MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by upboundspiral | 2025-09-19 05:54:00+00:00
I absolutely love what the universalblue team has been doing. They are one of the few organizations that are truly dedicated to providing a first-class, enjoyable, batteries included linux experience on the desktop.

I truly believe that updates are seamless not just because of all the buzzwords about the underlying technology but because its made for people who actually use the system daily. They gate the fedora kernel and track breaking changes so you don't get them, and generally care about the user experience. If you want sensible gnome defaults and extensions they are there (or there to be disabled at the click of a button). If you want remote desktop streaming (sunshine/moonlight) its there. On the flip side, their distribution model also means no more need to keep track of out of tree kernel modules on upgrades (zfs, nvidia, waydroid even on Bazzite).

Now onto the post specifically: LTS from a CentOS Stream base seems interesting. Fedora is nice, and the universalblue team tames it 99%, but its edge can be a bit too bleeding sometimes. My only reticence with CentOS Stream though is that it is veering dangerously close to Red Hat proper which I am unsure how to feel about. I am eagerly awaiting when non-rpms distros will be able to use the same underlying technology Bluefin uses, and see how the space evolves. A debian base especially seems interesting in theory. There has recently been some progress on that front: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865 https://github.com/bootcrew/debian-bootc
by deng | 2025-09-19 05:56:26+00:00
FYI: You can still install Win11 with a local account. When prompted for your account, hit Shift+F10 to get a terminal, then enter

start ms-cxh:localonly

and a window will pop up where you can create a local account and continue with the installation.

Yep, it's all insane. And before the "switch to Linux" replies: yes, I am using Linux, but Friends&Family still rely on Windows software. The big elephant in the room is of course Office, and I mean the REAL Office, not the MickeyMouse version that runs in the browser. No, LibreOffice will not do, neither will running Office in a Windows VM, nor running a 20year old Office version in Wine.
by tills13 | 2025-09-19 05:57:16+00:00
Am I crazy or reading the wrong info or are you being hyperbolic when you say California has "insane" income taxes?

As an example, the effective rate when making $200k is 25% including federal taxes. That's great. You get to live in a productive and supportive society. The only issue I see is that housing is expensive and $150k, as much as it can support a comfortable lifestyle, would be insufficient to ALSO buy a home. But what we're talking about here is a separate issue from housing.

(your state taxes when making $100k would only be $2k, to preempt that retort)
by lubujackson | 2025-09-19 05:57:29+00:00
You miss the bigger point about context. Companies pick their focus and what to spend their time on. Post startup-scale, the cost of internal failures becomes exponential. AI might be able to whip up the exact same legal document or CRM or whatever, but when one thing goes wrong, that might lose $1 million in revenue. It is about paying for accountability over outcomes.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-19 05:58:52+00:00
> I see no problem with the examples being boring.

I'm in agreement with this point; the examples are boring, but that's not really relevant. After all, we're mostly talking about Maths ITT, not history or social sciences.

1. Some foundational study is needed before you get to the really interesting problems at a higher grade/level/school/university.

2. Who cares if they are boring? A spectacular facility to learn Maths which is demonstrated by high marks indicates better abstract reasoning skills, making it easier for specific trades to decide who is more suitable.

3. How will the kids know whether they like Maths or not if they skip trig in high school?

(Sidenote: Am I the only one who finds trig easy and everything else in Maths hard?)
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-09-19 05:58:53+00:00
Question: can this utilize multiple forms of compute at once? Many phones have both GPUs that are capable of doing compute as well as NPUs, and that number will only increase. I'm sure it would be challenging, but that's a lot of performance to leave on the table if it can't do so already.

I am very curious what could be done with your impressive optimization on an rk3588, since it has pretty decent bits in all 3 categories, and am now seriously considering a Radxa Orion to play with this on :)

One more if you have a moment: will this be limited to text generation, or will it have audio and image capabilities as well? Would be neat to enable not only image generation, but also explore voice recognition, translation, computer vision, as well as image editing and enhancement features in mobile apps beyond what the big players daign to give us :)
by vnorilo | 2025-09-19 06:00:44+00:00
When I was in third grade, I decided I want to make computer games to get more of them. Dad got me started with GW-Basic turtle graphics and I made pictures with them - usually non-functional title screens for my games.

At some point I had made a small space ship and was able to make it turn around with the wonderful angle command [1]. However, I could not figure out how to make it move "forward" regardless of the angle.

I was also attending an after hours computer graphics club, mostly about Deluxe Paint, taught by a 20-something student (who much later went on to found a GPU company and got acquihired by ATI/AMD). He would help me occasionally, and in this case he took a tiny slip of paper and wrote down a couple of lines about sin and cos. No questions, no explanations, no gatekeeping.

Just like that I internalized this foundational piece of trig - later when it arrived in school maths it was easy and obvious for me. I had a practical application, but even more I think was because it started as a need I had, and when given to me, felt like a gift and an enabler.

Still much later I studied Seymour Papert's pedagogy and understood I had lived it. I consider myself fortunate.

1: http://www.antonis.de/qbebooks/gwbasman/draw.html
by evermike | 2025-09-19 06:02:07+00:00
What we didn’t try

For example, charging based on customer revenue (like ChartMogul). It doesn’t really fit our case, but I just don’t like this model overall.

We also avoided usage-based pricing tied to API calls or account activity.

We never tried monetizing through ads or selling anonymized data — and we never plan to.

And unlike many SaaS companies, we never forced existing customers to accept price increases. I know some businesses calculate churn vs. uplift and decide it’s worth it. We’ve stayed away from that path.
by Dr_Loo | 2025-09-19 06:03:50+00:00
Symbolic Nakedness at Cosmic Dawn: SFIT Validation on A2744-QSO1 and the Little Red Dot Phase We introduce the concept of symbolic nakedness within the SFIT (Symbolic Field Invariant Topology) framework and evaluate it using recent observations of A2744-QSO1, a triply imaged, high-redshift quasar candidate at $z\sim7$. In SFIT, symbolic nakedness is defined by a quadruple criterion: (i) horizon breach, quantified by $H(r)=2M(r)/r>1$; (ii) localized collapse intensity, $\rho(s)>\rho_{\max}$; (iii) entropic flux leakage, $L(\Omega)>\varepsilon$; and (iv) absence of topological shielding. Applying this diagnostic to the “Little Red Dot” phase of QSO1, we find all four conditions satisfied: the inferred black hole mass ($\sim 5\times10^{7},M_\odot$) exceeds containment limits, spectral features imply steep gradients, X-ray weakness and Balmer-line strength indicate non-standard flux, and no host bulge or enclosing structure is detected. Within SFIT, QSO1 therefore represents a symbolically naked singularity. The framework is falsifiable: discovery of a massive host or standard X-ray corona would negate this classification. More generally, symbolic nakedness provides a cross-domain diagnostic for unshielded structural collapse, from molecular entanglement to primordial black holes.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-19 06:03:58+00:00
During ramblings about new Minecraft jeb_ recently said that java is not going to be sunsetted, or at least that's what I understood.

Of course the course of Microsoft and jeb_ might be different and he might get pushed towards some decisions later. The problem is that kids nowadays don't use computers. They use phones and tablets. For me Minecraft experience on phone is awful but there are many young generations that consider it native way of playing games
by jamesmiller5 | 2025-09-19 06:04:56+00:00
> ...but they don't know how good their own people are.

Trust. Easily lost, hard to win and all that. If you don't actually trust those you manage you're not really operating at your best, let alone bringing out the best of your team.

It's a humbling experience tbh, requires putting your faith of success in other people, which in my experience is harder to teach (and is often learned through tough failures) than any kind of computer skills.
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 06:05:42+00:00
> least a dozen explanations less charitable than this one

Because you've already made up your mind that they're the bad guy, so it doesn't matter what really happened. One of the prevailing rules at HN used to be engage with the most charitable interpretation of an argument. It's always a better conversation when it's followed - this thread has just devolved into a bunch of pile-on virtue signaling with no actual interest in engaging honestly.
by opo | 2025-09-19 06:09:57+00:00
>...Midnight to 5AM demand is so low they are actually charging grid batteries

This is misleading. Demand from midnight to 5 AM in CA is much higher than you imply and unfortunately the largest provider of power at night is generally natural gas.

As I said before:

>>Diablo Canyon provides close to 18,000 GWh per year of clean power. If that goes away this year, it will obviously take a while to be able to replace the power with other clean power.

>...New nuclear just doesn’t fit especially if it’s taking 4+ years to build.

I find that those who actually want to decarbonize the grid, don't particularly care what clean technology is used and different countries will have a different mix of technologies they use. The mix that works best in say CA, might not be what works best, in say, Canada.
by phito | 2025-09-19 06:10:46+00:00
> for a species that evolved in the sun, I do not believe one bit that sun exposure, which incidentally is linked to many benefits because it’s so bloody normal, is something that can only be dealt with modern technology and we should be deathly afraid of it. Sure, UV radiation can cause mutations, but our immune system has evolved over billions of years to deal with this exact problem.

Yeah, most of the time our immune system deals with it, but sometimes it misses one roge cell and you've got cancer. That's why you want to limit your exposure to mutations even if you're somewhat adapted to deal with them.

Then it's a matter of looking at studies and statistics and deciding for yourself. Personally, I'll keep putting on sunscreen, as I sunburn easily ;)
by mosselman | 2025-09-19 06:11:26+00:00
This seems ridiculously simple. It doesn’t browse for you in the background or lets you reference tabs etc. This just seems to pass the current page to an llm.

I built an extension like this with Claude-code a few days ago because I wanted to see if I could replace the ai feature of Firefox when I switched to LibreWolf. Turns out, it was quite easy for Claude code.

I want a bit further and tried to get the extension to browse around. Individual actions worked, but I couldn’t get it to follow a plan. In the end I finally looked around the code and Claude had made a huge mess with cursor etc.

The complexity of handling the array of messages was a bit too much for the AI agents.

I now have the same as this Gemini ai though and it CAN click links and it works with ollama too. So more private.

All in a few hours of development.

So I am not impressed by Google here
by justanotherunit | 2025-09-19 06:11:39+00:00
Yes, I agree totally. But portfolios served a great purpose to expose what you can and what you know to the world and recruiters. Which would then lead to a opportunity to talk about the projects.

We might be going back to a more oldschool approach where talking directly and presenting themselves would be more of a value again. It have always been an higher value, but now it will be kinda more forced I believe.

Another route would be that portfolios become more blog-based, talking about different solutions and problems for each project, as you are saying.
by fergie | 2025-09-19 06:12:02+00:00
> a decent case can be made to slim down the "web platform" a bit. If you want XSLT you can still "bring it yourself"

Completely agree, but there remains the massive unsolved issue of templating in HTML (at the moment XSLT is the only way to run a templated HTML website on s3 without a massive pile of javascript).
by calebm | 2025-09-19 06:12:38+00:00
I am very white, but getting sun feels very healthy for my skin. Obviously I don't want to get burned bad, but good sun exposure helps my skin feel softer and less inflamed. My grandfather also spent most of his days out in the sun gardening, and my mom was just commenting a few months ago about how surprisingly smooth his skin is (and he's 92).
by tills13 | 2025-09-19 06:14:32+00:00
One of the most frustrating parts about "AI" in its current form is that you can challenge it on anything and it play dumb, being like " oops I'm sowwy I was wrong, you're right"

I wish it would either: grow a spine and double down (in the cases that it's right or partially right) or simply admit when something is beyond its capability instead of guessing or this like low-percentage Markov chain continuation.
by urban_winter | 2025-09-19 06:15:37+00:00
You don't need a removable wheel to sharpen a pizza cutter on a stone. That's actually pretty clear from the video showing the sharpening of the removed wheel - the fact they the wheel is not in the handle isn't material to the sharpening action.

Pizza cutters wear out by deformation of the hole in the middle of the wheel (in my experience). I have thought of hacking one to fit bearings, just for the joy of having something that is properly engineered.
by sellerpic | 2025-09-19 06:17:43+00:00
SellerPic is an AI SaaS platform purpose-built for e-commerce sellers, seamlessly integrated with Shopify, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Canva. Sellers can directly import product images, generate or edit product, model, and marketing visuals within SellerPic, and publish them back to stores or social channels with one click. Key popular features include: Virtual Try-On for Apparel & Accessories: Powered by SellerPic’s proprietary Lookfit algorithm, delivering realistic try-on experiences for clothing and accessories. Instruct Edit: Natural-language image editing and enhancement. Lipsync Video: AI-generated videos with realistic lip-sync, perfect for social engagement. In addition, SellerPic offers Swap Fashion Model, Pose Changer, and more creative tools, empowering sellers to produce diverse visuals at scale. With SellerPic, brands reduce photoshoot and design costs, accelerate product launches, and boost conversions and retention.
by 2dvisio | 2025-09-19 06:20:59+00:00
Let’s not forget another data point. South was richer before unification than the north. The north regions regularly at war with France and Austria were pretty much debt fuelled, whilst the south was considered the bank of Italy, solvent and very rich due to flourishing economy. After unification, Piedmont dumped its war debts on the whole country and drained the south’s cash reserves, using them to modernise the north while the south was left weakened.
by quaintdev | 2025-09-19 06:21:23+00:00
Anyone thinking of doing this, don't. There's a reason we don't directly look at solar eclipse. Here's a excerpt from [1]

> Usually we close our eyes in reflex due to intense light from the Sun, but on day of an eclipse, the intensity of sunlight is decreased and we can view the Sun through naked eyes. While we watch a solar eclipse without any protection to our eyes, the ultraviolet rays penetrate our eyes and cause retinal burn, leading to loss of central vision.

[1]: https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/partial-solar-eclips...
by jleahy | 2025-09-19 06:22:52+00:00
> So no RDMA?

We can saturate the network interfaces of our flash boxes with our very simple Go block server, because it uses sendfile under the hood. It would be easy to switch to RDMA (it’s just a transport layer change) but right now we didn’t need to. We’ve had to make some difficult prioritisation decisions here.

PRs welcome!

> Implementing distributed consensus correctly from scratch is very hard - why not use some battle-tested implementations?

We’re used to building things like this, trading systems are giant distributed systems with shared state operating at millions of updates per second. We also cheated, right now there is no automatic failover enabled. Failures are rare and we will only enable that post-Jepsen.

If we used somebody else’s implementation we would never be able to do the multi-master stuff that we need to equalise latency for non-primary regions.

> This is not true for NFSv3 and older, it tends to be stateless (no notion of open file).

Even NFSv3 needs a duplicate request cache because requests are not idempotent. Idempotency of all requests is hard to achieve but rewarding.
by necovek | 2025-09-19 06:23:13+00:00
It seems that people forget that while medical terms do enter the vernacular, medicine also appropriates common terms and gives them specific, narrower definitions.

In the former, those terms do lose some of their specificity and should be considered shorthands for "what feels like [ADHD, autism, depression...]".

In other words, language is a flexible, living thing, and interpretation can obly be done in context.

This is why some of these statements sound so much worse when typed out on the internet, as they are missing any and all emotional cues coming from visual and audio communication.

It happens in other areas as well ("cloud" in IT or "space" in math).
by self_awareness | 2025-09-19 06:23:42+00:00
IRC can be used for private communication, in fact it was the protocol for private communication used by for example warez scene groups years ago.

IRC, because of its simplicity, can be layered, so adding encryption is trivial if we want to hide from the server (FISH). By default IRC servers show hostname of the user, but that depends on the network; for example LinkNet hides it.
by belZaah | 2025-09-19 06:23:44+00:00
Spent a few hours the other day trying to get Claude to produce some spring-boot code. Match the library versions to behavior and between each other. The thing that it should be perfect for. Nope. The moment I’m not explicit, it doesn’t even put version numbers into POM. Until it randomly does. Easier and faster to take the time, read the docs and do it myself.
by tforcram | 2025-09-19 06:24:10+00:00
I've had a malignant melanoma, my mother and extended relatives had it as well (including a great uncle I never met who died from it), 4 (of my 9) siblings have had multiple, mostly those of use who have red hair/fair skin. I don't think I've ever heard of a greater risk of skin cancer due to genetics/familial occurrence than I have.

After my mother got it and had a huge chunk taken out of her leg when I was very young, we have had it drilled into our heads that the sun was going to kill us and we needed to cover up and lather in sun screen for even the slightest possibility of sun exposure.

Obviously that didn't help much as many of us still got it anyway, hah!

But yea there are some folks who are terrified of the sun. I personally think 15-20 minutes unfiltered sunlight is good for me, but beyond that I'm looking for the nearest shade or trying to cover up.
by hakfoo | 2025-09-19 06:25:21+00:00
I'm thinking the era of "great ALI chipsets" was more after they became ULi in the Athlon 64 era.

I had a ULi M1695 board (ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2) and it was unusual for the era in that it was a $90 motherboard with two full x16 slots. Even most of the nForce boards at the time had it set up as x8/x8. For like 10 minutes you could run SLI with it until nVidia deliberately crippled the GeForce drivers to not permit it, but I was using it with a pretty unambitious (but fanless-- remember fanless GPUs?) 7600GS.

They also did another chipset pairing that offered a PCI-Ex16 slot and a fairly compatible AGP-ish slot for people who had bought an expensive (which then meant $300 for a 256MB card) graphics card and wanted to carry it over. There were a few other boards using other chipsets (maybe VIA) that tried to glue together something like that, but the support was much more hit-or-miss.

OTOH, I did have an Aladdin IV ("TXpro") board back in the day, and it was nice because it supported 83MHz bus speeds when a "better" Intel TX board wouldn't. A K6-233 overclocked to 250 (3x83) was detectably faster than at 262 (3.5x75)
by ido | 2025-09-19 06:25:41+00:00
There are a lot more tourists then there used to be in the past. When I moved to Vienna in 2005 I used to take weekend trips to nearby cities (anything up to a couple hours by train, like Budapest or Brno). I would just go on a train and when I’d arrive I’d find some hostel and get a room on the spot.

Today you really have to reserve, sometimes months in advance if it’s during the high season.
by eru | 2025-09-19 06:25:52+00:00
Thanks for the detailed answer.

> It is the former employees for up to 15 years that make the contacting step difficult. They all need to provide bank/tax details.

Give people 30 dollars extra on their way out, and only contact them when you used up that budget? (Should take care of the majority of cases?)

> Edit: I should have said, I did see companies rounding all amounts up to some small amount, like $1, so your suggestion is good. It just doesn't save effort on recalculation, or much effort in getting people to dig the email out of their trash folder and provide their information to receive their $1.

Oh, my suggestion was to do the calculation, as arduously as you describe, compare with what you already overpaid earlier voluntarily, and if the company is still in the green, then don't bother contacting anyone.

Or is that not possible?
by motorest | 2025-09-19 06:26:06+00:00
> But, if automated malware scanning actually worked, we'd already see big tech partnering with package registries to run continuous, ecosystem-wide scanning and detection pipelines.

I think this sort of thought process is misguided.

We do see continuous, ecosystem-wide scanning and detection pipelines. For example, GitHub does support DependaBot, which runs supply chain checks.

https://github.com/dependabot

What you don't see is magical rabbits being pulled out of top hats. The industry has decades of experience with anti-malware tools in contexts where said malware runs in spite of not being explicitly provided deployment or execution permissions. And yet it deploys and runs. What do you expect if you make code intentionally installable and deployable, and capable of sending HTTP requests to send and receive any kind of data?

Contrary to what you are implying, this is not a simple problem with straight-forward solutions. The security model has been highly reliant on the role of gatekeepers, both in producer and consumer sides. However, the last batch of popular supply chain attacks circumvented the only failsafe in place. Beyond this point, you just have a module that runs unspecified code, just like any other module.
by hunglee2 | 2025-09-19 06:26:26+00:00
I have a theory that the family run business is going to be make a come back.

For decades, kids have spurned working in the family business in favour of going to University and getting into middle class white collar work. But that pathway is closing off and in the near future, if not already right now, the best advice is to work on your fathers bakery and make enough to get by.