MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-15 17:57:06+00:00
> I would swear I removed copilot from a Dell laptop I just purchased for my father, and it came back after a major update. I could be wrong.

I've had feature-update crapware get reinstalled twice, some reinsallations happen only after a reboot and/or 5-10min delay. So upgrade, clean. Reboot, clean again. Reboot, wait 10 min, clean again.

This during the last year and for dozens of machines.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-15 17:57:21+00:00
I really enjoyed that comment because if you read it in reverse, each subsequent "big thing" has had fewer and fewer goliaths emerge.

In terms of web3, I think you could broadly say Bitcoin (though it was large before web3 so that one's muddy) and Etherium. But even then... given what they are, I'm not sure in what sense these are meant to be Goliaths...? It's alternative payment processors that have incredibly low adoption compared to virtually every other. They're "big" in the sense that they have a lot of traction relative to other crypto, but I still have never used the shit even once and I do not feel I am missing out even slightly.

I've used LLMs FAR more than any crypto, and I still see it largely as a neat way to get out of writing boring code, and a good rubber duck to bounce ideas off of when debugging. I wouldn't pay for it if I had to.

The only thing I know crypto for is being the new and preferred payment method for scammers, and that you used to be able to buy drugs with it but not anymore. And godawful avatar collections, I guess. I wouldn't call that a Goliath myself but. shrug
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-15 17:58:04+00:00
> to be able to flip gender more completely than our best biotech and just by conscious will

a constant hedonic self modification and individual reinvention is obviously no sign of extreme change but the opposite, banality and powerlessness. As Augusto de Noce used to point out about the sexual revolution of the 60s, the sexual dimension became an obsession precisely because all other revolutions had been rendered impossible by an atomized society. There was nothing radical at all in it.

It's no accident that the Culture puts so much emphasis, and in that it reads ironically enough like satire of modern consumer society, on choice only at a level of reshuffling your sexual organs or bodily characteristics. The minds in the culture are by no means just a sort of voting mechanism that summarize the attitudes of the population of the Culture. They control the culture which we even get to learn in the books in the series that delve into the minds as characters.
by joshstrange | 2025-09-15 17:58:20+00:00
I'm normally on about 1 year delay on upgrading macOS for a multitude of reasons. I might not wait the full year but something else will have to force me to upgrade within the first few months.

I'd heard from people who were running the betas that it's not ready and they are surprised Tahoe wasn't delayed.

No way I'm upgrading any time soon to Apple's least cared for OS with a change this big (and this untested).
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 17:59:06+00:00
Run the numbers and you'll find that blocks of cement are pretty expensive compared to the batteries!

Over the past decade there's been several startups trying to do gravitmetric non-hydro grid storage, and even with favorable conditions (e.g. a large free train track on the side of a mountain) they can't get the economics to work. Plus, that tech is never getting cheaper, like batteries are every day.
by motorest | 2025-09-15 17:59:46+00:00
> Because most "woke" stuff is made up or blown out of proportion by people on the internet.

I think you are misinterpreting the issue. I'll explain why.

There are attention-seekers which were given access to platforms with unprecedented reach. Some of these types tap into outrage culture as their engagement mechanism. This creates a vicious cycle of outrage which feeds on outputting outrageous claims and taking the resulting outrage as input to further double down on outputting outrageous claims. You then end up with opposing outrage camps of whatever subject you can think of which exist to generate a larger volume of outrage than the opposing camp.

The problem is that the terminally-online types confuse this sort of discourse with reality, and the outrageous claims as representative of what happens in real life. That's how you end up with people outraged with outrageous claims that are so outrageous to the point they are unthinkable.
by HaZeust | 2025-09-15 18:00:53+00:00
>"Disposable vapes put young people in contact with career criminals and organized crime, who will be only too happy to oblige even if the customer has no money. The result is young people in debt to criminals, which has the exact same ramifications as getting in drug debt. Those young people can then be coerced to commit other crimes to cover their debts."

This feels like pure fearmongering, and it's not even believable when most people here grew up around cigarettes, dip, or vapes in secondary school throughout the decades, and the dynamic was never anything like what you’re describing. Nobody was getting shaken down for cigarette or vape debts by “organized crime.” It was usually just some older kid or significant other, ex-student, or friend with a hookup who’d buy a pack or device and resell at a small markup. Sometimes it was even just a straight favor.

Trying to paint disposable vapes as a gateway to mafia debt collection just doesn’t square with lived experience in the US. Plenty of us experimented with nicotine products when we were underage - or know someone who did, and while that had its own health and legal issues, coercion into crime to cover “nicotine debts” simply wasn’t part of it lol

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More people get into organized crime from their local Wal-Mart denying their job application as their only realistic ways to make money from labor, than ever do from nicotine products
by stouset | 2025-09-15 18:01:01+00:00
This is the mindset that will keep USB-A ports around forever. Somebody has to be the one to move the world forward, and it's usually Apple who's most willing to retire old ports. At this point I would kill for an Anker battery pack with three or four USB-C ports, instead every single one of them contains wasted USB-A ones that I have no use for.

USB-A had a long life. It's time to move on.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-09-15 18:01:11+00:00
It is often remarked, by those who may be assumed to have some insight into it, that the difficulty in writing Superman is to convey his perfection and goodness, but that for people who do not understand Superman well the difficulty is that he is too perfect and unbeatable and thus boring.

I put forward thus that in the same way Superman can be tedious so can Utopias, and Utopias can be interesting in the same way that Superman can.
by EarthLaunch | 2025-09-15 18:01:16+00:00
I take it as a sign of typical increasing corporate dysfunction. Obvious problems, some even easy and uncontroversial, don't get fixed. Why?

The people who can fix them are not in control. The org must be very top-down. But Steve Jobs had a top down style, so what's the difference? Its: Using and caring about the product.

It's top down direction with the people at the top not using/caring about the product. Presumably they're concerned with other things like efficiency, stocks, clout.
by duxup | 2025-09-15 18:01:25+00:00
With these articles I'm a little tired of them in that if your workplace can't possibly consider anything else and that's a big deal to you ... kinda feel like you've got a choice to make. Does that make sense for a given individual? Maybe.

Otherwise the front end land is still very dynamic and so on, I think it's great, there are lots of options.

If some boring insurance company doesn't pick the coolest new framework and picks react instead. I don't think that's a problem. Gotta go be with the cool kids to do the cool new things.
by asdhtjkujh | 2025-09-15 18:01:28+00:00
I should know better, but I'm still surprised they're shipping this version of Liquid Glass. Performance is stable but there are so many UI bugs and inconsistencies that haven't been fixed from early betas, including low-hanging fruit that a second year design student would notice. I don't mind change or interface elements moving around but keynote-level UI overhauls should be fully implemented at launch, otherwise people are stuck using a broken OS for a year.

At this point I'm doubtful that these will be addressed in the 26.X updates, so the wait begins for 27.0...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-15 18:01:29+00:00
Even a 5 year old can tell right off the bat that it's a Minister of False Justice. Give me a break, more like an intrusive creep their parents want them to beware of. Most kids are taught not to lie, and they can smell it a mile away. Which is a bit more than a kilometer. Some adults just can not set a good example of what justice is, it's actually completely disgraceful when it gets to this point. Trying to be a bad influence on a younger generation. What's wrong with some people?

Kids are too intuitive naturally to believe for a minute that privacy and civil liberty are erroneous concepts. They're well aware by this age that it's usually an individual erroneous moron who doesn't understand simple stuff like this, who's causing the trouble and some of them are adults no different than the asinine kids they are quite familiar with.

As everybody knows, most average children by definition are born already having more intelligence than a below-average adult, kids just don't have a paycheck which depends on them having a dystopic point of view.
by roganartu | 2025-09-15 18:01:40+00:00
Another feature of this is that if your primary PC crashes, which happens sometimes especially with some games, your stream doesn’t go down too. This is more important for streams with more viewers and longer runtimes, as restarting the stream drops all the AFK viewers who may still be contributing ad revenue (or just boosting active viewer count which has other flow on benefits too).

You can see this effect in long streamathons/subathons as twitch automatically kills long streams so you’ll see multiday streams get cut up either manually by streamers or automatically by twitch every 24h or so, and the viewer count drops significantly and takes quite some time (many hours) to recover.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-15 18:02:20+00:00
I've been using Raycast for a couple months but I'm hoping I can uninstall it if Spotlight is responsive enough in Tahoe. What bothers me about Raycast is the monthly subscription for certain features. I don't mind paying for Mac software – I'm quite happy to do that – but I do mind paying monthly subscriptions for Mac software with seemingly no justification for it (i.e. what monthly resources does running a "window command" use on Raycast that justifies locking it behind a monthly subscription?)
by qantrell | 2025-09-15 18:02:50+00:00
Our new architecture analyzes and decomposes images into a code-like intermediate representation called layouts — an internal visual language that captures the composition and structure of any image.

Our intermediate image representation is designed for transparency and control. Rather than hiding the model's understanding behind a black box, we expose its internal representation, or code, to enable direct manipulation of visual elements. Users can now move, resize, add, remove or replace objects with granular control.
by jandrese | 2025-09-15 18:03:16+00:00
> IIRC that sort of thing _wouldn't_ be allowed; the Culture was pretty big on individual rights. You wouldn't go to jail, but you would get a drone that would stop you from doing it.

In one of the stories we spend quite a bit of time with an outright cult that has its members eating literal garbage and getting very sick because the AIs didn't want to infringe on their personal liberty.

I read that bit as a critique of allowing such self destructive behavior in the name of personal freedom. Sometimes people just need a dope slap before they get themselves in too much trouble.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-15 18:05:15+00:00
This problem could be mitigated by Apple making older versions of software available. Then you could continue to release updates, and users on older devices could continue to use earlier versions of your app on their devices.

Apple actually partially solves this: as a user, if I have EVER downloaded Older Version X of an app, and then go to download it again, they let me. However, if I have never downloaded the old version and go to download it, they just say “this app is not compatible with your device.” and don't give me the chance to get the older, compatible version. I don’t know why they make this distinction.

Worse are the third party apps where the old version still actually runs, but the developer deliberately blocks you with a full-screen “go away” dialog (I’m looking at you, FlightAware).
by lupusreal | 2025-09-15 18:06:10+00:00
If you're turning to LLMs for great insight or theory, you're definitely doing it wrong. These tools are for well trod terrain, and when they're really just making shit up, it's almost always different shit each time. So yes, it's a heuristic, but for dealing with the stochastic weirdness these models sometimes spit out it works pretty damn well.
by bragr | 2025-09-15 18:06:15+00:00
>I’m really confused how you communicate with it? That seems like the most (expensive?) and technically difficult part.

Not really. They typically use standard amatuer radio frequencies and protocols. Making space to ground contacts is doable with a handheld radio and directional antenna. Main limitation is low data rates (dialup or worse) and low coverage (you'll probably only get 1-2 passes a day from a single ground station). A decent semi-permament ground station can be built from off the shelf parts at a fraction of the cost of the overall satellite.
by x187463 | 2025-09-15 18:06:30+00:00
Asciinema is awesome. I use it to capture all of the demos for TerminalTextEffects. Their Asciinema GIF Generator tool (AGG) produces high quality terminal recording GIFs by processing the asciicast file. This is the best solution I've found for producing short terminal recordings that can be shared in a README/docs as seen in the TerminalTextEffects repo/docs.

Using the raw file output and/or termsvg type solutions do not work for TTE due to the huge amount of data being written to stdout.

https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-15 18:06:50+00:00
>This type of thing would really need to be implemented at the township / local community level at least,

Even better - both. Increase the independence and redundancy in several steps, making the grid more reliable and less prone to failure from single events.

>It’s simply not realistic to think every private dwelling can or should have this kind of capability,

Why not? You can get 10 kwh of storage for the price of a phone and laptop. Any EV has more battery than what's needed to power a home for days, some of them already have the capability to do so when combined with the right charging station.

Of course not everyone will have it, but surely battery storage could become as common as air conditioning or central heating even at current prices.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-15 18:07:07+00:00
> I'm not sure whether the political parties should have consistent ideologies.

It's something extremely important, along with "underlying theory of government" which you missed to address. If you think boundless inconsistency and shapeshifting are OK, you better say it straight - if you don't, you need a theory of bounds and it better be consistent.

> it's impossible for two or even three or four political parties to represent the diverse political views of over 300 million Americans.

That's upside down, in fact, 99% of Americans adopt a selection from the views offered by politicians and parties as reflected by the media. The "diverse political views" don't fall from the sky, they are products of the political system.

> Each of the two major US parties have always consisted of shifting coalitions of interests... [ consistent, stable views are just pretense ] when in fact the parties are demonstrably shifting coalitions of interests.

You are conflating "coalitions of interests" with "political views", they are quite different. In order to start a discussion we must separately and clearly define the coalitions, their interests and their political views: if they aren't consistently defined, neither accountability nor even basic security can be achieved.

If interests are a sufficient reason for dishing out pretense pseudo-rationality, then the coalition that is best at pretending and manages to accumulate a critical mass of power will simply enslave those who were gullible to believe them. I shouldn't have to explain this in America but here I am.
by palmotea | 2025-09-15 18:07:36+00:00
> A US congressman is introducing a bill that could potentially be used to deny US citizens the right to travel based solely on their speech, including for criticism of Israel, the Intercept reported on 13 September.

I'm pretty suspicious of the outlet, but even if it was the New York Times, no one should pay attention to this bill until there's some strong indication it may actually pass. Bonkers bills get introduced all the time and go nowhere. If you get worked up over them, you're wasting your energy.
by igouy | 2025-09-15 18:07:49+00:00
> I don't see why you need to restrict it to actual photos of actual things.

We don't need to, although in that case, we might think of what we are doing as digital painting rather than photography.

> some sense of legitimacy as being "real"

A photograph is a purely-2d purely-visual representation of what we inescapably experience as 3d and multi-sensory. It can be "a real photograph" but not "real".

If what we are interested in is a documentary representation then we are making some additional claims about how the "real photograph" was made.

> any emotion by cherry-picking from a huge set of shots

Once upon a time, in the age of film photography, photo-journalists did take a huge number of exposures and have someone else process the films, and then select particular frames from contact sheets. Digital reduces that cost.

However, when someone looks at a photograph, they bring all of themselves and a little of the photograph.
by dakiol | 2025-09-15 18:08:51+00:00
Doesn't that work against you? Like, I imagine that at some point you want to get a raise, so your manager has to sell your work to other managers... and they are not gonna pass around links to your pull requests/commits. They most likely want to see epics/tasks in Jira or something similar.

I mean, finding a Jira epic/project where to fit my ticket is not the hardest part of the job tbh. Also, depending on the team and your experience, loosely fixing things here and there can be a red flag or totally the opposite (e.g., I've seen how juniors or people in general with less than a decade of experience get punished when they start fixing random things here and there. On the other side seniors or staff engineers get kudos for fixing also random things but in less volume and usually more tricky ones).

Having a ticket to back up your work is never going to hurt you, though.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-15 18:09:54+00:00
Menu extras were never intended to be treated like Windows tray items. For the earlier portion of OS X’s life, there wasn’t even a public API to create them and required a hack and a private API, and the current API is intended for ephemeral menu extras that disappear when their host app isn’t running. In short, the menubar isn’t designed for users to collect menu extras like Pokémon.
by ionwake | 2025-09-15 18:10:20+00:00
I am an immigrant, and not "white" depending on who you ask. I was easily able to travel between schengen countries without having my ID checked ( I am lawful EU citizen). So in answer to your question no, border controls are not tight. Depends on the day.

HAVING said that I also agree with you that EU borders ARE mostly controlled.

I only saying this because I dont like accusations being thrown around, as it inhibits public discourse the ability for poeople to learn vis discussion, EVEN if he sounds like a nutter.
by dakiol | 2025-09-15 18:11:12+00:00
I just landed a new job, and I thikn it's a boring one. At my previous job I was fixing Java's memory issues, migrating databases and riding Jira epics. At my new job I'm fixing button's padding/marging, deploying and deploying stuff on Vercel. Paycheck is the same, though; so I couldn't care less.
by danielvinson | 2025-09-15 18:11:17+00:00
I think this article discounts the reasons behind frontend decisions... priorities are absolutely fast execution time and ease of hiring. There is very, very little reason to care about optimizing frontend performance for a vast majority of apps. Users just don't care. It doesn't make the company more money.

If a framework is easy to use and everyone knows it, it's simply the best choice for 90%+ of teams.
by duxup | 2025-09-15 18:11:17+00:00
>High fees help make the risks more tolerable for banks. Depending on complexity, duration and customization, notes typically have fees ranging from 1.5% to 3% embedded into their prices, according to SPi. Over the two- or three-year maturity of a typical product, that could average out at roughly the same annualized cost of an options-based ETF. But since fees are paid upfront and many notes are redeemed early, in reality it’s a lot more profitable.

I can see why they're being sold ...
by nailer | 2025-09-15 18:11:46+00:00
> We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News.

What do you define as perpetuating flame wars?

I was responding to a troll, fairly politely - the most heated it got was when I pointed out that someone that holds a gun to a pregnant woman's chest is a scumbag, but that's a fairly common viewpoint.

> abusing it and vandalizing it

How am I abusing and vandalizing HN? I am politely responding to a troll after a terrorist attack. That's more than you'll get on most discussion sites.

On the topic of abuse:

1. You've mentioned you're manually unflagging article submissions recently. How is that not abusing the site? Do you think that's made HN better, or worse?

2. While I have your attention Dan: why is this correction to a hoax (a boy was supposed killed when he was alive) that was on the front page of the site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130174 marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of? When a previous story about malnutrition in Gaza was revealed to be a hoax, why was the WSJ article revealing that hoax also marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of submitted?

Do you think manually allowing hoaxes and conspiracy theories onto the front page, and marking correction as dupes, makes HN worse or better?

Feel free to email if you want to take this offline.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-15 18:11:55+00:00
I just run Debian Trixie with almost no problems. I build the kernels I use off the upstream release cycle (so, 6.17-rc6 right now). I build with LLVM Full LTO, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I want to find bugs in it :)

For some reason the video acceleration in Steam itself will break running games if you alt-tab back and forth. But it can be disabled in the menus, and I haven't missed it at all.