MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cameronh90 | 2025-09-27 03:43:56+00:00
It's more that the average Brit finds a way to be upset about everything any UK government does. Even just the test of the cell emergency alert system was met with fierce public criticism: what if people crash their car out of surprise?!

But being critical of your leaders isn't the worst thing in the world. It's fairly bipartisan too; most of the people who voted for our current PM just a year ago now disapprove of him. A high level of public scrutiny on one's leaders' is probably quite effective at preventing totalitarianism. Whatever can be (often justifiably) said about our ineffective leadership, what we do have is a good track record for stability.

However, sometimes it's really just cynicism for cynicism's sake.
by bsder | 2025-09-27 03:47:33+00:00
> so why create Wayland when we had X

Because X11 had a lot of issues that got papered over with half-baked extensions and weird interfaces to the kernel.

The problem is that Wayland didn't feel like doing the work to make fundamental things like screen sharing, IMEs, copy-paste, and pointer warping actually ... you know ... work.

The problem Wayland now has is that they're finally reaching something usable, but they took so long that the assumptions they made nearly 20 years ago are becoming as big a problem as the issues that were plaguing X11 when Wayland started. However, the sunk cost fallacy means that everybody going to keep pounding on Wayland rather than throwing it out and talking to graphics cards directly.

And client rendered decorations was always just a mind bogglingly stupid decision--but that's a Gnome problem rather than a Wayland issue.
by inetknght | 2025-09-27 03:48:03+00:00
> So you're blocking yourself?

That's like saying that you're blocking yourself when installing an adblocker.

No, it's for safety and hygiene.

> Seems really disingenuous to imply it's someone's fault

That's because it is. I didn't make the web and I don't work on websites. But I have to deal with it because some fucking dumbasses decided they wanted to save some server cycles by offloading all the hard work onto the client and ruining internet safety in the process, while also offloading the cost of power and performance onto users.

So if disabling javascript is what's needed to keep my safety? So be it. If it breaks some asshats' websites, then they're websites I don't want to use anyway.
by zzo38computer | 2025-09-27 03:48:37+00:00
Having different protocols that are useful for different purposes and adding diversity to a monoculture could be helpful, but this one doesn't seem to be that good.

It has mandatory TLS (even though I think optional TLS is better), and a mandatory HANDSHAKE command (even though TLS already has the domain name before you can connect), some arbitrary limits, and does not actually add anything that is helpful nor remove many things that should be removed.

It does use a different DNS, although I think this should be done at a different level, rather than specific to the application protocol, and it should not use JSON.

It also uses Lua instead of JavaScript (I looked at the documentation of the provided functions and of its working, and I think it isn't really much of an improvement), and adds a <postprocess> command (which can make it hard to read), etc, but not really much of an improvement.

My opinion is, I think it is not really worth much and is not very good. (There are other things some people (including myself) have done with new protocols, some of which are actually good, but some of them (such as this one) isn't really so good to me.)
by marvin-hansen | 2025-09-27 03:49:13+00:00
I got a moonlander for programming. The defaulting tenting is indeed a lame joke, so I got the platform, which is made out of steel(!). It's heavy, but rock solid and stable. I mapped commonly used Fn-key combos on the number rows as long press i.e. cmd-Fn-4 is a long press on 4. The web UI makes this dead simple to setup and customize. That said, I read from the guy who build the Svalboard to put the keyboard on a tray below the desk. I actually did that and, man, that was a revelation. I have one of those motorized desks with adjustable height, and with the tray the Moonlander is now roughly on the same level as the arm rest from the chair. It reduced the tension in my shoulders noticeably. It's a vastly improved typing experience.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-27 03:52:44+00:00
And also, for this price you can get a really nice N100/N150 laptop with a full HD IPS screen. That'll be faster too.

I think the raspberry pi is still a nice niche for when you need the combination of GPIO and fast processing (like a small AI model or something). But it really is a very small niche. If you just need GPIO but don't need to do much with the data, just pump it to WiFi or something? Just get an ESP32 (or pico pi though I prefer the ESP). Need a small light energy server? Just get a N100 nuc style box with 16/256 for 90€. Need to actually work on it? Get a Chuwi laptop for 180€

The pi used to be great to embed into electronics projects. But it's no longer cheap and it's overpowered, microcontrollers have WiFi now and cost a few bucks. And usually a full Linux environment isn't needed.

It also used to be a great little cheap server but Intel now makes cheaper and faster options and on AliExpress you can buy them with more memory and storage and PSU and case included for a price the pi goes for without those things.

It was nice while it lasted. But during the long shortage during the pandemic (and them prioritising OEMs so we were stuck with scalper prices) most of us makers and techies have moved on to better options.
by visarga | 2025-09-27 03:53:31+00:00
I would use Deep Research mode outputs. Sometimes I run multiple of these in parallel on different models, then compare between them to catch hallucinations. If I wanted to publish that, I would also doublecheck each citation link.

I think the idea is sound, the potential is to have a much larger AI-wikipedia than the human one. Can it cover all known entities, events, concepts and places? All scientific publications? It could get 1000x larger than Wikipedia and be a good pre-training source of text.

Covering a topic I would not make the AI agent try to find the "Truth" but just to analyze the distribution of information out there. What are the opinions, who has them? I would also test a host of models in closed book mode and put an analysis of how AI covers the topic on its own, it is useful information to have.

This method has the potential to create much higher quality text than usual internet scrape, in large quantities. It would be comparative analysis text connecting across many sources, which would be better for the model than training on separate pieces of text. Information needs to circulate to be understood better.
by apatheticonion | 2025-09-27 03:53:45+00:00
I could be wrong but I don't think you can set shell variables from the pipe, right?

echo "export FOO=bar" | bash echo $FOO

I am trying to set the variables in the current shell

eval $(echo "echo 'export FOO=bar'" | bash) echo $FOO

So my script writes variables to stdout and redirects everything else to stderr. I use this to update a `.bashrc` while also updating the current shell
by tbossanova | 2025-09-27 03:54:06+00:00
Well, I think in this example someone else wrote down “buy milk”. Of course I would generally know what that’s likely to mean, and not buy the ridiculous thing. But someone from a culture that’s not used to using milk could easily get confused and buy the wrong thing, to further the example. I guess my point was that it’s never possible to completely unambiguously define when a task is done without assuming some amount of shared knowledge with the person completing the task that lets them figure out what you meant and fill in any gaps
by mewse-hn | 2025-09-27 04:00:59+00:00
I'm a mech keyboard enthusiast and an ansi 104 full size ride-or-die

> (Because subcultures are subdivided recursively, the _gaming_ mechanical keyboard subcrowd also often like small keyboards, for reasons I don't really know but are presumably quite different from the reasons the ergonomic mechanical keyboard subcrowd have.)

The explanation I've always heard for TKL for gamers is that removing the numpad leaves more room for the vigorous, professional mousing they have to do (I'm skeptical)
by dang | 2025-09-27 04:02:48+00:00
Your post got picked for the second-chance pool (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) - deservedly so! but before it got its random chance at the frontpage, a different submission of the same article ended up getting attention randomly. Does that make sense?

I'm sorry—it's a rare case where the SCP and the dupe detector collide, and it's on my list to fix...
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-09-27 04:03:07+00:00
> This is kind of absurd, I have been on busses all over the country, a metro bus, is a metro bus. There are not really differences based on topography or climate.

That’s because your job was passenger.

From the drivers perspective: configuration should absolutely match the terrain and the expected route. For example: an Allison AT545 transmission without a lockup torque converter will be hell in the mountain and hill climbs of Colorado, possibly even dangerous. Whereas it may serve perfectly fine in Nebraska.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-09-27 04:04:44+00:00
Different people have different body chemistries. For many people, these supplements can help provide something their body might lack or process differently than other people. In many ways, it's no different than drugs (like medications). The actual line is really just an artificial boundary put in place by regulatory bodies.

I know I've seen _major_ life improvements with the addition of a few key supplements.
by iainctduncan | 2025-09-27 04:05:10+00:00
These things are the composition equivalent of Guitar Hero...

They give users (players?) a sense of agency, making it satisfying. But in reality, you're no more composing than a guitar-hero player is playing the guitar, and nor will you learn how to from doing so. No matter how sophisticated the transformations in an LLM, you're ultimately using other people's music in a sophisticated mashup game.

However, in guitar hero, the people's who's music was being used at least got royalties. :-/
by kovariance | 2025-09-27 04:05:48+00:00
Chris Rackauckas gave a thoughtful comment here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gspuMS1hSQo&lc=UgybMqt_1cv76Q5aT...

Here, he mentions how ahead-of-time compilation may be an essential feature to allow Julia to integrate well with embedded systems.

AoT compilation has been a hot topic for quite a while since the lack of it (albeit partially supported in 1.12 with significant limitations) limits the ability to deploy Julia in many environments (embedded, serverless, browsers).
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-27 04:06:14+00:00
> If I choose not to integrate, and to instead practice particularly illiberal approaches to women, for example, is that still my decision? If my culture uses rape and acid to control women, may I continue?

You’re now conflating culture with crime.

And are you honestly suggesting that other cultures have literally nothing to offer asides violent sexual offences?!

Ridiculous.

> If immigration was purely unfounded scapegoating, and we all could simply talk about our heritage and share new foods in these borderless economic zones that used to be countries, why would there be articles like these popping up

The first article is debunking headline claims about immigration. Ostensibly supporting my claims.

The second article is just a commentary of the government’s plans to deport.

Neither of them defend your position.
by robertdaniels | 2025-09-27 04:06:38+00:00
The AT Protocol's approach to decentralized data repositories is excellent for empowering users with greater control, but it also creates vulnerabilities to automated abuse, such as bots disrupting event streams or fabricating repositories to distribute spam. I've integrated Sceptive bl0ck API to access IP and behavioral intelligence, which has reduced false positives from aggressive crawlers by at least 70% on my setup.
by Tallain | 2025-09-27 04:06:48+00:00
The DSM isn't the only book, and is not the singular source of diagnosis around the world, so believing that because CPTSD is not in the DSM and therefore doesn't exist is also disingenuous.

The ICD does have an entry for Complex PTSD, but it may not match what many people think of as CPTSD, which from what I see is closer to what Bessel van der Kolk called "developmental trauma."
by yashau | 2025-09-27 04:07:15+00:00
I have tried to use it but it's a bit cumbersome to use for me. I don't want to manually browse the categories I just want to see everything (that I need) on the landing page. It also makes wildly inefficient to use on a desktop/laptop that has more screen real estate than a phone. Until then I will continue to use https://brutalist.report on my computer to catch up on news.
by eth0up | 2025-09-27 04:08:10+00:00
Molicell?

I have one in 21700 and it seems a great battery so far. Otherwise I'm a Panasonic guy.

I ask because it sits on my forehead, inside a headlamp. Having my hands tied, addressing a problem quickly might be difficult. And them rascals get toasty fast when they ignite.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-27 04:08:47+00:00
Yeah same here. Caddy is so well designed. I hated traefik from the start and even though it works now I still hate it. The moment I used caddy everything was clear and just worked. Basically what nginx used to be 15 years earlier. But it didn't really keep up with the times and they care more about the commercial thing now.
by sharkweek | 2025-09-27 04:08:50+00:00
It’s been what… 15-20 years since the ads ran but…

“I HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT BUT I NEED CASH NOW!!

CALL JG WENTWORTH, 877-CASH-NOW!!”

It pops into my head at least once a month, and it sits for 1-3 days on repeat in my brain. I swear it was some MK-Ultra level psyops level writing, whoever came up with those commercials.
by vunderba | 2025-09-27 04:09:09+00:00
Reminds me of the Spider of Doom which was a similar issue where "Get/Delete" links were hidden by simple javascript to see if the user was logged in. All of a sudden pages and content on the website began to mysteriously vanish.

You know what doesn't care about Javascript and tries to click every link on your page? A search engine's web crawler.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Spider_of_Doom
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-27 04:09:38+00:00
I don't understand the semantics of what you're saying. "Always" simply has no referent outside the dimension of time in this universe. Even in the context of a multiverse, if you accept such a concept as somehow "existing" outside of all possible empirical observation, time (or "always", or the past tense for that matter) has no obvious semantics. I will go so far as to say there's just as little that we can meaningfully state about the multiverse as we can about the flying spaghetti monster. But perhaps I'm just being dense.
by dangus | 2025-09-27 04:10:10+00:00
I think the other issue here is that there's a serious question of why bother "upgrading" your social media from closed to open when we've all figured out that it's bad for you, worsens your mood, and generally wastes your time?

If I'm going to delete my Facebook/Instagram account then why am I trying to pick up a new drug to replace it?
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-27 04:12:50+00:00
Is there some reason this wasn't done 100 years ago? 50? 30?

Methane outgassing/flaring from oil extraction operations has been going on the entire time we've been oil drilling. Why didn't the oil companies extract this resource?

And who is c3es? Wikipedia says they are a rename from the Pew Center for Global Climate. It may be a logical fallacy to question the motives of an argument, but it isn't a policy fallacy to know the motives.
by collinfunk | 2025-09-27 04:13:57+00:00
Interesting, there must be something wrong here. Here is a benchmark using the same commit and default options other than adjusting '--with-openssl=[yes|no]':

$ dd if=/dev/random of=input bs=1000 count=$(($(echo 10G | numfmt --from=iec) / 1000)) 10737418+0 records in 10737418+0 records out 10737418000 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 86.3693 s, 124 MB/s $ time ./src/sha256sum-libcrypto input b3e702bb55a109bc73d7ce03c6b4d260c8f2b7f404c8979480c68bc704b64255 input real 0m16.022s $ time ./src/sha256sum-nolibcrypto input b3e702bb55a109bc73d7ce03c6b4d260c8f2b7f404c8979480c68bc704b64255 input real 0m39.339s

Perhaps there is something wrong with the detection on your system? As in, you do not have this at the end of './configure':

$ grep -F 'HAVE_OPENSSL_' lib/config.h #define HAVE_OPENSSL_MD5 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_MD5_H 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_SHA1 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_SHA256 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_SHA3 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_SHA512 1 #define HAVE_OPENSSL_SHA_H 1
by freejazz | 2025-09-27 04:14:29+00:00
>Oy! Why do people do what?

Give an AI-slop response and pretend it's informative or helpful for the discussion. And now you're arguing about what it told you! But you have no idea what of it is real, let alone accurate. The whole thing is facially wrong. Why would they be arguing its like the coca cola or nike marks? It's not. It's a mark made from a now-expired copyrightable work. That's not true of the nike or coca cola marks. I guess you didn't realize that? That's my point.

>That would have to be argued in court

And? People make specious arguments in court all the time.

>The rulings on a trademark case would simply be based on the intent or likelihood to mislead people into believing there's an endorsement or association there.

Yeah. There's a huge disclaimer that says this it is not endorsed by Disney.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-27 04:16:02+00:00
> That's what makes this system so great, you don't see what other people you don't even know say

But how do you get started? Are you saying you only look at blogs of people who you've met in real life and who told you their blog URL? Even that is unrealistic because lots of blogs link to other blogs. Why should I be okay with following a link from one blog post to another blog post but not okay with seeing a comment on a blog post?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-27 04:16:25+00:00
Okay… Unity and Unreal have a lot less focus than Bevy, but are much better game engines. They will be shipping more great games every day than Bevy will in the next year, including beloved meaningful ones, like Silksong and Indiecute and Cuddlygame or whatever. And hardly anyone there, like most big corpo employees, is directly benefitted from the better games, they get paid the same amount of money, but the rub is also, everyone I know working at Unity and Epic is really sincere and loves games.

Of course I understand these are different things. Bevy is not at all competing with Unity.

Because Bevy is trying to be best GITHUB OPEN SOURCE game engine. I’m just trying to be a little jocular about how… you know, I didn’t say unfocused, but surely it seems a little silly to write 3000 words in response to a community worried about which open source social media federation protocols to adopt. That giant thread IS the product, it makes perfect sense from the POV that Bevy is trying to be the best OPEN SOURCE GITHUB GAME ENGINE, in the same way that Mr Beast is making the best YOUTUBE videos or Egyptology professors are making the best EGYPTOLOGY writing or painters are making the best PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL FINE ART or whatever. I like Bevy!
by bruce511 | 2025-09-27 04:16:54+00:00
Yeah, I suspect this is very country and region specific.

In my country I don't have health insurance. I've noticed that medical providers charge me less on discovering that. Party (I suspect) because I'll pay immediately so there's no financial cost (ie cost of delayed cash flow) and much lower admin cost (ie they don't need to deal with insurers.)

In some places I've seen signs advertising 30% discount if you "pay now, claim back from your insurance yourself". This informs my hypothesis that providers see the insurance system as a major overhead.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-27 04:18:04+00:00
I get they won't disappear entirely, but what are the applications that 200-225 wh/kg LFP and forthcoming 175 wh/kg sodium ion can't handle with their much better safety profiles?

For higher density applications, semi-solid state is coming for nickel/cobalt chemistry lithium ion, and it has much better fire safety.
by est | 2025-09-27 04:18:20+00:00
I really hope ATProto considered static-hosting by design.

Like RSS, people can host it on github pages, a service would poll it periodically to aggregate.

This would lower the barrier of entry by a large margin.

Maybe not all of bsky functions are viable, but I hope certain core part of "open social" can happen in this way.

But ATProto chose wss:// isntead.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-27 04:19:32+00:00
> Unchecked immigration is the top reason that western populations are shifting rightward

There never has been unchecked immigration despite what various hard-right publications might say.

> to change their ways to accommodate your beliefs

Literally no one is advocating that the UK should change its culture to suit any beliefs of immigrants.

Being inclusive doesn’t mean we have to change our own culture. Unless, that is, you consider xenophobia a “cultural” problem. And if you do, then I don’t think changing people’s attitudes there is an unfair ask.

The real reason society is shifting rightwards isn’t directly due to immigration. That’s actually a symptom of the shift, not the cause.

The real reason is poverty and greed. The wealth gap is grown, the rich have gotten more greedy and the working class have gotten poorer. So people want change. The right promises change by scapegoating people who are different. And then the the poor vote for that change, without realising that they’re just voting for the institution that screwed them over to begin with. As evidenced by the fact that the wealthy largely also vote for the right.

You see this cycle over and over again in history throughout the world. Unfortunately it’s usually followed by war.
by fathermarz | 2025-09-27 04:21:05+00:00
As someone who has been producing music for 20 years, this is absolutely incredible. I remember when I started building things from samples in FL4 and just how mind bending that was. I am so excited for this to actually get new ORIGINAL samples.

What people miss is since the creation of Splice, basically all new music that isn’t from an already established artist is paint by numbers. You can get any sample in any key that are given to splice by artists. You probably hear a lot of the same sounds in most modern music. This breaks that open.

The Suno team has been doing this exactly right and this is just another step in their evolution.

Major congrats to the product team for this, I can’t wait to see the next iteration!
by maxbond | 2025-09-27 04:21:06+00:00
I don't disagree I just don't see how that contradicts anything I've said. I don't see why that would mean we should be okay with leaving a malicious package in the repository after we find out it's there, whether it's claimed to be research or not.

We will struggle to read every release of every package and we won't catch every attack, though, I agree. If we were able to force adversaries to engage in sophisticated multi-pronged attacks instead of trivially malicious packages, that would be a win. It would make their operations more complex, time consuming, and prone to failure.
by F3nd0 | 2025-09-27 04:22:15+00:00
I was talking about freedom, hence the capitalisation to make that even clearer.

The parent only talked about ‘open source’, which has a huge overlap with Free Software, but the two still have different formal definitions (not to mention the completely different ideas behind them). This still left the (admittedly unlikely) possibility of the software in question being Free (as in freedom), so I felt it worth pointing out it wasn’t that, either. A common way to talk about software which is explicitly both Free and open-source at the same time is to call it Free and Open-Source Software.