MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by forgetbook | 2025-09-11 19:38:10+00:00
This is a great note for AI developers, but my use case around NixOS is targetted to consumer users. The value is in self-hosted services (clouds, VPNs, etc.) without needing to be technical, and supporting the standard suite of stuff the average consumer needs/uses. (Word processor, email, internet, PDF, zoom)

My biggest concern here is not feature parity with the latest in AI; but in usability, or maybe irrelevance (what happened to thin clients?). My hope is that what stopped thin client adoption was just paying cloud providers forever, and that the average consumer that has a home computer can use that computer as a NAS to actually be their own iCloud / OneDrive, with the ability to deploy their 'home machine' on any laptop.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-11 19:38:18+00:00
> I still tend to think though that such fiddling is only necessary if we insist on single-member districts with first-past-the-post systems.

You can solve this using a cardinal voting system (e.g. STAR voting) even with single member districts, because FPTP is what produces a two-party system and if there are multiple parties then there are no safe seats because e.g. a left-leaning district would still have a race between the Democrats and the Green Party.

Which also thwarts gerrymandering because if an extremist party draws the lines to try to give themselves more seats, they dilute their base and lose them all to a moderate party, but if they try to concentrate their base they don't get many seats.

And you can also implement that in the US without major constitutional changes.

> It makes sense to have sub-jurisdictions insofar as they can set local policy, but if a legislative body is going to make laws for the whole US it should, as a whole, be accountable to the whole US.

The premise of this stuff is supposed to be checks and balances. Single member districts in the House would be fine if we used STAR/score/approval voting instead of FPTP.

The original purpose of the Senate was to represent the states in the federal government; Senators were originally elected by state legislatures. The idea being that the state legislators would send people inclined to temper populist federal overreach. And it worked pretty well until the people who wanted to do a big round of populist federal overreach changed it to cause Senators to be directly elected.

And that's what messed up the US Presidency. The original design was to have an extremely limited federal government and have the states do most everything, and then if the federal government doesn't do much, having only a single elected position in the executive branch makes sense. Meanwhile states have elected positions for everything from sheriffs to comptrollers to dogcatchers. There wasn't supposed to be a federal-level SEC or FDA -- that's state stuff -- so the US Constitution doesn't establish any elected position to be the head of it even though there ought to be if it's going to exist.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-11 19:38:31+00:00
Protection from predators and (as best can be managed) from disease. Supplemental food when foraged resources are insufficient. Protection from extreme weather. We spend millions of dollars researching how to combat bee diseases. They've been glorified since antiquity (go look up all the old manuscripts where they've illustrated people dressing up like bees). Nothing weird about it even if it is a fantasy. Humanity likes the honey bee.

>It's not a deal.

We will spend fortunes and invent new science to prevent their extinction. Whether they understand it or not, they grabbed a real bargain.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-11 19:38:45+00:00
I prefer the Apple ecosystem myself but the Sony WF-1000XM are frequently available on sale (refurb WF-1000XM5 are $110 right now). I used to have the WH-1000XM3 (over the ear) and those are good too.

The whole argument seems kind of silly. Just buy the platform you want that has the features you want. If the European thinks Apple is overpriced then it's no harm that they aren't bringing features to Europe. He wasn't going to buy them and now is going to not buy them even harder.
by sedatk | 2025-09-11 19:40:02+00:00
Your scenario is about hiring practices. What I'm talking about is a workplace setting; it means everyone is already hired, everyone already knows each other's skin color. Even if there are people who might want to take advantage of privileges based on their skin color, it wouldn't matter at the time. Even if it mattered, emoji wouldn't make a difference. I see no difference between using emojis with skin color and showing up to work without a head mask and a full body suit. Neither signals an agenda. It's just how we exist in society.

If someone feels that seeing a skin colored emoji as an imposition, and is forced to make a decision that they wouldn't otherwise do because of that emojji's color, they shouldn't be doing that job.
by tpm | 2025-09-11 19:40:20+00:00
> It’s also possible they were never going to hire locals

I find that very unlikely. In Slovakia we have a lot of Korean factories (Kia, Samsung etc) and while the management is Korean, they always hire local workers if available, otherwise agencies hire who's available - in our case workers from Serbia, Ukraine and Central Asia (that's not an unique situation, there is a general shortage of relatively-low-wage workers in the EU so people from outside are brought in to work here full time).
by kiitos | 2025-09-11 19:40:37+00:00
how did you evaluate the sender address via DKIM to get "clean" response? I mean I know there are methods to verify stuff about a received email, DKIM by itself only handles message integrity and not sender details, for that you need to fold in DMARC -- but there are all WILDLY technical details that are certainly not what anyone is gonna do before clicking a link in a message body

> As for URL scheme, I mean the format and layout of URLs - because it was an MITM attack, they matched 1:1.

"scheme" is a well-defined domain term that refers to the e.g. `https://` part of a URL/URI -- but that aside, I still don't get what you're saying here? what is "format and layout of URLs" and how does that relate to "mitm attack"?

to cut to the chase, a malicious email maybe contains a link, to a URL, that a victim can click on. but if that link says it goes to `https://npm.org` then it actually does go to `https://npm.org` and there isn't like any special secret way for an email to hijack or mitm that domain or URL resolution. if the link is actually `https://npn.org` then that's a totally different thing, it's not a mitm attack, there is no concept of "format or layout" of that totally different URL "matching 1:1" with `https://npm.org` -- unless you're talking about something totally different to what I'm understanding?

edit: wait are we talking about an email sent from a domain `npmjs.help`? DKIM and DMARC and URL scheme validation don't even enter the picture here, this was no kind of mitm attack by any definition -- "npmjs.help" is clear-as-day a malicious domain, and any email from it a clear-as-day phishing attempt.. ! it's fine, we're all human and etc. but it just underscores the issue here being minimizing blast radius of failures, and not anything related to any specific user/human
by jjice | 2025-09-11 19:40:53+00:00
Is there any evidence for this at all? The EU has plenty of regulation surrounding audio recording, as other comments have said. Instead of jumping to the assumption of malicious intent, I think those make more sense up front. I don't think this is a real bargaining chip for Apple to use against the EU for the side loading stuff.

I dislike Apple's malicious compliance with the EU too, but it seems unrelated here, at least without any proof.
by strencher | 2025-09-11 19:40:55+00:00
Anyone who works with video editing knows that when you cut a segment from a video recording, if the frame jump would distract the viewer or disrupt the content's flow, you apply morphing between those two frames. For this video too, everyone saying "the finger did this, the background did that" is actually spotting these morphings and mistaking them for AI anomalies.
by mholt | 2025-09-11 19:41:12+00:00
Integrated ACME clients have proven to be more robust, more resilient, more automatic, and easier to use than exposing multiple moving parts: https://github.com/https-dev/docs/blob/master/acme-ops.md#ce...

To avoid a splintered/disjoint ecosystem, library code can be reused across many applications.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-11 19:41:17+00:00
Last time I clean-installed Windows 10 32-bit, then manually uninstalled the things I didn't need (which is alot) and takes a little while, then converted to Compact Mode using Admin CMD, it came out less than 5GB on the C: volume.

That's Windows alone without installing anything else. Also with System Restore off, plus disk swap & hibernation disabled.

Nothing heroic like removing Edge, but Edge was definitely not updated nor was the OS online yet. I would expect bringing that image up to date now would more than double it.

Going further when you manually disable features and background services you know you don't need, it goes down below 1GB in memory too, and you can easily browse places like HN on a PC having only 2GB memory and no disk swap enabled.

Watch your step with such low memory though, you can't browse just anywhere and it gets a lot easier to step on all the proliferating newly placed "land-mines" if you're not careful :\
by mallowdram | 2025-09-11 19:41:24+00:00
There are few conclusions in science, you should know that, there's merely a next theoretic stage. We don't know the origins of the AIDS virus or SARS-CoV-2. It took 30 years to prove cigarettes definitively caused cancer after the first Doll & Hill 1956 study, but we could see the connections. Same here, we can see the connections beginning in 2017, and now we have over 200 studies that suggest and prove in parts and piecemeal like the Doll & Hill study that phones are bad for kids.

Gesturing broadly at a lack of conclusive evidence is simply naysaying the connections that educators, child development experts, neuroscience researchers are detailing. If you can't counter their connections and simply sit on the ledge of denial, you ain't thinking, you're in denial.

Stay in storytelling.
by TheTaytay | 2025-09-11 19:42:09+00:00
Every time I hear about Nix I get pretty excited, and then there are folks in the comments that say things along the lines of, "It's great, except when it doesn't work because of some missing package/Flake, and then it's hell and there is no 'escape hatch'". It's the lack of escape hatch that scares me. What if I want to install/configure something that hasn't been Nix-ified? Do you find yourself fighting with it to do something "simple"?
by ImJamal | 2025-09-11 19:42:15+00:00
I'm not who you are replying to but the demographics of bluesky is heavily left wing. The users are significantly less likely to make fun of people on their side being attacked.

Also, I've seen more comments in the last 24 hours saying Kirk deserved it than comments about Shapiro despite his attack happening months ago.

Lastly, I don't know much about Kirk, but I haven't seen a single comment he made where he advocating for political violence. Would you mind sharing a few?
by bregma | 2025-09-11 19:43:40+00:00
Your misplaced confidence that Type II diabetes is a lifestyle disease for which you can just judge the victim is questionable.

I have never been overweight, I eat healthy (mostly plants, very little refined carbs), and I am active and run 5k regularly. That didn't prevent me from inheriting T2 from both my parents by the time I turned 60.

I'm pretty certain T2 was widespread 50 years ago. We just didn't test for it and people just lost their feet or went blind or had heart attacks as they got old. Was there even an inexpensive, rapid test for HbA1c in 1975?
by RHSeeger | 2025-09-11 19:44:53+00:00
Because people (who don't know what they're talking about) respond with statements like "you can cure Diabetes Type 2 with diet and exercise", and

- That's false. For _most_ people, you can prevent the symptoms of it with those, but not all. Nor does it _cure_ it, it prevents it from presenting symptoms. The same way that avoiding a food you are allergic to doesn't cure the allergy, it just prevents it from impacting you

- It's insulting to a lot of people that _are_ eating and exercising well, but still battling with Diabetes Type 2

It's wrong and it's insulting.
by bflesch | 2025-09-11 19:45:06+00:00
Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I got it all mixed up.

But I think my argument still stands. Linux foundation is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, see https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/bylaws

So you might still be able to do an "intellectual property transfer" to them and use it as a tax write-off. The "LF Projects LLC" is then the new owner, only the operating company who has the ongoing hosting contracts for the websites.

Edit: Not sure if a donation to 501(c)(6) can be used as write-off without using some other legal loopholes. Quick AI search told me that only 501(c)(3) can do the donation tax write-off thing.

I'm sure there are some good tax lawyers behind this, who am I to understand it as a mere mortal I am just jealous.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-11 19:45:34+00:00
As a reminder, the initial argument was that Apple doesn’t bring their feature to Europe because they would have to open it via an API to their competitors. Someone replied that it’s not a refusal but a technical impossibility which is easily countered by Google having done just that for years. The fact that it’s heavily downvoted despite being factually completely correct is actually hilarious to me.

The rest, which is to say that everything Apple sells beside laptops is subpar, their strategy regarding European regulations deprive them of any credibility when they pretend to care about consumers and their prices conversion in Europe is daylight robbery, is just my opinion and accessory to the discussion. I just couldn’t help myself.
by ofirpress | 2025-09-11 19:45:56+00:00
[I'm on the SWE-bench team] Multiple people have looked into this, for example right in that thread: https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465#issuecomme...

This issue had affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs. And we've now issued a fix.

This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing them. This doesn't change the overall picture or trends at all.
by dizhn | 2025-09-11 19:46:13+00:00
I believe caddy was the first standalone software to include automated acme. It's a web server (and a proxy) so it's a very good fit. One software many domains. Proxmox likewise is a hypervisor hosting many VMs (hence domains). Another good fit. Though as far as I know they don't provide the service for the VMs "yet".
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-11 19:47:59+00:00
"Would you prefer to have China or Russia or the Middle East be the biggest player?"

To be fair, an objective person might prefer to have _no_ "big players"

Whether a biased or self-interested commenter on the subject believes this is possible or not doesn't eliminate the possibilty of this preference

It is like asking whether a voter would prefer to have the "biggest players" giving funds to X candidate or Y candidate, ignoring whether the voter would actually prefer campaign finance reform instead
by metalman | 2025-09-11 19:48:11+00:00
I have exactly one prior reference to schroomz bieng good for older folk, which was from an 80 something retired mechanical engineer selling of all his stuff to go re- retire with family/grandkids somewhere else, this guy and I hit it right off, lots of common interests and he sold me truck loads of awsome stuff cheap, didn't have the bucks to buy the shipping can of clasic 60'e racing motorcycles, but had a blast. His routine was to micro dose some shroomz and go jogging every morning. We both shoot left so he was showing me his compound bows, just handed me one, he was still dialing in at 180+' plugging bulls eyes, gave me his excell spread sheets for refining scrap silver and coin to 999, and whole lot of other stuff, sharpest, fitest,fastest, person I have ever seen in that age group

Thats only one data point and therefor no data,but shrooms are defintly not universaly bad iether.
by pilingual | 2025-09-11 19:48:32+00:00
One interesting aspect of technology is that there is little if any structure.

I just posted a talk by Seymour Papert from 1991 where he said that kids were on computers or Nintendo for 6 hours at a time, which surprised me that even then they were "addictive." He notes that poetry, music, Shakespeare aren't "addictive" in the same way.

I'm optimistic that there will be balance in the future. If Thomson is right that smartphones weren't really the beginning of detachment from society but instead it started more around the television era, it requires us to think how to handle all modern technology to optimize overall well being.
by jack_h | 2025-09-11 19:49:06+00:00
Sorry for the double reply but I think a concrete example might elucidate what I am discussing.

I have had to deal with close friends being addicted to heroin. I believe the free market is harmful when it comes to hard drugs because of my experiences. I am all for the complete ban of these hard drugs. However, that does not mean no one will OD on heroin even though it is banned. Such a law will create a black market, crime due to its illicit nature, incentivize horrific cartels to smuggle it into the country, and cost a lot of tax money to enforce. These are all negative outcomes from legislation whose goal is to prevent people from having access to heroin. I think this trade-off is worth it personally although some would disagree. The point is I’m not comparing the negative outcomes of hard drug use to the intentions of “fixing” it through legislation. Rather I am comparing outcomes to outcomes because there are some serious downsides to such a policy solution.
by averygarten | 2025-09-11 19:49:17+00:00
hello, i’m usually a lurker on this website, but i decided to make an account and comment since this is somewhat relevant to me.

i’m a senior in high school in one of those states with new laws about cell phones and electronics. i’m not particularly in favor of these new laws since i’m affected by them firsthand, but i can understand why they were implemented.

a few of my habits have had to change because of these new rules: - i now write my to-do lists on sticky notes instead of on my phone. - i write notes in a small a6 size notebook instead of using a notes app. - i now carry a book and my ipod nano to lunch.

because of these new rules, i do spend more time on my school-provided ipad, however. the school blocks a lot of the websites i typically visit. there are bypasses though — i can easily find instances of redlib if i want to scroll reddit, use a “cookie free youtube watcher” and paste a youtube link if i want to watch a video, and github isn’t blocked, but github pages are. most llm websites are blocked (claude, deepseek, mistral, gemini), but chatgpt isn’t for some reason.

if i want to look at a blocked website that isn’t one of those above, i can use startpage.com’s anonymous view.

i think the days feel longer now without my phone.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-11 19:49:31+00:00
This will be one of those situations where we'll really miss Anandtech. Still can't believe that site died.

In the real world I doubt anyone will ever notice the difference, VCC or not. VCC only will materially affect usage when someone is doing an activity that will hit throttling, which is actually extraordinarily rare in normal use, and usually only comes into play in benchmarking. The overwhelming majority of time we peg those cores for a tiny amount of time and get a quick Animoji or text-extraction from an image, and so on. Even the "AI" usage on a mobile device is extremely peaky.
by dinkleberg | 2025-09-11 19:50:19+00:00
I've been "all in" on NixOS for the past couple of years on my workstations and servers and will say that sometimes you do run into this, but there is an escape hatch. If you really need something that isn't available, you can just create your own package. nixpkgs continues to grow so the number of things not covered keeps growing smaller. But when you do encounter it, you can just create your own package and pull it into your flake.

AI makes this even easier, but you can usually find a similar package on nixpkgs and just modify it to suit the needs of that particular application.

I'll say this. Recently I reinstalled arch to see if I liked the freedom of it more. Within a week I reinstalled NixOS (which thanks to version control meant I was able to reinitialize it to be back in the exact state it was in beforehand).
by const_cast | 2025-09-11 19:51:15+00:00
For Flatpak, I use vscodium to strip Microsoft telemetry out of vscode.

It works really well, the one downside is that vscode extensions are pretty intrusive. They expect system provided SDKs. So you then have to install the SDKs in the Flatpak container so you have them. If vscode extensions were reasonable and somewhat sandboxed that wouldn't be a concern.

All that is to say, Flatpak works well for this purpose too.
by f311a | 2025-09-11 19:51:36+00:00
Too bad the development of helix is pretty slow and core devs are pretty resistant to various of changes.

It would be benefit a lot from some funding, but it's hard to find funding for a TUI editor.

It insane how fast Zed is moving in terms of development, on the other hand, I'm still waiting for some features in helix for more than 2 years. Helix devs have their own vision and reject a lot of attempts/PRs to make it better.

Regarding slow development, I saw a thread on reddit today https://old.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/s/zn0xiSs9pp
by someuser2345 | 2025-09-11 19:51:49+00:00
> It's not a deal. They don't understand what's happening.

So what? Mutualism happens all the time in nature, even if neither party is consciously aware of it. The relationship between humans and bees is very similar to the relationship between coral polyps and algae; the algae make sugars for the polyps, and polyps provide protection for the algae.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-11 19:51:56+00:00
I only became passively aware of this because Let's Encrypt uses the PSL for limits on registrations for domains not in the PSL. Been meaning to setup a dyndns service for a few of my domains and need to get them on the PSL so users can manage to do HTTPS without issue.

Edit: I still think that domains hosted with major dyndns services (like freedns.afraid.org) should be treated like PSLs.
by jajuuka | 2025-09-11 19:52:26+00:00
To be fair after that came out they disabled ADP for the whole country. If they were willing to go along with it then that would not be the course they would take.

Not to mention it's a colossally dumb move to create a back door into your system that anyone can access and can break things like government contracts. Apple is greedy but they aren't suicidal.
by alkyon | 2025-09-11 19:52:29+00:00
Reality is more complex then that. Qatar has been sending millions to Gaza (and transitively to Hamas) for years. Important point is that Israel was aware of it and even approved of it - more details here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-fu...

The parent really should be attacking the US (of which Qatar is "a major non-NATO ally") and Israel ("Netanyahu continued the cash flow to Hamas, despite concerns raised from within his own government"). I don't see any reason to be so aggressive towards Ireland of all the stakeholders.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-11 19:52:35+00:00
Permission is not the same thing as power.

> I didn’t expect the popularity of this line of reasoning: being pro-2A means license to kill. This is sickening.

Have you ever heard the phrase "an armed society is a polite society"? It's quite popular among 2A folks, and its rare that someone brings up its implication - that rudeness should be punishable by death.