomment-2984...

>Seems like a party is going on in the Nazi bar of "well behaving adults" as you call them.

Not at all, banned antisemitism and not supporting the "hunting of Jews" like freedesktop.org. You have a Nazi and a pedo bar.

>I'll stop discussing with you defending antisemitism

I'm not defending antisemitism unlike freedesktop.org and GNOME.

>"investigating" preteens

Defending victims. Stop inverting predator and victim groomer. You're the one posting the debunked fake news and defending pedophiles. Disgusting that you're defending rape and the grooming of underage victims.

>conspiracy bullshit (including the antisemitism)

No conspiracy, just facts that you can't handle. No antisemitism either, he's been banned and blocked.

>I think overall Xlibre is still a win for the Linux community as the toxic parts of the community like those mentioned above hopefully leave for Xlibre or related projects.

The antisemitic pesos are at freedesktop and GNOME. Glad Canonical did the right thing and fired the pedo. They don't want to be a pedo bar.

>I fully support you attracting all the charliebrownaus.

He's banned. I don't support you attracting pedos. Nowhere should be a safe pedo bar.
by tombert | 2025-07-21 20:45:48+00:00
At the risk of massive downvotes, I have to admit that a small part of me wants this so that maybe corporations stop using Sharepoint as soon as possible.

Seriously, I haven't used it since 2017, but every time I used it then it was the worst part of my day. I used to have a shirt that said SHarepoIT Happens that I would wear to work, and it seemed like the one thing I could get my coworkers agree on was that Sharepoint is terrible and we'd rather use anything else.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-21 20:45:55+00:00
The entire crux of the article hinges around one graph at the end, where they compare traffic annual deaths per 100k people with subway annual deaths per 100k people .. per person who rode the subway 500 times?

Why is there some 500 ride part thrown in? Why is it not just simply comparing "X people in NYC / Y people die yearly on subway" with ""X people in NYC / Y people die yearly in traffic"?

They also don't link to their sources for subway crime. They do link to a MTA document, but that document only shows subway crime rates for 6 months out of the year, not the whole year.

Also the comparison they do make at the end is apples to oranges; the issue isn't purely about death rate, but there's the other categories of series crime on the subway, like assault/rape/etc., that aren't really factored into the final claim. They moved the goalposts and deftly switched from a discussion about "safety" to a discussion about "deaths".
by ho_schi | 2025-07-21 20:45:59+00:00
I wonder what drives people using Microsoft and then using more from this company.

We didn’t knew it better, back then. We knew it better, now. But migrating is work. So we prefer to suffer! And harm others! This Linux and BSD people are so annoying with their desire for compatibility. They shall suffer, too! And when we buy everything from a Monopoly, we don’t need to think.

Somehow. Part of the game is that you’ve always an excuse with Microsoft. You cannot made responsible? There is this quote about IBM:

Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM.

But I cannot remember stories about suffering from IBM forever.
by sanjitb | 2025-07-21 20:46:36+00:00
Why do they brag about not using a theorem prover? To me, whatever tool helps the model perform, go for it.

Besides, they still specialized Gemini for the IMO in other ways:

> we additionally trained this version of Gemini on novel reinforcement learning techniques that can leverage more multi-step reasoning, problem-solving and theorem-proving data. We also provided Gemini with access to a curated corpus of high-quality solutions to mathematics problems, and added some general hints and tips on how to approach IMO problems to its instructions.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-21 20:47:01+00:00
Any such failures are potentially massively fatal, and grinding to a halt is exactly what we want the trains to do.

All that means is that you design the system very robustly. And, of course, trains fail-to-safe. Cut a brake line? Train can't release its brakes. Signal out? Conductor can only move in GoA0 (manual), at reduced speeds, until the next signal is reached (and readable). Etc.
by gsharma | 2025-07-21 20:47:16+00:00
My HN username is also my gmail. I've got most of the stuff you mentioned, including unencrypted copies of US tax returns (with SSN) and house buying paperwork.

> I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But honestly, after doing it for a few years I gave up.

Same here. It's surprising that most of the services don't use double-opt in before sending emails.

Some day, I want to use an LLM to identify those emails and label them.
by Animats | 2025-07-21 20:47:21+00:00
"Profits don't matter" only worked during the period of zero interest rates.

AMZN started to become profitable in 2021.[1] By 2023, it was very profitable. $17 billion in Q1 2025.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...
by kuhsaft | 2025-07-21 20:47:29+00:00
For collaborative documentation, there’s probably a bunch of alternatives.

But SharePoint is the linchpin for Microsoft 365. Well technically SharePoint and Exchange. You can’t use any Microsoft 365 products without SharePoint.

OneDrive uses SharePoint. Outlook Groups and Teams Channels create Microsoft 365 Groups. Every Microsoft 365 Group creates a SharePoint site. Microsoft Loop uses Microsoft SharePoint Embedded.

SharePoint is now a “file and document management system suitable for use in any application”.

So, if you want an alternative to SharePoint you would need an alternative to any M365 Product, including Outlook and OneDrive.

Fun Fact: Teams messages are actually stored via Exchange Mailboxes.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/embedded/ov...
by bennett023 | 2025-07-21 20:47:37+00:00
Member of the benchmark team here! Yeah, agree "as close to zero" is a bit imprecise. What we're comparing is the ledger balance (which should include pending transactions / transactions after the statement date) to the statement balance (which wouldn't include those).

The point of the reconciliation check mentioned in the report is to precisely account for that difference (identifying all the transactions that add up to the difference between account balance & statement ending balance and account for those differences). The differences can also be addressed through appropriate journal entries or other adjustments to ensure accuracy in the financial reporting.
by ijk | 2025-07-21 20:48:15+00:00
In the USA, some things that come to mind:

* Legal changes. Web platforms have section 230 protection to host user content. For payment processing this might be something like the proposed Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) that requires banks to offer additional (non-Visa/Mastercard) payment providers. Or a more explicit payment neutrality law the requires credit card companies to be more even-handed in non-financial issues. Or anti-debanking laws that ensure everyone has some minimal access to sending and receiving payments.

* Lawsuit results. Part of the issue with Visa was that they got dragged into lawsuits against sites that were using them to process payments; the lawsuits and appeals around that are still unresolved but if Visa's lack of legal liability goes away then it will be harder for random outside groups to harass them, for good or ill.

* Introducing an independent payment processor. While JCB in Japan has had some similar pressure applied to them, when there were national sovereignty concerns over Visa being able to dictate that American laws and norms should apply to their country Japan had many other payment processors to fall back on. Similarly, PIX in Brazil makes it much harder for non-government private actors to dictate what people can and cannot buy.
by nicf | 2025-07-21 20:48:18+00:00
I'm a mathematician, although not doing research anymore. I can maybe offer a little bit of perspective on why we tend to be a little cooler on the formal techniques, which I think I've said on HN before.

I'm actually prepared to agree wholeheartedly with what you say here: I don't think there'd be any realistic way to produce thousand-page proofs without formalization, and certainly I wouldn't trust such a proof without some way to verify it formally. But I also don't think we really want them all that much!

The ultimate reason I think is that what really lights a fire under most mathematicians is the desire to know why a result is true; the explanation is really the product, much more so than just the yes-or-no answer. For example, I was never a number theorist, but I think most people who are informed enough to have an opinion think that the Riemann Hypothesis is probably true, and I know that they're not actually waiting around to find out. There are lots of papers that get published whose results take the form "If the Riemann Hypothesis is true then [my new theorem]."

The reason they'd still be excited by a proof is the hope, informed by experience with proofs of earlier long-standing open problems, that the proof would involve some exciting new method or perspective that would give us a deeper understanding of number theory. A proof in a formal language that Lean says is true but which no human being has any hope of getting anything from doesn't accomplish that.
by Xss3 | 2025-07-21 20:48:25+00:00
Is it surprising that 12,000 out of 60,000,000 post illegal things like calls for violence (burn migrants to death, etc) per year?

Reminder that incitement is a crime in the USA too and there's nothing in the constitution that says it's okay just because it's on twitter not irl.

So far every story ive seen about arrest has been pretty cut and dry, they were blatantly hitler level racist, homophobic, or calling for others to attack people for their protected characteristics (eg race or sex).
by impish9208 | 2025-07-21 20:48:51+00:00
> From what I can tell this was a capability the USPS has had for a while, probably going back to the days of anthrax spores being sent to politicians. The USPS was probably directed to track where every piece of mail came from and image the outside of it.

I don’t think that’s accurate. They already had the scanning/imaging pipeline for routing and sorting. It wasn’t until later that they realized it’d be a good service to email the images to the recipients every morning – hence, Informed Delivery. It’s like a side-project that grew into a bonafide feature.
by screye | 2025-07-21 20:49:44+00:00
I don't agree with the bill, but I empathize with the motivation.

Infamously in the US, the IRS knows all. In India, the IRS runs blind. Here, tax evasion is the norm with only 2.2% of the population paying income tax.

> expanded scope of powers given to tax officials during search and seizure

For context, income tax raids are common in India. Officials tear down walls and ceilings to find hidden cash, jewels and other undeclared assets. Forcing their way into your phones is a digital equivalent. From a legal perspective, I don't see why digital spaces are anymore private than one's own house.

Yes, it limits freedoms. But, no more than than was the norm in a pre-internet India.
by rasadov | 2025-07-21 20:50:16+00:00
There’s definitely a difference between spam and permission-based email marketing. Fertit is built specifically for legitimate newsletter subscriptions - subscribers opt-in through proper signup forms and can easily manage preferences or unsubscribe. It’s the same model used by every legitimate business newsletter, from GitHub updates to Substack publications. The focus is on providing value to people who actually want to receive the content.
by ashishb | 2025-07-21 20:50:43+00:00
I speak from experience that this is a bad idea.

There are cases where documents contains text with letters that look the same in many font. For example, 0 and O looks identical in many fonts. So if you have a doc/xls/PDF/html then you lose information by converting it into an image.

For cases like serial numbers, not even humans can distinguish 0 vs O (or l vs I) by looking at them.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-21 20:50:46+00:00
IIRC Microsoft is rewriting some of these backend services in Rust, although not because it will increase security but because it lets them get better perf than existing solutions without the safety tradeoff they'd have suffered to go to C++ which would have been their option 15-20 years ago. I don't know whether Sharepoint was on that list.
by mmajzoobi | 2025-07-21 20:50:57+00:00
I made a quick proof of concept UX flow to show how to install and authorize Twingate connector on Raspberry Pi (4 or 5) quickly without using keyboard or monitor (headlessly).

I am using Ubo pod hardware (own product) in this demo but you don't have to. You can just use a bare Raspberry Pi and use the emulated GUI inside the web UI (instead of the built-in GUI). All you need to do is to flash MicroSD card with image available on Github page ubopod/ubo_app/releases.

Do you use Twingate in your homelab? If so, please comment on this post and share you thought with me.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-21 20:51:09+00:00
Depends on your usage patterns. On 8GB I gave it (ZRAM) between 512MB to 768MB RAM, and later on just using whatever values for the relevant sysctls AntiX was using(or their scripts created dynamically during setup/startup) at the time. It isn't just vm.swappiness, there are others, and they changed, or got removed, and replaced by others, over the years. And all of them sort of interwoven, influencing each other via what's happening in vm-subsystem. Can have bad feedback loops if you do it wrong, and be counterproductive. So you have to experiment, and measure with different settings, for what you're running.

Where measure can be anything from htop/atop over https://github.com/cdown/psi-notify , to https://github.com/noiseonwires/memory-pressure and so on.

To understand what these sysctls are about, how they are related to each other, and to ZRAM, I'd recommend reading, or at least skimming https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html , https://chrisdown.name/2019/07/18/linux-memory-management-at... , https://linuxblog.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swa... , https://linuxblog.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swa... , https://linuxblog.io/linux-performance-no-swap-space , https://linuxblog.io/running-out-of-ram-linux-add-zram , https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/899 , https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-cachin... , https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-Settings/pull/19 , https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-Settings , https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html , https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html , https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/psi/docs/overview , https://unixism.net/2019/08/linux-pressure-stall-information...

even if it seems redundant, OFC skim and discard anything you already know(But I can't know that).

The following not to use them, but for their POVs/concepts regarding the same problem: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd , https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom , https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang

These, to maybe take inspiration from, to adjust dynamically:

https://www.linuxbash.sh/post/tune-vmswappiness-in-a-script-... , https://github.com/lululoid/LMKD-PSI-Activator (Yes, Android, I know, but still...)

Then there is the whole thing about eBPF, which opens up much more screws to turn dynamically according to demand, according to whichever policies.

https://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html / https://deepwiki.com/oracle/bpftune/1-overview

Have fun :)
by twiss | 2025-07-21 20:51:13+00:00
> I arrived in Lyon recently and figured, hey, this is Europe, why not try the European app again, and used Bolt.

A bit off topic but IMHO your first thought should instead be: "hey, this is Europe, why not try the train?"

In Lyon, the train from the airport to the city takes half an hour, same as a car. My guess is that you'll have a vastly better experience than taking the train in North America, and also a better experience than at least the OP had when taking a Bolt.
by Nathan2055 | 2025-07-21 20:51:39+00:00
The infamous Dropbox comment[0] actually didn't even cite rsync; it recommended getting a remote FTP account, using curlftpfs to mount it locally, and then using SVN or CVS to get versioning support.

The double irony of that comment is that pretty much all of those technologies listed are obsolete now while Dropbox is still going strong: FTP has been mostly replaced with SFTP and rsync due to its lack of encryption and difficult to manage network architecture, direct mounting of remote hosts still happens but it's more typical in my experience to have local copies of everything that are then synced up with the remote host to provide redundancy, and CVS and SVN have been pretty much completely replaced with Git outside of some specialist and legacy use cases.

The "evaluating new products" xkcd[1] is extremely relevant, as is the continued ultra-success of Apple: developing new technologies, and then turning around and marketing those technologies to people who aren't already in this field working on them are effectively two completely different business models.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 [1]: https://xkcd.com/1497/
by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-21 20:51:46+00:00
Also, ABP made the setting silently opt-out instead of asking the users. That, and their new diametrically-opposite incentive of whitelisting ads for money made me bail from them.

If at least they had made an easy to use panel to opt-in which kinds of ads you were OK with (Text ads, static images, animated images, silent videos, etc.), it would have helped their case a lot.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-07-21 20:52:06+00:00
I'd say "far more intervention" is massively overstating the supposed problem, in practice I haven't noticed a whole lot of difference over the last few years. I run sudo pacman -Syu, I restart and it works. For those that do run into problems, there's community support available just like there is for Ubuntu as well as a bounty of resources for Arch in general.

None of this requires some trial by fire bullshit on part of end users.
by Izkata | 2025-07-21 20:52:33+00:00
> Frankly, I'm not sure why that design decision was made and find it rather confuses the meaning of await: asynchronously wait.

I've always understood it to mean "wait for asynchronous object", not that the wait itself is asynchronous. It's just an English word that roughly means "wait for", that was chosen for the nice "a" prefix for asynchronous stuff.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-21 20:52:36+00:00
What does “and not subject to any foreign power” mean? Nobody knows because Wong Kim Ark doesn’t bother to actually try and address that point.

That's a lie. The opinion does engage with that question in depth, and also digs into why the language of the 14th amendment differs from that of the 1866 civil rights act. You're trying to shift attention away from the text of the 14th amendment (which is the supreme law of the land) to the text of an earlier law whose meaning you think is easier to argue over. I encourage anyone who has a few hours to take a good look at the case and see for themselves.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649

Maybe the Court should look into the “emanations from penumbras” of the term “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” to see what they can find in there.

Weasel words, linking the case to another (Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)) hated by conservatives so as to throw shade on the former.