MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numpad0 | 2025-10-12 18:17:51+00:00
"VPN" is just virtual emulated network cables that you would use to connect your laptops to Wi-Fi routers. It's just so happens that a lot of companies use that word for a paid, cloud based Internet-over-Internet service. It's as if taxi companies called themselves "wheels" companies that whether you're referring to the physical object or the service had become ambiguous.

VPNs are normally processed in software, and that processing is usually multi-step. So latency, jitter, processing time per types of packets, etc can vary. This is FPGA based, and FPGA can run some algorithms and programs that can be implemented as chained conditions at fixed latency without relying on function calling in software. Presumably this is faster and more stable than software approaches thanks to that.
by sphars | 2025-10-12 18:17:55+00:00
> enables all your devices to communicate with each other

I've tried using KDE connect on two desktops (my laptop running Fedora KDE and my desktop running Nobara, also Fedora KDE) and this statement appears false. It was extremely buggy connecting them, and when they did "see" each other, none of the functionality I expected worked. Wanted to use the shared clipboard feature but it didn't work, nor did anything else.

This was early this year, maybe it's gotten better since?

KDE Connect is really for mobile (Android) devices and a computer, not computer to computer, IME
by titanomachy | 2025-10-12 18:18:06+00:00
These grimoires seem to open with long list of entreaties to various deities… seems kind of like an import statement.

“O mighty jsonparse, he who calls forth structure from the chaos; O clever urllib, ethereal messenger who weaves between worlds; O wise flogger, who scribes our deeds in the book of names that they shall never be forgotten…”

If you fail to heap sufficient praise on the libraries, they refuse to help you run your program.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-12 18:18:34+00:00
Thanks! Oh, I forgot to ask about the hardware working in the US? Also, does Lineage force you to make an account somewhere?

I see the Murena, which I think is the same hardware. But their page says the bootloader is locked. Hmm, think that's a no-go. https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena...
by throAway007 | 2025-10-12 18:18:57+00:00
This makes sense. I would've been marked as a "no show" because I had to rescind a job offer because of long COVID which lasted a year. From the government's point of view I was just an unremarkable figure prolonging my bout of unemployment when in fact I had a great job offer lined up that went to shit because I got COVID while on my little bit of celebratory vacation

The PVCs, adrenaline dumps, sleeping problems and anxiety/panic were insane! The doctor thought that my hypothalamus was inflamed because of COVID.
by jama211 | 2025-10-12 18:19:52+00:00
I’m confused, because you’re acting like you disagree with me but the things you’re saying are basically my entire set of points. Linux is unapproachable for newbies, Linux has an elitism problem in the community and therefore I think veterans should guide newbies to have a smooth transition… And also we should make Linux more approachable and reliable.

Telling people “you downloaded the wrong distro” when they download a popular one isn’t helpful, as many others with give contradictory advice - in fact Ubuntu is very often stated as a newbie friendly distro, relatively speaking. Also saying it’s outright “bad” or “terrible” is also hyperbole that they don’t have the context to parse. It’s just super unhelpful and unapproachable as a response to someone to start with “the distro you chose despite being a popular one is wrong because I said so”.

Your words and your actions are at odds with one another.
by SknCode | 2025-10-12 18:20:00+00:00
I am not sure if I understand things correctly.

I came to believe the LLMs work with token embeddings. Is then the REFRAG only "something" in front of the LLM, and the decoder is the RL policy which expands only some token chunk embeddings into token embeddings feedable to LLM? Or the REFRAG needs you to 'tune' the LLM to be able to work with both token embeddings and token chunk embeddings?
by exasperaited | 2025-10-12 18:20:48+00:00
> I wouldn't mind seeing the British monarchy get abolished as well.

Strongly suggest the USA leaves tinkering with other countries' political systems alone for at least a generation. No standing.

The British are actually quite conflicted about the monarchy.

It tends to be bound up in what a lot of people used to observe was the distinction between Royalism and Queenism (or Elizabethism specifically).

We don't much like the institution in the same way (only narrow approval overall), but we pretty much loved the Queen as close to unconditionally as we love anyone (she's like one or two rungs down from Judi Dench and the late Terry Wogan), and would not have wanted to see it go in her lifetime because it would just have been weird.

Now, not so much. Charles has yet to earn that kind of affection. Though surprisingly he is getting there, and Camilla's popularity (always a very serious problem for the monarchy) is genuinely surprising because she turns out to be a) really a friendly, kind person and b) genuinely liked by her step-family.
by hinkley | 2025-10-12 18:20:58+00:00
There’s some documentation out there suggesting the original Labrador retrievers had food obsession as a trait in common with bidability, which is why more than half of them end up chonky. Not all have the gene but odds are high.

There’s a guy who trawls dog rescues looking for retrievers who are toy obsessed and then trains them to hunt truffles. He reasons you can’t reward them with food for finding even tastier food, so you have to train them with ball time as a reward/distraction when they find a trove.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-12 18:21:06+00:00
> Which capital is most advantageous in any specific situation is dependent on context

Sure. That doesn’t make it not capital.

> My proposal is that there’s a high likelihood the bet is that green paper matters less

The green paper is a transactional intermediary and unit of account. Nobody is hoarding cash. When folks talk about returns on data centers, they’re asking whether building more of those is a better economic bet than investing in housing, the military or healthcare.
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-12 18:21:17+00:00
Good comment. There is a trade-off between principle and loyalty, and "rule of law" puts the dial hard over to "principle". The mechanism behind its success is that it puts a society solidly into the "cooperate" Nash equilibrium. (Loyalty, by contrast, puts a society solidly into the "defect" equilibrium). I suspect that Christianity, taken broadly, also pushes the dial hard over to "principle". First, it "undermines" temporal loyalty by stressing loyalty to God. Second it installs a panopticon within the believers mind that guards access to eternal bliss. Third it provides a non-commercial venue for civic life (the church on Sunday) where "stink eye" becomes a meaningful enforcement mechanism of norms. I fear that the late 20th century focus entirely on the (real and very serious) error-modes of these mechanisms to the exclusion of understanding of their value. This throws the baby out with the bathwater. The secular reaction is to pass an ever-increasing and ever more comprehensive set of laws in a vain attempt to replace the loss of norms. When that finally fails (as it inevitably must) you decay into the "defect" Nash equilibrium, put the dial back over to loyalty over principle, abandon the fundamental innovation of the Enlightenment, and your civilization falls.
by diimdeep | 2025-10-12 18:21:31+00:00
Instead of reading this stupid page that does not proof anything, you better listen to what it really isn't and how it can be salvaged [0]

[0] Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: CIA Infiltration, Banning Conservatives, & How to Fix the Internet https://youtu.be/vyfKyrSAVFg?t=3730
by chromatin | 2025-10-12 18:21:49+00:00
I've found the same. I've moved from a homebrew tinkerer's delight home network with pfSense running in a VM, Supermicro FreeBSD ZFS fileserver, hodgepodge of cameras etc. to a top-to-bottom Unifi Stack.

My time is worth a lot more now, my family appreciates very much that it "Just Works" (tm), and -- most importantly -- the cognitive load for me is a fraction of before.
by unglaublich | 2025-10-12 18:22:19+00:00
Sure, cue sheets are cool from a cartography perspective, but they were mainly something engineered to achieve exactly what a gps route computer is doing:

- Show where you should go - Show when you missed, and how you get back on the route - Change the route mid-trip (how often roads are closed)

All in all, sure they are a cool technology, but like a steam engine, it's mainly a thing to admire while moving on to more modern technology.
Show HN: Create your own live channel from a list of video URLs
by LandOfMightDev | 2025-10-12 18:22:29+00:00
With just a list of video urls, you can create a pseudo live channel. Like on television, the videos play based on a predefined schedule. This website will allow people to create their own channel just like on TV and have other users watch their channel, all from just a list of video urls ! No physical files necessary and no server-side processing.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-12 18:23:10+00:00
There's two parts to this:

1. US government contracting preferentially selecting over the last 75 years for people who are used to working slow and dotting every i / crossing every t -- i.e. business as usual

2. Regulations during business as usual slowing down the maximum throughput of processes

That isn't to say that other people don't still exist in the US, just that they're not currently at government contractors, because the government hasn't prioritized their core competencies (speed).

It's entirely possible that, similar as was done to military command staff at the outbreak of WWII, the US rewrites its regs, fires people who are incompetent at working at a faster pace, and recognizes and elevates talent.

Unfortunately the current executive branch, while tearing down regulations, then has more interest in profiteering and nepotism than truly pushing exceptional engineers.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-12 18:23:23+00:00
Not sure exactly what setup you are running, in theory yes, higher temperature for both model means higher chance of overlap and thus less rejections -> faster sampling (but worse quality overall).

However, if you have higher temperature but still are operating under a top-k sampling where k is small, not sure it's going to translate to any noticeable difference, since this will make your actual distributions very much non-uniform.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-12 18:23:24+00:00
Thomas Paine is one strand of an ideological opposition to authoritarianism that doesn't devolve into lunacy (unlike modern "libertarianism", communism, etc). He was a good man in a time of bad men. One of the few founding fathers who was genuinely against slavery and supported real egalitarianism to the point of being ostracized for it. He was an honest to god liberal with a capital L, and he, unlike Thomas Jefferson, should be the firebrand representation of the modern democratic party.

He believed in a universal basic income (Agrarian Justice), free trade, a land value tax. He was a georgist before Henry George. To this day, I look at Georgism as the only meaningful pro-market and good-for-buisness but unapologeticly left-wing movement we have.

Thomas Paine should be regarded as our best and most read founding fathers and liberal thinkers. He's often a footnote, or forgotten about. Just like Andrew Yang, Henry George, Smedly Butler, Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair etc.

Instead our modern "anti-authoritarian" movement, or whatever passes for it, claims ideologically descent and active influence from the likes of charlatans and defenders of authoritarianism like Karl Marx, Hegel, Freud, Foucault, Kant, Nietzsche, etc.

Remember Thomas Paine.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-12 18:23:29+00:00
> You're saying that because users didn't pay for the software, they're not allowed to be surprised and angry when they're forced to either continue using unmaintained versions, take over maintenance themselves or wait until someone from the community does

Surprised maybe depending on how long the software has existed, but angry? 100% they are not allowed to be angry.

Anyone who thinks that a maintainer of open source software is required to maintain that software for free forever is an entitled brat.
by rectang | 2025-10-12 18:23:45+00:00
To cite one example: aggressive gerrymandering has required a response in the form of California Prop 50. I'm hoping that we can all find our way to competitive districts together, rather than permanently sorting into districts that are the province of one party or another, eliminating free elections in practice.

But thanks to SCOTUS interpreting any amount of political gerrymandering as permissible, we may have in fact fallen into an irreparable hole in the US Constitution.

Even if some of us are disinclined towards tyranny, we may be faced with a choice: accept that we are shunted towards it by forces beyond our control, or roll over and accept tyrannical rule by others. I continue to hope that it will not come to that and that we can fight our way out of this situation using Paine's methods.
by bko | 2025-10-12 18:24:19+00:00
Call me naive, but can't an artist just refuse to be listed on Spotify? No meetings, groups, boycotts necessary. If an artist feels like the payout isn't high enough, they can just exclude their catalog from the app. And if they don't own their own catalog, then that's a decision they made knowingly and they gave up their right to control where it gets hosted. If they got exploited or didn't know, then they should take it up with their agent, whoever was advising them or the person that owns the rights. They can also try to buy their rights back. Has nothing to do w/ Spotify.

This anger against Spotify and other streaming services just strikes me as misdirected. Spotify pays out ~70% of its revenue to music rights holders, which strikes me as reasonable, although I have nothing really to base this on. But I feel like the people behind this kind of movement expect a much bigger payout, so even if Spotify paid out 100% of their revenue to rights holders, they would still think its too low.
by throAway007 | 2025-10-12 18:24:24+00:00
I went on vacation, had a great time, then got COVID, and came back a completely nonfunctional wreck beset by random adrenaline dumps, heart palpitations, spontaneous panic attacks, and wicked insomnia. The condition lasted almost a year.

39 year old male. I was in great shape both physically and mentally before my trip.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-12 18:25:40+00:00
> People simply can't wait to anoint their own personal king

You really think there are only 1% of us that have no desire at all for any sort of king? I cannot think of a single person deserving of that role, cannot imagine what it would take for me to change my mind. I very much value our systems of government, and I do not ever want any one person to have too much control over them.
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-12 18:25:45+00:00
The EU-wide "911 eCall" system records your location at all times and has a cellular modem connected to government systems. It is illegal to disable this system. If you still do so, there are fines, and your insurance is no longer considered fully valid in case of an accident.

You asked for specific legislation. For the Netherlands and our "APK" system, the relevant rule is under "Geluidssignaalinrichtingen en eCall", article 5.2.71 of the APK handboek, issued by our Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer.

In the EU, automatic surveillance cameras on the side of the road enforce this APK system, so if you do disable the eCall system, you will fail your APK, and you will automatically receive a fine. Even if you don't leave your driveway, the government is working hard to keep you safe; government camera surveillance cars drive around constantly, scanning your license plates, cross-referencing surveillance images with other government databases to automatically issue fines if you step out of line.

I really don't think there's anything to worry about, though; to quote another comment of mine:

>Thankfully, we're safe. Car software is notoriously high quality and rarely hacked. All governments are fully trustworthy, especially around espionage and privacy, and have a perfect track record of never lying to the public.

>Look, the European Commission stated that it cannot be hacked; "hackers cannot take control of it", from ec.europa.eu. They built an unhackable device. I am not sure what you could be worried about. If the government tells you something cannot be hacked, then it cannot be hacked. Furthermore, none of the EU member states have been found using other infrastructure to violate privacy laws.

the earlier comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43958991
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-12 18:26:45+00:00
How do people get such large config files? I have been using vim for 20 years and my config has grown to 33 lines, 8 of which are blank or comments. I probably use a dozen plugins, which typically add between 0 and 2 lines of config each (syntastic being an outlier, making up fully half of my non-blank lines)
by throw_this_one | 2025-10-12 18:27:03+00:00
I find the AI can make me more creative. I don't have to waste mental energy on boilerplate or straightforward stuff that would take me typing through some event processing loop etc. I can extract out and reuse components easier and focus on big picture design. Or build more bespoke admin tools that I wouldn't have wanted to waste time building some JS stuff before.
by 8note | 2025-10-12 18:27:10+00:00
i dont see where a random seed would have any bearing on "a specific approach, based on rigour and repeatability"

the approach uses random seeds, and the rigours make it repeatable.

if im thinking about mechanical engineering, something like the strength of a particular beam or the cycle life of a bearing is a random number. An engineer's job includes making random things predictable, by apply design tools like safety factors, and observability tools. thats why we prefer ductile materials; over brittle ones. both have a random strength around the spec, but one visibly changes before it fails, where the other doesnt. we can design in inspection processes that accounts for the randomness.

all kinds of tuning operations also start with somewhat random numbers and bring them to a spot. for the very contemporary example: training an ML model. start with random weights, and predictably change them until you get an effective function.

i dont think the randomness excludes "prompt engineering" from being engineering. instead, it's the rigour of the process in turning the random inputs into predictable outputs
by redwall_hp | 2025-10-12 18:27:20+00:00
It's the other way around: they're wealthy holders of land, like the rest of the dukes and such, who control large chunks of the land in the UK and own large businesses. The UK benefits from the royal family allowing the use of their land, including historic buildings, at a relatively low cost.

Another example: the Duke of Westminster is worth $12B and owns a large chunk of London outright, including a ton of large, notable buildings. (Also, I think, the Twinings tea company.)

There's the Crown Estate, which is controlled by the crown, but the family also owns the Duchy of Cornwall (45K acres) and the Duchy of Lancaster (45K acres), as well as numerous private holdings that are less visible. And this is predominantly highly developed city space.
by howard941 | 2025-10-12 18:27:26+00:00
Well it's not all lost otherwise it'd be a stall spin accident caused by performing the maneuver with too little airspeed. And that's hard to do. It's a noisy maneuver, the air slamming against the fuselage makes itself heard. Once performed it's not easily forgotten.

More dangerous than inadvertently spinning with too little airspeed is the possibility of shock cooling when relying on a forward slip for too much altitude loss. It really does need to be well-controlled.
by a022311 | 2025-10-12 18:28:59+00:00
Back when I was using Windows, I had enabled this feature too (before I knew much about privacy) and when I finally decided to get rid of it, I remember consistently failing to disable OneDrive. I would log out, uninstall the app and then try to move my Desktop folder out of "OneDrive" in my home directory and next boot I'd have 2 folders again (with the "OneDrive" one being used, of course). I ended up reinstalling for another reason, but that finally fixed the problem.

I deleted everything from my OneDrive today and got especially mad that the Android app shows a download icon in folder details yet it's disabled. There's absolutely no way to get your files through there. Had to log in on the web just to get a ZIP of everything (it's surprising that's still possible). As soon as I move off Outlook I'm out of this ecosystem.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-12 18:29:08+00:00
> The TLDR/key (from my understanding) is that verifying N tokens can be faster than generating N tokens.

Yes. This is because to generate token n+1 you need token n etc. So generating from scratch is a sequential (thus slow) process. When we verify tokens, we can, for each token, use all preceding tokens as input and check that the output token matches the expectation. But since the full sequence we want to verify already exist, we can do it in parallel for each token we want to verify and not sequentially.

This is why training transformer models is much faster than RNN, we do the same thing during training, it's just that the sequence we compare to is the ground truth and not coming from another model.
by CMay | 2025-10-12 18:29:38+00:00
I can sympathize a little with Microsoft here. MS got totally angry and fed up with what was happening. I'm not sure how many people really understand how bad ransomware was getting. Microsoft just finally said enough is enough and started implementing counter-measures. Being more forceful about getting people to backup their files is one of them.

Yes, it's annoying, and many might say what's the big deal? People's harddrives used to die all the time and they would still lose data. Why suddenly because it's ransomware, is it a bigger deal? I think it just adds a moral dimension to it that wasn't as acute before.

MS took the risk to be a little bit of an asshole as a way to counter even bigger assholes.

That's only really acceptable if they can hold up their end of the deal and maintain absolute privacy and security for that data without trying to analyze it and apply Minority Report pre-crime to everything.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-12 18:30:00+00:00
The older I get the more I appreciate the value of a shared mythology. In some cases that is religion. Or a creed, as it was for a long time in America. But I think it is very valuable to have it for a healthy functioning society. It feels like we have lost it in America, which does not make me optimistic for the future.

I wonder if the monarchy serves that role for the UK. Might be better to keep it.