MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-08 22:24:20+00:00
Built stop the excellent SlateDB! Breaks files down into 256k chunks. Encrypted. Much much better posix compatibility than most FUSE alternatives. SlateDB has snapshots & clones, so that could be another great superpower of zerofs.

Incredible performance figures, rocketing to probably the best way to use object storage in an fs like way. There's a whole series of comparisons, & they probably need a logarithmic scale given the scale of the lead slatedb has! https://www.zerofs.net/zerofs-vs-juicefs

Speaks 9p, NFS, or NBD. Some great demos of ZFS with l2arc caches giving a near local performance while having s3 persistence.

Totally what I was thinking of when in the Immich someone mentioned wanting a way to run it on cheap object storage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169036
by imiric | 2025-09-08 22:24:25+00:00
> Somebody has to just implement the standard security measures that prevents these compromises.

It's not that simple. You can implement the most stringent security measures, and ultimately a human error will compromise the system. A secure system doesn't exist because humans are the weakest link.

So while we can probably improve some of the processes within npm, phishing attacks like the ones used in this case will always be a vulnerability.

You're right that AI tools will make these attacks more common. That phishing email was indistinguishable from the real thing. But AI tools can also be used to scan and detect such sophisticated attacks. We can't expect to fight bad actors with superhuman tools at their disposal without using superhuman tools ourselves. Fighting fire with fire is the only reasonable strategy.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-08 22:24:41+00:00
IQ is a correlation variable that pops out when you measure any group of people's aptitude at a battery of tasks that involve thinking. Basically, if someone's good at one task that involves thinking (say, chess), they're more likely to be good at another task that involves thinking (say, reading comprehension). Apply some Bayesian statistics, and boom, you've concluded that there's some confounding variable (that we call IQ). Then you can start measuring how strongly certain tasks correlate with variable. Turns out abstract pattern recognition very strongly correlated with this unknown variable, so we can use that to predict what someone's IQ likely is.

The point is, due to the very definition of IQ, it's not a narrow metric, and selecting for it does tend to find you individuals who are going to be better than average at most anything. That said, it would seem alarming to me for a job to give me an IQ test instead of cutting out the correlation coefficient and just judging me on the task they're hiring me for.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-08 22:24:44+00:00
When they started it was mostly a styling thing, think like Toyota copycatting the Dodge Charger front profile. The big tradeoff was "but muh fuel economy" and those people got over-ruled. And now 10-20yr later the industry has adapted and optimized for them in the form of utilizing them for crash purposes (and big cooling systems). The safety people consider them integral and so they can't be gotten rid of and the aerodynamics people are no longer whining so hard because they've spent the years figuring out how to somewhat mitigate them.

I think in an alternative universe where none of that happened we likely would have invested the R&D elsewhere and found creative ways to get the same results (you can see inklings of this like the airbag style hood lift thing) with much lower more aerodynamics and visibility friendly hood lines.

But that's just my opinion from being on the fringes of the industry.
by medicis123 | 2025-09-08 22:25:05+00:00
We built this feature in our GPU Hypervisor, which cleanly separates your user-space ML environment from the GPU runtime, so you can code locally, run remotely, and execute kernels remotely on GPU hosts. Would love to hear how this impacts your ML platforms. Pls comment or DM me.

https://youtu.be/f62s2ORe9H8
by lillecarl | 2025-09-08 22:25:15+00:00
Valid, I've noticed that a lot of non-US contributors work for American corporations too. It's a bit ideological for me ("OSS is global") so I think I might gaslight myself into believing it's more equal than it is.

I'm happy wherever the contributions come from either way but I will never call Linux US-centric!

Lennart Poettering(German, works for American corps) comes to mind as an example, though not a kernel developer.
by another_twist | 2025-09-08 22:25:17+00:00
No I agree with the Detroit example but not all of us have to be capitalists either just a few more. But we would beed more regulations to break down some of these monopolies so we can have more competition and job creation. Either way, its also about being able to add value to the chain. The artisans who make high end clothes still do fine, the thing is the weaver became obsolete with the advent of the spinning machine. The question is in a world where AI can do anything, is human productivity in any form still necessary ? I 'd imagine it is, since humans like talking to humans, somebody still has to go sell or babysit the AI or supervise. So I dont imagine it being as catastrophic as people claim but yeah I'd sharpend my business skills, and keep off massive debt on the off chance we all find ourselves redundant.
by izzylan | 2025-09-08 22:25:21+00:00
I don't see the value in making it even harder to build software. I want to make things. Downloading a dependency manually and then cursing at the compiler because "it's right there! why won't it load!!" is just gonna make me want to build software less.

Anyone I want to work with on a project is going to have to have the same frustration and want to work on the project less. Only even more because you see they downloaded version 2.7.3-2 but the version I use is 2.7.3-1.
by xandrius | 2025-09-08 22:25:32+00:00
Same! But it all boils down to what kind of player you are and what you seek in games.

Even though the context is/was online multiplayer games, I still think Bartle's player types are a great starting point to better understand why you play games. And people do not necessarily have one and that's it but you can figure out which one is the main one.

For instance, I've got friends who play to feel mastery over a game: they'll grind it, suffer, put the time, just to then be really good at it. For others that's an absolute waste of time.

Other friends just absolutely like to spend hours competing with others and being better than them, from playing CoD, WoW battlegrounds and such. They study the changelogs to know what changed to get the edge over an opponent who didn't. It's fun to win for them.

Others think that games are mainly to be shared, they do coop, spend more time chatting than actually playing but still love the time. They don't necessarily finish games as that's not the point.

Then you have people who love exploring, both the world and the game content, so these are the ones playing the story completely, going to do sidequests and such. The extreme of this is the completionist, who's mainly drawn to do everything and anything, regardless whether it actually unlocks anything interesting new.

And more but the point of my long comment is that it's ok if you don't enjoy HK, or Dark Souls, etc. While I appreciate the craft, I personally don't enjoy dying a million times just to beat a silly digital thing. I want the just right amount of difficulty so that I can escape death a few times, defeat it and move on with my exploration.

And games go at waves, you had tons of competitive games a few years ago, now it's a lot of skill-based souls-like bastard games who hate you for even picking them up.

So, don't feel bad and go play Clair Obscure with enemy mods on and enjoy the sublime storyline, world and soundtrack. It's your game, you bought it, so enjoy it as you please.
by dmitrygr | 2025-09-08 22:25:43+00:00
This is overcomplicated to collect money IMHO. All modern OSs can happily backup app files. It is a well-solved problem. If you find this backup method not secure enough (as Signal authors do), fine, encrypt the backup with a special key, exactly as described in TFA, and leave the resulting archive in a location for my chosen phone OS to back it up as it would. All the goals are accomplished, and without charging me money or limiting how many days of media are stored.

Do not get me wrong. Signal is great software and i'd gladly pay for it. Honestly. But not via this underhanded nonsensical way
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-08 22:26:02+00:00
This article concludes with the thought "if you liked Hollow Knight, you won't like Silksong".

That is the same conclusion that I and my brother both came to. The game is bizarrely punitive, from the very beginning, for no reason. It's as if they thought of it as being the next Hollow Knight expansion after Godhome, providing an additional challenge for the people who have beaten every pantheon with all bindings. ("The new challenge is: all of your controls now do something different!")

But it's a sequel. Supposedly. Most sequels are aiming to appeal at least as much to players who enjoyed the first game as they do to a hypothetical new audience.
by prof-dr-ir | 2025-09-08 22:26:12+00:00
Yes, and the footnote also says that "this metric is age-standardized". I did not easily find an explanation of what that means, which made me distrustful of the data.

Fortunately, good old Wikipedia has what we are both looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

For me the upshot is that UK still comes out quite good amongst its European peers, but the difference appears to be smaller.
by decasia | 2025-09-08 22:26:13+00:00
“If the devotion scholars feel toward their work is intense and sometimes irrational, it’s because this is one of the last spaces of unalienated labor”

Speaking as a former academic, I don’t really agree with this — I think academia can make you believe wrongly that it’s a kind of “unalienated labor,” but actually the alienation runs deep, all the deeper when it’s invisible at first glance.

Yes, you don’t have to make something that is sold to customers or that fits in a JIRA ticket. But when you stop and think about it, you’re going to be doing research based on topics and paradigms that other people have largely defined (advisors, peers); you have to publish in journals that are often for profit and pay you zero; when you teach you usually don’t get paid all the tuition that your students are paying per course (the institution takes a big cut); you end up doing a lot of silly things to have a solid institutional position… TLDR, it has great moments of course, but it isn’t unalienated.
by jansper39 | 2025-09-08 22:26:15+00:00
I'll guess you've probably not done a huge amount of project management for infrastructure projects then. I can wager most road projects wouldn't be completed quicker if safety barriers had to be removed/reconstructed on a daily basis.

Equally, nobody in the construction trade gets into it to get killed in an accident, especially ones avoided by just having traffic move at slightly lower speeds.
by solardev | 2025-09-08 22:26:20+00:00
Lol, that's actually kinda cool. Did you get any interesting Eastern responses to your diary entries?

I'm imagining something like...

> Dear diary, I got bullied again today, and the bread was stale in my PB&J :(

>> My son, remember this: The one who mocks others wounds his own virtue. The one who suffers mockery must guard his heart. To endure without hatred is strength; to strike without cause is disgrace. The noble one corrects himself first, then the world will follow.
by cyberax | 2025-09-08 22:26:54+00:00
The answer: no.

OOXML is an extremely detailed spec that lists minute details of the Office documents, with uncountable features. While it could have used some "standard" features, there weren't that many usable standards when OOXML was being developed.

In comparison, OASIS OpenDocument spec is horribly ambiguous and has all the same issues (like units not being used consistently). It got better over the years, but it's still not at all great. And its size is now comparable to OOXML, when all the referenced specs are incorporated.
by KittenInABox | 2025-09-08 22:26:54+00:00
> The first slide featured a drawing of a hexagon formed by six linked arms — various shades of brown and tan, the lightest one bearing a holocaust prisoner number tattoo — with the words “‘Never Again’ Can’t Only Mean Never Again For Jews.”

Why would this mean Gaza? It could also very well mean the famine and human crisis in the Congo right now?
by WorldPeas | 2025-09-08 22:26:59+00:00
I have actually, I'm glad you made this. Was thinking offhandedly it might be a result of rushed changes due to their lawsuit with NYT. But I've noticed it get worse on my model (claude-sonnet-4-20250514) over the last month, meaning it could be an issue with how the CLI prompts the model? My third conspiracy would be that they somewhat quantized the models to save cost. I saw that they had an outage after trying to use trainium chips for inference, perhaps they are pitching wild to try and keep up with their margins
by codethief | 2025-09-08 22:28:12+00:00
Using the new backup feature that we're discussing here (once it is available on iOS), you will probably need to transfer your old iPhone's data to an Android device first (either a secondary one or your current one, provided you have backed up its data to a backup file). Then follow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174779 .
by olyjohn | 2025-09-08 22:28:50+00:00
No the Eugenics wars were endeded well before the nuclear holocaust of WWIII. When you see Zephram Cochran in First Contact, it was many years after Earth was devastated by nuclear winter. That's why populations were sparse, and there were various warring sects all over the world fighting for power. The warp drive (and discovery of aliens) is what united humanity after all the wars.
by nextos | 2025-09-08 22:29:09+00:00
Besides, in many fields, lots of interesting research is now being done at industrial labs. So there's no reason to cope with the abuse the article describes so well, e.g. "[...] a celebrity scholar who enjoys seeing his advisees suffer, plays them against each other, and likes to remind them that without him, their careers are nothing".

As an Oxbridge academic, I can confidently state that lots of things done by e.g. Isomorphic Labs, GSK AI, or Altos Labs are better than the stuff we do in the exact same subfield. Furthermore, they pay better, there is less drama, the workplace is much more professional and, above everything, they don't suffer from the power imbalance that has made academia so toxic.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-08 22:29:18+00:00
The thing that makes HK and Silksong stand out to me is the full picture. Everything is well done. The movement feels great, the combat feels great, the exploration feels great, the progression feels great, the boss fights are awesome, the art and music are amazing, the characters are fun and the story is engaging, it just has everything.

These people are extremely talented and put years of effort into this game to make it perfect, impatient fans be damned and it shows.
by paulpauper | 2025-09-08 22:29:23+00:00
I wonder why his sentence is so short given the amount stolen?

My guess is the judge saw that the cloud hosting companies held some responsibility for not cutting off his services sooner when it became apparent he was not going to pay. Why did the cloud providers allow this guy to rack up such a large unpaid bill before going to the feds? Doesn't make much sense to allow someone to just run up a huge tab and not cut him off.
by jongjong | 2025-09-08 22:29:35+00:00
The only long term solution for this is for people to use more different platforms. Communities should be seeking out new platforms, building their own chat platforms with their own protocols. There is no such thing as a single 'decentralized protocol' - There are incompatible protocols and then there are centralized protocols. When it comes to censorship resistance, incompatibility is a feature. Lack of adoption (unpopularity) is a feature.

If other people around you recognize the name of a chat platform you're using, then it's not decentralized and it's almost certainly monitored.
by martin-t | 2025-09-08 22:29:37+00:00
Your argument boils down to state having the upper hand so you have to play by their rules. And that's the reality. That's why I described the difference between provability and reality.

You also seem to think that I am too quick to reach for violence when it's really the opposite. I hesitated or refused to act in situations I would be morally justified to hurt people in order to help others exactly because of being held hostage by the state.

You also kept making attempts to paint me as dangerous, despite not knowing me and despite everything I said pointing to the opposite direction. I don't start conflicts.

> Hate can't drive out hate, only love can do that.

There is a reason the first advice to people in abusive relationships is to get out instead of trying to change the abuser. People don't change when their toxic behavior is working for them. They change when they are forced to and sometimes not even then.

These slogans you keep posting are harmful.

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Finally, consider states have no higher "authority" above them and they are not constantly at war with each other. Most get along fine, with the leadership knowing that any aggression would be met with resistance, reprisal, retaliation and revenge. (Those that attack others overwhelmingly do so because they are controlled by people who are by their personal nature abusers and have too much control.)
by jonaharagon | 2025-09-08 22:29:56+00:00
I mean that'd certainly be nice, and it is also their only job, but even if they wanted to do it in regular legislation that'd be better than nothing.

Make a law that says companies have to protect the data of their citizens without the possibility of any intentional backdoor, perhaps. Make a law that says companies can't require people to dox themselves with ID scans simply to use a publicly available internet platform that provides no services in the physical world. Make a law that says OS developers can't create client-side scanning services that upload results off-device without revocable user consent.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-08 22:30:03+00:00
Huh. The IQ tests that I was administered as a kid I remember as being primarily focused on abstract pattern recognition, which is what I think of when I think "IQ test". But I suppose due to IQ's definition, if you just give someone a wide enough battery of cognitive tasks, you can derive the IQ score that way.

I guess I always assumed that the ASVAB was used a bit more literally. "Ah, this person is barely literate, but knows all the parts of an engine. TO THE MOTOR POOL"
by dalf | 2025-09-08 22:30:03+00:00
Disclaimer: this is an *hypothesis* I made, all this might be wrong:

* A social graph is built from various sources <-- this is where I wonder what the sources are, what is extracted?

* If I'm connected to Bob, I will see content related to his interests : It appears that the system tries to pick video channels related to me, but the video selection is skewed towards Bob's topics. It seems that Bob's topic embeddings are mapped to the text embeddings of video thumbnails (same for the video titles but with less weight). Since the context is small, sometimes it's off.

* If you refresh the page, it may return to your original recommendations, unless new data from external sources is fed into the algorithm. What's scare me: I wonder if the feed is in near real time. If this is the case, that's explain why my recommendation are as usual and sometimes completely off track for me but related to some people I know.

* It might buffer some topics : if you connect again with Bob but there are no new topics, it gives back the old topic related to Bob.

Once again, this is a pill of a lot of gueses.

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I really wish to go back to the previous algorithm which one of the reason I subscribed to YT premium, now it's just a minefield.
by creakingstairs | 2025-09-08 22:30:33+00:00
I had no trouble going through Silksong (and I'm having a blast!), but there were _a lot_ of times when I thought that this would be really hard for people who are new to the series.

> Everything so far has felt achievable and reasonable to me, having played HK, Dark Souls, Elden Ring and other similar games I don't think Silksong is significantly more difficult than any of those

If you are a type of player that plays HK, Dark Souls and Elden Ring, then yes Silksong isn't brutally hard.

But I think the game is brutally hard for majority of people who hasn't played any of those. I think HK had a better difficulty ramp for beginners.
by blixt | 2025-09-08 22:31:37+00:00
I found it interesting that in the segment where two people were communicating "telepathically", they seem to be producing text, which is then put through text-to-speech (using what appeared to be a voice trained on their own -- nice touch).

I have to wonder, if they have enough signal to produce what essentially looks like speech-to-text (without the speech), wouldn't it be possible to use the exact same signal to directly produce the synthesized speech? It could also lower latency further by not needing extra surrounding context for the text to be pronounced correctly.
by skydhash | 2025-09-08 22:31:43+00:00
> If your mega package decides to drop something you need you pretty much have to follow.

Or you can code it in. Mega packages can be very stable. Think SDL, ffmpeg, ImageMagick, Freetype...There's usually a good justification for dropping something alongside a wide deprecation windows. You don't just wake up and see the project gone. It's not like the escape codes for the unix terminal are going to change overnight.
by klipklop | 2025-09-08 22:31:49+00:00
To be fair China can rapidly setup factories in many countries or just use them as re-sellers. Heck many of the "Made in India" goods are just re-branded stuff from China. This is why the tariffs encompass everything, even remote deserted islands. If you don't tariff everywhere you leave a loophole open for China to potentially exploit.

(Note I am not saying I 100% agree with the near-global tariffs, but I can see why they cover so many regions.)
by Marazan | 2025-09-08 22:31:58+00:00
Except the NCAP test is flawed and everyone knows it. They are testing a SUV-pedestrian collision that doesn't actually happen and then rating the SUV's as super safe based on it when based on empirical evidence SUVs are vastly more dangerous to pedestrians in a collision as pedestrians (especially children) and vastly more likely to be dragged under than thrown onto the bonnet.
by stevage | 2025-09-08 22:31:59+00:00
The great thing about a product like this is that it's so easy to fake it in video.

I don't really buy that typing speed is a bottleneck for most people. We can't actually think all that fast. And I suspect AI is doing a lot of filling in the gaps here.

It might have some niche use cases, like being able to use your phone while cycling.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-08 22:32:04+00:00
I have noticed two changes this month:

A lot more recommendations for videos with <100 views

One long (>20s) unskippable ad followed by another with skip button but fewer intermittent videos throughout the rest of the video

For long videos they will now roll an ad if you skip forward significantly

So they are clearly doing two things:

Pumping ads up for popular videos

Randomly sampling new videos to put in the feed

It’s an interesting exploit + explore strategy and it seems like everyone hates it