MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-10-26 03:05:06+00:00
The pool. But it isn't necessarily a problem - your hair, right now, is radioactive. Presumably wouldn't trip a measuring device because it'd be background levels.

The linked report doesn't say how radioactive his hair is or give any indication of whether the person in question is threatened by this reading. Could be bad, could be nothing, we just know it is higher than normal.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-26 03:05:07+00:00
For sure. I tried to setup a collaboration environment for a Customer years ago using WebDAV over SSL in lieu of Dropbox. Everything worked great (authenticating to Active Directory, NTFS ACLs, IP address restrictions in IIS policy where necessary, auditing access in Windows security log and IIS logs, no client to install), but the Windows client experience was hideously slow. People hated it for that and it got no traction.
by wahern | 2025-10-26 03:06:22+00:00
FreeBSD, kernel and base, was ported to CHERI, along with PostgreSQL.

> We have adapted a complete C, C++, and assembly-language software stack, including the opensource FreeBSD OS (nearly 800 UNIX programs and more than 200 libraries including OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and bsnmpd) and PostgreSQL database, to employ ubiquitous capability-based pointer and virtual-address protection.

Most programs didn't require any changes at all. Even most pointer-integer-pointer conversions can be automatically handled by the toolchain and runtime. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/pdfs/201904...
by tkgally | 2025-10-26 03:06:38+00:00
One reason Sokal’s article stirred up such a fuss was that, when it was published in 1996, people still largely depended on edited, gatekept outlets for their reading and viewing. Although not mainstream media, Social Text was still selective about what it published, and the fact that its editors had chosen to publish Sokal’s hoax was a key point in the controversy. It would be a few more years before raw, self-published writing on the Internet would start to reach as many people as it does now.
by 29athrowaway | 2025-10-26 03:07:05+00:00
Seeking everyone's approval is not a good mindset.

You are not there to win a popularity contest but to articulate what is needed clearly, keep people focused, unblocked and to get things done.

If you worry too much about being liked by everyone your mental health will suffer. You just have to accept some people won't like you.

Also comes across as insecure and less fit for leadership roles.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-26 03:08:42+00:00
This seems utterly bizarre.

It’s one thing to make a new firmware for PCs…

But they really don’t care about Linux or Windows? Or do they expect each to cave and support their thing because they make the world’s crap?

They simply could have written their own UEFI implementation if they so desired…

This feels more like a flex to the rest of the world than anything useful.
by squirrellous | 2025-10-26 03:10:32+00:00
I think the reason going into music is that way because the industry is already hyper competitive as is, and the “selection” process for talent shifts earlier. Perhaps CS will go that way eventually.

Anyway, when I made the comment, I was thinking it should be an elective and intended for people who either aren’t that familiar with Linux or want to become even more comfortable with it. There are certainly plenty of such students in my experience, myself included when I was in college.

Also just to be clear, this shouldn’t be just about “being able to run Linux at home” level of material, but things like writing non trivial applications using Linux subsystems and being able to troubleshoot them.
by vunderba | 2025-10-26 03:11:14+00:00
From the article

> How do you stop people from making fetish content of purely AI-generated characters that aren't cameos of real people? Does OpenAI want to stop that?

I'd say a resounding no. Didn't Sam Altman announce a little while back that they're exploring allowing ChatGPT to be used for erotica / NSFW generation?
by tombert | 2025-10-26 03:12:22+00:00
I live several states away from them, so unless I manage to sneak in some elaborate KVM switch and abuse it in the rare time my mom is plugged into her desk, I don’t think that’s viable.

I suppose I could do it when I come down and visit when they’re not looking, though I think they would be pretty pissed if I did that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-26 03:12:44+00:00
> What else is every great power currently engaging in that will be ok when we start to next?

We’re pretty even to each other at this point. Threats of annexation, no rule of law, murder on the high seas, allegations of genocide.

The next series of horrors will emerge around robotics, lasers and potentially the collapse of free navigation of international waters. (I don’t see deëscalation until both Trump and Xi are dead.)
by the_af | 2025-10-26 03:14:38+00:00
I don't think this is like looking up a reference. This article is a general guideline on how to be a good Principal IC, the thing you're supposed to already know if you're a Principal IC.

This is like reminding a top doctor "do differential diagnosis". Nope, top doctors already know this, it's redundant advice.

This is like reminding a good thinker they must think about things: they already know this and it's presumably how they got to the position in the first place.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-26 03:17:34+00:00
Several comments here are interpreting this as the common "we just don't care about the UK's jurisdiction". That is not what Libera.chat is saying. They have staff in the UK, users in the UK, and are, in their interpretation, abiding by the terms of the OSA. Their interpretation is that the ID verification requirement doesn't apply to their service, for the reasons they outline in the article.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-26 03:18:02+00:00
My comment was regarding net metering policy, not solar itself. Solar is great, and even better (for you) if you have net metering. But it’s not sustainable or scalable for utilities to keep offering net metering, and ultimately it creates wrong/distorted market signals: an incentive to generate more electricity when it’s abundant and to use more when it’s scarce.
by the_af | 2025-10-26 03:18:23+00:00
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. I'm not a Principal but I've seen people promoted to the position burn out.

I'm content being in a senior engineering role where I still get to do technical stuff (and yes, some mentorship as well). Then again, I don't define my life by my career, I'm OK with doing interesting stuff and earning a decent paycheck without climbing up the ladder. Alas! Eventually I will age out of this possibility. I'm already dreading it.
by roenxi | 2025-10-26 03:18:26+00:00
It does say that. Can you translate that into a measurement of radioactivity & medical risk? I don't think it is obvious.

EDIT The report below it seems to literally be "nothing interesting happened". The thresholds here for something to be reportable are very low. Frankly I don't know why this story is upvoted so much but I'm not about to make a bigger deal about it than one sentence.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-26 03:20:13+00:00
Someone's getting promoted out of it and the investment money loves it. So it doesn't matter.

The hype outpaces the actual value in many cases and that's why we get the shit we get.

A good example are YouTube's unavoidable auto translations. No one bilingual user wants that. It would be extremely easy to make it optional but it won't boost the numbers of the BS metric being pushed internally.
by ajross | 2025-10-26 03:20:28+00:00
In practice, not principle. Virtually every non-trivial upstream package in debian/fedora/arch/whatever has at least a handful of distro-specific patches. Sometimes they're just configuration, sometimes they're distro-maintained security fixes, etc...

But people exercise those features regularly and distros are not shy about maintaining software. It's a very different world from "We Just Ship What They Give Us" in npm/cargo/etc...
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-10-26 03:22:32+00:00
I will grudgingly admit that some AI features I encounter are kind of useful.

At work, we of course are all-in on a large wiki (Confluence). It has a feature irritatingly overlayed that treats searches as AI questions the provided LLM will answer. I have to admit it often does a good job answering my effective question directly, vs me going through many semi-related pages trying to find out how to do something.

Ours is a Windows shop, and I find I am using Copilot somewhat more frequently instead of web searches to find answers to "how do I ..." questions related to the commercial tools we use. While the responses are not always perfect, they are often-enough accurate enough to be useful. And, it saves me a lot of time vs digging through, ironically enough, AI-generated slop pages of how to's that take ten feet of page to answer a simple damned question.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-26 03:24:37+00:00
It's just so... disrespectful.

The reason they do it, of course, is that some subset of the company has AI-related metrics they want to hit, and getting you to click that button is how they do that.

Which is so backwards. Of course, in the first place, a lot of these are free products, so it's not surprising that changes in the product benefit the company instead of you. But there is still supposed to be a modicum of respect: features should be there for you to use if you need them, not trying to get your addition and screaming "use me!". The stupid AI metric they're trying to hit isn't even real or beneficial to them; it's fake wallstreet crap because all the management lives in the same AI bubble and it looks good to say your feature got adopted. But the stupid feature isn't even useful or good. Probably decent documentation would be far better. And you just know the button wiggles on the paid version too, they don't give a shit.

This whole industry is conveniently abstracted away from its users by an app or a website, or whatever, so it manages to get away with treating the users like statistics instead of people. It's so disgusting, that the whole world is being taken over by this. Working at a company that does this should be a source of shame. "Manipulating your users" is a vile bottom-of-the-barrel business model. Fortunately everyone also sucks at it so it's still possible, for the most part, to ignore them (social media feeds being the notable counterexample). But it's just such a shitty world to live in.

If a real person did this stuff to your face--selling you something and then wiggling useless features at you out of the corner of your eye forever--you'd curse them out and try to never do business with them again. That's how it should be when a tech company does it, too.

edit: and don't get me started on those stupid little stars. Where did those even come from? Is there anybody who sees that icon and thinks "I should click that"? I'm glad that all the companies use the same icon for their dogshit features, but still, you would think they'd mix it up or something.
by astrange | 2025-10-26 03:24:46+00:00
> He's dead now and his books can't hurt me. They're not even ideological, so you can't make the same case as you could for avoiding, say, a certain Austrian political theorist.

If only you hadn't put "political" there I was going to think of a joke about Wittgenstein. Who was possibly the grumpiest Austrian in the world at the time, even considering the other one.
by ajross | 2025-10-26 03:25:26+00:00
This doesn't appear to be a memory safety bug. It's a data handling error, and the "RCE" in question is that the tar code can be fooled by a malicious tarball into writing files with arbitrary permissions at arbitrary paths (which is... actually something all tarballs can do, so I'm not really following why this is being treated as severe).

But to your point: yes, it's a good example about how security bugs live at all layers of the stack and that being checked against memory corruption does nothing to prevent you from writing bugs in the semantic space.
by webdevver | 2025-10-26 03:25:43+00:00
the customer service was not "lost" to AI. it was never there to begin with, and never going to be there either. sadly, there is zero financial motivation for meta or google to help you recover your account.

and in cases when they did have humans... AI customer service is much better than the offshore lowest-cost non-english-speaking tech support that businesses would inevitably go for. atleast now the communication is comprehensible, even if i'm talking to a computer.

it is what it is.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-26 03:26:59+00:00
Nobody wants this law but it's very common in the UK and Europe to pretend consultations make it a democratic process with good representation when it's just the typical power hungry politicians, security forces and corporate lobbyists getting their way. It's not middle England or "conservatives". It's usually approved by the parliamentary monoparty of the current time and the entire pretense on dissent is usually performance for different set of BS.

Of course it's useful to have people like you make it about fake left v right tribalism so you don't realize how far from a democracy these parliamentary systems are.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-26 03:27:00+00:00
> That's true for any negotiated, i.e. conditional, armistice. If you want one side to be happy, you have to press for unconditional surrender. Palestine doesn't have the capability to force Israel to unconditionally surrender.

It's still not a peace deal. It does look more akin to surrender of fighting by the palestinian resistance, motivated by the civillian population reaching a breaking point because of the starvation and bombing. Moral of the story is that collective punishment works, I suppose.

> The October 7 attacks were terrorist attacks

There is no logically-consistent definition you can provide that would make that raid a terrorist attack without also capturing Israel's actions as terrorist attacks. The aggressive actions they took that day have been outdone 100-fold by Israel. The prisoners they took were a drop in the sea compared to the number of people Israel held in "administrative detention" alone, let alone all the people they randomly snatch with some bogus accusations. The state in which those prisoners returned compared to the state in which palestinian prisoners returned are day and night.

When their acts are compared objectively, the conclusions never go in Israel's favor.
by jaredklewis | 2025-10-26 03:28:44+00:00
I would say that’s just another trade off though, in that extensibility and portability are invariably in tension.

The article simultaneously complains that the SQL standard is not universally implemented (fair) and that SQL is not easily extensible (also fair). But taken together it seems odd to me in that if you make SQL very extensible, then not only will it vary between databases, it will vary between every single application.

Also, the line between SQL and database feels a little fuzzy to me, but don’t a lot of postgresql extensions effectively add new functionality to SQL?
by ramchip | 2025-10-26 03:29:28+00:00
From: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-nuclear-plant-worker-fell-...

> According to federal reports, the contractor ingested some of the reactor water before being yanked out, scrubbed down, and checked for radiation. They walked away with only minor injuries and about 300 counts per minute of radiation detected in their hair.

> That sounds like a lot, but apparently it isn't terribly serious. He underwent a decontamination scrubdown and was back on the job by Wednesday.
by arthurcolle | 2025-10-26 03:29:57+00:00
Litvinenko had about 10 MBq in his body and died in 3 weeks.

This might be 500+ MBq (0.5 GBq). Yeah it's a different isotope, but clearly not a "non-emergency"

EDIT: (after 1 hr) - Litvinenko dose was 4GBq - I was wrong by 3 orders of magnitude. My bad
by srnayak | 2025-10-26 03:30:20+00:00
Amazon L5 is SDE2. I am not sure how you can equate a Microsoft Principal to Amazon L5. Getting to L6 in Amazon is very easy these days due to title inflation. Managers also know how to rig the system to gather the data points for promotion. There was a time when Amazon promotion bar was high and Amazon SDE3 were considered same as Microsoft Principal. But things have changed now. A fresher needs only 2 promotions to get to L6. Some are getting there in 2-3 years. So Amazon L6 does not have the value that it used to have a decade ago. At Microsoft a fresher will need 6 promotions to reach Principal level. People are reaching principal levels early, but not in 2 years.
by aborsy | 2025-10-26 03:30:53+00:00
Related to this topic, what is the best way to replace the code involved in the entire boot process? This is useful when sanitizing a system received from a provider that may not be trustworthy, as malware could be hidden at low levels.

The disk could be wiped from the BIOS. One could also run “fwupdmgr update” from a live USB to update the motherboard firmware and then reinstall the operating system. However, I’m not sure if this would completely clear the system.
by tombert | 2025-10-26 03:30:55+00:00
I am not sure my parents have ever had multiple accounts on any of their computers, so I don’t think that particular suspend bug would be an issue, and I haven’t encountered the save as dialog bug, though I don’t dispute that it happens (I just don’t run Gnome or Cinnamon anymore).

Even still, even if it does require a tech-literate person to fix, they have access to that by me, and I can likely fix it for them in a few minutes with tmate or something, as opposed to Windows Update bricking the computer, which required basically an entire day from me to fix.

Oh, and if an update does cause an issue, Linux has competent snapshotting tools because they have filesystems that didn’t coexist with dinosaurs and as such if something breaks a fix is a reboot (and probably a twenty minute phone call with me) away. On Ubuntu if you install ZFS on root you can configure it to take an auto snapshot before updates, for example.
by ryao | 2025-10-26 03:31:11+00:00
Getting rid of the BIOS sounds awesome. I assume that means that it gets rid of code running the SMM, which can prevent invisible code from sapping performance from the machine for no apparent reason. For example, on recent AMD machines, such as my Zen 3 machine, memory bandwidth measured by ZFS' checksum algorithms will randomly drop by a significant percentage and there is no obvious reason why, although I suspect patrol scrubs are involved.

That begs the question. What does the patrol scrubs of ECC memory on your hardware?
by peteforde | 2025-10-26 03:33:50+00:00
In a similar vein, I discovered and have started using the Tag-Connect TC2030-USB to program/troubleshoot my boards. While it's technically/originally intended as a way to do JTAG debugging, I am completely enamored with the ability to drop a footprint on my PCB and be able to connect to it without having to place a relatively expensive connector (or a connector at all) that I don't necessarily want users interacting with.

https://www.tag-connect.com/solutions-target-devices/usb-ser...

They have FTDI versions as well, for those who want the full USB boot/reset treatment.

Also, they have another connector for attaching to castellated edges. I think it's just so clever.
by mycodendral | 2025-10-26 03:34:20+00:00
I think I see where you’re getting tripped up. You’ve taken my use of ‘adversarial’ to mean I believe the interviewee is personally being investigated or prosecuted for a crime. That’s not what that means.

My mention of federal obstruction was just an example to illustrate why the FBI might be investigating at all. It was a hypothetical meant to show that the investigation likely concerns criminal activity surrounding the protest, not the protest or his speech itself.

I’m never suggested the person interviewed is guilty or even a suspect. He’s a lead, someone questioned because he may have information relevant to a broader investigation.

By now it should be clear that the only nonsense here has come from your misinterpretation and bad faith assumptions. Do you have any more bullshit for me to correct, or are you actually interested in understanding what I said?
by cool_man_bob | 2025-10-26 03:36:27+00:00
The other day. I saw a news article on Facebook roughly along the lines of:

“Celebrity A angry at people mourning the death of celebrity B”

Pretty odd sounding right? Upon looking at the comments though, people pointed out that Celebrity A was not angry at people “mourning” Celebrity B but “mocking”.

A bit of an odd typo, or perhaps a blatant lie to capture attention, among the most valuable currencies. There are no potential consequences only potential benefits to lying.
by doublef | 2025-10-26 03:36:44+00:00
I used HN Algolia to search for "internet cruise" and the top result was promising. Interestingly, the HN post no longer linked to an article! I used Wayback Machine on the HN post and found the link to the original article, which in turn returns a 404! Though, you can find that too in Wayback Machine.
by grayrest | 2025-10-26 03:38:11+00:00
> CATL is claiming mass production of their sodium-ion batteries starts in December, with a target price of $10/kWh.

This got widely reported but there doesn't seem to be any source. I'll reference this video [1] to cover the claim along with a comparison to industry projections. Apologies for the video link but I don't have an article handy that addresses the topic as directly.

[1] https://youtu.be/KjiqqafD_0w?t=861
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-26 03:39:05+00:00
That's what I was thinking, but it does look like 300 cpm for a few hours is essentially nothing, or it looks real bad, I can't tell.

I found this:

Days to receive chronic dose for increase cancer risk of 1 in a 1,000 432 (at 100 CPM) 86 (at 500 CPM)

Ok so 300 for an hour (we'll assume the hair is cut off and the exposure either stops or 90% reduces) means no problem. Don't do that every day that's all.

But it's from a prepper site that doesn't cite their own sources.

I found this: https://www.energy.gov/ehss/articles/doe-ionizing-radiation-...

Which uses rem instead of cpm. An on-line converter of unknown quality says 300 cpm is 500 rem, and the pdf from the .gov site says 500 rem is "death probable in 2-3 weeks", but I think that chart is saying that's whole body & no therapy. Where this is probably mostly hair that can be just cut off totally let alone washed, and so the elevated exposure is probably both low and short duration, and medical therapy (whatever that means, if any in this case) on top.

I can't tell, could be the same as just visting a country with a slightly higher background that isn't a problem for anyone, to dead in a month. Leaning towards no problem just because of the short time and apparently mostly external and removable source.

However, it's not nothing either. It's maybe no problem for this person only because they avoided ingesting the water and the water was very quickly washed off and presumably their hair was cut off and all clothes etc removed as fast as possible. It's clearly at least "rather hot" and you can't just play in it and have prolonged exposure and ingestion. It doesn't seem to be "basically zero".
by photonthug | 2025-10-26 03:42:23+00:00
Agree with all this; see my other comment in thread for more color, more math. I don't want to come across as embracing pseudo-science, misinformation, etc.

I do like to think about the distinctions and boundaries for hard/soft/squishy knowledge though, and try to challenge assumptions and misconceptions about it. Invariably people have weird ideas about how "hard" their pet area is and how "soft" that thing they love to hate really is, which is itself a kind of dogma or superstition. Plus I think it's a public service to try and interest gear-headed nerds in things like criticism and philosophy (or vice versa, pushing engineering and math at the literature nerds). Last time I waded into this kind of debate I was pointing out that Frege worked on semiotics.