MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elteto | 2025-08-23 00:31:38+00:00
x86 Thinkpads + Fedora work great. Hardware support out the box is almost perfect (I would say perfect because I don’t recall anything not working, but I may be missing something). In fact, Thinkpads used to have Fedora as an OS option, which is why I think the support is so good.

Outside that maybe something like system 76. They advertise 14h for one of their models.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-23 00:32:10+00:00
Because anti cheat want's to verify that the highest levels of the system are not being tampered with. When contained within a VM it's impossible to tell if some cheating script on the host OS is reading or tampering with the game memory.

Probably the only workable solution is for windows to provide some kind of secure game mode where the game and only the game runs and can have windows attest nothing else is running. But that anti cheat has no access to the data in the real work OS which is currently not running. Ruins multi tasking, but assuming you can switch over fast enough it might not be too bad.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-23 00:32:50+00:00
Oh I’m glad this popped up. I was trying to remember the details of a computer store I remembered visiting with my dad when I was maybe 4 or 5, ‘93-‘94, Chicago.

But as soon as I read it all came back and I’m certain this was it. I tried looking but couldn’t find out: does anyone know if there was an Egghead in Chicago at that time? Based on what I could discern about their stores is that seems likely there would have been one there.
by Scramblejams | 2025-08-23 00:33:35+00:00
Sorry, my writing should have been clearer, I put one too many negatives in. :-)

I didn't claim we should trust the company. Whether we can trust the anticheat maker is certainly part of the rigorous evaluation of the tradeoffs I mentioned. My point was that saying "it doesn't stop cheaters" is both incorrect and stifling to a more productive conversation, because it implies anticheat has no value and is therefore worth no risk.

As for me, if Gabe said "now you can opt your Steam Deck in to a trusted kernel we ship with anticheat and play PUBG," I'd probably do it. But that's because I, for better or worse, tend to trust Gabe. If Tencent were shipping it, I'd probably feel differently.
by mangamadaiyan | 2025-08-23 00:35:37+00:00
> Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI).

When you're dealing with a memory leak in production (yes, they can and do happen), or worse -- if you're dealing with a drop in performance -- good luck with the vibe debugging.

Maybe there will be a time not too far off in the future when the stochastic cockatoos become sentient enough to do all of this by themselves, it's sure as hell not happening tomorrow.

Oh, and logarithmic tables were still a useful thing as late as forty odd years ago :)
by gizajob | 2025-08-23 00:37:20+00:00
Nvidia has a market cap of 4.5 trillion dollars and everyone is committing hundreds of billions to AI CapEx in their direction - they can afford to organise chip fabs if it really came to it. Ok TSMC and ASML would need to be on board but it could be done. Should be done in fact because even a simple SWOT analysis would show the risk to their business.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-23 00:37:36+00:00
The idea is not to just remove things for the sake of removing things, but to engage in a cost-benefit analysis. Most of the things listed above either are very widely used or don't cost much or have other downsides to maintain. By contrast, when things have been removed from the Web platform in the past, it was because they were causing problems out of proportion to the amount of breakage induced by removing them. In the case of XSLT, the problem is the attack surface that it adds.
by coolhand2120 | 2025-08-23 00:38:22+00:00
Conspiracy theories coming true are going gangbusters as of late. Maybe they should be re-labeled "narratives that while they are true might disrupt the current power structures so we will paint anyone who believes them as a loon.". For every "we didn't land on the moon" there are several fairly devastating theories that turned out to be very true:

"the CIA is infiltrating the news agencies to spread propaganda and label things conspiracy theories"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird)

"the government is planning to kill citizen on US soil to start a war" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods)

"we should start a war because the people just don't like war enough!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident)

"we should start another war because people just don't like war enough!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant))

"the government is spying on all citizen by collecting all communications in mass" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM)

"The virus didn't come from a lab - we totally weren't making bioweapons!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_SARS-CoV-2)

Ahhh yes, the current conspiracy theory that is about to crack. Watch the propaganda at full power. Better than the wiki article do a web search for "covid 19 origin" and watch as "Eco Health Alliance" pops their sponsored ad at the top of the search results, for those not studying the topic ecohealth is the the group that created the virus project (https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...) DARPA said it was too dangerous so they rejected it, so they went to the NIH who gave us COVID19. The NIH has already been caught dead to rights paying specifically for "gain of function research on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab" from which the virus escaped. And if you read that wiki article, it still a "conspiracy theory". (https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/nih-letter-conflicts-...).

I wonder if the wikipedia editors will allow you to update the page with this "new" information. Something tells me this page is locked. So with this one we can watch the "conspiracy theory" slowly turn into just a plain old boring "conspiracy" and everyone can say "See! We all knew the whole time! It was super obvious!" like the rest of the list.

Crazy how these very true super evil transgressions by our own government get balled in with "the earth is flat" huh. Almost like it was intentional. Oh right operation mockingbird, duh!
by frumplestlatz | 2025-08-23 00:38:29+00:00
This is the only mention of "age verification" in all 900 pages of Project 2025:

"In addition, some of the methods used to regulate children’s internet access pose the risk of unintended harms. For instance, age verification regulations would inevitably increase the amount of data collection involved, increasing privacy concerns. Users would have to submit to platforms proof of their age, which raises the risks of data breach or illegitimate data usage by the platforms or bad actors. Limited-government conservatives would prefer the FTC play an educational role instead. That might include best practices or educational programs to empower parents online."

The policy recommendations for "Protecting Children Online" are found on page 875. The two main recommendations they make are:

"The FTC should examine platforms’ advertising and contract-making with children as a deceptive or unfair trade practice, perhaps requiring written parental consent."

"The FTC can and should institute unfair trade practices proceedings against entities that enter into contracts with children without parental consent. Personal parental responsibility is, of course, key, but the law must respect, not undermine, lawful parental authority."

https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeade...
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-23 00:38:42+00:00
You seem to be arguing in circles and are now actively misrepresenting my points to defend your own.

>The original point of contention was that the "percent that approve" of the film that RT uses is surprising and not as useful as a regular rating system.

No, the original point I was responding to was the tired, hypothetical claim that a movie could get "100% fresh" with every critic giving it a middling 3/5 stars. My point was that in practice, this never happens. You have provided zero evidence to the contrary and have now shifted the goalposts to a vague, subjective debate about "usefulness.". The original comment is right there. You can read.

>I don't need to have "heard of them" to know that the NYT film critic, the reviewer at Siskel and Ebert and the film critic at Vanity Fair are probably more worth listening to than the "MacGuffin or Meaning Substack".

This is just gatekeeping masquerading as an argument. They have more to say on the mechanics of film, not on what movies you'll think are the best. It's especially ridiculous when you realize that RT gets reviews from these 'top critics' and you can filter for them.

>The RT score tries to answers the question..."What are the odds the average person will like it"...

The RT percentage has a critics and top critics score so no it's not, not anymore than the metacritic score is 'the score the average person will give it'. That's not how statistics work.

>That's fine and as I said something I and everyone else does, just like I eat junk food (and maybe sometimes actually prefer to some 3-star Michelin restaurant). The problem is pretending that those two films are roughly the same quality, or that because someone sometimes prefers a lower critic ranked movie that ratings don't matter: you can make the same argument about preferring a "rotten" RT movie.

There's nothing to pretend. If i think it's better then it's better for me. What critics say doesn't matter. It's really sad that you apparently characterize movies you like with lower critic scores as 'junk food'. Have a mind of your own.
by msgodel | 2025-08-23 00:38:46+00:00
I think one of the people who got closest to that was Sam Zeloof.

He kind of had everything going: extremely clever and motivated, cooperation with his parents (who also worked in the industry), access to equipment. Kind of hard to improve on that.

He was able to replicate most of Intel's SOTA process... from 50 years ago. That's more than almost everyone else has managed in their garage but that's about the best you can expect without insane capex and ramp up (and again, it's not like he didn't have access to capital, it just wasn't monetary.) Even still it took five or so years to work everything out.

The SOTA today is really kind of insane. It's right at the frontier of what all of humanity is capable of. Of course as time goes on we'll push that out and today's SOTA is tomorrow's commodity but that won't change everyone's concern with being unable to replicate the contemporary best process.

The reality is all our "defense" needs (and arguably most other needs too) are far more than adequately met with processes a decade old now. It's really not the big deal everyone makes it out to be.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-23 00:40:11+00:00
No, but the law is not a thing of subtlety and nuance. It is a thing of bright lines. It would be infeasible to have a law that says "children can make adult decisions when their parents think they're ready", so we have to pick a cutoff point which tries to strike a balance between giving too many immature kids power over their lives, and restricting too many mature kids from making decisions with their lives. Some kids will be unfairly held back because they are very mature at 15, some will ruin their lives because they are completely immature at 18. It's imperfect but no perfect solution is available.
by notpushkin | 2025-08-23 00:40:37+00:00
Used ones, yeah. Companies used to sell off entire fleets when they upgrade, sometimes pretty cheap. I’ve bought a perfectly usable T420 for something like $50 about 10 years ago. (Naturally, it was 4 years old at that point, but still.)

Also curious about Windows on Arm, but my plan is to run Linux mainly (which hopefully gets better support at that point!)
by mindslight | 2025-08-23 00:40:38+00:00
There's definitely a problem with gerontocracy, but the reason you heard about it so much last year is because the fascists use the technique of projection to preempt criticisms of themselves. Biden was passive demented, which probably didn't really matter all that much (group project). But this was used as cover for Trump's active combative micromanaging dementia that we're now all suffering.
by breve | 2025-08-23 00:42:08+00:00
> But it was a necessary investment, because when I Google synonyms for a word, I can no longer trust that the results I get will be accurate or useful

Why would you use Google as a thesaurus in the first place? Why not go directly to the Cambridge or Merriam-Webster thesaurus (the article even links to Merriam-Webster):

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

The internet may well be turning to shit but people also need to take responsibility for their own abdication of thinking.
by tamimio | 2025-08-23 00:42:52+00:00
I am a person who doesn't have any brand loyalty. If there's something else that's better or has the same features at the same cost, I will go for it. That being said, Fastmail has been great. Besides the unlimited domains and masked email features, I never had an issue with my emails ending up in someone else's spam folder. This is crucial to me not to lose a client or a job, or even government communications. Some might argue about security/privacy, but emails are never meant to be that medium for secure communications. Even with PGP you would still leak metadata, so if you are after security, don't use email. Other than that, I will be after reliability and ease of use features.
by throwawee | 2025-08-23 00:42:54+00:00
Don't know if you responded to the right person since I didn't mention Debian, but I did try it and the other major distributions a long time ago. Honestly, distros mostly felt the same to me apart from their repositories. Debian soured me by keeping its repo perpetually out of date. It's nice to never get burned by an improperly tested package, but never having the latest features and non-security fixes is less nice.
by tzs | 2025-08-23 00:43:14+00:00
> Honestly I feel like you should only use kernel anticheat on a dedicated machine that's kept 100% separate from any of your personal data. That's a lot to ask of people, but you really shouldn't have anything you don't consider public data on the same hardware.

Wouldn't it be sufficient to simply have a minimal system installed on a separate partition or on a separate drive (internal or external). Boot that for gaming, and never give it the password for the encryption of your non-gaming volumes.
by jhhh | 2025-08-23 00:43:25+00:00
I mouse over the first graphic in dark mode and get flashbanged with a white diagram. Hover text obscures the axis text. I click the diagram hoping to read the text. In the expanded picture the alt text now obscures the axis instead. Close the picture and read on to the starting section. A dropped capital. It looks like an 'R' with some flourish. 'Rnowing'. Ok, it must be a 'k' based on context, but appears to resemble a lower case cursive 'k' and not a capital 'K'. Dropping the capital letter to lowercase in a drop cap. A minuscule pun one character in. Off to a good start. I continue reading to the second diagram. Fearful from my previous encounter I rest my cursor on what looks like a safe zone: 'click to expand'. The section immediately unfurls and pushes the diagram off the page. 'Everything is correlated' I tell myself. If there's a hover event there must be an 'on-not-hover' event too, right? I move my cursor to an empty zone. Nothing happens. I click in the empty space to remind the browser my cursor is not hovering. Nothing. 'Only some things are correlated' I think, closing the section manually. Eventually I see a hovernote 4 and think to myself 'it's nice these notes won't interrupt the flow of reading' as I click on it. The page shifts to show text already on the screen and I lose my place briefly. The word 'error' is now partially obscured by the footnote bounding box. I chuckle to myself. Maybe there is an option for reader mode I think as I start scrolling up. A gear reveals itself in the top corner. As I scroll down the options I see a 'Auto Reader Mode'. Exactly what I need. I move my mouse over to the text. This was a poor choice. The menu retracts and now that my mouse is partially over a hover note it scrolls itself fully into view. 'Tibshirani 2014' is revealed.
by jerlam | 2025-08-23 00:44:01+00:00
I found this article to be clearer:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2025/08/2...

The requirement to buy the extra seat beforehand makes sense because Southwest no longer has open seating and someone who bought that extra seat would need to be moved during the boarding process, but they wouldn't know what seat is open.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-23 00:44:20+00:00
>A Kyodo News survey found that among the top 30 best-selling game titles in 2024, at least 11 of the 16 offered by domestic companies have introduced payments through external websites.

~70% (of the top 16 Japanese Game titles, or, 11 of them)

Fuck google and fuck apple, but this isn't exactly a large sample
by jondwillis | 2025-08-23 00:44:35+00:00
Since you're flattening and addressing GPs comment with a political false dichotomy... A conspiracy isn't needed to explain the decay of culture, values, material conditions - all it takes is a set of incentives that don't align with broad public well-being, and some time. Move fast and break things!

Feudalism is back, baby! A simple reversion to the mean.
by jmscarpax | 2025-08-23 00:45:09+00:00
My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually: backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel. It was useful for keeping everyone aligned, but it took effort to turn commit-level work into something product/design could follow.

Since we were already experimenting with AI, we decided to automate it. The result is *Briefly* – a lightweight CLI that:

- Collects commits from your repo - Summarizes them with OpenAI - Outputs a clean `briefly-summary.md` - Publishes directly to Discord via webhook

The workflow is simple: briefly setup briefly generate briefly publish

It’s available on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly

Roadmap includes: aliases (`briefly g`), multilingual summaries, relative dates (`--since 7d|1w|2m`), dry-run for CI, and custom prompts.

We’ve been using it internally and it’s saving us ~30 minutes per week while producing more consistent updates.

Would love feedback from the community — especially around CI integration ideas or formats beyond Discord.
by t-writescode | 2025-08-23 00:45:17+00:00
A more appropriate route to that is to create incentives and grants for companies to be created that can accomplish this age verification infrastructure (ideally with its own privacy guarantees, etc), and make a declaration such as “in 5 years, you will be expected to validate and track the age group of all users on your platform. We have created grants to help create technology companies and a platform that will help to implement and privatize this service”.

That way you get both:

* companies that can provide the service (yay capitalism, middlemen and jobs!) * compliance with the new laws that help to stratify users so that < 18 and > 18 users are identified and segregated.
by tonyarkles | 2025-08-23 00:46:00+00:00
Thanks for elaborating on that, I was wondering too. In a very similar way (with a different outcome), my first real introduction to R was due to the "A Layered Grammar of Graphics" paper while doing some tangential research during grad school. I fell in love with the abstractions in the paper and reluctantly learned R so that I could get access to ggplot :).

As a side note, my research ended up essentially discovering Flame Graphs before Brendan Gregg was publishing/popularizing his version. His are much better than mine, but I take some comfort knowing that the ideas I was coming up with in grad school were decent!
by jondwillis | 2025-08-23 00:47:40+00:00
The relevant quote from the article:

>The company suggested that shippers use carriers with services in place that allow them to pay duties before goods arrive in the US, such as United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.

Is there anything about those two companies, aside from the fact that they're not foreign or US public institutions having their remaining metaphorical windows smashed, that make you think this is payola?
by perching_aix | 2025-08-23 00:47:42+00:00
I'm currently working with some local legacy code, so I primarily wanted to scan for incorrectly transcoded accented characters (central-european to utf-8 mishaps) - did find them.

Also good against data fingerprinting, homoglyph attacks in links (e.g. in comments), pranks (greek question mark vs. semicolon), or if it's a strictly international codebase, checking for anything outside ASCII. So when you don't really trust a codebase and want to establish a baseline, basically.

But I also included other features, like checking line ending consistency, line indentation consistency, line lengths, POSIX compliance, and encoding validity. Line lengths were of particular interest to me, having seen some malicious PRs recently to FOSS projects where the attacker would just move the payload out of sight to the side, expecting most people to have word wrap off and just not even notice (pretty funny tbf).
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-08-23 00:48:08+00:00
Three jobs ago I worked for a company that did e-learning systems for industrial clients. This was roughly 2004. One of the company owner's many ideas was a technical documentation system based on XML and XSLT. The "idea" being that technical writers or SMEs would rather write XML than, you know, use a word processor.

Unsurprisingly the idea did not take off, but I did find the XML/XSLT combination to be very interesting.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-08-23 00:49:01+00:00
All I can say to this is that I have disregarded this advice in the more crucial aspects of my system prompts/CLAUDE.md/etc.

Hasn't made a single bit of difference.

This notion that LLM's haven't made it over the "trouble with negatives" hurdle as a hard truth that will never be made untrue is absolutely absurd and bears zero evidence to the contrary with respect to models released in the past year.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-23 00:49:07+00:00
That's what gets me! If these rootkit anti-cheat systems actually stopped cheating then maybe, just maybe, I'd accept them as a necessary evil. But every game that has these things... still has cheaters! So as a user, you're consenting to ripping a security hole through your system, and in return you are still playing games with cheaters.

The game companies keep saying these things are necessary, yet they don't fully do the very thing they claim to do on the label.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-23 00:50:05+00:00
Does it?

Let's look at another country that has "great universal health care". Let's look to Europe, that's always "up there", right?

For statutory or public health insurance, you pay for your insurance through social contributions, the rate of which is 14.6% of the income as determined by the Federal Ministry of Health for 2024.

https://www.germany-visa.org/insurances-germany/health-insur...

Pretty sure that's up but let's assume 15% of income.
by Flux159 | 2025-08-23 00:51:13+00:00
Thanks! Reading some of your other comments, it seems like runit or nitro may not have been a good choice for my usecase? (I'm using dependencies between services so there is a specific order enforced & also logging for 3 different services as well).

You seem to know quite a bit about init systems - for containers in particular do you have some heuristics on which init system would work best for specific usecases?