MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coolspot | 2025-09-10 01:10:03+00:00
He and his family are under Secret Service protection for life, so they are not like commoners already, so it makes sense that their houses have special treatment.

On the other hand a motivated party can easily get a satellite view from Apple Maps / Google Earth or even build a 3D map using a drone (it is not a no-fly zone). So it doesn’t really contribute to VIP’s security.
by lioeters | 2025-09-10 01:10:19+00:00
Sauce: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv

> xv6 is a re-implementation of Dennis Ritchie's and Ken Thompson's Unix Version 6 (v6). xv6 loosely follows the structure and style of v6, but is implemented for a modern RISC-V multiprocessor using ANSI C.

Book from a previous year: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2024/xv6/book-riscv-rev4.pd... (PDF)
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-10 01:11:53+00:00
Heh, maybe haven't watched some of their deeper cuts; back in the day they were a lot more edgy especially with series like Plinkett Reviews. They've toned it down a bit, but they're definitely not a 'family friendly' channel in some of the content they release (not in a bad way, just... I wouldn't put on a random RLM video at a grade school function!).
by bitpush | 2025-09-10 01:11:54+00:00
> I feel that the FTC might have been better off trying to separate YouTube from Google rather than Chrome.

On what joy? The biggest mistake that DoJ did was asking to court to divest Android & Chrome. Judge took grave offense at that (read the court's opinion) and there's a school of thought that said it distracted from the whole thing.

Once you start being imprecise, all your arguments fall apart.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 01:12:56+00:00
It’s mostly that. Basically the only genres that still sell meaningful numbers are YA (with lots of adult readers, and if we want to count that as its own genre) and romance (99.9% of which isn’t more challenging than average YA, and usually has even less going on as far as ideas and theme—not to knock it, I mean hell, it’s no worse a use of time than tons of other things).

Adult genre fic, even, is dying, and lit-fic has long been in decline and has pretty much just been for a few nerds since roughly the turn of the millennium.

I think the decline of reading is exactly what’s pushed publishers and agents to favor easier and easier books: you have to pursue as much of the market as possible to make money now because the whole market’s not that big, so you can’t afford to exclude readers. That means favoring ever-easier books as readership declines.

The only other route to make a living is aiming straight at film/TV adaptation, which is very hard to break into but a handful of authors have successfully specialized in that. Their books do OK but they’re watched, as it were, way, way more than they’re read.
by corysama | 2025-09-10 01:13:19+00:00
AFAIK, "Holepunch" is the overall project which is all open source. It is composed of https://docs.pears.com/ , https://github.com/holepunchto/libpear which runs on https://github.com/holepunchto/bare/ which runs on a V8 interface to libuv.

And, then Hypercore, Hyperbee, Hyperdrive, Autobase, etc are all modules you need to get things done so you can make an app like their serverless Zoom clone https://keet.io/
by bitpush | 2025-09-10 01:14:44+00:00
> If the quantities of money paid to all the YouTube freelance advertisers is anything to go on, a video platform having their own ad network would itself be highly profitable.

Then why isnt everyone jumping at the opportunity to make a competitor? If it is soooo easy, we should have competitors. Nobody is stopping you from launching margalabargalatube.com and win the market.

Nobody, including Jeff Geerling, has an exclusive deal with YouTube to distribute the videos. Make it happen!
by pier25 | 2025-09-10 01:15:44+00:00
They did download 7M books.

> That's a far cry from the 7 million works that he initially certified as covered in the class. A breakdown from the Authors Guild—which consulted on the case and is part of a Working Group helping to allocate claims of $3,000 per work to authors and publishers—explained that "after accounting for the many duplicates," foreign editions, unregistered works, and books missing class criteria, "only approximately 500,000 titles meet the definition required to be part of the class."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics...
by abustamam | 2025-09-10 01:16:28+00:00
Yeah. It's easy to feel powerless too.

Yeah the govt has its inefficiencies, but an inefficient program that helps people is better than no program at all. So what if it means that I pay a few extra (hundred, thousand) dollars a year in taxes? If that's the cost for housing people, I'd gladly pay it.

And as if the appeal to humanity weren't enough, how about the fact that it'll keep the streets of SF and other cities cleaner?
by jmogly | 2025-09-10 01:17:25+00:00
To me it’s a problem of if a piece of information is not well represented in the training data the llm will always tend towards bad token predictions for related to said information. I think the next big thing in LLM’s could be figuring out how to tell if a token was just a “fill in” or “guess” vs a well predicted token. That way you can have some sort of governor that can kill a response if it is getting too guessy, or atleast provide some other indication that the provided tokens are likely hallucinated.

Maybe there is some way to do it based on the geometry of how the neural net activated for a token, or some other more statistics based approach, idk I’m not an expert.
by dzink | 2025-09-10 01:17:35+00:00
It’s culture led by phones and other screens. Most teens are addicted to the screens. The need them for school and for socialization with friends and they end up on TikTok or another network and zombie there for most of their best brain years. They lack the ability to focus necessary to learn because the brain is used to constant screen simulation. Letting your child be babysat by a screen is absolutely the worst thing you can do to ever raise an adult.
by OJFord | 2025-09-10 01:18:05+00:00
If stuff disappeared (even just the Youtuber rage quit, not necessarily end of the platform) and people were talking about being bothered about it I tend to think people like you would pop up with archives.

It's the really niche stuff that few if anyone would notice or care enough to talk about that would be properly lost. And if it's niche but there's a lot of care from the few, then that's one way that archivists are made.
by philjw | 2025-09-10 01:18:07+00:00
One more year on my 13 Mini then...

Liquid Glass design + This lineup is a middle-finger to ergonomics and accessibility.

I just want a non distractive phone with good battery life. E-Paper screen, compact format, yet still great cameras - maybe LoRa capability for Meshtastic / Meshcore, embedded swiss army knife.
by reenorap | 2025-09-10 01:18:12+00:00
> I remain baffled by executives' obsession with RTO

It's because although many people do work well in RTO, the vast majority don't. And the various TikTok videos showing "Day in the life of a remote worker" didn't help the cause either. I worked at a fully remote company during the pandemic and trying to get people online was almost impossible. They would disappear for hours and I would be blocked by them and it was one of the most frustrating experiences in my career.

I love working in the office, mainly for the social aspect and free food, but I need to find remote work for personal reasons. And I'm about 2 years too late because almost no one in Big Tech is allowing remote work anymore.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-10 01:19:11+00:00
> live in California and many things have changed over the years in terms of labor laws. So yes, I don't know if what I signed is relevant today (e.g. non-competes).

Unless you signed your contract in California before 1872, when you signed your contract, non competes were already illegal in California.

I challenge you to find any citation in any contract written by any BigTech company where legal would ever let them put in a contract that they guarantee that you will never have to work in an office.

> Sure, that happens all the time in minor cases. You'd be surprised how sloppy offices can be with compliance. There are still cases of discrimination that courts fine to this day.

Any company would have their team of lawyers bury your little family lawyer so as not to set a precedent. Do you think that lawyer is going to work pro bono? They are going to charge you for every hour and then not win the case. These people have eight months to find another job.

> Again, that's not for me to determine, though. That's for a firm to analyze, accept or reject. I don't know why you're questioning me about a sector I'm not involved in. Ask your "family friend" lawyer to dig up cases for you. They are much better at that than me

Because anyone who knows how the industry works knows that the entire idea of suing a company because they enforced RTO is foolhardy. What are the chances that these multi trillion dollar companies are making these kind of policies without passing them by their team of lawyers?
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-09-10 01:20:24+00:00
>Someone closer to retirement with a lot of savings and low expenses will have a completely different answer than a younger person with low savings and a family.

Maybe this is the way companies rid themselves of older workers who push back on things. The FIRE movement is huge in tech, and I imagine a not insignificant number of people have RTO as the last straw where they pull the ripcord. Personally, for me? There's no going back. The only way you could get me into the office on a regular basis is if you let me work on rovers at JPL or something.

For myself, I'd love nothing more if I could code part time in retirement, for the rest of my life, but I won't RTO to do it. If I have to leave development behind? So be it.
by tzs | 2025-09-10 01:21:04+00:00
I've got a Series 10. I've got "always on display" turned off because I do not find it useful. I've got optimized charging set to try to limit it to charging to 80%.

I generally put it on the charger every evening around 7 pm or so when I sit on the couch to do the NYT crossword and Sudoku (which come out at 7 pm in my time zone) and watch some TV or read for a while.

It then goes back on my wrist but in theater mode and with notifications silenced until morning.

It generally uses maybe 5-10% while I sleep. In the morning I turn theater mode off and un-silence notifications, and then use it to track 30-35 minutes of exercise.

It is typically still above 30% when it is time to do the next crossword.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-10 01:21:25+00:00
I think they've likely done a great job implementing it and think it will significantly improve iPhone security. I dislike the over the top marketing resembling a technical blog post. It's as if they've deployed CHERI in production with near 0 overhead rather than an incremental improvement over what standard ARM Cortex cores shipped years ago which people have been using in production.

I just want to address this part. Why shouldn't Apple advertise or market its achievements here? If they're effectively mitigating and/or frustrating real world attacks and seems to eliminate a class of security bugs, why shouldn't they boast about it; it shows that security R&D is in the forefront of the products they build which is an effective strategy for selling more product to the security conscious consumer.

Not a shill, but a shareholder, and I invest in Apple because they're at the forefront of a lot of tech.
by strcat | 2025-09-10 01:21:33+00:00
We have regular contact with many people at Google in that space and nearly no contact with anyone at Apple as a whole. Sometimes people we know go to work at Apple and become nearly radio silent about anything technical.

It's often external parties finding exploits being used in the wild and reporting it to Apple and Google. Citizen Lab, Amnesty International, etc.

We regularly receive info from people working at or previously working at companies developing exploits and especially from people at organization using those exploits. A lot of our perspective on it is based on having documentation on capabilities, technical documents, etc. from this over a long period of time. Sometimes we even get access to outdated exploit code. It's major releases bringing lots of code churn, replaced components and new mitigations which seem to regularly break exploits rather than security patches. A lot of the vulnerabilities keep working for years and then suddenly the component they exploited was rewritten so it doesn't work anymore. There's not as much pressure on them to develop new exploits regularly as people seem to think.
by truncate | 2025-09-10 01:22:28+00:00
>>> executives' obsession with RTO

I think part of it is that you don't get to feel the power on Zoom meetings. People coming to your office, or lining up for you in conference room ... that's would feel nice and give you sense of importance.

That said, if I was a manager and spend all day on meetings, I'd probably like to be in office as well and see people in person (not necessarily because of feeling important but just that I don't really like online meeting in general). As an IC, I goto office and then do all my meetings online anyway, so feels kind of pointless.
by dhx | 2025-09-10 01:23:03+00:00
What caused France to seemingly start this practice in 2020? ESRI's 2020 August basemap includes a 50cm unblurred Maxar WV02 image of Gravelines Nuclear Power Station captured on Aug 17, 2016.[1] In their 2020 September basemap revision, the same image from Maxar WV02 is then blurred.

The image chosen by ESRI (and since blurred) for their basemap until they switched it to a Jun 3, 2023 Maxar GE01 alternative image was:[2]

Catalog ID: 1030050053F98A00 Sensor: WV2 Resolution: 50 cm Min Resolution: 0.57593 Max Resolution: 0.60326 Acquisition Date: 08-17-2016 Acquisition Time: 11:18:32.379526 UTC Off-Nadir: 29.8° Sun Azimuth: 165.3° Target Az. Min: 0° Target Az. Max: 0° Target Az.: 0° Sun Elevation: 52.0° Cloud Cover: 5% Band Count: 8

If someone were to order and pay for this specific archived satellite imagery through a reseller, would it be blurred? What about newer imagery that ESRI etc haven't added to their basemaps(s)? Seemingly the blurring is being done by the likes of Google, ESRI, etc who supply public basemap imagery, and not by the organisation/company collecting the imagery off the satellite constellation?

With the expansion of China's fleet of optical and radar satellites (such as Siwei Gaojing-1 at a claimed 20-30cm resolution), is there an agreement amongst China, US, Europe, Japan (and other countries) that China will blur French power stations, and Europe will blur Chinese power stations in return? If not, I suppose anyone that cares for it will use American/European satellite imagery providers for imagery of China, and Chinese imagery providers for imagery of the US/Europe.

[1] https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#mapCenter=2.13709%2C...

[2] https://imagehunter-api.apollomapping.com/static/img/preview...
by mh- | 2025-09-10 01:23:44+00:00
To be clear, I'm not one of the people suggesting they're doing something nefarious. As I said elsewhere, I don't know what my expectations are of them at this point. I'd like early disclosure of known performance drops, I guess. But from a business POV, I understand why they're not going to be updating a status page to say "things are worsening but we're not exactly sure why".

I'm also a realist, though, and have built a career on building/operating large systems. There's obviously capability to dynamically shed load built into the system somewhere, there's just no other responsible way to engineer it. I'd prefer they slowed response times rather than harmed response quality, personally.
by Larrikin | 2025-09-10 01:24:04+00:00
You should be locally saving any video you ever think you will want to watch again. Many of the videos I enjoyed in college of regular people just making stuff for fun (when being a content creator wasn't a thing) have been taken out by reruns of copyright searching bots and creators turning 30 and being embarrassed by what they posted in their 20s. One musical artist I followed decided to take down all of their old content because their latest album wasn't getting enough plays.

I save everything with replay value now, especially music.
by macNchz | 2025-09-10 01:24:52+00:00
I found this stat a little hard to believe so I looked up what appears to be the source—it’s 81% of iPhone owners who own a smart watch https://www.statista.com/chart/31973/likelihood-of-iphone-us...

It’s hard to find a source of how many iPhone owners specifically also own a smartwatch, but in the US it seems like 35% might be a decent estimate of smartwatch ownership, so it’d be more in the realm of ~28% of iPhone owners also having an Apple Watch.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 01:25:03+00:00
To be fair, there’s also a set who think their kid needs a phone on them at all times so they can make a call if there’s a school shooting. This doesn’t make any statistical sense as a justification (it might if more “school shootings” were indiscriminate mass shootings, but only a very tiny fraction are—not to downplay them, at all, but there are a couple statistical sieves here filtering for “a personal cell phone a student had saved a life” and the very first one is already filtering it down to almost nothing) but it’s a little easier to sympathize with the basic impulse, at least.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-10 01:25:29+00:00
At this point I am like “fuck (perception of) privacy!”. I will just buy the 9a, or Pixel 10a if one releases by the time I switch from my (already large) iPhone 14. At least I won’t have to deal with the never ending shenanigans, the crazy prices, and the very real possibility that if there’s a damage it might be cheaper to buy a new one (in warranty).
by OJFord | 2025-09-10 01:25:46+00:00
They don't even offer that in the UK. Madness, imo, but true.

(iPlayer is free if you're a licence fee payer, but it's nothing close to the full back catalog, it's more like an 'aired recently' DVR with a tuner for every channel. Wouldn't at all be surprised if it's not even everything current though.)

(The Britbox joint venture with ITV was arguably closer to that, but still not, a curated collection.)
by DaveZale | 2025-09-10 01:26:04+00:00
farming is hard.

around here, cities will buy up farms just for the water rights, so the land prices are so high, nobody sane would go into that business.

forget all the high tech AI laser weeding machines. those might add an edge to large, already successful operations.

Getting started or renewing a failed operation is a 24 hour per day job. Sure, it's a crisis
by ksenzee | 2025-09-10 01:26:35+00:00
Firstly, I am a mother with two children, so no need to educate me about the bond between mother and child. Secondly, of course children love their parents. You seem to be conflating parenting with daytime childcare. This is a common misconception among people who romanticize stay-at-home parenting: it’s either “mom stays home during the workday with kids” or “the state raises the kids.” You may not be aware, since you say your mom stayed home with you, that parents whose kids are in daycare do still get a lot of parenting time in. They see their kids a lot. They feed them, clothe them, kiss their scraped knees, help them with homework, put them to bed, take them to the park and movies and church. Daycare isn’t 24/7. It’s also not some kind of robotic state-sponsored apparatus. Childcare providers are people who have chosen taking care of kids as their career, they often have a degree in early childhood education, and they love the kids they take care of.

And I do not apologize for the word “shunted.” No woman in a modern society should be forced to choose between having a child and being something other than a full-time childcare provider. Men don’t face that choice; women shouldn’t either.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-10 01:26:35+00:00
I'm ok with E-paper's capabilities, the problem is cost. Even though it can't display all the content TFT & LCD can, it costs a LOT more. I'm not a hardware person, I just looked into the cost of working on an E-paper based wall-spanning display and just stacking LCD's and doing something ugly was much cheaper. I suspect it has to do with the wholesale economics and its demand.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-10 01:26:50+00:00
The funny thing is, I get more done at the office than at home. And if I’m dressed professionally, I get more done and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt.

I’d prefer to work from home wearing pajamas but I can sympathize with why my employer wants me in the office and may even have a dress code.

Be glad you didn’t work in the development office of a bank in the 1990s, you’d be expected to wear a suit and tie to work.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 01:27:06+00:00
> That weight is perfect weight

It’s just less. Less means it hits the ground softer when I drop it. Less means I’m less pissed off when I lose my AirPods and have to hold my phone up to my ear. Less means little moments of delight over how this engineered slab of minerals can do these things.

Do you remember the ad for the first MacBook Air? Even if you didn’t connect with it, can you recognise how someone else might?
by j-bos | 2025-09-10 01:28:27+00:00
> trying to get people online was almost impossible. They would disappear for hours and I would be blocked by them

I don't understand why this is such a problem. I've even heard CEOs complain about this, about their direct reports. Child, if someone is AWOL on their job and they're blocking you, ring their boss. And if you're the boss, hold them to account. Why do so many orgs need a steamroller to level the flower beds.
by danhite | 2025-09-10 01:28:51+00:00
> The product quality matters, but it's table stakes. What matters is whether people know your brand exists and trust it enough to buy it.

On a related note, my wife today suggested we buy a replacement Ninja toaster oven for just half the price I'd seen anywhere from a website odd~name.shop that I'd never heard of... the site looked normal, even slick, but a little research turns up the domain didn't exist a month ago.

Now perhaps this is a new business that failed to mention that fact, instead of an AI generated scam website, but I could not be certain without more effort than I wished to exert.

And this is a simple example of my worries from OP's line of thinking--I fear that AI will be increasingly bulldozing us past our cognitive capacity to function normally.
by xyst | 2025-09-10 01:29:34+00:00
> ... One of the maintainers read through this text and found it somewhat reasonable. He followed the link (now defunct) to a website hosted under the domain npmjs.help. This website contained a pixel-perfect copy of the npmjs.com website. He logged in using the duckdb_admin user and password, followed by 2FA. Again, the user profile, settings etc. were a perfect copy of the npmjs.com website including all user data. As requested by the email, he then re-set the 2FA setup.

This is absolutely wild that this did not raise _any_ red flags to this person.

red flag: random reset for 2FA ??? red flag: npmjs.help ??? red flag: user name and password not autofilled by browser ??? red flag: copy and pasting u/p combo into phishing site

If _developers_ can't even get this right. Why do we expect dumb users to get this right? We are so cooked.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-10 01:29:50+00:00
Your assumption that they use more than one domain by accident due to a lack of coördination is not correct. Separating, e.g. your product email from your mailing list email from your corporate email has a number of benefits.

Anyway, I already mentioned a solid incentive for them to use the correct token. Go back and read my earlier comment.