MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-08 21:00:16+00:00
> I didn't even make a judgement.

I beg to differ. First, you made a very clear judgement in your wording;

> revisions that looked convenient for the last administration > Trump did (baselessly?)

Yes, trumps stated reason is as you summarize. But you made no separation between trumps words and yours. A judgement-less phrasing would look something like;

"Well, it's not quite true. Trump did fire the because of revisions to the data that looked favorable for the previous administration."

> Then you went off the rails like left wingers tend to do when

I would also like to stop you here. This sentence is more dangerous to me than the current administration. You assumed my political stance because i criticize a political leader. You use a political leaning as an insult. The US political landscape is segregated between two opposite extremes that drift further rand further into insanity. I could have seen a equally destructive administration show up on from the democrats. I believe trump is the inevitable consequence of a broken and segregated political system that is no longer able to work together. Useful political discourse stopped being viable decades ago, and the system breaking as quickly as it is (sidestepping congress and balance of power) just means it broke long so.

I'm not american, and my idea of democracy looks fundamentally different to yours. To me, the currently sitting administration is the default punching bag regardless of party affiliation, because a good administration will only ever do at most 58% good.

You assuming i am "leftist" because i criticize a political figure, shows how truly segregated the system has become (and how deeply rooted you are in it).

And for the record; if everything trump said he wanted to do this period was actually what he was doing effectively (home-shore manufacturing, boost the power grid, become more independent from china) i would be stoked right now. But half of his politics are currently speed-running the opposite.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-09-08 21:00:17+00:00
> Chat Control would make it mandatory for all service providers (text messaging, email, social media, cloud storage, hosting services, etc.) to scan all communications and all files (including end-to-end encrypted ones), in order to supposedly detect whatever the government deems "abusive material."

I wonder why there has been such silence on this, with the exception of a handful of well written blog posts. The scope of such a dragnet, the economic impact, the societal damage, all seems rather broad. Yet why don't any major operators in the EU take a stance? Is it really so below the radar, or being kept so below the radar?

Just the network egress costs to whatever state sanctioned scanner gets built will in aggregate probably exceed a few hundred MEUR yearly.
by riazrizvi | 2025-09-08 21:00:21+00:00
Some thoughts if you have them, are illegal to express, even in private, for your own consumption. This is the law that means none of our devices or possessions are protected from snooping.

You have a tough challenge to convince me it’s anything other than a mundane device to give some groups an information advantage over others in their own society, for the unfair pursuit of political and economic advantage.
by paradox242 | 2025-09-08 21:00:32+00:00
People who don't see the utility in an Alexa just see the listening device they have paid to place in their home and might be tempted to smugly imagine that they would never be so stupid. But consider, do you have own an Android or iPhone device? You know, the ones with geolocation services, camera, and microphone? Do you also keep it near you almost all the time? You can probably see where I am going with this.
by dkdcio | 2025-09-08 21:01:04+00:00
ah this is the relevant piece, which I did skim over given I was getting annoyed at paragraph after paragraph not telling me what it is:

> Chat Control would make it mandatory for all service providers (text messaging, email, social media, cloud storage, hosting services, etc.) to scan all communications and all files (including end-to-end encrypted ones), in order to supposedly detect whatever the government deems "abusive material."

thanks!
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-08 21:01:13+00:00
Agents are going to change everything. Once we've got a solid programmatic system driving interface and people get better about exposing non-ui handles for agents to work with programs, agents will make apps obsolete. You're going to have a device that sits by your desk and listens to you, watches your movements and tracks your eyes, and dispatches agents to do everything you ask it to do, using all the information it's taking in along with a learned model of you and your communication patterns, so it can accurately predict what you intend for it to do.

If you need an interface for something (e.g. viewing data, some manual process that needs your input), the agent will essentially "vibe code" whatever interface you need for what you want to do in the moment.
by FergusArgyll | 2025-09-08 21:01:44+00:00
<pedantry>

"On the other hand, symmetric algorithms such as AES are believed to be immune to Shor. In most cases, the best-known quantum key recovery attack uses Grover’s algorithm which provides a generic square-root speed-up over classical exhaustion in terms of the number of queries to the symmetric algorithm. In other words, Grover would recover the 256-bit key for AES-256 with around 2^128 quantum queries to AES compared to around 2^256 classical queries for exhaustion. "

- https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/Events/2024/fifth-pqc-stand...

</pedantry>

the paper itself concludes "the practical security impact of Grover with existing techniques on plausible near-term quantum hardware is limited."
by yibg | 2025-09-08 21:02:21+00:00
I'm doubtful most Americans can (or are willing to) draw enough of a link between cause and effect to really learn a lesson from this. Half of the voters seem to either:

- Not believe the data (it's a hoax, rigged, fake news etc) or

- Blame the current issues on the previous administration or do a whataboutism justification or

- Don't really care because deporting immigrants / owning the libs / pretending trans people don't exist etc are more important
by tavavex | 2025-09-08 21:02:32+00:00
The person you're replying to isn't at the opposite of your stance. They complimented China on several occasions. All they did was add more nuance and bring up the fact that these benefits may come at a cost. Authoritarian governments can be very well-managed and efficient (something something trains run on time), but there's nothing to stop them if that efficiency starts being used against you. This isn't just about western-style capitalism vs. semi-planned Chinese capitalism, it's also one-party authoritarianism vs democracy. You just tossed a crass, ideological one-liner back at them, as if "big number = very good" with no nuance refutes what they said.

China does some things right. Our current system encourages deception, abuse and rent-seeking. But that doesn't mean that there's no self-serving interests in China or that we should follow them like a perfect ideological beacon. There's got to be more options to tame our system than full authoritarianism.
by xorcist | 2025-09-08 21:02:44+00:00
To expand a bit on that, the i386 support that was recently deprecated to "partially supported" in Debian refers to project status. Unsupported architecture can not be considered blockers, for example. The packages are still being built, are published on the mirrors, and will be for the forseeable future as long as enough people care to keep it alive.

That's the specific meaning of support that it was my intention to point out. Free software projects usually do not "support" software in the commercial sense, but consider platforms supported when there are enough persons to keep the build alive and up to date with the changing build requirements etc. It was my expectation that Firefox was more like free software project than a commercial product, but perhaps that is not the case?

Commercial products have to care about not spreading their resources thin, but for open source cause and effect are the other way around: The resources available is usually the incoming paramter that decides what is possible to support. Hence my surprise that not enough people are willing to support a platform that has thousands of users and isn't particularly exotic, especially compared to what mainstream distributions like Debian already build.
by bapak | 2025-09-08 21:02:46+00:00
Looking at the long list of faces for my country, it boggles my mind how all these people are fine letting the police just scan their phone, photos, messages at will, as if they don't have significant others or medical pictures on their phones, including of their children.

Do they think they're above it? Are they stupid and don't know what they vote for?

I do not understand.
by user070223 | 2025-09-08 21:02:51+00:00
New Package Manager(apk) WIP

OpenWrt Upgrade Tool. retaining all of your currently installed packages and configuration

They are updating kernels on yearly basis. 6.12 WIP

web interface for mobile. I think there is an unoffical luci package and a native mobile app.

Notification system. WIP

See also https://forum.openwrt.org/t/community-question-what-do-you-w...
by kjs3 | 2025-09-08 21:03:20+00:00
Nobody pays for support if they remotely think they will not need it.

Maybe in your experience. Virtually every company I've worked for or with in the last 2-3 decades (mostly enterprise shops to be fair) paid for support on critial infrastructure like VMware. Most of them are required to by various contract or regulatory requirement (like the Very Large Financial I'm at now). The tiny number of shops I worked with that blew off support were 1) SMB, and 2) run by idiots. YMMV.
by catchmeifyoucan | 2025-09-08 21:03:49+00:00
Oh I love this. And it'd be really cool to see that.

The current output isn't a particular format. It's purely text output that looks like this.

1:01 -----|A1--B1|----A3--A4|

1:03 -----|A1--B1|--A3--A4|---B2|

If you had a way to copy and paste that as a string of notes and visualize in a loop or some-how that might work. You'd have to figure out how long a note was pressed etc, so it may require some extra logic.
by Jensson | 2025-09-08 21:04:13+00:00
Basically yeah, if you compare CPU from same fab then its basically the same.

Its just Apple buys next gen fabs while AMD and intel has to be on last gen, so the M computers people compare are always one fab gen ahead. It has very little to do with CPU architecture.

They do have some cool stuff about their CPU, but the thing most laud them for has to do with fabs.
by K0nserv | 2025-09-08 21:04:16+00:00
I pay for premium so I don't know about the ads, but yeah the recommendations have taken a nose dive recently (not sure exactly when).

EDIT: Since a lot of sibling comments are talking about the price of Youtube Premium. My $0.02, I was paying £16/month for Spotify Duo for me and my girlfriend. Dropped Spotify after 15 years of paying, for £18/month Youtube Premium family which includes Youtube Music in addition to ad free Youtube. Total win.
by axiolite | 2025-09-08 21:04:26+00:00
You've drunk the kool-aid. BLS revisions are no fault of their own, and simply because businesses send in their data whenever they feel like it:

"many businesses do not have their payroll data ready to report by the scheduled date that BLS initially releases the data."

"BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information."

"and occasionally the revised data produce a different picture altogether."

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numb...

"the revisions aren’t mistakes. They’re a deliberate, transparent part of a statistical process designed to balance two competing goals: providing timely economic information while ensuring the greatest possible accuracy."

https://govfacts.org/federal/labor/why-job-numbers-change-ho...
by junon | 2025-09-08 21:04:28+00:00
Hi, missing a lot of history here. When Chalk was written, colors in the terminal wasn't a flashy thing people tried to do very often, at least not in the JS world. Coming from browsers and wanting to make CLI apps using the flashy new Node.js 0.10/0.12 at the time saw a lot of designers and other aesthetically-oriented folks with it. Chalk filled a hole for people to do that without needing to understand how TTYs worked.

Node.js proper has floated the idea of including chalk into the standard libraries, FWIW.
by rasz | 2025-09-08 21:04:49+00:00
Intel didnt "allow" VIA anything :). Via acquired x86 tech from IDT (WinChip Centaur garbage) in a fire sale. IDT didnt ask anyone about any licenses, neither did Cyrix, NextGen, Transmeta, Rise nor NEC.

Afaik DoD wasnt the reason behind original AMD second source license, it was IBM forcing Intel on chips that went into first PC.
by Dunedan | 2025-09-08 21:04:59+00:00
> There are a couple of problems with the existing backup:

>

> 1. It is non-incremental.

I wonder if that's differently with the newly announced functionality. Their announcement doesn't sound like it:

> Once you’ve enabled secure backups, your device will automatically create a fresh secure backup archive every day, replacing the previous day’s archive.
by grayhatter | 2025-09-08 21:04:59+00:00
xz didn't get hacked (phished).

For xz an advanced persistent threat, inserted hypertargeted self modifying code into a tarball.

A single npm dev was "hacked" (phished) by a moderate effort, (presumably drive by) crypto thief.

I have no idea what you meant by "right inside _ssh_" but I don't think that's a good description of what actually happened in any possible case.

I'm unlikely to defend C devel practices but this doesn't feel like an indictment of C, if anything the NPM ecosystem looks worse by this comparison. Especially considering the comment you replied to was advocating for minimizing dependencies, which if the distros effected by xz being compromised had followed, (instead of patching sshd) they wouldn't have shipped a compromised version.
by kergonath | 2025-09-08 21:05:09+00:00
I have been playing with the continue.dev extension for vscodium. I got it to work with Ollama and the Mistral models (codestral, devstral and mistral-small). I did not go much further than experimenting yet, but it looks promising, entirely local and mostly open source. And even then, it’s much further than I got with most other tools I tried.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-08 21:05:38+00:00
> Just sell a proper HomePod with 64GB-128GB ram

The same Homepod that almost sold as poorly as Vision Pro despite a $349.99 MSRP? Apple charges $400 to upgrade an M4 to 64GB and a whopping $1,200 for the 128GB upgrade.

The consumer demand for a $800+ device like this is probably zilch, I can't imagine it's worth Apple's time to gussy up a nice UX or support it long-term. What you are describing is a Mac with extra steps, you could probably hack together a similar experience with Shortcuts if you had enough money and a use-case. An AI Homepod-server would only be efficient at wasting money.
by kortilla | 2025-09-08 21:05:46+00:00
If you thought I was trying to exclude blockchains, reread what I said because it wasn’t that.

I’m saying the API can be complete trash and whether it’s a blockchain or a traditional bank, the thing that will drive the decision is money.

>the third party, unaffiliated, developer experience is better on an EVM than it is is on a traditional centralized database.

The developer experience is completely irrelevant when millions of dollars a week are on the line.

The API doesn’t matter.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-08 21:05:54+00:00
Are we just going to pretend that frequency = single-thread performance? I'm fine with making that replacement mentally, I just want to confirm we're all on the same page here.

>Releasing low frequency high core count part for consumers would be greeted with questions, like "what for is this CPU?".

It's for homelab and SOHO servers. It won't get the same attention as the sexy parts... because it's not a sexy part. It's something put in a box and stuff in a corner to chug away for ten years without looking at it again.
by theologic | 2025-09-08 21:06:05+00:00
By the way I've been extremely interested in this for years. While I take more supplements than what anybody probably should take, I give almost everybody that will listen this exact advice-- With the exception of creatine. Creatine is an interesting case, and I would say that it is less clear than the other three but I have been taking it for years and the latest research does make it look very promising. What is clear is virtually nobody gets the amount of magnesium that they should.
by wqaatwt | 2025-09-08 21:06:06+00:00
Nvidia has zero incentives to undercut their enterprise GPUs by adding more RAM to “cheap” consumer cards like the 5090.

Intel and even AMD can’t compete or aren’t bothering. I guess we’ll see how the glued 48GB B60 will do, but that’s a still relatively slow GPU regardless of memory. Might be quite competitive with Macs, though.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-08 21:06:33+00:00
My pet peeve is core-based licensing for products such as database engines. For that matter, any kind of capacity licensing tied to some variant of Moore’s law inevitably results in the vendor holding their product’s face under water as the tide rises around them.

As a random example, SQL Server Standard Edition is limited to a “very generous” maximum of four sockets, 24 cores, or 128 GB of memory.

That’s just slightly bigger then a laptop these days!

Azure offers a new VM series where the max memory limit of SQL Std is exceeded with just four cores (8 vCPUs): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/siz...

There are VMs available now that have crossed the “kilo core” threshold. You can draw pictures in their task manager by creatively putting load on the processors: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/siz...

The problem here is that Microsoft kept their license limits as constants relative to a reality that moved exponentially. They would have to have applied “inflation”, but they just saw their sales figures go up and up… and nobody will rock that boat!

Inevitably they’ll keep choking their product until it turns purple and dies. It’s a force of nature, there is nothing anybody can do do counter this naked corporate greed that is enabled by accidental mis-pricing. This can never be corrected, except by letting products die and be replaced wholesale in the market.

Time to learn PostgreSQL, I guess…
by keyringlight | 2025-09-08 21:06:39+00:00
Then you get the two wheeled side of the fence. You can do a one day compulsory basic training course and convince a trainer you know what you're doing, then drive on the road with everyone on a 125cc motorcycle (or 50cc at 16 years old), and then repeat the CBT every two years to keep on the road. It's only if you go for the full license that you need to study for theory as a prerequisite, so long as you keep out of trouble.
by kristopolous | 2025-09-08 21:06:58+00:00
I don't keep examples around to defend my stance on this, sorry.

I left out my largest critique - spacing is semantic both for the compiler and the human.

Often I police the whitespace very thoughtfully usually in code that also requires long comments for clarity.

I care deeply about maintainability and legibility of code and try to consider future human readers everywhere.

Then the formatter says "haha, fuck that!"

That's my biggest personal gripe with it. It's consistency over clarity, conformity over craft.

This all depends on what kind of code you're writing. Standard backend crud code in python with sqlalchemy? ok, pydantic with linters and formatters. But that should be written by llms these days anyways, if you're still doing it by hand you're doing it wrong.

Honestly the jobs I sign up for demand a kind of care - mostly experimental and frontier work, so I am really frustrated when I'm prevented from exercising my professional judgement and doing what I think is best due to some bureaucratic red tape.

I don't want the Wild West, I want disciplined senior engineers using professional consideration and judgement and not a bunch of onerous restricting tools assuming I don't know what I'm doing or why I'm doing it

The language designers, compiler engineers, they are the actually competent people in the room and if they allowed for the flexibility I'll side with them over some hacked out set of rewriting regexs by some kid vibe coding on GitHub
by michaelfeathers | 2025-09-08 21:07:39+00:00
Thanks. After I wrote it a friend said "I think you just gave people permission to do things that they would've felt bad about otherwise." I think he was right, in a way. On the other hand, not everything is obvious to everyone, and it's been 20 years. Regardless of whether people have read the book, the knowledge of these things as grown since then.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-08 21:07:45+00:00
Nvidia's approach works just fine on mobile. Devices like the Switch have complex GPGPU pipelines and don't compromise whatsoever on power efficiency.

Nonetheless, Apple's architecture on mobile doesn't have to define how they approach laptops, destops and datacenters. If the mobile-first approach is limiting their addressable market, then maybe Tim's obsessing over the wrong audience?
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-08 21:07:56+00:00
> Let's not forget that there are effective uses of tariffs - if narrow and paired with industrial policy to build domestic capacity for strategic industries.

Has the United States ever had an effective tariff policy though? All I’ve ever seen is a lengthy history of bumbling fuckups that make things worse for the consumer for no benefit. The Jones Act has not saved American shipbuilding from a moribund, barely-alive state; the chicken tax just makes people buy stupidly huge and overpriced trucks which can’t be exported and contribute to the international effectiveness of the US auto industry; sugar tariffs make us all unhealthier by giving bailouts to corn farmers to put HFCS in everything, and so on.

I can’t think of a single case of the United States surgically using tariffs to build a healthy domestic industry that benefits American citizens— I don’t think even competent adults could pull this off, never mind the clown circus we have now.

Maybe some better-run country could use tariffs well; when you have doofuses like ours it’s probably best to stick with the safe route of free trade and friendshoring.
by dwedge | 2025-09-08 21:08:02+00:00
> Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the emails I get aren’t important.

I was at a talk at FOSDEM this year and they were talking about how most emails now (over 90%) are transactional in nature and not personal. Things like password resets, offers, 2fa, shipping confirmations.

This was a lightbulb moment for me - for years I'd been trying to fight email by using sieve to filter away the most annoying senders and subjects but they're right - almost all email doesn't deserve your immediate attention.

I switched my method to whitelist. I created a folder called Transactional and everything goes in there. Then I started whitelisting certain email addresses to let them get to my inbox. I have around 20, and for the first time in years I'm at a point where I could have notifications for my inbox. I still don't, but they'd be useful now