MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonjayr | 2025-08-07 05:02:01+00:00
While that is true for modern browsers, some backend http client libraries will follow the redirects. So; if you have a system that given an URL that fetches + displays the content, and you use a service that issues redirects to things like the AWS metadata service, or file:///etc/passwd --- well, the backend library is gonna redirect to the bad place, if it only checks the initially submitted url.
by al_borland | 2025-08-07 05:02:03+00:00
Maybe. It’s definitely easier to grind early in the career vs later in a career.

It’s also nice having the freedom to choose your grid. When I was grinding pretty hard (60-100 hour weeks), it wasn’t driven by my boss at all. My boss actually didn’t talk to me for 2 years during most of this.

Some time after that my boss told me my team was so far ahead I could take 3 months off to backpack through Europe. I didn’t do it, but he was actively encouraging it. This was all from that self driven grind, looking for gaps and opportunities and addressing them. Not every company offers this level of autonomy, but if they do, take it.

These days all my work is driven by management. The priorities change every week… sometimes every day. It’s much higher paced, much more stressful, and it sucks. We actually get less done, because we waste so much time trying to figure out what is actually important. Be careful what you wish for.
by a_tessellator | 2025-08-07 05:02:09+00:00
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by rakeshb03 | 2025-08-07 05:04:47+00:00
Thanks for sharing your perspective—that’s a completely reasonable approach, especially for a daily workhorse setup like yours.

Wayland is slowly becoming more mature across major desktop environments, but you're right to be cautious. In Debian 13 (Trixie), Wayland is the default session for GNOME, and the experience has definitely improved compared to earlier releases. That said, X11 is still available and officially supported, so you’re not forced to switch.

A few practical updates:

Firefox, Chromium, and most GTK4 apps now run well under Wayland.

NVIDIA proprietary driver support under Wayland has improved, though still not flawless—especially with multiple monitors or screen recording.

Screen sharing on Wayland is finally usable in tools like OBS and Zoom with PipeWire.

Some DEs like KDE Plasma 6 (not in Debian 13 by default) have arguably reached parity, but GNOME on Wayland in Debian 13 is getting very close for many workflows.

If you don’t rely on niche legacy apps or certain X-based workflows (like manual xrandr configurations or very custom keybind setups), you could try Wayland on a secondary user session just to test it out.

But to answer your question directly: it’s not bleeding edge anymore, but maybe not quite “boring stable” either, depending on your hardware and use case. I'd say Debian 14 might be the milestone where it's ready for everyone by default without any caveats.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-07 05:04:57+00:00
> I think one possible reason is that the Qin Dynasty really managed to assimilate everyone into the same shared values, religion, language, writing, and so on. Other empires didn't succeed to that level

Qin conquered the other Chinese states and the ensuing dynasty flamed out immediately. The work of creating an empire was done by the following Han dynasty.

> There's even a famous quote for this: "what is long divided must unite, what is long united must divide"

分久必合，合久必分

https://ctext.org/sanguo-yanyi/ch1

Often given as "the empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide", but your translation is much closer to the text, which doesn't mention empires except in that it follows this statement ["They say that across the course of history, what has long been divided must unite, and what has long been united must divide"] with a discussion of Chinese governments schisming and unifying.
by illiac786 | 2025-08-07 05:05:00+00:00
The data is misleading at best, probably manipulated. Let’s not forget the data is from DB itself.

As an example, in 2018, the then boss of infra at DB, Ronald Pofalla introduced the “Pofalla Wende”, whereby a commuting train between two cities will simply turn around and not serve the rest of the line if it has a certain delay. In itself, one could argue it can make sense under certain circumstances. But all remaining stations on the line are not counted as delays, even if there is not replacement train.

Same with cancellations, these don’t show up as delays.

The situation is significantly more dire than what this data shows.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-07 05:05:22+00:00
Maybe I'm especially daft this morning but I don't get the point of the speculative decoding.

How does the target model validate the draft tokens without running the inference as normal?

Because if it is doing just that, I don't get the point as you can't trust the draft tokens before they are validated, so you're still stuck waiting for the target model.
by joquarky | 2025-08-07 05:06:12+00:00
You can create any arbitrary tag for an element and it will be treated like a span until you define its appearance with CSS.

Features { display: block; padding-left: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; } Feature { display: list-item; }

Technically, you're supposed to add a dash to a custom element to avoid namespace issues with potentially new elements, but that's probably an easy search and replace if it ever happens.

This comes in very handy with XML.
by havercosine | 2025-08-07 05:06:18+00:00
Bifrost is the fastest LLM gateway on the market. Built in Go with careful garbage collection, it adds just about 11 microseconds of overhead at 5,000 requests per second (with 4,100 RPS throughput) on a t3.xlarge instance.

The benchmarks are here: https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/blob/main/docs/benchmarks...

Some features: • Built-in governance and routing rules • Supports over 1,000 models from different providers • MCP gateway included (HTTP, SSE, and console transport) • Out-of-the-box observability and OTel-compatible metrics
by Aurornis | 2025-08-07 05:06:31+00:00
> I don't get this gloom and doom about MOOCs.

> A substantial amount of people have transformed their lives by learning from MOOCs.

MOOCs are great and I agree: A lot of people have benefited.

The only disappointment is relative to the impossible hype cycle that was happening when MOOCs first entered the scene. You couldn’t open a MOOC relayed article or thread without some speculation that this would be the death of expensive university educations. That obviously didn’t happen, but MOOCs have been quite valuable on their own when well executed.

The primary disappointment I’ve seen is the half-baked courses that have been put out there. The first MOOC I tried was great and well run. The next two or three felt like they assigned some undergrad student a make-work project to put some old course materials on a website but they left out key parts. I remember it almost felt intentional, like someone didn’t want to put too much of the material online or the professor had objected to sharing their materials. They just wanted to say they got in on the MOOC train.

The later generation of courses that were made for the Internet were far better executed, of course, but they weren’t as plentiful and widespread as the hype predicted.
by clickety_clack | 2025-08-07 05:07:51+00:00
You’re missing what I’m saying. I’m not commenting at all on their usefulness. I’m saying that the motivating factors that build and grow institutions are short term. Institutions last because people happen to find them useful over successive short time horizons, or they’re able to change them to suit the needs of the time. There’s no super long term planning in it, some happened to have the right combination of elements and some didn’t.
by nxobject | 2025-08-07 05:08:10+00:00
Re: Apple Symbols – the symbols aren't _too_ anachronistic: the font dates from Panther (10.3), which ran on all New World Macs (IIRC) – and indeed the B&W Power Mac G3 did have ADB (the "branch" icon at location (2, 2)), external SCSI (the icon at (10, 2)); while the "Lombard" PowerBook G3 had a reset interrupt switch (icon at (6, 7).

That being said, if you know why there are icons for the "programmer's switch" icon (6, 6) and LocalTalk (at (2, 8)), which died out with the Old World Macs, send answers on a postcard...
by 9rx | 2025-08-07 05:08:13+00:00
> if you are taking some pretty wild speculation as a reasoned explanation.

How the heck did you manage to conflate line of reasoning with claims being made?

> There isn't much hope for you.

And fall for the ad hominem fallacy.

> crazy arguments that somehow everything Trump does is the fault of the Democrats

While inventing some weird diatribe about crazy arguments claiming Democrats being at fault for what Trump does, bearing no resemblance to anything else in the discussion.

> They are crazy on the face of it.

As well as introducing some kind of nebulous legion of unidentified "crazy" straw men.

> that doesn't make sense

Couldn't have said it better myself.

> Maybe if people had to clarify their positions

Sad part is that asking for clarification on the position of that earlier comment would have been quite reasonable. There is potentially a lot we can learn from in the missing details. If only you had taken the two extra seconds to understand the comment before replying.
by jlaternman | 2025-08-07 05:08:26+00:00
I like that term much better, confabulation. I’ve come to think of it as it relies on an inherent trust in the fact that whatever process it uses to produce a coherent response (which I don’t think the LLM can really analyze after the fact) is inherently a truth-making process, since it trusts inherently its training data and considers that the basis of all its responses. Something along those lines. We might do something similar at times as humans, it feels similar to how some people get trapped in lies and almost equate what they have said as true with having the quality of truth as a result of them having claimed it as true (pathological liars can demonstrate this kind of thinking).
by Copenjin | 2025-08-07 05:09:35+00:00
When will people understand that those very opinionated frameworks with enticing tutorials just ruin your life in the long term?

I see someone citing Spring(yikes) elsewhere, that falls in the same category as FastAPI. You don't need Spring most of the times, a simple dependency injection library and small frameworks to handle the web routing or specific features you need are often enough (recent contenders to the throne of default app framework have the same issues).
by musicale | 2025-08-07 05:10:40+00:00
> No, it absolutely could not have

It could have fairly trivially for the vast majority of use cases (no space between print and parenthesis if you want to call the function) but apparently that would have made some python maintainers unhappy. So it was ripped out and a breaking change was introduced with no recourse (not even, say, from __past__ import print_statement or something).

This is part of what I mean by demonstrating tremendous contempt for the user base and for existing code.
by kadoban | 2025-08-07 05:10:48+00:00
> If you got food poisoning from a restaurant, would you recommend it to your friends? After all, food-borne pathogens and poor hygiene are just a fact of life.

There are standard practices that avoid the vast majority of food poisoning. Poor hygiene is not a fact of life, it's a failure of process in a restaurant.

There are no known standard practices to avoid all faulty electronics at anything like a reasonable price. From the sounds of it, this unit worked initially but failed over time. That's what warranties are for, this is why they exist. As a society we've decided that it's kind of okay if _some_ products fail early, as long as the companies make it right when they do. Which it doesn't sound like the company had any lack of intention in doing that here.

There is no corresponding societal understanding for your analogy.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-07 05:10:58+00:00
Is it specific? What he describes is essentially the downfall of every single great Empire that has ever existed or even would exist long after his death. For that matter it even largely describes why a certain Empire without declared borders is in ongoing decline, first in soft power and now in hard.

It's essentially just describing hubris, which those who find themselves in power - particularly power that they themselves did not build, can never seem to escape.
by skeaker | 2025-08-07 05:11:18+00:00
I haven't tried with too many games since the usecase only comes up rarely, but I know that Downwell and UFO 50 work this way off the top of my head. They come with a Steam dll that will try to launch Steam for the sake of getting achievements and such, but if you delete them or just don't have Steam they launch all the same.

Google turns up this Steam curator that lists games that run without Steam and are DRM-free out of the box, though it seems far from comprehensive: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38523697-DRM-FREE-GAM...

The PC Gaming Wiki has a couple of better lists it looks like: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g... and https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_...
by navinsylvester | 2025-08-07 05:11:33+00:00
I subscribed to ultra to give deep think a try but i will not extend it even a day for all the other packaging put together by someone who might be working for a competitor. Who does these things and the fragmentation is crazy as mentioned. Chinese deep agents may be entrenched(just kidding), its crazy that someone up the ladder is so off point and not worry about losing his job.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-07 05:11:35+00:00
Tea app is relatively new.

The Gamergate was the start of it all, where you had a whole bunch of the people adjacent to tech started pushing back hard against things like feminism online, and evolved from there. Shortly after Trump got elected and the movement grew.

>In EU party lines are a bit different, but nevertheless, the conservatives are the ones that are pushing this

The point is that whomever is pushing it is basically anti conservative in the sense of personal liberties, but conservative populace ends up electing those people because they are so vehemently anti liberal that they are blind to the actual reality.
by cyberax | 2025-08-07 05:12:07+00:00
Here's the chart of Tokyo real estate prices: https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/asia/japan/home-price-tr...

All while just 3 hours away by car, beautiful houses are crumbling into dust. You literally can get them for the price of the land tax, and there are even companies that specialize in finding them.

Any questions?
by cyberax | 2025-08-07 05:12:24+00:00
1. These cities with ~100k population _are_ basically in rural areas. My prototypical example: Bend, OR.

2. You can live in real rural areas without doing agriculture just fine.

> But for your comment, what percentage of the population do you believe qualifies for WFH?

There are estimates that go as high as 60% of the working population in the US. During COVID, it went up to 72% but that clearly was not optimal.

> Do you think the population at risk of homelessness does? Are we going to see WFH hotel check in desks, restaurant servers, and other manual work soon?

These service jobs can also work in smaller cities. The _only_ way to solve the housing problem is by creating _more_ of these smaller cities or by increasing the size of existing cities by a bit. There's no harm if a 50k city becomes 100k by adding a couple of suburbs. And this provides plenty of population to need baristas, waiters, hair stylists, etc.

I'm very anti-urbanist and I'd like to see abominations like NYC to be demolished, just like we did with polluting factories. But there's always going to be a need for central places for services and businesses, and it's fine as long as they do not start growing uncontrollably.
by brian-armstrong | 2025-08-07 05:12:30+00:00
> By March 1989, however, Hugh Barnes—now Compaq’s vice president of engineering—started to notice that Intel’s best chip people were being reassigned to other teams. Some quiet investigation revealed the cause. Sun Microsystems, one of Intel’s rivals, had announced chips based on a new design approach called reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC). For Intel, this presented a threat to its higher-end, large computer and mainframe markets. It was now shifting to focus on that threat instead.

> At a hotel room in Silicon Valley, in April 1989, Canion and Gates met with Andy Grove and Intel chair Gordon Moore to try to persuade them to stick with 486 development. After considerable back and forth, Intel reversed course. The new chip launched in late 1989.

Could this be the moment that forever saddled us (and Intel) with the cumbersome legacy of x86? It seems like a great cultural win for PCs in the moment, but in hindsight this decision almost feels backwards somehow.
by mullingitover | 2025-08-07 05:13:02+00:00
They should all take the buyout.

From what I’ve heard, the shell of Windsurf was purchased for their certifications. So all the staff except a single digit few (the ones who do the compliance certification work) will probably be laid off in the not-too-distant future, regardless of whether they take the buyout.

So everyone should take the it, rather than get worked to death and then unceremoniously RIF’d in a months.
by dboreham | 2025-08-07 05:13:39+00:00
Quick note that this isn't true. 8-bit CPUs are newer than 36-bit CPUs, and 8-bit bytes were established long before 8-bit CPUs came on the scene. Prior to the mid-70s most machines were word-addressed. The adoption of byte addressing (the subject of the grandparent) gained traction after C and similar languages became popular. C was developed on the pdp-11 which supported byte addressing and it provided a compatible memory model: any pointer value could be de-referenced to a byte. The VAX followed, also with byte addressing and by 1980 you couldn't sell a CPU that didn't support byte addressing (because C wouldn't work with it). 8-bit CPUs had nothing to do with any of this.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-07 05:14:02+00:00
> He has no problem with any of the languages including Finnish but she's still convinced that she needs to force it on him before he's an adult so that he can... well, I'm not sure why.

Seeing your kid speak your native language is a delight regardless of the circumstances.

In the end, all cultures in existence are very sticky and want to survive and replicate. The ones that don't didn't make it into the modern age.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-07 05:14:07+00:00
> Apple’s announcement should be welcomed as a tangible demonstration of corporate accountability in the age of…

They brought a 24k gold trophy for the president. That’s the tangible demonstration here.

> This is not PR fluff. > Critics may argue Apple is acting in self-interest.

This is PR fluff and, as a critic, I don’t think it’s in anyone’s best interest.

> This is a large, measurable, and multi-year commitment. It should be acknowledged as such.

How does this compare to the large measurable multi year commitments from the last few administrations that never materialized? What about the one from a few months ago the ago?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more...
by 8bitsrule | 2025-08-07 05:15:02+00:00
I've most disliked made-up, completely incorrect answers easily proven to be so, followed by GPT-grovelling when contradicted with the facts, promises to 'learn' and 'I'll strive to do better'. Time after time over months, the same dodging and weaseling.

A simple 'I don't know, I haven't got access to the answer' would be a great start. People who don't know better are going to swallow those crap answers. For this we need to produce much more electricity?
by pjmlp | 2025-08-07 05:15:36+00:00
IBM might have lost, yet thanks to the way computing has evolved, vertical integration has won in the end.

Going to a computer shop on a random shopping mall, usually only a few gamer PCs are available as composable desktops, 90% of computers on display are laptops.

Servers are mostly designed for companies with racks or hyperscalers.

Most non technical people nowadays only have a smartphone and a tablet as computers, with the integration of all 8 and 16 bit home computers PC compatible were fighting against.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-07 05:16:02+00:00
There were a bunch of MPs at the time who knew that trying to use force against the Colonies was going to be hell. The British Empire wasn't nearly as strong as it was before, and America was huge. Lord North was way too aggressive in trying to reign in the Colonies, and it was this constant blundering that eventually led the colonies to split. So Franklin wasn't alone in warning the Empire of the dangers of entangling themselves in a fight they might lose.
by mjevans | 2025-08-07 05:16:13+00:00
In that timeframe it would by nature need to be capable of full self repair, with the shipped materials and energy, and with no wasted byproducts.

We'd have to completely re-think industrial processes. I'm in favor of realized nanotechnology and 3d printers at an atomic level. Evolution stumbled across carbon based lifeforms as it's answer on Earth.
by OCASMv2 | 2025-08-07 05:16:40+00:00
> Everyone got exposed eventually. Republicans who didn't vaccinate died at a higher rate when they got exposed.

Again, due to differences in risk behavior not limited to anti-covid measures.

> Which was Omicron, and it turned out to be just as deadly. Which completely falsifies your argument that mutation led to less deadly strains.

Not really since there's no mention of the treatment or lack thereof used there. You assume the outcome is due to lack of previous exposure when it can just be poor management.

But hey, at least is nice to see people who admit natural infection confers protection. That wasn't the case during the pandemic.
by zdragnar | 2025-08-07 05:16:40+00:00
You can share things with anyone, even if you're using Google drive with a normal Gmail (non-workspace) Google account.

My drive are files you created / uploaded (and thus count against your space quota) and shared is where things go that have been shared with you by others, or public drive links that you've visited.

Workspace is a shared space private to the company/organization workspace group.
by ruszki | 2025-08-07 05:16:43+00:00
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/g%C3%A9pely

Also there are many cases when a word is just a calque. Like vízfej. I wouldn’t call this a Hungarian word in the strictest sense, because it exists only because of other languages, even when víz and fej are Hungarian words. It clearly comes from German, or maybe Latin, or even Greek.