MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apple4ever | 2025-09-05 00:50:06+00:00
It's also an example of how stubborn people can ruin a project. While it's nice to see the old NextStep GUI, it's from the 1990's. They never made any effort to improve. They never made any effort to integrate nicely into the rest of the Linux world. They never made any effort to add new Objective-C features.

Its entirely stagnated.
by sfRattan | 2025-09-05 00:50:18+00:00
> akin to them walking into the store, sliding the product under their jacket and walking out

That is a misrepresentation of what is happening across computers and networks. Here is a better analogue:

If someone walks up to my car, taps it with a magic wand, mutters some incantations, waits a few minutes as a perfect duplicate slowly materializes, and then drives away in the duplicate... Of what have I been deprived? Maybe privacy, depending on what I had in the car at the time it was duplicated... But that's tangential to the point here.

There's a worthy argument that the above scenario is still a wrong (some kind of tort, maybe). But there is simply no argument that the above scenario is equivalent to theft.

Theft deprives someone of a scarce material resource. Copyright infringement subverts someone's exclusive, government-granted monopoly. Unlike being secure in one's possessions, copyright has never been understood as a natural right. People grok this distinction intuitively, even if they neither fully understand the technology nor possess the words to articulate it well.
by sipofwater | 2025-09-05 00:50:47+00:00
* "Windows 11 Update KB5063878 corrupted my 8TB Seagate drive (RAW, data loss)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/windows-11-update-kb5063878-corrupted-my-8tb-seaga)

* "Potential SSD Detection Bug in Windows 11 24H2 Following Update KB5063878 (August 12, 2025)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/potential-ssd-detection-bug-in-windows-11-24h2-fol)
by sipofwater | 2025-09-05 00:52:03+00:00
Comments by whmxtra (https://www.youtube.com/@whmxtra) posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc ("BEWARE! Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration" video by JayzTwoCents)

* whmxtra, "It goes even deeper": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgxOFAkpMCaks... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgxOFAkpMCaks_ANsv14AaABAg&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi)

* whmxtra, "And a new problem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugwg2WrjpvM2e... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugwg2WrjpvM2epZ1Rn54AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "And another update. Just did a quick check in linux": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy6GoefcNaic... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy6GoefcNaic_iR4TB4AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "And mystery partly solved": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgyXcnwyWqy9M... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgyXcnwyWqy9MMVFfIN4AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "Ok another update (and possible solution). I called up 20 of my local customers and asked if I could swing by and test their systems to see if they had issues. Out of those 20 PC's half of them had the space missing issue.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy2W5D-KDtpN... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy2W5D-KDtpNk-BE3R4AaABAg)
by corimaith | 2025-09-05 00:52:11+00:00
>Their claim is that leaving control to that small group of people who are pushing their own personal interests, is, on the spectrum, ultimately less democratic than an equally small group that ostensibly takes in all the considerations of the population at large.

Well then it's important then actually to undertand what the CCP itself believes here. This is not what they are claiming explicitly. Wang Huning's critique of America isn't because it is poor or mismanaged, it's because it accepts heterogenity, in multiculturalism and diversity that he believes leads to social decay, loss of cohesion, and weak stability. And National Sovereignity and Powerful State is Paramount, not the livelihood of the people. To that extent, heterogenity is suppressed in favour of enforced homogenization all through a powerful central party. Dissent, Historical "Nihilism", Postmodernism, Plurality, cannot be tolerated because they weaken National Direction.

They don't find the idea of small group of corporates leading as problematic because it still provides a single coherent direction. No, what they fear is when everyone goes to table and starts pushing their own opinion.

If you understand this, that their rejection of liberal democracy comes from fundamental point through influence of figures like Carl Schmitt and Marx, the idea that they are "democratic" is just largely just rhetoric for foreign audiences. And it's worldview that quite close to American Postliberals like JD Vance or Peter Thiel. Whether you agree with it or not is another thing, but this is not democracy in any sense of the word. You need to know at least what side you're speaking for, because many posters in HN certainly are displaying irony in supporting China while simultaneously opposing Trump, when Trump's authoritarian actions of cracking down on minorities and opposition are very much what the CCP would be endorsing. And by Trump's own words, he is justified by the "Will of the People".
by jltsiren | 2025-09-05 00:52:31+00:00
That goes in cycles. Some generations are more politically active than others, as young people tend to find their own things to do. The late 60s and most of the 70s were politically pretty active, as there were a lot of young people and the society was changing rapidly. 1968 was probably the year of peak youth activism, both in the Western and the Soviet blocks.
by dehrmann | 2025-09-05 00:52:47+00:00
Every election, while I'm working on filling out my sample ballot, I visit the candidates' websites to see what they claim to stand for. Almost without exception, there's never any depth or nuance to their stances, and it's sprinkled with fearmongering dog whistles.

Politics is dumb because the electorate lacks a deeper understanding of policies and tradeoffs, so shallow, partisan takes win elections. The problem isn't that a Dickensian metaphor went over the heads of college literature students; it's that practically all the information most adults consume is intellectual junk food, and people aren't used to challenging their views or taking on different perspective.
by cco | 2025-09-05 00:53:00+00:00
> I’m typing this shortly after buying my groceries with a visa debit card that was funded 30 seconds before the transaction over Lightning Network with Bitcoin that was sold at a 0.1% fee for USD and immediately then transacted on Visa debit payment network.

I think I'm confused. You paid 0.1% on this transaction, but if you'd done it with just a Visa debit card tied to a traditional bank account you would have paid 0.0%.

Am I missing something?
by illusive4080 | 2025-09-05 00:53:15+00:00
I have found that it is useful for specific tasks but those tasks aren’t necessarily time savers. For instance, asking it to rephrase a sentence doesn’t really save me time, but it does give me some alternative phrasing that I might not have thought of.

It is particularly good, as most AI is, at text summary. Whether that is summarizing what I’ve missed in a meeting, action items, or even finding a needle in a large haystack of a document.

On the other hand, I find it wholly lacking in the search/discovery of documents in SharePoint and surfacing important emails. There is no way for me to tell it that “such and such executive call” has no importance to me, or that “help please” is the most important email in my inbox.
by maxdevai | 2025-09-05 00:53:23+00:00
I started this as a small side project just for myself. The idea was simple: make interviews less stressful by offloading some of the thinking to AI.

How it works: You record the interviewer’s question It instantly generates a structured answer You focus on delivering it clearly

I didn’t expect much, but after using it myself I was surprised how effective it turned out to be. Within a month, a few others tried it too — some even shared they landed offers with its help.

Still early, but I’m fascinated by how small tools like this can actually shift the dynamics of something as stressful as interviews.

If you’re curious, you can check it out here: https://voicemeetai.com
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-05 00:53:29+00:00
Justice delayed is justice denied.

I am on the side of justice, through the justice system, because I think that it is a social good to see injustice brought, well, to justice. In the moment, judgement calls are sometimes necessary, but this is not ideal, as it legitimizes self-help justice, which is fraught with issues of standing, proportionality, and reprisal. Once vigilantism begins, there may be no end to it. Just ask the Hatfields and the McCoys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud

Justice is a social good, but not an unqualified good; there are failures to convict and miscarriages of justice. My heart goes out to those who have no escape from injustice or legal avenue to rectify illegal acts. But at the same time, these women are expected to just walk away from their abuser, the very same man who raised them, indoctrinated them, to be his subordinate and subservient playthings. They were set up to fail to protect their own best interests in favor of their father’s whims and fancies. That doesn’t excuse or justify their behavior, but it does situate it in a context of ongoing violence, trauma, and lawlessness under the same roof as their captor, so I can see why they were not able to seek justice through the proper channels. They had no way of conceiving of a future world free of their father’s will, and so all hopes rang hollow, a bell their father rang as surely as Pavlov himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning

Vigilantism is doubling down on bad behavior and hoping the house doesn’t win when the chips are down and we’re going for broke. It’s a flawed strategy for bettors to gain leverage over their supposed betters. I don’t find that self-help is a strategy for a stable society, because it engenders an unstable equilibrium that favors those already willing to dispense violence contrary to the interests of the community and the justice system. The girls are not hardened criminals, but their actions give cover to those who are, by pointing out the flaws in the legitimate monopoly on violence that the state holds. I am rather in favor of correcting the shortcomings and failure modes of the justice system itself so that victims need never take matters into their own hands in the first place, because that way lies madness and corruption.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and bad actors run roughshod over the little people as a matter of course. We ought to do better for each other, as that is what society is. I only hope that the girls are able to be freed, and that their actions are viewed in a light that accommodates the long shadow cast by the long arm of the law they lived under, the same arm that should have defended them from their own father, but did not.
by MoravecsParadox | 2025-09-05 00:54:10+00:00
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by minism | 2025-09-05 00:54:16+00:00
This was a great essay, and as someone who struggles a lot with hyperawareness OCD, I cried reading it.

First on a positive note, the example about attention on sex and arousal feeding back on itself and deepening the experience is well described and easy to relate to. But I think the "deepening an experience through attention" phenomenon applies in so many other domains as well - Sustained attention on a film or video game world, deep uninterrupted creative work for many hours, etc. It's a wonderful positive feedback loop.

It is somewhat similar to how when sitting in silence outside for a long period of time you begin to become aware of more and more subtle details of the experience that weren't immediately accessible. Almost like you're turning up the sensitivity knob on things.

Unfortunately as the author describes, the attention feedback loop can become unpleasant and even torturous when it is directed on negative sensations. For me it has been various things at different stages of my life - muscle tension, breathing, eye floaters in my vision, etc. The same process plays out - Sustained fixation of attention on the sensation increases your sensitivity to it, meaning you notice it more and it bothers you more, meaning you pay more attention to it, and it gets out of control.

The difficulty I experience is that this attention is unwanted and yet I feel my mind focus on it almost automatically. Paradoxically, most of the treatment/recovery advice for this type of OCD is to allow these sensations to be there without rejecting them, which I'm still working on.

But it is helpful to see the positive flip side of the coin too - Our minds are capable of deep focus and deep attention, which can increase sensitivity and let you see increasingly subtle details of experience, making you a better appreciator of art and life, a better creator, a better listener and friend, etc.
by linguae | 2025-09-05 00:55:13+00:00
Indeed. This reminds me of Rob Pike’s famous 2000 polemic “Systems Software Research is Irrelevant,” where he laments the decline in innovative operating system designs of the era.

Additionally, we need to consider the career incentive structures of researchers, whether they are in industry, academia, or some other institution. Writing an operating system is difficult and laborious, and coming up with innovative interfaces and subsystems is even more difficult. When a researcher’s boss in industry is demanding research results that are productizable, or when a researcher’s tenure committee at a university is demanding “impact” measured by publications, grants, and awards, it’s riskier betting a career on experimental systems design that could take a few person-years to implement and may not pan out (as research is inherently risky) versus pursuing less-ambitious lines of research.

It’s hard for a company to turn its back on compatibility with standards, and it’s hard for academic researchers to pursue “out-there” ideas in operating systems in a “publish-or-perish” world, especially when implementing those ideas is labor-intensive.

The widespread availability of Unix, from a source-available proprietary system with generous licensing costs to universities back in the 1970s, to the birth of FOSS clones and derivatives such as Linux and the BSDs, has made it much easier for CS researchers to not need to reinvent the OS wheel, instead focusing on narrower subsystems, but at the cost of discouraging research that could very well lead to the discovery of whole new ways of carrying things, metaphorically speaking. Sometimes reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

I still dream, though, of writing my own operating system in my spare time. Thankfully as a community college professor I have no publication pressures, and I get three months off per year to do whatever I want, so….
by eth0up | 2025-09-05 00:56:15+00:00
Your comment should not be gray, as you've stated a rarely known fact. I used to have an old brochure with the exact model number of the device you refer to. And it's been around for well over a decade.

I'll try to find the model to rescue your post. People can be so fucking unreasonable here it makes me sad.

But I know exactly what you're referring to.

Note: it's also worth considering its applications in parallel construction and that it's indeed so rarely known, that it doesn't require a warrant.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range-R

Edit II: they were, at one time around 2011 definitely having a lot of fun with these devices in my town here in Florida.

Edit III: also of interest, https://camero-tech.com/

Edit IV: https://www.policemag.com/technology/article/15541542/first-... - Detex Pro, by MaXentric
by throw4847285 | 2025-09-05 00:57:21+00:00
The corners where Wikipedia breaks down are niche but fascinating. Check out the list of superhero movies (not Marvel or DC). Or any page that contains information on Video Game Console Generations.

In cases like those, what has gone wrong is a mix of apophenia and people protecting their own turf. Elaborate classification systems are created that are internally consistent but have no relationship to reality.
by probably_wrong | 2025-09-05 00:57:57+00:00
Without giving specific numbers, I think the following situation is inherently unfair:

I pay Spotify $20. They take their cut (say, 50%) and there's $10 left for the artists. I've only listened to one small artist throughout the entire month. The artist does not get $10 but much less despite Spotify knowing precisely which artists I listened to.
by kulahan | 2025-09-05 00:59:11+00:00
Xi Jinping is worse, by orders of magnitude.

Death is part of the necessary cycle of biology, and in no way is it bad. It’s certainly SAD, but in no way is it bad. Rotting isn’t this horrible mark on your body, it’s the beauty of nature recycling things so that the new has a chance.

Not only that, but could you imagine the absolutely incredible strain on Earth’s resources if we had 50 billion people instead of 8 billion? Global warming would’ve happened ages ago, and we’d be far, FAR beyond it now. In this scenario, it should be obvious nobody has a yacht, let alone a smartphone. There simply isn’t enough to go around here on earth.

There simply isn’t any positive to immortality, besides “well I won’t be sad about that one particular thing anymore”, which is… really lame when compared against the untold damage this will do.

I’m a little surprised you’re not taking any time to explain the benefits here, because I’m not actually seeing any besides you not having to cope with nature anymore.

Edit: I should also mention that I’m not looking for shitty black mirror outcomes, I’m just looking at the modern world, which continues to stratify massively, and pretty much has (with few exceptions) since time immemorial. Can you explain why things will suddenly become fair and equitable when nobody dies for some reason?
by ENGNR | 2025-09-05 00:59:20+00:00
There are all sorts of protections around who can be a custodian of someone’s money (for good reason)

However there are use cases like running a marketplace, where the platform would like to be able to direct the flow, maybe hold things temporarily in case there are multiple transactions or to split a transaction up between different clients, before paying it out daily or weekly as a lump sum. Often it’s just to avoid fees, because the marketplace operator charges their fees in a different way (like a flat monthly invoice) and they want to assist with money logic as a service, but not be the custodian of the money.

Even just knowing that money has moved at all can be useful, without any ability to touch it, and it’s difficult to get permissions from conservative financial institutions, whereas permissionless ledgers make it easy.

Crypto can help add that nuance. It’s still your money, but you can give a third party the ability to do some things to assist you, without giving the ability to transfer it all to themself and run away with it.
by DimmieMan | 2025-09-05 01:00:28+00:00
I believe there is a function of age to some degree, I 100% Assassins creed 2 at 14 and now I have a decade and a half of watching studios remake that goddamn game. They're all trying to make the best practice, safest game they can to reach the widest audience and end up bland with nothing new to offer those of us that have been playing a longer time.

Almost all my favourite titles of the last decade have been smaller titles, even the ones I bounce off I can appreciate them for trying something and missing the mark, there are genuine amazing works of art out there that a large studio simply can't produce.

I don't think the AAA games are 'wrong', to my bewilderment assassins creed sells like crazy each year despite near everyone in my friendship circle tapping out after the pirate one a decade ago, it's just if you play more than a couple things a year you outgrow the 'mainstream' titles.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-05 01:00:45+00:00
> SQLite database has a lot of capability, which this essay has only begun to touch upon. But hopefully this quick glimpse has convinced some readers that using an SQL database as an application file format is worth a second look.

It really is. One of the experiments we have been doing currently to make bug reporting from Androids easier (and to an extent, reduce user frustration and fatigue) is to store app logs (unstructured) in (an in-memory) SQLite table. It lends very well in to on-device LLMs (like Gemma 3n or Qwen2.5 0.5b), as users can Q&A to know just what the app is doing and why it won't work the way they want it to. On-device LLMs are limited (context length and/or embeddings) and too many writes (in batches of 1000 rows) to the in-memory SQLite table (surprisingly) eats up battery like no tomorrow, so this "chat to know what the app is doing" isn't rolled out to everyone, yet.
by c0balt | 2025-09-05 01:01:22+00:00
NHR@ZIB actually has on of the older models in their NGT pool (the OS info is a bit out of date), https://user.nhr.zib.de/wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/428842/Next-Ge...

If you are interested in this model, and part of a German educational institution, you can get free access to it.

There is at least one semi-regular user but we haven't seen a lot of interest in these types of accelerators. The overall userbase appears to value portability (and the ability to run code locally) to a good degree, which these cards often limit/reduce.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-05 01:01:29+00:00
I find it hard to imagine that an 80 years old politician today spends a lot of time thinking of what would happen 50 or 100 years down the line. And things like fossil fuel use are very much a "50 to 100 years down the line" kind of problem.

Now, if that very politician thought that with the way anti-aging technology is going, he'll probably live to 150, maybe 200 if he's lucky? That might change the equation - for the better.

I don't think that "kill everyone to avoid the risk of the political system getting marginally worse" is an optimal solution. I'd rather deal with aging and the shittiness of politics as two separate problems with a minor overlap.

>I personally find it beautiful how “energy” is recycled once we die, through the soil, and eventually into other things - like a tree, etc.

I think that this is nothing but socially accepted cope. A load of pseudo-profound bullshit that might be easier to accept than the idea that aging and death are really fucking bad and we aren't doing much to stop them. And that even if we did, we and our loved ones may not be the ones to ever benefit from it.