MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-29 11:11:14+00:00
r/piracy was something that I discovered really late but I am glad I am.

I recommend it to every of my friend who comes to me begging me to download X or Y or pirate it.

I remember those links where you had to go through the entire article and it would give a (1 of 2) and you have to do that again and again for them to finally get to the final download.

Yes downloading them were indeed a hassle but idk i guess those feelings are really compensated by me playing pokemon, like I genuinely have forgotten some of those popups but I do know that they were really shitty.

here's what I would recommend anybody now:

r/piracy is your best friend, try to read it and prefer to get the goated version of things use brave browser if you don't want ads/ librewolf/firefox with ublock on pc.

I am not advocating piracy because well, I just can't pay for products and my frugal living doesn't really find it to have peace. I would much rather donate to them directly with a thank you message but maybe that's my ideal.

The only game I was thinking to buy was silksong but my brother has a ps5 and he would've had to download it seperately and I wanted to split even 20$ lol.

I wanted to buy silksong as a way of saying thank you to the devs for finally making things cheap enough and making me feel like my money is worth it even if I am frugal y'know.

I feel like everyone iscammed by 70$ games bro, I am never paying them.

One time, idk what i downloaded, but it was prob malware in the sense that even if no app is running/removed that app, it would still open up browser and open up some link automatically sometimes..

And pop ups on websites were a nightmare to dodge, pop under ads yeah. I remember it all now. it used to take me definitely 15 minutes or more to download a rom but that was compensated by the hours I used to play bro.

I love pokemon johto with my ampharos of level 75, it used to one shot everything except rock/steel. Electric was goated in johto. And I had a water type pokemon too/there was one fighting type move that I taught my ampharos. I think I even defeated red from gen 1 ( I am talking about the actual gen 2 pixelated game and not the next silver games, I think it was the crystal or silver or gold, I am not sure mareep was only available to play in one of these games and dude mareep is goated and makes me remember my childhood)
by timschmidt | 2025-09-29 11:12:03+00:00
> with a look-alike part analyzing tens to hundreds of gigabits if data, in a form factor so small that it wouldn't be physically possible without semiconducting fabricating processes years in advance of what existed at the time.

I'm not sure where you got that idea. The article describes a tiny microcontroller, attached to the read pins of the BMC's boot flash, flipping a few bits in transit from the flash ROM to the BMC SoC as the BMC boots. This is not only practically possible, it's very similar to the technique used to hack the original Xbox and by many console mod chips. And is sufficient to boot the BMC in a vulnerable state for the next chain of an attack.

Nothing about the exploit claimed in the article was impossible or even novel.

That said, I'm not aware of any physical boards found to have the compromised hardware outside of those Bloomberg claim to have witnessed.
by rcostin2k2 | 2025-09-29 11:12:29+00:00
The switch alone does not provide security if the supply chain is compromised. I believe a malicious actor could act along this chain by setting the switch to ON and rewriting the firmware, just like they would replace a removable chip. A step in this direction has been taken by "Server Configuration Lock" (e.g. HPE) while servers are in transit
by phatfish | 2025-09-29 11:13:06+00:00
I'd love to know how this "march towards authoritarianism" actually manifests in the real world. Not just in the head space of podcast grifters and privacy nuts.

I've lived in the UK my whole life. Multiple other countries have liberated themselves and then returned to authoritarian governments within my lifetime.

Strangely this hasn't happened in the UK, plenty of people trying to wish it into existence though.
by jmpeax | 2025-09-29 11:13:40+00:00
Yes, the two are orthogonal concepts. Text did not disappear just because we invented photography. Bayesian data analysis is for inverse problems, such as using data to learn about the properties of the system/model that could have generated the data, and neural networks are for forward problems such as using data to generate more data or make predictions.

You can use BDA for forward problems too, via posterior predictive samples. The benefit over neural networks for this task is that with BDA you get dependable uncertainty quantification about your predictions. The disadvantage is that the modalities are somewhat limited to simple structured data.

You can also use neural networks for inverse problems, such as for example with Neural Posterior Estimation. This approach shows promise since it can tackle more complex problems than the standard BDA approach of Markov Chain Monte Carlo and with much faster results, but the accuracy and dependability are still quite lacking.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-09-29 11:14:32+00:00
I have never given this a lot attention. I learned a few things from the post and I am always grateful for that.

One question that popped into my head is that with that having a fleet that big the company must be rather vulnerable if the number of packages decreases significantly over even a small amount of time.

Operating a fleet like that, and probably have lot of flights that cannot be canceled, to save money, given the propagation problems that would create downstream.

In a highly improbable hypothesis of a day without any package at all, the cost must be in the two digit millions

I dont think there is ever a day without packages but there are slow days and incredibly busy days.
by spacecadet | 2025-09-29 11:14:38+00:00
"Taste" is developed. If you have to stop and ask, you are not there yet. In the arts, artist that drive taste quietly observe and hone that in over many years, releasing works that drive people in that direction.

In addition to that, all of the real people with great taste I meet, are not out there talking about it. They confidently spread it.
by XorNot | 2025-09-29 11:15:00+00:00
But the thing is, being scared of something breaking is something we as software engineers have pushed onto users.

You click a control and something happens - you don't like it, but you don't know what turns it off or undoes it. There's no global state rollback. It's like the sheer terror those "don't show me this again" buttons instill - the concept is frightening even if I'm kind of annoyed by the message, and they rarely if ever include an explanation of exactly where to do to turn the control back on.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-29 11:15:23+00:00
The byte counter seems broken somehow. "Compressing" a single character with a compression level of 0 says "12 bytes", yet in the visualization there's less than 8 bytes (~7.5).

When compressing with a level higher than 0, the bits also don't appear to add up to a natural number of bytes, so I'm thinking the visualization is missing some padding?
by zwnow | 2025-09-29 11:15:43+00:00
My state (Germany) recently switched away from Microsoft to open source solutions and public offices have week long delays due to employees not finding buttons they were used to. They expect a 1 to 1 copy of the Microsoft product. Training should be software independent. People need to be educated with computer basics, if they work in a field that requires the usage of computers. Having to go to some public office in my area already is notorious, now its even worse.
by benrutter | 2025-09-29 11:15:46+00:00
> Slack works similarly with its integrations. Discord does this with bots and servers. The platform provides the foundation, but users craft their own experience on top of it.

Not really the articles core point, but to me at least, those two products are full of loads of stuff I don't want!

I thought VS code was a good example, I'm curious about if anyone has other examples that they think do modularity well?
by bux93 | 2025-09-29 11:16:45+00:00
Styles are also b0rken in interesting ways. Have you ever tried to change the default style to justified, and headings to left-aligned? How does that work out for you in tables? Table styles in general lack all kinds of support. Auto-numbering in headings can theoretically be customized, but good luck trying to change it without following a step-by-step guide that ends up with the default numbering. Using styles is supposed to negate the need for empty lines, but the space-before and space-after properties are buggy, meaning you end up just putting an enter anyway. Empty lines also end up in headings since word often, but not always, understands that the 'enter' pressed after a heading should start a new 'normal' paragraph, rather than a mult-line heading. The keep-together, keep-with-next properties on tables/rows work only kind-of, rather than consistently. Good luck autonumbering tables, illustrations and such. Not to mention that if you work on a word document that has had its styles changed a few times, there's a lot of invisible vestigial stuff in there that will interfere with your new styles.

It makes you yearn for latex and xsl-fo(!).
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-29 11:17:34+00:00
If the extent of your reasoning ends with hasty generalizations (specifically, perceived parallels with Russian propaganda), many things will seem super weird. Simplistic categorization is a poor way to model the world. In a productive discussion, further inquiry allows us to narrow in on the dispute. Typically this process clarifies the details in question.

Professor John Mearsheimer of the realist school has some hour long lectures on the topic of Ukraine. Some even precede the war itself. Obviously as a disclaimer, I do not agree with everything he has to say. You can pick and choose which sources or interviewers better appeal to your partisan biases. I won't choose for you, as you might dismiss it based on the source. That said, he's spoken with everyone from Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now!" to the Hoover Institution.

You might consider how your framing of super weird Russian propaganda applies to his lectures and interviews.
by DannyBee | 2025-09-29 11:17:48+00:00
Ignoring all the other problems with this article that have been pointed out around definitions, it also claims that lockless is slow anyway. Without giving literally any data.

Good news: it's not slow

Let's take rust, which has an oddly thriving ecosystem of lockless mpsc/mpmc/etc queues, and lots of benchmarks of them in lots of configurations.

The fastest ones easily do at least 30 million elements/second in most configurations. The "slowest" around 5-10.

So the fastest is doing 33ns per element and the slowest is 100ns.

Which is probably why the article offers no data. It's not actually slow. It's actually really fast when done well.
by yazantapuz | 2025-09-29 11:18:48+00:00
What a nice surprise to find this on HN! I live in Puerto Madryn, the city celebrates its anniversary in honor of the arrival of the first Welsh settlers. Around Chubut, it’s pretty common to see road and tourist signage in Spanish, Welsh, Aoniken and English — especially along Provincial Route 25, which connects the coast to the mountains in the west. It more or less follows the path the welsh took from the Chubut river valley to Esquel and Trevelin.
by shortsunblack | 2025-09-29 11:19:54+00:00
KVM was made because Citrix made moves against Xen that spooked Linux community, hence KVM. Then Red Hat ran with it and based its virtualization platform on it.

Citrix involvement has subsided in meantime and the ecosystem is much healthier (governance is actually under Linux Foundation), but the damage was done.

Xen to this day lacks in features, also.
by Gravityloss | 2025-09-29 11:20:48+00:00
There are also different kinds of disposable bags. So the picture is a bit more continuous than "tote vs disposable".

Over here we have as the default grocery store bag, heavier semi disposable ones that you have to pay for. People don't throw them away really after single use almost ever. People use them as garbage bucket liners in the kitchen, for gym clothes, packing anything etc. You can fold them and store them for later use.

The thin small flimsy very disposable ones I think are only available on request from the cashier, or for packing vegetables. Or then you can buy those in a roll.

I think the key is that if you both paid for it and it's genuinely useful, you're not going to throw it away.
by watwut | 2025-09-29 11:22:28+00:00
I used to read awful lot about them in a period of my life.

> 76% posted disturbing content of guns and threatening messages.

This is them provably being bullies as judged by their own social media accounts.

> 60% reported being bullied in-person or online

This is them claiming to be bullied at some point in their life. Elliot Roger claimed to be rejected by women while what happened was that he self isolated entirely for whole his life. This was similar to other guys - a person with track record of violence or threats feeling bullied by other people basically existing.

Compare the two claims, really.
by codingdave | 2025-09-29 11:22:37+00:00
> I told it that it had “10 hours” and nothing to do, and to use that time

This is silly. AI does not have feelings or thoughts or ambitions or goals. We inject our own in there, and it bounces them off the weights that came from its training and produces output. So giving it instructions to do nothing to for 10 hours and then expecting something other than a wordy version of "nothing" just shows a misunderstanding of what an LLM is.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-29 11:23:13+00:00
> Sorting dates: This is why there is an international standard of having YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss in the order we have it.

That would be great, but this ISO is just one of the standards, and there are still regional standards as well.

And that's still ignoring the end-user. In Europe for example, humans might create filenames with date in format dd.mm, e.g. "Report 25.01.xls"

A system attempting to sort this intelligently would likely assume this is a decimal number, as it has zero context for it.

It's just slightly worse than the lack of consistent UTC-usage of systems, with the mixed attempts to correct data to local timezone (or not) depending on application...
by bux93 | 2025-09-29 11:23:23+00:00
And this is only becoming worse in recent years. "Contact your administrator", "We are working on updates.." - I recently spent 10 minutes trying to find the actual location a powerpoint was saved to since every iteration of 'open location'/'open in sharepoint'/'copy link' just resulted in URLs with GUIDs or opening the document again rather than an actual path.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-29 11:24:14+00:00
I had to give this some thought. It's one of those "I know it's true; but not sure why" things.

I believe that it happened when I found out that I'm "on the spectrum," fairly late in life (in my forties).

Before that, my work was "scratching an itch," but after, it was "doing what I love."
by GistNoesis | 2025-09-29 11:24:34+00:00
Have you tried some generic pathfinding algorithm like D star lite on the graph with heuristic being the hamming distance from current node to the start ?

For the 4x4 board there is only 2^16 nodes, and 8*2^16 edges, so you can materialize the graph and get away with brute-forcing the whole graph.

But for bigger boards you won't be able to materialize the whole graph.

Maybe there are better heuristics to be found than the simple hamming distance. You should try have an AI look for them, by comparing the performance of a RL path planning vs the basic heuristic.
by K0balt | 2025-09-29 11:25:03+00:00
Perhaps there are some narrow and practical applications for this technology vis a vis disabilities or industrial control, but this reads like the engineering fever-dream of everyone wired up with VR headsets and bodysuits, consuming “immersive content” instead of living actual experiences.

Until we have an actual holodeck, virtual reality will be an impoverished shadow of actual life, and I really wish people would stop promoting the idea that it’s some kind of goal; to interact with and consume signals instead of experiencing life in your own skin.

Even a perfect holodeck is a weak stand-in. Without risk there is no texture to life.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-09-29 11:25:17+00:00
I was recently privileged to see video of my long-deceased grandfather who passed away when I was a toddler as a little boy, laughing and swimming in the Thames with my great grandfather and great great grandfather. What a strange thing that is. It felt very familiar but surreal at the same time. I wondered what the moment would be like if I could go back to that moment and tell that 10 year old boy that I'm his grandchild and that there was an entire lifetime of adventure, love, age, and ill health ahead of him, and that one day he'd only exist to me and the world in the stories of his temperament.

And for millions of years, there are similar men. The 19th century provides me with some portraits from archives. The 18th and 17th century has just names.

I will blow away too in time, and my grandchildren can watch the lego engineering youtube videos I uploaded to Youtube when I was 9, and wonder what it would be like to meet me, too.

Sobering.
by closewith | 2025-09-29 11:25:22+00:00
> The country has capacity to engage in intensive farming of several means which we currently do not because of animal rights concerns, lack of manpower etc. In a blockade scenario animal rights go out the window to a starving populace. Food waste is addressed in several means and we start engaging in battery farming and crop yields yes move to calorific content vs serving the Ritz their flav d'jour.

Not to be rude, but your Government, MOD, and think-tanks disagree with you. The latent capacity of UK agriculture is estimated to be able to feed approximately 80-90% of the population, which for context is similar to the amount of food available (including external aid) in South Sudan now.

> And let's not pretend NI is included under any sensible scenario other than the British military blockading and subsuming control of RoI. There's no scenario where a blockade of Britain as an island would leave us "struggling to feed NI with RoI being supported by the European block" as another absolutist.

The UK does not have the ability to militarily conquer Ireland, let alone survive the consequences, so this is, well, delusional.

I honestly do not think you are well informed enough to form a valid opinion on this topic, which explains your reactive and emotion-driven comments
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-29 11:25:29+00:00
Listen, I don't disagree with any of that. I think a lot of confusion is happening because people think I'm talking about how to inform consumer choices better or what exactly about either OS to fix to make them meet the standards that I'm trying to describe. What I think is very important if not one of the most important things facing us as a species is that we need a better mobile OS option than what we have. And you don't have to convince me on GrapheneOS. I am in the process of moving to Android and F-Droid until I can afford a Pixel phone with GrapheneOS.

What I am attempting and apparently failing to describe effectively is that this excellent option we have now (GrapheneOS + F-Droid) was in NO way accessible to any general user of mobile phones since their use has become widespread. What we have had since 2008 is two shitty options, and my point was that Apple has actively done more to keep users safe than Google has. No one seems to be arguing on that at all, but there are many people pointing out the failing of Apple's efforts over the years. Does that make them a complete failure? Absolutely not in my eyes, but I'm not going to tell you what to think.

So, I feel like Android's ecosystem set us up for a HUGE minefield from various entry points from an American's perspective by allowing such an open system into the wild. It has been Early Access level of quality up until recently I would argue. GrapheneOS + F-Droid is safe enough to protect idiots from themselves, probably. If not now, then with time.

How in the world anyone here is saying Google's hands-off approach was the way to go... well it is how we got our acceptable option, finally, but surely you don't think that every mobile phone company with a custom fork of Android kept its users more safe than Apple did?
by energy123 | 2025-09-29 11:25:34+00:00
> their interaction with your product is a tiny slice of their life

Low cognitive load should be a major goal, and that doesn't mean the app can't be feature rich. Make the app very fast, or at least hide latency from the user. No esoteric icons, instead default to plain text. If you have icons, no artificial delay between mouse-over and tooltip. No smooth scrolling. No excessive whitespace. No elements that move around while the page loads. No scrolljacking. And actually use your app so a random user like me can't find multiple bugs in it.

Chatgpt website is a good example of how to tick some of these boxes to achieve low cognitive load, despite being feature rich. It's very fast, and mousing over an icon displays the tooltip immediately. Although they have a few UI bugs that they need to fix, I would give them an 8.5/10. Gemini website is an example of how to tax cognitive load despite being feature poor and "simple". It's very slow for large contexts, it scrolljacks, and it has numerous bugs. I would give them a 2/10, partly due to the fact that it hasn't noticeably improved for over a year since I started using it, despite being one of their flagship products.
by wiseowise | 2025-09-29 11:25:42+00:00
> browser based experiences can be even better than native apps in some cases

Not in some cases, in most cases. Clicking shared Google maps link easily opens correct spot on Web, but redirects me to the App Store for God knows reason why on iOS. If I ever need to interact with a new resource, I go check if there's a web site first. If there's no website but there's an app and I don't really need the resource I just drop it altogether without checking the app.

The only apps, besides built-in ones, that I use are chat, bank clients and some home app automation tools that would be problematic to operate as a web app.
by styanax | 2025-09-29 11:25:50+00:00
> Spreadsheets are a fundamentally important tool—the original "killer app" for personal computers such as cellphones

I do not agree with your supposition. Like the parent using the G1 as I did (and still have it), never used a spreadsheet app on any of my many, many phones both personal and work. I am/was a systems engineer by trade.

> Last I checked, there was no spreadsheet in F-Droid

The most popular viewer is the LibreOffice one[1], which can handle ODS and XLS (amongst many others) formats. You may have meant editing/creating which I agree they're not around. See item (1) above though.

> largely because it's a relatively small ecosystem, and most Android users still aren't using F-Droid

Or possibly, a large number of users simply do not need or use generic spreadsheet apps on their mobile devices, which is why I disagree with your opening statement as I am a direct counterexample.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/