MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by melling | 2025-08-31 14:38:33+00:00
Yeah, I’m just being lazy because I’ve answered this question many times.

Here’s one from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985088

You can always ask the AI:

Politics & World Leaders • Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) – Former President of South Africa, died at 95. • George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) – 41st U.S. President, died at 94. • Jimmy Carter (1924– ) – 39th U.S. President, currently 100 (as of 2024). • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900–2002) – Died at 101. • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021) – Died at 99.

Arts & Entertainment • Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) – Actor, died at 103. • Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020) – Actress, died at 104. • Betty White (1922–2021) – Actress/comedian, died at 99. • Norman Lear (1922–2023) – Television writer/producer, died at 101. • Tony Bennett (1926–2023) – Singer, died at 96.

Science & Literature • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) – Philosopher, died at 97. • Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) – Nobel Prize–winning neurologist, died at 103. • Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) – Architect, lived to 91. • Maya Angelou (1928–2014) – Poet and author, died at 86 (not 90s, but close). • Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) – Science fiction author, died at 72 (not 90s).

Business & Other Notables • David Rockefeller (1915–2017) – Banker/philanthropist, died at 101. • John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) – Oil magnate, died at 97. • Iris Apfel (1921–2024) – Fashion icon, died at 102.
by nullc | 2025-08-31 14:39:02+00:00
It's pretty straight forward to use a normal checksum to correct single or even more bit errors (depending on the block size, choice of checksum, etc). Though I expect those bit errors are bus/ram, and hopefully usually transient. If there is corruption on the media, the whole block is usually going to be lost because any corruptions means that its internal block level FEC has more errors than it can fix.

I was more thinking along the lines of adding dozens or hundreds of correction blocks to a whole file, along the lines of par (though there are much faster techniques now).
by ylk | 2025-08-31 14:39:22+00:00
> Android 16 no longer provides device trees for Pixels as part of the Android Open Source Project. It's important to note it doesn't provide those for any other devices. There are no other OEMs providing similar AOSP support. [...]

by strcat, Graphene OS founder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679100
by _aavaa_ | 2025-08-31 14:39:26+00:00
Ridiculous argument.

You didn’t buy a physical book, you bought the paper, but the words are owned and licensed by the publisher.

You will need their permission to read it under an approved light, to sell it again, and even it lend it.

Wrapping the bs in a thin veneer or “software” doesn’t magically make it okay.
by user3939382 | 2025-08-31 14:39:39+00:00
I read VM and immediately took it to be very adjacent to sandboxing. The article says “isolation”. To me there was neither ambiguity nor a lack of detail.

The problem is the author’s point is obvious and solution imperfect. Okay you’re in a sandbox at the OS or let’s even say hardware level. Whoops the agent found AWS CLI with IAM not setup right. The remote boundaries are at least as complex though not unique to automated agents. I don’t see any new insights. The terminology was not the issue.
by pedropsb | 2025-08-31 14:41:25+00:00
There is a great book from brazilian writer Guimaraes Rosa which explores both "unusual" way of speaking portuguese and the role of chapters (by not having them over its >500 pages!).

The book is "Grande Sertão Veredas" (it has an ongoing translation to english which is going on for over 10+ years). Rosa is an educated diplomat, and he choose to explore the culture, language, landscapes and subjectivness of the place he grew, in some rural area of a small city in Minas Gerais.

At the beginning both "features" usually cause some frustration. It is really hard to understand some expressions or know who is speaking, or if its just a thought, or even when or where something is happening. And that goes on in an never ending continuum.

Nevertheless, if you keep going, you're rewarded with a incredible immersive experience. The unusual and becomes playful, the continum becomes the flown of a river (the Sao Francisco river!). And on top of all that, an epic sertanejo's Fausto slowly unfolds towards one of the best endings of brazilian literature.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-31 14:41:54+00:00
> It became obvious how few people actually respected her as a leader. They installed her as a generic “woman of color” because it made them feel good and like they were achieving a milestone in the “arc of history.”

Yes, obviously she didn't get there because of merit... unbelievable this exchange.

So your main point is that Harris, who was in the spot to become president for all of four years if something happened to Biden, was only there as a generic woman of color? This is in a way a worse insult than if it had been just jealousy. Do you honestly believe that the slob you voted for is there on merit? And never mind his sidekick? Harris has more merit than either of those two grifters combined.

For your sake I hope that one day you're going to snap out of the groove that you are in. But by the looks of it the more likely end game is that you will dig yourself in further and further until there really is no way back.

Just for a 10 minute exercise: imagine you are wrong about all this and that in a decade you look back at the end result. Then realize that there is such a thing as minimization of regret and that this radicalization path that you - as you admitted yourself - are on does not offer any outs other than ever more convoluted rationalizations which your original self from just a few years ago would have been horrified at. The reason I keep talking to you is because I hope that somewhere in there the guy that we knew before he went off into the woods is still there and is still able to use common sense instead of the sense that words on paper matter more than people. Probably I'm the idiot though and I should just give up on you.
by latchkey | 2025-08-31 14:42:17+00:00
He says one thing that isn't true. He blames Apple for standardizing the concept of not being able to install applications on your "computer" (phone).

This was the case long before Apple, and started at the carrier telco's. Apple was the one who wrestled the control of the app store from the telco's, who were even worse!

Myself and a buddy built cool fun a bartender app (recipes for alcohol drinks) for the Danger Hiptop. It was rejected by the telco (t-mobile) because they were afraid of lawsuits due to the 21+ nature of the app. We never really got a formal rejection notice, they just stopped responding to us. It was also one of those things where you had to build the app first, submit it (to Danger, who then presented it to the telco), take the risk on everything yourself, and then get silently rejected. What a mess.
by fluidcruft | 2025-08-31 14:42:44+00:00
If Apple made iOS more customizable (i.e. replacing launchers etc) I wouldn't see a reason to keep with Android. I certainly don't see any reason to replace my Pixel with another Pixel at this point (been fiercely loyal to the Nexus/Pixel line since Nexus S).

Hostility is hostility, and when limited to choosing among devices that are a pain in my ass, Pixel no longer has any advantage. Google is converting Pixel into leverage for the rest of their products. Bye.
by underlipton | 2025-08-31 14:42:51+00:00
This is why recruitment as it exists now is a farce. If everything is ultimately vibes-based, there's no point in portraying the process as objective. I'd say that it's even a sort of fraud to do so.

Set base credentials, lottery of everyone who passes the post, full hire or fire after a short (1 month, at most) probationary period where vibes are considered. There's no reason to go through rounds and rounds of interviews over months. It's a waste of everyone's time. Unless your criteria are completely compromised, you'll find someone within a few tries.
by shaky-carrousel | 2025-08-31 14:43:12+00:00
It is, if your objective is to closely centralize the web. If you make https mandatory, via scare tactics, only people with certificates will have websites. If you make ephemeral certificates mandatory by taking advantage of a monopoly, then only big SSL providers who can afford it will survive.

Then, when you have only two or three big SSL providers, it's way easier to shut someone off by denying them a certificate, and see their site vanish in mere weeks.
by Bender | 2025-08-31 14:43:14+00:00
As for "far right extremists" seriously, just stop the gas lighting. None of these unhinged people on the left or right could lead a military action if their life depended on it. Years prior to j6 militias were planning to show up, most did not. There were journalists embedded in every one of the militia groups. All their planning was in the open for years. The one group that did show up was spotted instantly. There were several thousand guard troops ready to fold the militia members but the guard troops were forced by members of congress to go sit and ultimately sleep in the parking garage during winter in very cold weather and missed Christmas with their families. This was all a purely political stunt by both sides. Shame on every one of politicians and journalists. The real victims were all members of the national guard and the hundreds of non-violent people that were held without charges for years.

People have caught on to the NGO's leaving pallets of bricks in protest locations and manipulating college kids into throwing them and ruining their career opportunities. My prediction is that at worst, NGO's will use social media and AI to target people on brain altering compounds to wind them up until they snap. They all write psychotic manifesto ramblings that get memory-holed. Then they all mysteriously end up with the same styles of weapons and white wax markers to mark up the weapons they somehow managed to acquire despite having a well documented and troubled past. In most cases they take out people in their own community and as awful as that is, that is not a civil war. That is tragic chaos and mayhem against innocent bystanders and it needs to stop. OSINT need to shift their focus onto these incidents to find the funding sources since apparently nobody else can do it. The federal government should seize the funding sources and distribute it to the victim families.
by SahAssar | 2025-08-31 14:43:16+00:00
The cert you mention is this one, right? https://crt.sh/?id=18844641499

Seems like they use cloudflare as their DNS provider, which uses Google as their cert provider and this has happened before with them. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452307 where I got into the same discussion but where it was due to porkbun using cloudflare as their DNS backend.

I would not treat this as TLS being untrustworthy, I would treat it as cloudflare issuing certs for you even if you just want to use their DNS (and not their WAF or other products).
by aaronmdjones | 2025-08-31 14:44:12+00:00
The venn diagram of "people who want a modern copy-on-write filesystem with snapshots to manage large quantities of data" and "people who want a massive pool of fault-tolerant storage" (e.g. building a NAS) has some pretty significant overlap.

The latter is where BTRFS is still hobbled: While the RAID-0, RAID-1, & RAID-10 modes work absolutely fine, the RAID-5 & RAID-6 modes are still broken, with an explicit warning during mkfs time (and in the manpages) that the feature is still experimental and should not be used to hold data that you care about retaining. This has, and continues to, bite people, with terabytes of data loss (backups are important, people!). That then sours them on every other aspect of ever using BTRFS again.
by stavros | 2025-08-31 14:44:18+00:00
I agree with a lot of this, but not with the statement that lots of people are like this. If you plotted the trees for most people, they'd have a few branches, but they'd largely get back to the point after one or two asides. Trump just jumps from topic to topic disjointedly, and then in the end just refers back to the original topic, again disjointedly.

He really isn't anywhere near as coherent as the average person, and I'm not American, so I don't even have a dog in this fight. I've only heard him talk, and I usually can't make out any point at all, which I personally have very rarely encountered with the average person (for the sober ones, at least).
by snfernandez | 2025-08-31 14:44:37+00:00
I was working at MS at the time and actually had access to the source code (my project involved devdiv). I don't remember the exact details, but I opted for not adding any of my "private" knowledge to the post.

I agree with you that I prefer looking at optimized assembly with symbols rather than following code through files (which are usually filled with #ifdefs and macros).
by quotemstr | 2025-08-31 14:45:40+00:00
> Simply that he can use these to try to understand the unfairness he feels.

You're suggesting he deal with unfairness by internalizing it as virtue? That's how to make people who cheer at other people's failures.

> Your anarcho-individualistic development ideas sound good in theory

Thanks for illustrating my point. No project, >3 or <= 3, has ever made any new technology by adopting as a tenet that social agreement inside the project is more important than correctly modeling the world outside it, and you're suggesting I'm using inefficiently agreeable-sounding words to express it.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-31 14:45:44+00:00
China has been making soft power gains for a decade. They are everywhere in Africa. When I went to Macedonia five years ago, there was a giant screen in the main square explaining how their medical cooperation with China was such a boon for the country. China already is a diplomatic giant.

I think American are partially blinded by the crazy negative propaganda against China you see all the time in the US. They significantly underestimate where China stands and overestimate the impact American tariffs can have.
by gtsop | 2025-08-31 14:46:25+00:00
Because there is no ai hype in LSP. AI is literally going through the same phase as early javascript libraries did. An explosion of tools, completely ignoring/bypassing previous accumulated knowledge, solving the wrong problems with the wrong tools.

And this will pile up the bloat stack, similar to js libraries, because new problems will rise from the wrong solutions, requiring even more wrong solutions to be incorporated in the stack.
by edem | 2025-08-31 14:46:47+00:00
I bought a MIDI controller a few weeks ago and it came with a Bitwig license. I told one of my friends (musician, uses Ableton) and he told me that I should learn Ableton and forget about Bitwig. When I asked why he said that Bitwig is very new and it can disappear overnight just like many others before it. He said that the staying power of DAW software is very low. What's your take on this? I really liked Bitwig (much more than Ableton), but I don't want to invest my time into something that's not gonna be around.
by erelong | 2025-08-31 14:46:48+00:00
I've seen multiple posts like this

I still stand by my previous response, which is about flow:

flow happens when your skills meet a sufficient challenge

AI has disrupted this by basically increasing your skills

when you have too many skills but not enough of a challenge, you feel boredom

if you have too much of a challenge and not enough skills, you feel anxiety

so you'd need a bigger challenge to feel like you're in flow if you have increased your skill ability
by sim7c00 | 2025-08-31 14:46:49+00:00
i am just wondering about the store 2fa.

ofc they have the authenticator app, but id personally somehow be more happy if there is not the same company there. i know its not technically an issue, maybe i am just too paranoid.

i mean, is the code for both apps on the same network? i do hope they realize by having apps for both that would make them a prime target if they have anything in the form of control over the apps, which is likely the case unless they do not provide updates in anyway. (even manually installed by users is tricky in light of third party compromises).

this seems as scary as running a CA.

if its 2 separate entities under the hood, then i think its good to mention, and to what degree they are separated, since that greatly reduces this risk.
by raverbashing | 2025-08-31 14:46:52+00:00
My belief in achieving actual quantum computing is going down as noise in qbits goes up

Digital computers were much easier than that. Make it smaller, make a larger number of it, and you're set.

Quantum computers complexity goes up with ~ n^2 (or possibly ~ e^n) where n is the number of qbits

At the same time, things like d-wave might be the most 'quantum' we might get in the practical sense
by crazygringo | 2025-08-31 14:47:27+00:00
> it's on you if you get into something that hurts you.

So if you're a 3 year old child that wanders into a neighbor's yard and drowns, it's on you?

We know young children wander where they're not supposed to go, despite their parents' best efforts to supervise them.

So we do our best to legislate safety regulations when they can be low cost and high reward, like preventing children from falling into pools and drowning. We can't do everything, but when it comes to pool fencing the benefits seem to obviously and greatly outweigh the harms.
by gruez | 2025-08-31 14:47:43+00:00
>to prevent creating digital waste.

Approximately nobody is going to be reprogramming their 8 year old iPhones to "prevent creating digital waste", especially when the CPU is unbearably slow and the batteries are well worn out. Say reprogramming is important for user freedom or whatever, but claiming it's going to make a meaningful difference in reducing e-waste is always going to be a spurious justification.
by lawn | 2025-08-31 14:48:21+00:00
What's with this annoying and false narrative that it's all over for GrapheneOS?

Everything suggests that they will be able to support the new Pixel models.

> We've received the Pixel 10 we ordered and have confirmed it supports unlocking, flashing another verified boot key and locking again.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115102473921005918
by koverstreet | 2025-08-31 14:48:31+00:00
You'd think that, wouldn't you? But there are enough moving parts in the IO stack below the filesystem that we do see bit errors. I don't have enough data to do correlations and tell you likely causes, but they do happen.

I think SSDs are generally worse than spinning rust (especially enterprise grade SCSI kit), the hard drive vendors have been at this a lot longer and SSDs are massively more complicated. From the conversations I've had with SSD vendors, I don't think they've put the some level of effort into making things as bulletproof as possible yet.
by ZenoArrow | 2025-08-31 14:49:17+00:00
> Closest realization of "filesystem as a database" that I know of

More so than BFS?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

"Like its predecessor, OFS (Old Be File System, written by Benoit Schillings - formerly BFS), it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata), with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database."
by ericmcer | 2025-08-31 14:49:28+00:00
We still don't have any 80+ year olds who have been striving for longevity since their 20s. Nutrition labels and ingredient lists on food didn't even exist the 90s. An 80 year old was born into a world of nonstop cigarettes, drinking while pregnant, etc.

So our current obsession with longevity through fitness and nutrition is new and we can't really tell what someone like Bryan Johnson will be like at 80. If he is significantly declined in 20 years despite his rigorous longevity routine then we will know.
by usernamed7 | 2025-08-31 14:51:06+00:00
> You sent 450 applications for one hiring. Very roughly speaking this means you expect the employer to carefully consider 450 applications for their one job opening

I think you misunderstand. I did not apply to the same job 450 times. These were 450 different companies/positions that aligned with my resume.

> I'm just arguing that we cannot expect the employer to carefully consider all these applications. There is no point in being shocked / surprised / whatever by this. The sprayed and prayed applications will not be read carefully. The employer will find whichever shortcut to sift through the pile and will carefully consider only a handful of all these applicants.

Which is exactly why one needs to apply to many jobs. Almost every job on linkedin has had over 100 applicants after it's been up for a few hours. If you just apply to a handful, there's little chance you'll find success.

I didn't mention it before, but a CFO friend of mine is the one who told me to spray & pray because it's what she had to do and encouraged me to do the same. She was initially against doing it herself, but she changed her mind. And she is a C-suite and is someone with a large network.
by diggan | 2025-08-31 14:51:10+00:00
> Although in fairness this was a year ago on GPT 3.5 IIRC

GPT3.5 was impressive at the time, but today's SOTA (like GPT 5 Pro) are almost night-and-difference both in terms of just producing better code for wider range of languages (I mostly do Rust and Clojure, handles those fine now, was awful with 3.5) and more importantly, in terms of following your instructions in user/system prompts, so it's easier to get higher quality code from it now, as long as you can put into words what "higher quality code" means for you.
by motorest | 2025-08-31 14:51:38+00:00
> Which also, at times, means appeasing people even when you are confident that they are wrong because you need their cooperation in the future.

Being unwilling to follow basic QA processes in preparation of a release candidate, and then doubling down by attacking the release engineer with claims the QA process doesn't apply to you because you know better, is something that is far more serious than lacking basic soft skills. It's a fireable offense in most companies.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-31 14:52:25+00:00
The article lists three reasons why 21 is so much harder than 15. Mostly that with 15 most of the required conditional multiplications are multiplications by 1 and the remaining multiplication can be done with cheap shifts because it's a multiplication by a power of 2 modulo 15 (which is one less than a power of two).

But 22 and 24 are in the same boat as 21 here. All three of them require computing only factors that are not one, all three are not one less than a factor of 2. You need slightly more multiplications (and thus more gates) as the numbers get larger, but that only grows linearly. Maybe the conditional multiplications required get slightly more expensive to implement, but I wouldn't expect a 100x cost blowup from that. Error correction is still an issue, potentially making a linear complexity increase quadratic, but qubit counts in quantum computers also increase at an exponential rate
by pfdietz | 2025-08-31 14:52:32+00:00
You're again engaging in the patronizing approach of removing any agency from those involved in these countries. Some mothers there would certainly benefit from access to formula, just as they do in your country. You remove this because you don't consider them able to make choices for themselves. It's the same horrid mindset of the colonialists, seeing the third worlders as primitives "just down from the trees".