MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-08-11 09:04:02+00:00
Yes. Theft explicitly requires "Intent permanently to deprive". Copying things is not theft because the supposed "victim" was never in fact deprived of their thing, not even temporarily.

England has a whole bunch of legislation to prohibit activities that are not theft because it turns out that sometimes we care about other things. TWOC is an example, "Taking Without Owners Consent", because it turns out that it's also very annoying to have people take your car and then drive it somewhere and abandon it for a laugh ("Joy riding"), compared to them say, stealing it to ship abroad, break into parts or just to set it on fire.

Insisting that it's all theft gets us in the same muddle as when we decide that holding up a protest sign is terrorism, or that a billion dollar bribe is speech.
by m0th87 | 2025-08-11 09:04:09+00:00
I work on optimizations like this at work, and yes this is largely correct. But do you have a source on this?

> or (more likely) go into just some special small subsection of it reserved for non-temporal writes only.

I hadn’t heard of this before. It looks like older x86 CPUs may have had a dedicated cache.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-11 09:04:12+00:00
The CG-1800 uses "a high-precision OCXO (oven-controlled crystal oscillator)" https://tascam.com/us/product/cg-1800/ only mention of rubidium is: "An external input connector that supports a 10MHz signal enables the CG-1800 to be connected to a rubidium clock or GPS clock for even higher precision."

On the other hand, Antelope Audio 10MX is a rubidium word clock source: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/10mx/

Surplus rubidium frequency standards are cheap on Ebay: https://www.diyphysics.com/2012/02/14/d-i-y-10-mhz-atomic-cl...
by gametorch | 2025-08-11 09:04:40+00:00
Smart contracts are deprecated all the time and you can even recoup the Solana you posted as rent to upload the smart contract initially.

Think about it this way: 99% of these protocols are DeFi related. In all of those protocols, you ultimately have makers and takers, regardless of whether the protocol is literally an orderbook or an AMM (automated market maker) or something else entirely. The point is, you have two sides: someone making and someone taking. But blockchains, even the fastest ones, are still multiple orders of magnitude slower than TradFi. We're talking milliseconds vs nanoseconds. Remember, there's three orders of magnitude of microseconds between the two also. Anyways, it's basically impossible to update your quotes fast enough as a market maker on a blockchain to not get picked off. It's hard enough to do this in TradFi nanosecond land, let alone on chain. Yes, there are differences. Yes, it's nuanced. But market making on chain is fundamentally very hard and 99.9% of people who try, fail, or they "succeed" but eventually realize they would've made more by just bagholding the collateral they posted to make markets. So the liquidity (market makers) in all of these protocols eventually dries up. At which point the protocol is useless because no taker can come and trade. At which point the protocol is abandoned. At which point, if deployed immutably (this is the only truly trustless way), there's nothing you can do. If NOT deployed immutably, you can just close the program and recoup the money, could be thousands of dollars, you posted as rent to upload it in the first place.
by leosanchez | 2025-08-11 09:05:09+00:00
> All that for what ? So people can order take away in Berlin from a place that's 10 minutes away from them by bike, because they clubbed too hard last night. And the profit finds its way to America (doordash owns Wolt).

But at least people are getting paid right? The alternative is people staying in their hometown and not making any money.
by pnt12 | 2025-08-11 09:05:33+00:00
OK turns out it was not a summary, just a preview paragraph that mixed headers and text from the original, leading to strange casing and reading. I'd suggest not to include headers there or distinguish them!

Example (had to search on kagi with site:minifeed.net):

You Can Either Steal Great Developers or Farm Them To grow software development teams, you can either steal excellent developers or you can develop them internally.
by tpm | 2025-08-11 09:08:21+00:00
In France, the policies are measurably motivating having more children according to some studies (can't link them right now). The effect size is on the order of +0.3 to the TFR rate or something like that.

The are many programs like this all over the world; the issue with them is they don't give out enough money/resources to have a measurable positive effect - they should be much much more funded. Incidentally the biggest baby boom in my country (Slovakia) was during the largest buildout of cheap accomodation for young families in the history, also the maternity leave was increased to 3 years and there were various subsidies. So I think policies like that work if they are properly funded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hus%C3%A1k%27s_Children
by dazc | 2025-08-11 09:08:21+00:00
Musk is part owner of Tesla, I wasn't aware he also had connections with Audi, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, and all the other premium brands which have also seen a steep decline in sales in Europe and the UK?

Don' be fooled by your media of choice, sentiment towards Musk in the UK outside of a very niche crowd is mostly neutral.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-11 09:08:27+00:00
I don't think so? I'll state it again - temporary and authoritarian are orthogonal. Attempting to claim that the lack of permanence demonstrates that the measures weren't authoritarian thus my claim that the two concepts are orthogonal is incorrect is begging the question (at absolute minimum).

Naturally I never claimed that a dictator was attempting to take over. Merely posited that staunch resistance to such measures as a matter of principle is probably not a bad thing for society on the whole.
by TheCapeGreek | 2025-08-11 09:10:26+00:00
Agreed, it feels risky to just be associated these days, even if it's "adjacent" groups that explicitly don't want to be part of the "mechanical" side of improving social skills like "classical" PUA.

But, no way to change that in public perception without taking risks and being open about it.

So, if you're an HN reader, not wanting to be branded as a PUA but still want to find help socially (especially romantically), my two cents is look into the Ars Amorata community.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-08-11 09:10:39+00:00
I do. It Just Works(tm), has never given me any issue, and it gives me a space to have my personal files my own way. My Google Drive is full of files and folders shared by others so not sure I would be able to organize it without making a mess. And OneDrive just doesn't work, half the time I want a file I don't have stored locally I am faced with obscure errors and have to fight the software for a while.
by cyprien_g | 2025-08-11 09:10:42+00:00
I live a 2-hour drive from this, so I have driven on it several times. It's very impressive and always a nice part of the journey.

And it's not only beautiful, it's also very useful. Before it was built, you had to go through small roads and villages, which, in addition to taking more time, was not very comfortable for the people living there.
by wetbaby | 2025-08-11 09:10:43+00:00
I've tried lutris and bottles and stuck with bottles.

My experience with getting battle.net on lutris was miserable. After staring at the UI trying to add battle.net I was informed to go to a site, pull back a script on there and I had no indication of what it was doing to my machine.

However, bottles ships with scripts to set it up for you. I created a bottle in the location I wanted, installed battle.net and logged in and it worked.

Its not without problems, if I accidentally start battle.net twice, my CPU utilisation shoots up to 100% and is stuck there until I kill the bogus bottles process.

There's also a problem of the battle.net bottle bricking itself completely (I have to move the game files out, delete all bottles configs and recreate the bottle) if I change the runner.

Whether these issues are bottles fault or not I can't say.

But concept of what a 'bottle' is is easy to understand. The configuration is very rich and works well. I pick a pick a directory, pick a runner, install what I want, enable mangohud and I'm golden.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-11 09:10:59+00:00
Humanity rarely ventures out to the fringes on its own anyway. Only the committed freaks out there between the creation of experimental jazz and the mainstreaming of LLMs.

The more it changes, the more it stays the same.

As a sibling commenter said in fewer words: the models will still consume the fringe content and will be able to regurgitate it given the right prompt; suggesting experimental jazz or whatever other fringe art pursuit the committed freaks have an itch for.

I'll still slowly progress may way through John Zorn's catalogue, and occasionally re-invigorate my appreciation for HR Giger's bleak works, and keep listening (and subscribing) to the local community radio station, and seeking out uncomfortable movies, safe in the knowledge that likely I'll be watching, listening, and appreciating them all in solitude.

I do not think that "culture" can be forced, it must be slowly, almost imperceptibly, absorbed.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-11 09:11:05+00:00
In general the tooling sucks, which is kind of strange given how relevant COM is on Windows, even moreso since Windows Vista.

It seems the Windows team is against having something like VB 6, Delphi, C++ Builder, .NET Framework, MFC, approaches to COM tooling, just out of principle.

Thus we end up with low level clunky code, with endless calls to specific API like QueryInferface(), manually written boilderplate code, and with the IDL tools, manually merging generated code, because they were not designed to take into account existing code.
by mojo74 | 2025-08-11 09:11:13+00:00
I liked it. It was strangely hypnotic viewing. Travis Himmel looked like he was stoned in it (his acting style?) and the plain weirdness of it reminded me of old Heavy Metal comics of the seventies. The nearest I have had to that was reading the Prophet series. Themes of religion and general human weirdness https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/prophet
by gambiting | 2025-08-11 09:11:27+00:00
Depends where you live. Where I'm from $240k would buy you a really nice house with lots of land, and you'd have money left over.

>>won’t likely change your life. Maybe you could put a down payment on a house or pay for your kids college tho but it not the freedom I thought it would be

How is being able to put a down paymenent on a house or being able to send your kids to collage debt-free not life changing?
by sgjohnson | 2025-08-11 09:12:08+00:00
Depends on where in the world you are. I wouldn't call $250k life-changing-money anywhere developed.

It's "I can probably stop worrying about money for a while" kind of money, not "life-changing" money. Not a whole lot you can buy for $250k. After taxes, that probably doesn't even buy a house.
by jve | 2025-08-11 09:12:16+00:00
So someone found a way to exploit Chrome. Should Google now cash you out some dividends they got from Ads, YouTube, GCP, Pixel, Android and Waymo so they can really feel that it costs them an arm and a leg?

Suddenly incentives are there to apply as a Chrome developer is more lucrative than CxO position because one can produce bugs for friends to find.
by skrebbel | 2025-08-11 09:12:43+00:00
I do. Google Drive is not an option to me because I don't trust Google at all, ie when some Google robot decides to lock me out of my account for unspecified reasons, I can't talk to a human to resolve it etc. The idea of putting anything important to me life in Google's hands scares me, so I try not to.

I have mail with Fastmail for similar reasons.

I guess I could be using Syncthing or the myriad of other competitors as well, but Dropbox still Just Works, and has for a long time. They've not enshittified their product as much as one might expect, so I remain a paying customer.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-11 09:13:06+00:00
Enjoyed 20GB for free for some years thanks to a deal with Samsung when I bought a phone. Once that expired it was free 5GB or 1TB, with the 1TB being way too expensive in my view. So rather than paying them a little I paid them none.

Due to other reasons I ended up paying for a family subscription to Office 365, and after that there was zero point in paying the same for just storage with Dropbox.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-11 09:13:19+00:00
> The Parliament acts as a co-legislator with equal legislative power in this process

I think that's misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, only the Council can propose legislation, while the Parliament can only accept or reject the Council's proposals [1]. Meaning that the Parliament can neither change nor reverse course - it is completely decided by the Council. All the Parliament can do is limit how fast that course is followed.

Edit: Sorry, what I wrote about the "Council" should have been about the "EU Commission" instead. The Council may in fact have equal power, as you wrote.

[1] Which I think (but was unable to explicitly confirm) extends to removing old legislation. I.e. the Council only has to get its way once, and then we're stuck with a law, unless the Council proposes to remove it. A ratchet.
by msl | 2025-08-11 09:13:22+00:00
That seems weird. I would expect optimizer to be able to do anything a rapid fire joystick could, so if the simulation code could be tricked that way, should it not have become apparent during the brute forcing? The other option is, of course, that you exploited a problem with the input handling instead. But then, the result presumably could not be stored in a replay file, right? Otherwise, again, the optimizer could have found it, after all. Were you able to replay those huge jumps?
by sublinear | 2025-08-11 09:13:23+00:00
I lost 130 pounds over the course of 2 years in my late 20s by skipping lunch every other day and entirely skipping breakfast. I also started tracking my calories and macros.

I don't know what to call that, but it worked and it changed my relationship with food forever (in a good way). I have since kept the weight off and switched back to eating 3 meals a day with a better understanding of how much and of what to eat.

Eat a lot more protein and way less carbs. Most meats already have the right balance of fat included, so avoid adding more. Fill up on fibrous vegetables since they don't really count towards calories and help digest all the meat you'll be eating. Drink plenty of water, sleep well, and at least hit your daily steps and heart rate targets if you're not huge on exercise. Building muscle is a good idea, but I'm lucky I've never had a problem with that and just needed to lose the body fat.

I'm now in my mid 30s and have a clean bill of health. When I was heavier I was prediabetic and my resting heart rate was 85. Now it's about 65 and blood sugar is good and doesn't spike or stay elevated all day anymore. It's good to get this stuff on track when you're still youngish.

Oh also I stopped the intermittent fasting because it was messing with my blood sugar. That was why I wrote all this and it's my argument against it.
by TheCapeGreek | 2025-08-11 09:13:38+00:00
Fake it till you make it.

"Be yourself" is not wrong, but it's not specific enough.

You can be perfectly authentic, but that doesn't mean being socially uncalibrated.

Get good at being sociable, then blend that with your personal tastes and preferences.

I thought "be yourself" was fine until I grew up and learned I was just being rude to most people and called myself introverted when I didn't make friends.
by b112 | 2025-08-11 09:13:50+00:00
Yes but in Debian this was not a default until now.

Before, /tmp was wiped on reboot. /var/tmp was not.

Neither were cleaned otherwise.

So for Debian, this is a systemd thing. And it was pushed by a systemd maintainer, who is also a Debian developer.

I have zero interest in Debian "being brought inline" with other distros, because other distros should be coming inline with Debian.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-08-11 09:14:15+00:00
Oh I see, I thought you were quoting https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity"

Which shows that LLMs, when given to devs who are inexperienced with LLMs but are very experienced with the code they're working on, don't provide a speedup even though it feels like it.

Which is of course a very constrained scenario. IME the LLM speedup is mostly in greenfield projects using APIs and libraries you're not very experienced with.
by bradley13 | 2025-08-11 09:14:31+00:00
I would like to see some legal and regulatory steps. When we purchased our Ioniq, there was no agreement for data sharing, etc. - we have basically a cash register receipt, nothing more.

Whenever there is a major update, an insanely long T&A appears on the screen. No one is going to read it. The only options are "accept" or clicking it away. If you click it away, it comes back the next day. It cannot possibly be legal for them to basically force T&A - a one-sided contract change - on customers.
by hau | 2025-08-11 09:14:42+00:00
What really matters is the society where we want to live in. It doesn't matter much what kind of technology allows private entities to reproduce creativity. We can assume these brains are not virtual and are actually organic and more capable than human ones, or that they are magical black boxes.

Since it changes incentives and mechanics of the creativity market so much it forces us to reassess current approaches. I can't agree that mechanism behind this tech and the approach to IP is of any consequence. We don't make laws, norms and judgements for the sake of our tools.

It's ok to say that we're not ready to arrange things in a proper way yet, without letting everything slide on some arbitrary technicality.
by tpm | 2025-08-11 09:14:47+00:00
> TBH need someone to attempt very illiberal effort to make babies because every pro maternity policy has failed to bring TFR > replacement. At this point it should be abundantly clear that short of religion, carrot policies cannot reward their way to 2.1+ TFR. Or I guess embrace immigration.

Frankly this is a wrong take. For one the TFR of religious countries is also trending downward and below replacement. Immigration is a zero-sum game that won't help for long term.

And the issue is carrot policies just don't give out enough carrots (do the math and you'll see that easily). A really generous family support that makes having children wortwhile compared to the alternatives will have the desired result.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-11 09:15:47+00:00
That's one of the things I find most interesting when it comes to LLMs, a depressingly large proportion of the population seems to enjoy interacting with a deranged sycophant who treats all of their ideas and comments as a stroke of genius. Every time I read a response like "[you're right] [you're smart] [more than others]" to the most obvious observation it makes me squirm with discomfort. Especially when I just pointed out a grave error in LLM's reasoning.

My suspicion is that it's a reflection of how people like Altman want to be treated. As an European who worked with US companies, my experience with work communication there can only be summed up as being heavily biased towards toxic positivity. Take that up another 3 egotistical notches for CEOs and you get the ChatGPT tone.
by mettamage | 2025-08-11 09:15:51+00:00
> Is your government opposing? → Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.

Just putted it here, for easier reading.
by Yokolos | 2025-08-11 09:16:37+00:00
I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.

As for Al Jazeera crying that their journalists keep getting targeted, I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted, when other news media like BBC are more than happy to paint Israel in a terrible light (whether deserved or not).
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-11 09:17:31+00:00
Situation in Gaza is horrible. But to be fair UN was kind of a joke for many years (from Srebrenica ethnical cleansing facilitated by UNPROFOR in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutchbat#Events trigger warning to how they made Iran chair human rights council recently https://www.reuters.com/world/irans-appointment-chair-un-rig...)
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-11 09:17:31+00:00
> Surely Rust can infer the type in your example?

Well in Rust code like this:

pass_action.colors[0] = sg::ColorAttachmentAction { load_action: sg::LoadAction::Clear, clear_value: sg::Color { r: 0.25, g: 0.5, b: 0.75, a: 1.0 }, ..Default::default() };

...I cannot write:

pass_action.colors[0] = { load_action: sg::LoadAction::Clear, clear_value: { r: 0.25, g: 0.5, b: 0.75, a: 1.0 }, ..Default::default() };

...even though the Rust compiler has all the type information it needs (from the 'left-hand-side').

For comparison, in Zig it would look like this:

pass_action.colors[0] = .{ .load_action = .Clear, .clear_value = .{ .r=0.25, .g=0.5, .b=0.75, .a=1.0 }, };

...Zig is still only halfway there compared to C99 (e.g. Zig doesn't allow designator chaining and is much less flexible for initializing nested arrays - in those areas it's closer to Rust than C).
by lexandstuff | 2025-08-11 09:17:33+00:00
I had a look at another student's diploma certification, and it says:

> "... having registered with the University of London and passed the approved examinations conducted by Goldsmiths College, has this day been admitted by the University of London to the Degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE".

So I don't think it would be unreasonable to mention Goldsmith's College alongside UoL as your education history.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-11 09:17:45+00:00
> I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.

This.

And never forget there was an Al Jazeera journalist who worked for Hamas government and was found with hostages in his home https://nypost.com/2024/06/09/world-news/gaza-journalist-hel...

There is an interview with one of the victims out there, the Russian guy.

Israel's mainstream media is of course as sus as Jazeera when it comes to war coverage however there is hebrew language media that publishes lots of stuff that goes against governments line
by rickandmorty99 | 2025-08-11 09:18:10+00:00
> But, no way to change that in public perception without taking risks and being open about it.

Yea, I can't take it. I've fixed my dating life but I'm not a charismatic leader by any stretch of the imagination. I've taken multiple stabs in Reddit threads but there is just no good faith discussion to be had. I've also tried it a bit on HN. On HN it's also very dicey.

> So, if you're an HN reader, not wanting to be branded as a PUA but still want to find help socially (especially romantically), my two cents is look into the Ars Amorata community.

Interesting, will check it out. I don't need help by the way. I'm married. And for social skills that I'm still lacking, I know where to go. Unfortunately, not all social skills in dating transfer well to work social skills.

Edit: just checked it out. Good to see Zan is still doing his thing. I remember him "I love women". He definitely influenced me with that quote back in the day.