MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lutusp | 2025-10-16 03:03:23+00:00
This is an excellent article as well as a sign of the times. I wish the list of Linux choices had included Mint, which is essentially Ubuntu without Snaps. Snaps are a partly closed-source Ubuntu project that contradicts the open nature of Linux.

Linux users can install the free software suite LibreOffice, which not only replaces Office but reads and writes the same file formats. Many similar choices exist, this is just one.

Gamers can install the free Steam game compatibility layer on Linux, then play many of the same games they play on Windows.

Meanwhile, Redmond's recent requirement that everyone sign up for a Microsoft account, and its pushing the Recall eavesdropping-to-cloud feature with no user opt-out provisions, clearly signals Microsoft's belief that their customers should't be allowed to choose.

Here is a list of current Windows traits that should be options, but are out of an end-user's control:

* Required Microsoft account.

* User tracking and telemetry without knowledge or consent.

* OneDrive, which is cloud storage and tracking, requires technical skill to disable.

* Desktop-recall images to the cloud, essentially Microsoft mass surveillance.

* Edge browser, cannot disable or remove.

* Unintuitive user interface, out of user's control.

* Advertising everywhere.

All these frequently heard complaints are addressed by Linux, and Linux is free.

I've been a Linux user for 30 years. I maintain one Windows dual-boot system, partly to help friends deal with Windows issues, partly to entertain myself with what most people believe constitutes a normal end-user computer experience.

A bit of context -- my first computer was an Apple II in 1977, so my definition of personal computing might seem out of touch with modern times (https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programm...).
by userbinator | 2025-10-16 03:04:01+00:00
I don't think so, their posts still have all the details and the Seagates stick out like a very sore thumb in their tables:

https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads...

and graphs:

https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads...

Since it's not in interest of Backblaze or anyone to smear their brand

It is if they want to negotiate pricing; and even in the past, Seagates were usually priced lower than HGST or WD drives. To me, it looks like they just aren't as consistent, as they have some very low failure rate models but also some very high ones; and naturally everyone will be concerned about the latter.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-16 03:05:14+00:00
What is this project actually for?

Its FAQ states:

> Can MyPy do the instance checking? Because of the dynamic nature of numpy and pandas, this is currently not possible. The checking done by MyPy is limited to detecting whether or not a numpy or pandas type is provided when that is hinted. There are no static checks on shapes, structures or types.

So this is equivalent to not using this library and making all such types np.ndarray/np.dtype etc then.

So we expend effort to coming up with a type system for numpy, and tools cannot statically check types? What good are types if they aren't checked? Just a more concise documentation for humans?
by zrobotics | 2025-10-16 03:05:41+00:00
I mean, easier said than done. We pay accountants because they are good at their specialized field. They have knowledge and experience I don't, and there's certainly things that are obvious and simple to them that I don't know 9r remember.

It's really easy to just say it's the LUsers fault and make pebkac jokes, and I definitely enjoy BOFH style humor, but honestly not everyone will remember the 30 seconds of training to go into this menu and toggle off an extension if netsuite throws a cryptic error or won't behave properly. I find it's better to have some empathy for other people, not everyone thinks like a computer and connecting 'I have this error message full of gibberish about API calls' and 'the IT guy mentioned 2 months ago that if a site isn't loading, I need to turn off this thing'.
by cynicalsecurity | 2025-10-16 03:07:59+00:00
This could be a case of stolen or completely made up identity. This scam has a very distinctive Russian style. I wouldn't be surprised if people behind this scam are Russians. Organising this kind of scams has become very popular in Russia in the recent years. You can easily guess why, their country won't cooperate with the Western or any other law enforcement. They also viciously hate Ukrainians; also, pretending to be Ukrainian who are usually perceived positively and trustworthy is a tactic Russian scammers could be using.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-16 03:08:17+00:00
Nobody thinks this is a weird reaction to an OS update that's been out for years at this point and barely makes a difference over the previous version?

There's no 'Recall'. Co-pilot isn't all over in your face so removing it isn't really a priority. Edge isn't forced on you, it's just part of the bundled software just like a bunch of other items as in every Windows for decades. Not saying it doesn't get hairy if you're going out of your way to remove them or not be in the ecosystem, but consumers don't care, and for the most part stuff isn't being forced in front of them.
by someothherguyy | 2025-10-16 03:08:35+00:00
I don't think it does. I think it comes down to legal frameworks that inhibit major changes to education systems.

There are methods that you could use to increase mentorship and attention by distributing expertise to less-credentialed individuals. This is done in many other credentialed institutions, like hospitals, colleges, or universities.

Beyond that, you could utilize technology in blended learning. This lessens a load on a teacher.

From what I understand, much of this cannot happen easily because there is a gigantic top-down system distributing rules to institutions. On top of that you have labor agreements that blend into those rules and so on.

It seems accomplishing major reform, outside of curricula alone, would be a massive undertaking.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-10-16 03:10:11+00:00
This is a ruse and a manufactured 'much to do about nothing"... the real source of power in America is the CIA & associated Think Tanks and Wall Street law firms - not the Pentagon, especially as far as domestic policy is concerned.

Pentagon and the Media are owned and controlled by the same military-industrial complex and always agree to disagree with each other in public.
by parhamn | 2025-10-16 03:10:56+00:00
> SupportsIndex makes it so that, if you have a value that's not a Python int but can be implicitly and losslessly converted to one

Just to be clear for folks who care more about the general python around this: any class that has a method __index__ that returns an int can be used as an index for array access. e.g:

class FetchIndex: def __index__(self): return int(requests.get("https://indextolookup.com").text.strip()) a = ["no", "lol", "wow"] print(a[FetchIndex()])

The builtin `int` also has a __index__ method that returns itself.

Dunders are part of what makes typing in python so hard.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-16 03:11:15+00:00
Elsewhere in this thread you point out that he mentioned it in February last year. That was 18 months ago! They weren’t rude or abusive.

That is not a grudge. That is not slander. That is not a hill to die on. That is not an attack.

This makes me wonder how many other minor bugs are dismissed by you as a grudge due to you overreacting like this. It makes me a lot less confident in your project.

It’s perfectly fine for you to say ”this is low priority and we have no plans to fix it in the immediate future”. What’s not fine is treating it like a personal attack because they dared mention it twice in 18 months.
by efortis | 2025-10-16 03:11:37+00:00
If you liked that video you'll like this one too, which explains that mechanical and electrical parallel but in the other direction.

Prof. Malcolm C. Smith had an electrical circuit and made its mechanical equivalent. His invention (the inerter) gave the F1's McLaren team an advantage in 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM
by like_any_other | 2025-10-16 03:12:25+00:00
Another source of antibiotic resistance (which the article forgets to mention) is their routine use in livestock, preventatively and to accelerate growth. I would wager that is the far more significant contributor, since there's simply much more of it - compare the total number of cattle in places where such use is allowed (meaning cattle are exposed to antibiotics for most of their lives), versus the number of people being treated with antibiotics (i.e. a very limited population, for a very limited period):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12029767/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6017557/
by hdjrudni | 2025-10-16 03:12:35+00:00
I switched from VSCode to Zed as my "I just need to edit this 1 little text file" app because VSCode was way too spammy. Every time I open it it wants to update something or complain about some extensions or complain that I had a file open and now it MUST close it because heaven forbid I open two things at once.

I hope Zed stays clean. We'll see. So far so good. Was quite happy they had a JetBrains base hotkey setup. Had to add a few of my own but I could pretty easily, nothing missing so far.
by jmg_ | 2025-10-16 03:12:53+00:00
> We built chproxy specifically because ClickHouse doesn't like thousands of tiny inserts. It's a Go service that buffers events and sends them in large batches. Each Cloudflare Worker would send individual analytics events to chproxy, which would then aggregate and send them to ClickHouse.

While I understand how this isn't the only thing that needed to be buffered, for Clickhouse data specifically I'd be curious why they built a separate service rather than use asynchronous inserts:

https://clickhouse.com/docs/optimize/asynchronous-inserts
by tombert | 2025-10-16 03:13:01+00:00
Draw.io is my go-to tool on any platform now. I did an entire bachelors and masters using it for all my diagrams.

I like OmniGraffle but personally I didn't think it was worth it when draw.io was free anyway. Like I don't feel it was $150-$250 better than draw.io, especially since it's not cross platform.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-10-16 03:13:52+00:00
I have said this 10 times on HN and i ll say it again. Release a version of Windows 11 called "Windows Optinmal" that has 0 telemetry, 0 trackers, 0 bloatware that runs faster than Windows 7 on modern hardware. Charge 4x the prices if you want, I ll pay happily
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-16 03:14:07+00:00
I'm sure I will regret this, something will change and I'll be "F.U. Win11!". But, I'm on Windows 11 Pro (upgraded from Windows 10 Pro) and I have barely noticed a difference.

Maybe because it's Windows Pro, not Home? Maybe because I have 2 profiles. The one I used to install it which required a microsoft account, and a separate, local only account which is the one I use always. I can't remember the last time I had to use the other account. Maybe when I upgraded to Windows 11. I don't remember.

I'm not trying to excuse Microsoft. I had to go into settings and turn off everything I could find. I had to futs around to get it to stop trying to get me to install Exchange every time I pressed Win-E (or was it Win-W) which I press often because I use the same keyboard on Mac and Win-W is Cmd-W (open new Window) (A: Powertoys). So yea, I cursed that. But, I found a solution.

Other than that, so far, it stays mostly out of my way and just works. I'm hard pressed to notice too many differences. Is it because I'm on Pro? Is it because it's a local account? Is it just luck? I don't know. It only suggests that it's at least possible, so far, to use it.
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 03:18:46+00:00
Caddy doesn't hit the front page of HN all too often. But when it does, this issue gets brought up by one of two people. That's why it's annoying. It's so predictable and so annoying. We've already said our piece on the topic repeatedly, being asked to repeat ourselves again is insulting to us. Because "this is low priority and we have no plans to fix it in the immediate future" is clearly not an answer for someone who cares about this issue and mentions it again.
by browningstreet | 2025-10-16 03:20:34+00:00
If you’re not on the corporate managed version of Windows 11, Microsoft frequently resets the default apps related to browsing, svg, pdf etc. I had it done twice in a week recently. That’s what flipped the trigger for me and I finally abandoned Microsoft.

If you’re measuring “Windows isn’t annoying” from the corporate perch, that’s not a fair comparison to what consumers and home users put up with.

Not to mention the forced upgrade and reboots that can’t easily be disabled for same.
by avdwrks | 2025-10-16 03:21:09+00:00
I installed Zed and tested out a bunch of fonts on my 1440p monitor. It looks decent, but not great. I think that's more a byproduct of Windows' awful font rendering in general though moreso than a Zed specific problem. VSCode is no better.

Seems like the only way to get high quality font rendering these days is a 4k+ display.
by skopje | 2025-10-16 03:22:11+00:00
So basically you're a linux user who is mad macOS isn't linux? Don't get me wrong, Tahoe is the worst GUI upgrade ever, but the last time I had problems with lack of native Mac-Arm support was ... 2021? I think your arguments are topical and don't point to a significant problem with the build ecosystem. Yes, rare niche packages haven't all migrated to Arm, but ... that's all you got?
by zrobotics | 2025-10-16 03:26:30+00:00
Thanks for clarifying. Looks like the jump to standard is 989/year (if I'm reading Microsoft's confusing pricing sheet correctly). That's enough of a jump that it would definitely be a budget item for a lot of business. And migrating to a different DB engine isn't often an easy task, but keeping a DB maintained under a size limit sounds like a PITA and prone to accidental deletion of needed data. I definitely don't envy someone having to deal with that.
by tombert | 2025-10-16 03:26:34+00:00
Even if I didn't give a shit about the privacy stuff, I would like to just reiterate something I said a few days ago.

My mom got an automatic update to Windows 11, and it bricked her computer. It wouldn't boot; it would spin and then say it needed to go into repair mode, and then doing repair mode didn't do anything.

My initial thought was that the disk was hosed, but of course my parents had a bunch of priceless documents that were never backed up anywhere else, so I talked my dad through flashing a USB of Ubuntu so I could boot into it [1], mounted the NTFS partition, and ran smartctl and the disk wasn't reporting any errors. I found and ran a few other diagnostic commands and again, no errors. I was able to rsync the files to my home server, so nothing was loss. My initial assumption is that the Windows Update team didn't properly check to see if the CPU was compatible, and that maybe they were calling a newer instruction that wasn't on my mom's relatively old laptop.

After unsuccessfully trying to convince my parents to move to Linux, I talked them through flashing a USB drive with Windows 11 with an official image from Microsoft and using Microsoft's official disk flashing software, and we were able to install Windows 11, and as far as we can tell, it worked completely fine.

My hypothesis now is that whomever built Windows Update fucked up some kind of boot key and it was failing as a result. That or they just decided my mom should buy a new computer.

I was actually more annoyed after Windows 11 worked perfectly fine, not just because that means my parents aren't going to move to Linux, but also because that means that there's no technical reason that the computer should have been bricked, it was just the utter incompetence of Windows Update. Just to reiterate, this wasn't some hacked version of Windows 11, this was directly downloaded from Microsoft, flashed with their tools, with no adulteration on our end, meaning regular Windows 11 works fine. I highly doubt that my mom is the only person who has gone through or will go through this, and a lot of the people that will go through this won't have kids who are software engineers and probably be forced to buy a new computer.

Genuinely, how much e-waste is going to be generated by this forced update?

[1] Why the hell isn't there any kind of "Live USB" version of Windows? I mean officially, not some hacked thing? Why is the best way to fix Windows to use Linux?
by forrestthewoods | 2025-10-16 03:27:07+00:00
Literally every single time I have ever used std::variant or worked with code that used std::variant I wish it was done without it. Every time. And that’s not an exaggeration or me being hyperbolic.

Named constants aren’t significantly better. Multiple types in a variant breaks many things with god awful error messages. And that is a fact.

I am hyperbolic on HN. That’s true. My sentiment is sometimes but rarely wrong!

std::variant is bad and no one should use it ever, imho. It sucks and is horribly ergonomic and doing certain things makes it even less ergonomic. Friends don’t let friends use std::variant.

Now ask me my opinion on global variables and how many times I have had to debug mysterious crashes that you’ll never guess the root cause!
by baobun | 2025-10-16 03:28:22+00:00
> while the other is almost entirely unsafe (it's almost impossible to use safely).

I don't believe this is fair. "Don't run untrusted code" is what it comes down to. Don't trust test suites or scripts in the incoming branch, etc.

That pull_request_target workflows are (still) privileged by default is nuts and indeed a footgun but no need for "almost impossible" hysteria.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-16 03:28:39+00:00
I sold my house last year. I looked up the average price growth over the 8 years I owned it for, did some maths and came up with a value. Estate agents even vaguely corroborated it - they thought it was high but within range.

Then I started having viewings on the house, and no one liked it at the price. People had really weird comments: at this price the garden should be bigger, there aren't enough rooms downstairs, the staircase is too wide. Objectively, whatever that means, it was a lovely house - good location, modern, good condition, nice garden, light and spacious. Nothing wrong with it.

Long story short, in the end I sold it for 15% less than the "fair market price" I came up with, and also 10% below the real estate agents estimate.

It stung, but it's a reminder that the market value is what someone is willing to pay. If no one wants to pay my fair market value then it's not a fair market value, period.

I'm just a rando on the internet, but I think the attitude that you are definitely "worth X" but no one wants to pay you this might be counterproductive. Your empirical evidence says you are apparently worth Y. Markets change, recruiters lie etc.

Start with that as as an evidential baseline and ask yourself what could increase your "value" - be it how you present your experience, how you interview, or what skills you could add or niche you could explore.
by Already__Taken | 2025-10-16 03:29:07+00:00
In my completely uninformed opinion I think China is taking their toys and going home.

The UK gov stepped in to stop a Chinese firm closing our steel mill. Capitalism wasn't made to handle large strategic foreign investments closing their own company at nationally inopportune moments.

It feels like a slow burn of embrace, extend, extinguish but playing out on global critical technology and industry.
by mobiledev2014 | 2025-10-16 03:29:51+00:00
Expectations vary but I find that regardless of perfect comfort and battery life I don’t want to go more than a few hours without a break. I’ll watch a jumbo movie or a few hours of tv on a flight no problem

Comfort: For me, the answer was “no” out of the box. I had to exchange my light seal twice before I got the right one. This was no charge but obviously it would be great to get it right the first time and it seems like a large number of users never did this and those are the ones who complain most about comfort. Not blaming the users btw, Apple needs to fix this if they care about the product

Onlookers: I always wonder if somebody will bug me and they never have. If you are self-conscious, it might not not be the product for you

Gestures: You learn that they can be done very subtly and you don’t need to bother the person next to you
by NoPicklez | 2025-10-16 03:30:59+00:00
My perspective is that at some point you have to consider that security wasn't as great of a threat actor in the 1980's. Even only in the last decade have we seen us move from IT security to more cyber security measures for the average organization.

Those systems were designed with security in mind for the environment and threat model of that time. It is why these types of things are grandfathered or improved upon to mitigate the latest scenarios and threat actors. The difference is that they probably couldn't foresee that it would remain the foundation for so long, and what todays world would look like.
by dwd | 2025-10-16 03:31:27+00:00
The thing is if you don't crash the market, you're looking at the Japanese experience of a long slide where prices slowly drop relative to inflation over 20+ years which means some generation is going to miss out and not own a home and potentially forgo raising a family.

If we can remove all the factors that force up prices on new builds (and don't care if the market for existing homes crashes) then it may be reversed.

Material cost should be reversible if you don't expect the house to look like you live at a resort. And we have to ensure supply like incentivising new plantations to eliminate timber shortages.

Fixing zoning restrictions will take political will. Stripped local councils of their zoning powers should mean any nimby-isms around building higher density housing, allowing smaller blocks could be ignored.

Land release is also fixable by taxing undeveloped land that is zoned residential. More land available should lower prices.

Stop doing Government incentives to buy houses. Giving first-home buyers grants simply drives up prices everywhere.

Eliminate tax write-offs for "investment" properties: Owning a house should have never been like owning a business. This had the effect of reducing available rentals (and increasing prices) as many were happy to take the growth and the write-off and avoid the maintenance and depreciation that comes with renting the property out. For the renters the price hike made saving for buying a home much more difficult.
by ProfessorLayton | 2025-10-16 03:32:17+00:00
I’m sorry but this is wild, but you want:

- A salary that is ~15% higher than the median Bay Area household, which consists of ~2.6 people. And as an individual you’re calling it “barely survivable”.

or a

- A salary that is 40% higher than the median household in Austin TX, which consists of 2.7 people. The median individual makes about $52,223 in Austin.

Am I reading this right? On top of this you seem to have a negative and entitled attitude, based on your other responses.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-16 03:32:18+00:00
It just sounds as if you haven't reached whatever your capacity is for "having to setup the OS to get out of your way". And that's a personal choice for everyone.

Windows 10 eventually breached my capacity due to the number of defaults I had to change post installation, and then often, again, post-patch/update. This was very soon after Windows 10 was released, and I already didn't like Windows 8's hybrid monstrosity following on from the sublime Windows 7, which I consider to be peak Windows.

I moved to Pop! OS and have been enjoying it on both desktop and laptop for over 5 years.
by bix6 | 2025-10-16 03:33:11+00:00
> A forward P/E ratio of 422.42 may be high, but by no means unreasonable in the absence of any real competition.

> The quarterly earnings reflected a 68% YoY growth in US revenue, with government revenue growing at 53% while commercial revenue grew 93%.

That P/E vs growth is just stupid to me. I guess there’s just too much money chasing things higher.