MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by losfair | 2025-09-10 02:13:43+00:00
> Firstly, can there be an easier way to stop a microVM mid execution in this single executable bottlefire format and then rerun that and it would start mid execution. (something akin to how criu does it?)

Not yet - Firecracker supports snapshotting so this should be doable though!

> if something like microvm could be run in normal cloud infrastructure?

Some cloud providers - like GCP and DigitalOcean - do support nested virtualization, and they work pretty well with Firecracker. Using VM migration to run stable workloads on spot instances sounds very interesting :)
by Edman274 | 2025-09-10 02:13:53+00:00
That's true, the arguments were also made for television, movies, radio, and fiction books. However, during the times of movies, television, radio, and written books being introduced, the trend line of student performance seemed to be going upward. It now seems to be trending downward. It's harder to convincingly make the argument that cell phones are no worse than TVs when student performance was increasing during the TV era and is decreasing during the smartphone era. Even if the correlation is totally spurious, it's an uphill climb to ignore it.
by Bjartr | 2025-09-10 02:14:00+00:00
I mean, I definitely have some money invested in gold to hedge against partial collapse. Certainly if all of society crumbles to the point contract law goes caput, it doesn't mean a damn thing.

In the case things "merely" get fairly shitty, but society continues to more or less function, then gold has historically shown good staying power in terms of it being a highly sought after good, despite lack of actual function in many cases.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-10 02:14:04+00:00
> Which line says they’re voting

This one: "The same folks who clapped and cheered as Musk revved a chainsaw".

That refers to an event this year after Trump took office, during the Conservative Public Action Conference (CPAC) where Elon Musk made an appearance, then on behalf of the Trump administration. (The falling-out where accused Trump of being a pedophile was later.)

With that context, how would you characterize the kind of voter who (A) bothers to tune into CPAC after the election and (B) claps and cheers at the spectacle?

It's reasonable to assume they still voted for the guy who said monopolies weren't a problem [0] and sided with monopoly agribusinesses over small farmers [1].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/business/trump-economy-mo...

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-ways-trump-admin...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-10 02:14:31+00:00
> You've picked a really weird hill to die on here.

The original objection is only about implications. My hill is similar in size and shape, about implications.

> Coordinated disclosure exists and means what we're describing it to mean: a disclosure where the researcher attempts to reach out to the vendor to remediate prior to publication.

> That you've latched on to a specific opinion about what "coordination" means that excludes that behavior doesn't change how the term works in the security field, what it means, or whether or not it's preferable to "responsible disclosure" to describe that set of actions.

Responsible disclosure also exists and means what we're describing etc.

In practice both terms are treated as basically the same. If we only cared about what already exists and is roughly correct, then both sides of this conversation would be wrong. Both sides are latching onto a specific opinion about what a word means, one side "responsible" the other side "coordinated". So unless you're calling me and tptacek wrong to care, you need a better reason than this.
by stepupmakeup | 2025-09-10 02:14:58+00:00
Video quality apparently slightly degrades as youtube constantly re-encodes/processes things and there's at least one well-known example of a Neil Cicierega video being completely unplayable https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/911080613733580801?s=20 (not this specific video, but this has happened in the past)
by rayiner | 2025-09-10 02:14:58+00:00
The problem with that “culture” explanation is that white kids in America do fine in international educational comparisons. In the 2018 PISA assessment, 15 year old white american students were near the top in reading (behind only Singapore and some Chinese SEZs) and in the top echelon in science (comparable to Japan). Their weakest performance was math, where they’re around the middle, behind the top asian countries but only modestly behind Finland: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2018/pdf/PISA2018_compi....

Insofar as the US had a “culture averse to education,” surely that affects white americans as much as it affects anyone else. But, on average, they are not the ones who are behind their peers internationally.
by throwawaysleep | 2025-09-10 02:15:17+00:00
Eh, it is more that tech is so cheap that the money saved switching isn’t worth the time spent to retrain the workforce.

There are free alternatives to Microsoft Office, but you would never get your money back using them in a corporate environment, as with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, people come knowing those things.

The cost of software is overwhelmingly not the cash price.
by jojule | 2025-09-10 02:15:41+00:00
After 25 years of building web frameworks at Vaadin, we asked: what if the AI is in the driver’s seat? Would we even need a UI?

In Computer–Human Interaction (CHI), the AI runs a business process. When it needs something from a human, it creates a purpose-built UI in real time, adapting as you interact.

No code. No pre-built app. Just AI “speaking” in UI.

Demo: computerhumaninteraction.com

Questions for HN: • Best use cases you can think of? • Which AI models would work best for this? (everything we’ve tried so far is either too slow or too dumb) • If CHI creates something innovative, please share the link to prompt here (you can copy it from the demo after it yields results)
Show HN: Sayathing – Open-Source platform that gives your text a voice
by buglungtung | 2025-09-10 02:16:18+00:00
I just explored the Kokoro TTS model last week to generate audio for my needs. There are many cool projects already existing (Kokoro-FastAPI, kokoro-web), but they miss one of my needs (queuing audio generation) so I decided to build a simple one with queuing.

Link: https://github.com/kanthorlabs/sayathing

The most highlighted feature is async processing with a background task queue backed by SQLite.

The second feature is that audio will be saved as base64, and it’s very convenient for me to integrate with other systems in my homelab.

Let's try and enjoy it.
by EasyMark | 2025-09-10 02:16:48+00:00
WHile I don't expect privacy, I want it, and I want other people to really think about it and not want public surveillance as well. We should have some expectation of privacy out in public and not allow a loophole of "oh, but we were looking for someone else but also saw you", it's a huge loophole with essentially no limits. A warrant should cover one "thing" a person, group, etc. Anything else grabbed in the process should not be admissible in court or even be used by the police.
by legitster | 2025-09-10 02:16:56+00:00
The entire commodity farming industry is built around exporting en masse to developing countries. In very few industries does it make sense to export industrial inputs at dollars on the ton to places like China.

It's a miracle of technology that it's even possible. Let alone the government subsidies, nitrate imports, immigrant labor, and major corporate consolidation that it requires.

Needless to say, this current administration is the perfect storm of every policy needed to destroy this domestic industry.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-10 02:17:02+00:00
Well strategically in an economic SHTF situation at least we could theoretically feed our populace with the surplus.

But we all know that realistically, at this point, the people in charge would just sell it for a pittance or dump it to manipulate market prices even if 70% of the country was starving— because this is the kind of society we’ve all created.
by sksinx | 2025-09-10 02:17:18+00:00
> and there the evidence is a wreck; extraordinarily unlikely to bear any fruit

Is there any new reading here? I used to follow this stuff much more closely a decade ago, but came to the conclusion most scientists will go to great lengths to avoid saying some races (if they don’t barrage you with pedantry regarding what race is) are on average different in some axis than others. There were a few out there who were able to say the politically incorrect thing only because objective science was strongly in their favor, but they still had the full force of the consensus academia coming down on them.

I lost interest when, much like history, it became obvious the field was too political for any real truth to be found. Maybe in 100 years or so.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-09-10 02:17:32+00:00
What always shocks me on these threads is the naiveté a bunch of Über privileged tech workers have about the job market in general.

This is it folks. Corp screws you when they can. Welcome to the machine.

For most working people, showing up at the office (or place of work) is the absolute minimum requirement.

People here seem to talk about what legal right a company has to let people go just because they didnt want to shop up at work, at the office

If you go to a restaurant, do you worry about how many hours the waiter, the chef, etc had to travel in the morning to put food in your face?

It is not for you like. It is doing what your employer requires.
by wolrah | 2025-09-10 02:17:40+00:00
Is there any actual scientific study saying anything either way?

I'm aware of a lot of anecdotal evidence in favor of e-ink displays being easier on the eyes than normal LCDs in some way, my own personal experience included, but I will happily admit I'm wrong if there are studies indicating otherwise.

I like my Kindle and DIY e-ink weather display but I'm not religious about it. I wouldn't be shocked to find out it was just a weird placebo thing because it's different.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 02:19:16+00:00
Yep. Gujarat BJP. State cooperatives are captured by the ruling party of a state.

That said, Amul is just one of 200k cooperatives in India. Verka (Punjab/HP), Nandini (Karnataka), Milma (Kerala), AAVIN (Tamil Nadu), and others generate Amul level profits and are managed by opposition parties.

The issue is dairy processors in the US tend to take 70% of profit, versus 20-30% in India, because most processors are themselves cooperative owned.

Farmers also tend to "go it alone" in the US, but in South Asia the whole village collaborates. Even Punjabi farmers here in Californa collaborate with each other on capex investments, but the Anglo farmers go it alone.

A cooperative ag model would really help Pakistan as well, but that would require destroying the military's monopoly on various segments of the Ag industry which they won't give up.
by credit_guy | 2025-09-10 02:19:18+00:00
When a big tech wants to build some huge datacenters, where they plan to put hundreds of thousands of ultra-expensive GPUs, they want to run those GPUs as close to 100% of the time as possible. Every hour the GPUs don't run costs them money. From the point of view of Microsoft, having an SMR next to a datacenter makes perfect sense. Solar and wind can do the job, if coupled with batteries and/or natural gas. But than you need a grid operator. If all you need is electricity for a datacenter, and you don't care about being connected to the rest of the grid, then you want as simple a solution as possible. And an SMR promises to be just that, a turn-key solution to get continuous and constant electricity.
by tptacek | 2025-09-10 02:19:27+00:00
This is very actively studied, and the idea that it's somehow suppressed in the academy is another pervasive Internet myth --- put it on the shelf alongside "every employer would use IQ tests to hire but they're illegal" (they most certainly are not).

I think what some people are noticing is that there aren't splashy results to confirm, like, The Bell Curve. Yeah, that's because The Bell Curve was really dumb; it's from the phlogiston era of this science.
by sgc | 2025-09-10 02:19:30+00:00
My daughter had no textbook for Freshman physics, which is obviously the hardest class she is going to have in high school (or top 2). It was ridiculous. We wound up supplementing learning materials and paying a tutor, but it all felt like making up for piss-poor course structure. Her (very intelligent but distracted) teacher barely knew where to send me for supplemental materials. And this is in the "advanced" high school that is very hard to get into.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-10 02:19:38+00:00
I don't think that particular measure would help but NPM are the people who brought us the LPad crisis and their wikipedia page has a long string of security failures mentioned on it. Given this, it seems likely their attitude is "we don't care, we don't have to" and their relative success as the world's largest package manager seems to echo that (not that I have any idea whether they make any money).
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-10 02:19:48+00:00
>> Why do you think reading the agreement is notionally mandatory before the software becomes functional?

> Most paid software generally makes you acknowledge that you have read and accepted the terms of the license before first use, and includes a clause that continued use of the software constitutes acceptance of the license terms.

Huh. If only I'd known that.

Why do you think that is?
by onetimeusename | 2025-09-10 02:20:30+00:00
That's kind of what I think but feel free to poke holes. It seems like there are three tiers. There's a closed off top tier of kids who get into top ranked universities. They go to highly ranked schools like selective high schools with high Ivy placement ranks. Those schools have different materials and more opportunities than most. These high schools are geographically mostly on the coasts. It's a totally different culture too where there's this years long effort.

Then there's a middle tier, the majority of people, where they might end up at a university but it's not top rated. Increasingly it's not worth the money and simultaneously it seems like our country has become more credentialist about prestigious jobs. But a degree probably isn't necessary for most careers that don't have gatekeepers so for these people the education doesn't really have a big payoff and their education might get de-emphasized.

Then there's the bottom tier which is self explanatory.
by bfdm | 2025-09-10 02:20:43+00:00
Not a an expert in this area at all, but I suspect there's an aspect here if maintaining productive capacity to replace imported food, if that became unavailable. Cursory searching suggests US food exports are similar in scale to food imports. Roughly speaking, with some adaptation that export capacity could be redirected for domestic nutrition.

If, in contrast, you let those farms and skill dry up it would be difficult to rebuild quickly.
by philwelch | 2025-09-10 02:21:04+00:00
Lego only started licensing in 1999, and by the time they fully embraced it they had almost completely rejected their entire product philosophy. What really happened is that, by 2003, the company had been taken over by entirely different people who cared more about how much money they could make from licensing deals than about the original vision of their product. (Things have since improved marginally, partly as a response to backlash.)
by drpixie | 2025-09-10 02:22:01+00:00
Each cell has 2 transistors and a length of trace. Why not use the 2 transistors as a flip-flop? Then there is no charge decay.

Thinking in the same vein - transistors are really small now. Aren't we at the stage where we can drop DRAM and replace transistor+capacitor with 2 transistors as a flip-flop? It would save all that refresh time and controller circuitry.
by phantomathkg | 2025-09-10 02:22:12+00:00
Some people think dealing with the following are fun.

Handling massive amount of video ingestion from content creator; Transcoding to various format that is optimal for various devices, Live streaming with Live to VOD, Geo restriction, Live Commenting, Ad insertion and penalise adblocker, Recommendation engine.

There are many features and challenges that are unique to OTT streaming applications and running at YouTube scales makes it even more challanging, or fun to some, to handle.
by rtpg | 2025-09-10 02:23:19+00:00
Apple still has 12 mini batteries in stock, and will for a while.

Might be worth trying to get the battery replaced at Apple.

Extra bonus: while it does cost money in theory, every time I've gotten Apple to replace the battery they end up breaking the screen, so I get a battery and phone replacement for free. 12 mini battery replacements _might_ be de facto free.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 02:23:26+00:00
...then buy the non-Air version if you want a thicker phone? That's not being discontinued, you know.

I genuinely don't know what you're complaining about.

You're not going to lose it. It's attached. You don't need 2 chargers or 2 cables. It reverse charges wirelessly via the phone when it's plugged in.

It's an option. People usually want options, but you're complaining you only want things the way you want them, and not let other people have different options...?
by 5112314 | 2025-09-10 02:23:32+00:00
Agree, another point is that video content making is a space full of grifters, unlike other form of media.

Take Kick for example, made to compete against Youtube and Twitch, but ended up with mostly people who are banned by those 2 platforms for a good reason. "Kick streamers" is now a negative words.

So new players on this field has to be specific about curating the people posting on their platforms.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 02:24:13+00:00
I have massive sympathy with the farmers, and farming communities. So if I ask if they "should" have more rights than say hired agricultural workers regarding the value of their labour, and their exposure to risk, it doesn't mean I think what's happening is good, or fair.

I am sceptical farmers have any specific quality distinct from all other labour, exposed to monopoly capital. There's a long history of reverence for the keepers of the land, on left and right, and there have been specific political carve outs for farmers, good and bad from the left and right.

They were lied to, capturing their votes, and now suffer the consequences. There's also a "dis-intermediation" element to this, structural efficiency drives are squeezing their margins which matter for longterm resilience.

Food is strategic. I think it should be managed as a strategic asset more than for its balance of payments impact. Life on the land is hard. We should be kinder, but then, so should farming communities, voting for liars.
by jameshart | 2025-09-10 02:24:39+00:00
So there's a peculiar thing happening here.

I pointed out that a particular color choice, using yellow for faces, made independently and for perfectly good aesthetic and design reasons and with benign intent by the designers of emoji, following in the illustrious, well trodden footsteps of the LEGO group and Mat Groening, has a particular cultural interpretation when placed alongside dark skin tone alternatives.

Now, what a lot of people seem to have read into this is that I think the original designers of the emoji had racist intent. Or that I am at least accusing them of being passively racist. Likewise Lego and Mat Groening, presumably.

That is a misreading of what I said.

The statement 'this thing has a differential impact on people of different races' does not automatically mean 'the people responsible for this thing are being accused of perpetrating racism'. But apparently many readers assume that to be the case.

So a lot of the replies I've gotten here seem to be leaping into some sort of culture-war defense of Lego, of yellow emoji, etc.

Emoji are Japanese, how can they possibly perpetuate default whiteness?! Are you accusing NTT DoCoMo of promoting white supremacy?

Like... really, no, that's not what I said, is it? I wrote about how the arrival of dark skinned options in a 'default yellow' world repeatedly reveals that 'default yellow' is, in Western culture, actually 'default white'. And that that repeated lesson explains why white people sticking with yellow isn't 'not choosing a skintone'. It's choosing white, but pretending not to. Because you don't have to.
by cman1444 | 2025-09-10 02:24:51+00:00
I don't the current economy is "entirely" the result of bad policy, but I do think it is the primary contributor. I read/listen to a lot of economic commentators as an interest of mine, and there is pretty broad agreement that tariffs are the main cause of inflation failing to tick down to target this year. There also seems to be consensus that the manufacturing sector has been harmed by tariffs and immigration policy rather than helped.

In my opinion, the AI hype cycle has temporarily buoyed the economy from more serious pain. If significant economic gains aren't realized from it soon I think we'll begin to see that pull back.

I do, however, think a return to ZIRP by the Fed would result in a significant economic boost. Psychologically, everyone remembers how advantageous low interest rates are and I think it could result in real investor/borrower optimism, temporarily, if we go back to that. Unfortunately, that would likely mainly stimulate the demand side of the economy, and not as much supply. I don't have high hopes for how that would affect inflation.
by runako | 2025-09-10 02:25:09+00:00
I get that aspect. My assumption is that due to scale, location, etc., a farm that transitions from its current owner to a different owner will still be a farm with (possibly the same) employees. I don't see 30% of the farmland in Arkansas (assuming a foreclosure rate that high) suddenly becoming new-build city centers, or factories, or suburbs. It works as farmland, someone will probably buy it to use as farmland.

I don't see why it's strategically important to the US taxpayer that one millionaire own it vs a different millionaire (or corporation).
by akerl_ | 2025-09-10 02:25:29+00:00
The original objection was about branding: the term "responsible disclosure" was specifically coined by entities that wanted to frame involving the vendor prior to disclosure as good, and disclosing immediately to the public as bad. We shouldn't use it, because that framing is incorrct.

"Coordinated disclosure" doesn't have any of that. It means "You gave the developer information in advance so that they could prepare/remediate/etc". Which is what it means to coordinate. If I call you up and say "Hey Dylan, I'm going to be at the bar in an hour if you want to grab drinks", I'm coordinating. If I just turn up at the bar and start drinking without contacting you, I am not coordinating.

We don't need to invent another bag of terms for the varying ways that you can respond to my message, because the primary party that matters when we're talking about disclosure methodology is the person releasing the disclosure.