MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-09-11 15:17:43+00:00
I think it really depends on the legal definition of recording or what it's used for.

Common sense says that a recording that only exists for a few seconds, and is utilized only by the person a speaker is intending to speak to, and is never permanently stored, should be fine. And we can assume Apple has made sure this is legal in its home state of California.

But EU law might not have sufficient legal clarity on this if it was written in a particularly open-ended way.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-11 15:18:05+00:00
I created a custom feed of research links ingested from HN, Bluesky, and Reddit subreddits firehoses that meet url regex criteria (DOIs or paper repo TLDs) that funnel into karakeep.app for reading at my convenience. Firehose->folder.

(i would also ingest twitter/x firehose, but the access story is meh, alas)
by timmedin | 2025-09-11 15:18:25+00:00
> That is why service accounts have really long complex passwords.

The sad thing is, they don't always have long complex passwords. They SHOULD, but they don't. Many orgs are scared of changing service account passwords due to the possibility of an outage.

I don't often see a day to day user with an SPN. I do see plenty of SPNs tied to service accounts where the service account password is crackable/Kerberoastable.
by menaerus | 2025-09-11 15:18:27+00:00
It is not wildly wrong, be more respectful please since I am speaking from my own experience. Nowhere in my comment have I used Linux kernel as an example. It's not a great example neither since it's mostly trivial to compile in comparison to the projects I had experience with.

Core can be 100% busy but as I see you're a database kernel developer you must surely know that this can be an artifact of a stall in a memory backend of the CPU. I rest my case.
by vunderba | 2025-09-11 15:18:28+00:00
Nice job. I thought about building something like this many years ago, but ended up experimenting with music generated from abelian sand pile algorithms instead. I've seen a number of attempts at using genetic algorithms to recombine previous musical patterns.

What's obviously missing is a "fitness function" that can approximate the equivalent of human taste, so the final evolved forms just end up being widely random in terms of quality.

AlgoMotion also did a video explanation for a music based version of Conway's Game of Life last year. Highly recommend their videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54

Incidentally if you like musical toys like this - Electroplankton [1] was a fun little game that had a series of almost organic musical instruments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroplankton
by seec | 2025-09-11 15:18:41+00:00
Yes but it's not ugly in the look/fashion sense, it's just ugly because it doesn't match a reality where it has a purpose.

Either they have good form factor closed but they suck open or they have good form factor open but they suck closed. They could go with no external screen but it would be much more annoying to use. And I think it says something fundamental about smartphones, that Steve Jobs intuitively understood: it's a good tool when you can pull it out of your pocket and use it in seconds (preferably one-handed when possible). Having a bigger screen but that needs to be unfolded doesn't add any benefits to this primary need and ends up requiring a lot of compromises (weight/volume, compromising pocket ability) for uses cases that are infrequent and would be better served by a typical table anyway. Funnily enough, in those situations you are quite likely to have the bag to carry this solution so the foldable phone becomes moot.

To make things worse, they are ridiculously expensive, often more than what it would cost to buy both an equivalent phone and tablet, which is at the same time stupid and genius. And yes, this is precisely why they are a social status thing. You have to be quite affluent to buy something so practically stupid, you are basically burning cash.

I find folding phones interesting for what they so aptly demonstrate about life in general: no matter how hard you try, you can't have it both ways.
by anarazel | 2025-09-11 15:19:02+00:00
That workstation has 2x10 cores / 20 threads. I also executed the test on a newer workstation with 2x24 cores with similar results, but I thought the older workstation is more interesting, as the older workstation has a much worse memory bandwidth.

Sorry, but compilation is simply not memory bandwidth bound. There are significant memory latency effects, but bandwidth != latency.
by sumtechguy | 2025-09-11 15:19:37+00:00
The thing is that VZW could win on appeal with that. They are title II of the telecommunications act not title I. Cell services have a huge carve out in II both for data and communication services. I was surprised by that. It was one of the justifications of them selling this data. The are legally considered basically an ISP not a phone service.

Basically Title I = old POTS systems and radio. VZ does take it very seriously. Title II = Cell/ISP rules. VZ is kinda playing fast and loose with it. Just like what all advertising, ISP companies, and web providers do.

Honestly the right way is to stop reinterpreting (thru the courts and regulations) the rules depending on who is in charge that day and have congress hammer out what is and is not allowed.
by oefrha | 2025-09-11 15:19:49+00:00
To beat an incumbent you need to be 2x better. Right now it seems to be a 1.1x better (for any reasonably sized projects) work in progress with kinks you’d expect from a work in progress and questionable ecosystem buy-in. That may be okay for hobby projects or tiny green field projects, but I’m absolutely not gonna risk serious company projects with it.
by tdeck | 2025-09-11 15:19:58+00:00
This comment is very disconnected from the reality of service industry wage theft. Employment lawyers rarely bother with a case where the potential payout is a few thousand dollars.

In theory the federal or state department of labor could do something without the worker needing a lawyer. The federal DoL is useless in such cases and most state DoLs don't seem to do much either.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-11 15:20:06+00:00
Full disclosure: I haven't read the book myself. Logically, however, expressing regrets does not say anything about whether a specific course of action is better. By definition, one can only regret living one's life in a certain way if one actually did - so perhaps a high incidence of people regretting "working too hard" is simply indicative of working a lot being the most common experience, rather than any special reason why a life spent working should be regrettable.

And back to Gregg - he's personally been an inspiration to me. Who would I be to question his life choices, but I for one am grateful for the path he did choose to take.
by timmedin | 2025-09-11 15:21:25+00:00
In Kerberos, the answer is effectively no. To generate the NT hash, the password is hashed using a single round of MD4. This is what is used to encrypt (and sign) tickets.

The attack is, guess a password, hash it, and attempt to decrypt.

With AES Kerberos keys there is a salt... but not a good one. It is just the domain (realm) and the username.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-11 15:22:11+00:00
Science isn't simply empirical. There are five other stages to theoretic knowledge and your reasoning suggests you don't know how to discuss ideas scientifically. You exclude statements to make claims. I said, attention erosion AND test score decline. You chose to make a narrative claim using No Child Left Behind, and picking one of the conditions. Yes there is a basic science of creativity (there is also a complex), we have indexes of creative erosion in the mid-20s.

When you can revisit these ideas with a scientific manner, then I can respond. Until then you are just spinning narratives.
by lynndotpy | 2025-09-11 15:22:36+00:00
> Setting up a Python project that relies on PyTorch, so that it works across different accelerators and operating systems, is a nightmare.

I would like to add some anecdata to this.

When I was a PhD student, I already had 12 years of using and administrating Linuxes as my personal OS, and I'd already had my share of package manager and dependency woes.

But managing Python, PyTorch, and CUDA dependencies were relatively new to me. Sometimes I'd lose an evening here or there to something silly. But I had one week especially dominated by these woes, to the point where I'd have dreams about package management problems at the terminal.

They were mundane dreams but I'd chalk them up as nightmares. The worst was having the pleasant dream where those problems went away forever, only to wake up to realize that was not the case.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-11 15:22:48+00:00
But isn't that fine? For someone with a 3-4 year old phone, the update might be more worthwhile.

Someone might have another phone (Android) and want to switch. Someone might have started making more money and want a nicer device. Etc.

Dislike of undue marketing hype aside, I don't really see the big deal about year over year upgrades not blowing the previous model away.

Sure, I've got complaints about consumerism, waste, etc, in general, but I feel like those are broader issues that might not be entirely orthogonal, but are still not the same issue.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-11 15:23:01+00:00
Gregg chose not to undergo surgery:

> This is major life-changing surgery with a long and difficult "recovery". I have elected not to do this, due to existing co-morbidities from my sorted past and the expectation that the recovery would exceed my lifespan, which I'd rather keep as normal as possible.

I wish I'd known about that post before he died; I'd have sent him my best regards personally rather than just saying nice things about him online now :(
by truelson | 2025-09-11 15:23:39+00:00
RSS is still extremely useful. It may never have been meant for mass adoption like algorithmic feeds, but that is the point: it is the right counterbalance. I want full control of my feeds, and RSS gives me that. With tools like https://docs.rsshub.app almost anything can be made RSS-able.

I know I am not the average user, but for those who care about their information diets, RSS is essential.

One underappreciated aspect: RSS can forward both machine readable and human readable content at the same time. I am experimenting with it for information processing, and I like that you can always peek into the pipes, even mid-stream, to see what is happening.

I will be writing more about this at https://writings.alethia.news (alongside AI, product design, macroeconomic data, and the occasional bit of trivia).
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-11 15:23:57+00:00
RSS doesn’t have formatting and interactions.

It’s content only.

It’s also a drastically simpler standard than HTML making creating RSS clients far easier than an HTML client.

Finally it is designed to push new content in a way HTML isn’t. I can tell my RSS client to only download all the titles for all the different posts and only download the content on actually clicking through. Thats something HTML cannot do. Further, my client can easily retrieve changes since it last checked which HTML doesn’t allow.

Lots of differences. Overloading HTML which even at its simplest is about fixed text and overloading that with handling temporal lists of atomic data would be a bad idea.
by alberth | 2025-09-11 15:23:59+00:00
I know many people feel nostalgic about the days when RSS was everywhere (and a more open web) — and I do too.

But my experience must be different than most. I had hundreds of feeds in Google Reader, which quickly became overwhelming. It was hard to tell what was worth reading, and I often just marked everything as “read,” the same way people get email fatigue.

While I support a more open web, I think the real missing piece in the conversation is curation.

Take HN, for example. It’s essentially community-driven curation, and I get far more enjoyment browsing HN today than I ever did sifting endlessly through my RSS feeds trying to find something interesting.
by samiv | 2025-09-11 15:24:08+00:00
Will this help KDE-Plasma finally move from pre-alpha more towards something that can be used daily, or will we still need another decade or two ?

Asking this as a user who really would love to move away from X11, but everytime I try anything Wayland related it's just alpha or pre-alpha, endless graphics glitches, windows going black or flickering, (double the glitches after turning display off/on),multiple rendering issues with Firefox, Clion etc..

I think I'm mentally preparing to use X11 until retirement....

The thing is the first 90% of software is the easy part. Once you've done that you still need to do the other 90%. And the latter 90% is what separates little hobbyist weekend projects from products. It's a relentless boring grind of testing, fixing bugs and sharp edges and adding workarounds.
by rayiner | 2025-09-11 15:24:20+00:00
I don’t know about low caste indians, but a good data point might be vietnamese. They are generally looked down on by other east asians. Their poverty rate in 1980 was higher than among black people. Today (where 60% are still foreign born) their median income and poverty rate is right around the national average, about 10% behind white americans.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 15:24:31+00:00
Not to mention the fact that Ireland also has huge form in this area - having implemented a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1987, becoming the first Western European state to do so. Ten young Dunnes Stores workers, aged between 17 and 24, refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa because of how their government treated black people.

This ended up with a strike lasting two years and nine months - unimaginable in the context of today's retail environments.

https://mandate.ie/2024/07/the-day-10-workers-changed-the-wo...
by closewith | 2025-09-11 15:24:42+00:00
> The ship is lean crewed and relies on automation.

That is true in general and may be a reason for the lacklustre damage control efforts, but not on the bridge.

Commercial vessels of any size usually have a bridge watch of two (OOW and lookout) to three (if a helmsman is needed). 7 is on the high-end for peacetime transits for a destroyer in friendly waters. 5 would be normal (OOW, quartermaster, helmsman and two lookouts). Only below that could be considered lean and the ship could be safely commanded with a watch of 2-3.

The fact is that the watch and especially the OOW were negligent, in a manner you would not expect from a junior sea scout.
by codys | 2025-09-11 15:24:53+00:00
It is strange how folks are refusing to admit they can even _evaluate things_ in a bunch of cases. We're seeing that here, but I've also noticed it in other posts on HN: a disagreement with the position of the article is framed not as a distinct examination which comes to different conclusions, but instead commenters claim the post author was foolish in even attempting to evaluate the thing the post is about.

To some degree it feels like bits and pieces of anti-intellectualism getting into folks brains: rejecting the idea that folks can think about things at all.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-11 15:25:01+00:00
Absolutely not playing a semantic game. I chose my side of this crisis -- but steelmanning your own argument and understanding the other side is good to do

It was simple. People without ethical limits seen their opening to weaponize fear and discomfort ... and succeeded.

People without ethical limits = people not wearing masks and not practicing social distancing

weaponize fear and discomfort = get close to others (masked) in public and breathe in front of them
by ta1243 | 2025-09-11 15:26:03+00:00
If they were spending their effort arguing against 95% of immigration, which are people arriving at Heathrow, then I'd be more sympathetic.

People voted for brexit was all about stopping Iraq and Turkey from sending millions of people to the UK. -- I remember the leaflet, I remember the voxpop of people saying "Europe, fair enough, but not from Africa, Syria etc".

People voted for Brexit to stop immigration. It decreased European immigration, but more than replaced it with African and Middle Eastern immigration) because they believed that being in the EU meant. This was inevitable.

They were wrong based on their own beliefs, and its difficult to argue against that viewpoint.

> They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.

One major policy was implemented which massively increased immigration, illegal or not, was Brexit. Farage's flagship policy.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-11 15:26:09+00:00
Do-What-I-Mean isn't possible. What Rust does give you is Do-What-I-Say which mostly leaves the problem of saying what you mean, a significant task but one that is hopefully what software engineering was training you to be most effective at.

One important trick is ruling out cases where what you said is nonsense. That can't be what you meant so by ruling it out we're helping you fall into the pit of success and Rust does an admirable job of that part.

Unfortunately because of Rice we must also rule out some cases where what you said wasn't nonsense when we do this. Hopefully not too many. It's pretty annoying when this happens, however, it's also logically impossible to always be sure, Rice again - maybe what you wrote was nonsense after all. So I find that acceptable.
by sklargh | 2025-09-11 15:26:25+00:00
Dark Sun is not bad, but it is definitely overshadowed by Rhodes' magnum opus.

I recommend Igniting the Light Elements for people who want a keystone piece about the early thermonuclear. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10596 - it's an extensive Thesis on the history of early thermonuclear period. Also one of the last comprehensive looks before classification fully obscures the plurality of the programs.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-11 15:26:29+00:00
I agree. But their whole business model is about having the IP rights for small to very large chemical entities, then supplying manufacturing, marketing, regulatory, and distribution expertise.

To get outside this box could threaten their whole business model of supplying rough equivalents of "magic bullets" to fight disease. And it's not just them, it's Wall Street, and it's even people like you and I, who probably own their stock in some fund or another, as part of our retirement savings. Systemic.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-11 15:27:10+00:00
Maybe it’s fine if you treat Bluesky as a way to follow just a few trusted people. But that could also be an echo chamber. I was surprised, however, by how many vile comments I saw regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. To me as an outsider to its culture, it looks just like Reddit. So “sectarian” feels right.
by imiric | 2025-09-11 15:27:12+00:00
> A root access is a big hole

How so?

On Linux, I can add an account to the sudoers list, and have the flexibility to configure the level of security appropriate for my use case. I have yet to experience any security issues (that I'm aware of). Why isn't this possible on my mobile device as well?

This absolute stance is not right. Security is not binary, but a spectrum. I should be allowed to have full control over my device without this being a security risk.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-11 15:27:24+00:00
I don't think that applies if one of the sides is using rational arguments and statistics

In most debates I follow, each sides have their own statistics to back their reality. And from a purely rational and scientific point of views, statistics do not prove anything when they mean something, they are always manipulated and most qualities of our existence cannot be measured / put into quantities anyway. Stats are not a tool to prove you're right at all.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-11 15:27:24+00:00
Look at HN - if you express something even a taste conservative, you will absolutely be downvoted.

Which is ultimately just silencing the messenger; the very behavior that backfires... sometimes figuratively, yesterday literally. You'd think free speech advocates would be smarter than to ever use the downvote button on a legitimate opinion, seems like a contradiction.

Edit, for the reply: > "Post a far left soundbite opinion like 'all consumption is unethical under capitalism' and you will get downvoted just as handily as 'I wasn't hired because I'm white'"

This is actually a bad example, because we just got Ames vs Ohio, eliminating the higher burden of proof that white individuals needed to present when claiming discrimination 9-0. As such, there is a possibility that complaint was factual and is going to be proven soon, where the other is purely ideological.

Edit 2: Nice undocumented edit to make it a "trans employee" instead. You've just openly admitted you would've downvoted a legitimate opinion by claiming it was illegitimate, then edited your comment afterwards to fix the weakness, proving my original point.
by dcminter | 2025-09-11 15:27:26+00:00
Ah, I missed that bit, thanks. My dad had (and died) of pancreatic cancer and it was too far gone for Whipple to be on the table. However I think he too might not have chosen to go ahead with it even if it had been an option.

My dad lived for two or thee years after diagnosis, mostly with fairly good QoL. He did have "NanoKnife" which seems to have helped extend things without much negative impact so that's worth looking into for those in a similar plight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_electroporation
by nop_slide | 2025-09-11 15:28:51+00:00
I've been using RSS via the Readwise "Reader" app over the last year and it's been awesome. First time using RSS and love that so many developers make sure they have feeds on their blogs.

The lack of the algorithmic "feed" and the fact that I'm "pulling" rather than being "fed" content is such a great change in content consumption.
by jjice | 2025-09-11 15:28:55+00:00
Some of my favorites that have stayed at least pretty relevant. Disclosure: not an old timer.

- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook. Get the most recently volume. It's a tomb (~1200 for the most recent).

- If you do any SQL, SQY Performance Explained is an 80/20 read for DB indexes, query optimization, and troubleshooting

- A Philosophy of Software Design (more recent). Just a great book on good design considerations to keep in mind.

- Mastering Regular Expressions. The first half of the book will make you confident. The second half will show you how they're implemented. Regular expressions aren't something to be afraid of!

- Designing Data Intensive Applications (more recent). Great book about data infra design decisions. Maybe not the scope you're looking for though.

- Design Patterns (Gang of Four). Absolute classic. Hard to read all the way through though, more of a reference read. You'll recognize a lot of the patterns. You'll find some great to see a formal definition of, and you'll see some you never want to use.

- Clean Architecture - Uncle Bob's best book IMO. I really don't like Clean Code, but this book talks a lot about interfaces and the right level of separation in your systems.

- K&R, as you mentioned, is of course a classic

- The AWK Programming Language is a nice quick read with similar quality and structure to K&R.

- Beej's Guide to Network Programming. The best overview of network programming, including the C API. Plus this book is genuinely funny. Beej has a ton of great stuff, all on their website for free, or in print.

- The Rust Programming Language is very well written too. Also online for free or in print.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-11 15:29:35+00:00
Americans consume more goods and services, live in larger homes, and have a higher material standard of living than Europeans, on the median. The US does spend much more on healthcare, but the outcomes are largely comparable to Europe’s (meaning universal healthcare has not actually given Europeans a clear advantage in lived results).

Source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americans-are-generally-richer...