MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-16 18:49:47+00:00
> You are not allowed unauthorized access regardless of how the key works.

You and I seem to both speak/write English, but there is a language barrier. For me, "authorization" means that they have given me credentials, and any content locked down under those credentials is off-limits.

For you, "authorization" is a magical term that has no real meaning. It means that they want me to have the content. But I am no telepath, and I do not know what they want me to have or do not want me to have. The only way, from my point of view, to know what they want me to have or not is to try to retrieve the content without credentials, and if it succeeds, it's legal.

Of course, there are a few corner cases. What if I discover some software defect that very clearly shows they intended to require credentials, and a test without credentials shows that it is indeed off-limits, but exploiting the defect produces that content? I wouldn't do that, that'd be illegal.

But your way of (non-)thinking is alien to me, and no reasonable judge or legislator could possibly mean what you claim that law states. Or at least what you seem to claim.

>No you're not. Denial of service is a federal crime.

Only with intent. If I send reasonable content that shouldn't be DoS, how was I to know? I intend no crime.

>Yes you do, and this is just beyond silly.

You're the one being silly. You can't even decide what you mean by "authorized".

>The nuance of how you obtained it will be decided in a court.

I'm never going to trial, I'm not even going to be noticed.

>Use of a vulnerability to cause

Use of a clear defect. The biggest and most dangerous vulnerabilities are the apathy and stupidity of their employees, their lack of a sane business model and attainable vision, and so on. Using those is just common sense. There is a popular magazine that is subscription only. But they have the pdf download links hidden with display: none CSS. These links require no authorization. Just knowledge. I retrieve those quite punctually.
by bitwize | 2025-09-16 18:49:57+00:00
This kind of phrasing is so common (in American English directions) that I remember examples from when I was very young:

(on toothpaste) "Squeeze tube from the bottom and flatten it as you go up."

(on a kerosene heater) "Rotate wick adjuster knob clockwise until it stops."

Australians tend to prefer more conversationally phrased directions from what I've seen, e.g., the rail station signs that read "Keep off the tracks and use the walkways provided to cross. Or catch a $100 fine. Don't say we didn't warn you, mate!"

Maybe it's a cultural thing.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-16 18:50:25+00:00
Maybe... but it achieved that default status in the first place through a lot of technical merit. It stayed there because it's largely good enough and remains with a lot of inertia, as well as the shear size of the larger community. Just MUI, Mantine and even Bootstrap component libraries are in and of themselves very polished and generally better than any competing technologies.

If there was an MUI for Yew/Leptos/Dioxus I'd probably have switched to them and dealt with the minor performance hit with wasm. And yeah, there's component libraries, but not nearly as complete or polished in usage.
by kieranmaine | 2025-09-16 18:52:29+00:00
> A few local small-scale demonstration projects don't tell us much about the difficulties of scaling up by orders of magnitude.

The UK is forging ahead with large scale battery storage projects. I have not done the math, but I assume there is a sound economic case in order for these projects to receive this level of investment.

Edit: Here's some more data on revenue for battery storage in the UK [3]

[1] https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/battery-storage/statera-u...

[2] https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/battery-storage/fidra-ene...

[3] https://modoenergy.com/research/gb-research-roundup-january-...
by dapperdrake | 2025-09-16 18:52:32+00:00
It helps to know about a few key details:

Gravity

Halting problem

Travelling salesman & NP-hard

CRUD

Gödel's incompleteness theorem

Kolmogorov complexity

Series by Richard C. Waters

Simple finite groups

Projective geometry and octonions and complex numbers

Soldering electronics

Transistors, resistors, capacitors, coils, and diodes

Linear Algebra

Statistical Calculus (step functions and Ito integration)

Exponential function

Gamma function

Table saws

Screws vs nails

You want a nice little ball of knowledge with a comparatively large surface that you can attach stuff to. And then you also know what kind of expert to get.
by pgwhalen | 2025-09-16 18:52:48+00:00
Java's biggest risk towards continued adoption, by far, is the culture surrounding it - old Java programmers and old Java programs continue to be needlessly verbose, even if the language now has the tools (pretty much) to be as terse as other popular, modern languages.

It's an uphill battle, but it might just climb the hill because it's still such a behemoth.
by signaleleven | 2025-09-16 18:52:58+00:00
I love(d) Linux and I've used it a lot over the years, but I finally got fed up and bought a Macbook Pro a few weeks ago. I find myself fiddling with my Linux machine way more than I'd like. I'm sure whatever distro I was using (Ubuntu) will seem like the problem to someone who likes another distro, but that's just more fiddling to me. It took me a while to get to where Zoom video calls with screen sharing worked properly. The last straw was that my wifi card stopped working one day. Debugging OS issues with no internet is really hard.

I've got my dev environment set up on my new Macbook Pro and everything is working perfectly and I'm very happy.
by ricksunny | 2025-09-16 18:53:07+00:00
Like the fact that up to 50% of the State Department was actually CIA, as noted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr and only declassified this year, 63 years later, as part of the recent trove of JFK files releases.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-03-19/cia-cover...

(Even this much was the result of decades of sustained political support for disclosure since Oliver Stone’s landmark 1991 film.)

Key takeaway is that if the unaccountable minders thumping national security don’t want something released - ever - it won’t be releases.
by johnh-hn | 2025-09-16 18:53:07+00:00
Thanks for detailed response. Do you happen to know if this is a recent change in Fedora/KDE? I tried somewhat recently, although I can't remember quite when that was. Gnome had experimental support for fractional scaling at the time but it wasn't good enough to switch to.

> Windows cannot do custom dpi per monitor, only a single custom dpi that gets applied to all monitors.

Yeah, support for custom DPI in general isn't great. I've been using https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_10_dpi_fix.... for years to at least partially help.

Edit: I think I answered my own question about how recent the change might have been: https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-...

This seems to be just after I last tried. I'll give it another go, thanks BatteryMountain!
by CharlesW | 2025-09-16 18:53:23+00:00
> For example, there's no equivalent to "long tap" on macOS Control Centre, nor does right click do anything.

Long-press isn't a macOS convention, which I assume is why there's an "Edit Controls" button at the bottom of Control Center for macOS. Right-clicking controls does show contextual menus as you'd expect.

> …a cursory search suggests there's no way to map a shortcut key to a Control Center action…

Desktop power users can (1) Fn-C and tab through them (as you said), (2) navigate Control Center using macOS's usual keyboard accessibility features, (3) create keyboard-activated Shortcuts, (4) use third-party utilities like Keyboard Maestro and Karabiner-Elements, etc.

I understand that Linux has solved this problem, but it's interesting to see Apple's progress on harmonizing their OS/device experiences over the last decade. I expect that there will always be shitty individual UI details you can pick on if that's your thing, like this detail from macOS 26.0's Calendar: https://imgur.com/a/BYalaa1
by sroussey | 2025-09-16 18:53:32+00:00
A few reminders bear repeating:

— no support group from a big company is going to call you. Ever.

— never give out codes sent to use via sms or push notifications to someone requesting them via phone or email. Never. The messages often even say that!

— Don’t put all your private info behind one password, so don’t use Google Authenticator backed by your Google Account as your password manager. Always use a third party like 1Password or similar.

— Don’t have the same email you use banking and investments be the email that the world knows. Create a new email for that. If you use Chrome, even use a separate profile with that email, and only have your password manager as an extension. No others.
by neuronflux | 2025-09-16 18:53:52+00:00
SPF alignment ensures the MAIL FROM domain matches the From header. DKIM alignment ensures the From header matches the domain in the DKIM signature header. In the DMARC policy, you can set both adkim=s and aspf=s.

Google owns and manages all of this, so they can send emails with a google.com MAIL FROM, a google.com header, and signed with a google.com DKIM key. And they could do likewise with gmail.com emails.

I'm not clear on why this isn't practical, perhaps there is something I'm missing though? I would appreciate your viewpoint.

Edit: I see you added a point about forwarding.
by bilekas | 2025-09-16 18:54:03+00:00
I want to clarify my answer here as I made it seem a bit more nonchalant than it is, there is definitely some technical training that needs to be done to dive deeper, as you say no recreational scuba enthusiast should just try it. There are different gasses that you need and a whole different approach to preparation and decomp.

My main point is that it's not as rare as some might think, it's becoming more and more recreational.

The people who did it definitely took on risk, but in my eyes, more so because if something did happen to go wrong, there's no support to help you out (that we know of). It's a flying with 1 engine scenario. The fact that it was pulled off is impressive. But for any rec divers, don't try without the right training, equipment and people with you.
by Foomf | 2025-09-16 18:54:04+00:00
Oracle makes me too uneasy. Can I use Java without the worry of incurring Oracle's wrath? Maybe, if I make sure I use openjdk/jump through some hoops I'll be fine. Or, I could just use any other language and not have that worry looming over me. C# is right there if I want a java-like experience without the anxiety of Oracle breaking my kneecaps.

I don't know how to use java and not violate one of Oracle's EULAs. I could read about it and figure out how to do it safely, or I could just not use java. Java isn't essential (for greenfield projects). There's lots of good alternatives, so I'd rather do that.
by themafia | 2025-09-16 18:54:11+00:00
> you're cooked.

I've lost 2FA codes. It's complicated but if you have a financial relationship with the vendor you're going to be able to get everything sorted out. I imagine as this happens more there will be common internal policies which aid customers in this situation.

You have to weigh the amount of potential hassle against the value of potential losses. Why you would have $100,000 of value stored somewhere and only secured by a loose-lipped third party app is beyond me.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-16 18:54:18+00:00
This is just me, but maybe helps explain it. It's not that the presence of a driver is bothersome, but in the pre-Waymo world your interaction with the outside world starts when you step out the door of your house. Now the interaction with the outside world starts when you get to your destination and step out of the Waymo. I really enjoy the outside world, mind you. But it just feels easier to traverse my local area in solitude and with a consistent and comfortable vehicle, and non-erratic driving style.

I imagine how nice it could (will?) be when you can hop into a self-driving car for a longer ride or even a road trip. I think you'll feel like it's an extension of your living room vs. being in a car.
by adezero | 2025-09-16 18:55:55+00:00
I'm seeing the topic of a deeply offensive “search term” from the 2020 court hearing being discussed, and I want to address it directly to provide the full context.

The search was for an article my husband was writing for Encyclopedia Dramatica, a well-known (and very controversial) satirical wiki that parodies offensive topics. He was researching the topic to make fun of it, similar to how shows like South Park handle such subjects.

The prosecution knew this search was irrelevant to the actual alleged violation, but they included it in the evidence they gave the judge anyway. This is a classic "poison the well" tactic, using something shocking and out-of-context to prejudice a judge against a defendant.

While the opposition wants to distract everyone with this, the real issues are the ones they cannot defend: the documented perjury by a federal officer, the fraudulent warrants in Michigan, the collusion by his former attorney, and the ongoing medical neglect.
by tim333 | 2025-09-16 18:56:50+00:00
It depends a bit on your safety standards. There are already autonomous flying things delivering blood and blowing up oil depots where it doesn't matter so much if stuff goes wrong, but to be an airline pilot you have to know how to deal with a huge range of emergencies and systems packing up.

With a car if the engine fails you just pull over. With an airliner it's not so simple. As a result the training for a pilot is much longer than for a bus driver say.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-16 18:56:59+00:00
> When your friend comes upto you and says "We're starting a business", do you immediately go like "haha, you're gonna lose?"

No, because my friend (presumably) doesn't have an extensive track record of failing in business. But Google does have an extensive track record of killing products for no good reason. Precedent matters, and at this point it's foolish to start using any Google product that you don't have to.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-16 18:57:05+00:00
>I met many programmers during the boom years of software that straight out refused to develop any type of soft or managerial skills.

Let me stop you right there. Not everyone can be a manager, mathematically speaking, especially in a downturn.

>Even if the job market was good, the reality is that you will eventually end up with a set of tech skills that a kid 20 years younger than you, with no family and so being able to live on lower salary, probably has too.

You say this as if a kid with no family has the same skills as a person 20 years older. This is not the case. Generally old workers have seen a lot more and make wiser use of their time, on top of having superior skills.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-16 18:57:21+00:00
Actually, anything we use is "just tools". IDEs, programming languages, operating systems, text editors, fonts, etc.

We all prefer different toolsets due to our differing needs and preferences. Understanding it removes a lot of misunderstanding, anger and confusion from the environment.

But, reaching there requires experience, maturity and some insight. Tool suitability is real (you can't drive a screw with a pair of pliers), but the dialogue can be improved a ton with a sprinkle of empathy and understanding.
by riskable | 2025-09-16 18:57:34+00:00
In the 19th century, industrial magnates and politicians would pay for "press cuttings" or clipping services that summarized the news of the day for them. Even today, wealthy individuals will pay secretaries and assistants to do the same.

Google has just reduced the barrier to entry and given that capability to anyone and everyone.

It's their business model that's broken—not Google's news summary service.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-16 18:57:36+00:00
Yeah, a primitive autopilot in a plane just needs an altimeter and compass, but a AoA sensor, speedometer, fuel level sensor, and pitch sensor help to detect unsafe conditions like runaway pitch, stalling, overspeed, low fuel, etc. Each of those sensors is providing a simple 1-dimensional data point. Redundancy is relatively inexpensive.

Automatic lane keeping in a car requires cameras that software needs to then analyze to find the lines in the road in real time. But if you want a "set it and read a book for an hour", then you have to respond to other traffic. No longer just some simple PID controllers, the software now needs to plan and execute based on surrounding traffic.
by bitwize | 2025-09-16 18:57:41+00:00
Steve Summit liked to tell the story of an early Mac application with a distinct UI flourish: for dialog messages indicating success, the label on the button to dismiss the dialog would be changed to "Yay!"; for error messages, it would be changed to "Damn!".

Just another item on the long list of Things Done in the 80s That We Couldn't Get Away With Today.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-16 18:57:43+00:00
> English uses 26 letters with no diacritics, compared to other languages like Chinese (thousands of characters), Hindi (50+ letters), or French/German (latin with diacritics).

The English language has diacritics (see words like naïve, façade, résumé, or café). It's just that the English language uses them so rarely that they are largely dropped in any context where they are hard to introduce. Note that this adaptation to lack-of-diacritic can be found in other Latin script languages: French similarly is prone to loss-of-diacritic (especially in capital letters), whereas German has alternative spelling rules (e.g., Schroedinger instead of Schrödinger).
by ath3nd | 2025-09-16 18:57:54+00:00
On HN there was another post about DOJ going against the guy who made the anti-ICE app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496458 and it's also flagged, which is a pity.

This book might be relevant for those trying to understand why and how fascists attempt to control the narrative by suppression of the free press, erasure of documents, and nowadays hiding and flagging posts on social media and popular RSS feeds: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207294076-erasing-histor...
by bix6 | 2025-09-16 18:57:54+00:00
I don’t really think they have to compete much.

Direct competitors are uber and Lyft which they can undercut since they don’t pay drivers.

The people who want to take buses and trains will continue to do so although Waymo might sway some with their ease and if pricing is reasonable.

Bikes and e-scooters only get you so far. Last time I was in SF I didn’t see too many bikes but I saw a ton of e-scooters. Are you really taking an e-scooter further than a few blocks? And when it rains?

Self owned cars make sense for longer trips out of the city but parking is a pain and driving is stressful so this is an easy win for Waymo.

It’s cheaper now so they can take market share. And their cost will certainly be lower than Ubers so they can win the pricing battle. But long term monopoly gonna monopoly. Perfect pricing is a given with the wealth in SF and how many rides will be on a business CC.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-16 18:58:33+00:00
> Why did you write so many words then?

I wasn't claiming to be succinct.

> The sentences he writes to explain why he doesn't consider further correspondence fruitful seem genuinely thoughtful to me

I agree, and I don't say otherwise. I still though don't agree that someone else should characterise the piece as "succinct" because of that thoughtfulness. These are different qualities of writing, are they not?.

> The letter in question here doesn't have a sentence that is irrelevant to Russells perspective.

Yes, it's a good concise argument, to third parties who read it. I see that. It's a different thing to a succinct reply to Mr Mosley - that is what the words "in some ways" mean in the comment above.
by giardini | 2025-09-16 18:58:48+00:00
1718627440 says >I don't think most people use religion to define basic rules in the society nowadays. I don't think I have indicated this in my comment.<

Then by what right/power/means do you justify any "rights/rules" whatsoever, including justification to speak about the question?

You later mention "boundaries of bodies". Do you think having a "body" grants rights? What about a "dead" body? Should the dead vote? Perhaps you're a Democrat and think "Yes, my dead Democrat grandfather still votes (at least twice) every 4 years."?

1718627440 says >What does the fact that we can do something has to do with its morality?<

There has always been a clash between morality and science. Science always wins.

1718627440 says > Do you accept DNA to determine boundaries of bodies?

For some purposes, e.g., medical, Yes. But for political argumentation no, b/c of twins, triplets,...,clones. Are all clones one "body" (they all have the same DNA)?

1718627440 says >Would you find it moral, if your mother had killed you?<

I would have nothing to say about it!8-))

Without reference to some authority (God, Jesus, DNA, Cthulhu) you justify your arguments based solely on your existence. Nothing is added, nothing gained, no political insight or structures, etc. Of course you can believe what you want, but everyone else can do the same presumably. This is an unconvincing, empty argument and is dangerous b/c if someone wants to delete your authority they can merely delete you.

A nihilistic Hobbesian argument seems awfully close to the truth and, while some of us matter more than others, no one of us matters much.

1718627440 says *>>Yeah I guess the Romans killed some non-physical ghosts.

So you believe the Romans killed Jesus and Peter??**
by fidrelity | 2025-09-16 18:58:54+00:00
Nice idea but I think the predictions are way off. I ran a 3:17 in spring and targeting a 3:10 marathon in a couple of weeks.

As unlikely as it sounds Strava predicts 3:13 (think they base it on my last marathon), Garmin is similar. Runalyze is about as off as you are.

Maybe you're putting too much emphasis on weekly volume. M35 and I can run this with 50k weekly and 75k peak volume. Relatively confident I'd be able to sub 3 with weekly volume of 80k/100k peak.
by killerstorm | 2025-09-16 18:59:01+00:00
Well that happens when it's bolted onto something not designed for fine-grained access.

It's much different when UX is built around it. E.g. for a web browser _has_ to treat web pages as untrusted. So instead of giving web page access to file system (that would be equivalent of `sudo`) you selected individual files/directories using a trust browser UI, and they are made available through particular APIs which are basically equivalent to ocaps. So if don't need to support POSIX APIs ("I WANT TO JUST fopen!!!") it's much easier.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-09-16 18:59:14+00:00
My favourite Pixel feature is Screen Call.

My primitive security precautions:

1. DO NOT use your Gmail for recovery. Use another email provider.

2. Use a family member's phone number for recovery.

3. DO NOT install your bank's app. Somehow the Royal Bank of Canada's app was used as an attack vector. If the RBC app can get hacked, smaller banks are even more vulnerable.

4. Use incognito mode on your browser for banking so a thief or hacker can't use your browser history to find out your bank.
by panstromek | 2025-09-16 18:59:39+00:00
From what I've read so far it seems people have really looked and we have some estimates (not yet proven reserves). The highest estimates I found are around 10-20 years of current consumption rate. That doesn't seem like a lot, and Europe's consumption is going down so it doesn't feel like this will change much for shale oil.

But Norway still has big gas reserves and supplies 33% of Eueropian consumption, so I was actually wrong in the original comment and the US LNG impact is pretty overstated, it's just 15%. Most of the rest comes from middle east.