MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gdudeman | 2025-10-12 03:00:18+00:00
This is written for the 3 models (Sonnet, Haiku, Opus 3). While some lessons will be relevant today, others will not be useful or necessary on smarter, RL’d models like Sonnet 4.5.

> Note: This tutorial uses our smallest, fastest, and cheapest model, Claude 3 Haiku. Anthropic has two other models, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus, which are more intelligent than Haiku, with Opus being the most intelligent.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-10-12 03:01:38+00:00
According to this issue[0] the 1.5B model needs 6GB of VRAM. Meanwhile it looks like NeuTTS is designed to be able to run on CPU, which is nice for older/lower-spec hardware.

0: https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice/issues/26#issuecommen...
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-12 03:02:12+00:00
> Humanities majors running America couldn’t grok the risk they were taking by incentivizing the outsourcing of these mining and refining processes.

Outsourcing of everything wasn't incentivized, it was forced on the US industry by Wall Street and their Republican friends. Around 2005-2006 there were 2 Congress bills about balancing the US current trade account, both were written and sponsored by Democrats but neither could get enough sponsors for a vote.

At that time, the GOP was full speed "outsource baby, outsource" and Wall Street analysts would bury any company refusing to follow the party line.
by arjie | 2025-10-12 03:02:26+00:00
We bought a few Kioxia 30.72 TiB SSDs for a couple of thousand in a liquidation sale. Sadly, I don't work there any more or I could have looked it up. U.2 drives if I recall, so you do need either a PCIe card or the appropriate stuff on your motherboard but pretty damn nice drives.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-12 03:03:28+00:00
The CEO doesn't work on what is most urgent all the time.

They work at being the best CEO.

Just because someone is available to be repurposed doesn't mean they are the right person for every urgent matter adjacent to them.

A manager wasting the talents of the talented this way, is the problem in this case. They don't know how to balance their team with their needs.

(Dire one off situations are one thing, but systematic tragic waste shouldn't be defended.)
by ishanjain28 | 2025-10-12 03:04:27+00:00
My experience with fenix has been complete opposite.

1. For the last 6 months, there is a bug which causes ff to read incorrect display resolution information on Samsung devices. This breaks all elements positioned with absolute property and you can't see them or access them. The only fix is to restart firefox. Over time, it has literally gotten so much worse that now I have to do it atleast 10 times in a 30 minute session.

2. Have a site open, click on the nav bar to do a search or open another site and it just reloads the same site again! Redo the action and then it loads.

3. The networking stack is so so so bad I don't even know where to begin with that. It gets stuck randomly, slow loading pages, infinite loading animations just so many problems. There are also similar problems with graphics performance where sometimes, it literally runs at less than 60fps(you can feel it), consumes a lot more battery and heats up the processor. All these issues along side some of the design decisions they have made that they refuse to revert.

I do not feel good about Firefox fenix anymore
by braingravy | 2025-10-12 03:04:33+00:00
What a hilarious world view that humanity majors are running the U.S.

The U.S. is ran by wealthy elites, who run the U.S. in such a way to make themselves more wealthy.

Of course they would outsource every job and business related resource mining operations if that meant more profit in the short term. It’s just good business!
by Atlas26 | 2025-10-12 03:04:37+00:00
I don’t like macOS or GNOME, but if I had to use something from that paradigm I think GNOME is way better. GNOME feels like how Mac users talk about macOS. Whereas macOS just has nonsensical stupid things like delete key behavior, apps staying open after hitting the red X, lack of window snapping, etc that make no sense in 2025. GNOME at least has a rationale and a workflow behind it, even if I don’t like it I can respect it.

>the only (rather big) downside is that the web runs visually worse on it. I don't know how, but painting and font rendering feels suboptimal (compared to Windows and MacOS).

This is definitely worth investigating as that shouldn’t be the case at all…web performance is one of the best benefits of Linux. That’s why it’s often recommended as the best developer system especially for web devs, as it’s the most native web platform that most web technologies are developed for and ultimately deployed to. Font should be crisp (assuming you’re not using fractional scaling, which can cause font issues on any OS). And painting/performance should be the fastest of the three major OS. On the same system Linux and Windows feel somewhat comparable with an edge to Linux I think simply do a a more responsive system overall. And anything beats macOS, even using a brand new Mac feels like molasses sometimes. I would investigate drivers/scaling/hardware acceleration, cross chrome/chromium browsers and Firefox to see if you can narrow down your issue.
by crabmusket | 2025-10-12 03:04:38+00:00
I agree this is a concern, but it frustrates me that tech companies won't give us reasonable options.

- "Scan photos I upload" yes/no. No batch processing needed, only affects photos from now on.

- "Delete all scans (15,101)" if you are privacy conscious

- "Scan all missing photos (1,226)" can only be done 3x per year

"But users are dummies who cannot understand anything!" Not with that attitude they can't.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-12 03:05:50+00:00
This is Microsoft. They have a proven record of turning these toggles back on automatically without your consent.

So you can opt out of them taking all of your most private moments and putting them into a data set that will be leaked, but you can only opt out 3 times. What are the odds a "bug" (feature) turns it on 4 times? Anything less than 100% is an underestimate.

And what does a disclaimer mean, legally speaking? They won't face any consequences when they use it for training purposes. They'll simply deny that they do it. When it's revealed that they did it, they'll say sorry, that wasn't intentional. When it's revealed to be intentional, they'll say it's good for you so be quiet.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-12 03:06:19+00:00
> The government insists the laws, passed by the previous Conservative government and brought into effect by Labour, will protect children. But it has faced a backlash from US tech giants, with Musk saying last month that its real purpose was "suppression of the people" and that Ofcom had taken a "heavy-handed approach" to enforcement.

Good to know the backlash is all from foreign corporations, and none from UK citizens. It's a rare law with 100% approval, but good to see it happen! Thank you BBC for this even-handed reporting!
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 03:08:30+00:00
FWIW, Kinoite will auto-update itself (the base image gets an update nearly every day).

While Fedora technically isn't a rolling release distro, it is very "bleeding edge" and it's major release cycle is quite frequent. With the Atomic (Immutable) flavors, major releases are an easy upgrade - just click the "Upgrade" button then reboot without fear of anything breaking.
Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61884 for E-Business Suite
by opengrass | 2025-10-12 03:08:47+00:00
October 11, 2025 Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61884 for E-Business Suite

Dear Oracle Customer,

Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61884 for E-Business Suite was released on October 11, 2025.

Oracle strongly recommends that customers follow the recommended actions noted in the Security Alert.

The Advisory is available at the following location:

Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts

Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61884 for E-Business Suite: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61884

Thank you, Customer Support of Oracle Corporation https://www.oracle.com/support/contact/index.html
by zzzeek | 2025-10-12 03:10:48+00:00
why do we need to do that? Which of the two political parties in the US is known as "conservative"? What does that party look like now? What policies are being pursued by that party's elected officials, and how much do they differ in concept from what that same party was doing ten years ago, twenty years ago, fifty years ago? The Southern Strategy, Reagan's speech at Neshoba county fair, "Starve the Beast", "Brownie you're doing a heckuva job", you can draw a straight line all the way through to today.

we're living in the utter pinnacle of unfettered conservatism today.
by Qem | 2025-10-12 03:11:00+00:00
> The United Nations (UN) believes there are 4B buildings on Earth. This week, a dataset called "GlobalBuildingAtlas" (GBA) was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) that attempts to estimate this number at being closer to 2.75B.

If we painted the roofs on all of them white, by how much would the temperature of the planet drop?
by behringer | 2025-10-12 03:11:58+00:00
A fortune? I'm getting 14tb SAS drives "recertified" on ebay for 150usd. Substantially less than most other sources of hard drives.

Depending on your drive enclosure it should also be able to power down drives that aren't actively being used.

Recertified/used enterprise equipment is the only way to affordably host 100s of terabytes at home.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-12 03:13:09+00:00
Startlingly bad journalism from a paper as good as the WSJ. Is the paper trying to appease the administration in so obviously deviating from the reality of events?

> Over the winter, different alarm bells sounded. At the start of the year, President Trump threatened Canada with a slew of tariffs. In response, Canadians pulled California wines off store shelves, along with other American-made alcohol. U.S. wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter—from nearly $111 million last year to under $4 million this year—and the U.S. wine trade surplus with Canada has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.

Trump did not merely threaten Canada with tariffs. Canadians would be annoyed but not remarkably so if that were the only issue.

Trump repeatedly threatened Canada with annexation.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-10-12 03:13:19+00:00
A few years ago, Lineage was just a customizable tinkerer friendly AOSP. It served as a base for a lot more Android distros. It was just a smoother Android variant with features like double tap on the notification bar to sleep, better integrated root support, more built in theming options.

Graphene OS was only available for a few Pixel Devices whose source was fully available and mainly focused on security features like improved permissions and more anti tracking features.

To give an example, a company I worked for shipped it's phones with a Lineage OS base with a few patches from Graphene OS to replace default ntp and connectivity check servers.
by partomniscient | 2025-10-12 03:14:16+00:00
>"The American president has called renewable energy projects a “scam”."

The rest of the world considers Trump and his administration 'a scam', and aren't falling for it. The side effects of all the bullshit they've pulled and continue to pull is that the rest of the world is playing together more nicely with one another, and the US is screwing over their own economy for the longer term.
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-12 03:14:18+00:00
This hits the nail correctly. It's really funny to see people act like it was different heads running the economy back then, you've got the same big businesses and same big names now directly running the US government. The ones that outsourced everything and stripped away America's ability to be self-reliant are the same ones now stripping away America's ability to trade with even its closest allies.

People mistake their actions now as protectionism when it's about looting and pillaging what little is left so that they can keep their death grip on capital.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-12 03:14:40+00:00
I've moved from window managers to deterministic app switching with Rcmd mapped to capslock and dual cmd being tied to some window arrangement and screen swapping karabiner commands.

I've switched to what I consider a french cleat system where I have task specific app/window sets and only keep a single task open at a time.

Similar to how french cleat walls are for general storage but then you can arrange all tools for a project on a specific cleat for the duration of the project.

How many apps must a person use in reality that rcmd+letter isn't sufficient for deterministic switching?

Any web app that isn't just general browsing I have mapped to a safari app now, gmail, llms, etc. chrome's tab management is just a joke.
by CMay | 2025-10-12 03:14:40+00:00
Just because you can't personally think of a reason why the number shall be 3, and no more than 4, accepting that thou hast first counted 1 and 2, it doesn't mean that the reason is unthinkable.

I feel like you're way too emotionally invested in whatever this is to assess it without bias. I don't care what the emotions are around it, that's a marketing issue. I only care about the technical details in this case and there isn't anything about it in particular that concerns me.

It's probably opt-out, because most users don't want to wait 24 hours for their photos to get analyzed when they just want to search for that dog photo from 15 years ago using their phone, because their dog just died and they want to share old photos with the family.

This doesn't apply to your encrypted vault files. Throw your files in there if you don't want to toggle off any given processing option they might add 3 years from now.
by bxparks | 2025-10-12 03:14:58+00:00
Hmm, good to know. But given Google's history, I assumed that it would stop working.

I also need to sell my Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Brand new, still in its shrink wrap. Bought it last year, to replace a flaky Roku. It was a flaky HDMI cable instead. I trust Roku more than Google for hardware support.
by roenxi | 2025-10-12 03:15:53+00:00
Just to ask the obvious question - if China has the ability to threaten the US War [0] supply chain, would it make sense for the US to adopt a more peaceful strategy? The Chinese seem to be slowly building up a dominant position without their army really leaving the Chinese borders. And their trade policy seems to mostly leverage producing high quality goods cheaply. Maybe the US could emulate that.

[0] That rename was the best gift Trump has given the international community so far.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-12 03:16:17+00:00
The Apple TV box is better than a TV from a privacy standpoint (no microphone or camera), but it still does not give the user enough freedom. The App Store is the only way to install software, and it is tightly controlled by Apple. This means things such as ad-free frontends from Youtube are regularly purged, and Apple won't even allow you to install a browser.
by exabrial | 2025-10-12 03:16:33+00:00
So... fricken... what...? "XYZ" [solar] at the cost of what? Allowing one rich guy to permanently occupy a section of public land? Without ever compensating the public for the immense wealth he'd extract from a public resource? This is basically giving the land to him permanently without ever paying for the billions the land is worth? If were a 99.999% revshare (meaning he keeps 0.001%) and a giant fund for the inevitable environmental cleanup were established I might think differently, but lets not play imagination here.

The previous generations destroyed public lands with dumping, dams, mines, etc in the name of progress or whatever, and the people that extracted the wealth packed their things and left the public with the mess to clean up. These procedures were established to sort of roadblock that, but even then it's still wrong. It's time to learn from the past. Decimating and absolutely destroying public land is something that shouldn't be on the table by alleged environmentalists.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-12 03:19:24+00:00
I was blown away by the demo but then after I thought about it, it seemed like a nightmare to me. All the problems of slack of having to manually check channels for updates except X 100 (yea, I get that slack wasn't available then. My point is I saw that it seemed impossible to keep up with nested constantly updated hierarchical threads. Keeping up with channels on slack is bad enough so imagine if Wave had succeeded. It'd be even worse.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-12 03:19:50+00:00
There's mention that the decode could get a lot easier. Here's an H264 core that runs on older lattice chips and only takes 56k luts. https://www.latticesemi.com/products/designsoftwareandip/int... . Microchip's polarfires have a soft H.264 core as well taking under 20k. If AV2 will really be easier for hardware to implement, it might work out. Here's another example, H 264 decode in an artix 7, can do 1080p60 https://www.cast-inc.com/compression/avc-hevc-video-compress... . So with all due respect, what in the world are you talking about?
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-12 03:20:12+00:00
Clients are going to send you Office documents, spreadsheets, etc.

Maybe you'll luck out and get something cross-platform or online, but 90% of the time if a client is sending a document, it's going to be something from Office (or rarely, Pages).

Spreadsheets can run scripts, and important ones you need to be able to run accurately, and not just hope your alternative office suite works.

I hate it, but it is what it is.
by zeroq | 2025-10-12 03:20:17+00:00
Imagine a world where you don't have to deal with legacy js, css and html stuff and you could opt-in for an alternative, better solution that just works on every single computer, the very same way it works on your own.

Imagine you place a textfield in precise spot on a screen, with your choice of font and it renders the way it renders on your screen on every client device, everywhere.

Oh wait, we had, it was called Flash.
by abustamam | 2025-10-12 03:20:29+00:00
My wife's grandma passed some years back due to dementia/Alzheimers. Her final memories of her were of struggling to change her diaper because she insisted "she didn't need a change" and being really racist.

I really don't want my family's last memories of me to be that. Yeah my wife remembers when her grandma was of sound mind, and has some good memories with her back then, but they stopped due to the disease.

Everyone should be entitled to their own opinions on how they want to be remembered. I would rather be allowed to pass in sane mind.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-12 03:20:48+00:00
People will study the Amazon devices downfall for decades to come.

Amazon managed to get these things in everyone’s home and people generally liked them. The stage was set for Amazon to knock it out of the park on AI and then they completely blew it. Like epic once in a generation missed the boat.

Now it’s an annoying device that shows ads. Everyone I know is tossing these things in the trash now.
by MBCook | 2025-10-12 03:21:31+00:00
I understand your reasoning. Personally I love living in my Mac, I’m much happier than I would be under Windows.

You’re 100% right for gaming. But I’ve solved that by being a console person. I already mostly was. I’m much prefer the appliance like nature and many of the kinds of games that show up there.

If I still wanted to play more “PC style“ games or just indie things that aren’t available on the consoles I would have a spare Windows machine just for that.
by buildsjets | 2025-10-12 03:23:21+00:00
Article should be titled “Heroin Addicts Who Can Afford To Support Their Habit Often Seem Normal.”

His roommate’s klepto friend sure seemed abnormal.

Also, my understanding from folk who do use is that heroin doesn’t exist in meaningful quantity in today’s market. It’s all fent. Even the stuff that claims to be h is cut with fent, and maybe xylazine if you are especially unlucky.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-12 03:23:26+00:00
<< It's probably opt-out

Clearly, you personally can't think of a reason yourself based on that 'probably' alone.

<< I feel like you're way too emotionally invested

I think. You feel. I am not invested at all. I have.. limited encounters with windows these days. But it would be silly to simply dismiss it. Why? For the children man. Think of the poor children who were not raised free from this silliness.

<< I only care about the technical details in this case and there isn't anything about it in particular that concerns me.

I can respect that. What are those technical details? MS was a little light on the details.
by dheera | 2025-10-12 03:23:32+00:00
Hard disagree. The Humane AI Pin ad was a classic silicon valley ad that screamed B2VC and demonstrated nothing actually useful that couldn't be done with an all-in-one phone app (or even the ChatGPT app) and bluetooth earbuds that you already have.

Which reduces its innovation level to nothing more than a chest-mounted camera.

You want real B2C products that people would actually buy? Look at the Superbowl ads instead. Then watch the Humane ad again. It's laughable.
by Animats | 2025-10-12 03:23:43+00:00
Yes. There was a rare earth glut in 2015, when the China price went way down. Mountain Pass CA mine shut down. Molycorp went bankrupt. MP Minerals now owns that mine, and claims to have ore to magnet capability, although not at full capacity. They've been sending ore to China for refining. Now that has to stop.

There are four steps:

- Mining.

- Beneficiation - raw dirt goes in, most of the uninteresting dirt is removed, low grade ore comes out. Mostly a mechanical process. Done at the mining site. Biggest problem is getting rid of the waste. Mountain Pass pipes it to Nevada. Really.

- Separation - low-grade ore goes in, and the various elements are separated out. Usually separate from the mine site. Currently China has over 80% of the capacity for this step. US capability in this area is weak. MP Minerals has a pilot plant. So does a startup, Ucore.[1] They claim to be scaling up. Total investment in Ucore seems to be about $55 million, which is small for the importance of this business.

- Smelting and magnet making - MP Minerals has a modest plant in an industrial park in Texas.

The US military demand for rare earths probably isn't that high compared to consumer demand.

Nobody wants to overspend, because the last two times rare earth producers overspent, the price crashed and many players went bust. The problem with this industry is price volatility vs large fixed capital expenditures. Now pricing, subsidies, and export controls are so political that volatility is worse.

[1] https://www.metaltechnews.com/story/2024/09/18/mining-tech/t...
by grod423 | 2025-10-12 03:23:48+00:00
To some extent, you see a similar dynamic happening on the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) to this day. Plenty of mining companies that purchase the rights to explore for resources in some African territory with questionable governance concerns that serve as shells for directors to cash in fees. Lots of biotechs with similar track records there too.

The saying still holds, a mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.
by dragontamer | 2025-10-12 03:25:04+00:00
And 'softRAID', like what is on for free on Intel motherboards or AMD Motherboards suck and should be avoided.

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The best advice I can give is to use a real solution like ZFS, Storage Spaces and the like.

It's not sufficient to say 'Use RAID' because within the Venn Diagram of things falling under RAID is a whole bunch of shit solutions and awful experiences.
by graeme | 2025-10-12 03:25:21+00:00
They're not rare but you have to process them and basically only China does. No clue as to the share of the equipment that is rare earths but if you need a component you need it. Doesn't matter if it's small or in theory cheap. If it's unavailable you don't have a substitute.

This has all been known for over a decade but no one invested in an alternate supply chain.