MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-01 04:55:13+00:00
I believe you're misunderstanding the security and safety design nature of modern cars vs. older ones from something like the 70's, 80s or earlier.

I've seen a number of crash test videos comparing modern 21st century cars in collisions with solid, unmovable obstacles at high speed, compared to those old cars, and while yes, the old cars had external features that let them more cheaply and functionally deal with minor accidents, they would be totaled by any truly heavy impact, with lethal results for their drivers.

Modern cars on the other hand may be more externally fragile even for minor hits and easily get damaged in ways that lead to thousands in repair costs for all their interconnected, electronically sensitive alarms and sensors, but for enduring high-velocity impacts, they're often fucking tanks when it comes to fundamentally protecting their occupants. Under that fragile exterior of any decent modern car is a remarkable security construct that isn't easily visible, right up until it shows its mettle after your car slams into a wall, and keeps you alive, at some speed that would have annihilated some supposedly tough muscle car from the 70s.

Go search for these on YouTube, they viscerally showcase the difference in the best (and most entertaining) possible way, by trying to catastrophically destroy both kinds of car.

There's a lot of electronic tracking, spyware, junkware, over-complication pushing that I absolutely despise about the modern auto manufacturing industry (partly because of legal mandates and partly out of general shittiness from the makers themselves) but for safety, they're impressive.

EDIT: Here's just one example. The occupants of the Malibu would have survived this crash with minor injuries. Anyone driving the 59 Bel Air would have been turned into a mangled disaster of broken bones and crushed body parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoShPiK6878
by protocolture | 2025-09-01 04:56:13+00:00
I was treated for sleep apnea 3 times trying to get ADHD treatment.

I eventually found a dental/nasal engineer guy and his testing was more thorough than the sleep studies I undertook. I paid for his device (300 bucks or so) but in the process he gave me a lot of techniques and understanding. He diagnosed me as borderline, despite 2 sleep studies telling me it was severe and chronic. Largely through blood oxygen levels and mouth position.
by nialse | 2025-09-01 04:57:02+00:00
There are power rankings where these top companies are considered more influential than many nations.

https://www.realbusinessrescue.co.uk/advice-hub/companies-wo... https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/so-who-watches-the-watchme... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesl...
by wtallis | 2025-09-01 04:57:19+00:00
> with BTRFS you mount the array through one of the volume that is part of the array and not the array itself

I don't think btrfs has a concept of having only some subvolumes usable. Either you can mount the filesystem or you can't. What may have confused you is that you can mount a btrfs filesystem by referring to any individual block device that it uses, and the kernel will track down the others. But if the one device you have listed in /etc/fstab goes missing, you won't be able to mount the filesystem without fixing that issue. You can prevent the issue in the first place by identifying the filesystem by UUID instead of by an individual block device.
by trinsic2 | 2025-09-01 04:58:51+00:00
Its a constant practice, like anything. Part of you is changed forever when you go through something like this, the awareness part mostley, you can never go back to normality even when something like that wears off.

I know from experience because I survived a brain hemorrhage. I had a state where I experienced the world differently for many years. I still do. Something cracked open in me and it has stayed that way, other aspects of my physiology are returning to a baseline state, like my nervous system changes which damped my fear responses.
by spaqin | 2025-09-01 04:59:33+00:00
Your parents are more likely to be a victim of a phone call scam than malware, even on PC. There is also no guarantee that malware will not slip through cracks of official stores or signatures.

You can also choose to do your banking at the physical branch.

We already had "best of both worlds", especially on mobile OSes - granular permissions per-app were quite good, and on Android until few years ago root was widely available if you needed it as well; these permissions could be locked or frozen if there is concern about users, just like work devices are provisioned with limitations. It all depends on your threat model.
by manquer | 2025-09-01 04:59:39+00:00
Yes, Economics is a key factor for innovation. However it alone is not sufficient. At times you simply need other foundational breakthroughs to happen and they will have to be in sequence, i.e. one breakthrough has to happen and become widespread before work on next one can progress, before you can achieve meaningful progress on the end goal.

It is not like Fusion or Quantum Computing has lacked serious or continuous funding over the last 20-30 years.

Foundational model development is a classic current example. The returns are diminishing significantly, despite the tens of billions each quarter being thrown at the problem.

No other R&D effort in our history has this much resources being allocated to it, perhaps including even the Moon landings.

However the ability to allocate resources has limits. Big tech can spend few hundred billion a year a number that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago, but even they cannot spend few trillion dollars a year.
by mistrial9 | 2025-09-01 04:59:57+00:00
my Japanese colleague uses the word "hobbyist" as an insult, here in California, for open source coding work especially GPL code. It seems to emphasize that the person doing it is not making enough money to live, get health care, own a home and/or raise a family. "you are being taken advantage of" he said. It is sometimes spoken with a disdain bordering on contempt, it seems. He is in security (naturally?), currently working at Google, with a focus on facial recognition for security before that. He also mentioned that he disliked the Buddhist teachers in his private school in Japan, because they implied some kind of communism (his description). I think those characteristics are resonent somehow so I include it.
by extraisland | 2025-09-01 05:00:33+00:00
Everything in life is about trade-offs. Certain trade-offs people aren't going to make.

- If you want to run an alternative operating system, you got to learn how it works. That is a trade off not even many tech savvy people want to make.

- There is a trade-off with a desktop OS. I actually like the fact that it isn't super sand-boxed and locked down. I am willing to trade security & safety for control.

> Personally I think we need to start making computers that provide the best of both worlds. I want much more control over what code can do on my computer. I also want programs to be able to run in a safe, sandboxed way. But I should be the one in charge of that sandbox. Not Google. Definitely not Apple. But there's currently no desktop environment that provides that ability.

The market and demand for that is low.

BTW. This does exist with Qubes OS already. However there are a bunch of trade-offs that most people are unlikely to want to make.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-01 05:00:43+00:00
There's no such thing as an individual conscious self that persists over time - it is always a misconception and an illusion. Consciousness is just something that living beings do, not something that they "are". It's an impersonal phenomenon (as far as it goes - there's of course plenty of things, mental states, thoughts etc. that are genuinely personal about our individual lives!) not a state of being.
by wtallis | 2025-09-01 05:01:12+00:00
Tiering didn't go away with the migration to all-SSD storage. It just got somewhat hidden. All consumer SSDs are doing tiered storage within the drive, using drive-specific heuristics that are completely undocumented, and host software rarely if ever makes use of features that exist to provide hints to the SSD to allow its tiering/caching to be more intelligent. In the server space, most SSDs aren't doing this kind of caching, but it's definitely not unheard-of.
by vbezhenar | 2025-09-01 05:01:52+00:00
These are basics of capitalism.

Company aims for profit.

Bigger scale allows for better efficiency.

So companies naturally grow big. The bigger they are, the easier for them to compete.

Big companies have access to tremendous resources, so they can push laws by bribing law makers, advertising their agenda to the masses.

There's no way around it, not without dismantling capitalism. Nations will serve to the corporations, no other way around.

There are natural boundaries of the growth scale, which are related to the inherent efficiency of communications between people and overall human capability. Corporations are controlled by people and people have limited brains and mouths. I feel that with AI development, those boundaries will move apart and allow for even greater growth eventually.
by user_of_the_wek | 2025-09-01 05:02:03+00:00
I hope what I write will not scare you away from trying these, I just want to add to make sure to know about all potential side effects. My daughter tried Atomoxetine and reacted very badly to it. I recognized it as a potential side effect from the documentation that came with the meds. The doctors did not even know it could happen. Everyone is different though! She uses Elvanse now (I don’t know how that’s called outside Europe) and it works for her.

Again, chances are it will work for you without side effects so work with your doctor. Just be well informed.
by rendaw | 2025-09-01 05:02:52+00:00
They talk about information density. I'm not going to claim the site developers were competent, but I think the general trends are because companies don't want to pay for multiple designs for desktop and mobile (and deal with the ambiguous threshold between them).

Making high density responsive design is really really hard (if not impossible - mobile just doesn't have enough space to provide detailed data). This is especially true for tables.

With print you have a single fixed page size, and everything else in the design flows from that.

I'm not sure what the answer is here.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-01 05:03:54+00:00
So I guess I should be completely honest and hopefully this will provide a life lesson for someone. While it’s true I’ve never experienced burnout because of work, I did experience burn out because of my personal life. I wasn’t willing to walk away from a toxic marriage soon enough and in hindsight, the signs were clear. The marriage was short - only four years. But the mental and financial repercussions lasted a lot longer.

I stayed at my second job 6 years too long (for a total of nine) because my personal life wrecked my self confidence. I left that job in 2008 (and got remarried in 2012). But I didn’t fully rebuild my career to be competitive as you’d standard “senior” [sic] enterprise dev until 2014 at 40 year old and didn’t get into any company of note until 46.
by dagmx | 2025-09-01 05:04:11+00:00
I feel like that’s a significant retcon.

Switch 1 was released in 2017. PD 1.0 was 2013 , and display port out was 2014. Both were supported by numerous devices by the time the switch 1 was out.

Granted they really wanted hdmi alt mode which was 2016 but the switch 1 doesn’t even support display port out which could have been coupled with a converter in the dock.

The simpler reason is that Nintendo both cheaps out on parts and has no incentive to increase compatibility. The number of users who care is not worth it for Nintendo to care, and they’re not afoul of any regulations.
by iod | 2025-09-01 05:05:05+00:00
You of course can, assuming that your hardware configuration supports eMMC with dedicated hardware boot partition(s). Some devices, like the one I used in my example, in its default configuration the hardware is actually booted from a MicroSD card as a regular mmc block device; which is quite common in hobbyist targeted SBCs. In those cases you have to be cognizant of boot loader firmware locations if you want a GPT partition table, as most user guides and sample disk images for these systems assume MBR style partition table reserving only the first block. Followed by system-specific boot blob(s) at the required offset location and then a fat32 partition somewhere thereafter with the OS. If the boot firmware blob starts before the 34th¹ block with 512-byte sectors blocks, then for setting up GPT, you move the main GPT table to after the firmware; otherwise you can just allocate the first partition space as reserved protected area in GPT for the firmware so that it doesn't get written to as a reference for future repartioning.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Features
by sfink | 2025-09-01 05:05:38+00:00
I'm mostly git -> mercurial -> sapling -> jj. For me, Mercurial -> Sapling was a mostly lateral, slightly upward move. Sapling -> jj felt really good, though oddly not because anything felt horribly wrong or missing in Sapling. Things just feel nicer and lighter in jj. Once I know a couple of things, I can combine them to do lots and lots of other things without learning any new commands. In fact, the total command set is pretty small, yet covers about the same range as other systems (a little more here, a little less there). Also, improvements come in at understandable and predictable places: at its current stage of development, it's not growing brand new commands. It is instead slightly improving existing commands to enable significant new capabilities. It has the feel of a well-designed system with mostly orthogonal components. (Give it a decade, and perhaps it'll start crumbling under its own weight too...)
by mikhailfranco | 2025-09-01 05:06:44+00:00
The usual handwaving for entropy v. information/complexity is to observe that our universe goes from simple low entropy state (Big Bang) to a simple maximum entropy state (Heat Death).

Both have low information. The complexity rises and falls, peaking somewhere in the middle, as energy from the gravitational field is turned into structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_curvature_hypothesis

Penrose likes zero initial Weyl curvature because it provides low entropy, but also conformal flatness, thus enabling his CCC theories.

Another consequence is that the Big Bang is not a reversed black hole (white hole). Black holes have high Weyl curvature. The Big Bang is the lowest entropy configuration, but a Black Hole is the maximum entropy configuration (just mass, spin and charges).
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-01 05:07:18+00:00
“jj bookmark set” doesn’t create a new branch and switch to it. It updates the head of an existing branch to a new place.

jj doesn’t have a “name a new branch and switch to it” command, because you usually don’t bother naming branches until you’re using them up to a forge, and there’s no “current branch” concept. I creat new named branches with “jj git push -c” which names it for me, and switching branches is closest to jj new or jj edit.
by rramadass | 2025-09-01 05:07:56+00:00
Oh Man; You need to shake off your naivete asap!

Our entire Social/Economic/Psychological value system has been completely remade to value only Money and Power. Humanity/Ethics/Morals/Community/Individuals are only useful in so far as they sustain the system in pursuit of the above objectives else they are all just a hindrance and must be manipulated/overlooked/removed.

Our very mastery of Science and its consequent Technology has enabled the exercise of all "our" (i.e. Individuals/Groups/Corporations/Governments/etc.) powers in service of Money/Power to a degree unimaginable before the Scientific Revolution. Nothing matters but only the sustaining of "The System" which has taken a life of its own independent of the Humans (and other life forms) who inhabit it.

To explain using pop-culture references, you are mere disposable "Soylent Green" in "The Matrix" all of which are embedded in omniscient "The System".

References:

1) Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Nationalism

2) Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing:_The_Science_of_T...

3) Reflexive Control - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_control

4) Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda:_The_Formation_of_M...

5) The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society
by seviu | 2025-09-01 05:08:38+00:00
Genuine question and some random thoughts please downvote if you think I am ranting too much: one argument played by Google on this is that they want to protect users from malware, specially for banking apps, etc. However my queations/two cents regarding this:

Banks offer web frontends and many make you use 2FA and even hardware keys, which work on phones. We have been doing e-banking even before smartphone phones existed. We still do. On our full of malware and virus windows desktops.

These mobile apps are in reality web frontends disguised as mobile apps with biometrics on top of it. Nothing else really. I develop an iOS app for a bank. It’s really like that.

Despite that I have to obfuscate the binaries, check for cydia, make sure I am not jaibtoken and all kinds of useless stuff.

When you buy a PlayStation you are buying a piece of hardware that Sony sells you at a break even or a loss so that you can buy their games. You are not buying your hardware. You are buying means to run video games on a piece of hardware Sony is selling to you.

When I buy an iPhone I am paying a lot of money for my pocket computer, my internet communicator. The margins are so big, it doesn’t even make sense to squeeze more out of them.

When I buy an Android phone I fail to see the end game except that Google wants to have absolute control over everything I do in my life.

I cannot really deny them their right to do whatever they want.

Still I can’t see really how they want to protect users by having full control. That’s a big lie.
by Ygg2 | 2025-09-01 05:09:01+00:00
> Do you honestly believe "a free market" would only produce two alternatives

No. A free market will eventually produce a single monopolistic winner.

If you have ability to buy your competition, and most of people consider it a job and not some religious calling, monopoly is the most logical outcome.

Same way a black hole is the most logical outcome of gravity.
by gpt5 | 2025-09-01 05:09:24+00:00
Type this into your dev console to speed it up to one hit per second (or if you want in the URL bar, prefix it with `javascript:`)

(()=>{const T=1;window._u0=window._u0||update;update=function(){const W=gameCanvas.getBoundingClientRect().width,dist=0.92*W,vx=Math.abs(ball.speedX)||INITIAL_BALL_SPEED;let n=(dist/vx)/(60*T);n=Math.max(1,Math.min(20,Math.round(n)));for(let i=0;i<n;i++)_u0();};})()`
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-01 05:09:32+00:00
Been in the industry professionally since 1996 writing code and before that 10 years as a hobbyist between a little BASIC, C and a lot of assembly (65C02, 68k, PPC and x86).

In the last 6 months, when I have had an assignment that involved coding, AI has generated 100% of my code. I just described the abstractions I wanted and reusable modules/classes I needed and built on it.
by cocire | 2025-09-01 05:09:34+00:00
They really only took a tiny piece of brain out, I guess. They didn't show me, sadly. :(

It was all occipital lobe so vision would have been the only thing affected. I had terrible vision in the lower-left quadrant of both of my eyes anyways, based on a medical field-of-vision test, along with my own tendency to bump into people and things on my left side (still the case).

Based on many electroencephalographs (EEGs), they decided my epileptic seizures stemmed from the lower right occipital lobe of my brain. It is kind of neat proof to me that the opposite side of your brain has effects on the other side of your body; right occipital lobe affecting left visual field.

So, they removed some brain, which actually did not affect my epilepsy at all, positively or negatively. I went into the hospital, got surgery, and was out maybe a week later - when that photo was taken. I had to go back a week or two later to have the staples taken out.

My lower left peripheral vision is worse than it used to be. I have about eight visual seizures that each last maybe a minute or two per day, but I can carry on a conversation and nobody even knows. I take seven pills every morning, and another four each night. I do not have a drivers license, car, or really ever plan to drive again, but that is kind of why I moved to live in a city where I can walk, take public transit, and get deliveries quickly/reliably.

On the nerd side, I track my seizures with my own homemade Python Django (w/ REST Framework) application, PostgreSQL, and an Apple Shortcut, usually from my iPhone or watch. Datasette and Highcharts make visualizing all my seizures tracked since December 2021 pretty cool.
by ethersteeds | 2025-09-01 05:10:47+00:00
> It's just a question of what is overall best and fairest.

If only it were so. But it's not just that. It's also a question of which section of society has the power to demand or prevent the creation of such a system.

Whether enacting labor protections or the Magna Carta, these beneficial restrictions require some leverage. Otherwise what is overall beat and fairest won't be coming up.
by sim7c00 | 2025-09-01 05:10:57+00:00
most reason OSes are insecure is bexause they are designed badly regarding security. they are from a time it wasnt important and most ways of building them also from that same era. its hardly modernized -_-. sure its not the same OS as 20 years back,... it has a lot of layers of junk ontop.

again, no incentive to improve it. its either unpaid work or the OS vendor has a stake in it being insecure. (both exists)
by r_singh | 2025-09-01 05:11:55+00:00
Because if you zoom out enough you'll learn that we're all one... so I believe in doing what's right. Your comment deserved that response because it's doing exactly what I've described. Anyways, take care! Hope you get a hug from someone today :) (even that helps with strengthening the immune system because it stimulates your thymus gland which then releases the good hormones you need).
by syncsynchalt | 2025-09-01 05:11:57+00:00
Generally speaking, in two different ways: (a) cipher modes will usually use a combination of initialization vectors, block chaining, or an incrementing counter to perturb the encipherment of each block so that repeated data does not result in repeated ciphertext and (b) encrypted protocols will include a section to be filled with random "nonce" data so that repeatedly enciphering the same message will also result in different ciphertext, and might also add random padding so that the length of ciphertext can't be used to deduce the length of a particular message.
by p3rls | 2025-09-01 05:13:11+00:00
let me tell you briefly how search works in my main's niche of kpop, where i had about 3m monthly sessions last month for august on my platform (kpopping.com)

for 20 years, websites that released idol nudes dominated (https://www.change.org/p/allkpop-com-shut-down-allkpop )

then the first wave of slop that figured out you can buy links (https://x.com/paulkimio/status/1550532282288508929)

and now for the past three and a half years it's been indian news websites that dominate

good riddance to the search-powered internet and seoers, i don't mind bleeding-- i've been bleeding this whole time :)