MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-10-29 13:08:53+00:00
> Fine, I'll add 11 bits to my key length, come back when you've developed a computer with 2000x the phase precision.

the really weird thing it's what this isn't true. we already have quantum error correction schemes that can take a quantum computer with O(1) error and get O(exp(-k)) error with polylog(k) inaccurate qbits (and we have empirical evidence that these schemes work to correct the error of single digit numbers of qbits already). adding 11 bits to the key adds ~12 logical qbits or ~a hundred physical qbits to the side of the QC
by antegamisou | 2025-10-29 13:09:11+00:00
This is quite a stretch of mental gymnastics from the initial point, drawing a blatantly false equivalency between the consumer and the producer as an at attempt to derail and minimize the latter's direct contribution to the forced unethical consumption. And it's an especially absurd argument since it's impossible to ethically consume or even survive with such owners of the means of production.

And this whole falsely applied narrative is unironically a very frequent laundering tactic of their proponents.

And btw I don't even think most are really willing to accept the accusations of the American companies, as they've been told for centuries that these are the good guys.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-10-29 13:09:22+00:00
If I set a DNS entry that points to a private ip (e.g, A internal.domain.com 192.168.0.5), will the allow private site setting succeed or fail for http://internal.domain.com?

Either way I agreee with this update. It's better to put the burden of knowledge on those hosting things locally and tinkering with DNS than those that have no idea that a domain does not infer ownership of said domain.
by foobarian | 2025-10-29 13:09:28+00:00
I found that a ceiling light fixture is really bad for painting as well, since wet paint reflects a lot of light. I got some powerful LED lamps [1] pointing up as an experiment and they have worked out well; I was afraid of the 6000K temperature looking too blue but I think when they are powerful enough they look really nice. The trick was to put them somewhere aside so there is no direct reflection path.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0962X573M
by Bender | 2025-10-29 13:09:48+00:00
Corporate media have always been used to manipulate the masses but the internet exacerbated this by providing corporate media with additional information about the users and the ability to target people by demographics, political preferences, social class and more. This improved not only manipulation but also rage-baiting, click-baiting, targeted gaslighting, astroturfing, social division further amplifying the previously mentioned capabilities and more. There is a lot of money and power to be gained by manipulating the masses. Those perceptive enough to detect this will lose confidence in the corporate media and with time this lack of confidence will spread to other services as well.

Governments are not able or willing to fix this so the only winning move is not to play. Create block-lists for social media and corporate media sites. Return to smaller interest based platforms that have less than 20K users each. Avoid anything federated as it only takes one compromised platform to spoil the entire fleet. This will be very difficult for many as the dopamine addiction to social and corporate media will be challenging to break and people like belonging to a massive group. Many will instead invoke coping mechanisms and other excuses to continue their habits. I mention social media as corporate media often control, operate and/or manipulate the masses on said platforms. Some of the manipulators are on this site and will try to defend the big corporate and social media platforms. see if you can spot it...
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-29 13:10:19+00:00
Nothing of value is 100% "pure", eventually you are gonna need to draw something to the screen, so trying to reach that sort of utopia seems futile.

With that said, the "mental model" of React, or maybe the focus, is "pure" where it matters, namely that you have data, pass it through a function, and you get a view/UI, and if you pass the same data, you get the same UI, regardless of what happened before.

When it appeared, was very different from us web developers were used to, where sometimes the DOM even was our data store, and mutation was the name of the game.

So when people say "React is pure", I don't think they're talking about internally, or "100% pure", just that the mental model you need to adjust to is that the UI gets created from (mostly) pure functions.

Of course, this all breaks down once the frontend application actually runs in a browser, but that doesn't mean it isn't valuable for the developer as things gets a lot simpler.

Not disagreeing with you in the end I guess, just clarifying for those who might not be familiar with React, and get confused when some people say it's pure, while others don't. Both are right :)
by bradfa | 2025-10-29 13:10:52+00:00
I think this is a symptom of the limited size of context which the current tools can hold. As more and more data enters the context, the weighting of what's important or what already exists becomes "hard" for the AI tools to correctly deal with. Even to the point that information in any CLAUDE.md file is easily "forgotten" by the tool once the context gets quite deep.

My experience is that the tools are like a smart intern. They are great at undergraduate level college skills but they don't really understand how things should work in the real world. Human oversight and guidance by a skilled and experienced person is required to avoid the kinds of problems that you experienced. But holy cow this intern can write code fast!

Having extensive planning and conversation sessions with the tool before letting it actually write or change any code is key to getting good results out of it. It's also helpful to clarify my own understanding of things. Sometimes the result of the planning and conversing is that I manually make a small change and realize that the problem wasn't what I originally thought.
by rgblambda | 2025-10-29 13:11:05+00:00
>Does modern English read like historical English?

If you can read and understand text from the 18th century, then yes. We're not talking about Middle English or Old English.

>but the fact that there are "native speakers" involved in the debate

I should have put native speakers in quotes as well. What counts as a native Ulster Scots speaker is someone who speaks English with an NI accent with some localisms thrown in.

Nobody speaks the official Ulster Scots that was invented because the Irish language was getting support and political leaders on the other side of the community felt they deserved something as well. The Protestant community in NI see it as a bit of an embarrassment.
by tmtvl | 2025-10-29 13:11:33+00:00
Any software I whip up I license under the AGPL and I'm fine with so-called 'AI' being trained on my software as long as the code generated by the model is licensed under a license conforming to the AGPL as well. In my opinion the person who generates output with a model is responsible for proper distribution of the content. Just like I can draw a picture of Mario Mario and Luigi Mario but I can't distribute it without permission from Nintendo.
by alexjplant | 2025-10-29 13:11:56+00:00
Because it's true.

Scrum is like Spaghetti Carbonara in America. The ingredients are simple and there's a tiny bit of technique involved that anybody can figure out after a few tries. For some reason though almost everybody that makes it decides that they know better than the people that invented it and so adulterates it with peas and onions and garlic and cream and cream cheese and Italian seasoning and parsley and chives until it ends up being Olive Garden Alfredo. If they wanted Carbonara then they would have cooked the Carbonara, not the waterfall with a bunch of JIRA workflows and four-hour meetings layered on top. They just did what they would have done anyway while attempting to sound fancy via obfuscation.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-29 13:12:25+00:00
A high availability MySQL server on AWS is about the same difficulty as on your own kubernetes instance (I've got a play one on one of those $100 N100 machines, got one with 16G mem). Then:

helm repo add mariadb-operator https://mariadb-operator.github.io/mariadb-operator helm install mariadb-operator mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator

And then you can just provision MariaDB "kind", ie. you kubectl apply with something specifying database name, maximum memory, type of high availability (single primary or multimaster) and secret reference and there you go: new database, ready to be plugged into other pods.
by lproven | 2025-10-29 13:12:38+00:00
Well, yes, but that is only half the story, so on its own, it does not add up.

The whole idea of ARM2 (that specific version, not ARM1, not ARM3) was that clever use of the RAM bus meant it could run at full DRAM speed.

But the other side of the coin comparing with the Amiga is that the whole idea of the Amiga was that ~5 years earlier, it was possible to do amazing unprecedented general stuff for gaming purposes in sound and video chipsets that no other computer at the time could do...

Leaving the CPU almost irrelevant. Which is in part why The Next Amiga, the Hombre, simply discarded the 68000 altogether and switched to PA-RISC.

Which infuriated the fans even back then because they wanted their backwards compatibility.

The core concept of the Amiga and Hombre is "in 1982, what amazing non-dedicated sound and video can we do in hardware for a mass market price"?

By the time it was a product, this was contaminated with "it's also a general-purpose computer" and "look at us, we have multitasking" and "look, it's a 680x0 machine, but with multimedia!" and "look, it can emulate a Mac!" and "look, it can run Unix!"

Different selling points selling in different directions.

Given the raw computer power of the Archimedes, it didn't need any fancy chipsets. They became irrelevant. Sure, yes, the Amiga could do stereo digital sound and multiple bit plane colour 2D graphics and still have enough power left over from a 7-and-a-bit-MHz 68K to run game logic.

The Archimedes looked at that, and went "how about we just do all that in software?" And bundled a solid shaded 3D demo for free. Never mind the bouncing ball, never mind the Juggler, this you could play.

The Mac was "in 1984, how much Lisa can we keep for how little money?"

The ST was "in 1985, how cheap can we make something that looks and works like a Mac but can do colour and sound, so it can play games?"

The Archimedes was "in 1986, can we do a 32-bit RISC machine so cheap and simple we can compete in the same market with Commodore, Atari and the PC compatibles?"
by Byamarro | 2025-10-29 13:13:04+00:00
A hybrid will likely emerge. I work on a chat application and it's pretty normal that LLM can print custom ui as part of the chat. Things like sliders, dials, selects, calendars are just better as a GUI in certain situations.

I've once saw a demo of an AI photo editing app that displays sliders next to light sources on a photo and you are able to dim/brighten the individual light sources intensity this way. This feels to me like a next level of the user interface.
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-10-29 13:14:02+00:00
> It depends on your workload.

Very much this.

Small team in a large company who has an enterprise agreement (discount) with a cloud provider? The cloud can be very empowering, in that teams who own their infra in the cloud can make changes that benefit the product in a fraction of the time it would take to work those changes through the org on prem. This depends on having a team that has enough of an understanding of database, network and systems administration to own their infrastructure. If you have more than one team like this, it also pays to have a central cloud enablement team who provides common config and controls to make sure teams have room to work without accidentally overrunning a budget or creating a potential security vulnerability.

Startup who wants to be able to scale? You can start in the cloud without tying yourself to the cloud or a provider if you are really careful. Or, at least design your system architecture in such a way that you can migrate in the future if/when it makes sense.
by latexr | 2025-10-29 13:14:06+00:00
> running Windows 11 so that I can run Macromedia Freehand/MX

Freehand still works on Windows 11? I’m happy for you, I never found a true replacement for it.

> a digital revival of a hot metal typeface created by my favourite type designer/illustrator who passed in 1991, but whose widow was gracious enough to give me permission to revive

Any reason you haven’t shared the name of the designer or the typeface? That story sounds interesting, I’d really welcome learning more.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-29 13:14:13+00:00
> The old react docs used to quip that react was the v of mvc, until this notion was scraped entirely

I'm still treating React as the "V of MVC", other things handled by other things, and seems I'm not alone with this.

I think at one point React got so popular, and the team grew, so they figured they need to expand the scope for it to continue growing, and Facebook continued to throw resources at it, and as we know, things that don't change are clearly dead (sarcasm), so APIs changed, the scope grew and eventually they stopped marketing it as the view-layer, and instead push it as a full thing, when it still clearly was just a view library, not a framework.
by igravious | 2025-10-29 13:14:28+00:00
in response to: “what language is the Constitution of the Netherlands written in?”

Deepseek answers with, “The Constitution of the Netherlands is written in Dutch.

Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands and the language used for all primary government and legal documents, including the Constitution (Grondwet).

Key Context:

Official Language: Dutch is the sole official language for national governance. The Kingdom of the Netherlands: It's worth noting that the Kingdom of the Netherlands also includes the Caribbean countries of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. While they have their own official languages (Papiamento and English), the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which governs the relationship between these countries, is also originally written in Dutch. No Multilingual Version: Unlike some countries (e.g., Canada, Belgium, or Switzerland), the Netherlands does not have an official, legally equivalent version of its Constitution in any other language. Therefore, the authoritative and legally binding text of the Constitution exists only in Dutch.”

Frisian may be an official regional language but you're not going to convince me that it's an official language of the Netherlands. Love that I'm getting downvotes about this.

The Constitution of Ireland is written in Irish and English and to the best of my knowledge where differences arise the Irish one takes precedence.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-29 13:14:31+00:00
I think the challenge with 10 IoT LTSC isn't going to be the OS itself, but the software running on it. Lots of software uses chromium embedded, and in the case of win7 the day that extended support (+3 years) ended CEF also dropped support and required features only found on more recent windows releases, then as other software updated their CEF dependency they also dropped win7 support. It might not be a major thing, but there is a slow erosion that goes beyond whether the OS gets patches. If nothing else, if it's a machine that uses software that goes online it's a notice that you should investigate moving to something else eventually.
by 8organicbits | 2025-10-29 13:14:49+00:00
> The news site which stopped updating in 2007, the blog somebody last posted to in 2011, that sort of thing.

Interesting, that hasn't been my experience. There's a certain group of stubborn techies who have active sites lacking HTTPS. One example is Dave Winer's blog:

http://scripting.com/

He's doing some really interesting things over at https://feedland.com, so I'm glad I clicked through the TLS warning on his blog.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-29 13:15:18+00:00
Websites as platform can't solve a problem that's social in nature - that it's allowed and accepted for organizations to have such excessive, invasive levels of control.

The parties I accuse of driving this problem didn't suddenly go rogue when smartphones happened. They always wanted this level of control (and much more) - they just couldn't get it until relevant technologies matured enough.

I'm not speculating here - we have actual empirical evidence to confirm this. A clear example is that there are several countries that, unlike the US and most of Europe, went all-in on Internet banking back before smartphones. Web limitations and conventions didn't stop them from doing the same thing everyone is doing with the phones now - the banks there just force customers to install malware on their computers, so they can do some remote attestation and KYC (and totally no marketing data collection) on their PCs.

Most of the West never had this because of the inverse of leapfrogging phenomenon - big, developed economies had too fast progress and at the same time too much inertia to fully adopt a pre-smartphone solution nation-wide.
by sd9 | 2025-10-29 13:15:24+00:00
Plenty of frustrations pass along to me, but I am sure that the developers maintaining the software are also putting in a massive shift to make it all keep working. These companies are often quite small, or small underfunded teams within larger organisations, and I believe that they are doing a fantastic job working with what they have.

New features are few and far between, but that doesn't mean that they're not doing a good job. The current state of the industry is not a reflection of the developers working on it today, it's a decades long legacy.
by cupofjoakim | 2025-10-29 13:15:44+00:00
We feel this at work too. We run a book streaming platform with all books, booklists, authors, narrators and publishers available as standalone web pages for SEO, in the multiple millions. Last 6 months have turned into a hellscape - for a few reasons:

1. It's become commonplace to not respect rate limits

2. Bots no longer identify themselves by UA

3. Bots use VPNs or similar tech to bypass ip rate limiting

4. Bots use tools like NobleTLS or JA3Cloak to go around ja3 rate limiting

5. Some valid LLM companies seem to also follow the above to gather training data. We want them to know about our company, so we don't necessarily want to block them

I'm close to giving up on this front tbh. There's no longer safe methods of identifying malignant traffic at scale, and with the variations we have available we can't statically generate these. Even with a CDN cache (shoutout fastly) our catalog is simply too broad to fully saturate the cache while still allowing pages to be updated in a timely manner.

I guess the solution is to just scale up the origin servers... /shrug

In all seriousness, i'd love if we somehow could tell the bots about more efficient ways of fetching the data. Use our open api for fetching book informations instead of causing all that overhead by going to marketing pages please.
by dangus | 2025-10-29 13:15:56+00:00
I fully believe they’ll leapfrog Tesla on this technology. Lucid is legit. Tesla has made so little progress on their vehicle lineup in the last 5 years that I have to wonder if they simply can’t retain engineers for long enough to complete significant work. (E.g., the model 3 is 9 years old and just got what most automakers would consider a mid-cycle refresh)

It’s quite embarrassing that Tesla doesn’t make the most efficient EV on the market given their head start.

It’s going to be similarly embarrassing when they inevitably fall behind in self driving if they haven’t already, if Waymo wasn’t an embarrassing enough presence to Tesla.
by econ | 2025-10-29 13:16:14+00:00
I want clean urls, I don't want to update every page or dynamically stich them together for each page view, I don't want a server cache for dynamically stitched together static content.

These are expensive hacks to work around a lack of basic functionality.

It reminds me of one kid taking something from another and refusing to give it back because they are larger.

People make websites, they think they control what goes on on the page. This isn't unreasonable to think. In fact, everything should be made to preserve that idea.

A situation where they just can't change the page shouldn't exist. Abstracting it away or otherwise working around it doesn't make it any less wrong.

Some browsers have a magic key combo to force reload. I suppose the solution is to put up a modal and ask the user to "reinstall" the web page.

I have a lot of static pages with minimal html/css that thanks to lazy loading and caching consume very little bandwidth. The technology is truly wonderful, clicking around feels like a desktop application.
by hibikir | 2025-10-29 13:16:14+00:00
Well, they aren't wrong about the bare metal either: Every organization ends up tied to their staff, and said staff was hired to work on the stack you are using. People end up in quite the fights because their supposed experts are more fond of uniformity and learning nothing new.

Many a company was stuck with a datacenter unit that was unresponsive to the company's needs, and people migrated to AWS to avoid dealing with them. This straight out happened in front of my eyes multiple times. At the same time, you also end up in AWS, or even within AWS, using tools that are extremely expensive, because the cost-benefit analysis for the individuals making the decision, who often don't know very much other than what they use right now, are just wrong for the company. The executive on top is often either not much of a technologist or 20 years out of date, so they have no way to discern the quality of their staff. Technical disagreements? They might only know who they like to hang out with, but that's where it ends.

So for path dependent reasons, companies end up making a lot of decisions that in retrospect seem very poor. In startups if often just kills the company. Just don't assume the error is always in one direction.
by smallstepforman | 2025-10-29 13:16:16+00:00
For scientific calculations with tables of data, I find LibreCalc better than Excel, so in my experience, Excel is the “good enough for simple tasks” tool, but LibreCalccis the tool when you actually do scientific big boy calculations.

The real issue is familiarity and importing, but if you start fresh, LibreCalc is better for me.
by maglite77 | 2025-10-29 13:16:24+00:00
Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, these are the areas in the enterprise where Windows "wins" with the IT teams, but it's been a long time since I've been close to the rollout side of the house. TIA
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-10-29 13:16:37+00:00
To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff. I can see why google would be concerned about malicious versions of these videos being posted, and being difficult to differentiate quickly from ones with the legitimate instructions.

Or if those malicious videos were posted and reported, then I can see why a fairly dumb AI system would see the similar legitimate ones as the same thing. Probably a particularly bad scenario for automated moderation.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-29 13:16:46+00:00
> Do you seriously believe that improving accessibility would have a higher impact in Linux adoption than improving robustness and hardware compatibility ?

Yes, absolutely. Linux is plenty robust and has lots of hardware that you can use today. The reasons people end up not using it are:

- Microsoft

- Lack of favorite application 'x' (see: Microsoft)

- Difficult to use (unfamiliarity plays a role here)

So yes, accessibility is a key factor, and not just for the people that have challenging bodies.