MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-16 19:07:40+00:00
No way. Google's, "Don't catalog or organize anything, just throw it into a bucket and our Search™ will find it for you," ethos has been catastrophic for the web. I don't want it anywhere my personal files (any more than it already is through Drive et al.). Bad search is bad, but if you expect it, you can plan for it. If you're convinced that search is all you need, and then search fails, you're screwed.
by nine_k | 2025-09-16 19:07:46+00:00
The bodies that are in a position to effect such regulations are also the bodies that are interested in looking at your (yes, your) private communication. No, formally being a liberal democracy helps little, see PATRIOT Act, Chat Control, etc.

The only secure position for a company (provided that the company is not interested in reading your communication) is the position of a blind carrier that cannot decrypt what you say; e.g. Mullvad VPN demonstrated that it works. I don't think that an LLM hosting company can use such an approach, so...
by hoosieree | 2025-09-16 19:08:01+00:00
0d (parked) - null program easy

1d (train) - easy. just one lever

2d (car) - hard. super hard. why is it so crowded? who thought this was a good idea? you let teenagers do this?

2.5d (plane at takeoff or landing) - almost as hard as car. fewer pedestrians.

3d (plane flying) - easy even with all those extra levers
by craftkiller | 2025-09-16 19:08:21+00:00
Not always true. My landlord recently had a contractor call me. I did my usual "pick up and don't say anything" routine for unrecognized numbers, and the contractor silently hung up and never called back. Thankfully my roommate actually answered the call, but pick-up-shut-up prevents legit people from leaving voicemails and sometimes prevents legit people from reaching you entirely.

Personally, I would utter a confused "hello?" if I was calling somone, the ringing stopped, and no one said anything, but I guess not everyone would.
by dijit | 2025-09-16 19:08:58+00:00
this "device-agnosticism" is also the source of many of X11's modern problems. Because the X server has to handle all rendering and input, it acts as a middleman. For every frame, an application has to send rendering commands to the X server, which then composites the scene and sends it to the display. This extra step introduces latency and makes it difficult to implement modern features like smooth animations, variable refresh rates, and HDR. In contrast, Wayland's design is based on the idea of direct rendering. The application renders a frame directly to a buffer in memory, and then the Wayland compositor takes this finished buffer and displays it. This approach is highly efficient for modern GPUs and display technology. The trade-off is that it ties the display protocol more closely to the graphics hardware, but this is a necessary step to achieve the high performance and low latency that modern users expect.

"Wayland makes some assumptions which will be wrong in 10 years."

This is a fair and common criticism. Yes, Wayland assumes a graphics stack that is based on OpenGL/Vulkan and a kernel with a Direct Rendering Manager (DRM). This works well today because modern Linux graphics drivers are built around this model.

However, an X11 advocate might argue that this tight coupling could be a problem if a new, fundamentally different type of display technology or graphics hardware emerges. With its modular design, X11 could theoretically adapt by adding new extensions.

Wayland developers have addressed this by keeping the core protocol simple and extensible. New features, like HDR or adaptive sync, are implemented as extensions to the base protocol. The hope is that this design allows Wayland to evolve without the bloat and complexity that burdened X11. While it's impossible to predict the future, Wayland's developers believe that its modular design is flexible enough to handle future changes in display technology.

Which I think is fair.
by lawlessone | 2025-09-16 19:09:19+00:00
Interesting that the only thing needed to be considered critical of Charlie Kirk is to quote Charlie Kirk.

edit: e.g Charlies suggestions Biden should be executed. Or that Children should be shown executions. Or his comments about race and IQ.

The person below replying to me below (who i can't directly reply to because someone else reported my comment) argues these are out of context but what context are they acceptable in?
by etblg | 2025-09-16 19:10:25+00:00
Well it's American immigration law, so who knows, really depends person by person. Like I legitimately think there isn't an objective answer to that question, it's a patchwork of laws and forms and guidelines that overlap and are interpreted by different people. Two different border agents can have completely different opinions on whether your work trip can be counted under a B1/B2 visa or not, and then USCIS (not CBP, border agents, but the immigration services agency, a completely different department) could have a different idea.
by busterarm | 2025-09-16 19:10:28+00:00
Near admitted to being severely depressed and disillusioned about life years before the KF thread and harassment started. Near was also involved in several internet dramas long before the KF thread. It didn't help that they participated in these threads and admitted to things like self-gratification to shotacon content, etc.

KF is a horrible place, but saying that they bullied this person into suicide is an easy scapegoat and a long stretch. Near/Byuu did a lot, deliberately, to bring negative attention to themselves over the years. For someone deeply involved in the emulation scene, they certainly committed lots of the scene's cardinal sins -- dump hoarding and gloating about it in particular.

They also license trolled commercial users of competing emulators as a source of income... Threw temper tantrums about the existence of FPGA-based emulation because it wouldn't use their code...

You only get a thread on KF by behaving like a lolcow.
by egypturnash | 2025-09-16 19:10:31+00:00
From the link:

These backup warning systems operate at approximately 1,000 Hz, producing sound levels between 97 and 112 decibels.

Santa Monica’s municipal code adds another layer of complexity, prescribing exterior noise limits of approximately 50 decibels during the day and 40 decibels at night.

The continuous operation—with vehicles reversing dozens of times hourly, including during late-night hours—continues to challenge community peace.

So, constant car screaming BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP I'M BACKING UP HERE right outside your residential window. Kinda sucks. A whole lot.
by a_paddy | 2025-09-16 19:11:11+00:00
You mean Mohammad Al-Motawaq, the boy with muscular dystrophy? MD wasn't the cause of this weight loss, a lack of food was.

Unless you'd prefer to trust the word of an Israeli blogger over the childs doctors (because of their ethnicity).

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/05/nx-s1-5488798/gaza-baby-starv...

Where is your evidence to back any of your opinions?
by AndriyKunitsyn | 2025-09-16 19:11:52+00:00
The wonders of propaganda make it so that "Ukrainians bombed it" is given as an irrefutable fact, and not something that needs a lot of evidence.

Nobody remembers anymore that Pres. Biden himself said, “If Russia invades ... there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” [°] Nor that the very next day, a EU parliament member, and now Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski thanked the US for the sabotage [^]. Nor that the same day, a competing natural gas pipeline has opened, the Baltic Pipe [_].

None of this matters, because "Ukrainians bombed it". Because WaPo and WSJ said so. In a waterway that is heavily controlled by all kinds of NATO vessels. Where NATO had an exercise 3 months before that, called BALTOPS. Come on.

[°] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8

[^] https://archive.ph/20220927190022/https://twitter.com/radeks...

[_] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Pipe
by protimewaster | 2025-09-16 19:11:57+00:00
The betting markets are all betting based on whether the US with announce that it's in a recession (I think), which probably has different (lower) odds than actually being in a recession. It at least makes sense that it's different, but that's a huge difference.

I guess it's kinda like betting on who will win an election vs. betting on a candidate conceding an election. The odds aren't necessarily the same, even though they're (on paper) closely related events.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-16 19:12:09+00:00
In addition to this, I think the headline is confused because the article later says: "UBS averaged the hard data together with inverted yield curve and credit markets to produce an aggregate recession probability of 52% for July..."

So 52%, not 93%, and I can't find a link to where UBS published this information.

But here are some other recent figures from UBS (or at least attributed to them):

2022-05-05: 0% https://www.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank/insights-and-d...

2022-06-21: 40% https://finance.yahoo.com/news/odds-hard-landing-u-economy-2...

2022-08-30: 60% https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/ubs-raises-...

2023-07-19: Goldman Sachs says 20% https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/the-probabili...

2024-08-27: 25% https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ubs-wealth-management-rai...

I think the number is largely useless, and this article is even moreso.
by ____tom____ | 2025-09-16 19:12:54+00:00
> Note: if you’re a developer and your users have gmail accounts, an authenticator code is NOT a 2nd factor, if that user is using Google Authenticator.

So many people and developers do not understand two factor authentication. If the necessary information is automatically sync'd to another device, you likely don't have two factor auth.

Example: If you log in from a Macbook, and the second auth is sent to your phone, Apple will helpfully forward that code to the Macbook, completely removing the second factor.
by 7thaccount | 2025-09-16 19:12:57+00:00
Thanks for the info. I've read a few of the books and been on the wiki a lot, but haven't read all of them, so there's a lot I don't know or only partly remember.

I think letting humans vote on some small things may be the equivalent of letting your dog choose which direction to go. It's a decision, but ultimately useless in the grand scheme of things. The minds may be an even greater cognitive leap from us than the difference between us and dogs. They can easily give the illusion of choice without relinquishing any real control. This is all speculation of course.
by whizzter | 2025-09-16 19:12:58+00:00
This is maybe where we could start getting into money into the opensource ecosystems.

One idea I've had is that publishing is open as today, but security firms could offer audit signatures.

So a company might pay security firms and only accept updates to packages that have been audited by by 1,2,3 or more of their paid services.

Thus money would be paid in the open to have eyes on changes for popular packages and avoid the problem of that weird lone maintainer in northern Finland being attacked by the Chinese state.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-16 19:13:03+00:00
I'm not actually sure how hard landing is. Most airports that support autonomous landings do it by having ILS antennae that guide the airplane to within tens of feet of the runway, at which point the airplane switches to radar for altitude.

Automatic landings started in 1964. I think that it seems hard mostly because of how tightly regulated aviation is - modern technology could probably make things a lot better if people were more receptive to the idea of heavy automated aircraft over populated areas.
by Loic | 2025-09-16 19:13:07+00:00
> It's very, very, very hard to maintain sharp coding skills decade after decade.

I am at the end of the third decade, soon entering the 4th. I find it easier with the time. This is because with the experience, I can directly zero on the fundamentals of the new technology popping up and quickly see if this is just marketing or more a breakthrough.

Also, we have less diversity now, every new tech getting momentum is quickly defacto standardizing. Look at the way we run LLMs now, tons of models, 5 lines of Python, within 2 years, everything kind of standardized. You can now quickly pick up the subject (ironically, the LLM will help you there) and run with it.

It is way harder for young people, because of this FOMO, they try everything and nothing, they copy/paste what "God" GPT told them and have no understanding of how things are working in the background. For them to learn "through the stack", without experience, with the new big thing coming out every week but without the ability to judge, it is very hard. I am happy that my first website was static and cgi-bin was still a thing, happy that I learnt how to get my Fortran code to run fast on an multi-core system (yes, Sun stuff), that I was able to build relatively slowly my experience.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 19:13:08+00:00
> Who do you think is doing the calling?

Vance proposing "Call them out, and hell, call their employer" stands completely separate from anything that he may or may not have the government do. This is a call to action to ordinary people.

> All the more reason why a broad crackdown is inappropriate. To the degree that Vance is serious, he's barking up the wrong tree.

There doesn't need to be a conspiracy here. Clearly the belief of Trump, Vance etc. is that there are agitators out there (someone else showed me a source implying that this is specifically about "antifa", which isn't exactly an NGO with a contact address, but black bloc tactics are a thing) who would like for more such incidents to occur, and that by "cracking down" in whatever vague unspecified form they could prevent this. And it certainly doesn't appear that the groups they have in mind are anything like "the DNC".
by andrewstuart2 | 2025-09-16 19:13:13+00:00
Not to mention that almost all civilian planes in the US are required to broadcast a bunch of details that include their coordinates and altitude on a public channel (ADS-B). It's the kind of automated collision avoidance input that you'd probably dream of as a self-driving system engineer. Basically the only thing you'd need to avoid via more complex systems is the odd military traffic, small craft at low altitudes, and birds.
by pentagrama | 2025-09-16 19:13:48+00:00
This feels like a departure from Google’s usual approach. On desktop, Google has historically pushed everything into the browser, especially Chrome where they enjoy massive market share. Aside from some experiments in the 2000s like Google Desktop, they have not really released native Windows apps in the past decade.

Mobile is different, Google has plenty of native apps on Android and iOS. But on desktop almost everything has been browser based such as YouTube, Gmail or Docs. Personally, I would love to see something like a native YouTube Music app similar to Spotify instead of being locked into a browser tab.

I think part of this shift comes from the pressure of modern native apps like ChatGPT’s desktop client. With a quick shortcut like Alt+Space you instantly open a search/chat box, that kind of OS level integration is not possible with a browser or even with PWAs.

So while this might look like a small product announcement, I see it as a bit of a paradigm change for Google.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-16 19:13:55+00:00
For your information - when you repeatedly tag transgressive comments as /s, you reveal more about your personal insecurities than what the opposition has to say.

If you have a good argument to make, make it. Comments like this one don't progress either side's understanding of the situation and devalues valuable discussion into hysteria (likely because you just dislike the consequences). PG realized it decades ago, despite his personal dysfunctions: https://themindcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Gra...
by astrange | 2025-09-16 19:13:59+00:00
> Only the top donors matter in donation funding.

Most political donors are $25/month Actblue donations, and it doesn't matter because the campaigns with the most donations regularly lose.

> McDonalds revenues and profits are up despite pricing out a lot of low income people.

They didn't really raise prices, they just put coupons in the app.

> Luxury condos are everywhere.

Houses don't cost more because they have "luxury" features. A nicer countertop doesn't hypnotize people into paying more for a house. Prices are negotiated between buyer and seller and most of the development cost is the land price.

> The poor have less of the nothing they already have.

Wage inequality in the US is lower than it was in 2019. In general income inequality hasn't increased since 2014.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
by MrMorden | 2025-09-16 19:14:19+00:00
Compartments are just for SCI. IC agencies do like putting all the classification markings on cafeteria menus, but they do non-SCI as well.

Both SAPs and SCI control systems can be unacknowledged/unpublished, and foreign releasability markings can easily be classified because they show that the country in question has an intelligence relationship with the US that covers a specific topic.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-16 19:14:25+00:00
> The advertising/billboards do reflect/are the zeitgeist.

If you're going by the billboards along 101, at least they're still tech oriented. The values/culture in the Bay Area has declined and yes, it's now full of finance-bros, but at least we still value things like education and building the future. It could be a lot worse: where I lived for a long time before moving to California, the billboards say things like "Don't Shake Your Baby" and "Jesus Loves, Sinners Burn In Hell" not to mention the confederate flags everywhere.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-16 19:14:39+00:00
Can you imagine how much traffic there would be if NYC didn't have the MTA? The principle of induced demand tells us that as long as there are roads they will have roughly constant traffic because people are willing to spend some roughly constant amount of time getting to and from destinations by road each day. More roads speeds up everyone's commute which brings in more drivers, which brings traffic right back to the baseline terribleness.

The question is how shitty it would be if they also had everyone on them who's currently on public transit.

So basically, it is a traffic-free panacea for everyone who chooses to use it. It's not a goal of trains to eliminate traffic for everyone who insists on driving.

https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/explainers-and-insights/indu...
by Mithriil | 2025-09-16 19:14:42+00:00
For those that argue that concepts are not orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal, then see the quasi-orthogonal case as the worst-case: "if all concepts were black and white, then how many can we fit in k dimensions". When there are nuanced concepts, then they will fit in between these quasi-orthogonals ones. What's argued here is thus a lower-bound.
by kipchak | 2025-09-16 19:15:11+00:00
I agree that kleptocracy and incompetence are a important factor, but I'm not sure it's the only one. There's a correlation between corruption indices and low GDP but I'm not sure it's causal. For example the US scores only moderately in corruption index terms, but does quite well in GDP terms. Arguably GDP growth rates are a better measure, in which case there's possibly a inverse correlation.

For example China, India and Malaysia have grown quite substantially are not particularly transparent, but they are alike in their resistance to dollarization. On the other hand Ecuador and El Salvador are examples of countries that have fully embraced dollarization with less than great outcomes. There are examples in the middle as well, but there is not a clear trend that it's necessarily a change for the better of the country and it's citizens.

To me it seems like a continuation of the IMF's dollarization as described by Joseph Stiglitz in 'Globalization and its discontents', in terms of mechanisms and effects on recipient countries. From this perspective it's less like transferring power from kleptocrats to the people, and more like choosing kleptocrats that are offering a better deal.
by lab14 | 2025-09-16 19:15:24+00:00
I think it doesn't have to be like that, but it's the way Java code has been written for ages, so those habits stuck. You can see it clearly when you bring a Java programmer to collaborate on a Ruby or Python codebase, if you let them, the will turn your codebase into an enterprise-ready mess with layers on top of layers of indirection in a blink.
by slashben | 2025-09-16 19:16:14+00:00
I wrote up a summary of the major security changes coming in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel release. Highlights include:

Attack Vector Controls: a new framework to manage CPU vulnerability mitigations by attack vector class rather than per-mitigation toggles

Refined Spectre/SRSO mitigations

Rust integration now built with the same speculative execution defenses as C code

SELinux gets a neversaudit flag and a 5-second delay on a deprecated sysfs interface

Lockdown LSM has active maintainers again

AppArmor can now mediate AF_UNIX sockets with fine-grained rules

Kernel stack erasing improvements for better memory safety

Full post here: https://www.armosec.io/blog/linux-6-17-security-features/

Curious what the HN crowd thinks — do these changes make Linux more secure in practice? Any hidden trade-offs or regressions people have seen testing 6.17-rc?
by ejstronge | 2025-09-16 19:16:17+00:00
> > as a sibling commenter writes, well-studied cases of this are so rare that

> And yet not a single cite in sight. A random commenter on orange site is not evidence

At a certain point, one has to take on the obligation of self-education.

> Hogwash.

From the website link you pasted: "Test-Specific Technical Issues - Standard tests (such as PCR or in situ hybridization) may not detect HPV types not included in the test panel (rare or classic non-oncogenic variants)."

> There are plenty of papers on HPV independent cervical cancer based on actual gene expression methods published in reputable journals in the last 30 years.

You don't understand the field, so you don't know why the gene expression does not establish the presence or absence of HPV but instead can be used as an argument for the absence of HPV.

EDIT: Also, a fundamental point of misunderstanding - cervical cancer is not a 'new' disorder, so unless you have an explanation for why the 1999 article is wrong, we can't simply discard its result and favor a next-generation sequencing article.
by superkuh | 2025-09-16 19:16:28+00:00
70 euro a month for gigabit? That's a great price! And way, way, way, more than you need for self hosting a website (maybe more for other things?). I've hosted my .com website from home since the late 90s and anything faster than a couple megabits is just fine .My current 80/10 megabits connection from comcast is $115/mo and has a 1.2TB data transfer cap with $10 per 50GB over. Even with such a terrible, expensive, exploitive ISP I host my dot com from home just fine.

Trying to host from wireless would probably not work so well. Do they even give you a real ipv4? And even if so, you're round trip time is inherently randomized which leads to tcp backoff and slowdowns in this context.
by zargon | 2025-09-16 19:16:34+00:00
If you want to keep $100k in a crypto exchange, it doesn’t cost much comparatively to purchase a few yubikeys.

The thought of having all my online services centralized with a single provider for email, SSO, 2FA, and so on is scary. Especially at Google, where you can lose all access at the drop of a hat, with no recourse.
by GrumpyGoblin | 2025-09-16 19:17:40+00:00
This is a ridiculous reply. I'm not friends with Google. We're frenemies at best.

Google has zero reason to keep this effort going. It won't make them any significant money.

If I were a bettin' man, and I am, I'd say it's a promotion project for some developer or team who is going to abandon it as soon as they move on. Which is SOP for Google.