MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elmerfud | 2025-08-25 21:22:01+00:00
You should dive in to those stats as the 1.7% is the absolute maximum possible people with the broadest possible definition of intersex. It does not reflect the reality of the situation. Even that number is far lower than those who identify that way.

Let's actually look at real numbers.

The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:4,500–1:2,000 (0.02%–0.05%)

The portion of the population that is intersex has been reported differently depending on which definition of intersex is used and which conditions are included. Estimates range from 0.018% (one in 5,500 births) to 1.7%

That's a massive range for an estimate.

Additionally no one is saying they don't count, I didn't say it Dawkins didn't say it. Trying to attribute words that weren't said is exactly the kind of emotional language that makes having a rational discussion impossible.

What was said is that those conditions are mutations from the expected norm. They deserve treatment as such. Because self perception doesn't dictate measurable medical reality.

The real focus should be on the medical community's endorsement endorsement of body mutilating for those who are underage. That's a very scary prospect to say that a child can't smoke or drink because of the life long harm but they can make one way body alterations after some counseling. If it was only adults choosing this then personal choice becomes a large factor in the conversation.

I support people's freedom to choose, but if you're not able to choose who you can have sex with, then you can't choose which sex organs to modify.
by maxbond | 2025-08-25 21:22:06+00:00
> It's not like if someone sends me a request for /wp-login.php that my rails app suddenly becomes WordPress??

You're absolutely right. That's my mistake — you are requesting a specific version of WordPress, but I had written a Rails app. I've rewritten the app as a WordPress plugin and deployed it. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 21:22:58+00:00
My first MX Master 3S had a bad right or left click button on Day 1, which would miss clicks constantly. Thankfully it was pretty easy to get a warranty replacement for this, which came as a full retail-boxed unit, so I now have an extra receiver too (I understandably had to mail in the useless defective mouse itself).
by babypuncher | 2025-08-25 21:25:00+00:00
I would argue that Gen Z is worse at computers than Millennials specifically because we put too many guardrails in place to make computing easy for the illiterate. Now we are all paying the price, as user agency is continually eroded away to further protect the dumb from their own unwillingness to gain a basic understanding of the very tools critical to their daily life.
by GlenTheMachine | 2025-08-25 21:25:03+00:00
I called MS support once because some random dude managed to get my son's account registered under his "family", and then locked my son out of being able to update his own machine.

The MS support guy literally tried to get me to password crack the random dude's account. Like, he wanted me to help him guess the guy's password so we could log in as him and change his family settings.

That was the only "help" he could provide.
by sillywalk | 2025-08-25 21:25:28+00:00
Nitpick: it's no longer iSeries, it's the unsearchable IBM i now. I believe it goes (System/38)->AS/400->AS400e->System i->iSeries->i5->i

> if one core of a processor in a x86 server dies, your server dies. This is not the case in the IBM Power environment.

I believe that having a spare processor core is new to POWER11. EDIT: No. I was wrong.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 21:26:10+00:00
Disappointed to see no discussion on battery. That's what is keeping me from implementing this. My old iphones are at 2+ years battery life. i.e. at the point where they're at risk of becoming spicy pillows and I'd love to not have a lithium fire in my apartment. In that context spending 50 bucks on amazon for a camera suddenly seems sound
by mid-kid | 2025-08-25 21:26:18+00:00
They have the ecosystem by the balls. Phone manufacturers in recent years have been making unlocking & modifying their devices more and more difficult, google and app developers have been cracking down harder on modded devices by implementing TPM equivalents in the hardware to sign and verify that your system is a google-appproved one, and alternatives still are decades behind in terms of app ecosystem.

I think they might just get away with it.
by mothballed | 2025-08-25 21:26:19+00:00
It takes 100+ gallons of water to grow a pound of alfalfa.

Alfalfa value top out at something like $0.50 a pound for the very best stuff.

So your theory is what, that if alfalfa farmers are willing to take no profits at all they could potentially bid water up to 0.5 cents per gallon?

You are so incredibly grossly underestimating the cost and impracticality of bidding water up as high as you're imagining, it is mind boggling.

They can easily bid water high enough to make it commercially useless for many industries, outbidding it from access to human consumption would require mind-boggling amounts of money.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-08-25 21:26:38+00:00
Apple throttled devices that had a weak battery, because the alternative is the CPU trying to draw more power than the battery can deliver, the voltage sagging, and the phone rebooting.

By itself, this throttling is a good thing and keeps phones usable for longer, because a phone that is slow is better than a phone that randomly reboots.

The problematic part was that they a) didn't disclose it, and b) did this for phones within the warranty period, so instead of the phone visibly crashing and you returning the obviously broken phone, it just lost performance which you might not have noticed in time to get a free replacement.
by 87636899376 | 2025-08-25 21:26:40+00:00
> 1) Internet connection is so ubiquitous as to just be noise if displayed

That doesn't make it any less useful.

> 2) It's not robust, apps without Internet permission can still exfiltrate data relatively easily by bouncing off of other apps using Intents and similar

I've heard claims that the Internet permission is flawed, yes, but I've never managed to find even a single PoC bypassing it. But even if it is flawed, don't you think Google would be a bit more incentivized to make the Internet permission work as expected if people could disable it?
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-08-25 21:26:49+00:00
I agree that a text can help provide context, and I definitely prefer it for non-emergency communications, but sometimes people want to go straight to synchronous communication so they can discuss urgent details without delay.

> The text message should explain the nature of the call and which number to call in reply.

You lost me here. If I get an unsolicited text message claiming to be a doctor who needs to speak to me urgently about a loved one's medical emergency, I'm not calling back via any number other than the hospital's front desk or switchboard. Invoking an emergency and asking you to call an unverified phone number is scamming 101.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-08-25 21:26:55+00:00
Back in 2022 I bought a 'case' of discarded NUC machines that some business had scrapped for $100 (it was like 35 computers in there) Roughly 1/3 had WiFi, none had storage (it had been removed before scrapping). Mix of CPU ranges but I keep finding uses for them. Hard to keep the ones powered up, up to date.

If anyone has a good orchestration system for minipcs sitting on a network in terms of patching etc would love a pointer.
by MisterTea | 2025-08-25 21:26:58+00:00
I just looked that up and apparently there are 10 or 15 year rules enforced by some but not all parks. If the RV is older than 10 or 15 years it will be barred from entry.

Apparently the rule is to deter people who do not maintain their clunker of an RV which might break down, leak various fluids or catch fire. The given advice is to keep your rig in good shape and call the RV park and explain the situation. They may request pictures as proof e.g. a well maintained conversion of an old city bus would be fine if your pictures show as much. Some parks might inspect on arrival.
by samanboz | 2025-08-25 21:27:00+00:00
I think that this preference of yours (and understandably of many others) is a reflection of the pandemic desire - and eventual entitlement - for convenience. I’d say convenience is good in the form of things like hot water, efficient commute, robust legal processes, quick emergency communication, all of which we owe to technology. I could go on about how the pursuit of convenience has made us prosperous and miserable at the same time, but that’s a discussion for another day. While I’d agree that “a log of what’s been said” is convenient and advantageous, I’d say it’s more human to be remembered than simply looked up.
by itsanaccount | 2025-08-25 21:28:14+00:00
> live like an outcast

in all things. I would encourage you and everyone who reads this post to stare down this option with realistic consideration. In a society this broken, it is the solution to more and more things. To checkout, to accept the hard mode because to pick the path of convenience is to be exploited.

Again, and again, and again.
by Animats | 2025-08-25 21:28:15+00:00
The data quality is improving. But there are also a lot more drones.

This applies especially to triangular-shaped objects. Reports in the last few years show a lot of those.[1] There are also now large numbers of triangular drones. Here's a really fast jet one from 2017.[2] There are cheaper ones with pusher props. Iran builds a lot of these, in various sizes. So do Ukraine and Russia. You can buy them on Amazon or Alibaba.

There's a group trying to get people to install automated UFO detection cameras.[3] They're pan-tilt-zoom dome surveillance cameras aimed upward, with software to detect objects of interest. They claim 90 sites in the US, but haven't updated that info since 2024. They get good pictures of airplanes, birds, drones, the International Space Station, etc. Not much unexplained. There's another group with the same concept.[4] The standard of detection is that the device should routinely detect and track the ISS when it passes over.

More of those would help. Enough that the same objects are captured from multiple cameras. Then you can triangulate and get range. Also, few optical illusions hold up when seen from three cameras.

Without data, speculation is useless.

China will probably have good sky surveillance soon. There's now a Ministry of Low-Altitude Aviation.[5] Somebody has to do traffic control for all the drones and flying cars in China.

[1] https://fixthisnation.com/mystery-drones-over-new-jersey-wha...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGDAZyQ44k

[3] https://ufodap.com/

[4] https://www.sky360.org/

[5] https://businessaviation.aero/evtol-news-and-electric-aircra...
by chihuahua | 2025-08-25 21:29:06+00:00
You would start by reading the complete terms and conditions of service. Somewhere in there is a paragraph that states that your account can be suspended and/or terminated at any time for any reason, or no reason. Then you find the paragraph that limits you to mandatory arbitration. You conclude that you're wasting your time if you attempt to sue anyone over this. Eventually you realize that you're better off without a FB account.
by neilv | 2025-08-25 21:29:46+00:00
(Responding to https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/google-will-require-develo... )

> Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

Odd little phrase, "distributing their apps on Android devices".

I think "distributing" in this context is in the sense of product distribution, not in the sense of distributed systems.

But "distributing...on" sounds a little odd, like Google is still providing a distribution service. (Contrary to all the precedent of how we've thought of installing software, other than the proprietary, captive-user app stores.)

And so, maybe "distributing...on" makes it sound more like Google is (once again) entitled to gatekeep what you can run on your device/computer.

> However, developers who appreciated the anonymity of alternative distribution methods will no longer have that option. Google says this will help to cut down on bad actors who hide their identity to distribute malware, commit financial fraud, or steal users’ personal data.

Maybe it's not "developers who appreciated the anonymity" (which we immediately try to conflate with bad actors), but that the whole point lately has been to stop the greedy proprietary lock-in app store monopolies, and not have them gatekeeping what everyone else can do.
by aworks | 2025-08-25 21:29:47+00:00
Caroline Shaw is one of my favorite contemporary composers, despite her mostly writing for voice.

Smoothing out the dissonance may be a bug, not a feature. I live for timbre and new sounds. Choral music can have the feel of overly polished rocks.

And funnily enough, as I wrote this, music of Bernard Parmegiani started playing. This gave me a (mostly) good jolt, following the more atmospheric music of Alan Hovhaness.
by nerdix | 2025-08-25 21:29:49+00:00
Depends on what you mean by "high end graphics"

The Ryzen Max+ 395 is in the ballpark of a RTX 4060 (but I believe it's starts to massively fall behind when ray tracing is enabled). It's an iGPU so I would imagine noise is greatly reduced (though probably not silent) compared to machines with dGPUs. However, that's going to cost roughly $2000 so it won't be cheap and will be vastly outperformed by a $2000 desktop pc.
by the_af | 2025-08-25 21:30:00+00:00
I think the lesson of those articles is not that people should stop trying to correct a misleading or incorrect explanation, but rather, that some people on the internet (like the "expert" described there) are more interested in picking and winning "fights" rather than gently helping the author correct his article. If you see Pyon's comments, he was very aggressive and very internet-troll-like.

The wrong take from this would be "... and therefore, technical details don't matter and it's ok to be inaccurate."
by mulmen | 2025-08-25 21:30:42+00:00
This is a corollary to Chesterton’s fence. unsignedint’s public good.

If you can’t explain the benefit then you can’t tear it down. The PSTN guarantees that all telco operators interoperate. Without it you get what happened with instant messaging. AKA walled gardens. You take for granted the ability to call an iPhone with an Android.

The FCC is responsible for maintaining trust, which they have done here. They can incentivize telco providers to curb the spam activity. You don’t need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
by logicchains | 2025-08-25 21:30:56+00:00
Buy Apple; the point is to hurt Google. If enough people do it, Google might reconsider. Show them that the open ecosystem is the only value Android added, and if they refuse to bring back the open ecosystem then their platform will slowly die. Won't be long until Google's as locked-down as Apple at this rate, so all Android gives you is a power-hungry OS that protect your privacy even less than iOS does.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 21:31:01+00:00
If you want lots of nvme, lots of sata, lots of ram and lots of ability to power drives then you're not looking at a minipc anymore.

Would suggest you do the same I did - climb onto ebay and look at the AM4 systems that gamers are dumping. AM4 is aging out of gaming space but for NAS/proxmox duty they're aging like fine wine. Look for one that has is X570 and has bifuraction support on the X16
by uz3snolc3t6fnrq | 2025-08-25 21:31:27+00:00
i could be wrong but you should be able to solder/connect the battery contacts to the output of a power supply at the same voltage as the battery you're replacing and just have it plugged into the wall or a UPS, but not sure if the battery manager would still think the battery is being spent and freak out after getting to 0%
by aurareturn | 2025-08-25 21:31:39+00:00
Sure, but there have been thousands of tech companies that lost money year over year and went bust. Odds are that any given AI company will end up losing a lot of money. Maybe the asymmetric potential payoff is worth the risk in certain cases, but it's not crazy to be skeptical about Anthropic or any other hot company.

That's the game. It's called the power law in VC investing. It's worked.
by saltysalt | 2025-08-25 21:31:44+00:00
If they suspend everyones accounts, the Internet will be a better place.

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.” - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
by m463 | 2025-08-25 21:31:54+00:00
I've tried this.

My best solution by far turned out to be long cables going through the wall to a pc in the next room over.

When I was younger, I had a KVM in my bedroom going through the wall to two computers under the sink in my bathroom. lol. But it worked. silence.

Second best recently was a zotac magnus. More for compact though than noise. Bought a noctua replacement fan. works well with headphones.

I do have a silent/fanless zotac server. It works well, but it does fileserving, not cpu-intensive anything.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-08-25 21:31:54+00:00
It absolutely has to do with ads. While there are various ways to exfiltrate small amounts of data, the non-collaborative ones are rarely silent and most importantly, they won't let the app get responses (e.g. ads) back.

The main thing this permission would be used for would be blocking ads. Also distinguishing shitty apps that are full of ads from those that aren't. If there is a calculator that needs Internet and one that doesn't, which one are you going to use?
by ascagnel_ | 2025-08-25 21:31:55+00:00
It's not a bug or issue with those phones, it's how batteries behave -- over time, they lose both their capacity and the power they output. Apple decided to throttle their phones via software instead of letting them crash.

I've said this before, but it was the right idea executed the wrong way. iPhones give you a warning when they overheat, and this throttling should have gotten a similar warning with a link to an FAQ explaining the battery dynamics.
by rkagerer | 2025-08-25 21:32:54+00:00
I've grown increasingly hateful towards both my Android and iOS devices over the last decade. The platforms themselves are increasingly user-hostile, and their appstores are crammed full of shitty, privacy-invading, telemetry-hoovering, dopamine-triggering, ad-filled, lipstick-covered apps that are often garbage compared to the pioneering days of mobile. I miss the days of my old Palm Pilot.

Is anyone working on fixing this? We can do so much better.
by Zak | 2025-08-25 21:32:55+00:00
When Microsoft first proposed a remote attestation scheme for PCs under the name Palladium, it was widely seen as a nightmare scenario. Even the mainstream press was critical[0]. There was barely a whimper when Google introduced Safetynet a decade later.

It wasn't OK in 2003. It wasn't OK in 2014. It isn't OK now. I'm just not sure what anybody can do about it.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/business/technology-a-saf...
by nicbou | 2025-08-25 21:33:27+00:00
In 2020 I bought a "disposable" Renault Kangoo to schlepp things around and go on road trips. It broke beyond repair last week and I started looking for a replacement.

Even a 3 year old Dacia Dokker - basically the same exact car with newer trim - is pushing €15k. A new Kangoo is around €30k. That's a lot for an economy car that does nothing significantly better than the 2007 version.

Since I only drive 1-3 times per month, I decided to stop owning a car. The cost of ownership is just way too high.
by mvdtnz | 2025-08-25 21:34:02+00:00
You very clearly have no experience on powerful desktop machines. A 9950x will absolutely demolish an M3 or M4 Macbook Pro in any possible test, especially multicore testing. And I don't care how "performant" or "efficient" you think it is, those M series chips will be thermally throttled like anything else packaged into a laptop.

Oh, and the vastly superior dekstop rig will also come out cheaper, even with a quality monitor and keyboard.
by bityard | 2025-08-25 21:34:31+00:00
I always have at least a half-dozen NiMH AA batteries sitting charged in the drawer ready to go. When the mouse stops working, I grab a couple of charged batteries, slap them in, put the drained ones in the charger and then carry on with whatever I was doing. With a built-in battery, when the battery goes dead, I have to mess around with finding another mouse while this one charges.

(Yeah, the computer tells me when the mouse battery is getting low, but I do not have the discipline to remember to plug it in hours later when I'm done with the computer for the day.)
by jrflowers | 2025-08-25 21:34:40+00:00
>We're exploring taking the action plan that a reasoning model (which sees both trusted and untrusted text) comes up with and passing it to a second model, which doesn't see the untrusted text and which then evaluates it.

How is this different from the Dual-LLM pattern that’s described in the link that was posted? It immediately describes how that setup is still susceptible to prompt injection.

>With the Dual LLM pattern the P-LLM delegates the task of finding Bob’s email address to the Q-LLM—but the Q-LLM is still exposed to potentially malicious instructions.
by randerson | 2025-08-25 21:35:10+00:00
My experience is that the base price for a car hasn't increased as much as all the mandatory dealer add-ons they force on you. I'm currently trying to buy a new car and the dealer refuses to sell me one without a Pulse brake light, paint protection, ceramic glaze, wheel & tire protection, floor mats, and prepaid maintenance, and I must trade in my current vehicle. Other dealers in the area all do the same thing. I walked out the door and they never called me back so I suppose this strategy works for them. Dealers have gone from adding zero value to adding negative value, and thanks to their lobbying it is impossible to buy a car without them.
by decasia | 2025-08-25 21:35:21+00:00
About this, I noticed a relatively prominent gem maintainer publicly announcing his efforts to avoid rubygems security measures:

> I'll try to get a unicorn 7.x release soon but tests take forever to run on ancient HW and I need to ration releases to keep download counts low in order to stay under the MFA threshold on Rubygems.org

> I don't ever want users viewing me as trustworthy nor liable for anything I do, so no MFA nor sigs from me; just source + docs :>

If I understand correctly - the idea is that the unicorn maintainer does not want to be viewed as trustworthy and is avoiding MFA and signatures because they could build trust that isn't, in this case, wanted.

https://yhbt.net/unicorn-public/20231214230933.M299458@dcvr/
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-25 21:35:31+00:00
> Why the heck are you using (D)VFS on your immutable data?

Git-annex does not put your data in Git. What it tracks using Git is what’s available where, updating that data on an eventually consistent basis whenever two storage sites come into contact. It also borrows Git functionality for tracking moves, renames, etc. The object-storage parts, on the other hand, are essentially a separate content-addressable store from the normal one Git uses for its objects.

(The concrete form of a git-annex worktree is a Git-tracked tree of symlinks pointing to .git/annex/objects under the repo root, where the actual data is stored as read-only files, plus location-tracking data indexed by object hash in a separate branch called “git-annex”, which the git-annex commands manipulate using special merge strategies.)
by kogasa240p | 2025-08-25 21:35:45+00:00
As much as I like the idea of miniPCs my biggest issue is that almost everything in miniPCs are soldered down, if you could replace the RAM/CPU/Storage I'd have zero with them. But for now, I'm skeptical in that the current push for miniPCs are a clandestine way to get more technical people onboard with unrepairable devices.