MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NotPractical | 2025-09-11 21:59:10+00:00
I don't think that the translation feature itself can be considered OS functionality. An API providing on-demand background execution time for apps linked to connected Bluetooth devices would surely be sufficient to comply with the DMA?

As an example, when they were compelled to allow competing browser engines, they didn't open source Safari; they added a multiprocessing/JIT API to iOS (tailored and restricted by policy to browsers). Competitors (web browsers) got access to the OS features (multiprocessing/JIT) that they needed to compete with Apple's product (Safari), but they didn't get access to the product itself and still need to build their own.

In this case, competitors (device makers) might request access to the OS feature (background execution) that they need to compete with Apple's product (live translation on AirPods).

It should also be noted that such functionality only has to be provided if explicitly requested by a developer who is working on a competing product, so they don't have to develop it preemptively.

I'm not saying that this is completely fair or whatever, just that I don't think it's quite as extreme as people are making it out to be?
by wishfish | 2025-09-11 21:59:45+00:00
Weirdly enough, the iPad Mini is probably the iPad most used for work. The size & weight are perfect for many scenarios. Pilots, warehouses, and field work of all sorts.

For me personally, it's my travel machine. I've done all sorts of things with it on the road. From SSH to using Photoshop to make some last minute edits. It (barely) fits in my pockets so I don't even need a bag for it. Probably my favorite machine ever at least in terms of form factor.

Screen size does seem to be a personal choice. For me, I've always liked small screens for portability. I'm the weirdo who actually got work done on the first gen Asus EEE PC and didn't mind it. But I can understand that wouldn't be for everyone.
by hvs | 2025-09-11 22:00:04+00:00
Get in the habit of putting your phone down when you are in the room with your child. Don't have it on the dinner table, or anywhere you would socialize with your children. It's really best to just avoid using it as much as possible around your kids. Obviously, if you have to make appointments and stuff, that's different, but scrolling social media, reading news, etc. should be left for the evenings after kids are in bed. Kids don't really care what you say as much as they are always watching what you do.
by lostdog | 2025-09-11 22:00:23+00:00
There is no such thing as a good flow for showing sponsored items in an LLM workflow.

The point of using an LLM is to find the thing that matches your preferences the best. As soon as the amount of money the LLM company makes plays into what's shown, the LLM is no longer aligned with the user, and no longer a good tool.
by catigula | 2025-09-11 22:01:22+00:00
1. It is trivial to "falsify" unexplained UAP. Simply provide a credible explanation, or say they're explained. In fact, president Obama did the opposite, and confirmed that they aren't explained or explicable. Our government has been leaking these things for quite some time now.

2. Because you're a fan of Occam's razor, can you take your razor and say "Shucks, this guy Luis Elizondo was confirmed as a legitimate knowledgeable operator by former senate majority leader Harry Reid, a member of gang of eight, privy to the most classified intelligence in the United States, full stop, there isn't a higher position except for the president of the united states. This guy Dave Grusch has as his lawyer the former inspector general of the US intelligence communities. For some reason he's also outlining a scenario where we know about non human intelligences and they pose a serious existential threat to humanity, that's odd. Ah, well, can't be anything!"? The thing is, something deeply, deeply, deeply odd is going on and the shape of the leaks (something you should LOVE if you love Occam and 'debunking', because you've already predicted leaks in your no conspiracies modality) is consistent and absolutely disturbing, concerning, and a clear matter worthy of sustained attention. Why are all of these people at the highest level of our government talking about this? You're not at all concerned or curious, you're merely drifting through life, confident you passively have the answers? I find this incredible.

3. The US government hasn't kept the secret, as explicated. Just like the nuclear program, certain things have leaked.

4. If you continue to see mounting credible operators repeating the same story with absolutely no curiosity, no desire to know more, certainty that the entire thing is impossible or somehow debunked due to your meager cognitive abilities and patterns of thought that you don't even own, I don't know what to tell you. It's literally impossible for you to come across this information because you've immunized yourself to it. The fact that it's here and we're facing an overwhelming, nauseating story from the highest levels of government is worthy of serious consideration and we do not require your assessment to make that basic, obvious determination.

>If you or anyone else has evidence, I'd urge them to be agents of truth and go update Grusch's Wikipedia article, at the time of writing this it states: > No evidence supporting Grusch's UFO claims has been presented and they have been dismissed by multiple, independent experts.

I'd love to collect on this debt somehow when you're proven wrong in our lifetimes.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-11 22:01:26+00:00
I meant “undocumented workers” but didn’t want to offend people and don’t know that these “undocumented” people are actual workers. The phrase “undocumented worker” is, if not absurd newspeak, at these very least extremely imprecise: what documents, what work?

Edit: here’s a thread on one such place, very much in the good, expensive side of town. (Studios go for about 3k in Campbell last I checked.) https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/17acwq4/is_cadilla...

Many, though perhaps not most, of the non-citizens there are non-workers, unless you consider drug dealing gang members workers.

They do have a stellar carniceria though, and it’s fairly safe during the day if you avoid eye contact with men and don’t wear certain colors.
by graemep | 2025-09-11 22:01:49+00:00
Sqlite is a bad fit for anything where ephemeral storage is the default. On the other hand is you use a simple VPS there is no problem.

There are multiple simple ways of doing SQLite backups https://sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html#vacuuminto https://sqlite.org/rsync.html - or just lock and copy the file.

If you need to scale enough that it is a concern, then its not a good fit for your use case.
by vsgherzi | 2025-09-11 22:02:37+00:00
It's strange to me that others push the unsafe keyword as an "I told you so". Perhaps it's just the way rust presents it. Most rustacians I follow agree that Rust's power is turning unsafe things into safe wrappers for the programmer to use. Much of the std library is implemented with unsafe to make things work at all, and this isn't really a bad thing it is heavily vetted and tested.
by yoz-y | 2025-09-11 22:04:06+00:00
I always thought I had a vivid imagination. But then the aphantasia was mentioned in Hello Internet once, I looked it up, see comments like these and honestly…

I’ve no idea how to even check. According to various tests I believe I have aphantasia. But mostly I’ve got not even a slightest idea on how not having it is supposed to work. I guess this is one of those mysteries when a missing sense cannot be described in any manner.
by squigz | 2025-09-11 22:06:14+00:00
Isn't 2020s a pretty steep cutoff? I understand these stories shouldn't be too cut off from the current culture, but surely 10-15 years in the past is still fine? Even older, surely; 2 of the novels that stick out in my own childhood ('Bridge to Terabithia' and 'Where The Red Fern Grows') were decades before me.
by sky2224 | 2025-09-11 22:06:45+00:00
The big future that I see for foldables is as tablets for note takers.

Microsoft and Apple have already proven that students are willing to shell out the money to buy $1000+ products just to take hand written digital notes on. If Samsung or someone else could create a foldable that's in the ~$1500 range that can fold out into the size of an ipad mini AND has a good pen usage and storage situation, I believe it will sell incredibly well.

It'd be so cool to be able to walk to a lecture with only your phone.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-11 22:07:49+00:00
The movie personality of Tony Stark was supposedly inspired by Musk's persona (at least from before he began spending most of his time in a futile attempt to woo Trump)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/28/robert-downey-j...

"In 2022, Iron Man screenwriter Mark Fergus confirmed that Musk had partly inspired the screen version of the Marvel hero, as both men share tech prowess, arrogance and a short fuse. He told New York magazine that Stark was as if “Musk took the brilliance of [Steve] Jobs with the showmanship of [Donald] Trump,” adding: “He was the only one who had the fun factor and the celebrity vibe and actual business substance.”"

Edit: I'm not quite sure why Musk was brought up unprompted though, made it seem like he has something to do with this company, but it doesn't seem like that's the case?
by thebruce87m | 2025-09-11 22:08:16+00:00
Sure. But, how much?

> It programmed Blackhillock’s inverter to hit 250 percent above nominal current to deliver the 140-millisecond pulse that NESO requires, says Aaron Gerdemann, a business-development manager for SMA. After that, the device will back down, allowing the circuits to cool.
by frfl | 2025-09-11 22:08:30+00:00
If we're talking objectively, yeah by definition if it's a net negative, it's a net negative. But we can both agree in absolute terms the negatives of email are manageable.

Hopefully you understand the sentiment of my original message, without getting into the semantics. AI advancement, like email when it arrived, are gonna turbocharge the negatives. Difference is in the magnitude of the problem. We're dealing with whole different scale we have never seen before.

Re: Most of my emails at this point are spams. - 99% of my emails are not spam. Yet AI spam is everywhere else I look online.
by wojtek1942 | 2025-09-11 22:08:31+00:00
> However, this mode switching is expensive! Just this switch alone costs 1000-1500 CPU cycles in pure overhead, before any actual work happens.

...

> On a 3GHz processor, 1000-1500 cycles is about 500 nanoseconds. This might sound negligibly fast, but modern SSDs can handle over 1 million operations per second. If each operation requires a system call, you're burning 1.5 billion cycles per second just on mode switching.

> Package installation makes thousands of these system calls. Installing React and its dependencies might trigger 50,000+ system calls: that's seconds of CPU time lost to mode switching alone! Not even reading files or installing packages, just switching between user and kernel mode.

Am I missing something or is this incorrect. They claim 500ns per syscall with 50k syscalls. 500ns * 50000 = 25 milliseconds. So that is very far from "seconds of CPU time lost to mode switching alone!" right?
by wubrr | 2025-09-11 22:09:10+00:00
Because you should never just 'trust' random 'research'. Good analysis in this case will clearly explain the problem, the analysis methodology, findings, net effects, resolution, etc. Something you can read, and decide for yourself whether it is complete/incomplete, has holes, contradictions, etc. Not 'we looked into it and all is good - only potentially tiny effect' (no actual data or methodology presented at all) and then linking to a comment directly contradicting the claim...

It's a hilariously unserious and untrustworthy response.
by lovich | 2025-09-11 22:09:18+00:00
> I cannot believe that people think that violence is a good answer to anything.

There is quite a bit of philosophical arguments and discussions backing violence as _a_ solution, albeit not the only solution and usually one reserved for when other measures fail.

Look to this treatise as a start[1]

If you think it’s never a solution then all you have done is unilaterally disarmed, and ceded decision making power to those who still keep violence in their toolbox

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_War
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-11 22:09:37+00:00
sigh

so many little details off when the instructions are clear and/or the details are there. Brad Pitt jeans? The result are not the same style and missing clear details which should be expected to just translate over.

Another one where the prompt ended with output in a 16:9 ratio. The image isn't in that ratio.

The results are visually something but then still need so much review. Can't trust the model. Can't trust people lazily using it. Someone mentioned something about 'net negative'.
by astura | 2025-09-11 22:10:07+00:00
>When I was a kid in the 1980's and early 90's the mall was the place to go and hang out. Go to the food court, arcade, shoe stores, Spencer's gifts.

It's so wild looking back at those times. My friends and I would take the bus to the mall, which took (what felt like) forever. And we'd hang out there, browse stores, etc. for HOURS. Even though none of us had any money to spend. Sometimes we'd get a fountain soda at the food court for $.50. it's amazing we'd spend so much time at stores when we had no money.
Show HN: Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generator
by age123456gpg | 2025-09-11 22:10:39+00:00
Hello,

I've built the tool to generate vanity Tor Onion Service addresses:

$ onion-vanity-address allium Found allium... in 12s after 558986486 attempts (48529996 attempts/s) --- hostname: alliumdye3it7ko4cuftoni4rlrupuobvio24ypz55qpzjzpvuetzhyd.onion hs_ed25519_public_key: PT0gZWQyNTUxOXYxLXB1YmxpYzogdHlwZTAgPT0AAAAC1ooweCbRP6ncFQs3NRyK40fRwaodrmH572D8py+tCQ== hs_ed25519_secret_key: PT0gZWQyNTUxOXYxLXNlY3JldDogdHlwZTAgPT0AAAAQEW4Rhot7oroPaETlAEG3GPAntvJ1agF2c7A2AXmBW3WqAH0oUZ1hySvvZl3hc9dSAIc49h1UuCPZacOWp4vQ

The tool checks ~45'000'000 keys per second on a laptop which is ~2x faster than widely-used mkp224o https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o

I've explained key performance difference here https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address?t...

Would love your feedback, thanks!
by jmcphers | 2025-09-11 22:12:06+00:00
A simple test for aphantasia that I gave my kids when they asked about it is to picture an apple with three blue dots on it. Once you have it, describe where the dots are on the apple.

Without aphantasia, it should be easy to "see" where the dots are since your mind has placed them on the apple somewhere already. Maybe they're in a line, or arranged in a triangle, across the middle or at the top.
Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers
by clav88 | 2025-09-11 22:13:01+00:00
I built pbar.io because I was tired of SSH'ing into servers to check if my data processing scripts were still running, or worse, having them finish/crash without knowing.

It's a simple REST API that lets you create and update progress bars from anywhere. The same progress bar can be viewed as terminal output (with ANSI colors), in a browser, or consumed as JSON.

I'm actually tracking this HN discussion with pbar. The progress bar increases with each comment - watch it live as we discuss!

Web: https://pbar.io/Y8yg3BG Terminal: curl https://pbar.io/api/bars/Y8yg3BG

More features that emerged from my own use cases: - Hierarchical progress bars (parent bars auto-aggregate children) - Python package (pip install pbar-io) that wraps tqdm - just swap the import - QR codes to monitor progress on your phone while away from desk - No auth required for quick prototypes

Curious what use cases you might have for this!
by pretzel5297 | 2025-09-11 22:13:22+00:00
> I'm excited to see how neovim is making progress with native LSP, but for years getting it working meant continuously tweaking vimscript/lua code or adopting a plugin written in TypeScript.

Lua and native LSP supports were introduced at the same time. Not getting how you would tweak Lua code to get LSPs to work before Neovim had native support.

> LSP just worked; it read what was on the $PATH and used it.

This is how Neovim loads LSPs as well. You don't need a plugin to download and manage LSPs. You can just install them externally yourself.

> not spending any time configuring LSP servers were the top problems plaguing my usage of neovim.

It's been years since it's just a few lines to enable LSPs with the config shipped in nvim-lspconfig if you don't want to override any server-specific settings. And even then its still pretty easy.

I will give you that Neovim should ship with nvim-lspconfig and just load a compatible LS if its already in the PATH. Enabling each server one wants to use is annoying. But again, it's just a few lines (and I'm pretty sure a lot of people wage war if they did either of those things because "bloat").
by bobbane | 2025-09-11 22:13:23+00:00
Only partially. As long as the third-party doctrine is valid in the US, they can claim that they're just integrating data from private companies with existing government records.

And those third party companies can, if they choose, tell Palantir to pound sand if they don't have warrants.

The real problem is those third parties know a LOT about us, and it's essentially impossible to opt out of their data gathering. License plate scanners and credit bureaus, anyone?
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 22:13:37+00:00
Which is fine as well if that's really the case (which I don't think it is, Europe apparently makes up ~1/3 of Apple's total Airpods revenue).

If they refrain from distorting the market in their favor (and instead "retreat and rally up the userbase") the DMA seems to work surprisingly well so far...

The procedures with the EU are quite interesting here, Apple was exchanging extensively for more than a year on how to reach compliance, then the decision [0] was made.

There are also separate procedures for the specification of compliance and investigating (non)compliance.

This gives Apple little room to argue on violation of the DMA later-on, because they were actively involved in defining the criteria beforehand.

So it's possible that they currently just need to find a mode to achieve launch-parity for EU on such features, and they're not there yet.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...
by ncruces | 2025-09-11 22:13:47+00:00
The way they got multi-writer working is a bit too adventurous for me.

It involves fiddling the database header to ensure you can keep track of the read-set from the VFS layer, by convincing SQLite to drop its page cache at the start of every transaction.

Other than that, a MVCC VFS is relatively straightforward. Here's an in-memory experiment if a few hundred lines of Go: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/v0.29.0/vfs/mvcc/...

I haven't settled on what's a good storage layer for something like this.
by jzelinskie | 2025-09-11 22:14:07+00:00
I was never a big user of netrw or nerdtree, but Helix has <space>+f for a fuzzy-finding file browser or more recently they added <space>+e or <space>+E for a hierarchical directory explorer.

I build HEAD from source using brew, so I'm not actually sure if the directory explorer is in a stable release.
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 22:14:33+00:00
They were mostly FBI informants instead of agents, acting as FBI assets.

FBI informant "Big Dan" was the guy that drove them to the supposed casing of Whitmer's vacation home, acted as one of the leaders of the militia, and he also spent hours and hours planning the kidnapping. For one. (from memory, the FBI even supplied the addresses to case).

FBI credit cards bought a lot of the ammunition and the stuff involved in the plot.

I believe Caserta (not guilty) was referencing him when in his interviews he talked about how the guys training them were FBI assets as referenced in wikipedia "Chappel taught the group tactical skills he had learned in the U.S. Army."

A confidential FBI informant known as "Big Dan," identified in court as Dan Chappel, testified that he drove plotters involved in the scheme to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Chappel also drove with Adam Fox, the group's ringleader, to scout Whitmer's vacation home.

(google AI)

Dan Chappel (born c. 1987), nicknamed "Big Dan", an Army veteran who served in the Iraq War. He has stated that he joined the Wolverine Watchmen in 2020 after finding them on Facebook, wanting to keep up his firearms skills, but contacted law enforcement after seeing the group's radicalization.[109] After becoming an informant, Chappel became the group's "XO", or executive officer, the second-highest rank in the group,[110] and then its highest-ranked officer after Morrison departed the group due to marital problems.[110] Chappel taught the group tactical skills he had learned in the U.S. Army,[110] offered the group use of a credit card (paid for by the FBI) to buy ammunition and supplies,[111] and in summer 2020 spent hours on the phone with Fox planning the kidnapping.[110]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...
by acdha | 2025-09-11 22:14:40+00:00
> If you think you can judge someone by the morals of today, you must then accept you are evil as well, since societal morals will continue to evolve.

We can judge them by their peers at the time. The U.S. founding fathers didn’t unanimously support slavery, many of them opposed it but were committed to the idea of unity against England. Part of why we can be comfortable judging the slave owners is because their position was primarily based on greed - if we suddenly discovered that cows were sentient, a ton of people would stop eating beef but there was no doubt or ambiguity about black people in that regard, only ruthless awareness of how rich you could get without paying your workers.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-11 22:14:48+00:00
> That's not what the law says. The law says IF they make a feature available in the EU, THEN it must be available to all competitors.

You misread me.

"it" in the phrase "they need to make it available to all headsets in the EU" was referring to features they release in the EU.

So yes you're interpreting the law right, and so am I.

> The hidden downside of regulation is a lot of stuff doesn't get built. It's just normally not so visible, but software is distributed worldwide so we can see the effect.

If the deciding factor in whether something gets built is whether they can lock it to another product, it's usually okay for that thing to not be built.

In this case, they obviously did build it. So now it's a matter of figuring out what the hold up is.

If it's because they don't want to, even though it would make them money and make people in the EU happy, then that's pettiness.
by naasking | 2025-09-11 22:15:08+00:00
The reason purity is good is because you've distilled something to its simplest, most essential and parsimonious form. It is only in this form that you can truly understand something, and only from this form do you have maximum flexibility to combine it with other pure elements to achieve any possible goal.

This is just as true for computer science as it is for material science, eg. good luck flying to the moon without first developing the table of periodic elements.

Yes, that sometimes this can take more time, and yes, you can often take shortcuts and mishmash something together that works well enough for many if not most currently pressing purposes. Only distilled forms are guaranteed to have enduring impact though.