MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-16 20:52:00+00:00
> Am I depersonalizing by sharing my problems with my stuffed animal or my journal?

you're strengthening your personality with these activities. neither your journal nor your stuffed animal (cute :) ) respond to you with shallow recreations of thought - they allow you to process your internal thoughts and feelings in an alternative and self-reinforcing way.

> ELIZA has existed in emacs for a long, long time.

ELIZA doesn't really give advice, does it? it's a fun toy, and if there's any serious use for it, it's similar to journaling or rubber-ducking in that it's just getting you to talk about things yourself.
by juliendorra | 2025-09-16 20:52:36+00:00
Yes, there has been nice geniuses (ie. people with extreme talent), Mozart was for example a good person. Da Vinci (if a little sycophantic when young) was not unhinged at all nor abusive and was appreciated.

But since romantism we have built this image of the genius as necessarily abusive.

I’m sure abusive genius are very visible (by definition?) and that abusive people tend to monopolize more ressources too. (Like these tenured professors that use their students to advance their own career)
by t0bia_s | 2025-09-16 20:53:08+00:00
Robert Fico, Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Solomon Pena, Fumio Kishida, Andriy Parubiy, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Shinzo Abe, Jair Bolsonaro...

All of them represents of right orientated politics and are a victims of assassination in recent years.
by klibertp | 2025-09-16 20:53:20+00:00
No, the problem here is not being dead drunk and immobile; it's everything before that. Even if you drink strong alcohol, it's going to take a while before you're that intoxicated - in the meantime, you have enough time to vibe-code Windows ME, so to speak (IOW, to drunk drive, throw fists at random people or harass them, get lost and robbed, etc...). People can spend long hours being drunk before collapsing, which is basically begging for trouble, almost no matter what they decide to do during that time.

As for mental health issues worsening due to THC - that's true, but alcohol has a much higher probability of causing or exacerbating such problems. On the other hand, the therapeutic use of THC has seen much better results than alcohol. If both happen to be legal in that jurisdiction, then banning weed but not alcohol really doesn't make sense. Further, even if possession is illegal, smoking itself (without inhaling, or however that went) isn't against the law in many places.

It really just seems arbitrary and strange, unless there was a psychiatric evaluation that we're not aware of, or this happened somewhere where weed is very strictly illegal (think alcohol in Saudi Arabia-level).
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-16 20:53:23+00:00
My original post fell short in that I criticized Doctorow without offering substance or examples. [Ironically, this is exactly what I accused him of!]

Later, in response to various people here, I wrote a more substantive critique, which I stand by. And I stand by my original opinion: Doctorow is a talented and entertaining writer, but I can't take him seriously.
by anonymars | 2025-09-16 20:53:30+00:00
Well if we're being picky, technically the car itself doesn't have to deal with the hazards it has created, rather everyone else does.

The point is you can't just "stop" a plane and wait for someone to figure things out (https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9449023?hl=en). Whatever the difficulties in dealing with an abnormal situation in a car, it is strictly much more difficult to deal with them in a vehicle constantly fighting the homicidal urge to fall out of the sky.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-16 20:53:37+00:00
They treat you as you deserved to be treated: As a serf. You let them stomp all over you and still come crawling back to plead with them to let you bank with them. Even though there's hundreds of banks you can switch to.

If anything even remotely similar happened to me, I'll instantly close all accounts and move my business to another bank.
by righthand | 2025-09-16 20:53:59+00:00
I’ve had this same idea, down to the functionality and even using a Samsung FlipZ (I believe it’s possible FlipZ phones support Linux) foldable chip to achieve it!

I was just revisitng the idea yesterday but building a foldable clamshell Gameboy SP like case instead.

IMO you only really need a 4-inch square screen. Now I know it’s possible. I would even take a 4-inch screen device without a keyboard or cellular modem.
by ac29 | 2025-09-16 20:54:01+00:00
> except its not a spoofed email. It's really from Google

Read the text shown in the screenshot in an article. I am 99.9% sure that is not from Google. The wording screams scam to me, most likely from someone who is not a native English speaker.

Among many many other red flags, it specifically says not to try and change your password for 6-12 hours and to not share the details of the email with anyone.
by foofoo12 | 2025-09-16 20:54:02+00:00
I don't know what the Google Authenticator team was thinking, if at all, when they did that deplorable implementation of the sync feature.

One click on the "backup codes" on main screen and boom, no confirmation or anything. Your keys are in the cloud. I couldn't find a place to undo it. Article says it's enabled by default now. This is shameful.
by breppp | 2025-09-16 20:54:04+00:00
Which is completely based on trying to analyze the reactions of politicians to an attack that included mass killings of civilians, intense brutality and mass rape. surprise surprise these are filled with anger and do not read like a swedish minister reaction to migrant birds. These are not different than the USA post 9/11.

Even if you take these statements, and add everything that happened on the ground for the last two years, comparing it to the Armenian, Rawandian or Jewish genocides is a joke of epic proportions. It's a very minor war even in Middle Eastern terms, compared to the recent Syrian or Yemen civil wars or the American involvement in Iraq
by user34283 | 2025-09-16 20:54:09+00:00
No more deserving than any other of the crypto cultists.

Whether you fall for an elaborate phish, or if your Ponzi-token predictably loses value after your 'investment' was cashed out as an earlier adopter's profit, it's all the same to me.

Alternatively your hardware wallet bricks itself or three of your disks fail at once.

I don't care. You lost the money when you first exchanged it for worthless tokens.
by okane | 2025-09-16 20:54:11+00:00
If your new APIs use the same endpoint names and the same request/response schema (same field names, types, shape), then swapping the base URL in your fetch calls could get you most of the way there without touching your visualization components.

In practice I get that there’s usually some drift, like maybe a field is renamed or you have different error handling. Depending on how strictly your front-end components assume the old schema, you’ll need to update those areas.
by gahikr | 2025-09-16 20:54:13+00:00
I'm skeptical of science publications I see on social media especially when they make grand claims, but this seems to be interesting. I don't have a deep enough physics/topology background to be able to assess this paper though. I know some theories of everything end up non-verifiable or predict anything you want it to predict. Any opinions from people with physics/topology backgrounds?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-16 20:54:28+00:00
Maybe we’re seeing selection pressure against those prone to addictive cycles of social-media influenced misinformation?

Like, anti-vaxers died at higher rates in Covid [1]. This will continue across disease outbreaks, particularly ones for which we have near-comprehensive vaccines like measles. And given antivax sensibility is heritable (through parenting, not genes), one would expect this to stabilize the population over several generations to one that doesn’t have this defect.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10123459/
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-16 20:54:46+00:00
> It's because they couldn't stomach being led by someone who wasn't white.

I tend to think that many white people voted for Obama in part because he was black. Like, we elected this guy, can we now finally put aside the question of racism? And then, somehow, instead of putting aside the question of race, it was dialled up to 11, with all these diversity quotas and DEI initiatives.

Btw you too are guilty of furthering this division: your instant reaction to criticism of Obama was to play the racist card! Of course, the only reason someone can criticise mr Obama is because they don't like the color of his skin!
by andyprevalsky | 2025-09-16 20:54:58+00:00
aint no bots here sir

This is different because you don't need to jump through hoops w/ recruiting agencies or spend a bunch of time looking through your employees or personal networks to find the right hires, and the lead verification part is automated too!

It essentially shortcuts all the hiring headache, and lets you just focus on meeting highly qualified candidates that fit your JD without all the people that get in the middle of that process and bloat it.
by infotainment | 2025-09-16 20:55:18+00:00
The last mile problem is only a problem because of poor layout. Build homes and work near transit nodes (instead of in the middle of nowhere) and there isn't a problem in the first place.

> Problems like traffic waves and gridlock go away when all cars are driving themselves.

How would that make those problems go away? It could probably slightly alleviate them in marginal cases, but any given road has a finite throughput limitation, and once it is reached, it wouldn't matter even if every robo-driver were perfectly synchronized.
by gspencley | 2025-09-16 20:55:53+00:00
How is that a refutation?

If I want to understand any position I would look for first sources. Say I want to understand why Russian invaded Ukraine, I would seek out Russian sources. When I try to understand the Palestinian position, I seek out Palestinian sources.

The beautiful thing about intellectual honesty and openness is that you don't have to agree with any position. You can expose yourself to things that deeply conflict with your personal values and walk away with a deeper understanding of why you value what you value, and how to refute ideas that you strongly disagree with.

To dismiss a source because it is Israeli ironically gives fuel to the antisemitism charge. You're saying that the very reason to dismiss it, to not even bother entertaining its arguments is because it is Israeli and no other reason. Beyond that, you are even arguing that any claims of prejudice can be dismissed outright on the basis of one thing that one Israeli Minster once said [allegedly].

That is the very definition of prejudice.
by neilv | 2025-09-16 20:55:58+00:00
I've heard the theory that humor is actually a censor mechanism, to inhibit learning nonsense.

So, IIUC, if the censor identifies something nonsensical, it throws the amusement switch, to keep your brain from integrating the wrong thing.

While we might think that the presentations of fact in the article are informative, the humor-saturated prose could be a good way to cloud any thinking about the topic.

Does this mean it's OK to mention expanding the Florida Everglades? One could plan out a path of bulldozing, excavation, and flood fills, given an existing map of gerrymandering for national elections.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 20:56:03+00:00
> Something like Boost for C++, or Apache Commons for Java.

Honestly I wish Python worked this way too. The reason people use Requests so much is because urllib is so painful. Changes to a first-party standard library have to be very conservative, which ends up leaving stuff in place that nobody wants to use any more because they have higher standards now. It'd be better to keep the standard library to a minimum needed more or less just to make the REPL work, and have all of that be "builtin" the way that `sys` is; then have the rest available from the developers (including a default "full-fat" distribution), but in a few separately-obtainable pieces and independently versioned from the interpreter.

And possibly maintained by a third party like Boost, yeah. I don't know how important that is or isn't.
Show HN: Visual Ansible EE Builder
by tolarewaju3 | 2025-09-16 20:56:14+00:00
Hey everyone. After fiddling with creating execution environments, I created a visual EE builder!

Instead of hand-crafting YAML, you can:

* Choose from a few starter presets (e.g. Basic Automation, Network, Cloud)

* Pick a base image, add collections, Python deps, and system packages

* Export a ready-to-build package with one click

The idea is to make it easier (and less error-prone) to spin up custom EEs, especially for demos, labs, or quick prototyping.

It's at the MVP stage and probably has bugs so I'm open to any feedback.
by worik | 2025-09-16 20:56:33+00:00
> This is a culture issue with developers who find it OK to have hundreds of (transitive) dependencies, and then follow processes that, for all intents and purposes, blindly auto update them

I do not know about NPM. But in Rust this is common practice.

Very hard to avoid. The core of Rust is very thin, to get anything done typically involves dozens of crates, all pulled in at compile time from any old developer implicitly trusted.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-16 20:56:35+00:00
Nord Stream 1 started operations in 2011. For 11 years money was flowing and the Russian army was in terrible shape in 2022. Now, without the Nord Stream money, it is in better shape.

When the pipeline was sabotaged, no gas and no money were flowing anyway, which makes it even more absurd. There is a very high likelihood that the front lines would be in the exact same place if Nord Stream had not been sabotaged.

Except of course, the EU would have had more leverage in negotiating LNG deals with the US and Qatar rather than making emergency deals.

EDIT: Downvoted while the Ukrainian transit pipelines were open from 2014-2025 and yielded Russian transit fees. And while Nord Stream was built partly because Ukraine stole Russian transit gas in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
by elmo2you | 2025-09-16 20:56:56+00:00
Ever seen XKCD #927? (https://xkcd.com/927)

Joking aside, I don't think there ever really was a lack of initiatives by entities (communities, companies, whatever) to create some sort of standard library (we typically tend to call them frameworks). There's just simply too much diversity, cultures and subcultures within the whole JavaScript sphere to ever get a global consensus on what that "standard" library then should look like. Not to mention the commercial entities with very real stakes in things they might not want to relinquish to some global unity consensus (as it may practically hurt their current bottom line).
by Animats | 2025-09-16 20:58:34+00:00
Waymo will probably get access to the drop-off area after a while. One step at a time seems to be the Waymo way.

Waymo at airports could work really well with automatic dispatching. They already have an app running in the customer's phone. It should be aware of when someone with a reservation gets off an airplane, and how close they're getting to the pickup point. With good coordination, as the customer heads to the arrival lanes, a Waymo pulls out of short-term parking and heads for the meeting point.

A few more years, and humanoid robots will put the luggage in the trunk.
by michael-0acf4 | 2025-09-16 20:58:40+00:00
Yes! Good point.

I've been using Syncthing for a while too, but my main issue was that it's really hard to express a network of nodes with it. Both locally (on the same machine) and across the network. For example, setting up a topology like A <--> B --> C <--> D ends up being more painful than it should be while allowing some nodes to be on the same machine.

I've been reading about consensus algorithms too, which got me interested in tackling this problem myself and try making it as simple as possible mainly out of curiosity. Also, this project is designed to be storage-agnostic from the get-go (s3 is on the way).
by klik99 | 2025-09-16 20:59:33+00:00
Yeah, if you're a high profile target then you need extra layers of security, but for regular folks that one weird trick is enough to make you just enough of an annoyance to make another target preferred.

But in a world with Pegasus, and telecoms in smaller vacation countries selling off SS7, etc, etc - if someone good really wants to target you normal security protocols aren't going to cut it.
by _dain_ | 2025-09-16 20:59:49+00:00
Jobs are aggregated into gigantic boards like Indeed and LinkedIn, and the market is national or international. You can choose among thousands of companies, but you're also just one potential applicant among millions. The cost of applying tends to zero -> number of applications increases. The only way to succeed is by sending out an absurd number of CVs. Numbers that would have seemed inconceivable a generation ago before everything moved online and globalized. It's normal to send out hundreds or thousands before getting hired.

Economists look at this and see only an improvement in market efficiency, but they're ignoring the emotional toll. Reject, reject, reject, reject, drip drip drip every day like water torture. It's the same thing on dating apps. No wonder people give up.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-16 21:01:25+00:00
Oh, the example I gave is still a corporation for tax purposes, for sure. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But it doesn’t have shares in the sense that can be bought or sold or even profited from upon redemption, unless I guess the coop were to liquidate in which case the value they get for their membership interest might be higher or lower than they paid. (It’s highly unlikely ever to liquidate - it’s been responsibly managed financially for over 50 years.)

They only have member/owners who are entitled to exactly one vote by virtue of having made the rather nominal member investment (and not having redeemed that investment after leaving the coop), or having joined too soon before the vote to have yet missed the deadline to make that investment.

When I say rather nominal member investment, I mean $100, or $10 for people receiving certain low-income government benefits. (They also have a once-per-lifetime non-refundable joining fee of $25 or $5 respectively.) Nothing like the $100k example Nate gave in his comment for a dominant shareholder not happy with the prospect of being outvoted by others with much smaller investments.
by rightbyte | 2025-09-16 21:01:29+00:00
Ye. I called my bank to unblock my Mastercard after they blocked it due to Blizzard charging 10USD or something for Star Craft. I just told them my name and they unblocked it.

On another occasion the bank called me regarding my house insurance and asked me to identify myself with their dongle.

Like, there is a wonder I have any money at all in my account. But then again, giving away plastic cards with a magic number on that you gave to strangers for them to withdraw an amount of their choosing from your account was the norm for decades ...

Maybe the wisdom is "Security through no security"?
by strcat | 2025-09-16 21:01:42+00:00
> They have different priorities, granted.

They do not provide current privacy and security patches. They don't do the bare minimum to protect user privacy and security.

> That's going to depend on your threat model. Many people don't feel that having an unlocked bootloader is a significant threat.

Not supporting verified boot is a small part of how they reduce privacy and security. Lagging many months and even years behind on basic patches for vulnerabilities is a far bigger problem.

Information from the founder of the Divested projects:

Issues with /e/: https://codeberg.org/divested-mobile/divestos-website/raw/co...

ASB update history: https://web.archive.org/web/20241231003546/https://divestos....

Chromium update history: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119212018/https://divestos....

Chromium update summary: https://infosec.exchange/@divested/112815308307602739

Article from Mike Kuketz about /e/ including covering user tracking in their update client, still using Google services with privileged integration into the OS and major delays for important privacy/security patches:

https://kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-nich...

Apple and Google both provide support for offline speech-to-text using local models. Apple uses it by default Users can configure it to be fully offline. /e/ sends the user's audio to OpenAI which is hidden away in their terms of service:

https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using...

> Even you seem to agree that we're relying too much on Google's goodwill.

That's not what the post says at all, and it's not clear how it relates to talking about other AOSP-based operating systems.

GrapheneOS is on the 2025-10-01 patch level and has access to the Android Security Bulletins for October, November and December with the option to ship the patches early via special release channels where sources are published once the embargo ends. We'll also have early access to the quarterly and yearly releases soon, with the option to release previews of those too once that process starts. We didn't have early access to quarterly and yearly releases in time for the Android 16 QPR1 port but should have it for Android 16 QPR2. We're going to be significantly less impacted by AOSP delays than others. We can still complain about a delay in something which was supposed to be pushed on September 3rd not being done yet. It wasn't the topic here.
by mxfh | 2025-09-16 21:01:50+00:00
The carrier host fuselage would need huge controls surfaces anyways, could just use them as normal wings when flying for itself with way less drag.

Or just do self mounting Multicopter using the big wing as lift surface for the long haul.

They already use propellers for mounting anyway, its wild out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gUm_W1z28
by lawlessone | 2025-09-16 21:01:54+00:00
I could see this being used within an engine to keep creating a game's environment on the fly.

Perhaps with seed values and something that says "after point XYZ transition to a suburb instead of city"

Not having a whole game inside the model like some have talked about with Genie, since the models still have an object permanence problem. Actual logic , a story, a players inventory etc would still be controlled by regular code and the devs
by jrflowers | 2025-09-16 21:02:23+00:00
> aint no bots here sir

That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian

And these two have been waiting years to comment but were finally moved to for first time

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7
by jchw | 2025-09-16 21:02:42+00:00
Yeah, it probably has something to do with this. In X11 sessions, the display server does not typically handle scaling. Instead, the desktop environments provide scaling preferences to UI toolkits that then do the scaling themselves. In Wayland, the display server does handle scaling.

In both X11 and Wayland, you should usually see most applications following your scaling preferences nowadays. In Wayland sessions, you can ensure that applications always appear at the correct size, though at the cost of "legacy" applications appearing blurry. This behavior is configured in the Display Settings in KDE Plasma.

Also possibly useful: if you like the KDE Plasma session, it has a built-in magnifier; just hold Ctrl+Meta and use the scroll wheel.