MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-10-12 16:22:37+00:00
At least if you open a "smart" fridge/dishwasher/washer/dryer/etc, it's basically the same old cost-optimized bare-bones design (maybe one or two extra sensors for special marketing bullet point features), and then all of the "smarts" is on a control board that could mostly just be replaced (ECM motors seem to be the exception to this, and even those are straightforward to design a circuit to drive).

Whereas the problem is that cars have had computers for a long time (eg ECU, ABS, entertainment), then those started getting connected together locally via CAN, then finally they added an Internet connection for surveillance and control. So the centralizing proprietary software tentacles go deep into the car in a way that's not easy to remove or replace.

There is the black box approach of disabling network interfaces, but I could even see that going away - cannot contact network -> car cannot be sure that warranty recalls have been done in a timely fashion -> disable itself after a month until you "take it to a dealer" (or reconnect the cell backhaul).
by monocasa | 2025-10-12 16:23:05+00:00
> Roslin: It tells people things like where the restroom is, and-

> Adama: It's an integrated computer network, and I will not have it aboard this ship.

> Roslin: I heard you're one of those people. You're actually afraid of computers.

> Adama: No, there are many computers on this ship. But they're not networked.

> Roslin: A computerized network would simply make it faster and easier for the teachers to be able to teach-

> Adama: Let me explain something to you. Many good men and women lost their lives aboard this ship because someone wanted a faster computer to make life easier. I'm sorry that I'm inconveniencing you or the teachers, but I will not allow a networked computerized system to be placed on this ship while I'm in command. Is that clear?

> Roslin: Yes, sir.

> Adama: Thank you. 'Scuse me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU

Basically me when talking about cars I'll buy.
by acomjean | 2025-10-12 16:23:27+00:00
I’ll concur with Apple being way more aggressive about this as well. icloud and if you try to use music on you iPhone with your collection of music Apple Music is always being pitched. Though the windows default start menu is something to behold these days (or widget panel..). I deleted Apple Maps from my phone because I never used it, but nothing would free up the 10 gigs of data it was storing…. Sigh.

Linux is good enough to be a daily driver for most things these days.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-12 16:23:31+00:00
> You're overlooking how incentives and motivations work. The gp (and their employer) wants to integrate the advertisement snippet -- even with broken XHTML -- because they receive money for it.

Make the advertisement block an iframe with the src attribute set to the advertiser's URL. If the advertiser delivers invalid XHTML code, only the advertisement won't render.
by dvdkon | 2025-10-12 16:24:17+00:00
SQLAlchemy has one strongly-held opinion, that there should be a 1:1 mapping between objects in a database and in memory. So if you query the database then modify the result, the change will automatically also be made in the DB.

I strongly dislike this, since you always have to be careful not to make some unwanted change. When checking permissions, you have to check before you modify the object. You can't modify it and then run some permission checker. You also can't easily keep the old version around.

Sadly it seems most ORMs follow this style, and that Django's is the odd one out.
by dlubarov | 2025-10-12 16:25:07+00:00
> the opposition was very well coordinated hostile actors

Where are you getting this idea? While you can find examples of coordination on both sides, the most significant instance of coordinated editing and recruiting for agenda-based editing was by Tech for Palestine.

> In the end it was so much that wikipedia topic-banned 8 super-editors over that

If you're referring to PIA5, wasn't BilledMammal the only pro-Israel editor banned as a result? Quite a few were banned the pro-Palestinian side, like Iskandar323 (who seemed to lead Tech for Palestine's coordinated editing), Levivich, Nableezy, and several others.

> They wrote books worth of text

By far the worst WP:BLUDGEONING was actually from editors in favor of a "Gaza genocide" title. BilledMammal actually ran the numbers on it.

> the facts just weren't on their side

Actually the closing decision was largely based on !votes, and the admin seemed to just blatantly miscount them. By the actual !vote count it was almost exactly 50/50, a very clear no-consensus result, but sometimes closers make strange decisions.

It was only a matter of time though - Wikipedia is a numbers game and anti-Israeli editors are just far more numerous nowadays.
by kraussvonespy | 2025-10-12 16:25:13+00:00
I'm still stunned by Captain Haynes's grace under pressure:

Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway."

Haynes: "[laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"

And here's a truly excellent long form article on the crash by the always excellent Admiral Cloudberg: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fields-of-fortune-the-cr...
by icameron | 2025-10-12 16:25:49+00:00
OP doesn’t say why they are against free cloud backup, and it doesn’t matter, but (like everything else in Windows) there’s a registry setting you could change to disable the notification. I think it is

` HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\ Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop\Enabled = 0 (DWORD) `

https://www.urtech.ca/2018/03/solved-gpos-to-disable-notific...
by scuff3d | 2025-10-12 16:25:56+00:00
According to him, some things shouldn't be automated, and dependency hell is one of them. With package managers developers completely lose track of what code they're depending on, the quality of the code, and vulnerabilities it might have, etc. In addition they are probably pulling a ton of code they don't care about to do one thing, which leads to a lot of bloat.

I think he would say either copy the code you want into your own project, or clone down the repo and control the code yourself.

He hae interviews on Primeagens channel and Developer Voices where he talks about it.
by Arubis | 2025-10-12 16:26:17+00:00
If DHH wasn’t also those things, he wouldn’t have ended up with the platform he has. He’s incredibly sharp and a successful, prolific technician and product owner.

He also broadcasts a nativist and frequently white supremacist worldview that’s pretty socially destructive. https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey... is recent and in his own words.
by chermi | 2025-10-12 16:26:28+00:00
Could it be that they go deep enough to get heat from a hot core?

I never thought about it like this, but it is a little strange that such an eco-centric author/book had a relatively shallow description of one of the main components of the ecosystem. Then again, the mystery may have been intentional. After all, we still don't understand perfectly well how many ecosystems functions, especially in the since of having a causal model sufficient to to predict responses to perturbations. I imagine at the time of writing ecosystems at large seemed even more indiscernible, so it wasn't a stretch to have some part of the many cycles involved that didn't make sense. But overall I lean toward it being kind of silly, as you say.
by mindslight | 2025-10-12 16:27:26+00:00
> who are also broadly called 'X' by outsiders

Yes. I keep saying - we need to stop doing this. "Conservative" makes it sound like what they are doing is gradual, measured, and familiar. Maybe not in narrow progressive circles where "conservative" has gathered strong negative connotations, but still in the wider general world. Using "conservative" as a synonym for Republicans/reactionaries/fascists is helping to support their movement.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-12 16:27:33+00:00
To bring things back to the original point, there's always a way for health centers to spend money improving patient care. They could hire more nurses and give the existing ones more sleep, for example. In the context of the analogy, a broken window is diverting resources from the broken plumbing and refrigerator motor instead of creating an incentive to spend where none existed.
by yzydserd | 2025-10-12 16:27:51+00:00
Sadly, it isn't strictly true. maybe the article should have said "applied" not "created".

Even the wikipedia page for "Usability" points to a 1982 BYTE article advocating "Usable" for software tools.

The existing word "usability" was being applied in human computer interface texts/papers around the time (1987, 1988) as computer UIs made advances.

The best summary of history I could find was in this article (section 5.1), claiming the first usage was in 1971, or 1979, or perhaps 1981, depending on interpretation.

https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-applied-research-...

If you want a single example it is untrue, a good example is "IBM makes usability as important as functionality" from 1986. I found a copy online but hate deeplinking to such things.

It's possible that Cachet was unaware of all that academia and independently "created" the term.

Of course the actual word is much, much older in the world of meatspace.

I was using xcopy at the time as a kid and still play with a physical Amiga. Nostalgia.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-10-12 16:27:55+00:00
Hope the PM in charge with the scammy copy designed to trick people into turning this on is happy with the boost in free users falling for it.

My dad turned it on not knowing what it meant and it completely messed up his workflows and now I have to figure out how to safely disable it and move his files back.

I will remember Microsoft causing this problem for him every time I think of or get asked if someone should use a Microsoft product or service.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-12 16:28:34+00:00
On MacOS, you still get local user accounts and Apple's optional online features are still optional.

Microsoft is using all the levers at their disposal to force users to use online Microsoft accounts to log onto their local computer and even turn on formerly optional features like One Drive.

My assumption is that Microsoft is using their access to user data to build up everyone's advertising profile, and forcing you to be logged on through a Microsoft account makes sure that the data they collect is linked to a specific person.

Windows Recall is another example of a "feature" they wanted to force on users that can be used to fill out everyone's advertising profile.
I'm making a Chrome extension a day for a month
by jasonlernerman | 2025-10-12 16:29:04+00:00
Basically the title explains it, I challenged myself to making a chrome extension a day for a month. I've been posting my progress on reddit, and my first two extensions have just been accepted to the chrome store (I'm on day 3, those were quick reviews!). For those interested:

Day 1: Minimal Twitter

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/minimal- twitter/cbehfdgpehnbdlengfefmdpmnblkaoba?authuser=0&hl=en

Day 2: No Google AI Overview in Google Search

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/pgcjmiibeccnoeobcfeoapphhajdlgkm?authuser=0&hl=en

Day 3: No Images Reddit (Not Published, yet!)

https://x.com/uithoughts/status/1977380255632404741

I'll be posting daily, I would love to hear thoughts on the extensions!!

https://x.com/uithoughts
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-12 16:29:05+00:00
I agree with you that price is some kind of signal about earnings. However:

> Earnings do not justify the price

… maybe? I’m not sure I believe you conclusively, so you would have to prove this before I accept it.

PE ratios are higher than historical averages (according to Perplexity, S&P PE is 27, which is higher than the median of 18. The top 10 holdings hover between 12 and 80, excluding TSLA which is over 200).

However, I could see reasonable rationalizations for these PEs that could tell me that they’re expensive compared to historical trends, but not “overvalued.”

Maybe investors are assuming technological change will drive accelerating earnings growth (especially true for the top tech stocks) more than we’ve experienced historically. Top tech stocks are more efficient cash generating machines than they’ve ever been before, and the S&P has shifted to high multiple sectors like tech and away from lower multiple sectors like energy and financial services. So it’s possible our understanding of “expensive” stocks is miscalibrated if we just look at historical PE ratios.

I can’t say for sure that equities are priced “reasonably,” but I can say you haven’t convinced me they’re overvalued.
by mc32 | 2025-10-12 16:29:18+00:00
Even in tropical climates with wet rainy season you can have forest fires now and centuries ago. If people set fire to things fire will happen.

That’s a separate issue from climate change. Climate change can increase or decrease propensity of climate related phenomena compared to a reference point.

Does climate suppress or exacerbate climate related phenomena? Yes. Still this was a fire set by someone. Like you know the Chicago fire happened.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-12 16:29:27+00:00
How about "catastrophic"? Or "total failure"? Or "we can't find the word to convey the severity"?

Anything else than words that already have existing meanings. With that motivation, they could have said "... update that exploded all ..." since it's a really severe situation, but obviously we/they should use words that has the right meaning instead.
by fatbird | 2025-10-12 16:29:40+00:00
I worked on the pokemon.com website for several years. It has over 2 million LoC in python (~2.5 once you add in frontend JS). It's a Django site that uses Django's ORM; I can't recall ever seeing any raw SQL. As you might imagine, the site has high traffic and high performance requirements. We never found the ORM layer to be either a hindrance or a performance barrier.
by egypturnash | 2025-10-12 16:29:42+00:00
Pagespeed gives this man's site a 72: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-rickconlee-com/foj4...

And my plain ol' wordpress an 83: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/http-egypt-urnash-com/a1r...

My site's a WP that I started up in like 2012 and it's been running continuously ever since, it's sitting behind Apache, it's got a cache plugin, nothing special at all.
by 12345hn6789 | 2025-10-12 16:29:43+00:00
"climate change is a hoax."

"Climate change has no scientific evidence"

"Climate change is only peddled by quack researchers"

"Climate change isn't widely accepted yet"

"Climate change cannot happen as fast as research is predicting" <---- you are here

"Snow rarely happens around town anymore"

"I hope my children can vacation to Alaska to ski"
by clvx | 2025-10-12 16:30:31+00:00
It used to piss me off now I despise it.

Another massive problem is if Meta has a fit with your organization, they can ban you from using WhatsApp for Business. All these Latam countries should and must pass regulations to avoid this kind of behavior. Free market all you want but if you captured market, it’s the nation’s responsibility to ensure their people can get the best service even if these companies are hating each other.
by brushfoot | 2025-10-12 16:31:20+00:00
My main reasons for using Windows right now are:

- Davinci Resolve

- Adobe suite

- AutoHotkey scripts, lots of them

- Microsoft Office, mainly PowerPoint, Excel and Word for creating and interacting with other companies' docs. Libre/OpenOffice mangled them/were missing features I depend on

- Issues with my laptop's Nvidia card (screen tearing etc.) last time I tried to switch, and rabbit holes that I don't have time for anymore (solopreneur)

That said, I would love to switch back. I loved rofi [0] last time, for example.

Can anyone speak to the above? What's the status of running Windows apps like Adobe, Resolve, Office, for instance? Or AutoHotkey or equivalent?

0: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-12 16:31:48+00:00
If there's a frisbee or ball in sight, my female border collie won't even attend to basic bodily needs. And she'll chase the object while she's in pain and exhausted or shivering with cold and not notice. She has lupoid onychodystrophy which causes her nails to come in deformed and split and painful and she'll still obsess on some running play/task while she's got bleeding paws and can barely walk. An an owner we have to intervene to remove the object of obsession and force disengagement.

This is a product of centuries of breeding to focus on a task and enjoy the task above all else.
by hugs | 2025-10-12 16:32:10+00:00
i like seeing a bit of the raw, low-level protocol first. a few curl examples are perfect for understanding what’s really happening under the hood. once i get that, i'm happy to use a library to handle all the edge cases.

but starting with a library tutorial makes me wonder how many stacks of turtles are being hidden. if i can see the turtles upfront, i'll appreciate what the library does for me -- and i'll have a better sense of how to debug when things break.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-12 16:32:22+00:00
Supposedly water heaters are an amazingly good target for variable power. Water heating takes 18% of home energy use[0] and is already a well insulated storage device. Just heat it up as you are able with the day's sun.

If you are looking for a cooling solution, you could go the other way and make water chillers through a dedicated water tank. You would tie the HVAC to pipe air through a heat exchanger. Seems like all of that is well established engineering.

[0] DOE link on water heating https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/water-heating
by xvector | 2025-10-12 16:32:55+00:00
I am not the one being unoriginal here. You are thinking that AI will obsolete critical thinking, so there's no point developing with it.

However, in your moral crusade against using AI you are missing the big picture. No one is making you code with AI. But there are many things that you can only build if you use AI as a component.

The ability to plug a human-like decisionmaker into anything, anywhere massively expands what we can build. There are applications and use cases that you cannot even conceptualize without having the ability to plug AI in. This does not impacting critical thinking whatsoever.

Be original. Put your engineer hat on and think on what this new tool lets you build, that you couldn't beforehand.
by pkulak | 2025-10-12 16:33:10+00:00
I would vote for Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io/

It's very similar to Bazzite, which you listed, but not gamer focused. You get an easy install, auto updates (without reboots), and a bulletproof, immutable OS that is nearly impossible to break.

If you want bling and tiling, Omarchy is the new hotness: https://omarchy.org/
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-12 16:33:19+00:00
Well, logically, there really were a significant portion of the population who in fact were not okay with what they were seeing in Gaza, from the very beginning.

Your "its the Russians" is just matroska-izing the real issue, which is that the people don't have a voice, in your mind, if the political viewpoint doesn't match a world view in which "the Russians are the bad guys".

The genocide of Gaza was been hugely unpopular since the very beginning.
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-12 16:33:20+00:00
TBH if i decide to change OS again, i'll probably go with Gentoo because AFAIK it provides means to have custom patches for packages and i'd like to do things like, e.g., add some stuff in the file dialog for Gtk3. Though i'm not sure this is something most people would care about, so i didn't mention it (also i only have a vague idea that this is possible, i haven't actually tried it in practice).
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-12 16:33:31+00:00
Didn't Noble himself invent dynamite or something?

Either way, if a US citizen is a legitimate target in an combat operation, it doesn't make sense to risk the lives of soldiers (US citizens) just so he can get a trial. In a perfect world,he would turn himself in and face trial to vindicate himself and his innocence but a drone strike kills that person and risks no more people that required.

Yes, you would prefer no killings take place, and I would also prefer to live in a utopia where there was no violence. I find our attitude obscene, that someone else on your behalf committed violence, minimizing to the absolute necessary amount and you pass judgement on them. Someone has to make the hard decisions that involve violence and war which are unfortunate realities, not inventions of some comic book villains. People have been warring since there were people. A peacemaker isn't someone that waves a magic wand and makes peace happen but someone who avoids violence unless it is required.

Citizen or not, if someone is providing material aid to a group that is intent on specifically targeting unsuspecting civilians, they're not criminals. They didn't break laws, they are engaging in combat. a domestic terrorist can be a criminal, so can a foreign terrorist working as non-state actor. But a terrorist group that's acting as quasi-state and waging military action is by definition a military target participating in war. Any such person must be treated as a combatant.

Truth is, Obama didn't commit enough justifiable violence,he could have done a lot more in syria and the levant, against Iran and elsewhere. but he was too peaceful and wanted to appease his voters. Ultimately, war is necessary at times, and it can even reduce the amount of actual death and suffering in the long run. Let's not forget that it was nuclear bombs and 50M+ people dying that ended the cycles of warfare in europe and most of the world for over half a century. Although people forgetting the lessons of that violence are repeating history again now. If there are aggressors intent on violence, the only way to achieve peace is through violence. You can't appease such people or debate with them (the allies tried that with hitler and learned their lesson).

My position is to refrain from criticizing too much any party that is responding to aggression or violence.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-12 16:33:35+00:00
I'm aware, I've been following Odin for a few years. I wasn't saying that in judgement. I like Odin and I generally like Ginger Bill's approach to things.

That being said it's way to early to say it "never became an issue". Odin is still small and not well established. If/when it starts to grow in popularity someone is going to develop a solution eventually. It's impossible for the language to offer EVERYTHING people could need, and developers love package managers.
by Klonoar | 2025-10-12 16:34:59+00:00
…uh huh.

It’s not ridiculous, and you are relying purely on your anecdotal experiences to attempt to say otherwise. That is fine, you have every right to do that - but it does not negate the litany of media in English and Japanese that has covered this issue.

I also lived in the country for years, and am back several times a year to see friends and do business. I am fairly confident that the current situation and reputation that Kyoto has is not overstated; I do not know a single local who will even bother going at the moment.
by lazarus01 | 2025-10-12 16:35:15+00:00
AI coding works amazingly well

But only on micro tasks, coming with explicit instructions, inside a very well documented architecture.

Give AI freedom of expression and they will never find first principals in their training data. You will receive code that is not performant and when analyzing the output, AI will try to convince you that it is. If the task goes beyond your domain, you may believe the wrong principals are ok.