MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nopurpose | 2025-09-17 12:28:20+00:00
Usually their revenue is from affiliate links. YouTube channels have ad spots, merch sales etc. There are many shills of course, but some are doing their best to give accurate reviews and don't shy away from bashing manufacturers for their missteps.

Yet widely known (to enthusiasts) problems, like stutters from the OP, are often not mentioned at all.

LinusTechTips doesn't depend on ASUS money in any meaningful way, but still failed to mention stutters in their Zephyrus G16 review. Some might say LTT is not a reviewer, he is an entertainer, but he undeniably thrives to be accurate while doing so.
by Varelion | 2025-09-17 12:28:45+00:00
MY partner also had a hard time getting it, at the age of 26. I also had a hard time getting it, at age 26.

People read the recommendation guideline, and brainlessly follow it without care of why it's in place. If you haven't had a reason to be exposed by 30, 30 is as good of a time to get the shot as 9.

One of the few times I can say the majority of medical practitioners don't know what they are talking about when they spit dogma instead of life-saving sense.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-17 12:29:48+00:00
Oh so you’re a telemarketer.

Not everyone who makes outbound calls is a telemarketer.

The healthcare company I work for has a whole department of very nice people who make outbound calls to offer free health and nutrition classes to poor people.

Yes, they're free. As an employee I am also required to take one of the classes each year, so I know what they entail. Yes, they cost our company money. No, they're not sponsored by some corporation or ad company, and no we don't sell people's information on (HIPAA and all that).

The real world isn't a tech bubble cage fight.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-17 12:30:26+00:00
Apple has finally depreciated Firewire with macOS 26, sadly.

Serial mice still also just work in Windows, too! If you attach a serial mouse to a USB-serial adapter, then attach the adapter, Windows should pick up and load sermouse.sys. On the flipside, if you’ve got a weird serial device attached screaming garbage out the wire, Windows might pick THAT up and load the mouse driver, too… “hey, why is my cursor freaking out?”
by lelanthran | 2025-09-17 12:30:41+00:00
> This idea is some 10yrs behind.

Akshually[1] ...

> And no, thinking that C is "closer to the processor" today is incorrect

THIS thinking is about 5 years out of date.

Sure, this thinking you exhibit gained prominence and got endlessly repeated by every critic of C who once spent a summer doing a C project in undergrad, but it's been more than 5 years that this opinion was essentially nullified by

Okay, If C is "not close to the process", what's closer?

Assembler? After all if everything else is "Just as close as C, but not closer", then just what kind of spectrum are you measuring on, that has a lower bound which none of the data gets close to?

You're repeating something that was fashionable years ago.

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[1] There's always one. Today, I am that one :-)
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-17 12:30:58+00:00
I think that The Plaza Accord (1985) ended up crippling Japan economically. The Plaza Accord is an excellent example of my country benefiting from military and economic power - unfortunately, the days of us getting away with this kind of behavior are probably over.

That said, we will probably get away with bullying Europe for a while longer. Canada seems to be standing up to USA pressure fairly well. Europe needs to do the same, and they will probably eventually get there.
by mattlutze | 2025-09-17 12:31:04+00:00
In this situation, where you advocate for waiting until a different organization gives its opinion: while waiting, will net-more harm have occurred if Israel

1. reduces the volume and density of violence being acted on that territory, or 2. continues, as it is currently doing, to increase the volume and density of violence being acted on that territory

Is there a different answer, should this other organization’s opinion affirm or refute genocide?
by devnullbrain | 2025-09-17 12:31:15+00:00
I'm a big fan of my Deck, but I think Steam-related software projects always have a distinctive low-level stink.

I use mine on a train that has Wi-Fi with a captive portal and attempting to join it makes the whole UI unresponsive. Using the overlay with a guide in a game always resets the scroll location. These are the kind of things I can live with, but also things I don't expect ever to be fixed unless Valve come out with some wholesale replacement for some overt new strategic goal.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-17 12:31:52+00:00
> It's the EU way - "We will keep holding the vote until we get the result that we want."

Please inform yourself or you're in danger of letting things happen through your ignorance. The commission is not pushing this. They're acting on instructions from a certain number of elected politicians.

And, you're misleading others when you post stuff like this.

None of us posting in these topics wants this proposal to pass. And in order to fight it, you've got to be correctly informed.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-17 12:32:03+00:00
I have had extremely bad luck, reporting bugs to Apple.

They constantly ask for an example project, even if it's something that is easily demonstrated, simply by running existing Apple software, and creating a project, would be a huge pain.

They also ignore reports. Very rarely, I may get a ping on one of my reports, asking me to verify that it was fixed in some release. Otherwise, there's no sign that they ever even read it.

I usually end up closing my bug reports and feature requests, after a few months, because I'm tired of looking at them.

It's clear that they consider every bug report to be a burden. That's a very strange stance, but then, they are not a typical company.

I guess you can't argue with the results, as they have a market value North of 3 trillion dollars, but that does not make it any less annoying.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-17 12:32:26+00:00
The documentation can be published in advance of the product launch.

Intel and AMD did this in the past for their CPUs and accompanying chipsets, when any instruction set extensions or I/O chipset specifications were published some years in advance, giving time to the software developers to update their programs.

Intel still somewhat does it for CPUs, but for GPUs their documentation is delayed a lot in comparison with the product launch.

AMD now has significant delays in publishing the features actually supported by their new CPUs, even longer than for their new GPUs.

In order to have hardware that works on day one, most companies still have to provide specifications for their hardware products to various companies that must design parts of the hardware or software that are required for a complete system that works.

The difference between now and how this was done a few decades ago, is that then the advance specifications were public, which was excellent for competition, even if that meant that there were frequently delays between the launch of a product and the existence of complete systems that worked with it.

Now, these advance specifications are given under NDA to a select group of very big companies, which design companion products. This ensures that now it is extremely difficult for any new company to compete with the incumbents, because they would never obtain access to product documentation before the official product launch, and frequently not even after that.
by verisimi | 2025-09-17 12:32:31+00:00
> What I see nowadays is a complete lack of curiosity. Nobody wants to try to understand why people "go bad", they just want to put them in the bin. That only works if those "bad" people are a minority.

It's simple. If I'm good (and I am), and if you disagree with me, you're bad. What's to talk about? Stop yapping.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-17 12:32:53+00:00
> C++ and C rely, heavily, on skill and discipline instead of automated checks to stay safe.

You can't sensibly talk about C and C++ as a single language. One is the most simple language there is, most of the rules to which can be held in the head of a single person while reading code.

The other is one of the most complex programming languages to ever have existed, in which even world-renowned experts in lose their facility for the language after a short break from it.
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-17 12:33:02+00:00
Parliamentary democracy just fundamentally has a weakness when it comes to single-issue voting. After picking a party to vote on based on housing, economic policy, crime, ..., how much voting power so to say is left for.. which guy the party says they'll send to the european commission? And what that guy's stance on chat-control is? If they're even publicizing that...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-17 12:33:23+00:00
You raise a very important point. Which is why i'm so dismayed by the complete unwillingness of anyone on the left to substantially debate populist talking points. There's a limit to how much you can dismiss trump as a fascist when he's so clearly popular with so many people.

Ironically this letter is the opposite of that idea. BR is opposed to fascism on such a fundamental level that he sees no point in engaging with it's chief proponent, Mosley, at all.
by jcfrei | 2025-09-17 12:33:43+00:00
Two sides of the same coin. The yen appreciation didn't change the trade deficit the US had with Japan substantially. Japan's own actions after the plaza accord (very loose monetary policy) lead to the asset bubble I described. That's because domestic consumption was weak and everyone used excess savings for the housing market - rather than buying more goods domestically. Which lead to the bubble I described.
by mattlutze | 2025-09-17 12:34:26+00:00
If you think for yourself—like you should do, absolutely—and look at this situation through all of the information that has come out, how can you conclude that the overwhelmingly unilateral and indiscriminate violence being acted on this territory is reasonable, justified, and not a systematic eradication of the people who live there?

I would really like to understand the based & logical reasoning that you use to arrive at this position.
by mpalmer | 2025-09-17 12:35:06+00:00
> God, the fact that everyone and their mother think they need to have an opinion regarding "agentic" wankering is absurd

This would have been a great place to stop if you wanted to avoid accusations of hypocrisy.

If there's any real truth to be found, it's somewhere between your opinion and OP's, but your righteous dogmatic opposition is just as suspect.

Upvote posts you like, don't whine that posts you don't like shouldn't exist.
by simonw | 2025-09-17 12:35:10+00:00
Question for tanepiper: what would you have Microsoft do to improve things here?

My read of your article is that you don't like postinstall scripts and npx.

I'm not convinced that removing those would have a particularly major impact on supply chain attacks. The nature of npm is that it distributes code that is then executed. Even without npx, an attacker could still release an updated package which, when executed as a dependency, steals environment variables or similar.

And in the meantime, discarding box would break the existing workflows of practically every JavaScript-using developer in the world!

You mention 2FA. npm requires that for maintainers of the top 100 packages (since 2022), would you like to see that policy increased to the top 1,000/10,000/everyone? https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/top-100-n...

You also mention code signing. I like that too, but do you think that would have a material impact on supply chain attacks given they start with compromised accounts?

The investment I most want to see around this topic is in sandboxing: I think it should be the default that all code runs in a robust sandbox unless there is as very convincing reason not to. That requires investment that goes beyond a single language and package management platform - it's something that needs to be available and trustworthy for multiple operating systems.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-17 12:35:22+00:00
> It's ridiculous that they keep trying this absolutely ridiculous plan over and over again.

There is a certain group of politicians who are pushing for this very hard. In this case, the main thrust seems to be coming from Denmark, but from what I understand there are groups (eg. europol) pushing this from behind the scenes. They need the politicians to get it done.
by moktonar | 2025-09-17 12:35:34+00:00
I find that cases like this represent one of the biggest problems in today’s research: once someone falsifies something, an entire branch of research gets cut off completely as nobody wants to pursue that path anymore, understandably. But if the “proof” is in fact wrong, then you actually just hid a big part of the research surface to everybody. And usually that’s also where progress is made: when, despite proof, research is pursued because of a gut feeling. Stay skeptic!
by G0lg0thvn | 2025-09-17 12:35:38+00:00
z3py is going through python’s interpreter to talk to the c++ core of z3; this creates a performance bottleneck as the system size grows. The native input language of z3 is smt2, so coding in plain old python with type hints and then transpile to smt2 would, ideally, help with the bottleneck enabling solving of increasingly complex systems.

That’s how I understand it at least! Someone please correct me if I’m off base.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-17 12:35:44+00:00
"The issue is actually lack of guns, the way way to prevent this is by having more guns" kind of doubling down.

The issue is the people that use npm, and choose to have 48 layers of dependencies without paying for anything. Blaming microsoft, which is a company which pays engineers and audits all of its code and dependencies, is a step in the wrong direction in the necessary self reflection path off npm vulns.
by iainmerrick | 2025-09-17 12:36:08+00:00
Okay, I'll bite. You said:

today on NPR the head of that UN agency which produced that conclusion of genocide in Gaza failed to give proper definition of genocide which was the very first question by the interviewer. The part she omitted? She omited "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,"

From your link to NPR's transcript of the interview:

CHANG: So first, can you just define for us what is genocide, according to the U.N. Genocide Convention?

PILLAY: Firstly, it's accepted by all that genocide is a monstrous crime, an extremely serious crime, which is the killing and destruction of a people in whole or in part. That's why we say it has a specific overarching intent.

The phrasing is a bit clumsy (e.g. "that's why we say") but the idea that Pillay is trying to sneakily hide something here is rather bizarre. It seems very likely that "specific overarching intent" is meant to refer to the specific clause you highlighted. Obviously a live radio interview is going to be a bit less polished than the final written conclusions of a two-year study; that hardly implies malice.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-17 12:36:49+00:00
>This chat control topic is undemocratic, allegedly illegal in many jurisdictions (such as Germany), yet, keeps coming up ever and ever again, and the politicians face no consequences whatsoever.

Politicians are basically whores that only use their mouths. They'll say whatever gets them in office and keeps them there. Whether that's simping for extremists, special interests, the teacher's union, etc, etc.

The state(s) wants to snoop on the peasants' messaging and the state itself is an interest that politicians can get ahead by pandering to, no different than any other interest (from their perspective as politicians and more equal animals generally, not our perspective as less equal animals under the boot). When you're talking about elections like the EU's big interest groups, like the state, tend to dominate.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-17 12:37:05+00:00
I would add that before social media demonstrated many times, how great fortunes can be made scaling up seemingly small conflicts of interest into monsters, even ruthless moguls in the valley tended to operate with the assumption that their empires would be built by creating useful things.

As apposed to attention traps and user farming.

We are generally a lot more cynical about the valley today, than a couple decades ago. And for good reason.

“Serve” has multiple definitions. Its former meaning associated with phrases like “serving people” is now effectively happening in the phrase “serving ads”. Ads are now the god. And the way we used “serve” in “serving ads” is now an appropriate way to interpret “serving people”. People are now the means, the consumed sustenance, instead of the ends. For several global tech giants.

Social media hasn’t just poisoned personal lives, but also the focus of much investment. (In both startups and in corporate growth.)
by arcbyte | 2025-09-17 12:37:17+00:00
> simply getting permission to apply their hard-earned valuable skillets

I dont think its this. I think its just brutally hard to earn a return on investment right now. For whatever reason, innovation has disappeared from the market. There's a lot of things changing with generative AI right now but very few actually valuable ideas have come out.

The real challenge today is finding problems to solve that people will pay money for.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-17 12:37:28+00:00
Can someone ELI5 this to me? Nvidia has the market cap of a medium-sized country precisely because apparently (?) no one else can make chips like them. Great tech, hard to manufacture, etc - Intel and AMD are nowhere to be seen. And I can imagine it's very tricky business!

China, admittedly full of smart and hard working people, then just wakes up one day an in a few years covers the entire gap, to within some small error?

How is this consistent? Either:

- The Chinese GPUs are not that good after all

- Nvidia doesn't have any magical secret sauce, and China could easily catch up

- Nvidia IP is real but Chinese people are so smart they can overcome decades of R&D advantage in just s few years

- It's all stolen IP

To be clear, my default guess isn't that it is stolen IP, rather I can't make sense of it. NVDA is valued near infinity, then China just turns around and produces their flagship product without too much sweat..?
by trelane | 2025-09-17 12:38:06+00:00
>i'm caving for a world where hw manufacturers exist who fully embrace opensource development,

Those do very much exist! My go-to is System76. There are others, e.g. arguably Framework.

> and are rewarded for that...

Oh well, one can dream anyway.

The freedom Linux gives you also gives you the freedom to slap Linux on some random bit of Windows kit and then blame Linux for failing to work around the broken firmware. Apparently this is preferable to buying hardware that works with Linux.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-17 12:38:41+00:00
>Reducing the (perceived) need to buy a car, e.g. by making it easy, cheap and reliable to get from A to B using a self driving car service

But this assumes the need for a car, but cars are one form of transport. A more wholistic look at transportation with be “Reducing the (perceived) need to buy a car, e.g. by making it easy, cheap and reliable to get from A to B.” If you have more services within walking distance, it reduces your need for a car. If there is lots of bike infrastructure, it reduces your need for a car. If there are reliable frequent trains, it reduces your need for a car. If there are reliable frequent bus services and bus lanes to get around traffic, it reduces your need for a car.

On the other hand, if there are more cars then you need, at minimum if we imagine self-driving cars, more road capacity. But realistically more roads and more parking. More space for roads is less space for the actual places people want to go, pushing those things farther apart. Being farther apart reduces the number of places you can get to by walking or biking, which means you are more likely to need a car, which means more cars, which means more roads, which means less space for the actual places people want to go, repeat. Cars are basically the worst option in terms of infrastructure cost, land usage per person, personal cost to use/operate, deaths and injuries, etc.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-17 12:39:36+00:00
> How do I vote out hostile countries? I’m Dutch, what can I do with my vote to have effects on Denmark, which seems to be the biggest proponent of this BS?

The same way you can vote out other politicians in your own country - you can't. Assuming you live in (say) Amsterdam, you have no right or control of who people from other regions of the Netherlands vote for.
by voxelghost | 2025-09-17 12:39:38+00:00
Offcourse not, that would be silly. Just overload the ^ operator like any normal person.

#include <iostream> #include <bitset>

class Bits { unsigned value; public: explicit Bits(unsigned v) : value(v) {}

// Shift operator ^ : positive = left, negative = right Bits operator^(int shift) const { if (shift > 0) { return Bits(value << shift); } else if (shift < 0) { return Bits(value >> -shift); } else { return *this; // no shift } } friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const Bits& b) { return os << std::bitset<8>(b.value); // print 8 bits }

};

int main() { Bits x(0b00001111);

std::cout << "x = " << x << "\n"; std::cout << "x ^ 2 = " << (x ^ 2) << " (shift left 2)\n"; std::cout << "x ^ -2 = " << (x ^ -2) << " (shift right 2)\n"; }
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by davidbauer | 2025-09-17 12:39:48+00:00
I'm a journalist and product developer by day, and a curious generalist who loves making things whenever I find time.

I've always loved building little web apps, even with my limited coding skills. As a student and early in my career, I had a lot of time, so it didn't matter.

In recent years however, with life being busy as it is, most of my ideas stayed at the back of my mind. There simply wasn't enough time to compensate for my limited skills.

Until I started working with Cursor, that is. All of a sudden, the time needed to turn an idea into a working prototype is once again within what I'm able to carve out.

That's how this project came to be. I'm a longtime admirer of the work Gapminder and Our World in Data are doing, and I wanted to build something that lets people explore the vast amounts of data about the world Our World in Data provides – in a playful way.

Would love to hear what you think, what you'd improve, and what topics you'd like to see added next.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-17 12:39:59+00:00
Yes, getting to know someone used to be a gradual process. During the time window when public posting about frankly quite private moments of life was common (Facebook ~2010s), it was weird how much you would see of a person upfront. You saw surprising overlapping acquaintances, prior vacations, party photos, hobbies etc... See photos of your teachers or profs with their spouse etc. I don't think it's normal. It was a weird phase.
by acdha | 2025-09-17 12:40:01+00:00
I feel like a lot of things would benefit from that time delay and, perhaps, an in person check like the notary ID verification AWS used to use.

About a decade ago I had suggested to Google at an identity forum that they embrace a local government/organization model for their hard-landing account recovery process (since it can ultimately devolve to an ID check) by having a mechanism where you can start the account reset process and get something which could be taken to a third party to approve after they do an ID check. As people increasingly depend on things like email accounts for everything there are a constant stream of people who will lose access to their phones but could easily visit a notary, library, DMV, police station, etc. and pass a check against a pre-registered government ID.