MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2025-09-25 22:25:13+00:00
That's not what I meant.

Would you say that a minimal install of Linux or *BSD is "watching your communications"? It has to "read" your data in order to show them to you, but you wouldn't count this as "watching communications" or "surveillance". Siri running locally is not considered "surveillance".

The problem is when your data is exfiltrated, which is what you complain about with your Microsoft example. But again that's not what I meant.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-25 22:25:21+00:00
In 2005 you could already buy Intel processors with AMD64. It just wasn't called AMD64 or Intel64; it was called EM64T. During that era running 64-bit Windows was rare but running 64-bit Linux was pretty commonplace, at least amongst my circle of friends. Some Linux distributions even had an installer that told the user they were about to install 32-bit Linux on a computer capable of running 64-bit Linux (perhaps YaST?).
by jsight | 2025-09-25 22:25:29+00:00
A lot of people in the industry really underestimated the difficulty in getting self driving cars be effective. It is relatively easy to get a staged demo together, but getting a trustworthy product out there is really hard.

We've seen this with all of the players, with many dropping out due to the challenges.

Having said that, there are several that are fielded right now, with varying degrees of autonomy. Obviously Waymo has been operating in small-ish geofences for a while, but they are managed >200% annual growth readily. Zoox just started offering fully autonomous drives in Vegas.

And even Tesla is offering a service, albeit with safety monitors/drivers. Tesla Semi isn't autonomous at all, but appears ready to go into volume production next year too.

Your prediction will look a lot better by 2030.
Do you have a collection of old tech?
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-25 22:25:51+00:00
My wife asked me today why I keep all of my old phones, cameras, and of course, cables. Maybe it is because I am getting old but I like keeping them, they remind me of the passage of time. I found a Zip Drive in my attic and was kinda of chuffed about it.

Do you?
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 22:26:05+00:00
I would genuinely be shocked if North Korean's aren't happy. They're basically told they live in the best place on earth, have no basis for comparison to believe otherwise, and the sphere of influence of any particular average N Korean is narrow enough that if they were sad it would basically be artificially constraining their sadness to ones about personal failures they probably would rather not believe they have.

It's not starving, not having healthcare etc that makes you sad so much I think as thinking others are getting it while you are not, or believing that someone is pulling something over you rather than the situation being in your hands. If you think you're doing the best you can and your own success or failure is up to you, it's hard to be particularly sad about the situation compared to someone in another position.
by arghwhat | 2025-09-25 22:26:07+00:00
If it relied on OpenZFS, then I wouldn't be too surprised.

The whole ARC thing for example, sidestepping the general block cache, feels like a major hack resulting from how it was brutally extracted from Solaris at the time...

The way zfs just doesn't "fit" was why I had hope for btrfs... ZFS is still great for a file server, but wouldn't use it on a general purpose machine.
by detaro | 2025-09-25 22:26:42+00:00
This doesn't make anything easier to use, the old interface was more like other chat apps. On top of it being large-ish changes in the "old" client, when the new one that's supposed to replace it and be so much better still doesn't do everything (and they've already pissed of a good chunk of users by hyping that before it was ready, so they stuck with the old client for now waiting, just for that to get messed up too).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 22:26:50+00:00
It was a grave tragedy and a miscalculation from my side.

An error that should be discussed for generations :sob: /jk

IN all fairness though, I don't know why I wrote concur, I just thought of it and thought it meant believe...

What would be a fancier word of believe if I may ask ya that you would suggest me to use..

Also I am sorry that I made a mistake tbh, I hope ya get it and thanks for correcting me!
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-25 22:26:59+00:00
I’d strongly caution against many of those “performance tricks.” Spawning an asynchronous task on a separate thread, often with a heap-allocated handle, solely to deallocate a local object is a dubious pattern — especially given how typical allocators behave under the hood.

I frequently encounter use-cases akin to the “Sharded Vec Writer” idea, and I agree it can be valuable. But if performance is a genuine requirement, the implementation needs to be very different. I once attempted to build a general-purpose trait for performing parallel in-place updates of a Vec<T>, and found it extremely difficult to express cleanly in Rust without degenerating into unsafe or brittle abstractions.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-09-25 22:27:21+00:00
And you might not get sued by Oracle! RedoxOS seems to use the MIT license while OpenZFS is under the CDDL. Given Oracles litigious nature they'd have to make sure none of their code looked like OpenZFS code, even better make sure any of the developers had ever even looked at the ZFS code.

Its much better to hope that OpenZFS decides to create a RedoxOS implementation themselves then to try and make a clean room ZFS implementation.
by alwillis | 2025-09-25 22:27:36+00:00
> You correctly cite that iOS penetration was low at the time, but mobile Safari grew over the next few years to become the dominant web browser, and that was sufficient.

First, there's no way Flash would still be alive today; Apple might have sped up its demise but it had so many disadvantages, it was just a matter of time and it was controlled by one company.

Remember that the web standards movement was kicking into high gear around the same time; we had already dodged a bullet when Microsoft attempted to take over the web with Active X, Silverlight, JScript.

The whole point of the Web Standards movement was to get away from proprietary technologies.

> You correctly cite that iOS penetration was low at the time, but mobile Safari grew over the next few years to become the dominant web browser, and that was sufficient.

Safari has never been the dominant browser; not sure why you think that. Other than the United States, iPhone marketshare is under 50% everywhere else.

Even in 2025, Safari's global marketshare is about 15% [1] and that's after selling 3 billion devices [2].

[1]: https://backlinko.com/browser-market-share

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/apple-has-now-sold-three-b...
by istjohn | 2025-09-25 22:27:38+00:00
I see routine bad faith in:

- politicians of both parties (eg, speaking disingenously on issues of relevance to their corporate sponsors)

- corporations

- judges, including in the Supreme Court, who abandon espoused judicial philosophies the moment they conflict with political expediency

- government administrators, much more so with Trump's appointments

- media organizations (The self-censorship of coverage around Gaza has been eye-opening.)
by dmbche | 2025-09-25 22:27:42+00:00
Three things explain this. First, while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions. Second, attempts to give models more tasks have run into legal hurdles: regulators and medical insurers so far are reluctant to approve or cover fully autonomous radiology models. Third, even when they do diagnose accurately, models replace only a small share of a radiologist’s job. Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians

From the article
by tomrod | 2025-09-25 22:27:43+00:00
I'm not who you responded to. I see about a 40% to 60% speed up as a solution architect when I sit down to code and about a 20% speedup when building/experimenting with research artifacts (I write papers occasionally).

I have always been a careful tester, so my UAT hasn't blown up out of proportion.

The big issue I see is rust it generates code using 2023-recent conventions, though I understand there is some improvement in thst direction.

Our hiring pipeline is changing dramatically as well, since the normal things a junior needs to know (code, syntax) is no longer as expensive. Joel Spolsky's mantra to higher curious people who get things done captures well the folks I find are growing well as juniors.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 22:27:49+00:00
> the Kesler syndrome, a space debriss cascade is a very real threat and a real concern

It’s also widely misunderstood.

The risk is in trashing specific orbits. Below 600 km, that would mean certain orbits are too polluted to use for a few months to years. (A dense, compact object above 600 km could stay lofted for decades to over a century. But again, only within a predictable volume.)
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-25 22:28:07+00:00
a lot of "local" models are still very large to download and slow to run on regular hardware. I think it's great to have a way to evaluate them cheaply in the cloud before deciding to pull down the model to run locally.

At some level it's also more of a principle that I could run something locally that matters rather than actually doing it. I don't want to become dependent on technology that someone could take away from me.
by palata | 2025-09-25 22:28:25+00:00
> A third-party controlling the local scan of all my data specifically to report whatever it wants is a huge problem.

And that is exactly my point: you fundamentally can't audit what ChatControl is doing, because you don't have access to the "list of illegal material" (precisely because it is illegal). So whoever controls that list could abuse it.

I see lot of weird arguments like "it's breaking encryption" and "it's destroying democracies". It's wrong. The problem is that it may be abused if your democracy doesn't work as well as it should. And it's good enough an argument to be against ChatControl.

My whole point is that it's not constructive to throw baseless complaints at ChatControl: there is a valid argument against it (still looking for more), and we need to use it.
by surfingdino | 2025-09-25 22:28:58+00:00
Amazon are no longer the golden standard of e-commerce. I think 5-10 years from today we're going to look back at 2025 as the year Amazon started to destroy itself from within. They are pushing AI to "update" and "optimize" product descriptions. It's already made art supply descriptions a mess and now I see the same thing happening in the music gear section. I noticed that I go to other sites to buy stuff I was planning to buy on Amazon, because I am not sure what I'm buying anymore on Amazon.
by DoingIsLearning | 2025-09-25 22:29:03+00:00
No, I strongly disagree.

The EU is by far one of the least corrupt and most transparent organizations in European History, by design and by process.

The fact that I am able to produce all those reference documents in the previous comment is substantial evidence of this.

The issue here is the European Comission. Both in the appointment of Commissioners as well as in the checks and balances against the Comissioners and President of the EC.

To be anti-EU is throwing the baby with the bathwater and more seriously plays into the hands of every geopolitical player around us.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-25 22:29:20+00:00
I agree, but the money laundering would be a de facto criminal act. It would be a mistake, however, to give payment processors a version of Sec. 230. For any financial institution that could be calamitous. Maybe there should be a very minimal line of protection, much like we do with a lot of cybersecurity for banks - they self certify they are doing their best. It still goes back to the original concern: If a payment processor can block someone for a political view, or a business for a social view, what's not stopping them from blocking someone merely over a disagreement about speech - for anyone.
by brap | 2025-09-25 22:29:39+00:00
>Fb is adding LLMs to all its products, too.

FB’s efforts so far have all been incredibly lame. AI shines in productivity and they don’t have any productivity apps. Their market is social which is arguably the last place you’d want to push AI (this hasn’t stopped them from trying).

Google, Apple and Microsoft are the only ones in my opinion who can truly capitalize on AI in its current state, and G is leading by a huge margin. If OAI and the other model companies want to survive, long term they’d have to work with MSFT or Apple.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-25 22:29:46+00:00
> That's why wild has performance tests, to ensure that if a change breaks rustc's ability to optimize, it'll be noticed, and therefore fixed.

But benchmarks won't tell us which optimisation suddenly stopped working. This looks so similar to the argument against UB to me. Something breaks, but you don't know what, where, and why.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-25 22:30:08+00:00
No one said anything about "policing" anything. I'm not telling anyone how to write PRs, I'm just suggesting that if we had better tools we'd get "better" PRs for values of "what happens in this 'private' branch is more than an implementation 'detail' but a useful story and a useful documentation of the process". You don't need to agree that is "objectively" or "universally" a "better" way to make PRs for everyone and every project, but I'd hope you could at least respect that it's a nice goal that some of us have at least some of the time and why we would like PR tools that respect that approach as much as they seem to already respect your "no one cares how the sausage is made" approach.
by keeda | 2025-09-25 22:31:15+00:00
Most of those studies call this out and try to control for it (edit: "it" here being the usual limitations of LoC and PRs as measures of productivity) where possible. But to your point, no, there is still a strong net positive effect:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk (from Stanford, not an RCT, but the largest scale with actual commits from 100K developers across 600+ companies, and tries to account for reworking AI output. Same guys behind the "ghost engineers" story.)

Emphasis added. They modeled a way to detect when AI output is being reworked, and still find a 15-20% increase in throughput. Specific timestamp: https://youtu.be/tbDDYKRFjhk?t=590&si=63qBzP6jc7OLtGyk
by stack_framer | 2025-09-25 22:31:28+00:00
> Most sports bettors arent trying to make money.

This is totally disingenuous. Why else are gambling providers forced to include addiction recovery phone numbers with their ads?

> A ticket to the game is $100+, is that money wasted too?

No, and this is equally as insincere as your first statement. Gambling takes money without offering a fair return in goods or services.
by nlunbeck | 2025-09-25 22:33:34+00:00
DORA, recently, has been moving towards its own sphere outside of DevOps, hence why the acronym isn't usually expanded. So many of the core principles of DevOps (communication, collaboration, working across teams, etc) have impact beyond the DevOps discipline. DORA has been venturing into platform, DevEx, AI, etc.

From last year's DORA report:

"We are committed to the fundamental principles that have always been a part of the DevOps movement: culture, collaboration, automation, learning, and using technology to achieve business goals. Our community and research benefit from the perspectives of diverse roles, including people who might not associate with the "DevOps" label. You should expect to see the term "DevOps" moving out of the spotlight."
by cjk | 2025-09-25 22:34:33+00:00
Before I left Apple ~10y ago, it was pretty common to drop linked-on-or-after hacks into AppKit and UIKit to keep popular software chugging along. Assuming they're still doing that sort of thing, this was either missed or deemed not high-enough priority to add such a check (or maybe one was added, and the only reason this issue has been noticed is because Electron and Electron apps are now being built against the macOS 26 SDK).
by craftkiller | 2025-09-25 22:34:35+00:00
License is the obvious blocker, aside from all the technical issues[0]. Btrfs is GPL, RedoxOS is MIT, ZFS is CDDL. You can integrate CDDL into an MIT project without problems[1], but due to the viral nature of the GPL, integrating btrfs would have impacts on the rest of the project.

What I'm wondering is what about HAMMER2? It's under a copyfree license and it is developed for a microkernel operating system (DragonflyBSD). Seems like a natural fit.

[0] btrfs holds the distinction of being the only filesystem that has lost all of my data, and it managed to do it twice! Corrupt my drive once, shame on you. Corrupt my drive twice, can't corrupt my drive again.

[1] further explanation: The CDDL is basically "the GPL but it only applies to the files under the CDDL, rather than the whole project". So the code for ZFS would remain under the CDDL and it would have all the restrictions that come with that, but the rest of the code base can remain under MIT. This is why FreeBSD can have ZFS fully integrated whereas on Linux ZFS is an out-of-tree module.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-25 22:34:56+00:00
I see. These optimisations might not be UB as understood in compiler lingo, but it is a kind of "undefined behaviour", as in anything could happen. And honestly the problems it might cause don't look that different from those caused by UB (from compiler lingo). Not to mention, using unsafe for writing optimised code will generate same-ish code in both debug and release mode, so DX will be better too.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 22:35:33+00:00
So in your warped logic, the few thousand combined killed by all of the groups you named are more evil than the 60,000 killed by Israel (likely 100,000+ after Israel finally lets the UN in) and the true cost of the genocide can be calculated. Also, Israel just accidentally ended up with a collateral damage rate of 50%, just like several medical doctors have attested to it accidentally sniping tens of kids and people waiting for aid, and accidentally shooting 300 bullets into the vehicle holding Hind Rajab. I suggest you wake up and start moving toward the right side of history, along with the UN, Amnesty International, Oxfam and virtually every other major human rights organisation, because very soon it'll be too late and history isn't going to forget active enablers and propagandists like yourself.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-25 22:35:36+00:00
It's quite hard, but still not impossible, to keep a Windows installation from phoning home at every opportunity.

But there's a breaking point here somewhere when MS manages to shove so much crap into Windows and Office, that any sane sysadmin will have to answer "I don't know" when asked whether and where data processed on the device might get sent without the user's knowledge. At that point likely not even Microsoft will be able to make assurances with a straight face about the monster they created. Already these kinds of "oopsies" are par for the course.

We're at a point where pressing the Win key followed by CTRL+V will send your clipboard to MS servers on default Windows installations. Any user is one fat-finger missing the control key away from this. Pretty easy way to break the law if you're doctor.

I know it will get worse from here and my disdain for the people involved in this shitshow is immeasurable.

Of course many goverments and companies will not able to tolerate this new state of affairs. Once Microsoft fully loses their "trusted" status with these sort of clients, it will take them decades to regain it.
by qafy | 2025-09-25 22:35:40+00:00
2.5 is not the version number, it's the generation of the underlying model architecture. Think of it like the trim level on a Mazda 3 hatchback. Mazda already has the Mazda 3 Sport in their lineup, then later they release the Mazda 3 Turbo which is much faster. When they release this new version of the vehicle its not called the Mazda 4... that would be an entirely different vehicle based on a new platform and powertrain etc (if it existed). The new vehicle is just a new trim level / visual refresh of the existing Mazda 3.

That's why Google names it like this, but I agree its dumb. Semver would be easier.
by alwillis | 2025-09-25 22:35:59+00:00
It's pretty common to refer to models by the month and year they were released.

For example, the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash is known as "google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025" [1].

[1]: https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-202...
by codingdave | 2025-09-25 22:36:47+00:00
I'd love to know how many farmers actually planted soybeans this year. The commodity farmers in my area choose each spring whether the market looks better for corn or soybeans, and plant accordingly. It had been almost all soybeans for the last 3 years, and this year, I only saw one soybean field. Everyone else chose corn this year.
by hnav | 2025-09-25 22:36:57+00:00
right, CF (along with Google and Meta) is already servicing double-digit percentages of the world's traffic so it can absorb whatever packets you can toss at it. On the other hand, I suspect most services are going to fall over at L7 first due to common patterns like pre-forked ruby/python servers that struggle to process more than 1k qps per node, unauthenticated user actions putting load on hard-to-scale resources like RDBMS, next to no load shedding designed into the system, etc.
by benjiro | 2025-09-25 22:38:07+00:00
> I hope people don't forget what was done here

Read some of the LeopardsAteMyFace stories on reddit, and there are tons of federal workers that voted for this, and still are on the Kool-Aid, even as they are financially struggling.

One federal worker that voted for Trump, had his wife die during the mess, crossed multiple layers of hell to be rejected aid, dropped into poverty levels ... he still thinks that it was not Trumps fault. Trump just need "guidance", "temperance"...

Side note: he is also heavily religious so the overlap was not hard to spot, between religion and zealot worshiping.
by brap | 2025-09-25 22:38:22+00:00
No need for the snark, it’s very obviously a flawed heuristic which can obviously be improved with some adjustments. But this isn’t meant to be a research proposal. It was a simple example meant to illustrate a simple point.

Point being, some people like to whine even when they know damn well 99% of the world would happily trade places with them, and for very good reasons.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-25 22:38:41+00:00
It's more to do with HTML5 than lack-of flash, although it could be argued that flash's long-prophesied downfall was one of the reasons for HTML5's rapid adoption.

HTML5 is when the web stopped being the web. It has no legitimacy in calling itself "hypertext", it's an app-delivery mechanism with a built-in compatibility layer. In this regard Flash is just as bad and probably even worse, but since it wasn't in anyway standardized or even open-source there was a fair amount of pushback from all fronts. HTML5 had no such pushback.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-25 22:39:01+00:00
> Unless the law changes...

That's it?

I don't know. Doesn't sound like a very big obstacle to me. But I don't think AI will replace radiologists even if there was a law that said like, "blah blah blah, automated reports, can't be sued, blah blah." I personally think the consulting work they do is really valuable and very difficult to automate, we would be in an AGI world where radiologists get replaced, which seems unlikely.

The bigger picture is that we are pretty much obligated to treat people medically, which is a good thing, so there is a lot more interest in automating healthcare than say, law, where spending isn't really compulsory.