MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by g105b | 2025-10-22 12:35:59+00:00
The author's idea is "A Simple, Radical Idea: Put Consent in the Browser". So when you set up your browser, you get a single choice of whether you want websites to track you and sell your data.

Here's an even more radical idea: the browser doesn't even ask you this, and by default it just respects the user's privacy and blocks all third party tracking.

Can you imagine an internet where the user is put first?
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-10-22 12:36:02+00:00
Fine, it doesn't prove that. But I'm comfortable assuming it. Searle doesn't need to say the guy doesn't end up understanding Chinese. All he has to say is the guy doesn't need to understand Chinese. And then ... some†hing some†hing ... and then ... suddenly Chinese isn't understood by the algorithm either.

It's that last part that I can't follow and (so far) totally disbelieve.
by michaelmauderer | 2025-10-22 12:36:03+00:00
The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking.

"Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is! And this is starting to be enforced through the courts, so you're increasingly seeing the "Decline All" option right away. As it should be. https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stan...

Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-10-22 12:36:30+00:00
> The fact you're paying for their service doesn't buy you these rights either.

It certainly does. In the UK and many other countries (possibly not the US), as soon as you are paying for a good or service you are entitled that it is satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. I think it's uncontentious that a meal at a restaurant that includes poo is not satisfactory quality. Businesses have less rights than consumers but this would still count. However, the restaurant is certainly free to refuse serving you at all (unless they're it's because of a protected characteristic e.g. because of your race or gender).

I'm not sure how much that affects your analogy since it was probably a bit too far removed from the original situation to be useful anyway.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-22 12:36:38+00:00
For that matter, companies should be banned from referring to selling off your data to random spam companies as "sharing with partners." Partners comes with an implication of being somewhat equal or at least on trusting terms. The companies selling our data don't trust these companies. They probably don't even know their names.

If the data is being sold, it should be legally required to word it in that way. If there's even the slightest possibility of your data being leaked to spammers, it should be worded to reflect that.

"Do you consent to us selling your data to any party that wishes to buy your data? Do you consent to the possibility that your data will be used to spam you or steal your identity in the future? Yes/No"
by jraph | 2025-10-22 12:37:12+00:00
Existing binaries don't stop working, but adapting your infra to get the update can take some time.

Without other elements, it's definitely not nice to stop releasing the binaries out of the blue, especially for a security fix. To me it's purely a question of breaking expectations you've built yourself (I don't mean entitlement, I mean expectations).

Now, it's indeed not the end of the world, and:

> you have no one to blame but yourself if you rely on others' charity to meet that obligation

100% agree with you on this (that's my first point in my original comment).
by mickeyp | 2025-10-22 12:37:27+00:00
It is so sad to see so many people -- including the article, to an extent -- and also people in the comments cast shade on this distro and the people who may try Linux either for the first time, or perhaps one more time, because they tried and failed to switch before.

Calling it flashy is an especially amusing critique. You couldn't kick your way through the 90s and 2000s without the endless parade of semi-transparent terminal windows running on various shades of windowmaker, enlightenment, kde, etc. all to show off how much more advanced the graphics pipeline and customisation was compared to Windows or Mac at the time. So this is hardly a new thing.

Let's hope this distro picks up steam; that it helps convert people who are fed up with Apple and Microsoft to another way of doing things. Arch + hyprland is a fine place to start.
by db48x | 2025-10-22 12:37:29+00:00
That may be the intention, but you shouldn’t rely on it. In practice the average IO size is, or at least was, almost always 4KB.

Here’s a screenshot from atop while the task was running: <https://db48x.net/temp/Screenshot%20from%202019-11-19%2023-4...>. Note the number of page faults, the swin and swout (swap in and swap out) numbers, and the disk activity on nvme0n1. Swap in is 150k, and the number of disk reads was 116k with an average size of 6KB. Swap out was 150k with 150k disk writes of 4KB. It’s also reading from sdh at a fair clip (though not as fast as I wanted!)

<https://db48x.net/temp/Screenshot%20from%202019-12-09%2011-4...> is interesting because it actually shows 24KB average write size. But notice that swout is 47k but there were actually 57k writes. That’s because the program I was testing had to write data out to disk to be useful, and I had it going to a different partition on the same nvme disk. Notice the high queue depth; this was a very large serial write. The swap activity was still all 4KB random IO.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-22 12:37:40+00:00
> We’ve already beaten China to the moon by 56 years, 3 months, and some change. And counting.

China wasn't trying to land people on the moon 56 years ago. You "beat" someone when both are competing to do it.

I learnt Python, Rust and Go in my twenties and Trump is like twice my age and can't code in any of these languages. I didn't "beat him" at it though, because he's not even trying.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-22 12:38:01+00:00
They are. The first openai stargate location is placed near to abdundant wasted natural gas. Their second location is in middle east surrounded by energy. The UK stargate is located on solar and BESS battery system. Which can scale as needed.

Grok's DC has controversial generators.

Amazon, google, microsoft are old school in high energy usage.

china's electrical generation displaced millions of people.

Literally all of the big AI players are actively seeking out electrical abundance.
by bcuzrecentdeath | 2025-10-22 12:38:41+00:00
Is phrenic nerve stimulation (and possibly necessarily vagus nerve suppression) enough to keep a person breathing?

There is eVNS; external Vagus Nerve Stimulation.

Stimulating the phrenic nerve causes the diaphragm to contract. Stimulating the VNS causes airways to contract.

What devices exist for "diaphragm pacing" and wouldn't that be lower risk than mechanical ventilation?
by green7ea | 2025-10-22 12:39:00+00:00
I'm not the AI expert in the company but one of my colleagues creates image segmentation models for our specific use case. I've been able to run the PyTorch training code on my computer without any issues. These are smaller models that are destined to run on Jetson boards so they're limited compared to larger LLMs.

edit: just to be clear, I can't train anything competitive with even the smallest LLMs.
by neeeeeeal | 2025-10-22 12:39:03+00:00
Agree with this 100%. The article reads as a super gatekeepy “he made different choices than me so I’m going to trash it and him” piece. The author’s perspective seems to be “how dare he use bash scripts! REAL programmers use system level languages”. Come on buddy.

Author claims there is no structure to the project but one look in the GitHub repo says there clearly is. Also, how many users will now try Arch (or Ubuntu via Omakub) as a result of this? If the answer is a positive number and DHH wants to put his time and weight behind it, that’s a good thing.
by anothernewdude | 2025-10-22 12:39:11+00:00
You seem more entitled to your opinion than others.

> That is their decision. Without any contract or promise, there is no obligation to anybody.

Not everything is legally enforced. Open source is a social phenomenon. Why are you so surprised that these social rules are being enforced socially?

There are obligations... it's how society functions.

> I really don’t get this entitlement. “You are still doing unpaid work I benefit from, but you used to do more, therefore you are malicious.” is something I really cannot get behind.

I really don't get this entitlement. You expect that nobody should follow any social contracts and I'm sure are always surprised when people call you out for being asocial.
by ambicapter | 2025-10-22 12:39:35+00:00
I don't think his assassination had anything to do with Apollo 1, so I take it it probably would've still happened even if he were alive. Similarly, I don't think his assassination set back the project (ChatGPT says it probably reinforced support for the program, if anything, fwiw).

So, I imagine if he hadn't been assassinated, they probably would've landed on the moon around the same time, which would be after a possible 2nd term (unless he lost re-election and then won again).
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-22 12:39:38+00:00
> The private sector does it more efficiently.

I think this is a misconception.

In the absence of private actors, the tendency of the state-run actor is to be inefficient. However, efficiency is not the only goal, and it should not be the state's main goal. Otherwise, you won't e.g. have emergency services capacity in reserve for rare but severe events. They get cut for "efficiency ".

In the absence of state actors, the tendency of private actors is to maximise profits and extract rents. But this is not the best thing for the larger society.

Therefor, the presence of each keeps the other honest. Specifically, we must distinguish the presence of state-run grocery stores from the straw man that you construct where there are only state-run grocery stores.
by mihaic | 2025-10-22 12:39:42+00:00
Policing the tools instead of policing what is being done with them is the problem for me. Third party cookies have a valid reason to be used in federated authentication for instance, or a bunch of other valid purposes. Just ban shitty data collection practices.

Knives can be used to chop vegetables or stab someone. Don't ban their sale, ban their usage.
by stn8188 | 2025-10-22 12:39:44+00:00
Thank you so much for sharing this! My kids all play instruments and I'm a bit jealous of their skill (I never played anything growing up). Over the last few weeks I've taken to borrowing my son's guitar at night and working through one of his books. I've been looking for more information on music theory, and this is so perfect. I'm excited to go through it. Thanks again!
by kelipso | 2025-10-22 12:40:31+00:00
What’s the implication here? You can sample and make inferences about the rest. There’s a whole field called statistics that tells you how to do it.

He is right and pretty sure he was being generous in his description. I’ve tried listening to a few audiobooks there and almost all of them were bad. I only say almost because I didn’t listen to all of the audiobooks on there. I couldn’t get past a few minutes for any audiobook, and I listen to a decent number of audiobooks.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-22 12:41:49+00:00
We have no lack of spending opportunities for "progress"; there are dozens of promising research fields, and the ressources we can realistically invest are limited.

Most historical progress was driven and motivated by incremental gains; exploration as an end in itself was not even enough to get Columbus funded, and big space projects are much more ressource intensive than that.

> Space is where the next wave of innovation and opportunity lies.

That's just, like, your opinion. I consider this extremely unlikely; to me, the most promising fields short and mid-term are AI and synthetic biology. Space exploration does not even come close-- even if we magically gained the capability to build large scale, self-sufficient cities on Mars and populated them with millions of people (which is extremely unlikely to happen in the next decades)-- what does that do for us? What progress do we gain? If you want to build habitats in unlivable, hostile environments, you can just as well do this in Antarctica, some desert or the deep sea, and I'd consider that likewise mostly an exercise in futility.

edit: To make my position a bit clearer: I think its fine to invest "reasonably" in space exploration; the current moon project I'd consider mostly a waste, but still somehwat justifiable. But spending twice or more of what NASA currently costs on Moon or Mars base projects would be a non justifiable waste in my eyes.
by donatj | 2025-10-22 12:42:37+00:00
I really just dislike the tone of this.

The author is remarkably negative without actually trying to help anything. The globbing is borked on some shell scripts in a very young Linux distribution? Submit a pull request rather than writing a blog post.

And then the tab changes its name to something dumb when you leave to try to get you to disable JS.

They're mad things come pre-installed. They're mad things don't. They just like being mad.

Dudes got the vibe of a cat.
by Levitz | 2025-10-22 12:42:52+00:00
Caricature? Foucault talked about "regimes of truth" determining that context and society are what determine truth. Baudrillard straight up said "The simulacrum is true" putting it over objective fact. Derrida's whole deal was about how language constructs, rather than describes, reality.

If all of this sounds ridiculous that's another matter, if I actually wanted to cast shade upon them then gee, I'd just quote their stances on sex with minors.
by pizzooid | 2025-10-22 12:43:16+00:00
This seems pretty valid if true:

Moreover, the entire Omarchy ecosystem is held together by often poorly written Bash scripts that lack any structure, let alone properly defined interfaces. Software packages are being installed via curl | sh or similar mechanisms, rather than provided as properly packaged solutions via a package manager. Hansson is quick to label Omarchy a Linux distribution, yet he seems reluctant to engage with the foundational work that defines a true distribution: The development and proper packaging (“distribution”) of software.
by DanovonT | 2025-10-22 12:44:36+00:00
I see a lot of sarcastic comments, but even Kurzgesagt released a video that talks about how exercising doesn't really increase energy expenditure. The theory/findings were that we tend to have a consistent allocation of where energy is spent. Maybe if you start exercising tomorrow, you'd be expending more energy than before, but there was research suggesting that over a month, you'd be expending the same amount of energy as you usually did, by reallocating where the energy is spent.

This research just reinforces that exercising doesn't affect reallocation of energy expenditure.

But that being said, this seems like it was a 2-week experiment, and doesn't disprove that maybe across months the body gets used to the exercise, and reallocation happens.
by FeloniousHam | 2025-10-22 12:44:45+00:00
I'm barely a whisper on the Internet, but let me repeat my own daily lived experience with FSD: it's amazing, useful, and a better driver than me 90% of the time. I use it every day on my commute, most days driveway to parking spot without intervention. It drove me 4 1/2 hours through Atlanta rush hour traffic, into the city, and to the hotel dropoff. When I have a drink after work, or tired from a long drive, I don't worry about a small drop in attention raising the chance of an accident.

It's not perfect, and probably oversold, but it's amazing and useful. You find within days of using it where your trust and comfort level are with the technology. When I get in a car without it (or worse, with a steering wheel and console covered in confusing buttons and dials!), I feel like I'm steering an Amish hay wagon.

nb. I subscribe to the service, I don't have an FSD investment to justify.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-22 12:44:50+00:00
>> Native South African is a debatable word.

> They've been there over 2000 years, I think we can consider them native at this point.

> European colonialists and apartheid justifiers try to shoehorn the Bantu migration as being just slightly before Europeans arrived when fossil records prove it was thousands of years prior.

> What would stop the oldest humans, who have been there hundred thousand years, from moving from the central African plans to anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa?

The Khoisan have been in South Africa for 20,000 - 30,000 years.

While the Bantu-speaking groups brought advancements like agriculture, ironworking, and permanence settlements, they also displaced the original Khoisan peoples, pushing them from fertlie lands or hunting grounds. Raids or conflicts over cattle and territory also happened. Assimilation and intermarriage also occured, causing many Khoisan to lose their distinct langage and culture over time.
by gwd | 2025-10-22 12:44:58+00:00
Right, the it would be legally required have to have "third-party" vs "strictly necessary" tags on the cookie itself, which someone could challenge if they were inaccurate (in the same way that the GDPR can in theory be enforced now). Then the browser could simply do what the user wanted with the tags. This could even be a status item in the URL bar, similar to the HTTP / HTTPS icon, that would allow you to enable or disable tracking on a per-site basis (if you didn't want a global policy).

Small website operators would still need to be savvy enough to make sure any cookies their website served up were appropriately tagged; this would ultimately come down to ad networks / analytics companies documenting the behavior of the cookies they add.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-10-22 12:45:10+00:00
Certainly, there are some pretty entitled people on that github issue.

But this attitude is too far the other way. Fair enough, you are under no obligation to continue providing a free service. But isn't it fair to give a bit of notice before withdrawing it? Especially after doing it so consistently for so long. Not legally required, sure, but polite.

They haven't even given notice after withdrawing it! They just waited for someone to realise and ask about it.

Bear in mind that many paid for services, on a subscription basis, technically allow the seller to change (i.e. reduce!) the service at any time. If they act in bad faith to their free tier, what should you expect about their paid tiers? You could argue you also shouldn't be using paid services that could behave that way but I think you'd struggle not to.
by pityJuke | 2025-10-22 12:45:58+00:00
Is this a deeply petty article? Yes. Is it wrong? I can’t see anything indicating that.

Either way, I appreciate the opinionated and researched review. It was a good read, and certainly highlighted some of the ways Omarchy is… odd.

(Also, the JavaScript is annoying, especially when reading on a phone which backgrounds the tab when you lock it…)
by nine_k | 2025-10-22 12:46:07+00:00
More seriously, space is pretty cold, and will consume large amounts of radiated heat. The problem, of course, it that the amount you can radiate thermally at, say, 150°C is pretty limited. According to the Stephan-Bolzmann equation, it's about 1800W for a perfect black body. For 5GW, that would take a square radiator 1.7km wide, always concealed from sunlight. Realistically, much larger as the temperature would drop as the coolant flows along.
by bArray | 2025-10-22 12:46:08+00:00
Some of it will be about reliability, i.e. the office burns down and Microsoft still hold a copy. Some of it will be about having a third-party that is "trusted" handle the most dangerous part - security. If SharePoint gets compromised there is plausible deniability that "we did everything we should do".

I know for example that some companies will hire subcontractors for high risk parts of a project, just so that there is somebody to blame if anything goes wrong.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-22 12:46:29+00:00
No, all good, this is super useful - if you're thinking about this, then it matters to us!

Our philosophy is built on the "cattle, not pets" [0] and 12-factor [1] app methodologies. To some extent, the Disco server itself should be treated as disposable.

Disco runs your applications, which are just deployments of your code (ie git pulls). There's nothing on the server itself to back up. If a server were to die, you'd spin up a new one, run the install.sh script, and redeploy your apps in about 15 minutes.

For application data, our stance is that we believe you should use a dedicated, managed database provider for prod workloads. While we can run a "good enough" postgres as noted, we treat that as a dev/staging tool. Disco handles the stateless application layer, you should entrust your critical stateful data to a service that specializes in that.

Finally, re: security, we recommend a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server, which handles its own OS security updates. Disco only exposes the necessary web and SSH ports, so the attack surface is minimal by default.

[0] https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of...

[1] https://12factor.net/
Show HN: HyperMind – Experimental human-like memory layer for AI apps (OS)
by vishalteotia | 2025-10-22 12:46:46+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with HyperMind, a memory layer that tries to bring human-like memory behavior to AI apps.

It builds evolving short-term and long-term memory, tracks relevance and recency, and applies context decay over time.

Playground: https://hypermind-memory.vercel.app/chat Github: https://github.com/vashuteotia123/hypermind
by slightwinder | 2025-10-22 12:46:55+00:00
tl;dr of the summary: Omarchy is a toy, not a proper tool, and dangerously "naive".

Why is even the summary longer than most articles nowadays? I will maybe read te full article later, but probably will just let it rot on my pile of readlaters.

Is this enough trash-talk now? Is the Pro-tip pleased?
by emacdona | 2025-10-22 12:46:55+00:00
One thousand percent yes. And I'll repeat because people need to see it called out as often as possible: this is due to malicious compliance by websites. Period.

I'm so cynical now that I can't read articles like this without my first reaction being to look at how it benefits companies that profit from ads.

My two theories here?

1. An attempt to shift liability from companies having to comply with GDPR to browsers having to comply.

2. An attempt to consolidate all cookie consent into the three (?) browser engines we have... so efforts to thwart it can be focused on just those places.