MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yrro | 2025-10-17 16:29:23+00:00
No, that was allegedly Cotswold District Council, who refute Clarkeson's portrayal of events:

> A spokesperson for Cotswold District Council said: "We absolutely refute that any of the officers or councillors involved in working with Jeremy to realise his vision for the Coach and Horses had 'absolutely nothing positive to say' or were awkward."

> They added: "There were in fact several positive meetings between Jeremy and his team, and willing officers and councillors at Cotswold District Council.

> "These discussions explored how challenges to renovating this pub could be overcome, as part of the pre-application stage of this project. A planning application was never submitted.

> "Upon deciding not to pursue purchase of the pub, Jeremy sent an email via his planning agent thanking the council for being 'so open and supportive', and for trying to find solutions to some of the hurdles needed to overcome renovation of the pub. He stated that 'the march of time and the feasibility of getting this done within a window that works for television' had been the project's undoing."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3ql38yk11o

Clarkeson is an entertainer whose goal is to tell a compelling story; often one that bears little resemblance to the truth.
by ibejoeb | 2025-10-17 16:29:26+00:00
Here's how I'm interpreting this:

1. your company owns example.com 2. someone signs up to supabase with alice@example.com 3. you receive the confirmation email somehow (which probably isn't important) a. either the email address is valid, b. it is delivered some catch-all mailbox 4. you email supabase support notifying them that someone is signing up with an address that your company controls

Is that right? If so, I don't think this is some kind of vital security event. The confirmation email won't be delivered to the purported bad actor, so the account won't verify.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-10-17 16:29:27+00:00
If it’s PKI and there’s verification on each stage, maybe. Just different sort of centralization. If keys are self-issued, it’s still a problem. Say, you add a new dependency from a repository XXX. A new version is released signed by another key, which appears to be legitimate. What are you going to do? Run full KYC on new credentials? Distrust the new dependency version and fork the library? Just ignore assuming that repo has verified it?

With central repo you may expect that they operate under increasingly stronger security standards and even if you missed malicious update, there’s higher chance that it was taken down by someone else. In decentralized environment your risks are higher and attention surface bigger.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-10-17 16:29:36+00:00
I agree on some notions, theres little original content or discussion, theres little creativity.

Most threads still get plagued by a circlejerk of wannabe neonazis repeating shibboleths and transphobia at each other ad infinitum, or if you're lucky enough you find a crumb of quality discussion, often generals, often around derivative content from other platforms or popular media.

There are the rare productive generals that do have people curating information in meaningful ways, or even rarer actually doing things themselves. Far more often generals are just toxic loosely held together "friend" circles who cant get along anywhere else due to a perpetual veil of irony that can only survive in anonymous spaces, often attacking each other for little more than to stir the pot and keep conversation going. They'll still hold a superiority complex over their use of the site even though every single bad thing they'll say about others can be said for 4chan times 10.

Its not 2006 anymore, 4chan isnt a creator of internet culture, 4chan is a dumpster of the web, where art goes to die.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-17 16:30:10+00:00
4chan does have very minor explicit support for UK users; on some boards it puts a UK flag on their post (as it does with all other countries and territories.) It could perhaps be argued that this constitutes the site being consciously designed with UK users in mind. Hardly matters though, there's nothing the UK can do about it. They aren't a superpower anymore and it's time for them to realize it.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 16:30:13+00:00
I think it depends a lot on who you're recommending something to. A fellow developer who wants to be productive? Probably Arch or CachyOS. Someone curious about Linux but needs a lot of existing resources and hand-holding? Probably still Ubuntu, or maybe Mint. Someone who wants to really dig into things and see something new? TempleOS (RIP Terry). Someone who likes the same type of programming languages as myself? Mezzano.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-17 16:30:21+00:00
Namesake? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Zorin

"Zorin forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Andreas Fault at high tide, causing the valley to flood. Such a disaster would effectively wipe out all computer companies competing against Zorin in the world microchip market and leave him as the leading supplier of microchips; it would also kill millions of people."
by joshuaissac | 2025-10-17 16:30:28+00:00
This could be due to the bureaucratic parts of the company being too slow initially to gain influence over cloud administration, which results in teams and projects that use the cloud being less hindered by bureaucracy. As cloud is more widely adopted, this advantage starts to disappear. However, there are still certain things like automatic scaling where it still holds the advantage (compared to requesting the deployment of additional hardware resources on premises).
by pseudosavant | 2025-10-17 16:30:46+00:00
I get this sentiment, but I think it is why it is so powerful actually. It would be like calling Docker/containers just some shell scripts for a kernel feature. It may be conceptually simple, but that doesn't mean it isn't novel and could transform things.

I highly doubt we'll be talking about MCP next year. It is a pretty bad spec but we had to start somewhere.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-17 16:30:47+00:00
Yeah. This is called "anchoring" in behavioral economics research. People can't let go of the price they last paid for the good as the "correct" price, and so are reluctant to drop to the true market-clearing price.

This is also why cereal makers rely on shrinkflation to raise prices, and why home prices are sticky downwards, and why companies resort to layoffs rather than wage cuts. In an individual consumer's mind, prices should stay the same.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-17 16:31:03+00:00
Nah. They aren't. If they were, they would leave. I went to school for aerospace but didn't work in the industry for the longest time because all the jobs available were military.

These people don't care, they might put on a fake persona that pretends to care, but you outright don't care if you work at these places. You get a job somewhere else when you care.

What you hear from them isn't caring, it's just a way for them to pretend they are someone they aren't. The person they pretend to be would not be working there.
by nradov | 2025-10-17 16:31:23+00:00
I suspect it's one of those things you kind of have to learn as a child due to brain plasticity. As a native English speaker I've been trying to learn some Serbo-Croatian — which is linguistically much closer to English than any Chinese dialect — and even though my hearing is normal I can't perceive the difference between the "č" and "ć" sounds. They both seem like the English "ch" to me.
by dash2 | 2025-10-17 16:31:28+00:00
That's not quite accurate. Quoting chatGPT, since it may have more credible neutrality than my own opinion:

""" Does Tommy Robinson call himself a "fascist" or "white nationalist"?

No — Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) does not call himself a fascist or white nationalist. He consistently rejects those labels, describing himself instead as a patriot, free-speech activist, or anti-Islamist campaigner. To summarize the record:

* Public statements:

Robinson has said things like “I’m not a racist, I’m not a fascist — I’m a working-class lad from Luton who’s standing up for my country.” In interviews (e.g., BBC Panorama, ITV, and various YouTube appearances), he has explicitly denied being a fascist or white nationalist.

* Affiliations:

He co-founded the English Defence League (EDL), which has been widely described by journalists and researchers as far-right and anti-Muslim.

However, he left the EDL in 2013 saying it had become associated with racism and extremist elements he could no longer control. """

Maybe TR is a fascist or white nationalist, but he isn't a self-proclaimed one.
by armadsen | 2025-10-17 16:31:32+00:00
The rainy season is during the summer (Northern Hemisphere's winter). Outside of those months it doesn't rain very often! I've spent two winters (June-August) in Namibia and can't recall much, if any rain. But now that we're approaching summer there, I imagine there's a little more rain. The Namib desert (which is a small percentage of Namibia, to be clear) is one of, if not the, driest deserts in the world.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 16:31:37+00:00
There are other factors, too. As an owner of a 2023 Model 3, I am acutely aware of them. It's not just image, but prices. The 2023 Model 3 & Y were expensive, and Tesla started slashing the prices in 2024. This absolutely destroyed the resale value for people who paid near the high point.

I suspect people don't really notice this as much because if you are familiar with regular manufacturers you are used to the price (well, the MSRP at least) staying rock steady for a year at a time. Tesla moves their prices around quite a lot by comparison, which can be very detrimental to the used market when it drops quickly.
by empath75 | 2025-10-17 16:31:47+00:00
People state things for a few reasons.

1) They believe it is true. 2) They want to believe it is true. 3) They want _you_ to believe it is true. 4) They want you to believe that _they_ believe it is true.

Not all of those things may be true and in most cases they are not.

Just take the simple statement: "God exists." and consider all the many possible motivations for people saying that.
by eduction | 2025-10-17 16:32:34+00:00
Even if the heyday of profitable journalism fact checkers were a magazine thing. Newspapers generally did not use them, they moved too quickly for that and had too much space (newsprint between the ads) to fill.

On the other hand, in that era a much higher proportion of the news in a paper was directly reported by the journalists - things they physically saw, people they physically talked to or called. They weren’t using some half baked thing from the internet because there as no internet. Although they might run something dodgy from another newspaper or wire service, but that was pretty rare, at least outside of the celebrity gossip and film columns (which were, sexist-ly, considered women’s news and thus not held to the same standards).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-17 16:32:55+00:00
"visual design" in OSes is more of a spectrum, rather than a ranking. Windows and macOS looks better on the surface to most people who don't interact a lot with computers, but for people who spend a lot of time in front of the computer, KDE, Gnome and many other Linux desktops do a much better job to be functional, not get in your way and customizable.

Really depends on what you'd use the computer for, I don't feel like anything is much "superior" to something else, it all depends on the user and usage.
by jack_h | 2025-10-17 16:33:23+00:00
You’re using multiple definitions of “free” here. One is freedom in the Lockean sense, the other is freedom from the properties and consequences of an emergent system. It’s a bit like saying you are free to choose your own mate and have kids without government involvement but you’re still a slave to natural selection.

The concept of the free press does not guarantee that the truth will proliferate, it merely attempts to avoid the problem of the state defining what truth is. It’s an attempt to select the least worst option because no one knows of a perfect solution or even if one exists.
by rudi-c | 2025-10-17 16:33:45+00:00
When you're writing only a "couple lines of code", you can do pretty much anything you want. There's no real tradeoffs to discuss except in a theoretical sense, because the stakes are so small.

If the app being built is "large" (which I understand to mean, has high essential complexity), then those tradeoffs matter a lot. If the app is built by a team instead of an individual, the people problems become significant. Those can very well be turned into a technology problem. The technology (framework in this discussion) can be used, among many other things, to establish a consistent way of solving the problems in the application, which alleviates many people problems.
by Unai | 2025-10-17 16:33:54+00:00
Stories of people giving grandma a Linux computer always surprise me.

Zorin in particular was the distro that made me stop using Linux a few years ago, the day I turned on my computer and all of the sudden everything was completely messed up. Took me a long time to recover the DE and get everything back to working condition. Immediately after I went back to Windows for the first time in years, which I don't love, but at least the OS is alway there when I turn the PC on.

How do people give their grandma a Linux pc and never hear from them again? Obviously a catastrophic failure like mine is not normal; and if you need 100% stability for a mission-critical system, I don't doubt you could accomplish it much better with Linux than Windows, but that's not by default. Do you disable automatic updates on grandma's PC?
by vacuity | 2025-10-17 16:33:56+00:00
In my own experience, I think I am not "match[ing] the hive mind", nor do I try to, and as such my karma growth is slow but not painfully so. I think that I've been treated more or less fairly.

I think your downvotes mainly come on some of your political comments. Political threads are not great to begin with, and I think you're giving yourself some undue credit as to your participation to them. I commonly hear that HN leans liberal and whatnot, and that's probably true, but I wouldn't say that non-liberal (for severe lack of a better term) comments are necessarily dogpiled. I think many non-liberal comments that are downvoted here are done so for being in bad faith, because they may have a point but overextend their argument to other targets. I make it a point to not take sides and be critical of all opinions (of course I don't implement it perfectly), and I think I have been treated more or less fairly. I linked some political threads I participated in to demonstrate non-downvoted non-liberal comments. If some of my opinions are "liberal" and others are "conservative", I'll just say that I try to be fair and reasonable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573777

I only downvote people who I think are degrading the conversation who seem outlandishly wrong or off-topic. If I just disagree with someone, I may reply or not. It's reasonable to disagree on the basis of holding different values or beliefs.
by thenobsta | 2025-10-17 16:34:02+00:00
What a reference. Thanks for taking me back to the 90s. I have fond memories of memorizing Running with Scissors :)

Yeah, tech for this stuff is moving super fast. It's hard to know what will endure, what will be upgradeable, and what will be cast aside.

I recently bought a low mileage used EV for relatively cheap. I'm hoping I'll be able to drive the battery into the ground. Then I'm betting that, in 6-8(10?)yrs when I need a new one, there will be better battery chemistries so I can extend the car's life even further.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-17 16:34:13+00:00
If your parent company sysadmins invest heavily into automation each sysadmin could be managing thousands of servers.

Also, 6000 CPU "cores" on the cloud is more like 3000 CPU cores. Which you can get in just 20-50 servers. This is in the range of something that could be taken care of as a part time job.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 16:34:21+00:00
> South Korea (smoking cannabis abroad)

And gambling, too. Remember in 2013 when all those celebrities got busted for gambling in Macao?

> After getting caught gambling illegally, Shinhwa’s Andy, Boom and Yang Se Hyung received their punishments.

> On November 28, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Andy, Boom, and Yang Se Hyung to monetary penalties. Andy and Boom must pay 5,000,000 won, while Yang Se Hyung will pay 3,000,000 won.

> The fines were dependent on how much money each person bet. Andy spent 44,000,000 won, Boom 33,000,000 won, and Yang Se Hyung 26,000,000 won.

> The three are all currently pulled out of all schedules and self-reflecting on their actions.

> Meanwhile, Lee Su Geun, Tak Jae Hoon, and Tony An are waiting for their first trial to take place on December 6. They bet more than several hundred million won.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140215040022/http://mwave.inte...
by LtdJorge | 2025-10-17 16:34:26+00:00
Because to_string allocates. And if a function requires a String (owned), it cannot accept a str reference (borrowed), it would defeat the purpose of the strong type system. String is moved, while str is passed by reference.

There is the exception of Deref. If the function requires type A, and you pass it type B, which Derefs into type A, the compiler will Deref it for you. But that is zero cost and panic free, whereas allocating (and copying) an owned type from a reference isn't. In Rust you have to be explicit.

Anyway, using String in function signatures is most often not the best choice. If you will internally be required to use a String, it's better to ask for a type "impl Into<String>", you'd call into() inside your function. And in the most common case, where you require a &str or can convert to your type from it, the best choice is an "impl AsRef<str>" and you can call as_ref() on it to get a str reference, which you can wrap in a Box, Rc, Arc, String, or your custom type, or pass it directly to other functions. All of those, Box<str>, Rc<str>, etc implement both traits.

Using impl Trait, you avoid having to declare generic parameters.
by BurningFrog | 2025-10-17 16:34:53+00:00
The free press has always been for profit!

What's changed is that the profit used to come from advertising. Since everyone read the news, they could charge a lot for ads.

Those days are over, and news now bubble up from social media. That kinda works, but it's far from ideal.

To me the 2019 "Covington kids" incident showed how broken the media had become. All the prestigious media, from NY Times down, reprinted a viral Twitter thread as front page news without any fact check.

The reported "facts" were completely wrong, and even if they had been right, some random kids being rude in a park should never be national news.

Bu that's the news world we live in now.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-17 16:35:40+00:00
Yeah, it's a Tor policy, and Tor is one of the biggest publishers in fantasy/scifi, which does have a big impact on why DRM-free is more common in those genres than any other.

But it's also useful to point out that it isn't just Tor. Baen, best known for military scifi, has had a DRM-free policy for slightly longer than Tor. (Not just that, but the Baen Free Library is a really cool approach to ebooks as well, with DRM free copies of some of their most out-of-print/hard-to-print books and also the first book or two in nearly every series that they publish for a "try before you buy". Some of their hardcovers have even included CDs of sections of the Baen Free Library over the years.)

Baen did it first but Tor did it louder in that Tor's parent Macmillan went to bat for Tor and few other brands in a big lawsuit with Amazon that Amazon was applying their DRM whether the publisher wanted that or not because it was a lock-in moat for Amazon, which led to why there is now a required "This book is DRM free at the request of the publisher" acknowledgment on kindle copies of most Tor books (and a few other publishers).
by dClauzel | 2025-10-17 16:35:46+00:00
L’évolution des technologies de virtualisation sur architecture x86 représente l’un des aspects les plus significatifs de l’informatique moderne. Son histoire illustre comment les contraintes architecturales du processeur x86 ont conduit au développement de nouvelles solutions, puis de nouveaux paradigmes. Les quatre technologies abordées ici — Xen, VMware, KVM et QEMU - ont chacune apporté des approches distinctes pour résoudre les problèmes fondamentaux de la virtualisation x86. L’aboutissement actuel étant l’informatique par l’approche du nuage.
by reconnecting | 2025-10-17 16:35:59+00:00
tirreno(1) guy here.

I'd suggest taking a look into patterns and IP rotation (if any) and perhaps blocking IP CIDR at the web server level, if the range is short.

Why simple deny from 12.123.0.0/16 (Apache) is not working for you?

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 16:36:17+00:00
Is this born out by real life examples? Is a 2025 Model 3, for example, significantly different technologically from a 2020? Definitely does not have double the range, and the technology has evolved only slightly in that time. The heat pump was introduced in late 2020. (and to be honest, heat pumps have turned out to be less of a slam-dunk than we hoped, they have a minor effect on range for most people)
by juston1337 | 2025-10-17 16:36:41+00:00
You can, but if you did you would likely just reinvent concepts that are in the framework. Maybe you will do a better job (problem is that many believe they can, and so do).

You could even write your own browser that uses python instead of javascript. However, it would only be compatible with python html pages. We stick with JS for web development because that is how the "browser framework" is designed. HTML, CSS, JS, etc. are all just part of that framework. If you wrote your own browser, you would need to reinvent all that as well.

I do not miss the early browser days, where different browsers could have been seen a different frameworks. Things go allot better when the browser framework standardized. I still suffer from the IE trauma.

Allot of what we see with JS frameworks ought to baked into the browser framework, but that process is uber slow, because people have to a agree, and people do not like to agree. But it is magic when they do.
by ngokevin | 2025-10-17 16:37:18+00:00
Not sure about the autopilot part (even planes autopilots follow a flight path). I'm not an expert either, but with roads, there are clear lanes and markings. And ability to generally see around you, and judge distance.

Is what sets the lanes in the air are traffic controllers and flight plans? We're already short on traffic controllers. And there are already lots of near-misses (and not near-misses) even with the heavy regulation and control. Can't imagine having it as mass personal transit driven manually. There'd need to be a mass central system that controls everything, and in that case, might as well just keep it commercial

The energy efficiency isn't great either on personal aircraft

not an expert, just shooting the crap
by zahlman | 2025-10-17 16:37:27+00:00
> The "payload" in this article, the thing he wants to spread debunking of, is the indeed false claim that Euan Blair's son Multiverse's company got a government ID card contract.

Which is a rather strange approach to writing the article, because I had to do quite a bit of clicking around to have any understanding of what he was talking about.