MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-15 14:59:58+00:00
> If there's a community that has been breaking the law on a massive scale, there should be more shame associated with that lawbreaking than there is shame associated with enforcing the law. How are you going to have a functional

So exactly what should Puerto Ricans who are in the continental United States do to prevent being detained by ICE?

What should my six foot 2 Black stepson living in a lily white suburb of Atlanta GA (my wife and I moved to another state for reasons) do differently? Should he go to the inner city and change hearts and minds?

And you keep changing the subject. I am referring to how the government targets people - the only people who have qualified immunity and can take away an individuals rights. A random Black or White person cant legally detain me or stop me - not even in GA anymore after the Republican governor outlawed citizen’s arrest after it was used to harass and kill an unarmed black man walking down the street - yes it was caught on video.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery

Why do I find it hard to believe that you would be okay being randomly stopped and harassed walking down the street? I now live in a major diverse city. I can see it now. I a Black guy born in south GA being detained by ICE if they raid the Hispanic barber shop I go to - where three of the barbers are from Puerto Rico - because they hear me doing small talk in Spanish.
by naravara | 2025-09-15 15:00:04+00:00
> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be?

When the ridiculous approvals process blocks good apps and fails to block shovelware from flooding the platform I think people have plenty of reasons to complain it’s not working well.

For the most part Apple is in a bind of their creation here. They don’t want to surrender the cut of money they get from the App Store so they’re overly permissive about exploitative casino games and scams as long as they have in-app purchases. But they DO want to have standards, so they enforce standards on the books somewhat arbitrarily and it ends up falling on normal apps that just have some kind of functionality that hits an unknown third rail.

And even worse, there is an informal two-tiered system where companies like Meta and Amazon and Netflix can almost flagrantly violate App Store policies and mostly get away with it because of high demand for keeping the app in the store and because they have legal teams that will sue.

It would be better if they had an actual two-tiered system where developers with a track record of being good (defined however) can get a non-transferable “hunting license” to fast track approval and get more sensitive API privileges. But they’ll never do that either, because companies like Meta absolutely would not earn the privileges but demand them anyway.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-15 15:00:13+00:00
> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be?

It's actually both.

The problem with establishing lots of hoops to jump through, is that legit organizations can't deal with it, but scammers have no problems playing the game. It's just the cost of doing business, for them. They learn how to game the system, because that's their business model.

I don't usually have problems, when my apps get rejected by the Apple App Store Review. I get the thing fixed after one or two back-and-forths, but it's still a big fat pain.

I do think that the scammers have figured out how to ram through a lot of crap, though, and Apple needs to look at this.

First, though, they need to consider it to be a problem. If each of the shovelware apps makes them a bit of money, they will be more willing to "look the other way," than for free apps (like the ones that I do). I believe that I am held to a higher standard than scammers.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-09-15 15:01:02+00:00
I don't disagree, but what's the relevance of this information for the topic at hand? The chat control proposal is for government-mandated scanning of devices and processing the information in a EU-wide data center close to Interpol.

Obviously, foreign spies and threat actors can continue to use encrypted communication. In the worst case for them, they can stop using the Internet and use burst-mode radio transmissions.

So what's your point?
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-15 15:01:12+00:00
They don't actually define what "likely to be accessed by children" or "a reasonable level of certainty" really is.

I could say "some kind of attempt" is merely asking the user if they are over 18. I see no language that says that's not good enough, especially appropriate to the "risks" of 98% of websites.

> Where are you seeing that?

The noncompliance is on the part of the site owner, not the user. It just means you must ask their age (bracket), it doesn't mean the user has to tell the truth.
by georgeecollins | 2025-09-15 15:01:28+00:00
Undermining the power of software vendors is an institutional imperative at Apple. There is a memory of the days when they were dependent on Adobe and Microsoft for their hardware to be viable. When they design App stores they make the rules and game the system with this in mind.

It's not just that the stores are open to everyone-- shovelware and all. Steam does that but because they care about the ecosystem they protect pricing for premium products. They make reviews and recommendations relevant. Try to get your terrible knock off of a hit game come up in a search-- they are on to that.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-15 15:02:32+00:00
Try "Obsolescence of all Definitions"

Tom Givon used to say in class: "What true language requires a dictionary?"

Language is decontextualized in the West, it's about attributes of individual objects where simplifying laws are derived, rather than language used as interdependent.

At a certain point arbitrary language dissolves into meaninglessness. That's entropy and arbitrariness. As we accelerate language and primate status spirals the role of language is simply to dominate subjectively. It has no end point except for dissolution.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-15 15:02:54+00:00
In practice there are physical limits on how much phonecalls or snail mails can be improperly publicized.

Online even the stuff that very rich companies struggle very hard to keep private regularly gets publicized in bulk.

You might think in terms of "medium is the message" so you can't directly transfer something that works in principle for one medium to another.
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-09-15 15:03:01+00:00
I think there are two problems here:

First, a skewed distribution of "wheat" and "chaff" apps. I would bet there are at least 10x as many "chaff" submissions as "wheat" submissions. Passing that distribution through a classifier with 90% precision and 90% recall will result in "only" a 50:50 mix of wheat and chaff apps in the app store.

Actually, I could easily see the skew being 100x simply because nothing really stops a malicious actor from hiring 100 different mules to create 100 different developer accounts and submitting the same malicious app until it randomly passes review. Having only a 50:50 mix of apps now requires 99% precision and recall.

Second, the principal-agent problem. I would bet the amount of app store reviewers who are receiving bribes is not zero, and further that bribing app store reviewers is probably among the highest marketing ROI spend that fraudsters do. Apple/Google can randomize who reviews which app, but how many reviewers do they have? If I bribe one reviewer, how many copies of my malicious app (see previous paragraph) do I need to submit before one of them is routed to "my" reviewer? Probably not many.

Even with honest reviewers, I'm sure reviewers have some kind of daily quota they have to meet. If you're behind quota, are you going to carefully review an app, or reject it for tenuously-applicable reasons? That annoys app developers, but does the reviewer care? No, they hit quota, which is all that matters to them.

I'm sure someone will reply "well, Apple/Google should just ____". I hear you, but your proposal is either going to be much more expensive, much slower, or result in more bad apps being approved. In other words, it's likely that the current system is (nearly) pareto-optimal.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-15 15:03:33+00:00
Released September 15, 1995.

Three decades! It holds up as a great snapshot of a particular moment, amidst ongoing societal and technological change, and our evolving relationship with it. In its teenage campy very-90s fun, the glimpses of subcultures, small representations of roots & history, solidify its cult classic status. Hack The Planet Forever.
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-15 15:04:09+00:00
The micro in this thing is a WQFN-16 (W = very very thin, thinner than V for very) with 3x3x0.75mm body. That's around a fiftieth of a gram of plastic.

I think the bigger SOIC chip is probably the battery charge IC. And then maybe a gram or two of PCB epoxy. And the plastic in the battery pouch and membranes which you need anyway.

In terms of plastics waste volume, the casing and tank is probably nearly all of the content. So the problem is a disposable vape bring a thing at all, not really the microcontroller in there.

It feels mad and somehow wasteful that you can get a CPU at that price point, but the die itself is a tiny sliver of silicon. You can even embed an (even tinier) and weedier application-specific) IC in a paper metro ticket. Compute is just so ridiculously cheap that you can have a hundred of functional ICs for the cost of a single largish cup of hot bean water.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-15 15:04:10+00:00
Pure power fantasy & gratuitous as heck, but man, loved the The Golden Oecumene series, Wright's debut novels. Had not thought to see what else Wright has done!

Side note, my homelabs Kube cluster's naming scheme is AI from fiction. Rhadamanthus is one of the computers from Golden Oecumene, a powerful manor computer. Also in the cluster: Jarvis (Iron Man), Cohen (Spin State), Epicac (eponymous Vonnegut short story).
by nine_k | 2025-09-15 15:04:48+00:00
Likely never. The Half-Life has the lambda with the top crooked, neatly inscribed in a circle [1]. The anarchist version has everything straight, and with the three sticks protruding out of the circle (like the A would). The visual rhyme is obvious.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Freeman#/media/File:Gor...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#/media/Fil...
by simoncion | 2025-09-15 15:05:01+00:00
> ...why must privacy extend to online?

Because "online" is just as real as "offline"? It's all people communicating with other people.

In the US, I can do business under an alias, just so long as I'm not assuming that alias with the intent to defraud. In the US, I can anonymously drop a letter in a postbox to be sent anywhere in the US.

However, government agents can certainly discover my "wallet identity" in both of those situations with the application of some effort. Why would it be important to you that people doing business "online" must do that business in such a way as to make it require zero effort for a government agent to discover their "wallet identity"? Why would it be important to you that people who conduct their business electronically have far, far less privacy than people who conduct their business with paper and in-person appearances?
Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help
by thekonqueror | 2025-09-15 15:05:12+00:00
I signed up for Cloudflare's Business plan and paid for a year in advance. While adding a new domain I made a typo and now the subscription is stuck in a limbo.

I can't change the domain without contacting their support or paying another $2400. When I open a support ticket, their portal shows 'Unable to find your account' and tells me to open another support request for it.

All support tickets are closed automatically by their "AI" which points to the same article that says open a ticket.

Is shaming them on Twitter my only option left?
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-15 15:05:27+00:00
I think I've had enough of this conversation, but I did want to add one more thing before I call it quits: Thank you for taking the time to engage with me. I know there were more fun things you could have spent this time on.

One thing Kirk got right, was that we all need to be more open to engaging with each other in a civil way. He didn't always get it right, but nobody does and he didn't deserve to go out the way he did. I hope that the person responsible faces serious consequences, but more importantly I hope that we all find a way to respectfully disagree with each other and can find the grace to bend enough to meet somewhere in the middle.

I think that our conversation here is further proof that it can be done.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-15 15:05:28+00:00
Grey-box PC hardware and PCs in general plummeted in price in the early-mid-90s, making them feasible for consumers where they weren't before.

Doesn't change the fact that on a worldwide basis IBM PC and clones-of sales were through the roof for business customers from about 84 or so on. Not a bubble at all.

There was a period where offices and schools etc would have more heterogenous systems -- especially schools where Apple offered incredibly aggressive educational discounts, and so you'd find a lot of Apple IIs and even the odd Macintosh. But this ended here in Canada at least by about 88, 89. From then on you'd find offices with PCs running DOS -- sometimes Windows -- often running Novel, and using boring business applications like Lotus, WordPerfect or Word, etc.

By the time I was in high school in 90, 91, everything was PC. So much so that I ended up ditching my well-loved Atari ST and getting a 486 myself, because the writing was on the wall and the party was over for 68k machines.
by hollerith | 2025-09-15 15:05:29+00:00
(Replying to myself because it is too late to edit.)

I found a shorter reply to your comment, which I will now write:

>when it comes to the GNU project and the whole Free Software movement is the ability to run _any_ program, be it non-free software or free software.

Just because the GNU project allowed non-free software to run on GNU doesn't mean there existed in the 1980s a userland that would run on GNU if GNU had consisted of just a kernel (or just a kernel and a C library and a C compiler).
by cindori | 2025-09-15 15:07:08+00:00
That’s totally valid. In the end, all apps on Apple platforms exist at the liberty of Apple. I have several friends who’ve seen their app stop working on Tahoe or previous macOS due to subtle changes in the SDK or the OS.

I think Backdrop fills a specific need that Apple does not want to cover, much like other utility apps like Bartender etc. It will likely require continuous updates, but I’m not new to that, having supported my Trim Enabler utility all the way from OS X Leopard to current macOS.
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-15 15:08:09+00:00
Is there a metric for distance on the surface of a sphere? I imagine it's not one of the metrics in the family in the article, but in such a metric wouldn't Pi be less than 3.14?

[I dropped my physics major in college in favor of computer science, mostly because I couldn't handle the math, so I acknowledge that this could be a stupid/non-sensical question.]
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-15 15:08:15+00:00
There's a hypothesis that some part of the obesity epidemic stems from the widespread use of powerful emulsifiers in factory-produced goods. They attack the lining of the lower intestines (basically mucous) and wipe out chunks of our gut microbiota. I have no idea whether this is true, but once you realize that even "fresh bread from your local bakery" is often made using factory-produced Sodexo dry mixes, you see how easily this could affect everyone.
by doix | 2025-09-15 15:08:25+00:00
I am so uneducated that I cannot even answer your question properly. But for example, the default terminal in OSX has a really nice thin bar. VSCode/Cursor have a _slightly_ thicker one. Google Chrome and Firefox are huge. The red/yellow/green buttons also don't have a consistent position between those applications.

Do you happen to know which are custom chrome and which are "unified"? It didn't occur to me that other programs could be drawing their own chrome, since they look _mostly_ native(at least to me). On windows, if something was using custom stuff it would just look completely different (i.e winamp).

I guess part of the problem is that I've never done native OSX development, so I don't know what the APIs or native toolkits are like.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-15 15:08:26+00:00
not really, pretty old overview on it - but kept up to date it seems (current references to interviews)

https://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-...

its true that the concept of a _holy war_ isnt unique to the muslim faith though. I never claimed that either however.

It's slightly surprising to me how few people seem to be aware of that in HN. Was expecting the general readership here to be a little less obsessively righteous and uninformed on a topic like this, but ymmv I guess
by zero_k | 2025-09-15 15:08:33+00:00
I am happy they demonstrated how useful these devices are. Marking these as "disposable" is a kind of insanity. I recovered a few of them "disposed" (i.e. "randomly thrown away into") in an empty flower pot, and took out the LiPo batteries from them -- which are rechargeable, and have charge circuitry (non-trivial for LiPos). That we somehow decided that it's OK to design these to be used only once feels wrong.

This is the opposite of repairability. We specifically made them impossible to reuse and refill. Makes my tinkerer (and eco-friendly) heart very sad.
by Gormo | 2025-09-15 15:08:33+00:00
It's common for people to assume that if IBM didn't use a simple, open architecture with off-the-shelf components for the original PC, then we'd never have had the PC ecosystem as we know it.

But this view neglects the fact that an organic ecosystem of interoperable open hardware converging to de facto standards and running a common OS already existed prior to IBM designing their PC. By 1980, there were already many independent vendors implementing their own variation on the 8080/S-100 design pioneered by MITS, all running CP/M from Digital Research.

When IBM released the PC, the CP/M world was still going strong. The fact that it was an easily cloneable architecture based on the 16-bit 8086 caused a lot of disruption, and led to the market dynamics that were already present in the 8080-S100-CP/M world pivoting over to x86-ISA-DOS.

If IBM had kept their PC proprietary, it might have led to a bit more fragmentation in the short-term market for business microcomputing, but at the same time, the CP/M world would have continued on without that disruption, and something else would have ultimately catalyzed the move to a common 16-bit architecture. DR was already working on CP/M-86 at the time IBM was developing the PC, after all.

Eventually, the same forces that led to the collapse of vertically integrated, proprietary platforms and the dominance of open-standards system builders would have asserted themselves, and IBM itself would still have been subdued by them. Modern computing would likely be in a similar position with or without IBM. The PC was a major ripple, but didn't really change the current.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-15 15:08:48+00:00
What tends to be more conceptually solid is temperament and personality, rather than ideology. That is, things like conformism, trust in paternalistic authority figures, or instinctual contrarianism and distrust of authority, and openness to new ways of doing things, optimism about tweaking the knobs on society vs a more static view of how people are, etc., making it yourself (individualism and atomisation) vs focus on collectivism / community orientedness / family obligations.

For example, an old man with a conservative mentality in Russia may be nostalgic for Stalin and communism. Or someone who has a contrarian, disagreeable personality in a liberal American college environment may decide to become a monarchist or trad Christian to show the middle finger to the real authority figures in his life. And a conformist person in the US workforce would more likely absorb a corporate-HR-compatible (superficially?) progressive worldview.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-15 15:08:57+00:00
Margins on consumer PC hardware are quite low, and were really low through the late 90s. There was no point being in that market for them, and they made a pivot to switch to only two markets: services (IBM Global Services is huge still) and mainframe customers (which I gather they must still make a lot of money on, and the hardware is actually quite interesting and well-engineered, just stupid expensive).

I'm surprised Db2 still exists as a product they actively develop, to be honest. Maybe because their services branch and mainframe customers still use it heavily.
by Tarball10 | 2025-09-15 15:09:05+00:00
Holding money (or crypto) in PayPal is a terrible idea. They are not a bank, they do not abide by banking regulations. They can lock you out of your account and your money at any time and leave you going in circles with their offshore support.

Yes, they are somewhat of a necessary evil if you do any online peer-to-peer buying/selling, since they are the only money transfer service that provides some level of "buyer protection", but you want to do the bare minimum with PayPal to avoid unnecessary risk.

Link one bank account (not your primary) to PayPal to receive money, and transfer received money immediately. Link one credit card for purchases. Nothing else. Do not link debit cards, do not sign up for their "balance account" where money is held in PayPal (no matter how hard they push it with UI dark patterns in their app), do not sign up for their crypto account.
by menaerus | 2025-09-15 15:09:11+00:00
Not sure which part of my comment you were referring to but if it was about the 1TB/s of mem bw it seems it is rather 409GB/s per-socket.

From https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-aix-power10-performanc...

> The Power10 processor technology introduces the new OMI DIMMs to access main memory. This allows for increased memory bandwidth of 409 GB/s per socket. The 16 available high-speed OMI links are driven by 8 on-chip memory controller units (MCUs), providing a total aggregated bandwidth of up to 409 GBps per SCM. Compared to the Power9 processor-based technology capability, this represents a 78% increase in memory bandwidth.

And that is again a theoretical limit which usually isn't that interesting but rather it's the practical limit the CPU is able to hit.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-15 15:09:13+00:00
The personal dig was unwarranted. I apologise.

> So, after reading code, one should write down what made him amazed and find out why it is so - whether it is a custom of a project or a peculiarity of code just read.

Sorry but that’s delusional.

The amount of people actually able to meaningfully read code, somehow identify what was so incredible it should be analysed despite being unfamiliar with the code base, maintain a list of their own likely error and self review is so vanishingly low it might as well not exist.

If that’s the bare a potential new contributor has to cross, you will get exactly none.

I’m personally glade LLVM disagree with you.
by hazrmard | 2025-09-15 15:09:21+00:00
This takes me down a memory lane! For my undergrad capstone project, we made a cubesat tracker for our university's satellite using a RPi/Arduino/Software-defined-radio to receive transmissions every time it passed over us. I cringe a little looking at the code now - but it worked!

I agree, cubsats are a wonderful way, for college students even, to tinker with space(-adjacent) tech.

https://github.com/hazrmard/SatTrack