MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baobun | 2025-10-29 02:41:30+00:00
Nice! I'm curious if you experience any difference in IO performance (e.g game loading times)?

Last I tried NTFS on Linux it was stable but not fast, especially for writes. If it's not a notable difference between Windows and Linux then that's a big improvement from those days.

I think you could probably get a decent IO performance boost and reduce loading times by moving the library over to something like ext4 or xfs, at the cost of portability.
by fullstick | 2025-10-29 02:42:58+00:00
I go to therapy and she is constantly asking me how I feel and sort of guiding my breathing.

I go to Krav Maga also and sometimes we're going pretty hard and fast striking repeatedly. It can be so tiring, but I find I can enter a zone where I am breathing deeply and slowly while going even faster or harder after I've noticed that I'm tired.

Probably summed up with "Breath Work".
by cryptonector | 2025-10-29 02:43:05+00:00
Vaguely. Basically each CA will run one of these. Relying parties (browsers) will need to fetch the Merkle tree heads periodically for at least the CAs that sign certificates for the sites the users browse, or maybe all of the WebPKI CAs rather than just those that sign certs for the visited sites. There's on the order of 100 CAs for the whole web though, so knowledge that your browser fetched the MT heads for, say, 5 CAs, or even 1 CA, wouldn't leak much of anything about what specific sites the user is visiting. Though if the user is visiting, say, China sites only, then you might see them only fetch the MT heads for CN, and then you might say "aha! it's a Chinese user", or something, but... that's not a lot of information leaked, nor terribly useful.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-29 02:43:12+00:00
For coffee, I get beans from a local roaster, like $14 per pound nowadays. I like the taste and it is nice to support someone local. Then I put it through a ~$200 Flair espresso machine. It is a manual press, so it has become a fun project/ritual. Plus, Americano is or espresso tastes better than coffee (and IMO mine is better than the coffee shop… a lot cheaper at this point I guess, too).
by r_lee | 2025-10-29 02:43:40+00:00
I feel like this is true as ever, yet the current environment seems to be going towards the opposite, I.e. not about taste but just doing as much as possible, as much hours, as many responsibilities, just shipping out slop as fast as you can, don't waste time on stuff, all about being a 1000x AI engineer etc..

I'm tired boss
by tolmasky | 2025-10-29 02:45:15+00:00
Is having a real robot creepy? I don't know. Is having a robot operated by a human creepy and scary? Absolutely yes.

We've seen that people behave worse when you introduce indirection. People act worse on the internet. Soldiers have an easier time killing with drones than in person. The ethical issue is in both directions: its inhumane to the operator, but I also don't want to feel like a fake person on a video screen to them.

This is then exacerbated when you realize that the people operating this machine are almost certainly not being paid well, creating obvious and legitimate negative incentives. Then you plop them into the households of people with the insane wealth required to afford this. You might think that I have just described the situation with maids (and to some extent, I agree! I have never really felt comfortable that dynamic either), but this is actually different, because you are adding in the indirection and making actions and interactions feel less "real" to both parties: the clients are likely to treat the robots worse than they would a human helper, and the operators may feel these rude clients they see on their monitors aren't as real as the people around them.
by edunteman | 2025-10-29 02:45:32+00:00
Good question, I imagine you’d need to set up an ngrok endpoint to tunnel to local LLMs.

In those cases perhaps an open source (maybe even local) version would make more sense. For our hosted version we’d need to charge something, given storage requirements to run such a service, but especially for local models that feels wrong. I’ve been considering open source for this reason.
by tomhow | 2025-10-29 02:46:15+00:00
> In general HN skews towards an incredibly privileged and spoiled crowd

> This poem sums up most of HN's politics on control structures.

Please let's not have these sweeping generalisations about the HN community or this grandiose "first they came" rhetoric. The HN community is a bell curve like any other large group of people. All the evidence I see from looking at the discussions for hours each day is that it skews left-libertarian - i.e., supports individual freedoms and opposes government and corporate authoritarianism. This is what you would expect from a cohort of people dominated by technology employees and freelancers, of whom most are deeply supportive of the principles of open-source software and the freedom to do what you please with your devices. It also includes huge numbers of people from different places around the world who are not at all "privileged" and "spoiled". Of course there will always be exceptions in a large group of people – or really, the other end of the bell curve. But this broad-strokes characterisation of the HN community as a whole makes no sense at all.

The guidelines ask us to do better than this, in all these different ways:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by caycep | 2025-10-29 02:46:32+00:00
the nice thing about Medicare is that if he was +65 y/o Medicare patient, the hospital is not allowed to do this. If you are an American and under 65 and make too much money to be covered by medicaid, then you are vulnerable...

Also...having heard a talk given by the hospital administrator's association lobby...you can kinda get a sense where this funny math comes from....
by hedora | 2025-10-29 02:46:49+00:00
Also, I think the bitlaw interpretation is incorrect. “Sweat of the brow” doesn’t magically produce copyright protection, and they don’t mention that.

Taking their example, if you had a collections from quotes from presidents, and I got a bunch of similar collections, then made my own ultimate definitive collection based partially on your list, then there’s very little chance I’d be liable for violating your copyright. If I copied the list and typesetting verbatim, you’d have a better case.

Also, modern rulings about LLM training (the topic of this thread) certainly mean copyrights on compilations of facts don’t survive training + inference cycles.
by Nursie | 2025-10-29 02:47:09+00:00
I have a three-phase 'smeg'.

We have that particular model because it was literally the only induction cooktop on the market that would fit the existing hole in our stone worktop.

Quite a lot of them can be wired either one, two or three-phase when you look into their installation instructions, it's just that not that many houses have three-phase power and not many people are willing to pay to get that upgraded just for the hob.
by mcpherrinm | 2025-10-29 02:47:29+00:00
Yeah. From the RFC draft:

> If a new landmark is allocated every hour, signatureless certificate subtrees will span around 4,400,000 certificates, leading to 23 hashes in the inclusion proof, giving an inclusion proof size of 736 bytes, with no signatures.

https://davidben.github.io/merkle-tree-certs/draft-davidben-...

That's assuming 4.4 million certs per landmark, a bit bigger than your estimate.

There's also a "full certificate" which includes signatures, for clients who don't have up-to-date landmarks. Those are big still, but if it's just for the occasional "curl" command, that's not the end of the world for many clients.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-29 02:48:24+00:00
personal theory is that it has to do with connectedness. everyone is much more aware of everyone else now, and how to act, so it's far easier to not act out. In the past there were many more isolated subcultures, people disconnected from mainstream culture, etc, and they could stay that way for a very long time. Now there's a strong normative pressure, so they become more 'normal', that is, boring.
by bluGill | 2025-10-29 02:48:25+00:00
That could be profitable if it works well. If it proves very useful in the real world owners will brag about and talk about it making this the "in thing" to have. When people buy it that means they can scale. If this takes off I expect in 10 years the price will be about $5000 each and they are selling enough to make a lot of money. I'm assuming that they will design/build it to last about 10 years before wearing out which means repeat customers - not quite as good as a subscription but still something wall street likes to see.

There are a lot of best cases in the above. Time will tell if it works. I'm not betting on it, but I'm cautious so don't read too much into that.
by grogenaut | 2025-10-29 02:48:26+00:00
When I bought my new fridge I told the sales guy I wanted the least features possible. "You don't want an in door ice maker" "How many of those have you seen that aren't broken" "not many. no through door window?" "I know there's milk in the fridge why do I need to see that there's milk in the fridge?" down and down the list. Eventually we settled on a very bare bones whilrpool french door. It's very simple. My previous fridge I could fix with a screwdriver and a piece of wire. These things push cold air from a compressor that lasts 50 years if it's not fucked with by electronics and some boxes that are all passive insulation. They were solved problems 30 years ago.

The speed queen washer that came with the house failed. The 30 year old lid switch literally fell apart. $10 on amazon next day. Took me 10 minutes and youtube to take the machine apart. It's meant to be serviced and I'm handy. I don't get engineers who won't try and fix their appliances. It's like a free weekend day entertainment for me.
by journal | 2025-10-29 02:48:33+00:00
manual bookkeeper? a quickbooks user? or pen and paper? either way, it's not like any of you are manually entering debits and credits regularly into a journal like they have done forever before computers, databases, and software. we're not losing jobs because of ai but because we're in the middle of switching gas tanks. just a low energy production is causing everyone to panic and blame it on ai. i have so much work i wish i had the money to hire people. they're all just waiting for things to get cheaper. it's not like they don't have enough money to survive indefinitely, if they can make 90mil in two years vs 10mil now, the math is simple, just wait.
by hyperflow-ai | 2025-10-29 02:49:18+00:00
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by panick21 | 2025-10-29 02:49:50+00:00
The waste can stay close to the reactor for literally the few 100 years in most cases, its not actually a problem. The zone where you can't live anyway around a reactor has enough space for local waste storage.

And if in the next 100 years or so there is some natural change that makes that location a problem, you move it to another already existing nuclear reactor and leave it there.

If society collapses to such an extent that you do not have the capability to move around some nuclear 'waste' every couple 100 years then your society has much, much bigger problems anyway.

The idea that we can't or shouldn't build nuclear reactor because we don't have a location where we can put things in one place that is safe for 100000 years is just so fucking absurd if you actually think about it. But its not really about thinking, its all just political theater for uniformed people.
by rpdillon | 2025-10-29 02:52:06+00:00
I counted by hand, so it might be wrong, but they appear to list and link to 86 different ACME client implementations across more than a dozen languages: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/

I've used their stuff since it came out and never used certbot, FWIW. If I were to set something up today, I'd probably use https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-29 02:52:16+00:00
Not really. Google has maybe the best security researchers in the world, most end users have no idea, Hacker News is not representative of the general population.

I am not saying it justifies locking down devices, but that's the kind of situation where I think a bit of friction is a good thing. For example having to connect your phone to a computer and run some command line tool (like for unlocking a bootloader). You still have your freedom, but it is also something you are less likely to do by accident. In the sideloading situation, it looks like you could make yourself a developer account and repack apps under your own identity, which is one of these high friction workarounds.

For F-Droid specifically, maybe they should negotiate with Google before going to the offensive. Maybe they did and it didn't work, but I think a good compromise would be to let F-Droid has a key to sign the apps they compile, making F-Droid accountable for the apps they distribute.

And by the way, Firefox is in a similar situation for extensions. Over the years, they made it really hard to install anything from outside the official Mozilla repository, citing security concerns. It is not just Google.
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by hereme888 | 2025-10-29 02:52:37+00:00
> .... you're xenophobic.

No, I'm a legal, darker-skinned immigrant with lots of culture. Btw, I respect and admire the white race more than any other, even my own.

> mass migration is tightly controlled

Because of Trump. I remember months when Biden wouldn't bat an eye at 7-8 million who entered illegally in a single month.

> poor asylum seekers...

I'm an actual asylum seeker because the Venezuelan government contracted kidnappers to try to take out my family (I'm not getting into details). My family has integrity, works hard, was a good match for the country, and we were accepted. The US was NOT responsible for taking us in. I am thankful, not entitled.

> immigrant grandpa.

Good, and I'm sure he wouldn't have agreed to let strangers into the country without vetting.
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-29 02:53:09+00:00
For whom - for Taylor Swift? The average artist experience is pretty miserable: it's harder than ever to break through because there is more competition - two or three generations who looked up to rock and pop stars and imagined that this could be a viable career.

One in a thousand talented artists will get lucky, but I suspect the ratio is historically low. Everyone else more or less needs to find another job.

There are other things that probably push artists toward the cultural mean. You're no longer trying to cater to the tastes of a wealthy patron or even a record studio executive. Now, you gotta get enough clicks on YouTube first. The surest way to do this is to look nice and do some unoffensive covers of well-known pop songs.
by acefaceZ | 2025-10-29 02:53:17+00:00
At least Liquibase isn’t masquerading under a well known open source license, unlike Neo4j’s infamous AGPL bait-and-switch.

Neo4j quietly slipped the Commons Clause into what looked like a standard AGPL license, complete with the FSF copyright and preamble, until a single person called them out.

Instead of owning up, Neo4j spent nearly a decade and tens of millions trying to crush one person. Not the best business minds over there…

Anyway - it sounds like Liquibase didn’t go to that extreme and fixed their messaging as soon as the community educated them.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-29 02:53:23+00:00
Counterpoint: some appliances reach "good enough" status and the only "improvements" are cost-cutting that makes them more fragile or less reliable.

My friend has a microwave from the late 70s. The time/power are set by turning knobs - no fiddling with a bunch of buttons and modes - the turntable is metal so it can't break. The only thing I would consider missing is a popcorn mode, not a big deal.

Edit: Another great example is toasters. Toasters have not gotten better in my lifetime and older toasters are probably more reliable than what I could buy today.
by chickenbig | 2025-10-29 02:53:36+00:00
I can't find the link, but I believe Westinghouse retained rights to the modifications made to create the CAP1400; https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CAP1400-preliminary-... suggests Westinghouse had a hand in the design.

There looks to be significant room to run with the AP1000 concept to higher power outputs, with a CAP1700 on the cards as well.

I feel that building the AP1000 now is better than running a design/licensing exercise for the next few years to make a better power station. The construction pipeline needs to be started, after which evolving the design to expand output becomes desirable.
by nneonneo | 2025-10-29 02:53:48+00:00
uBlock just takes stuff off of a page that shouldn't be there in the first place. All the content that should be there is still there, unchanged.

An AI browser is choosing to send all the stuff you browse, to a third party without a demonstrated interest in keeping it all private, and getting back stuff that might or might not be true to the original content. Or maybe not even true at all.

Oh and - Atlas will represent your interests, right up until OpenAI decides it's not in their financial interest to do so. What do you do when the entire web browser UI gets enshittified?
by Nursie | 2025-10-29 02:53:51+00:00
I won't buy Sony TVs any more because of their software, because it started displaying ads on the home-screen.

It's Google TV, and I don't mind ads for content on the home screen. I use a bunch of streaming services, I might want to watch whatever's up there, that's not entirely incongruous. Then about a year after purchase we started getting ads for L'Oreal shampoo and other products. Nope.

Sony acted confused when I sent a support ticket, and eventually said "Oh, that's because it's Google TV, nothing we can do about it". I replied saying perhaps they had given too much control over their tv experience to a third party. I was able to activate "App Only Mode" to make them go away, but you lose a bunch of the features and have to disable it to get to the play store if you want to install anything else.

Pisses me off. I paid a couple of thousand dollars (AUD) for that tv, I shouldn't have advertising shoved in my face.
by echelon | 2025-10-29 02:54:32+00:00
Atlas strategy:

- Atlas slurps the web to get more training data, bypassing Reddit blocks, Cloudflare blocks, paywalls, etc. It probably enriches the data with additional user signals that are useful.

- Atlas is an attempt to build a sticky product that users won't switch away from. An LLM or image model doesn't really have sticky attachment, but if it starts storing all of your history and data, the switching costs could become immense. (Assuming it actually provides value and isn't a gimmick.)

- Build pillars of an interconnected platform. Key "panes of glass" for digital lives, commerce, sales intent, etc. in the platformization strategy. The hardware play, the social network play -- OpenAI is trying to mint itself as a new "Mag 7", and Atlas could be a major piece in the puzzle.

- Eat into precious Google revenue. Every Atlas user is a decrease in Google search/ads revenue.
by Multicomp | 2025-10-29 02:54:35+00:00
I initially thought not to post this because I think this is potentially flamebait adjacent for someone and I dont want to rock the boat.

But in the interests of attempting to not be so conformist and give us something interesting to discuss about this interesting article, I will try this anyways, and if you have a problem with me saying this then feel free to flag and move on, I don't care enough to get into a flame war about this, but I believe I'm not trying to troll or get a rise out of people.

Perhaps this is the feminization of society? As women have asserted themselves in the workforce and due to young women being the creators of mass culture for their generation, perhaps this is a partial driver for why everyone is so much less independent.

I dont know, this thought is not done and I'm already expecting incoming fire from someone somewhere, but perhaps this could help drive this.

Then again, it's more likely that this fits one of my conformation bias pet issues.
by endgame | 2025-10-29 02:55:11+00:00
Australian users of alternative app stores should make a complaint to the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us-or-report-an-iss...

In the past, they forced Steam to implement proper refund policies, and they are currently suing Microsoft about the way subscribers were duped into paying more for "AI features" they didn't want.
by userbinator | 2025-10-29 02:55:56+00:00
An even wilder guess: the speed of sound varies with air density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Altitude_variat...

If they were calibrated assuming a certain distance from the microphone that "hears" what the wearer's ear is hearing and the ear itself, then it's possible a change in air density could position the area of highest constructive interference at the eardrum instead of the intended destructive interference for some frequencies.