MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-21 17:16:28+00:00
Sky in Germany was infamous for not providing nearly close to enough servers to support streaming of high profile games. And their cable TV box used extremely sub-par SoCs which made for an atrocious user experience.

In addition the cost only went upwards while the offering reduced every season as Dazn and other players entered the field. I said goodbye to soccer a few years prior to Covid.
by lapcat | 2025-09-21 17:16:42+00:00
History is not the same as out-of-date information.

The submitted article is not an historical review. If there was an article written explaining how Disk Utility had a bug, but the bug is now fixed, that might be interesting. On the other hand, to submit an article about a bug that no longer exists, with no explanation, would simply be misleading, out-of-date information. In this case, however, the bug still exists presently, so it's not history either.
by grayhatter | 2025-09-21 17:17:34+00:00
> Yes, what you're missing is that you are intentionally conflating "same standard" when you imply that the criminal standard is voluntary and the LE standard is legal.

This is hard for me to parse, what are you trying to say?

> See your quip about the criminals "than they would treat us" and "able to be as cruel". Voluntary behavior of the criminals. Which is not under discussion.

No, you misunderstood what I was trying to explain. The concept I was trying to explain and reinforce was that the cops should be the good guys. Good compared to what? The behavior of criminals. So it is a part of the expectations for the behavior of police. Or in other words, it's a mistake for Bianco to set the standard of behavior for the good guys, at the level of behavior we see from the bad guys. We should hold cops to a higher standard.

I.e. like you, I agree that it's wrong to compare the actions of police to the actions of criminals. everyone should hold the actions of police on their own, an ask is this what the good guy would do?
by hamza_q_ | 2025-09-21 17:17:40+00:00
Thanks :) Agreed, the limiting factor has been diarization (generating the "who speaks when" data) speed. But the diarization backend of this app that I developed can now process 1 hour of audio in ~8 seconds on a M3 Mac. So that's more or less a solved problem now (at least on Mac), just UI work remains.
by Hizonner | 2025-09-21 17:17:49+00:00
I know that the person I'm stalking created a pseudonymous account on service X around time Y. Based on other information, I have a limited number of suspect accounts. The creation time leaks to me, either via a bug which would otherwise have been harmless, or because somebody writing code "can't imagine a universe where having the creation time of an item breaks your security". I use the creation time to figure out which of my candidates is actually the target.

It took me under 15 seconds to come up with that.
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-21 17:18:23+00:00
> Having a car is not a necessity. It should be seen (and taxed) as a luxury

It is unfortunately a necessity in many parts of America where public transportation is lacking or nonexistent.

And making it a "luxury" just further stratifies our society into different, non-interacting economic classes. When things start becoming "privileges", you get a privileged class who cares less and less about the quality of life of those in lesser classes, shaping society to benefit their lifestyles at the expense of others.

As someone who grew up in abject poverty in a very rural area and was homeless and on completely on my own by 16, I have already seen how this plays out. The trajectory of my life was majorly affected by a lack of a car or adequate public transportation. I have since had to make choices about where I live in order to minimize car use in order to align with my own philosophy around transportation, but it comes at great cost in America when such walkable cities are so desirable that cost of living shoots through the roof due to demand. And conversely, poorer areas often lack walkability or sufficient and accessible public transportation.

Berlin does not have the same problems as America, a sprawling empire in decline.
by jval43 | 2025-09-21 17:18:24+00:00
Something is deeply broken with Samba in macOS, all Samba versions and all macOS versions.

It just never works. And just when you think it's finally reliable and has worked for a while, it breaks in new unexpected ways. Sometimes hanging the whole machine. This was with both macOS as a server and a Linux server (less issues with Linux, but still broken).

Samba isn't great on other OSs either, but not as broken as on macOS. At this point I've given up on Samba completely, and consider it something I won't use again.
by johncarlosbaez | 2025-09-21 17:19:06+00:00
Quoting https://thenieveslawfirm.com/do-police-have-to-identify-them...:

You’re minding your own business when a police officer approaches you. They start asking questions, but something feels off. You ask for their name and badge number, but they refuse. What do you do?

As a citizen, you want to trust and cooperate with law enforcement, but you also have rights that must be protected. The question of whether police officers are legally required to identify themselves when asked is a complex one, with no easy answers.

In general, no, a police officer does not have to identify themselves even if you ask them—making it even more important to invoke your right to silence no matter who you think you’re talking to.

California Penal Code Section 830.10 states:

“Any uniformed peace officer shall wear a badge, nameplate, or other device which bears clearly on its face the identification number or name of the officer.”

However, there are a couple of key issues with this law that limit its effectiveness in ensuring police accountability:

The law only applies to uniformed officers, meaning that plainclothes officers or those working undercover are not required to wear any identifying information. Even for uniformed officers, the law doesn’t explicitly require them to make their badge number or name easily visible or accessible to the public. An officer could potentially wear their identifying information in a manner that is obscured or difficult to read.
by notreallyauser | 2025-09-21 17:19:58+00:00
Contextual offers are just that -- contextual. Cite your sources if you're claiming all independent schools get one tariff and all state schools get another, because AFAIK that's not how these contextual offers work.

Oxford admissions have a heavy interview component: if they think you're really smart, have great potential, and then you'll be of the caliber to get 4 A* no question if you had rich parents and went to a top Public School (but don't, so may not), then -- yeah -- they can make you a lower offer. Their place, their rules.

It isn't dumbing down or taking worse students, it's easing out the rich types who will drink/play lacrosse or rugby/bore to at least Blues standard, are pretty bright but have been spoon-fed to get there so will turn out to be dumber and worse students that people whose potential hadn't been fully revealed by 17/18, even if the spoon-fed cohort get better A Level results.
by amluto | 2025-09-21 17:20:38+00:00
Rust is very good at making things immutable. But that doesn't mean it's particularly fun to, for example, append or prepend something to a list and retain a reference to both the old and the new list.

Compare to most "functional" languages, in which prepending an item to a list and ending up with immutable references to the old and new lists is almost the defining feature of the language.
by nikodunk | 2025-09-21 17:20:50+00:00
As soon as Fedora/Centos updates their images (pretty much immediately usually as it's upstream of EL), and the CI runs to re-layer the Bluefin changes. They also have Dependabot set up. https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/actions

It's just OCI images, like any web-scale project.
by breppp | 2025-09-21 17:21:26+00:00
Haganah only cooperated with the Irgun for a short while during the Jewish Resistance Movement which fell apart shortly when the Irgun went too extreme for their tastes.

To understand more You might want to read about the Saison where the Haganah cooperated with the British authorities against the Lehi and Etzel which had hundreds of members arrested.

Regarding popular support, due to management of immigration by the Jewish Agency and the facts of life in Israel at the time, the population was overly Socialist as I mentioned before, which can be seen in the respective parties sizes, this meant the politically they were completely on the other side of the political map.

It was also common for mainstream opinion to describe the Etzel and Lehi as terrorists, as can be seen for example in the 1946 World Zionist Congress
by giantg2 | 2025-09-21 17:22:14+00:00
This article makes a lot of assumptions or claims with nothing to back them up, mostly the parts about a system built to traumatize, Charlottesville as an example, etc. It seems to be entirely lacking any context of what life was like in preindustrial times vs modern times. Death was way more common back then, including losing your children. Let's not forget the impacts of religions and superstitions as societal frameworks and how those tended to handle anything different. Even punishments like stoning, flogging, or crucifixion were much more brutal.

One of the main premises of this article is that society today is more traumatic than in the past, which I find to be laughably incorrect. They took what could have been a good article simply exploring modern drug use and ruined it with all these tangential and unfounded claims.
by matthewmacleod | 2025-09-21 17:22:15+00:00
That's not "letting in poor people" as you framed it. It's letting in dumber people, worse students. Lots of that is mainly based on classism (against people from middle class), racism (against white people).

This obviously doesn’t follow, and you should feel a decent amount of embarrassment for ignoring the fact that exam grades don’t correlate with “dumbness” or lack thereof.

It should be trivially obvious that a student who is perhaps from a less well-off background, attending state school and achieving decent grades, can be equally as talented and deserving of a top-tier education as a better-off, privately-educated student.

Access programs go some way towards trying to tackle snowballing generational inequality - which essentially results in a bias away from merit, and towards those able to afford private education.

If you want to argue against that, then fine - but at least don’t start with such faulty assumptions.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-09-21 17:22:41+00:00
Pretty much any information can be used for something. You're ignoring everything they say about how something not critical to application security may still not be desirable to be leaked for other reasons. Example: Target and Walmart may not depend on satellites being unable to image their parking lots from the perspective of loss prevention or corporate security. But it still leaks information they may not want financial analysts to know about their performance.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-21 17:23:11+00:00
Government decided it doesn't want to pay for tertiary education. But, it does want UK students to get tertiary education, and they can't afford it. So, OK that circle can be kinda squared by "student loans" except of course the cost on these loans would sky-rocket. So, then government says ah, you can't charge more than this small fixed amount, and we'll never increase it because that's unpopular. For-profit lenders can charge as much as they can find an excuse for, but you educational charities too bad, you're not getting an extra penny.

So a good UK university cannot profitably offer education for UK students.

So for some of the best they'll focus on non UK students. These students aren't subject to a capped price we can't afford, so we can gouge them to make up for the lost revenue from home students.

But the usual "I'm not racist but..." people of course hate foreigners. How dare any of these people be different in any way. And so while some of them will pretend their hatred only extends to some foreigners it's always the same exact people who are aggrieved and want yet another excuse to hate foreigners.

This results in government efforts to make it harder to study here, and more expensive to teach students here. That way they slightly appease racists who weren't going to vote for them anyway and they feel justified.

I assume eventually this will collapse, and judging from Brexit nothing whatsoever will be learned by the supporter/victim class, the same gullible morons will keep falling for lies from the same people who feed off them. Certain that somehow it must be somebody else's fault their lives are shit while the leaders they're feeding are doing so well.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-21 17:23:24+00:00
> Most surprising was that of all the things we measured, biblical literalist interpretations amongst our students changed very little, but that small change was predictive enough of changes in acceptance of evolution,” Jensen said. “However, you’ll notice that students still score alarmingly high on biblical literalism even though they score extremely high on evolution acceptance measures.

Yeah, a biblical literalist can sustain some degree of cognitive dissonance for a while. I don’t see the benefit of paying lip service to evolution if you’re also going to believe at the same time that e.g., the Curse of Ham is real.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-21 17:23:40+00:00
It was so weird to me too. The idea of laying down zones for purposes was completely different from the way I imagined my city was built, considering businesses and residences coexist not merely next to each other, but often one on top of the other, even in relatively low density areas. I would have imagined that you'd start from some basic service to attract settlers and then add infrastructure as the population grows, while the inhabitants figure out the land use on their own, with uses changing over time with the ebb and flow of the economy.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-21 17:23:48+00:00
As far as I understand, the objective is completely different. Ads are shown on platforms owned by Meta, and the Conversions API runs on the merchant's website (server-side), and reports interactions such as purchases back to Facebook.

This is quite different from websites monetizing traffic through and trackers placed on their own webpages. Those can still be reliably blocked by preventing websites from loading third party content.
by vzaliva | 2025-09-21 17:23:49+00:00
Be cautious with university rankings. Universities can be assessed by research, student satisfaction, teaching quality, cost, accessibility, or by specific fields. Some excel in computer science, others in medicine or the humanities.

A single overall ranking is therefore meaningless - look instead for the measure that matches your priorities. For instance, for research impact in computer science, see: https://csrankings.org/
by dns_snek | 2025-09-21 17:24:23+00:00
That's weirdly passive aggressive, swap isn't durable data storage.

Reliably recording massive amounts of data for extended periods of time in a studio setting is the most obvious use case for a fixed-size buffer that gets flushed to durable storage at short and predictable time intervals. You wouldn't want a segfault wiping out the entire day's worth of work, would you?
by sleight42 | 2025-09-21 17:24:31+00:00
I started using Ruby almost 20 years ago. I've been to a boat load of Ruby conferences. I even ran a hippy dippy Ruby event on the east coast for about 10 years.

It was welcoming.

Then 2016 happened. Then some Rubyists began spewing hate and distrust at people just because of their religion.

It wasn't political until certain groups made it political.
by noelwelsh | 2025-09-21 17:24:33+00:00
> In total, almost half (49.4 per cent) of A-level entries at independent schools this year were awarded A or A*, compared with less than a quarter (22.3 per cent) at comprehensives.

https://www.schoolmanagementplus.com/exams-qualifications/a-...

Much more on the disparity if one cares to search.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-21 17:24:54+00:00
Yeah as far as product (people that do/make the thing being sold) is concerned, marketing/sales is a cost center and they should be making most of the money, since they're providing the actual value. As far as marketing/sales is concerned, the product is fungible and is a cost center, and they should be making most of the money since they're the only thing differentiating their org from competitors and making actual money come in. As far as accounting is concerned, the company doesn't make any money until they actually invoice and chase down and collect invoices, and if they don't pay invoices neither marketing nor product will have the infrastructure they need to do their job.

Without HR/hiring, the other departments don't exist since they all need to be staffed. Without management, nobody knows what to do. Without facilities/IT/building manager, nobody has internet or water or desks or chairs.

And so on and so forth. Everyone is essential, and everyone also has an overinflated idea of their own importance and an underinflated idea of the importance of others.
by casenmgreen | 2025-09-21 17:25:08+00:00
Well, "self-defence" means you can't force others, and you can't trick them.

If either are happening, then freedom has gone - you're being coerced, or you've been deceived.

If we choose to impose ourselves on others - to coerce them, or deceive them - on a basis other than self-defence, what basis would that be?

The problem I see in this is that if we go beyond self-defence, we're into the realm of "I think this is good, so I will now force you to do it", and the problems with that are self-evident, as we see today.
by uncircle | 2025-09-21 17:25:10+00:00
Serious question: how is declaring “oh wait, Palestine actually exists!” help the plight of the Palestinian people? I really doubt Bibi and his cronies will lose any sleep over a timid declaration in a climate that is increasingly critical of Israel’s actions.

In UK’s case, it seems to me more of the classic Starmer flailing about to recapture the votes of whatever group fared worst in his opinion polls. After appeasing Reform and the Tory voters, he probably feels it’s time to throw a bone to the Corbynites now.
by ionwake | 2025-09-21 17:25:19+00:00
I cant help myself, I have to chip in. Having lived in Oxford for about a decade my most memorable local ( and in one case international headlines) which maybe me tut and wonder what on earth they are doing were these ( feel free to look them up).

a) Banned clapping in the student union. Literally incase it offended people for being loud. This one was even mentioned on Joe Rogan.

b) About a year or so later, the SAME student union, then had to fire ALL (or was it just one) ( correct me if Im wrong) leadership in the student union, for literally seeing a student stand in the wrong section - who he himself could not see he was, and instead of you know talking to him, ordered security to take him out, in such a way that the student who was as fate had it, blind disabled, was literally dragged across the floor thrown out, and then for good measure, followed up on by having his student card revoked. ( This is actually a really bad thing to do to a student in this particular university as it immediately stops them using basically most of the resources they need to complete their education. Needless to say the whole thing was so messed up leadership was taken to court and ofcourse disbanded. I happened to be told they literally brought in an old leader, back to Oxford to try and stop the weirdness.

Before the usual offended folk turn up to try and moan, I still think the university and its people are great. I am just pointing out there were definately Monty Python type moments there over the last few years.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-21 17:25:26+00:00
Thank you for illustrating my point. I dedicated entire following paragraph to explaining that you're not free if exercising your lawful freedom costs you your job, but you didn't even read it. It's not that you didn't understand it, you didn't even read it. Literal syntax error.

To answer your follow-up question: I understand "freedom" as "freedom to". This trivially includes "freedom from" through "freedom to choose not to participate in something".
by lioeters | 2025-09-21 17:26:23+00:00
What I love about this author's work is that they're usually single-file libraries in ANSI C or Lua with focused scope, easy-to-use interface, and good documentation. And free software license. Aside from the posted project, some I like are:

- log.c - A simple logging library implemented in C99

- microui - A tiny immediate-mode UI library

- fe - A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C

- microtar - A lightweight tar library written in ANSI C

- cembed - A small utility for embedding files in a C header

- ini - A tiny ANSI C library for loading .ini config files

- json.lua - A lightweight JSON library for Lua

- lite - A lightweight text editor written in Lua

- cmixer - Portable ANSI C audio mixer for games

- uuid4 - A tiny C library for generating uuid4 strings
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-21 17:26:26+00:00
> There is no billionaire secretly hoarding all the top university spots.

Do you think Trump got into Wharton on his academic prowess? Legacy admits and donor kids take spots from both middle and lower classes.

> And no one is saying immigrants are taking the spots.

Sure they are. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/27/trump-administration-pro...
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-21 17:26:30+00:00
That is true, but the point is that having swap available, increases the time between recording samples, and needing to commit them to disk.

Well-written, long term recording software doesn’t quit or crash. It records what it needs to record, and - by using swap - gives itself plenty of time to flush the buffers using whatever techniques are necessary for safety.

Disclaimer: I’ve written this software, both with and without swap available in various embedded contexts, in real products. The answer to the question is that having swap means higher data rates can be attained before needing to sync.
by analog8374 | 2025-09-21 17:26:32+00:00
My first criticism is the unity of popular opinion. (Ironic, yes). I see this majority, holding the exact same opinion, offering the exact same arguments in support of that opinion, implementing that opinion in exactly the same way. In lockstep.

There's a definite lack of natural chaos.

That's fishy. That reeks of a finely crafted propaganda campaign.
by heyjamesknight | 2025-09-21 17:27:06+00:00
> Most Pro-labor people would, I imagine, consider the global labor pool in their analysis.

This is an insanely modern take on "pro-labor" movements, especially in the US. Traditionally, pro-labor has been 100% focused on local labor. If you told your average union member that being "pro-labor" meant closing their factories and offshoring their jobs they'd laugh (or more likely, spit) in your face.
by renshijian | 2025-09-21 17:27:17+00:00
Correction Notice

Hello everyone, and thank you for the valuable feedback! In my previous post, there was a typo in the link (therscan.io should be etherscan.io), and the example transaction hash was not replaced with the actual one, causing some users to encounter broken links. Both issues have now been corrected, and I will update the post with the real transaction hash as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support! I will continue to share updates on the Power-Off Protocol project. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments.

— renshijian