MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stefs | 2025-09-11 08:00:17+00:00
i haven't made that experience at all, as i've got kids and pretty much never used the car for inner city trips. trips are daily kindergarden, doctor, visiting friends - we do all those with either bikes plus a kids trailer or public transport (i'd say roughly 50/50).

for the kindergarden commute we've used the car two or three times in almost 5 years, when we had to transport birthday party stuff (i.e. cake), but then we stopped even doing because using it was too much of a hassle.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-11 08:00:41+00:00
I think you two may be talking past each other a bit here. Bear in mind I am not a security expert, just a spirited hobbyist; I may be missing something. As stated in my digital resilience audit, I actually use both Tarsnap and restic for different use cases. That said:

Tarsnap's deduplication works on the archive level, not on the particular files etc within the archive. Someone can set up a write-only Tarsnap key and trust the deduplication to work. A compromised machine with a write-only Tarsnap key can't delete Tarsnap archive blobs, it can only keep writing new archive blobs to try to bleed your account dry (which, ironically, the low sync rate helps protect against - not a defense for it, just a funny coincidence).

restic by contrast does do its dedupe at the file level, and what's more it seems to handle its own locks within its own files. Upon starting a backup, I observe restic first creates a lock and uploads it to my S3 compatible backend - my general purpose backups actually use Backblaze B2, not AWS S3 proper, caveat emptor. Then restic later attempts to delete that lock and syncs that change too to my S3 backend. That would require a restic key to have both write access and some kind of delete access to the S3 backend, at a minimum, which is not ideal for ransomware protection.

Many S3 backends including B2 have some kind of bucket-level object lock which prevent the modification/deletion of objects within that bucket for, say, their first 30 days. But this doesn't save us from ransomware either, because restic's own synced lock gets that 30 day protection too.

I can see why one would think you can't get around this without restic itself having something to say about it. Gemini tells me that S3 proper does let you set delete permissions at a granular enough level that you can tell it to only allow delete on locks/, with something like

# possible hallucination. # someone good at s3 please verify { "Sid": "AllowDeleteLocksOnly", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "s3:DeleteObject", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::backup-bucket/locks/*" }

But, I have not tested this myself, and this isn't necessarily true across S3 compatible providers. I don't know how to get this level of granularity in Backblaze, for example, and that's unfortunate because B2 is about a quarter the cost of S3 for hot storage.

The cleanest solution would probably be to have some way for restic to handle locks locally, so that locks never need to hit the S3 backend in the first place. I imagine restic's developers are already aware of that, so this seems likely to be a much harder problem to solve than it first appears. Another option may be to use a dedicated, restic-aware provider like BorgBase. It sounds like they handle their own disks, so they probably already have some kind of workaround in place for this. Of course, as others have mentioned, you may not get as many nines out of BB as you would out of one of the more established general-purpose providers.

P.S.: Thank you both immensely for this debate, it's helped me advance the state of my own understanding a little further.
by robfitz | 2025-09-11 08:00:44+00:00
An extremely eye-opening comment, thank you. I haven't played with the image generators for ages, and hadn't realized where the workflows had gotten to.

Very interesting to see differences between the "mature" AI coding workflow vs. the "mature" image workflow. Context and design docs vs. pipelines and modules...

I've also got a toe inside the publishing industry (which is ridicilously, hilariously tech-impaired), and this has certainly gotten me noodling over what the workflow there ought to be...
by eitland | 2025-09-11 08:00:57+00:00
Does it really make any difference whether they compared the death of someone who led one of the world’s largest terrorist organisations for decades

- with someone who wasn’t good at debates,

- or with someone who was?

My point still stands: even if Charlie Kirk had been entirely unremarkable, it wouldn’t be right to compare him with someone responsible for thousands of civilian deaths?
by zemvpferreira | 2025-09-11 08:01:14+00:00
Have you stumbled on The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr[1][2]? It crystallises this idea well, divides energy into several different dimensions and tries to give you a framework to figure out which dimension is constraining you and how to expand your reservoir. Some of the practical advice is silly but I still find it very helpful. I go back to it often.

[1] https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_...
by sylware | 2025-09-11 08:01:15+00:00
Stay away from microsoft github. They managed to break support of noscript/basic (x)html browsers for some of their core features (issues...) and are unable to move to ipv6.

They are alternatives, which are fighting big tech hackers in order to stay public and available on internet, and who do understand how important having a noscript/basic (x)html web portal is (well, they don't have a whatng cartel web engine only support agenda).
by cpursley | 2025-09-11 08:02:17+00:00
I'm just shocked people like you are blaming the victim instead of the shooter. I didn't follow that guy and don't really care which topics he covered, he didn't deserve to be killed. If anything, this just makes the trans issue (or whatever the supposed issues are) more polarized. Unfortunately this mentality is in line with what I've been seeing on Reddit over the past year (ie., speech is actual violence and should dealt with with actual physical violence, punch a [loosely defined] Nazi, etc). Scary times ahead.
by geocar | 2025-09-11 08:02:31+00:00
> When I graduated high school, I vowed to never return. My wife however had other ideas, and as soon as my kids were school age, we were back

Listen brother, if you do something, it is your choice. Nobody can make your choices for you. Not the government. Not a god. Not even your wife.

And the choice to do nothing is still a choice.

> Could I go to the school board meetings and raise and issue? Sure, but my son, who would be the recipient of any retribution, requested I not.

You are the adult: You are making this choice.

Your son is the recipient of the future you are creating whether you like it or not.

And what will happen is son's children (if they have any) will have a slightly worse version of the problem you are facing, because of the choices you are making.

> Even if I win a seat on the board, I’d be just one of 7, and nothing would change.

Nonsense. It always starts with one.

Didn't you know the first black person to sit in the front of the bus was just one person?

I bet if you try you can think of a lot of firsts that led to change.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 08:02:35+00:00
It looks impressive but it duplicates a tonne of existing functionality from TWIN, which has been around for about 25 years or more.

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)

And both of them seem to re-implement their own, inferior, versions of the TurboVision text-mode "widget toolkit":

https://tvision.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

A merger could result in something greater than the sum of its parts.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 08:03:15+00:00
We totally agree with you and accordingly, we've thought things through! We do have appropriate strategies to handle challenges but once again, they're quite challenging! We would've loved to mention how exactly we plan to deal with closed sourced vendors but since that is a plan still in action, we'd love to disclose them at a later point once they're actually executed.

We've scheduled a prototype launch later this year. We would make much more progress till then and the public would get proven answers from our side once that happens!
by qcnguy | 2025-09-11 08:04:13+00:00
Steelmanning that position, though, would go like this. The purpose of debate is to challenge people's views, even if they strongly disagree, in order to convince if not participants then bystanders to change their mind. Good debate makes good viewing, which is why debates have audiences. And young people in particular tend to be impressionable because they don't have a lifetime of commitment to one position.

So if you want to engage people politically via debate, then university campuses are a good place to do that and thus - to someone extraordinarily uncharitable - any such debate could be described as "trolling immature leftist college students to score YouTube views". The same activity done by an academic would be described as "presenting the youth with mind-expanding dialogue", and they'd be doing it to score tuition fees, but nobody would quibble with that phrasing.
by NomDePlum | 2025-09-11 08:05:05+00:00
The issue with the more concerning types of these attacks is they are either never spotted, or they take months to execute. Public disclosure is unlikely in a lot of cases. Even widespread internal disclosure is probably not a common occurrence.

Routinely large public companies are however having to admit breaches and being compromised so why we are making the modern day equivalent of an infected USB drive available is puzzling.
by closewith | 2025-09-11 08:05:14+00:00
Generally it would be career-ending for a naval officer (both OOW and captain), but it really is a systemic problem present in a lot of other navies. Seamanship is simply neglected because of the cost (both in time and money) of proper training.

The article mentions the collision would likely have never happened in poor visibility, because the OOW would have kept watch on radar (which they should be doing in all weather conditions, anyway) and would have been a lot slower over ground.

That's because a lot of young (post-PC/smartphone era) sailors hold much more confidence in electronic nav tools than their own abilities. The OOW was most likely accustomed to relying on AIS (which they had turned off for tactical reasons).

> The OOW and trainee officer discussed the floodlights but believed they were ashore and stationary. Confirmation bias and lack of experience led the OOW to keep thinking this was the case until too late. Inexplicably there was only brief use of navigational radar and AIS to check the situation and they interpreted the tanker as a stationary object alongside at the terminal.

The simplest check could have resolved this. If the lights maintained a constant bearing as the warship made way, it would have been obvious (unless heading straight for or away) that it was another vessel. Watchkeeping 101.

It's an issue we see again and again at sea. Militaries and corporates alike aren't willing to put in the time to make seafarers (which takes years) and relies instead on electronic aides, which are excellent and work 90+, 95+ percent of the time. When they don't, though....
by sharikous | 2025-09-11 08:05:47+00:00
> I've always had the feeling that AI researchers want to build their own human without having to change diapers being part of the process. Just skip to adulthood please, and learn to drive a car without having experience in bumping into things and hurting yourself.

I partially agree, but the idea about AI is that you need to bump into things and hurt yourself only once. Then you have a good driver you can replicate at will
by throwaway81523 | 2025-09-11 08:05:56+00:00
I'd rather have it in tablet format with more screen instead of the blackberry keyboard, now that there are very light cheap bluetooth keyboards that are comfortable to type on. I'm using one right now with my phone, and it weighs about the same as the phone. There are smaller and lighter ones around too.

It's much better for extended typing than a screen keyboard or blackberry keyboard. For non-extended typing, the blackberry keyboard is a small enough improvement on the screen keyboard to not be worth permanently dedicating space to it.

Just make the tablet battery swappable and sign me up :).
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 08:06:32+00:00
> This article is somewhat incorrect. Kerberoasting abuses Ticket Granting Service tickets (TGSs...

> TGS are (AES or RC4) encrypted...

What? No. The "TGS" is the "ticket granting service", and it's part of the KDC. A "TGT" is a "ticket granting ticket" -- an object, a blob which is a) a Ticket, b) whose service principal is a TGS principal (meaning of the form krbtgt/TARGET_REALM@ISSUER_REALM).

If in doubt see RFC 4120.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-11 08:06:45+00:00
Snap and Flatpaks only real legitimate use-case is legacy compatibility:

1. Current release applications on deprecated OS (Mostly good)

2. Deprecated applications on current OS (Mostly bad)

The Windows style packaging architecture introduces more problems than it solves. Fine for running something like Steam games with single shot application instances using 95% of system resources each power cycle, but folks could also just stick with Windows 11 if convenience and security-theater is their preference.

Some people probably won't notice the issues, but depends what they do. Arch Linux itself is a pretty awesome distro for lean systems. =3
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-09-11 08:10:18+00:00
> It's theoretical Productivity Porn written by a student (check the about me page) who Wants To Be Remembered For Something.

I wish I'd known that before I read tfa, and then the two-part essay on How to Choose a Life Partner. This guy writes well and all, and I'm sure he means well, but he's about 20 years old. I don't need life advice from someone so inevitably inexperienced.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-11 08:11:05+00:00
This is business as usual. Look at the 20th century section of this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe

And that's just the big events in Europe, if you looked at newspapers you'd see hundreds of horrible things happening every single day.

Even terrorists attacks are way lower than not so long ago: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Terroris...

My parents had the cold war, petrol crisis, September 11, dotcom, 2008, my grandpa fought in wars in the 60s, my grandma was born right before ww2 and talked to German soldiers when she was 6 and her village was occupied, &c.

Young westerners get scared because they're used to people dying far away, now that it's getting a bit closer they think it's the end of the world, the truth is that it's always been fucked up, we just got locally lucky for a bit

Get out of the news cycle, it really isn't that terrible out there
by colechristensen | 2025-09-11 08:11:12+00:00
Recently I have been doing several projects with my car in the shop.

I wouldn't say I was proud of the many many hours spent sitting in the shop and by any metric or observer, doing exactly nothing. On the other hand these hours were essential to success and the work would have gone better and been done quicker if I had spent more hours sitting doing nothing in close proximity to the work. (some time was spent very low productivity cleaning or arranging project related things, most time was spent quite literally sitting and apprantly doing nothing)
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 08:14:08+00:00
To be fair, you can incite violence and that speech is protected under the First Amendment as long as there is no risk of imminent violence.

So, yes, your speech saying so and so is a "threat to democracy" is protected speech, but it is in fact inciting violence.

> Where as so and so "is going to destroy our society" is not?

The quote was:

| We have to try to stop escalating, or the cycle is going to destroy our society.

Indeed that is very much not incitement to violence but actually incitement to de-escalation. The "or the cycle is going to..." part is not specifically a threat against any one person, unlike the "so and so is a threat to democracy".

How can you not see this?
by adrian_b | 2025-09-11 08:14:33+00:00
It should be noted that the claim that the new DRAM cell has no capacitor can be misleading.

Like any DRAM cell, it has a capacitor, which in this case is the gate capacitor of a MOS transistor.

The separate capacitor of current DRAM cells is replaced by a second transistor, whose gate capacitor stores the charge that distinguishes stored "1"s from stored "0"s. Such 2-transistor cells, where the second transistor used for sensing the cell state also includes the capacitor, are not new, they had been used in many early DRAM devices, decades ago.

The main advantage of the new cell is in replacing silicon for the transistors of the DRAM cell with another semiconductor material with wider bandgap than silicon.

This reduces a lot the leakage currents, allowing a smaller capacitor. The gate capacitor of the storage transistor is sufficient, so no other separate capacitor is needed.

One thing that is not mentioned is how resistant are the new DRAM cells to radiation. The smaller stored charge makes them more susceptible, but the wider bandgap of the transistors makes them less susceptible, so it is uncertain which is the actual behavior.
by einarfd | 2025-09-11 08:14:40+00:00
If you look at the article, they do not use his name. Even after there is a final judgment against him. He only got 60 days of probationary prison, while I personally found it weird he was the only one that got punished. I'm sure the punishment could be a lot worse.

On the name side, the names of the people involved where sparingly if at all mentioned in the press. The did use the names of ministers and top military and navy officers of course. But not the crew. I'm sure their peers knew who they where, and that some careers got hurt. But if you left the navy and did something else, it probably wouldn't follow you though.
by alwinaugustin | 2025-09-11 08:17:05+00:00
For all its advanced capabilities, the LLM remains a glorified natural language interface. It is exceptionally good at conversational communication and synthesizing existing knowledge, making information more accessible and in some cases, easier to interact with. However, many of the more ambitious applications, such as so-called "agents," are not a sign of nascent intelligence. They are simply sophisticated workflows—complex combinations of Python scripts and chained API calls that leverage the LLM as a sub-routine. These systems are clever, but they are not a leap towards true artificial agency. We must be cautious not to confuse a powerful statistical tool with the dawn of genuine machine consciousness.
by Borg3 | 2025-09-11 08:18:47+00:00
While I love CLI and terminals this is like going backward, heh. Instead of making lightweight and lighting fast GUIs where you can render all your terminals and some other graphics, people try to form TUIs again.

Yeah, they were great in 80s where HW was seriously underpowered. I run minimal IceWM and it looks and works great, and its quick :)
by potac | 2025-09-11 08:19:43+00:00
It's true there is a bus to Marin every 20min but it uses a _single_ fixed route. People that live far away (>1km) from this path spend less time driving to Pontevedra than walking to the nearest bus stop.

It is not just increasing frequency, it is a matter of providing alternative routes to serve an important part of the population.
by nis0s | 2025-09-11 08:20:08+00:00
Genocides are a human problem, and not distinct to any one particular culture or people, they’ve occurred everywhere and across all times.

https://casbs.stanford.edu/genocide-world-history

It’s better for people to acknowledge that such a problem can span all types of people and cultures, so we can perform root cause analysis without being biased or disingenuous.

There’s also the question of when we classify group killing as a war vs. as a genocide. There are schools of thought on this https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2020.1....

For example, see the hesitation of scholars in classifying Mongol invasions as a genocide. Is it the case that only white settlers committed genocide across history? If we think of it that way, then we’re ignoring atrocities committed by inter-group violence (war crimes), or same ethnicity violence. The goal should be to prevent violence between groups of people.

Regarding slavery, again it’s a problem that has occurred across time and cultures. Why were different ideologies and cultures unable to prevent slavery? It’s a disgusting stain on human history.

https://historycollection.com/the-evolution-of-slavery-from-...
by trosi | 2025-09-11 08:20:42+00:00
> [...] there are zero specialized jobs in Pontevedra. Either you are a public state worker, for which you need to pass an exam to lock a lifelong job with no possibility of being fired regardless of how incompetent you are, or you work in hospitality.

Alas, this is basically how it works in most of southern Europe, including my home country Italy. I don't know how much a small-town mayor can do to reverse years of bad political choices at the national level.
by zimpenfish | 2025-09-11 08:22:27+00:00
> true for all the Trump handouts: otherwise the ten-year economic outlooks would have cratered

Not just that - they're often timed to expire early into the next administration which, if Democrats win, is an instant "look how the Democrats treat the working folk!" hammer. e.g. "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" from 2017, expiring at the end of 2025[0].

[0] https://theconversation.com/trumps-plans-to-extend-tax-cuts-...
by skrebbel | 2025-09-11 08:22:47+00:00
I'm not a Linux user (yet) and I'd like to understand what "immutable" means here. Does it mean that I can't, eg, install Elixir or an IDE on it? I have absolutely no interest in deeply tuning the OS, which is why I'm interested here - I've been on Windows for decades for a reason. But if installing applications is blocked, or cumbersome, then who is this for?
by unnamed76ri | 2025-09-11 08:23:11+00:00
Thank you for this comment. For my job, I am driving in my car anywhere from 4-6 hours a day. You could say I am just sitting there, why don’t I have energy to do anything else with my free time? I’ve recently begun to realize that while driving all that time, my brain is making thousands of subconscious decisions. I don’t have any study to back this up, but I think the brain only has so much capacity for decision making each day.

Many days, I end up zonking out for a 20-30 minute nap in the afternoon. It’s a visceral need to sleep right then. And then I can function at a better capacity for most of the rest of the day.
by jameslk | 2025-09-11 08:23:24+00:00
You posted about this a few times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208072

The comparison with the Minnesota lawmaker murders submission sounds political and you seem to care about this aspect a lot to mention it 3 times

If you’re genuinely curious why this event is likely getting so much attention, I’d wager it has less to do with politics than it has with the fact that this occurred in front of thousands of people, mainly young students, and was recorded by many on their phones. It was also being broadcast I believe. Multiple angles of a very graphic video of a person getting murdered are all over the internet

It’s terrible when innocent people are murdered. In this case, many people watched it happen too