MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-26 11:42:16+00:00
Background: A client is a locally-famous artist (e.g. her portraits hang in multiple mansions and institutions around town). She turns 88 this year. A few years ago, I remodeled her former art studio, which she utilized from 1972 until 1994 [she then moved into a larger studio] — her typewriter was still at the same desk, with paint smears of decades ago still smeared upon. The new studio she established, in 1995, is an even more cluttered array of "art-iste" — also abandoned.

What happened to her previous two art studios? Ignored by all-but-time, these thousands of sqft have largely been left to rot away, decaying back into the forest which surrounds her estate. She is too cheap/thrifty to air condition these spaces (even as a multi-millionaire — penny-wise, pound-foolish), so termites and mice have pretty much "taken care of" her art studio.

And all-the-while, I watch as her husband continues enabling her hoarding, hatred, and hubris. The saddest part to me (beyond this artist allowing her own work to rot away) is that her mansion has a 1000sqft library (full-wall bookcasing) — which she also refuses to air condition (this is in a humid sub-tropical rainforest climate) — allowing all these 20th Century authors to rot among her own apathies.
by stared | 2025-09-26 11:42:38+00:00
Nice to see it!

I think that a lot of mathematics would benefit from executable code (or I would say - executable maths) - so people can play and experiment with it.

I had my own approach for teaching deep learning (https://github.com/stared/thinking-in-tensors-writing-in-pyt...), showing both mathematical formulation in LaTex, and a numeric one in PyTorch.
by agavava | 2025-09-26 11:42:51+00:00
I don’t get the problem with, for example, just sitting down on Sunday evening and spending 10 minutes putting together enough suitable workouts for the whole week. Or as another option, there are apps like https://madmuscles.com/review . There you can actually make a custom workout plan. So every workout day you already have a plan ready. The subscription costs little, that’s not a problem. If it’s hard, make it simple. You’ve got all the tools already.
by jodrellblank | 2025-09-26 11:43:17+00:00
IIRC in “I, Robot” Will Smith had his Audi taken over by the robot uprising, a film which was a cautionary tail scifi movie.

> “people aren't scared of cars”

Under “normalisation of deviance”, NotJustBikes YouTube talked about how he sees almost no Netherlands news pieces about cars crashing into buildings, because cars basically never crash into buildings in the Netherlands. When they do, the Dutch treat it as a road design issue and update the road and regulations to stop it in future. Whereas in Canada he had four cars crash into the buildings around his child’s school in a short time, and there are almost no mainstream news stories about cars crashing into buildings in Canada because it’s so common it’s fallen below newsworthiness into just local newspaper small comment. USA/Canada blame the driver and fix nothing, so it keeps happening, so people are used to it.

Although cyclists are scared of cars. And drivers are which is why there’s the SUV arms race to be in the bigger car to be more protected against other cars.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-26 11:43:43+00:00
Deepseek was trained on ChatGPT outputs, so yes, their writing style is running throughout the post you claim to be the author of (I almost said your writing style, which it is not)

Share the original in Italian and your prompt. Because my suspicion is that you had a half baked idea and the LLMs did all the rest.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-26 11:44:30+00:00
None of the competition on the embedded space of FOSS operating systems, including Linux Foundation Zephyr, makes use of GPL.

Unfortunely the license is seen as tainted by all businesses, and plenty of OSes are already seen as Linux alternative in some spaces.

In others Android is the only being used, where the only thing left from GPL is the Linux kernel itself, and only because Fuchsia kind of went nowhere, besides some kitchen devices.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-26 11:45:03+00:00
How are you supposed to get an accountable government agency? Is the VA or the DMV or the DEA actually accountable right now, and if so then why are they so bad?

Accountability comes from the ability to reject something objectionable, i.e. it comes from having other alternatives that subject the provider to competitive pressure. That's not what you get from a government agency, nor is it what you get from a consolidated market where the incumbents have captured the government. It is what you get from a competitive market, which is the thing we currently lack.
by p_l | 2025-09-26 11:45:24+00:00
Pentium 4 was widely speculated of being able to run 64bit at the time of AMD64 delivering, but at half the speed.

Essentially, while decoding a 64bit variant of x86 ISA might have been fused off, there was a very visible part that was common anyway, and that was available ALUs on NetBurst platform - which IIRC were 2x 32bit ALUs for integer ops. So you either issue micro-op to both to "chain" them together, or run every 64bit calculation in multiple steps.
by estsauver | 2025-09-26 11:47:10+00:00
So, interestingly, the places that actually did the worst in the Holocaust were generally the places where there were the least legal structures--even though you would expect it to be worst for Jews in Germany, it was often Poland and other states that had all legal structures and civil institutions destroyed who had it the worst.

https://www.amazon.nl/Black-Earth-Holocaust-History-Warning/...
by gprok | 2025-09-26 11:47:21+00:00
Thank you so much for trying it out and for the kind words about the concept! I really appreciate it.

And thank you especially for the bug report. A 5-10 second delay is definitely not the intended behavior – it should be instant. You was the first user to report this. I've pushed several performance fixes in the past, but this sounds like that could be a new issue.

If you (or anyone else reading this) are running into these issues, I would be incredibly grateful for your help in reproducing them. What would be most helpful is your Mac model, macOS version, and which browser is showing the extra tabs. Even a quick screen recording of the issue would be amazing.

You can send any details or a video to the support email (support@macscope.app) or drop it in our Discord.

This is exactly the kind of feedback that makes a huge difference. Thanks again!
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-26 11:47:36+00:00
I find libraries immensely soothing and am lucky enough to have several nearby to rotate through so I have also done this.

Combining a cycle to get there and coming back with a new book in my laptop bag is a good feeling.

Video calls are tricky, since you don't want to disturb others. Audio calls can be an excuse to take a walk outside in the sunlight. But I generally try to plan around calls and make the trip when I want to focus.

I'm also happy with just a laptop, which not all developers are.

I also quite like the background noise of students doing homework and old people getting taught how to use computers and the other human life going on quietly in the background. The occasional group of toddlers having a sing-song is a special treat.
by hobs | 2025-09-26 11:47:42+00:00
I see people downvoting this. Anyone who disagrees with this, we have YAGNI for a reason - if someone said to me my performance was fine and they added caches, I would look at them with a big hairy eyeball because we already know cache invalidation is a PITA, that correctness issues are easy to create, and now you have the performance of two different systems to manage.

Amazon actually moved away from caches for some parts of its system because consistent behavior is a feature, because what happens if your cache has problems and the interaction between that and your normal thing is slow? What if your cache has some bugs or edge case behavior? If you don't need it you are just doing a bunch of extra work to make sure things are in sync.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-26 11:48:15+00:00
That's not how it works and it is not easily gamed.

You must provide your original passport, not a copy. And if you are a foreigner you must also provide a "share code" that allows the employer to go to the Home Office's website and check you details, including picture, and entitlement to live/work/study in the country.

Again, if some employers are unscrupulous, or just plain idiots, ID cards won't change that.

> by having copies of the documents they can show they did what was required and claim to have been misled and they are the victims, so no prosecution or fines.

On the contrary, this means 40k fine.
by Someone | 2025-09-26 11:48:33+00:00
> Apple making their “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties” claim true,

As far as I can tell, the article being discussed made up the ‘fact’ that Apple made such a claim.

I googled the ‘quote’ from the article This raises questions about Apple’s public privacy claim that such system data “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties.” and could not find any evidence that Apple actually made that claim. Even the phrase “leaves Apple servers” doesn’t get any hits to statements by Apple.

I also browsed https://www.apple.com/privacy but couldn’t find anything there that’s close to that statement.

The closest I found is a statement about Private Cloud Compute, where they say “If it requires greater computational capacity, it can draw on Private Cloud Compute and send only the data relevant to your task to be processed on Apple silicon–based servers” (https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/)

So, even there they do not claim they own those servers or that they are located in Apple’s data centers, but I think it can be inferred that they own them.
by palata | 2025-09-26 11:48:39+00:00
> In fact it is exactly zero encryption both technically and legally.

I am not a lawyer (are you?), but technically you're wrong.

"In cryptography, encryption (more specifically, encoding) is the process of transforming information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode."

A caesar cipher is encryption. I don't see why chaining encodings wouldn't be. Technically and legally.
Utah addresses are Cartesian. Google does not grok
by pesoneto | 2025-09-26 11:50:30+00:00
Utah street addressing is Cartesian. The only difference is that instead of using a pre-fix notation of plus-minus to indicate a direction from the origin, the post-fix notation North-South, East-West is used instead.

So here is an actual address, 716 W 630 S, Orem, UT. A person in Utah would expect that incrementing or decrementing either of the numbers in the tuple (-716, -630) would move the point on the map only slightly.

Yes, I am messing up and broke the rules of notation but did this on purpose to force the mind into normal Cartesian thinking. More strictly, I could have said (716W, 930S). But you get what I mean, right?

But try this in maps.google.com. Change the address to (716, 631) and Google says it can't find the address. Change it to (716, 629) and it suggests a bus stop in Salt Lake City. An error of nearly 30 miles.

There is no way to report this misunderstanding to Google.

One could argue Google's approach is correct. Except that, particularly in undeveloped areas associated with a city, people will guess at an approximate address expecting that the hearer will arrive at a location close to what was stated. A bit easier to express that giving latitude and longitude coordinates. But Google takes you to another city?
by xg15 | 2025-09-26 11:50:35+00:00
I remember watching Argylle and for the first time having the feeling that the movie was not just bad but that the script was likely AI generated.

It had some ideas that would have been interesting or at least "clever" in isolation, but they were strung together in a weirdly arbitrary and soulless way. Even a convoluted money-grap sequel usually has some idea where it wants to go with the plot. This movie didn't.

It was also strangely obsessed with "twists", or rather different things that could be described using that word: Twist, the dance, twisting roads and plot twists all featured in the movie.

Might have been a coincidence, but it felt as if an AI got an ambiguous prompt "the movie should have twists" and then executed several different interpretations of that sentence at the same time.
by Bender | 2025-09-26 11:50:54+00:00
That's for lawyers and judges to work out. I will not concern myself with it.

Here is a legal definition: [1]

Making text or code unreadable to secure it for transmission or transport. Both the sender, the encryptor, and the receiver, the decryptor, have the means to translate text or code from source language to unreadable, undecipherable gibberish and back. The devices used have a key that is unique to the sender and receiver.

They used the word key. Our court case will have to decide if chained commands are legally equivalent to a "key". It's not even clear to me that is the universal legal definition. Time and grey wigs will tell. If they decide chained commands are a key that could have an interesting precedence on cases involving protecting users data, banking, military secrets, etc...

[1] - https://thelawdictionary.org/encryption/
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 11:51:10+00:00
"Unnamed military contractors" should be forced into competitive bids. Ditch the favoritism and let any US corporation bid on it and including bidding on the jobs where you need 3 layers of management to buy a capacitor when done by government employees. You can go out and buy a $500 Ar-15 on the private market that's about as good as an M4/M16 the military is paying thousands for -- that's the result of an actually free market for M-16/Ar-15 and the same thing can be brought to the rest of defense contracting.
by flir | 2025-09-26 11:51:18+00:00
> a protagonist lives in or returns home to a small town and resolves a minor conflict by reconnecting with tradition and organising community events

That's... not the Hero's Journey?

(The same study run against Claude Opus would be interesting - if we're going to test models, we might as well play to their strengths. My prediction: better writing, not better plotting).
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-26 11:52:05+00:00
Just because Sweden is so easy, I'll give you a little. Then try doing something yourself instead of being lazy. Here's the public healthcare which local regions by law have to provide to asylum seekers and to illegal aliens:

https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/kunskapsstod-och-regler/omrad...

As you can see, it is quite extensive. Including abortion and health care for child birth. And of course transports to hospitals and health clinics, and an interpreter.

Here are some more regulations, detailing in which cases illegal aliens have the right to direct economic benefits from the public:

https://skr.se/skr/integrationsocialomsorg/asylochflyktingmo...

Notably, there is an "emergency situation" clause, which makes sure that even a person who has been expelled from the country and refuses to leave has a right to economic benefits.
by aftergibson | 2025-09-26 11:52:27+00:00
A secure, optional digital ID could be useful. But not in today’s UK. Why? Because the state has already shown it can’t be trusted with our data.

- Snoopers’ Charter (Investigatory Powers Act 2016): ISPs must keep a year’s worth of records of which websites you visit. More than 40 agencies—from MI5 to the Welsh Ambulance Service—can request it. MI5 has already broken the rules and kept data it shouldn’t have.

- Encryption backdoors: Ministers can issue “Technical Capability Notices” to force tech firms to weaken or bypass end-to-end encryption.

- Online Safety Act: Expands content-scanning powers that experts warn could undermine privacy for everyone.

- Palantir deals: The government has given £1.5 billion+ in contracts to a US surveillance firm that builds predictive-policing tools and runs the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform. Many of those deals are secret.

- Wall-to-wall cameras: Millions of CCTV cameras already make the UK one of the most surveilled countries in the world.

A universal digital ID would plug straight into this ecosystem, creating an always-on, uniquely identified record of where you go and what you do. Even if paper or card options exist on paper, smartphone-based systems will dominate in practice, leaving those without phones excluded or coerced.

I’m not against digital identity in principle. But until the UK government proves it can protect basic privacy—by rolling back mass data retention, ending encryption backdoor demands, and enforcing genuine oversight—any national digital ID is a surveillance power-grab waiting to happen.

I'm certain it's worked well in other countries, but I have zero trust in the UK government to handle this responsibility.
by Implicated | 2025-09-26 11:53:03+00:00
> copy pasting some configuration I might not really understand

Uh, yea... why would you? Do you do that for configurations you found that weren't from LLMs? I didn't think so.

I see takes like this all the time and I'm really just mind-boggled by it.

There are more than just the "prompt it and use what it gives me" use cases with the LLMs. You don't have to be that rigid. They're incredible learning and teaching tools. I'd argue that the single best use case for these things is as a research and learning tool for those who are curious.

Quite often I will query Claude about things I don't know and it will tell me things. Then I will dig deeper into those things myself. Then I will query further. Then I will ask it details where I'm curious. I won't blindly follow or trust it like I wouldn't a professor or anyone or any thing else, for that matter. Just like I would when querying a human for or the internet in general for information, I'll verify.

You don't have to trust it's code, or it's configurations. But you can sure learn a lot from them, particularly when you know how to ask the right questions. Which, hold onto your chairs, only takes some experience and language skills.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-26 11:53:12+00:00
> Do you guys seriously write "Are we paying for unnecessary things" as though it's an insightful question nobody in government has looked into before?

It isn't a novel question, which is how we know so conclusively that the answer is "yes, the government is paying for many unnecessary things". The people receiving the money keep lobbying to prevent it from being eliminated, so the primary thing preventing it from being eliminated is government authority to actually change things. Whether or not that's what DOGE did, it's the thing a government efficiency operation could and ought to do.
by blooalien | 2025-09-26 11:53:18+00:00
> "In some ways having a personality cult is less scary. You can kill a man but how do you destroy a collective?"

In some ways it's far more terrifying, because of the operative word "cult" there. Sometimes the object of such a "personality cult" can attract the mindset of an actual cult to form around them and create a highly destructive and dangerous "collective". It's happened many times already throughout recorded history, and it never really seems to go all that well for anyone involved.
by diordiderot | 2025-09-26 11:54:11+00:00
This is a perniciously xenophobic take, tbh. Who are you to decide your values are objectively better than theirs? /s

There is a village A dragon comes to the village every year. In exchange for 2% of the children, it spares the rest and promises its “magical” protection from unseen enemies. This arrangement has lasted 2,000 years. Most villagers worship it, even though the custom has left their village far worse off than others in the land.

Some villagers move away. Not all of them are dragon-worshippers, but some are and they still try to summon the dragon.

Now the dragon free villagers face a choice:

Keep them out. But that means some innocent children among them will die.

Let them in. Risk the cult spreading again inside the walls and possibly bringing the dragon back.

Go kill the dragon themselves. Accept substantial casualties including innocent dragon worshippers and some of their own people.

Killing the dragon would mean temporarily brutal treatment of the worshippers and the destruction of their culture, but it would spare future generations from an unbounded amount of suffering.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-26 11:54:16+00:00
> It isn't just USSR, it is the core Russian principle of "oprichnina" - you can violate any laws, human or God's, as long as you're serving the tzar, Secretary General or President Putin.

“For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.” — Oscar R. Benavides, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Óscar_R._Benavides
by gprok | 2025-09-26 11:54:46+00:00
Hey, thanks for the detailed feedback.

You've definitely found a critical bug with DisplayLink screens. Multi-monitor support is still a bit experimental, and setups using third-party drivers like DisplayLink can be particularly tricky, so I really appreciate you reporting this.

To help me fix this, it would be amazing if you (or anyone else with a similar setup) could provide more detail. A screen recording of the issue happening would be invaluable, as I don't have a DisplayLink setup for testing myself. You can send it to the support email on the site or share it in our Discord.

Regarding apps in other spaces, you are absolutely right to expect them to be shown. The intention is for Macscope to list apps from other spaces (much like the default Cmd+Tab does), likely treating them as minimized items. It's clear this isn't working correctly in the current version. Thanks for flagging it—I'll revisit this feature and prioritize a fix :)
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-26 11:54:51+00:00
Ken White aka Popehat is an interesting account to follow if you want an informed take to keep up with the terrifying judicial coup that's been going on for a while and seems to have metastized more recently.

It also contains the appropriate level of anger that befits the situation which you don't get as journalists calmly take dictation on the next domino toppling in the fall of the American empire:

https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social

As a christian right-wing man he's allowed to be angry at this kind of stuff in a way that isn't socially acceptable for some other people.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-26 11:55:16+00:00
I feel your apathy, friend.

Our local parking authority (meter maids) just paid out a massive settlement (/s): each claimant gets four (4) twenty-five cent (25¢) parking credits (==$1.00), which expire within one month. They also raised parking rates by about that much, per hour.

Winning! /s
by platipusiton | 2025-09-26 11:56:20+00:00
What’s the point of easier access if it comes at the cost of our rights?

The potential for BritCard to be used for surveillance outweighs the benefits of convenience tenfold... Privacy is not something we should compromise for easier access to services- what starts as a way to "streamline services" can quickly turn into a horrible mechanism for tracking citizens under the guise of security..
by georgehopkin | 2025-09-26 11:57:02+00:00
Meta will offer UK users paid subscriptions to use Facebook and Instagram without advertisements after the Information Commissioner’s Office determined the company’s advertising model violated UK law.

Meta will charge £2.99/month on web browsers or £3.99/month on iOS and Android devices for the first account, with additional accounts costing £2/month on web or £3/month on mobile platforms.
by carltheperson | 2025-09-26 11:57:15+00:00
Cool! I see someone else was quick to post this.

Hi everyone. I wrote this describing how I like putting more than one thing/service into my final Rust binaries (when applicable, e.g. smaller projects).

When people ask me what I like about Rust, I mention that you can do something like this, so I thought I'd write a post to illustrate it.

I especially think the frontend build embedding and TLS management are neat tricks.