MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anaisbetts | 2025-10-07 07:38:04+00:00
Yes, LTSC is literally missing parts that are standard on a Windows install - it's an operating system designed for ATMs and kiosks that run exactly one tested application, it is not a general-purpose operating system.

If you happen to not need those pieces, and you don't care about running super out-of-date software? Sure it might work. But it's not a Good Idea in general.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-07 07:38:09+00:00
> Control of the currency is one of the core governmental functions, I find it hard to imagine a world where governments are OK with this.

Are you not aware about the countries that are seemingly OK with this already? There are countries that don't have their own national currency and instead rely on United States Dollar, so obviously what you say doesn't always apply.

> I find this unlikely, but we'll see I guess.

Why? They're already in a "hard to imagine world" (from your perspective) since they don't have control over their own currency, wouldn't it be "easier to imagine" that they move to a currency no one control?
by stephen_g | 2025-10-07 07:38:57+00:00
I (quite honestly, not being snarky) think the whole reason for that was the EC were trying to target Apple (and some other US tech companies) while pretending to not specifically target them, and in this case wanted Apple to do certain specific actions but couldn't be that prescriptive for the aforementioned reasons, so Apple was able to take advantage of that wiggle-room to take a different tack.

If they'd just been upfront that they were directly targeting a few US companies and prescribed exactly what to do, then the DMA wouldn't be a mess that made some things worse, and they could have made Apple to do what they wanted.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-07 07:39:09+00:00
> My native Germanic language has a specific variant of 'yes' which is perfect for when both 'no' and 'yes' alone would be ambiguous. Not sure why not more languages have that.

French draws this distinction; ordinary 'yes' is oui; 'yes' contradicting a negative is si instead.

Mandarin gives you a variety of options for how to respond. You can use equivalents of 'yes' and 'no', but it's more common to echo the verb in the question.

你喜欢吃辣的吗？("Do you like eating spicy food?")

不喜欢 ("[I] don't like [it].")

Here we have no need to worry about whether the question was positive or negative; if I like the food I'll say 喜欢 and if I don't I'll say 不喜欢.

It's also possible to say 对 "correct", in which case it does matter how the question was phrased.

The specific question here, 你不是学生吗 "Are you not a student?", might be a little odder than usual because the verb 是 is also what's used for a simple "yes". But for "No, I'm not" 不是 is unambiguous, and I have a vague gut feeling that 是啊 would probably be taken as "Yes, I am". And of course you have the option of continuing your response ("yes, I'm a student, I've been enrolled here for two years") if you feel the short answer was too cryptic.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-07 07:41:22+00:00
> mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it.

There's exactly two you need to get macOS eye-on-eye with Windows: Hyperswitch for an alt-tab that actually works and SizeUp to get a "window arrangement like Windows with Win+arrow keys".

Further migration pains can be eased with a Windows keyboard layout bringing special characters to where they belong in muscle memory (that however can and will bring pains with anything Adobe, their apps absolutely do not like non-Apple keyboard layouts and will refuse to load keyboard command presets) and Karabiner to map Ctrl+C/V to reduce hand strain.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-07 07:42:15+00:00
> Major issue I faced in this method

Biggest issue regular user might find with this is that basically all the VPS host' IP ranges are known, and plenty of websites give you a different (worse) experience compared to when using residential addresses, or straight up block you.

Personally I found the hassle to great, compared to using existing VPN services.
by Muromec | 2025-10-07 07:42:18+00:00
Labor protection costs money the same way monopolies cost money. You can have a strong cartel on the one side of the labor market or another, but there is a backed-in assumption that cartel of workers harms the economy more than a cartel of employers. This coming from a employers mouth is just negotiation tactics, nothing more.

>If companies go somewhere else to employ people, jobs disappear from your market.

Does this actually happen anywhere in the usual suspect countries? Doesn't seem to be. Quite the opposite -- they all import workers, because the actual pain point right now is pension fund deficit with the ration of retired to working being skewed.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-07 07:43:19+00:00
OpenVPN is just really complicated, which makes sense because of the context and history. But even me who've done plenty of OpenVPN setups through the years, found Wireguard a lot simpler and easier to both learn and use effectively. So if you haven't tried Wireguard, give it a go, the simplicity is pretty nice.
by anon7000 | 2025-10-07 07:43:43+00:00
I mean it’s in your comment. The usability studies mean more people prefer it the other way. You SHOULD cater your default style to something that’s more widely usable.

And no, I absolutely do NOT want the content I’m reading to be full width on my 32” monitor. I have loads of other sites that I’m jumping between which do need to take up the full space.

I mean newspapers have a narrower columnar layout than any website and they’ve been around for centuries.
by dmurray | 2025-10-07 07:43:53+00:00
And to answer the cost question, Astroscale is charging $8-100 million [0] per LEO junk removal mission (small numbers for small failed comms sats, big numbers for a spent upper stage).

The objects in the article are all at the bigger end. Presumably Aeroscale have started with a technically easier mission than some of the 50 in the article, but they will also eventually benefit from economies of scale. So you can estimate the cost to remove the 50 bodies in the single digit billions.

[0] https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/astrosca...
by saurik | 2025-10-07 07:44:56+00:00
Even if the CPU does not -- as is the case for SEV-SNP -- you can replay prior values. Imagine a variable that contains "the current user is an admin". You can wait for an admin to log in, back up the encrypted copy of that variable, and then log in yourself and overwrite the variable to your backed up encrypted copy.

The granularity of the encryption is only 16 bytes, and so you can pretty directly target changing things at a pretty low level. And, as the encryption is deterministic, you can also characterize "this location in memory only ever seems to have three values, and they correspond to these three ciphertexts".

> If the CPU used the same key for all secure VM's to encrypt RAM, then this makes a little more sense. Just start a malicious VM, have it instruct the hardware bug to re-direct it's reads to an another VM's secured RAM, and it's game over. But that isn't exactly it, because of the requirement to have write access.

It isn't quite this, as the address matters for the encryption tweak. To do the attack this way (which is only one way of doing it: the Battering RAM device reactivates all the prior attacks, not just this one devastating one), you have to shut down the VM and boot up the malicious one, and get it aligned to the same place.

But, the key bit you are missing is... just do it in reverse? You boot up the malicious VM, have it write anything you want to write, and then you read it back using the redirect (the goal isn't to alias encrypted pages, it is to alias encrypted pages to unencrypted memory). Now you know what you can write to that location in another VM to get that value.
by beAbU | 2025-10-07 07:45:48+00:00
I'm completely speculating here:

I think for FPSes, the server relies on the client for many of the computationally intensive things, like fog of war, collision detection, line of sight and so on. This is why cheating like wall hacks are even possible in the first place: The client has the total game state locally, and knowing where to look for and extract this game state allows the cheater to know the location of every player on the map.

If the server did not reveal the location of other players to the client until the server determined that the client and opponents are within line of sight, then many types of cheating would basically be impossible.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-07 07:46:10+00:00
> is bonkers to me

I've seen it in action plenty of times.

The trouble is not being aware of what you don't know, and wasting time going down an unproductive path. You may never realize there is a better solution. (You'll see this in programming where the self-taught programmer uses a bubble sort instead of, say, a qsort. Or using polling instead of interrupts. Or not being aware of hash tables. Or not being aware they shouldn't roll their own crypto.)

For example, I enjoy making things with tools. Sometimes I struggle with a tool. When I have a craftsman over to the house to do some task, I ask "mind if I watch?" They always say "sure", and I watch them do it. They're happy that someone finds their work interesting and love to explain what they're doing.

I keep track of the tools they use, and how they use them. Many times I didn't know those tools existed and they make the job a lot easier. I also will note down the manufacturer and the model of those tools, so I can acquire the professional version of a tool.

(Yes, I look at yootoob instructional videos. Watching it in person is far more instructive.)

BTW, the number of people who seem to be capable of self-teaching themselves calculus seems to be very small.
by fy20 | 2025-10-07 07:46:22+00:00
Calling Tesonet a VC firm isn't really an accurate description of their history. They started as an IT services company (which they still do), then split out internal services into effectively separate companies (e.g. CyberCare was originally built to manage customer support for NordVPN).

Now they have got more money than they know what to do with so are making VC investments.
by artursp | 2025-10-07 07:46:39+00:00
I've started working on this new idea of building a developer-first, system-level AI compliance solution (within the context of EU AI Act) which would allow exporting regulator-ready evidence packages (AI audit trails - model versions, dataset quality metrics, performance evaluations, decision/human intervention logs etc. ) with one click.

Think Sentry for AI systems with the functionality of regulator friendly export bundles.

Tell me why this is a bad idea.
by keun | 2025-10-07 07:47:28+00:00
Thanks for your advice!

The key differences between our platform and Italki are: 1) We focus specifically on Korean experts, and 2) We plan to match users with experts in all kinds of Korean fields, not just language — including K-pop, dance, travel, culture, Korean job consulting, and more. (If you have any suggestions for other fields that might be interesting, I’d really appreciate your ideas!)

Do you think this concept still has a strong value proposition? If so, what would be the most effective way and place to promote such a platform globally?
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-07 07:48:44+00:00
Davie504 is great. Humor is subjective, of course, and his vibe is not so far from the reaction/personality slop that engages younger viewers. But he’s a great player, quite funny, and a genuine guy - check out his bass battles.

It takes a lot of work to put that stuff together, and he gets a lot of views, so I assume he’s got a whole team behind him…all of whom get impacted by his channel being threatened.
by avazhi | 2025-10-07 07:49:00+00:00
Yeah, this is a press F to doubt kind of situation, for many reasons: frontal cortex not developed, Broca’s and Werneke’s areas not developed, sounds not transmitting through a belly and through amniotic fluid into an undeveloped auditory canal, etc.

Easy to spot bullshit that sounds more like an April Fools post than anything else.
by novok | 2025-10-07 07:49:10+00:00
The standards to become a medical doctor in the 70s-90s compared to the 2000s and the 2010s are vast. There is a lot of extra bullshit now required to become a doctor like volunteering in africa and a person with A average GPA failing to get in, while if they were in the 80s, did not require to do that. Start with getting rid of the absolutely stupid barriers.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-07 07:49:28+00:00
Serif is meant to be printed, on paper, with the ridiculous DPI of printers.

These fonts have not been designed for pixelated displays. Yes, it's better on Retina / HiDPI displays (I even enjoy some serif fonts on those), but those have to be designed with pixels in mind. But they usually are atrocious on "classic" pixel densities.

And tangent: the print industry has a much wider typeface selection than "just" Times New Roman, which is rather rare in my personal experience (sample size of one, though).
by spyrja | 2025-10-07 07:50:28+00:00
I couldn't get it to do much. Also noticed a subtle bug here:

next = compile(read(buffer), cons("halt", NULL));

C doesn't guarantee the order in which arguments to a function are processed. Since 'cons' relies on 'read' being called first, the result is undefined behavior. (In fact I had to fix that before it would even "run" on my system.)
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-07 07:50:31+00:00
> Gamers should categorically refuse rootkits and give the cold shoulder to studios that release games that require them. Anyone with a bit of maturity can do that, and nowadays there are thousands of other games to choose from.

the problem is, the wide masses still keep buying the latest AAA game thanks to literally sometimes hundreds of millions of euros worth of marketing (GTA V already had 150 M$ marketing budget well over a decade ago), and the free-to-play "whale hunter" games are even worse.

With ye olde purchased online games, like UT2004, you'd think twice before cheating, otherwise you'd get your serial number banned (sometimes not just on one server, but on an entire fleet of servers run by the same op) and you'd have to buy a new license. That alone put a base floor on cheater costs.

In contrast, Fortnite or other f2p games? These are overrun by cheaters, there is no cost attached at all, so it's obvious that the only solution is to ratchet up the anti-cheat measures.

All hail capitalism and the quest for f2p developers to lure in the 1-5% of utter whales that actually bring in the money.
by fedeb95 | 2025-10-07 07:51:53+00:00
This page contains some interesting advice I didn't know, useful for traveling in general. Traveling without a luggage is a staple of mine, but I am not at this pro level yet.

For other commenters, overcoming materialism means not being attached to objects. Not necessarily living on a backpack. The idea is to have objects if you can, but don't suffer for their loss, or their gain. Seneca, the stoic thinker, might be a great read to start.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-07 07:52:17+00:00
(1) reader mode (made for that purpose)

(2) user stylesheets (permanent solution, but you could have multiple and use an extension to enable disable different widths)

(3) responsive mode (in dev tools, most flexible, but most cumbersome to reach)

(4) Other extensions

There are easy ways to resize the viewport, so the premise is false.
by beAbU | 2025-10-07 07:52:24+00:00
Computers are basically resistive heaters with extra steps. The watts going into them can't go anywhere else except be exhausted as heat. Conversation of energy and all that.

I have not done the math, but if the economic value of the compute is high enough, then it's probably cheaper to heat a home with compute compared to more efficient heat-pump technology. I think this must have been the case in the home bitcoin mining days.

Alternatively, if you are going to need the compute regardless (e.g. high-end gaming), and you need to heat your home anyway, then you might as well use the joules your PC is pumping out into your room.

The problem is heating is cyclical: we don't always need to heat our homes, yet compute wants to run at 100% 24/7 in order to extract as much value out of the upfront hardware costs. With other types of heating you can switch it off if you don't need it.

So the solution is probably not to have a rack in every home - you need a way to get rid of unneeded heat, which increases cost and complexity of an installation. Rather have a DC near a neighbourhood, with pumped district heating coming from the DC. If the homes don't need the heating then the DC can dump it in a conventional way.
by ben_w | 2025-10-07 07:53:50+00:00
Paying for ads like that is still a subset of fork (1). Even as propaganda, it has to somehow be "worth it" to spend the money.

Endless investing is, depending how you look at it, either not (just) ad supported and preceeds the premise, or it still is ad supported (and hence (1)) just with extra steps to badly hide who is doing it.

Hmm… I suppose the purchase of a vote in a democracy is something that a poor person might not otherwise be able to sell, and where "we advertised and convinced you" is (depending on campaign finance etc. rules) one of the legitimate ways to do it… but even then, for reasons too long to type on my phone, I'd say in this case it would still make the poor poorer.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-07 07:53:52+00:00
I don't mind limiting content-width. I do mind the trinity of plz-scroll-to-read-two-words: content-width limiting, bigger fonts, bigger line height.

Most websites abuse the latter two, and makes my mouse wheel spin like a meth addict without a dose.

Please keep the default font size. It's aligned with the system's size, and is precisely what a browser's zoom function will scale.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-07 07:54:04+00:00
As always with such threads I can see people commenting that Windows is dead and Linux is all that you need, heck, is straight up better.

Of course HN is a bubble, like every other place like this, but sadly, I would argue that this is the mindset that pretty common among Linux users and holds Linux-native alternatives back. For those saying that Linux is already better than Windows in everything, there is no incentive to work towards actually making it better. When emacs is equally good for those people as VS, when Linux gaming still depending on Windows APIs is considered a great success, when FreeCAD or OpenSCAD in their eyes do not lack anything when compared with professional CAD software etc, then you know you are seeing a bubble that will burst, sooner or later.

I suspect in 2025 even project like FreeCAD would not happen, because today people for some reason believe it is fine to go away from OS that do not respect user agency and their privacy, and use web-based apps that do... exactly the same, but they are not from MS so that's fine I guess. For some reason Windows requiring internet connection is a bad thing, but driving Linux and relying on bunch of web apps that also require internet connection is good.

Celebrating WINE, Proton and Steam OS as victories still baffles me, because the fact that FOSS and Linux world couldn't create real alternatives and had to become good at pretending to be Windows instead is simply a failure.

But hey, I know I am crying in the wilderness.
by AnssiH | 2025-10-07 07:54:48+00:00
> In Valorant (similar to Counter Strike), at the start of the game you have 60 seconds to buy your weapons and abilities for the round. Valorant/CS is typically a best-of-13, and before each round is a 60 second "buy" period.

Valorant's buy phase is 30 seconds, with +15sec at start of match and halftime.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-07 07:55:29+00:00
> What are you gonna do, buy a non-"smart" TV? :)

These exist and are called "digital signage" - usually these things got far brighter and more durable panels, downside is they usually hover around 2x the price of an ad delivery device.

Plug in your old Chromecast 4k or Apple TV, that's it.
by okramcivokram | 2025-10-07 07:55:34+00:00
During the Ethereum GPU mining craze I used ~10GPUs as a primary heat source for the whole house during the winter. It was awesome. For the first time I didn't have to care about using only 'cheap' electricity as it was not getting 'wasted' on heating only, but doing 'useful' work (mining). The only downside was the noise.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-07 07:56:24+00:00
It's probably more that a lot of people have been convinced that they need a VPN, but they don't. There are use cases, like I trust Mullvad more than I trust some random hotels WiFi. When traveling it can provide a slightly higher base layer of trust.

If you live in a country that restricts your internet access, which to be fair is most these days, a VPN can help. Most of us just don't care about those restrictions or they are more easily circumvented using a 3rd. party DNS. Also if you're in country like Iran or Russia, you really need to trust your VPN provider and strange corporate structures and staff sharing really isn't helping in that respect.

For the average person, no you don't need a VPN. You might need one for a few days or week per year, if you travel and need to access your bank or corporate infrastructure (in that case your employer most likely have their own VPN). VPNs are a niche business, but online influencers have convinced a lot of people that they need a VPN for everything, which simply isn't the case for the vast majority of us.
by jolmg | 2025-10-07 07:56:30+00:00
IMO, it was definitely the better OS even going back to 15 years ago. People use Windows only because of the network effect of people being school-taught how to use computers on Windows, which leads to a positive feedback loop of more software being made for it which locks-in people further.

I remember after learning Linux, how much of a toy Windows felt, with my needing to grab windows by the bar to move them around (instead of grabbing from anywhere), and trying to resize them by the thin corner (instead of resizing from anywhere), having no concept of workspaces, having no choice of window manager while Linux could engulf windows in flames and render them in a cube, only being able to backspace single characters at a time, no choice of file manager, files having weird limitations on their names, having nothing like bash (pre-powershell) while Linux had multiple shells, no block devices (this could be expanded into a lot of points), no simple way to work the partition tables, not being able to mount things wherever, not being able to treat a regular file like a disk, no real choices of filesystems, poor network utilities, ping only pings an arbitrary 3 times by default instead of just going on indefinitely, no package managers and repos, etc. I could go on a lot more probably, but this is enough. Windows XP was a toy compared to Linux.
by lentil_soup | 2025-10-07 07:57:08+00:00
not really, hence the "private" part of my comment. It's placing a whole industry on top of a(nother) platform I can't control or have a say over and have to give them part of my revenue.

I understand their value for a studio in that I don't have to roll my own engine, but I wouldn't claim that's a good thing for the industry. Not if those are not open standards where I can swap components a la IBM PC, web standards, etc
by fragmede | 2025-10-07 07:57:10+00:00
It's more than simply porn. I know of a couple of people who have named their ChatGPT (at ChatGPT's asking, even) and refer to it by name.

I can't speak to your experience with memories/persistence, all I can say is ChatGPT's memories feature does well enough at remembering preferences. How much it hallucinates and they shrug it off, vs how much it does/doesn't for them, I couldn't tell you.