MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by withinrafael | 2025-09-18 05:21:13+00:00
I have the previous generation Meta Ray-Ban glasses and they're great, but I wish I could use the underlying tech for... something more useful. It has no API, no extensibility options, nada. I--and my friends--don't use Messenger, Facebook, etc. I fear it'll be the same w/ the Ray-Ban Display, so I doubt I will be upgrading. Such a shame.
by tomhow | 2025-09-18 05:21:28+00:00
OK, message received, I've turned off the downweights and we'll keep it on the front page.

The intention wasn't to "kill" the story, but to try and get more details so it would address the questions that came up for me and that I assumed would come up for other readers (which indeed they have [1]). My words "must be more to the story" weren't intended to suggest Salesforce are likely to be in the right, but just that it would be helpful to know. I.e., does this affect all nonprofits/educational organizations? Is this change just targeted at this org? If so why? But I didn't know it was written by a student/teenager, who may not be on top of those details. And given it's late at night and there's such a short timeline for cutoff, we're happy to let the story stay on the front page now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284260
by sometimes_all | 2025-09-18 05:22:19+00:00
No, you are partly correct. But given that brands are status symbols, the cost is only one part of the status game. There are some other things which societies consider: Do you know which models are the "best" (high resale value / rarity / age / anything else) - sometimes the price isn't the only indicator. Also, do you know where to get the biggest bang for the buck? Do you know which places/markets/etc can have better models for lower cost? Do you know the right people so that you can get new information the quickest? Getting a rare model for a relatively lower price sometimes be a bigger social win than getting it for the standard price.

Where I live, you are a chump if you pay the sticker price - getting a valuable thing for much less than that is one of the indicators of how people judge your status. The fact that brands try to control pricing only makes the "game" more interesting.
by amatecha | 2025-09-18 05:22:23+00:00
I know they aren't? The person hinted at something but didn't say anything concrete, so I don't actually know what they're saying, which is why I asked them to clarify.

I've been using mastodon for nearly 10 years. Fediverse, in my actual experience, is overwhelmingly a really good place to meet and chat with interesting, friendly people. Follow and engage with cool people and you'll have a good time. If you go looking for what you don't like, you'll find it, because it's there just like anywhere on the net. The difference is you don't have to see stuff you don't want to see, because the software and protocol have features that allow this. I'm on a pretty small server and we all are pretty much on the same page about what we expect our social interactions to be like. You know you can just filter out content, right? Your server can totally block or defederate from servers that have objectionable content, too (by whatever your collective definition of "objectionable" is). It works pretty well if you use it the way it's designed to be used.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-18 05:23:02+00:00
ABC was certainly complicit in what Jimmy Kimmel was doing. But they are now throwing Jimmy under the bus.

Jimmy was wrong to say what he said. At best it was a bad-faith assertion, at worst it was propaganda. It wasn’t even true, or likely to be true given what we knew.

The fact is that someone is dead. That is the strongest form of censorship. That is the strongest attack on “free speech”.

Jimmy pulled indefinitely? In my opinion it’s unfair. ABC is not innocent here.

But at least Jimmy didn’t have a bullet put into his neck.
by rolph | 2025-09-18 05:23:31+00:00
making your presence well known ahead of time by being noisy can help, but it doesnt always, and thats when you can have a 3/4 ton animal suddenly bolting at you from thick bush in about 2 seconds, because its decided to lay in ambush to kill or wound you rather than give ground.

and really the moose are a lot more likely than bears to go after you.

more qualifiers as well such as with calf or cubs, hunting and predation engagement being interrupted ect.
by Vegenoid | 2025-09-18 05:24:04+00:00
> Like church and state, you keep them separate for the good of both.

No, not for the good of both - for the good of the people. It is demonstrably beneficial for those in power in government and megacorps to conspire and consolidate that power, it enables them to further control and extract from the populace. It is the people that should be invested in keeping them separate.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 05:24:22+00:00
This can't possibly be the case, because the AI voice says slightly different things between the two attempts. The first time it says "you've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a carrot to add to the sauce"; while the second time it says "you've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate the carrot* and gently combine it with the base sauce".

Unless you think they've added some inference logic on the device to slightly re-state the last answer they got from the cloud, it's clear that the glasses were connected and receiving the same useless answer from the cloud.

* side note, but it can also sound like "pear" to me this second time
by DeathArrow | 2025-09-18 05:24:52+00:00
The investment fund that acquired the company that acquired our company requests all that all companies it owns go big on cloud and AI, no matter what, because this raises valuation and they can sell them for bigger profits.

I have nothing against cloud or AI per se, but I still believe in the right tool for the right job and in not doing things just for the sake of it. While raising valuation is a good thing, raising costs, delaying more useful features and adding complexity should also be taken into account.
by Schnitz | 2025-09-18 05:26:27+00:00
They have AI features in Slack but they just aren’t that useful. The RAG search is the most useful one, but it falls short of solutions like Dust or Glean because it only covers a single silo (Slack). AI search is way more useful when it searches across Notion, Linear, Slack, etc so you’ll buy that instead of the Slack AI addon.
by opan | 2025-09-18 05:28:26+00:00
I have a low opinion of "out of the box" experiences when it comes to pre-installed software. Phones, routers, PCs. They come loaded with crap that is best blown away.

When I get the phone and update the stock OS before wiping it, I don't need to sign into a Google account then, either, and I don't recall it being signed into someone else's, so I don't think regular Android requires it either, though my exposure is minimal so I can't guarantee it. It will try to have you sign in during the setup wizard, but I believe you can hit skip. You may need to skip connecting to the internet first to skip the account thing, I don't know. Maybe best done before you put the SIM in on top of that.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 05:29:11+00:00
So earlier I took a look at the wiki list of Domestic Terrorism incidents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207030

Over the last 40 years: 8/16 attacks on that list are linked to White Supremacists(Counting OKC) ~50%

In the last 15 years, again about 50% are linked to White Supremacists and ~41% linked to Radical Islam.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-09-18 05:30:50+00:00
For those of you recommending matrix, have you tried in earnest to use it? I couldn't get reliable video and call to work, even with stun/turn servers properly configured (chrome doesn't trust let's encrypt for ICE certs, that was a fun one to debug, had to go with zerossl).

Sometimes the phone wouldn't ring, rarely did video work.

The element app for android doesn't notify correctly unless the app is open.

For day to day desktop chat it's great, but it falls apart on videoconferencing and mobile
by opan | 2025-09-18 05:31:03+00:00
To be fair, the flashing they talk about is as simple as uploading the new update file in the LuCI web UI, and there's an option to back up your data, plus I think it tries to preserve it by default anyway. Things only really get messy when you're too many versions behind what you're trying to upgrade to, or in the case of an update failure. You don't typically need to get out a flash programmer or anything. They want you to grab the new OpenWrt a bit like grabbing the new Debian Stable, but they don't want you to do the equivalent of apt upgrading any packages you have installed in between the stable releases (for some reason). It is kinda weird and not ideal but in practice I haven't had that many problems.
by js8 | 2025-09-18 05:31:18+00:00
Why are so worried, then, whether the world is anti-american or not? Why use that term, if you personally don't want see the world through nationalist optics?

I saw a commenter the other day here claiming that in EU, there are lot of "anti-american" far left sentiments. They weren't able to elaborate, who exactly that is; as someone on the left, I don't see it.

For example, I live in EU, I support DiEM25, and I am against NATO, as well as stopping other military activities. I also agree with Chomsky. Is any of this anti-american? How is then yibg's comment anti-american?

I guess you can't have it both ways - the american soft power (you seem to miss) came with exceptionalism. I agree that Switzerland is nice, but they simply don't have that soft power.
by slg | 2025-09-18 05:31:38+00:00
I was trying to be more neutral, but after some thought, this isn't the time for that. My "surprise" was more than a bit sarcastic. Between this and the FCC going after Kimmel, now is the last chance I will give for anyone claiming to care about free speech to prove they weren't lying. There's no plausible deniability anymore, free speech is unambiguously under attack.
by Snild | 2025-09-18 05:31:58+00:00
> we should have a software building code

This made my brain go "Oh no, not this again. Open source projects don't owe you..." etc etc.

> or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things

Oh. Yeah, okay, absolutely! For safety-critical, I would like to think the responsibility already lies with the integrator/seller, but making it explicitly so can't hurt.
by solatic | 2025-09-18 05:32:50+00:00
Yeah I get the feeling that the correct approach is something like defining (1) a naming convention for the One True State, (2) defining some kind of namespace, passed in the backend config, to which state identifiers are copied when their state IDs don't conform with One True State, (3) some kind of UI to propose/communicate + CLI to rewrite the state identifiers and add moved blocks to import code to start to use One True State.
by layman51 | 2025-09-18 05:32:53+00:00
This is a good point to know about. I'm not too sure about how non-profits can be categorized in terms of "small" or "large", but typically when we are talking about SaaS costs, well that would depend on the number of seats or licenses. So for example, the Prevent Cancer Foundation might have millions of dollars in assets per year, they only have 26 employees[0], so in a way, they are a "small" nonprofit compared to others that might have hundreds of employees.

[0]: https://preventcancer.org/about-us/team/
by Castro88 | 2025-09-18 05:33:21+00:00
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by DeathArrow | 2025-09-18 05:34:05+00:00
>Intel's latest processor generations are pushing the number of cores in a server to unprecedented levels - from 128 P-cores per socket in Granite Rapids to 288 E-cores per socket in Sierra Forest, with future roadmaps targeting 200+ cores per socket.

It seems today's Intel CPU can replace yesteryear's data center.

May someone can try for fun running 1000 Red Hat Linux 6.2 in parallel on one CPU, like it's year 2000 again.
by dang | 2025-09-18 05:34:51+00:00
By "editorialize" we mean changing a title to introduce spin, or cherry-picking one detail to bias the reader in the direction that the submitter personally wants, rather than reflecting the article as a whole (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202136 for a recent comment about that).

In this case, that wasn't at issue. The operative clause is "unless it is misleading or linkbait". A word like "extorted" is too baity for HN's frontpage. This is nothing personal against the OP! It's actually better for them and for Hack Club if the HN title is relatively neutral while still conveying the critical information.
by asdff | 2025-09-18 05:35:06+00:00
I am not arguing the car isn't supremely convenient. Even in Tokyo, drop two arbitrary point A or B about 5 miles as the crow flies apart and the car will win 9/10. That is beside the point. I am arguing against the idea that transit usage is impossible. Virtually everywhere that people take transit en masse, the car is faster. Seemingly there is some culturally learned impatience surrounding transit that is deep rooted in north american culture, to the point where the idea of taking a little extra time is an outright impossibility to most people. This is a highly individual culture where tragedy of the commons externalities are handwaved away in favor of a supremely convenient individual experience, as the climate of the earth is more damned by the year.
by bayesianbot | 2025-09-18 05:35:20+00:00
Trump also said he's gonna tell Australia's prime minister about the reporter, which is kinda nuts (and hilarious?)

Old track, but just hard to imagine what would have happened if Biden was asked about his corruption and answered like that. But it's hypothetical anyway, since no previous president would ever be rug-pulling crypto scams or selling watches and bibles.

I just can't believe how weekly, or sometimes daily, I share these wild stories and videos with some friends and they keep behaving like anything about this is normal. There are so many things that would make me go WTF even without the context of the constant grift it all comes with.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-18 05:35:22+00:00
If people outside the US complain about what the US does, we should stop doing it. The fact that everyone complains about US foreign policy means we need to course-correct. No one complains about Swiss foreign policy.

I think we agree, since we're both against NATO. Not sure why you're trying to argue with me.
by Sytten | 2025-09-18 05:35:38+00:00
I recently had to deal with Entra ID for the first time to setup Microsoft OAuth for our site and my god why is it so badly designed.

Just creating a tenant is a PITA and you get a default tenant you can't change without paying for Microsoft 365? Then you have subscriptions, Microsoft partners, Enteprise vs individual accounts, etc. All mixed with legacy AD naming and renaming, documentation with outdated screenshots, Microsoft Partners bullshit.
by opan | 2025-09-18 05:37:33+00:00
If mastodon.com or whatever is all you know, I can still follow you, we can interact, you don't need to know how it all works. However, pseudo-centralization with everyone piling on to a flagship instance is not ideal, so onboarding should still involve you picking an instance that doesn't already have 50k+ people on it. Some instances are specialized, they advertise themselves as being related to fishing or anime or lgbt stuff, but it's not like a more limited version of the software running. You can still post whatever you want on there and follow people on the other ones.

You also don't need to know everything right away. You could make every "mistake", sign up on the flagship Mastodon instance, hear about how you should have other instances, make an alt somewhere else, maybe fosstodon because you like free software, then you hear talk of Pleroma and you look into that a bit. It's fairly common to have multiple accounts, which is good because it provides redundancy. If your instance goes down, flagship or not, you ideally still have a way to view and post. They make it easy to import/export your following list as well, so migration isn't too bad.

It's pretty similar to Matrix if you're familiar with that at all. Initially my friends and I all ended up on matrix.org, then there was some downtime and I realized how fragile it was to all be on the one main big instance, so I made several alts. Now when matrix.org goes down (just happened a week or two ago), I can still post in the group chats I'm in, and anyone else on an instance that isn't down can post, and when matrix.org comes back it'll all flood in for those people as well.

I think it can work and be successful because email was quite successful. Not everyone was on the same domain but we still manage to email each other. You could argue that gmail has a monstrously large presence and that it's harder to host your own mail server these days, but it's all still possible.
by jwrallie | 2025-09-18 05:37:33+00:00
I was considering moving from Slack (free version) to Teams (paid) for a new project starting in October because my workplace already have a license for that. Seems like it will have less features but no 90 day retention annoyances.

You seem to have some experience with both, do you think I am making a bad decision for a ~30 person team?

Others suggested Matrix, but I have a feeling they are implicitly assuming self-hosting. I do think Element works quite well, but I have only used it personally with matrix.org for basic chat, never for work. It does work on both Android and iOS as well as Linux, which is why I use it.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 05:37:48+00:00
Common glass absorbs most of the UV light, and your lens and cornea absorb the rest. If UV light did hit your retina, you'd actually notice it - people who lack a cornea and/or lens can actually notice UV light, which is why artificial lenses like you'd get after in cataract surgery are now made of UV-absorbant materials.

So unless you have a rare medical condition AND you're buying plastic lens glasses, I think you're worrying for nothing.
by gregmac | 2025-09-18 05:38:26+00:00
It sounds like you think I'm victim-blaming here and that's not my intent at all.

Part of being in business is anticipating risks and having a plan -- which could be deciding to accept the risk. What sucks is you're implicitly accepting the risk of anything you didn't think of, even if the seller is quite aware or even counting on it. It's a harsh lesson when something this happens.

Slack are leveraging their position and it makes them assholes (or capitalists, I suppose, depending on your point of view), but you can't control what they do. You can only control your choices.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-18 05:38:28+00:00
I can’t really comment on video calls in Matrix since I never used them in Slack either. For me the main draw is having one tool that does one job well, rather than trying to be the all-in-one hub for everything. I’d rather have messaging in one place, email wherever it lives, and video calls on a separate tool that’s actually good at that, instead of relying on a centralized system that tries to cover all bases but ends up being mediocre at most of them.
Show HN: I twisted my foot, so used an old phone's sensors into a recovery alarm
by madinmo | 2025-09-18 05:39:14+00:00
I twisted my foot while playing badminton. The doctor said the best way to recover is to keep it elevated. But I couldn’t really track whether my foot was in the proper elevated position or not.

So, I built a little app to solve this. Every smartphone already has motion sensors inside it. The accelerometer (measures movement in X, Y, Z directions) and the gyroscope (measures tilt and rotation). App reads these sensor values while the phone is strapped to my foot. It checks the angle continuously to know whether my foot is properly elevated or not.

If my foot is in a good elevated position, it shows me a green check. If it’s hanging down for more than a few minutes, the phone makes noise, vibrates, and flashes red to remind me.

It’s a fun little hack, but it actually helps me recover better by making sure my foot stays where it should. I ended up calling it “Elevation Police”. It's my personal ankle monitor that nags me for my own good.

discussion - https://x.com/the2ndfloorguy/status/1968306219371655227
by al_borland | 2025-09-18 05:39:42+00:00
I would really need a way to try before I buy for the prices being changed. I’m not sold on the rubber dome switches, especially at that price. For years I heard people rave about the HHK, which I think uses slightly similar switches. I almost bought one on reviews alone, but held off. While visiting Japan, I ran into them for sale at a shop and was able to try it out. I didn’t like it at all. I wouldn’t want to have that experience with a small batch product that costs $3,600. I’d feel obligated to keep it and learn to like it.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-18 05:39:59+00:00
> Next time, the attacker could install malware in your machine

I already addressed this in the previous comment but I hope you realize the absurdity of this statement. If the attacker can corner you in a dark alley they can steal your yubikey and beat the PIN out of you, too. By that logic is 2FA futile and should we all stop using it?

Security isn't binary, simply raising the bar from falling for a phishing email to gaining access to someone's machine will probably eliminate 99% of all compromises.

> and you'd still blame Microsoft for not doing enough

Gaining access to someone's machine is definitive "game over" scenario, using that as an excuse not to harden security to the point that that's the only option left is lazy and irresponsible. Even with that kind of access, code signing will slow the viral spread way down which would make a difference.

Once you make it hard to hijack packages, time will be better spent on investing in sandboxing which also protects people from insider threats.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-18 05:40:03+00:00
Syria and Egypt had a mutual defense treaty.

> And calling it a preemptive strike should be pretty uncontroversial

It's actually highly controversial, given that:

1. Egypt had no intention of attacking Israel (as we now know for certain).

2. The Israeli leadership was extremely confident in its own military dominance over Egypt, and that it would win any war quickly.

3. The Israeli leadership of the time had ambitions of territorial expansion.
by Krssst | 2025-09-18 05:40:50+00:00
Somewhat unrelated, but this discussion made me go from "I don't see what I would need something that tells me tomatoes are tomatoes" (though realtime translation looks very useful), to kinda wanting it only to have a figher plane HUD-like display all the time (to be clear, minus all the fighting parts). Almost useless (at least the attitude and vertical speed part) but would feel kinda cool. Can see some value in having the heading all the time, and speed display to motivate myself to walk faster. (well they have directions which provides much more value than all that).

Though I don't feel comfortable having more Meta in my life.
by uludag | 2025-09-18 05:41:43+00:00
... in opposition to the car makers who want to turn everything into highways and parking lots, who really want all forms of human walking to be replaced by automobiles.

"They really cant run like a human," they say, "a human can traverse a city in complete silence, needing minimal walking room. Left unchecked, the transitions to cars would ruin our city. So lets be prudent when it comes to adopting this technology."

"I'll have none of that. Cars move faster than humans so that means they're better. We should do everything in our power to transition to this obviously superior technology. I mean, a car beat a human at the 100m sprint so bipedal mobility is obviously obsolete," the car maker replied.