MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gonzopancho | 2025-09-09 06:06:44+00:00
yes, I contracted with Matt Macy, and I'd do it again, but he's well-employed now.

Funny how you didn't complain about his current employment at AWS, or his previous work at iX Systems (trueNAS, primarily responsible for the port of ZFS on Linux to FreeBSD) or the fact that the whole epoch based reclamation in the FreeBSD kernel is based on his work.
by nananana9 | 2025-09-09 06:06:55+00:00
I use the same setup, on Windows Linux and Android. It will break when they decide to roll out their aggressive anti-adblock measures more widely, currently they seem to be A/B testing and turning it on and off at random.

I'm surprised they haven't gone for the "refuse to serve the video stream for 20 seconds or however long the ad would take" card yet, although it's probably a matter of time.
by hilbert42 | 2025-09-09 06:07:19+00:00
Well, perhaps my system is better than I thought. The site could not resolve anything until I turned JavaScript on (JS off is my normal default state)—it continued to poll and displayed nothing indefinitely (had to be terminated).

When I turned JS on it could not determine my machine type, got screen reso wrong and it provided incorrect location info (map and coordinates were wrong). Moreover the browser type was incorrect (but then I automatically randomize the browser type on each launch).
by beAbU | 2025-09-09 06:07:41+00:00
> trucks don’t make sense at all, they can’t tow unless you want to recharge every 100 miles. Also range is severely reduced offroading.

Most truck drivers will never tow a thing in their lives, and they will almost certainly never offroad (unless you count the leaves on the driveway)

EV trucks make perfect sense in that context.
by whacked_new | 2025-09-09 06:08:40+00:00
I wanted to track my progress to the highest level of detail possible. The motor motions are somewhat similar, but slightly more complex, than typing on the keyboard. But since I already type fluently I wouldn't be able to get as fresh data, so the soroban was a nice other task.

The main goals were to track learning progress and truly experience what it meant to have a virtual abacus in my mind's eye.

Honored to get a comment from you!
by kstenerud | 2025-09-09 06:08:57+00:00
In C, sure. C is a dangerous language of its time.

But these contracts don't make things better.

Now you're removing control from the user. So now if an allocation fails, you crash. No way to recover from it. No getting an error signal back (NULL) so that you can say "OK, I need to clear up some memory and then try again". (Note that I'm not saying that inline error signaling such as NULL is good design - it's not).

Nope. No error handling. No recovery. You crash. And ain't nothing you can do about it.

That's just bad design on top of the existing bad design. Things that crash your app are bad. No need to add even more.
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by pmontra | 2025-09-09 06:10:57+00:00
We had static ads. We called them banners and websites abused them. Some sites were so bad that it was challenging to find content between horizontal and vertical banners. Animated GIFs followed soon and then everything else we know. Some sites are still as bad as those old ones. I'm can't believe what eyes are seeing any time I look at friends browsing on their computers.
by dcanelhas | 2025-09-09 06:11:53+00:00
If you look at timescales large enough you will find that plenty of extinction level events actually do happen (the anthropocene is right here).

We are living in a historically excepcional time of geological, environmental, ecological stability. I think that saying that nothing ever happens is like standing downrange to a stream of projectiles and counting all the near misses as evidence for your future safety. It's a bold call to inaction.
by roughly | 2025-09-09 06:12:15+00:00
I am strongly politically aligned with the intention behind ICEBlock, but the app itself has always struck me as the work of someone who is either dangerously underinformed about the practical implications of computer security when pissing off federal paramilitary groups or who is absolutely insane. There might be a way to make something like ICEBlock that isn’t an unintentional honeypot, but the fact that this was on the fucking App Store didn’t give me a lot of hope it was built that way.

At some point, the fact that this is on Apache 2.Old.Vulnerable is an interesting detail, but I honestly don’t know how you’d make this app secure against the actual threat model here no matter what version of anything you’re running. Dude’s way out past where patching against CVEs is sufficient.
by maxglute | 2025-09-09 06:12:35+00:00
>open systems they built have successfully addressed longstanding gridlock

TW democratization started in 90s, the system is young by democratic standards, IMO more accurate to say sufficient time has passed that TW system has now accumulated gridlock problems like other consolidated democracies which partisan politics are increasingly unable to resolve. Hence partisan brawls, long delays in budget bills, stalled constitutional reforms. The patient is getting sicker.

On one hand, the recall failure is sign that system is working, on the other hand it's your generic democracy is referendum on incumbent, i.e. voters can express dissatisfaction of party in power, but that really doesn't resolve the underlying problem that structurally intractable issues likely also can't be resolved by alternate parties because addressing them is too politically costly - switching leadership will get you back to square one because no party can square the political calculus of doing difficult things without rapidly losing power. So they don't, choosing to slowly bleeding power as voters get disenfranchised and realize there is no change coming. Which is not to say they can't, but IMO one of the reasons why norm under capitalism to not have Nice Things.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-09 06:12:43+00:00
It’s equally possibly to fail for going too fast while still under the speed limit.

What you’re supposed to do is drive at a speed that gives you chance to react to dangers given your visibility and road surface conditions.

For country roads, they’re typically winding rather than straight. So more often than not, that means you shouldn’t be travelling much past 30mph.

But you are right that straight stretches do exist. They’re just not as common on such roads.
by maxbond | 2025-09-09 06:13:19+00:00
Welp, I've never been on an Amtrak with a Viewliner, so my mistake, but I've ridden the Amtrak many times and have never seen that particular style of railcar. They've always been two-story, and apparently that's a one-story railcar (presumably why they need to economize space like that).

Wikipedia says that they're primarily used on the east coast, so that's probably why I've not seen one. I've ridden all over the lines west of Chicago. I'd love to do their new Chicago to Miami line sometime, so perhaps I'll have the privilege.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-09 06:13:34+00:00
I somehow missed Malenia. I'm level 125 (not doing the PVP meta, just happen to be this level) and was pounding my face against Radagon and the Elden Beast. I downed Radagon on my first attempt, then after like 10 more tries couldn't get him again.

I avoided reading the Elden Ring wiki as much as possible. I decided to open it up and found how to get to Malenia, so I'll be fighting my way over there and gaining a few more levels before trying Radagon and Elden Beast again.

> The music and feints are absolutely diabolical for playing with your emotions and heightening your stress.

The feints are what really get me. Some of the wind-ups for attacks feel like an eternity, or at the very least, extremely unnatural, making it very hard to time a dodge.
by jnsaff2 | 2025-09-09 06:13:42+00:00
> Or is "reinstatement" simply something the lawyers just have to ask for, to ostensibly make him whole, but they actually neither want nor expect that?

“Reinstatement” is usually a legal formality in whistleblower cases: lawyers ask for it because the law says the remedy for retaliation is to make the employee whole, and it strengthens the case even if nobody expects it to happen. In reality, returning to the job is almost never feasible, so the request mostly serves as leverage for a financial settlement.
by efortis | 2025-09-09 06:15:01+00:00
Three tips:

Record the interactions (you, and with test subjects too). You’ll see more things.

Study competing UIs. Consciously reverse engineer their UIs. Don't know what you like but get the idea:

- PhotoShop vs Gimp - Maya vs Blender - Excel vs Numbers - FCP vs Premier vs Resolve - Finder vs Explorer

Watch youtubers using them. For example, music composers have very interesting and different programs UI-wise. Or DJs, which need interfaces for live-performance.

Then give it a twist and use not directly competing programs that can be used for a similar goal. For example, for UI design:

- Figma vs Illustrator vs Inkscape vs PowerPoint vs PhotoShop vs Word vs Excel vs plain text
by scrubs | 2025-09-09 06:15:35+00:00
Right in absolute terms capitalism is fine. What's not fine? Corporate control without commensurate accountability at a corporate and personal level MDs and above; the fact that since Ragean corporate control has been in the ascendancy with top 5% more or less seeing all increases in net value or income.

Add on musk's trillion dollar payout proposal, no criminal prosecutions for 2008 housing crisis, cities paying for stadiums, corps ducking us taxes, offshore funds or corps for tax dodgers, and a general sense it's one set of rules for the top 5% and real reality for everyone else. Also add on us Healthcare, housing, and higher education is too expensive for the bottom 70% ... and you've got problems.
by zokier | 2025-09-09 06:16:04+00:00
I know the answer to this. The ext4 filesystem that openwrt creates by default is just janky. To get well-working filesystem that you can resize etc, you need to build custom image with a small patch to fix up the ext4 fs creation.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/7729#issuecomment-...

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/compare/main...zokier:ope...

This is exactly the sort of thing why I'd want a openwrt for "big" devices. But I should get that patch also merged upstream...
by troupo | 2025-09-09 06:16:11+00:00
I keep seeing people say this: "I pay for YouTube Premium. For my money, it’s the best bang-for-the-buck subscription service on the market" and I don't understand.

For me, Premium's only value proposition is removing ads. Recommendations are still the same (quite shitty). Search is unusable (4 relevant results then unrelated recommendations). Shorts are pushed aggressively no matter how many times you hide them. Search in history will often not find even something you just watched a few days ago.

It's the same Youtube.
by maltelandwehr | 2025-09-09 06:17:23+00:00
Youtube is a top 3 cited domain for many LLMs-based search and answer engines. So it should we one of the few domains that actually get significant clicks from ChatGPT, Perplexity & Co.

Looking at my own behavior, I have to agree though. For stuff for which I used to look for a video tutorial, I now ask ChatGPT.
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by KingOfCoders | 2025-09-09 06:17:43+00:00
I think everything depends on circumstances.

I've used laptops for 15+ years (transitioned from a Mac Cube to a white Macbook. Macbook Pro etc.) but have migrated to a desktop some years ago (first iMac Pro, now AMD), as I work at my desk and when I'm not at my desk I'm not working.

Some years ago I got a 3900X and a 2080TI. And they still work fine, and I don't have performance problems, and although I thought of getting PCI5/NVMe with a 9950x3d/395+ (or a Threadripper), I just don't need it. I've upgraded the SSDs several times for speed and capacity (now at the PCI4/M2 limit and don't want to go into RAID), and added solar panels and a battery pack for energy usage, but I'm fine otherwise.

Indeed I want to buy a new CPU and GPU, but I don't find enough reasons (though might get a Mac Studio for local AI).

But I understand your point if you need a laptop, I just decided I no longer need one, and get more power with faster compiling for less money.
by DocTomoe | 2025-09-09 06:17:55+00:00
It's bad enough we got extra work for those who use adblockers. Wasting peoples' time and attention for not using one (out of personal choice or necessity) feels like overreach.

It's also deeply paternalistic: Even if it is meant well - and I assume that's the case here - it implies the site operator knows better than the user what is good for them.

Finally, this will also lower the guards of less technical users for installing random plug-ins on website demand.

From a subjective gut feeling: Please do not do this. Let people decide what they need, and what they don't need.
by camel-cdr | 2025-09-09 06:18:11+00:00
Neon has it worse, because it's harder to scale issue width then vector length.

Zen5 has four issue 512-bit ALUs, current Arm processors have been stuck at four issue 128-bit for years.

Issue width scales quadratically, while vector length mostly scales linearly.

Intel decided it is easier to rewrite all performance critical applications thrice then to go wider than four issue SIMD.

It will have to be seen if Arm is in a position to push software ro adopt SVE, but currently it looks very bleak, with much of the little SVE code thats out there just assuming 128-bit SVE, because thats what all of the hardware is.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-09 06:19:15+00:00
These are very long term bets. MS isn't betting much here, just staying involved just in case. Which is prudent but not much of a commitment. A big commitment for a trillion dollar company would have a big dollar value. Like billions of dollars. That's not what's happening here.

I like the idea of small reactors from a technical point of view. But I'm also a realist. To match current renewables growth (or even put a minor dent in it), many tens of thousands of these things are needed. They don't put out a lot of energy. In wind number of turbines it's something like 2-5 turbines per reactor. There already are tens of thousands of wind turbines. Plonking down a few hundred wind turbines is routine business. Getting the first small reactor online is still in progress.

In other words, small reactors are not happening anytime soon. Certainly not in the next decade. If there are a few hundred active small reactors in 15 years that would be really amazing. And if that happens at a reasonable cost (big if) relative to wind, solar, and batteries, that would be even better. But we'll be well into the second half of this century before these things are putting a dent into other sources of energy. And that's only if it all works out in terms of cost and technology. 25 years is not that long in nuclear. Long planning cycles are common. These things have a lot to prove.

I'm skeptical on especially the cost aspect. Nuclear proponents tend to gloss over the fact that nuclear has always been expensive. Things like waste handling and security add extra cost and small reactors just complicate that further. Small reactors have a lot to prove and the rosy projections tend to dodge the harder issues here. There's a lot of magical thinking around this topic.

In any case, a few hundred of these things would be a meaninglessly small drop in the ocean in terms of energy output. It's not coming even close to the yearly growth with solar, wind, and batteries. And MS needs data centers sooner than even those would be coming online. And the energy to power them. Wherever that's going to come from, it's (mostly) not going to be nuclear any time soon. Unless they drastically scale down their AI expansion plans. And long term this is a cost game. MS is going to need lots of cheap energy. Expensive energy just raises its cost. Unless small reactors fix the cost issue, MS won't be using a lot of small reactors.
by LocalH | 2025-09-09 06:20:07+00:00
Fun fact: Nintendo originally had the idea to make other games available in such a way that you could download them to a GC memory card (or indeed the N64 original) and play them from there.

https://youtu.be/2w0U_evVEd4

https://youtu.be/A5YdD1pYzes + https://youtu.be/0cpjhIS6ClI
by bsder | 2025-09-09 06:20:19+00:00
Maybe the technical aspects of the book are okay.

However, the big problem with legacy code is always political. And the only book I've seen ever try to address that is "Kill It with Fire".

It's one of the few books that talks about the need to keep your team motivated and plugged into the political system given that they are working on the thing that's super important but also almost invisible. You need to be constantly selling what is going on in front of the important eyeballs.

Unfortunately, a lot of the anecdotes have an undercurrent of "Until the system has actively exploded into a million pieces such that somebody with real power has their ass on the line, don't bother."
by jjav | 2025-09-09 06:20:27+00:00
> Like every tech company, Apple has used proprietary technologies when necessary to deliver an experience that meets its (including its users') requirements.

That's a very rosy, even naive, view of the relentless move to proprietary walled gardens over the last 30 years.

Apple, like nearly every tech company, uses proprietary extensions to lock users into their ecosystem and to lock out standards-compliant open source implementations.

In 1990 everything interoperated with everything based on open, standard protocols published in RFCs. Today, interoperability is a legacy exception and the norm is proprietary walled gardens that only serve their owner. Everything the Internet was not supposed to be. We on the Internet used to make for of the people locked inside AOL, and now the whole Internet is basically AOL.
by noduerme | 2025-09-09 06:20:33+00:00
For anyone who struggles to understand what fascism is, the comment above is fascist trolling in its purest form.

And here's why:

The essence of fascism is to explain away hatred toward other groups of people by dehumanizing them. The hatred of an outside group is necessary, in the fascist framework, to organize one group of people into a unit who will follow a leader unquestioningly. Taking part in crimes against the outside group helps bind these people to the leader, who absolves them of their normal sense of guilt.

A fascist will use "fascist" to sarcastically refer to themselves in ridiculous scenarios, e.g. as a human defending humanity against robots, or a human exterminating rats. All of this is to knowingly deploy it in a way that destigmatizes being called a fascist, while also suggesting that murderous measures taken by past fascist movements have not been genocidal, but have been defending humans against subhumans. I'm not joking. Supposedly taking pride in being an anti-AI fascist is just a new twist on a very old troll. It's designed to mock and make light of mass murder, by suggesting that e.g. Nazism was no different from a populist movement defending themselves against machines, e.g. Jews.

Don't be seduced by the above comment's attempt at absurdist humor. This type of humor is typical of fascist dialect. It aims to amuse the simple-minded with superficial comparisons. It is deep deception disguised as harmless humor. Its true purpose has nothing to do with humans versus AI. Its dual purposes are to whitewash the meaning of fascism and to compare slaughtering "sub human groups" to defending humanity against AI.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 06:20:53+00:00
That stuff happens because Microsoft don't know what the behavior is. It's just a bit which forks Word down some ancient code path that nobody understands and isn't properly documented. Given the huge effort that would have gone into producing this thousand plus page specification, is understandable why the spec writers would have given up at times.

I expect most people posting on Hacker News would not be able to write a satisfactory specification for their own software if they are working a large legacy code base.
by Frieren | 2025-09-09 06:20:54+00:00
> Future generations, who will be dealing with long, dry summers, would probably be shocked at the profligate way clean tap water was used to flush toilets, water gardens and run washing machines.

Climate change means societal change. There was a time that Northern Africa was one of the best places in the world to grow crops. They were at the top of civilization for thousands of years. Climate changed, what people could grow and do changed too.

The difference this time is that we did this to ourselves. Even worse that we continue making our future prospects worse on purpose so a few oil countries can squish some extra money from earth. It is baffling the lack of foresight.
by zkmon | 2025-09-09 06:21:05+00:00
Exactly my feelings. I don't have fb and IG, and I feel left out. Also when I go to India, the local shops, unless they are really big, don't accept credit card or cash. The physical wallet has vanished. But in fairness, it is far easier for them to have online presence via IG or fb and reach their actual customers (not you and me).