MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-09 14:56:05+00:00
>The classical paper-ledger bookkeeping is pretty much eventually consistent. They did not have the Internet when they invented it.

Absolutely. Bookkeeping is an offline activity (I'm only doing it once a year in my company, ha ha). You just have to make sure not to record the same transaction more than once, which could be non-trivial but shouldn't be impossible to do with CRDTs.

>Flight booking is often statistically consistent only. Overbooking, etc.

That may be acceptable in some cases but you still can't use CRDTs for it, because you need a way to limit the extent of overbooking. That requires a centralised count of bookings.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-09 14:56:17+00:00
I'm very unfamiliar with New Mexico (having only been a tourist in Albuquerque and Santa Fe for a few days), but according to U.S. News it ranks 50 out of 50 for education: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education. Given some level of geographic mobility it doesn't seem like a place I would want to raise a child.

Am I mistaken? Thoughts?
by flanbiscuit | 2025-09-09 14:56:41+00:00
> So far the only real unsolved issue I have are related to “semi-important” apps. Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the emails I get aren’t important.

> I am not sure what the solution is to these kind of apps. Maybe I can find a special mail app, that only shows you important emails. If I had something like this I think I would just be over the moon with this setup.

I have always had email notifications turned off and I was always missing important emails, especially from people I cared about. I finally figured out the solution. In Gmail (only tested on Android, can't speak for iPhone) I created a label called "notify". I then created filters for specific emails and words that apply the label. You can turn on notifications in Gmail (for Android at least) for specific labels. That's it! Maybe someone else can confirm that this can be done on the iPhone Gmail app? or something similar
by sethev | 2025-09-09 14:56:46+00:00
Joseph Hellerstein has a series of posts on CRDTs: https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-intro/

He very much leans toward them being hard to use in a sensible way. He has some interesting points about using threshold functions over a CRDT to get deterministic reads (i.e. once you observe the value it doesn't randomly change out from under you). It feels a bit theoretical though, I wish there were examples of using this approach in a practical application.
by runako | 2025-09-09 14:56:59+00:00
> months of delays for everything

Private childcare is also filled with months (often years) of delays. Expanding on this a bit: if you have a sudden need to get childcare, in much of the country you are not likely going to be able to find something that is convenient and of any quality that is also available within a week or two. If you are willing to spend 2x+ the local median childcare expense, you may have better results.
by jonhohle | 2025-09-09 14:57:02+00:00
Nearly every email link now goes through an analytics domain that looks like a jumble of random characters. In the best case they end up at the expected site, but a significant number go to B2B service provider of the week’s domain.

There are more than a few instances when I’ve created an account for a service I know I’ve never interacted with before, but my password manager offered to log me in because another business I’ve used in the past used the same service (medical providers, schools, etc.).

Even as a technically competent person, I received a legitimate email from Google regarding old shadow accounts they were reconciling from YouTube and I spent several hours convinced it was a phishing scheme.it put me on edge for nearly a week that there was no way I could be sure critical accounts were safe, and worse yet, someone like my parents or in-laws could be safe.
by evilDagmar | 2025-09-09 14:57:04+00:00
The "disclosure" was a big waste of time. It was vague and ill-informed, nothing that came after seems to give the impression that they actually knew what they were talking about.

The only serious vulnerability that might have applied would have required the man to be using Apache as a reverse proxy to another server, which is just _extremely unlikely_ considering where it was hosted and what it was being used to do.
by dzink | 2025-09-09 14:57:09+00:00
This is fantastic! I hope they succeed and there is no abuse or other issues, because it will show how much an economy can grow when women are allowed to work to their full potential. Families who were previously in poverty because the mom would struggle to pay for childcare to work can now have assurance kids are ok while the mom can pursue jobs, start her own small business (huge chunk of businesses are small businesses ran by women) and prosper. If you pose your child’s safety vs another dollar, most parents would vote for their children. But if the children are taken care of, parents can give the economy their best and the taxes paid and GDP gained will pay back for the expense manyfold.
by Saus | 2025-09-09 14:57:11+00:00
>By funding Mistral, ASML might be able to buy a lot of political favor, while having stakes in a company that is unlikely to completely fail in the near future due to the EU administration support.

With regards to the topic of political favor, this is an interesting read on where US government went to the Dutch government to pressure ASML in buying Mapper, which was at risk being auctioned off to China. The article is in Dutch so a translation might be necessary by your favorite translation tool: https://archive.is/jmpmU
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-09 14:57:18+00:00
Building tons of deca/gigawatt datacenters without a specific monetization plan or need. It still seems like a very temporary bubble most likely to lead to a collapse leaving pollution, waste, land, and community destruction in its wake. If it were to be successful, then ~95% of a previously high-income people (~100M professionals) will be unemployed and/or lose earnings. There is no net positive outcome except for {tr,b}illionaires possibly getting richer.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-09 14:57:29+00:00
I'm glad you've had such good experience with autofill consistently working for you. My experience has been closer to that of the sibling comments: 60/40 so I often just give up and copy-paste. I actually did try jettisoning 1Password for Proton Pass but that was even worse, so I went back

> without any migration strategy or import/export support

Since you're already a 1Password user, I wanted to draw your attention to the "Show debugging tools" in the "Settings > Advanced" section. From that point, you can say "Copy Item JSON" and it will give you the details you would want for rescuing the Passkey. Importing it into something else is its own journey that I can't help with

{ "overview": { "passkey": { "credentialId": "...", "rpId": "example.com", "userHandle": "..." }, ... "details": { "passkey": { "type": "webauthn", "createdAt": 175......., "privateKey": "eyJ...", "userHandle": "..." }

I would guess their "op" CLI would allow similar, but I don't have the magic incantation to offer, whereas that Copy JSON is painless
by SubiculumCode | 2025-09-09 14:57:51+00:00
I've looked up hallucination eval leaderboards, and there doesn't seem to be much besides the vectara [1][2], which doesnt seem to include Claude, and seems to be missing Gemni Pro (non-experimental).

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/vectara/leaderboard [2] https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard/tree/ma...
by cyphar | 2025-09-09 14:58:04+00:00
> This is not my area of expertise but this is omitting that user namespaces tend to drastically increase the attack surface (despite what some vendors say).

Configuring user namespaces for the container to improve containment = very good idea. Enabling CLONE_NEWUSER inside a container = (usually) a very bad idea.

You can do one without the other, and the built-in user namespaces support in Docker (and Podman) does exactly that.

As one of the runc maintainers, I can say without reservation that user namespaces would have blocked the vast majority of container breakout attacks in the past decade and you absolutely should use them. The only technology with a similar track record for improving container security is seccomp. (SELinux folks will argue that SELinux deserves mention or maybe even top billing, but I have somewhat mixed opinions on that.)

This is not even an unusual opinion. LXC doesn't even consider containers with user namespaces disabled part of their threat model, precisely because it's so insecure to not use them[1]. Also, in my experience, most kernel developers generally assume (incorrectly) that most users use user namespaces when isolating containers and so make some security design decisions around that assumption. In every talk I've given on container security in the past few years I have urged people to use user namespaces.

It is even better for each container to have its own uid/gid block. Podman, LXC and runc all support this but Docker doesn't really (though I think there was some work on this recently?). The main impediment to proper user namespaces support for most users was the lack of support for transparent uid/gid remapping of mount points but that is a solved problem now and has been for a few years (MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP).

[1]: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/security/
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-09 14:58:11+00:00
> I don't think I've ever seen any company - big or small - either bragging that they've used generative AI as a significant driver in their project or claiming that thanks to implementing AI they've managed to cut x% costs or drive up their revenue by y%.

Actually every major (or wanna-be major) company is now "powered by AI" -- of course most of that is BS. It's unclear/unknown to what degree and in what processes LLMs are used and making a measurable difference.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-09-09 14:59:30+00:00
It's easy to promise things, but hard to deliver them. How can the state "guarantee no-cost universal child?"

Will the state provide the child care itself? Or will the attempt to provide funding, relying on the private market to provide the service. Are there a bunch of underworked child care providers just waiting around for new customers? Or would they expect the child care industry to go on a hiring spree?

Regardless who provides it, more workers would be required to deliver the service, and new facilities as well. What industries will those workers come from, who will now see reduced services and higher prices as a result? What doesn't get built while the construction workers are building new child care facilities?

Child care tends to be highly regulated. Is the government doing anything (aside from funding) to make it easier to open and run a child-care facility?

It's so easy to spend money. The hard part is the real-world actions and tradeoffs required. Everything comes at the cost of something else we could have had instead.

What you will see is: The funding will go to the people who are already receiving child-care services today, along with big price increases immediately and over time as government money chases supply that is slow to grow.
by danans | 2025-09-09 14:59:33+00:00
> It's not just water where the UK has a problem with this. Transport for London has also been forced to underprice its services for years by London's socialist mayor

In the US we have a problem with fantastically underpricing public roads. We don't expect their books to break even, much less generate a profit. Meanwhile everyone asks why train systems are not profitable.

> The US is a very right wing country.

Yeah, at least compared with most of Europe.

> It's politicians are better able to avoid populist price controls.

You didn't notice when the current president (somewhat successfully) bullied retailers into swallowing tariff-caused price increases, so they wouldn't damage his popularity? That almost seems right-wing socialist.
by jpadkins | 2025-09-09 15:00:11+00:00
The Banks don't determine if you are a terrorist or what not. They comply with the order when a judge gives them a lawful order to freeze accounts. I think it's okay to deputize corporations for the execution of the law in the digital world. You really, really don't want the federal government or mega corps to determine what is the "truth" vs. "propaganda". It's way too much power in society to be centralized. The decision on these nuanced issues needs to have due process and be de-centralized.
by koverstreet | 2025-09-09 15:00:28+00:00
I'm not trying to do this as fast as possible and get it out to every single user as fast as possible

That's tech industry thinking; that is what btrfs did :)

In the long run, slow is fast and wins the race. Being in the kernel would have been great if it grew the development community, but instead the opposite happened - it drove people way.

The important thing is to get it done, with all the reliability and hardening and features that people want. There's no reason it can't go back in later.
by kylebenzle | 2025-09-09 15:00:42+00:00
That doesn't make any sense and isn't an appropriate comment for this discussion.

The Anthropic product adding a feature is not the end of employment or even a step along the way.

MOST PEOPLE can't even use an actual computer yet even think about programming.

WYSIWYG editors didn't kill web development because most people are simply too stupid to understand a new tool, let alone use it.
by jjice | 2025-09-09 15:01:24+00:00
Curious what the causes are and how their weighted. Seems like it'd be too complex to actually figure out what's causing the most damage, but it's very interesting. There are so many factors I'd argue are probably negatives:

- Always online phone access (and everything that comes with it)

- Generative AI for doing assignments without thought

- The COVID year or two that they had to learn from home couldn't have helped develop good habits (I know it would've for me)
by allknowingfrog | 2025-09-09 15:01:34+00:00
Ads are only easy to block because they load from centralized, third-party domains. Physical print publishers don't leave blanks in their newspapers and send them off to advertisers to fill in. They approve and print the ads, just like any other content. If digital publishers made similar agreements to embed static ads, they would not be affected by ad blockers.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 15:01:40+00:00
> You are welcome to your opinion, but it is literally on a Wikipedia page called "List of video games considered the best."[0] There's no definitive list, of course, but broad consensus is it is one of the best of all time.

To the degree that such a concept is even measurable in the first place, I don't think pointing at a Wikipedia list of what looks like around a hundred games over forty-ish years as definitive proof that something is widely considered to be among the best games of all time. My guess is that most people think of categories of "best" media in much much smaller terms, and the only people allowing so many things in their categories are people like the American Film Institute and other people who like making lists.

It's hard to judge games which came out relatively recently against all the games which came before. I also think there's an abnormal level of hype around Hollow Knight. It's an excellent game which was received well, but I think on the grand scale of games I would be quite surprised if it cracked the top fifteen of most critics' choices of best games of the past decade. Within the Metroidvania genre I'd expect it to be a very different story.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 15:02:39+00:00
I drive on roads, I use libraries, I have police and fire protection. My children go to school. My city and state provide services to me and fellow citizens. This is no different, and we pay for it with taxes.

I like taxes, with them I buy civilization (which I also am fond of).

(The evidence also shows economic benefits of enabling parents to work when they want to by providing childcare)

https://illumine.app/blog/how-much-childcare-costs-by-state-...

https://childcaredeserts.org/

https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064...
by wtallis | 2025-09-09 15:02:44+00:00
> That's impossible because Apple has bought up most of TSMC's 3nm production capacity. You could try to approximate by comparing Apple M4 Max against NVIDIA B300 but that'll be a very one-sided win for NVIDIA.

Have you not heard that Intel's Lunar Lake is made on the same TSMC 3nm process as Apple's M3? It's not at all "impossible" to make a fair and relevant comparison here.
by vitonsky | 2025-09-09 15:02:58+00:00
Current incident confirms that we can't trust to authors of DuckDB, because they can't evade a trivial phishing attack.

Tomorrow they will do it again, and attackers will replace binary files that users download with this random script. Or this script will steal crypto/etc.

To make attack vector difficult for hackers, it's preferable to download any software as packages. On linux it looks like `apt install python3`.

The benefits is

1. Repositories are immutable, so attacker can't replace binary for specific version, even if they will hack all infrastructure of DuckDB. Remote script may be replaced anytime to run any code

2. Some repositories have strict review process, so there are external reviewers who will require to pass security processes to upload new version
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-09 15:03:17+00:00
> New Mexico has expanded access to no-cost child care to families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, reducing financial strain on tens of thousands of families.

This is confusing me, is this the same as "at or below the federal poverty level" or is there something I'm missing with that 400%? Do you have to be 400% below the federal poverty level to qualify?
by mdaniel | 2025-09-09 15:03:21+00:00
> I do get it for free from work, but if I had to choose one myself I'd have to pay for I'd probably still pick 1Passwrod.

I wanted to highlight that "getting it for free from work" isn't a sweetheart deal offered just to OP, but a feature of 1Password for Teams, meaning all employees of a business that uses 1Password automatically have a Family license for use at home https://support.1password.com/link-family/

And, for clarity, it's merely a financial relationship: the business cannot manage your Family account, cannot see its contents, and if you have a separation event you can retain the Family account forever in a read only capacity or you can take over the payment (or, heh, I presume move to another employer that also uses 1Password) and nothing changes for your home passwords
by n4r9 | 2025-09-09 15:03:26+00:00
I can think of several reasons why the US public finds Trump more appealing. Trump is a US national born and bred, whilst Musk was born in South Africa and holds Canadian as well as US citizenship. Trump absolutely nails populist rhetoric, whilst Musk is nerdy and aloof. Trump describes himself as chosen by God and vows to bring religion back to America, whilst Musk is nuanced and cagey about religion. Trump has celeb certification with his appearances on The Apprentice and WWE, whilst Musk tends to avoid mainstream media.
by Heyitsprofile | 2025-09-09 15:03:48+00:00
We’re launching an AI tool that allows users to discreetly verify dating profiles across multiple apps — without registration, private and secure. Unlike alternatives, it’s AI-powered, privacy-first, and built for global reach (EN, FR, ES, PT, DE). We’d love to share an early look and discuss how this could redefine transparency in online dating.
by evilDagmar | 2025-09-09 15:04:03+00:00
Oh that app did a huge thing just by showing how far the administration is willing to go with its delusional fascist nonsense. The app was _barely_ functional and available on a minority of the smart phones, and yet there the White House was, making hyperbolic claims on a regular basis about the massive "dangers" it posed. They even went so far as to go after the guy's wife since they didn't have any legal means to oppose him.

Things which take minimal effort but produce a massive response are what Trump's fire hose of duplicitous social media posts are all about. It's perfectly fine work to leverage that same asymmetry in response.
by DamonHD | 2025-09-09 15:04:09+00:00
I think that I probably average < 1 listener by any sensible metric! B^>

(The podcast where I capture primarily audio material such as voice or sonfification that might as well also be presented in this alternative channel form...)

I'd be interested to listen to your podcast if you were to ping me its URL via one of the contact methods in my bio...
by talkingtab | 2025-09-09 15:04:36+00:00
Ads are propaganda. Propaganda is Ads. Ads = propaganda. Propaganda is a tool to persuade people. Are ads an attempt to persuade people?

So is it news that people are using ads/propaganda to persuade people? No. Will Google, Facebook, Amazon or Apple do anything that will harm their revenue as propaganda platform? No.

Do Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple use propaganda? Yes.

This is like reading an article about how weapons from weapon companies are being weaponized.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-09 15:05:04+00:00
It's worse than that. The patient is forced by the compressions to vomit. In zero-G, that means the highly acidic contents of their stomachs are now several forcefully-ejected packets of goo.

Forget the dreaded conductive pencil-lead shavings; that stuff is going to cause problems to hardware and wetware alike!
by dzink | 2025-09-09 15:05:16+00:00
This would solve a lot of Republican’s problems as well. Israel has the kibbutz system and they have the highest birth rate of developed economies. They also have amazing tech and women participation and excellent contributions even in the military. If you raise the country’s children well, you get more GDP and less prisons and less need for policing, and less need for welfare programs. Plus you get quality workers for those american-made factories.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-09 15:05:33+00:00
The EU needs to do the things that it has prided itself on not doing for the last 30 years. That is the fundamental problem, and I don't see how it can change. Germans work 400 hours less per year than Americans. 400! That's 50 days!

How do you get people to work 50 more days a year without mass voting to keep (or even "improve") the status quo?

And this doesn't even touch on the heavy regulatory side, which just makes the EU a generally unattractive place to invest.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-09-09 15:05:51+00:00
No, and that's exactly the point I'm making. If you try to measure ISA efficiency using a workload where the CPU is idle the vast majority of the time, then your power usage will be dominated by things unrelated to the ISA.

To further hammer the point home, let me reduce do a reductio ad absurdum: The chip is still "in use" when its asleep. Sleeping your laptop is a typical usecase. Therefore how much power is used while sleeping is a good measure of ISA efficiency. This is of course absurd because the CPU cores are entirely turned off when sleeping, they could draw 1kW with potato performance and nothing in this measurement would change.
by jagaerglad | 2025-09-09 15:06:03+00:00
Well if you disable App Store you cannot re-install apps you find distracting that you have removed. I actually remove Play store from my android through the debug shell for this exact reason. And yes, it happens that when all other apps are gone, things like Ebay, Foodora, App store etc are scrolled mindlessly, it's a hierarchy of stimulation, you remove one and move on to the next best one. Congratulations that you don't have adhd, it's hell