MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yalogin | 2025-10-24 00:27:48+00:00
If one leaves all integrity and morals the president of the richest country in the world can really amass a ton of wealth. I actually suspect that the shares the “US” government s getting from intel and other companies actually goes to trump somehow. Everything is up for sale with this administration. Just sad, the high moral ground the country occupied is just wiped out and it’s now just like any other corrupt Asian country
by Liftyee | 2025-10-24 00:27:56+00:00
Can confirm it does happen. UK, both on my ThinkPad and a friend's MacBook when plugged in. It's a somewhat unavoidable side effect of the switching AC adapter designs - the output is isolated from the mains, but there is a tiny leakage current that can sometimes be felt as a "vibration". This is completely safe (far below the currents needed to cause harm) and no recall is needed.
by ugh123 | 2025-10-24 00:28:14+00:00
Are you equating Trump's pardons and commutations to Bidens? For review, Biden's were largely for non-violent drug offenders and preemptive pardons for people like Anthony Fauci and federal employees prosecuting Jan 6 defendants and the like. Save for his pardon of his son Hunter (who's own prosecution was littered with politics), Biden's were largely pedestrian.
by larrry | 2025-10-24 00:28:28+00:00
When making visual art, I don’t think in words. Shapes, colors, shading, perspective together turn into a final drawing; at no point do I translate this to words. I’m not sure what trying to draw by thinking in words would even look like.

Identifying and searching for morel mushrooms in the woods also feels largely nonverbal (although near a dying elm in late spring after a rain captures an essence of the idea, and those words provide a good starting point).

Coding ends in “words”, or at least some form of written language. But when I try to solve problems I do not think in words until it is time to put fingers to keyboard.

Words are useful (I could not convey this comment otherwise), but they’re not everything. It feels extremely difficult to convey my nonverbal thoughts through an inherently verbal medium like an HN comment. Perhaps to make a wordful analogy, the difficulty is like translating an idiom from one language to one of completely different context and origin.

I don’t deny that words do shape some of my thinking, but to me it’s just one part of the whole stream of conscious.

I’m curious if anyone else feels this way about words?
by Aloisius | 2025-10-24 00:29:28+00:00
Why stop at xcode?

Add a licensing fee for UIKit, Core Data, Core Text, Core Audio, Core Graphics, Metal, Network, SwiftUI, Quartz and all the other libraries apps use constantly.

Heck, why not for the OS itself? If you don't want to pay, they could conceivably dump you into an isolated VM and force you to write your own OS and userspace device drivers.
by bcantrill | 2025-10-24 00:29:47+00:00
Bingo: forcing UEFI and D-Bus to breed in captivity is antithetical to our approach of holistic boot.[0][1]

[0] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0241

[1] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
by 1oooqooq | 2025-10-24 00:30:08+00:00
https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/1802

and google is surreptitiously flagging several of the top alternatives to their spyware bloatware on android, as a prelude to the change.

this is clearly an action that can be easily attributed to incompetence, but is a thinly veiled way to ensure a flood of verified open source joining early on the ransom for signing whitelist.
by pentagrama | 2025-10-24 00:30:43+00:00
I watch a lot of YouTube, and I also recommend the extension UnTrap for YouTube (Firefox [1], Chrome [2], more [3]).

Besides hiding Shorts, it offers many options that give you more control over the YouTube interface. Specially clean up the search results page from unrelated suggestions, mixes, and more stuff, the current deafult search is horrible.

Here are some screenshots I took for you: https://imgur.com/a/UawBCG5

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/untrap-for-yo...

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/untrap-for-youtube/...

[3] https://untrap.app/
by gpm | 2025-10-24 00:31:31+00:00
You're typing that on a Pixel with a bump sticking out the back, which would mean it doesn't violate the design patent.

I wasn't specifically thinking of that case, though it's likely why my mind chose that sensor as an example. Apple has patents on blood oxygen sensors, of course, because Apple has patents on basically everything they do. Here's a recent example that I just picked off of Google https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2024216430B2/en?q=(Oxyge...
by worik | 2025-10-24 00:31:52+00:00
> TypeScript is incredibly safe

I expect this comment is from a person who has not used strongly typed languages extensively. Is that true?

When "1" == 1, and "1" can cross a wire and be assigned to a number, when there are no ints...

Perhaps I have not given Typescript enough rope, I only spent eighteen months immersed

It is not shit, but it is very outdated IMO.

I have been known to be wrong, I admit, but all these "unconventional " casts, together with the standard ones, are exactly what frustrated me
by accheng | 2025-10-24 00:31:56+00:00
This is a great question! By analyzing the logs of OpenEvolve with the full model outputs, we observed how the AI got its ideas (seemed to be pulling from literature in the space) and how it tried to apply them. So in some sense, it "reasoned" about how to get better algorithms. And we saw this process proceed systematically via the ADRS framework to converge to a significantly better algorithm
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-24 00:32:00+00:00
Not exactly, but sorta. You don't need to write a description for a commit, and it doesn't need to be on a branch, and things are auto-committed. So if I'm working on something, and then I "jj new" to start something else somewhere else, I can trivially come back to what I was doing. You're right that's a stash under another name: a commit. But the key is, because it's not a special separate thing from a commit, I can use any command that works on commits to work on my stash. We've unified two things into one thing. And that's useful.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-24 00:32:01+00:00
If it were simply that, it would have been fine, sure. I didn't especially hate the LOTR crossover either. There was absolutely room for Magic to have, say, one crossover set a year with a fitting fantasy franchise. I'm not saying a crossover is inherently poison that instantly kills a game. What many established players do hate, and what made me understand the game is not for me anymore, is that they broke their promise for these cards to be segregated from regular play, that they started printing more advertisement crossovers than real cards, that these crossovers became less and less appropriate to a fantasy game setting to the point that said setting is completely gone now, and that they started bastardizing even the regular sets (Edge of Eternities is technically not a crossover, but it does not feel like a real Magic set either and clearly only exists to lay down a gameplay framework for the upcoming Star Trek set).

I'm not sure Wizards does understand their market. As you noted, a set doing numbers pre-release has absolutely nothing to do with its quality; it just means there are a lot of Final Fantasy fans interested in collecting cards. But this is not necessarily sustainable for another 30 years, because those Final Fantasy fans are not necessarily going to stick around for Spiderman, and Spiderman fans are not necessarily going to stick around for Spongebob. The Spiderman set was already such a massive flop that they were trying to identify and blame which content creators/streamers were responsible for negatively influencing public opinion, as though that couldn't have happened organically.
by objcts | 2025-10-24 00:32:07+00:00
stare out the window. look at clouds. wonder how they take the shapes they do. think about water and how it moves through time and space. how those water molecules were once in a bowl of rice or loaf of bread. how many other things has this water been in? what about the water in my body, right now? holy shit, i’ve been a cloud before…

oh, claude’s done now. how does this thing work?
by LexiMax | 2025-10-24 00:32:19+00:00
> Here on HN bothsidesism is a shibboleth that denotes "I'm a Serious Commenter and not a Partisan Hack".

HN users don't necessarily do that because they want to. They might do it as a pre-emptive defense mechanism against the brigades of de-facto censors that roam the site.

Moderation via populism is an anti-feature on its face, but Hacker News has the worst possible version of that sort of feature by making downvoted/flagged comments completely hidden unless you are logged in and showdead.

It's a pretty horrendous system if you're interested in good faith and honest debate.
by Mawr | 2025-10-24 00:32:46+00:00
There are more options here than "do nothing" and "go in guns blazing".

Establishing the probable trustworthiness of the report isn't black magic. Ask the reportee for details, question the neighbours, look in through the windows, just send two plain clothed officers pretending to be salesmen to knock on the door first? Continously adjust the approach as new information comes in. This isn't rocket science, ffs.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-24 00:33:38+00:00
Don't come here and lie. You almost doubled the number for Joe Biden (the vast majority of which were pardons for simple possession of marijuana) while omitting the extremely well-known fact that Trump pardoned ~1500 people who were convicted for offenses committed on January 6, thus deflating his total by >80%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gra...
by lapcat | 2025-10-24 00:33:41+00:00
The word "nothing" is completely inappropriate in describing Watergate and Iran-Contra, among the worst political scandals in American history, both involving gross abuse of executive power.

I certainly don't see how the pardon of Changpeng Zhao is worse than the pardon of President Richard Nixon or Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Crimes committed in office by the highest officials in the US government are a whole different level than crimes committed by some corporate CEO.
by _--__--__ | 2025-10-24 00:33:52+00:00
Nice result, but the snake pattern is pretty obvious and intuitive even for a human who just glances over the problem. It kinda breaks if there is huge variance (if the top load expert is orders of magnitude higher than #2 it probably should just get its own GPU), but I'm not familiar enough with MoE to know if that's a realistic possibility.
by tech234a | 2025-10-24 00:33:53+00:00
This reminds me of the S4 storage service: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

Discussed on HN a few times, but apparently not for a few years now: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supersimplestorag...
by ModernMech | 2025-10-24 00:35:13+00:00
> only family members received the pardon.... If he was doing this as anything other than self preservation of his family we could talk

Seems like you should do some more research about this before forming such strong opinions, because you are not correct -- Biden preemptively pardoned more than just his family. He pardoned Fauci and Miley after Trump accused them of treason; as well as some members of the J6 committee like Liz Cheney (Trump retweeted a post that claimed Cheney was guilty of treason and should face a military tribunal).

I still think you should answer my question though, because it establishes a baseline for acceptability. I believe that you personally would pardon your own family against such threats because I believe most decent people would. So if you're willing to pardon your own family, then there's a conversation to be had about why you would need to, and whether that protection should be extended, for the good of the nation, to other people not related to you.

The problem we see right now with the pardon power was predicted by the founders:

"The President of the United States has the unrestrained power of granting pardons for treason; he may pardon crimes which were advised by himself. It may happen, at some future day that he will establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic... If he has the power of granting pardons before indictment, or conviction, may he not stop inquiry and prevent detection?" - George Mason

And boy was he right! We are at that future day! So they saw this coming yet decided to include it anyway. Why?

Hamilton argued:

"In seasons of insurrection or rebellion, there are often critical moments when a well-timed offer of pardon to insurgents... may restore the tranquillity of the commonwealth." "Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed."

and

"Without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel."

They recognized the system might need a release valve, or would make mistakes, and they included the pardon power to correct them. They made it broad and "unfettered" as Hamilton put it because they expected the person who would exercise the power would be "prudent".

And in doing so they ensured that the pardon power reflects the soul of this nation. We get the government we vote for, and the pardon power is used in a way that we the voters tolerate.

The problem isn't the pardon power is broad, it's that we as an electorate are so willing to elect someone who is comfortable abusing those broad powers and other authority for his personal gain.

I will close by just noting that both of the abuses of the pardon power we are talking about were precipitated by Trump. Biden wouldn't have pardoned any of the people you're mad about if Trump hadn't first promised to abuse his power to persecute them. Biden had the good judgement and foresight to take Trump seriously, because he turned out to be 100% right.
by klardotsh | 2025-10-24 00:35:52+00:00
I find this tends to stem from libraries refusing to declare 1.0 for fear it would lock them into bad decisions, not from being unstable. Chrono is a great example: v0.4 for EIGHT YEARS while they make sure the design and APIs are worthy of being set into stone as 1.0 (think: Stability Bit Versioning).

Sure, some pre-1.0 libraries in Rust land are actually wildly volatile, but I find that's not especially the norm, out of the crates I've used. That said... 0.4 for EIGHT YEARS is also a pretty darn good sign you've solidified the API by now, and should probably just tag a 1.0 finally...
by larrry | 2025-10-24 00:37:22+00:00
A fellow less/non verbal thinker! I resonate with a lot of what you wrote. I can think in words, but it’s not my default or most productive.

I kind of understand what you mean about reading, I find I have to invest a lot of time to comprehend the same amount as others. If I encounter an unconventional style or shape of writing it’s much harder.
by kelthuzad | 2025-10-24 00:37:29+00:00
The fact that even a whiff of potential competition incentivized Apple to half their tax for specific cases shows that anti-trust regulation works and that it's the only thing that will ever force a gatekeeper to reconsider their anti-competitive business practices.

>It’s an admission we’re all at the mercy of Apple until daddy government steps in.

That has always been the case when market participants become too dominant e.g.

United States v. Paramount Pictures (1948)

United States v. AT&T (1984)

United States v. Microsoft (2001)

Anti-trust regulation would have dealt with Apple, Google and co by now if the lobbying weren't so out of control compared to previous times.
by Loughla | 2025-10-24 00:38:04+00:00
No, I like the way the Senate runs in theory. Equal representation for the states regardless of size. Only if it's alongside the house with proportionate representation.

That seems like a good theory that would keep itself in check.

In execution it's an absolute shit show, I'll give you. But I do believe the theory is sound. With the house and the Senate we get the best of both worlds.

In theory.
by inopinatus | 2025-10-24 00:39:19+00:00
Enterprise DBAs will nevertheless provision separate /dev/null0 and /dev/null1 devices due to corporate policy. In the event of an outage, the symlink from null will be updated manually following an approved run book. Please note that this runbook must be revalidated annually as part of the sarbox audit, without which the null device is no longer authorised for production use and must be deleted
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-24 00:39:28+00:00
>Getting security clearances after background check shows payments of this type is probably difficult.

I don't think so. Ordinary background checks do not get into details of your spending, unless your spending indicates a clear dysfunction or financially compromised state. If they had to block any man who ever gave too much money to a woman he shouldn't have, it would probably rule out half of the men out there. In the best case you could find out from the guy's family or friends that he is a sucker and makes terrible decisions, but I doubt these guys consistently tell anybody what they are doing.
by NetworkPerson | 2025-10-24 00:40:02+00:00
This actually looked helpful for my side hobby. But then the test it now for free option was straight to “log in with google.” I don’t have Google. 95% of the companies I take care of don’t have Google (though to be fair on that, the MSP I’m with optimizes towards 365). If there’s not a basic “create an account with your email and not some sso tie” it’s a hard stop for me.
by apricot13 | 2025-10-24 00:40:09+00:00
This is one of those things that you don't really tend to think about (pun not intended!) until you experience a change in your thinking or meet someone who thinks like you do!

> If we can avoid the compression step, and do the manipulations directly in the high-dimensional, non-linguistic, conceptual space, we can move much faster

With my neurodivergent brain I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it. They might get caught up in the first sentence when the end of the paragraph is where you need to be!

That's why when you meet someone who thinks like you the depth of conversation and thinking you can achieve together is vast and also incredibly liberating! Your no longer limited by words in same way.

Since becoming ill I've suffered badly with brainfog. The cutesy name for a cruel experience. Sometimes there's no memories to draw on when your thinking, the cupboards are bare. You can't leap from thought to thought because they disappear before you get there or after like a cursed platformer. You might be able to grab hold of the thought but you can't reach inside or read it. It's all wrong somehow like when your suddenly convinced a word is spelt wrong even though you know it's right. You can't maintain focus long enough to finish your train of thought.

Even that subconscious processing is affected I used to prime my brain with information all day and instead of waking up with the solution I'll wake up frustrated but not knowing why. Just the vague notion that I failed at something that used to come so easily.
by whattheheckheck | 2025-10-24 00:41:34+00:00
Lol did you even read that...

Commutations are not pardons. They were for weed and being gay in the military offences, you know things that do t actually matter...

Trumps pardoning fraudsters and criminals who have harmed people's lives

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-rel...

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/understanding-trump-pardon...
by danans | 2025-10-24 00:41:38+00:00
> and it’s now just like any other corrupt Asian country

Seems like we are getting the worst aspects of countries like China (anti-democratic 1 party rule, state directed oligarchy, targeting of ethnic minority groups) with none of the best aspects of China: strong investment in education, research, and modern infrastructure like high speed trains and zero carbon electricity production.

Maybe mimicking authoritarianism isn't the answer to our problems.
by jjmarr | 2025-10-24 00:42:46+00:00
> I see. I guess you guys keep merging in your upstream branch until it's finally time to merge a PR into that branch? A lot of people like that workflow but it never really made sense to me.

Correct.

It makes sense to me because it leaves a linear history of git commits in response to comments on a PR which makes code review easier. We squash and rebase at the end.

> Just a waste of your time for no real reason. I wonder what the justification is.

We used to be on Gerrit, which I found better for code review as I could stack a bunch of minute changes together. I probably had 50-100% more productivity on Gerrit before my team made the switch.

Unfortunately, the industry standard is GitHub PRs. My team wasted a ton of time onboarding people to Gerrit and even after onboarding, less than 5% of people understood stacked changes enough to use them effectively.

Since force pushing/rebasing messes up GitHub PRs it was banned.

If you have suggestions for alternative code review workflows on GitHub I'm happy to hear them, but ideally they could be incremental.
by bmandale | 2025-10-24 00:43:11+00:00
"""

919. The comparators available to us (the Epic Games Store, the Microsoft Store and Steam’s lower headline rate) suggest that the competitive rate of commission would be in the range of 12 to 20%. We do think it is reasonable to make some adjustment to that range to accommodate the points made by Apple about its premium brand, the quality of its offering and its established market position. However, we do not think those would be sufficient to displace the upper end of the range and are likely to operate mainly at the lower end, where the offerings are arguably less attractive to users for those reasons.

920. Applying again an approach of “informed guesswork”, on the basis of the evidence before us, we find that the likely range of Apple’s Commission for iOS app distribution services in the counterfactual is between 15% and 20%. For the purposes of quantifying the overcharge (for both the exclusionary abuses and the excessive and unfair pricing abuse) we will use the mid-point of that range, which is 17.5%.
by im3w1l | 2025-10-24 00:43:37+00:00
I think you have a misunderstanding of how disk IO happens. The CPU core sends a command to the disk "I want some this and that data", then the CPU core can go do something else while the disk services that request. From what I read the disk actually puts the data directly into memory by using DMA, without needing to involve the CPU.

So far so good, but then the question is to ensure that the CPU core has something more productive to do then just check "did the data arrive yet?" over and over and coordinating that is where good apis come in.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-24 00:44:03+00:00
As mentioned, in a lot of suburban areas in the US where school buses are common there are no crosswalks or traffic lights (or sidewalks or physical bus stops, for that matter). Most of the time there isn't so much traffic that stopping all of it is a huge burden.

Also, there's generally an exception for divided highways - if the road has a physical median or barrier, the oncoming traffic doesn't have to stop. I assume the bus route accounts for this and drops kids off on the correct side of the road.