MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OskarS | 2025-09-07 08:11:25+00:00
> No, I think it's very important to understand that local times in the future do not identify a point in time and that local times are not necessarily tied to any particular location.

I mean, they sometimes do. You might want to wake up at 7.00 AM in the morning regardless of what timezone you’re in, but if I ask Siri what time sunrise is tomorrow (very relevant for setting my alarm!) she better give it to me in local time taking time zones into account.

Another example: I’ve added all the F1 races and qualifications this year to my calendar (I’m a big fan) so I can easily check that the Italian Grand Prix at Monza starts today at 3.00 PM my local time. If I travel to another timezone, my calendar better adjust, or else I’ll miss the races.
by Kwpolska | 2025-09-07 08:11:27+00:00
> A faithful XP-inspired interface, custom-built to showcase my [...] attention to detail.

Here goes:

1. "Welcome" on the login screen should be lowercase

2. Balloon is too high (should touch the icon), close icon is too small (should be roughly the same height as the balloon title)

3. About Me is missing the scrollbar on Firefox

4. Wrong gradient for "Social Links"

5. Start menu should have a shadow

6. In My Projects, two tiles are loading forever

7. Windows that cannot be maximized, but can be minimized, should have all three buttons, with the middle one disabled

8. Paint did not have the Windows logo in the corner. It would be better to show the JSPaint menu bar to make things like Undo accessible, and the JSPaint authors deserve attribution.

9. "Git Co-pilot" is not a thing, as Git ≠ GitHub. (On the XP project page.)

If I were making something like this, I would probably skip the boot and login screens (certainly would not require user interaction; indeed, XP would automatically log you in if you had a single passwordless user), and show "About Me" on startup, so that potential clients don’t give up before they learn more about you.
by mdp2021 | 2025-09-07 08:11:52+00:00
People frequently do not understand the statistics underlying real world dynamics, embrace oversimplified world models, and going against that has them discouraged? That is one strong re-expression of the satanic attitude.

From cinematography, two big examples "that may have people leave the theater, then":

-- in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, the Sheriff (Gene Hackman) re-telling the story of English Bob:

> You see, the night that Corky walked into the Blue Bottle, and before he knows what's happening, Bob here takes a shot at him! And he misses, 'cause he's so damn drunk. Now that bullet whizzing by panicked old Corky, and he did the wrong thing. He went for his gun in such a hurry that he shot his own damn toe off. Meantime Bob here, he's aiming real good, and he squeezes off another, but he misses, because he's still so damn drunk, and he hits this thousand-dollar mirror up over the bar. And now, the Duck of Death is as good as dead. Because Corky does it right. He aims real careful, no hurry... [...] BAM! That Walker Colt blew up in his hand, which was a failing common to that model. You see, if Corky had had two guns instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself. [...] Well, old Bob wasn't gonna wait for Corky to grow a new hand. No, he just walked over there real slow - 'cause he was drunk - and shot him right through the liver

-- the scene in Vince Gilligan's El Camino, in which a bunch of gunners is so hijacked by the unpreparedness to the havoc that most bullets end on the scenery.

Not documentaries, but statistically relevant like the ten "black" in sequence at the roulette, frequent as the wheel is having well over a thousand spins.
by richardfeynman | 2025-09-07 08:14:30+00:00
+1. This does seem like an operation gone wrong, and I certanly condemn the killing of innocent civilians, but it's shocking how quick HN commenters are to throw America under the bus based on reporting from a leak. There's so much information about this operation that we simply don't have, including the risk/benefit analysis, the other operations that were successes that we don't know about, etc. I'm not saying America is all good, but this thread is surprisingly anti-American.
by dijit | 2025-09-07 08:15:39+00:00
No, timezones don’t change but they are swapped out by countries, offsets and timezones are an n:1 mapping. Multiple timezones represent the same offset, but those offsets are immutable.

CEST will always be +2 UTC (unless something really changes politically).

DST just marks that Sweden changes from CEST to CET from October to May. So Swedens offset changes, but the timezone does not change its offset.
by maciejw | 2025-09-07 08:16:31+00:00
I also switched to cheapest Mac Mini M4 Pro this year (after 20+ years of using Intel CPUs). MacOS has its quirks, but it provides ZSH and it "just works" (unlike manjaro I used in parallel with Windows). I especially like the preview tool - it has useful pdf and photo editing options.

The hardware is impressive - tiny, metal box, always silent, basic speaker built-in and it can be left always on with minimal power consumption.

Drive size for basic models is limited (512gb) - I solved it by moving photos to NAS. I don't use it for gaming, except Hello Kitty Island Adventure. I would say it's a very competitive choice for a desktop PC in 2025 overall.
by programonaut | 2025-09-07 08:16:41+00:00
I just checked them out, because I only heard about Dokploy before! Yeah, they’re definitely in a similar space. IMO the key difference is simplicity: with QuickDeploy it’s literally two commands and your app is online.

Tools like Dokku are great for managing full lifecycles of apps that will be live long-term. QuickDeploy is focused on a different use case like getting something live instantly (e.g. for a hackathon, demo, or side project) without needing to think much about it! Also especially in those use cases you do not really need an UI like you get with Dokploy, the goal is just to have the app live.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-07 08:16:54+00:00
It's either bad luck, bad power quality from the mains, or something in the air in that particular area. I know plenty of people running AM5 builds, have done so myself for the last couple of years, and there were no problems with any of them apart from the usual amdgpu bugs in latest kernels (which are "normal" since I'm running mainline kernels — it's easy to solve by just sticking to lts, and it has seemingly improved anyway since 6.15).
by apirone | 2025-09-07 08:19:39+00:00
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by imtringued | 2025-09-07 08:21:36+00:00
>Given a type T, if we can prove some property exists for all of T's minimal substructures, and all of T's immediate substructures, then this property must also hold for T itself.

I'm pretty sure people don't like this explanation because it implicitly assumes a directed acyclic graph and a reduction operation that takes a set of T and produces a single composite T.
by closewith | 2025-09-07 08:22:24+00:00
Neptune Spear was a culmination of intelligence failures that spanned decades, so while certainly possible, absent other evidence I don't think a press release is sufficient to say that bin Laden was successfully killed in Abbottabad, as opposed to say dying of kidney failure in the years before.

Died peacefully in his sleep was not a suitable ending for the mastermind of 9/11, so it would never have been allowed to happen, even if the truth had to be bent to achieve it.
by lock1 | 2025-09-07 08:22:48+00:00
Yeah, sure, I have a fair share of complaints on Windows too. Since Win XP, I think there has always been some kind of jank around Windows auto-hide taskbar, and it still persists on Win 11 which irritates me quite a lot.

Closed-source doesn't help for a poweruser; I'm fine with fiddling around with the code or config, just give me the code and manpages.

But again, my argument is that all of this is not applicable for the general population. Excluding loud internet forums, people seem fine sacrificing this kind of jank behavior as long as it doesn't interfere with their task that much.

I think Apple's recent Liquid Glass is a kind of stupid attempt to try to copy Win Vista-7 Aero style with terrible execution. But as long as it still allows Apple users do their things, I don't think they're going to switch to Linux just for customization.
by rendaw | 2025-09-07 08:23:44+00:00
You wouldn't use a datetime for an alarm clock, just a time.

The timezone is implicit in the appointment, it's the timezone of the place you're making the appointment at.

Scrapping DST is built into the timezone database IIRC, as are other timezone shifts.

In the SQL example way above, the database is probably assuming UTC, which would make the datetime math give incorrect results (ex: around dst changes) if you interpreted it naively as a local time.

This feels like a very Chesterton's Fence thread.
by formerly_proven | 2025-09-07 08:23:46+00:00
> Looking at my energy meter statistics, I usually ended up at about 9.x kWh per day for a two-person household, cooking with induction.

> After switching my PC from Intel to AMD, I end up at 10-11 kWh per day.

It's kind of impressive to increase household electricity consumption by 10% by just switching one CPU.
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-09-07 08:25:58+00:00
X-Com was amazing, and Xcom2 also pretty good. I just checked, and there is an amazing mod and very active community around LwotC (Long war of the Chosen), with tons of fixed bugs and improvements, a decade or so after the game was released. [0]

I am surprised Firaxis didn't work on an X-Com 3. I would guess the fan base is still huge.

I'm getting old and I don't play videogames anymore, but if I have a month of free time imprisoned in a cell with nothing else to do, I'd give xcom2 with LwotC a go. (and Master of Magic, and Master of Orion 2, etc).

[0]: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Long_War_of_the_Chosen
by formerly_proven | 2025-09-07 08:26:41+00:00
You could also get the idea that vendors sometimes make strange decisions which increase neither performance nor reliability.

For example, various brands of motherboards are / were known to basically blow up AMD CPUs when using AMP/XMP, with the root cause being that they jacked an uncore rail way up. Many people claimed they did this to improve stability, but overclockers now that that rail has a sweet spot for stability and they went way beyond it (so much so that the actual silicon failed and burned a hole in itself with some low-ish probability).
by lioeters | 2025-09-07 08:26:57+00:00
I like the sound of it, especially the compact single-file executable with minimal dependency. Forgive me for my ignorance, I may not fit the target user profile - I'm not familiar with KVM, and have only occasionally used QEMU. I read briefly about Cloud Init when setting up Multipass for creating new Ubuntu VMs.

What is KVM? - https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM

Can this tool `flint` replace some uses of Docker? I'm curious if I can use it for local development purpose, or for running stuff in production like isolating applications.

flint launch [image-name] Launch a new VM with smart defaults. Supports launching from images or templates.

Is there a registry of images, like OS versions? Or maybe it's more decentralized than that. It also sounds related to OCI (Open Container Initiative) format that Podman supports, and qcow2 images for QEMU.

Could you give a brief summary of what this tool enables, for a potential user who doesn't know much about KVM?
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-07 08:27:18+00:00
> It seemed like something someone might come up with in a thoughtless effort to be inclusive of diversity.

The more obvious explanation is that having alien members in your squad opens up new gameplay opportunities.

Your comment seems like a caricature of a right wing person who thinks everything they don’t like is “DEI/woke”. It’s like you need the world to be black and white and when it isn’t it upsets your world view?
by homebrewer | 2025-09-07 08:27:23+00:00
Also be careful with overclocking, because the usual advice of "just running EXPO/XMP" often results in motherboards setting voltages on very sensitive components to more than 30% over their stock values, and this is somehow considered normal.

It looks completely bonkers to me. I overclocked my system to ~95% of what it is able to do with almost default voltages, using bumps of 1-3% over stock, which (AFAIK) is within acceptable tolerances, but it requires hours and hours of tinkering and stability testing.

Most users just set automatic overclocking, have their motherboards push voltages to insane levels, and then act surprised when their CPUs start bugging out within a couple of years.

Shocking!
by PhilipRoman | 2025-09-07 08:27:30+00:00
Ironically the more "user friendly" a distro is, the more issues I seem to have with it. I'm running Arch with a window manager, the only issue I ever had was a kernel regression, after which I switched to LTS.

Meanwhile whenever I had to deal with Ubuntu or other such distros, I keep getting issues in the most basic functionality even on fresh installs. Can't launch firefox, random non descriptive errors from package updates, poor device support...
by LuD1161 | 2025-09-07 08:30:51+00:00
I found an Insecure Direct Object Reference(IDOR0 security issue that led to leaking GST challans (receipts) of all the 11.8M registered taxpayers. Here's the full story alongwith a video PoC.

Note: No personal data was ever shared or harvested. This was responsibly disclosed to the authorities through proper channels and only after the disclosure timeline (120 days) was it published in the online media.
by microtonal | 2025-09-07 08:32:38+00:00
I agree that Intel is bad at the moment (especially with the 13th and 14th gen self-destruct issues). But unfortunately I also know plenty of people with issues with AMD systems.

And it's no bad power quality on mains as someone suggested (it's excellent here) or 'in the air' (whatever that means) if it happens very quickly after buying.

I would guess that a lot of it comes from bad firmware/mainboards, etc. like the recent issue with ASRock mainboards destroying Ryzen 9000-series GPUs: https://www.techspot.com/news/108120-asrock-confirms-ryzen-9... Anyone who uses Linux and has dealt with bad ACPI bugs, etc. knows that a lot of these mainboards probably have crap firmware.

I should also say that I had a Ryzen 3700X and 5900X many years back and two laptops with a Ryzen CPU and they have been awesome.
by codethief | 2025-09-07 08:33:31+00:00
I was inclined to agree at first but do those use cases really conflict?

If I ask the LLM to generate a fictional story set in medieval Francs, and it then responds with a fictional story set in medieval France, that's an appropriate ("correct") response to the task I gave it. If it responded with a story set in medieval England, though, that would not be correct. If, instead, I had asked it to generate a story in "medieval times", both France and England would have been correct as locations because the problem was underspecified and asked for some creativity. A medieval story set in the US, however, would still not have been correct or consistent with the training data. You can come up with more such examples even in entirely fictional settings: Once the story has been set to take place in fictional city X, it would not be consistent if two sentences later the characters were in city Y all of a sudden. (That would be a bit too creative.) What I'm trying to say is: Creativity might be "correct" (appropriate) in a given context, or it might not be. Even fiction and creativity require a certain degree of consistency and coherence.

Now, correct answers, in turn, might also require a certain degree of creativity:

If I ask the LLM for some straight up facts, which are not in its training data nor in the prompt context, the only really correct answer is "I don't know". However, sometimes it might be possible to narrow down the correct answer to a few possible options based on the training data. So then it might be appropriate for the LLM to say "I don't know the exact answer but here are some educated guesses based on what I do know: …" And maybe, having pondered those options, it is able to deduce the correct answer after all. (In the same way as I am writing this HN comment to help me think and clarify my thoughts.)

This is reminiscent of mathematics and mathematical research, which are often described as a creative process. Obviously, the creative output is heavily constrained. You make educated guesses and then validate them against what you already know to be true. Someone else here in this thread[0] mentioned Popper's "Conjectures and Refutations" as a possible model for what intelligent cognition is about and the more I think about that, the more convincing I find it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45153695
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-07 08:34:08+00:00
>The timezone is implicit in the appointment, it's the timezone of the place you're making the appointment at.

Yes, but we cannot know which timezone that will be or how it will be defined and therefore we cannot store this appointment as a point in time.

This is what we're talking about, right? Can we store all datetimes as points in time or not? I'm convinced that we cannot always do that because there are datetime semantics that cannot be expressed in that way.

[Edit]

>You wouldn't use a datetime for an alarm clock, just a time

You should tell Apple that. They somehow managed to get this wrong. And I suspect the reason may be that many developers really really want all (date)time specifications to be points in time. They are not.
by drekipus | 2025-09-07 08:34:16+00:00
But it's the perfect definition because it shows what it is. The output is a hallucination in what it thinks you want, which you can use for better form prompts or the like.

To say "it only hallucinates sometimes" is burying the lede and confusing for people who are trying to use it

Q: How do I stop Hallucinations? A: useless question, because you can't. It is the mechanism that gives you what you want
by yorwba | 2025-09-07 08:34:47+00:00
I assume you're thinking about translation flashcards when you say that manual input should not be used, but I get a lot of value out of dictation flashcards in Anki: the front plays a recording of a sentence, I type in what I heard, and I mark myself correct if I wrote the right sentence and understood its meaning.

With translation, the problem is that there's often many correct answers, which makes it difficult to distinguish wrong answers from unexpected correct answers. But sentence dictation usually doesn't have this problem (barring puns with homophones.)
by danlitt | 2025-09-07 08:35:27+00:00
If local time is qualified with where "local" is then it is identical to using a time with a locale, like Europe/London or whatever. Unqualified local time is wrong/confusing the moment you have any requirement which crosses a time zone (which happens when you wouldn't expect it, that's the whole reason people care about this problem).

Even your example of alarms is not obvious. If you set a timer, or a daily alarm to wake up by, then yes. But if you set an alarm for some event, like sunrise for example, then you would need a zone.
by kelnos | 2025-09-07 08:36:34+00:00
I use subtitles becomes sometimes I have trouble understanding the actors. I believe I read something that suggested that the sound mix in movies and cinematic TV shows has changed a lot in the past couple decades, and a result is that it's harder to understand dialogue.

I don't like this; I find my eyes spending more time than I'd like on the text, and not enough on the visual imagery on the rest of the screen. If I truly wanted more text, I'd just read a book.
by microtonal | 2025-09-07 08:37:33+00:00
However, the vast majority of PCs out there are not hobbyist builds but Dell/Lenovo/HP/etc. [1] with far fewer possible configurations (and much more testing as a byproduct). I am not saying these machines never have issues, but a high failure rate would not be acceptable to their business customers.

[1] Well, most non-servers are probably laptops today, but the same reasoning applies.
by netsharc | 2025-09-07 08:39:48+00:00
If some extremist Americans say "Country X should be eradicated", can that country carpet-bomb America?". Let's say X = Greenland. (yeah yeah it's not a country, and humor me about Greenland's ability to commit genocide...).

I'd wager what the average Palestinian wanted/wants was to enjoy lives and freedoms with at worst bird poop falling from the sky and not Raytheon's newest GBU model, but if your neighboring state terrorizes you with little impunity for 70 years, would you not cheer on when some of your community fires back at them? And some other community members might even cower in fear because they know the revenge will come worse, but of course the foreign media will mostly show the people cheering and the commenters on social media will describe your community as "all blood-thirsty genocidal killers".. and blame your religion for it.
by mesrik | 2025-09-07 08:40:02+00:00
Anyone else find it odd that C99 strftime() %F and %T equivalents did not make it later revisions ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 ?

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/chrono/strftime

Man page strftime shows,

%F Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format). (C99) %T The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S). (SU)

The Op linked page did not recognise these. I tried with the "%FT%T%z" which works fine with date and strftime().

I've probably used %F and %T about 20 years with no issues linux, bsd and mac that I wrote code over the years.

BTW, It would be nice to see some reference or comparison how systems stdlib implementations match with these standards if there is one.

One gripe I've got with RFC3999 and it's not nice to have the semicolon in filename if you intend to use it file or directory name. As it conflicts and easily becoome issue when not quoted while using rsync or any command that thinks colon (:) separates and indicates host name. I'm not sure if colon would cause issues with windows but there is chance it could as it's used indicating device name.

ps. I had to implement many stdlib time.h defined functions my own between -89 - 92 for my then work as Turbo C 2.0 and 3.0/3.1 did not implement these. I recall that last time I touched these and fixed issues was when I got P.J. Plaugers The Standard C Library book when it was brand new -92. When earlier proprietary C-compliers libraries sources had not been available, that Plaugers book was was great help for many :)
by willtemperley | 2025-09-07 08:40:33+00:00
Gaming seems to be the final stronghold of x86 and I imagine that will shrink. Clearly games are able to run well on RISC architectures despite decades of x86 optimisation in game engines. Long term, an architecture that consumes more power and is tightly locked down by licensing looks unsustainable compared to royalty-free RISC alternatives. The instability, presumably because Intel are overclocking their own chips to look OK on benchmarks will not help.