MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brucehoult | 2025-10-28 23:21:40+00:00
8 month old video, which is a long time in the RISC-V world.

"RISC-V is slow .. like decade old computer slow".

Absolutely true, right now. And a year ago RISC-V was slow, like 20 year old computer slow. And next year RISC-V will be slow, like 5 year old computer slow.

I only upgraded from my 2011 MacBook Pro last year, and that wasn't because it was slow but because it was completely unsupported, couldn't run any OS version past 2018, and that OS version could no longer run current apps. And because the battery has swollen -- if not for that I could have just put Ubuntu on it. I have a 2012 Mac Mini with Ubuntu 24.04 and it's great for normal day to day use.

Of course I have a faster server I ssh / nomachine into for "real" work, but for the machine you sit at and edit code and browse the web anything around Nehalem / Sandy Bridge etc is just fine.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 23:21:42+00:00
What policy are you referring to? Cost-conscious students can (and most should) stay in-state, do their first year or two at a city/community college (my kids knocked out core STEM classes there --- over summers, not for cost reasons --- and found the teaching markedly better), and then transfer into a commuter university. The "average" student debt owed primarily by the top income quintile in this country and captures the cost of out-of-state selective university, which are a luxury good.
by move-on-by | 2025-10-28 23:22:53+00:00
If you are thinking of data - you have to think of meta data. Instead of how often you do laundry think more:

* number of adults in the house hold (people who have access to the account)

* when you are home

* opening fridge/doing laundry/etc. I have no idea if their app has an excuse to ask for location- but app location tracking would be the most valuable data

* even if you don’t share location- these things are on your network and any regular and simple network scanning would show when certain devices are home and we they are not home and what schedules they follow

This isn’t even very imaginative, just the basics really. I would not be surprised if you could guess the household size solely based on the number of times a fridge is opened in a day. You could at least determine between a person without a family vs. family- that’s useful for ads. Are these the fridges that have cameras in them ‘so you can see what you have while at the grocery store’? Throw some image detection in there and you now know brand targeting and if they cook regularly or eat out. A goldmine of data really.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 23:23:16+00:00
It won't be dismissed out of hand because there is a colorable legal argument assuming the necessary facts and some (very weak) evidence that can be proferred for each of the necessary facts, which is pretty much all that is necessary to get to trial if you are committed and not worried about winning.

If the strategy is to get a settlement without agreement to fault extracting a bit of money to avoid the cost of litigation and use that also as a political hammer to reinforce the popular perception that the claim of a link is true, I can certainly see it being (despite being wildly unethical, an abuse of public office, etc.) an understandable course of action (I don't think it ultimately works even there, unless there is also separate corrupt pressure to settle by people abusing government, perhaps federal, offices in different ways—but that is also a possibility—because even a no admission of guilt settlement becomes hard for J&J publicly if even meaningful moves public perception.) I don't think there is much chance that they win a verdict at trial and survive appeals on it, but... that doesn't have to be the goal.
by dekhn | 2025-10-28 23:23:46+00:00
I used to work at UCSF, which has a world-class liver transplant program.

Just about every year, there would be an article about a family, typically immigrants from eastern europe (or maybe asia?) who picked mushrooms that looked like edible ones from their native country, and ate them. The grownups would get pretty sick (like in this report) but the kids would get deathly ill, and typically needed transplants.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2003/01/97175/mushroom-poisoned-ma... https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/3-in-East-Bay-Family-Ser... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6621a1.htm

If you're in the bay area there are regular mushroom fests where you can have experts tell you exactly what mushrooms you have and whether they are safe for consumption.
by xwowsersx | 2025-10-28 23:24:07+00:00
Yeah, exactly. The context here was about the profitability part of OP's comment. The parent said "plenty of businesses fail to find a way to make a profit," and my point was that OP's statement doesn't contradict that. OP was saying they'll need AGI to be profitable, not that they're guaranteed to become profitable.

Sure, they phrased it as "they will reach AGI," but that's clearly tongue-in-cheek...the underlying idea is "they better reach AGI, because that's the only way they could make money." So my comment ("necessary, not sufficient") was just pointing out that even if AGI is required for profitability, it doesn't mean they'll actually get there or succeed once they do, and that the original comment was perfectly compatible with the idea that not every business reaches profitability.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-28 23:24:20+00:00
> 5-7 years isn't that long ago

It is from a career perspective - at least at AWS, a large portion of high calibre Engineering and Product Leadership left during that time period and the backfills for those roles just plain sucked.

> same "leaders" now have infected other tech companies with their culture and are actively ruining the industry

In what way? Demanding that people who are being paid $200k-400k TC need to execute and show that they can execute is something which needed to be done in the tech industry.
by Macha | 2025-10-28 23:25:09+00:00
I've stopped even checking protondb before getting a game these days. Pretty much unless they've gone out of their way to make it not work (which is mostly competitive games, so you can tell beforehand), it works.

I realize by posting that here on HN I'm tempting people to send me the ProtonDB garbage tier list, but it's true for the types of games I play.
by pizlonator | 2025-10-28 23:25:22+00:00
It’s not so fundamental of a limitation.

Fil-C already allows memory mapped I/O in the form of mmap.

The only thing missing that is needed for kernel level MMIO is a way to forge a capability. I don’t allow that right now, but that’s mostly a policy decision. It also falls out from the fact that InvisiCaps optimize the lower by having it double as a pointer to the top of the capability. That’s also not fundamental; it’s an implementation choice.

It’s true that InvisiCaps will always disallow int to ptr casts, in the sense that you get a pointer with no capability. You’d want MMIO code to have some intrinsic like `zunsafe_forge_ptr` that clearly calls out what’s happening and then you’d use that wherever you define your memory mapped registers.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-28 23:25:27+00:00
Both metrics have their uses. Personally I'm not all that interested in playing the latest hit AAA games. I am much more likely to play indie games or older games, which probably means I play more titles but the titles I play tend not to have much market share (individually or even in aggregate). You could say I'm an outlier but I feel like a lot of Linux nerds probably have similar gaming habits.

So for me it's better than 90% of all games are playable on Linux, than if a handful of games accounting for 90% of market share were playable.
by HEmanZ | 2025-10-28 23:25:29+00:00
Only tangentially related, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what media format for consumption would inherently produce the least biased, most informed public.

After reading “Amusing Ourselves to Death” last week I’m convinced that in a democracy, political media consumption format is destiny (or at least shapes the equilibrium) and has more to do with the information bias in the system (when that system consists of profit maximizing news sources).

Current major models seem fundamentally less biased (on average) as a form of media than either television or social media. And they have a built-in incentive not to be too biased in the long run (maybe, this is just a vague thought): being too biased makes you have more incorrect predictions.

Could the right kind AI consumable media reverse the trend of ever more biased media?
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 23:25:39+00:00
There's always this subtext that Europeans solve these problems just by caring more about human values, but the truth usually involves interesting sets of tradeoffs. So in Europe the norm, besides free university, is extensive tracking: in the US, your choice of major is essentially a consumer decision, where in many European systems it's fixed at a relatively early age by your performance on things like the Abitur.

I'm not saying the European system is bad. Certainly there's a lot to complain about with a system that asks 18 year olds to make life-defining decisions about both their career and their financial prospects. But the differences do go beyond whether or not you're on the hook for your tuition.
by tonfreed | 2025-10-28 23:26:01+00:00
I've been full-time Linux again for about 12 months, gaming isn't my main problem anymore. I think the only thing I'm having a bit of difficulty with is trying to get Jedi Knight working without crashing my entire computer.

Biggest problem I'm running into now is replacing all my music mixing tools. It's getting there, but it's a whole process.
by skydhash | 2025-10-28 23:26:32+00:00
A more sensible text related to code presentation is Rougier's On the design of text editors. But I found I don't really need a lot of syntax highlighting. My preference is towards those separations:

- Code vs comments - builtins vs other symbols - maybe strings.

But I like to rely on whitespace (blank lines and indentations) more than colors these days.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030
by delichon | 2025-10-28 23:26:48+00:00
It's a bit painful hearing all of the success stories on this page. I ran into endless bugs running games under Wine, eventually gave up and bought a vanilla PC just to run Windows for games, and that still gives me endless bugs with most major games, but somewhat less than Linux does. With my level of hardware fu I should stick to consoles, but mods make games accessible to me.
by dramm | 2025-10-28 23:26:50+00:00
Zero chance I'll purchasing any household device from Samsung. Not with all the crapware and spyware they pile onto their systems. Zero chance I'd purchase a household appliance with a large screen. WTF would I want that for. More garbage annoying crap and more to go wrong. The never ending chimes about everything on our Mellie clothes dryer was annoying enough... (and oh it wants to connect to the WiFi? Good luck with that. Terrible menu UI. I'll never buy one of those again either).

I like to think in future there migh be Harry Tuttle like appliance repair vigilantes that come out and remove all this crap from home appliances. :-)
by jongjong | 2025-10-28 23:27:09+00:00
I have a computer science degree and quite experienced. In the last 10 years, I've created a few side projects and also worked as a senior engineer professionally. I was engineer #3 at what later became the #1 biggest Maths e-learning platform in my country. I later built a popular distributed open source WebSocket pub/sub system which auto-scales on Kubernetes (with load balancing and sharding). I lead the development of the P2P layer of a $300 million+ market cap crypto project in Germany. I wrote a multi-chain Decentralized Exchange from scratch along with a minimalist PoS blockchain with support for instant finality. Then I wrote a multi-tenant no-code serverless platform to build/host any kind of app. Then (in part to demonstrate the search and indexing capabilities of the serverless no-code platform), I used this platform to build a multi-tenant people/company search platform which allows users to crawl the web and tag data using vector embeddings using a BFS algorithm (current side project). I'm still running all these projects in parallel because they require very little maintenance. My blockchain nodes have been running for 4 years straight. I restarted a node twice in 4 years due to infrastructure issue so very reliable.

Obviously, I suck at business and marketing. I only had one relatively financially successful product (my open source project, ironically) but I'm definitely able to build features quickly and in a stable way according to spec.
by pizlonator | 2025-10-28 23:27:58+00:00
Yeah because I’m limiting my test matrix.

There’s nothing about how Fil-C is designed that constrains it to x86_64. It doesn’t strongly rely on x86’s memory model. It doesn’t strongly rely on 64-bit.

I’m focusing on one OS and arch until I have more contributors and so more bandwidth to track bugs across a wider set of platforms.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-28 23:28:01+00:00
Unrelated: Apple appears to be cursed with the left ear. 2nd gen has an issue as well. The left ear bud will stop charging randomly. There are a lot of really dumb suggestions for fixing this, however the real issue is a bent pin in the case. I had 2 v2 pros, and fixed another 5 on top of my second one (first one died in the washer) by taking a pair of tweezers and bending the pin in the case upwards. Every single website I read suggested dirty contacts, performing a factory reset, etc. NOPE! Unbend the pin. Gently, mind you. Since I did that, both of my pairs of pros (one belongs to my wife, however she doesn't like earbuds) have worked flawlessly.
by gsibble | 2025-10-28 23:28:08+00:00
Mac hardware has so significantly outpaced software needs I think there are diminishing returns. I'm a software developer who uses all sorts of advanced stuff and I only bought an M4 Pro, not a Max, because it wasn't worth the extra money. There are so few applications that max out a CPU for any meaningful amount of time these days like rendering videos or 3D.

My M4 iPad Pro is amazing but feels totally overpowered for what it's capable of.

I guess what I'm saying is.......I don't need faster CPUs. I want longer battery life, 5G connectivity, WiFI 7, lighter weight, a better screen, a better keyboard, etc..

I guess it's odd that Apple spends so much time making faster computers when that is practically an already solved problem.
by debazel | 2025-10-28 23:28:11+00:00
It's not possible to build your own phone in most markets anymore. Without iOS or Google Play Integrity you won't be able to install or run essential apps required for banking, taxes, healthcare, public transport, etc. This makes it impossible to compete because anyone who buys your phone are required to also buy a secondary Google approved Android or iPhone to lug around in order to function in society.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-28 23:28:27+00:00
OH MY GOD! Today I learned that I, who generally like GMO, is actually exhibiting "irrational GMO hatred" when I don't even argue against the usage of GMO, but instead argue against the problematic usage of herbicide and pesticide which has externalities which are not properly accounted for and guarded against! You have also convinced me that facts and studies on the subject matters not, and that your, let me count them, zero sources, are better!

Do you have any other wisdom to spare from below the bridge?
by sarchertech | 2025-10-28 23:28:34+00:00
>Being shoved onto a backup

What do they do when a server is down?

>But when companies cultivate those expectations on purpose, it stops being unreasonable to get mad.

On the one hand I get that. But on the other hand, I see the exact same anger when it’s just some guy or a 2 person company that decides to stop doing some work for free.

If you limit your argument to it’s scummy for a company to offer something for free with the goal of creating a dependency that they can exploit by removing the free version and then offering a paid version, then I agree.
by HK-NC | 2025-10-28 23:28:49+00:00
Unsurprising. I just quickly read through the Wiki and the Groki articles on "transgender" and they are entirely different, and the author certainly wouldn't appreciate the latter. The wikipedia article presents the entire thing as fact without any critique or controversy somehow (funnily enough the authors BlueSky page proudly shares a Star Wars quote: "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil...") While the grok article is just an AI wall of shit that somehow treads totally different ground. What a dumb time to be alive.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-28 23:28:53+00:00
"Trustworthy" requires a qualifier of "for what" and I do trust Google to not intentionally install malware on my device and to take reasonable steps to prevent other people from doing it. I will admit that I don't know the details of how the app stores work, but they are at least checking the hashes of the binaries right? The probability of trying to install Instagram from Meta, but actually installing Instapwned from some malicious third party is zero when you go through the app store, right?
by signatoremo | 2025-10-28 23:29:17+00:00
HN has big problem with reading comprehension. First of all $100B is likely what Microsoft demanded on top of what AGI is defined by OpenAI, which is “ highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work” - [0]. Secondly that is no longer part of this revised agreement, replaced with a review by a panel of experts.

[0] - https://openai.com/charter/
by tstrimple | 2025-10-28 23:29:50+00:00
I think a lot of it will depend on the type of death. Pedestrians doing something most people acknowledge was stupid? Sure. A robotaxi going into Mad Max mode and taking a shortcut through a sidewalk? Much less likely. And there is a whole world of degrees of fault between the two. Ultimately the creators of the taxi service must be able to be held liable when at fault. In the era of sane governance investigations would be performed. Who knows now though.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-28 23:30:36+00:00
>While I don't doubt that there are endless stories of bad care, especially among the non-unionized working class, the bulk of voters with middle class lifestyles do have good care. Which is why it's so hard to make it into an issue that drives political change

This ignores the outsized influence of lobbyists, especially post Citizens United.

The majority (depending on which polls you cite, seems to range anywhere from 57% to over 70%) favor a universal healthcare solution for all citizens. Yet like many other majority opinions, this doesn't translate into legislative action in that direction, in large part thanks to lobbyists and dysfunctional partisanship. None the less policy is not reflecting the majority.
by gsibble | 2025-10-28 23:30:44+00:00
How about:

- 5G connectivity - WiFi 7 - Tandem OLED Screen - Better webcam - FaceID - Cheaper RAM (RAM is more important to me these days than CPU speed) - More ports - Better/cheaper monitors - Make a proper tablet OS - Maybe a touchscreen but I really don't want one

just to get started
by cedws | 2025-10-28 23:30:55+00:00
I would argue that taste is the ability to reason about one's own preferences.

A person who doesn't consider themself to have a taste in music and listens casually won't really be able to reason about why they like the music they do other than "I like the band" or "I like the song."

A person with taste in music is going to have listened to a larger variety, be able to speak passionately about it, and justify why they like and dislike particular music.

One is a boneheaded consumer, one is a fanatic.

Similarly with wine, you can't claim you've got taste when you've been drinking only red your whole life.
by chasil | 2025-10-28 23:30:58+00:00
There are a number of useful applications of Tor that have nothing to do with secure anonymity.

If you login with your phone to a corporate restaurant's wifi, you may find a number of sites blocked. Tor can circumvent that.

Onionshare is a handy way to exchange files with multiple parties.

And for sensitive questions that you don't want in your google search history, it's quite effective with startpage or duckduckgo.

I use ffupdater from f-droid to install and maintain Tor browser, although it is available directly from f-droid.
by MostlyStable | 2025-10-28 23:31:01+00:00
I always buy this argument....to the extent that the more powerful, dangerous capabilities are still allowed but locked behind some (one time) process that indicates you have a base level of knowledge and understanding. If you want to make it default safe for normies, fine, but let me turn my own device into the dangerous thing it is capable of being.

The version of the your view that we are actually getting is _incredibly_ paternalistic and condescending to the general populace. The kind of society that is capable of protecting everyone from every conceivable harm comes with the kinds of tradeoffs that no one, not even the people who actually need the protection, are going to want.
by liendolucas | 2025-10-28 23:31:05+00:00
How can smart be good? Can you give me a practical and real example of a benefit of a smart appliance? How can it be better than a regular appliance that does not get on your way?

Let me guess: now to operate a dishwasher I need to download and install a mobile app. And also regularly update the app and the firmware of the appliance, or maybe need a permanent internet connection to correctly operate. It' BS all the way down.

The only thing that companies are expecting from providing you a smart feature is to somehow monetize that on a regular basis and the easiest thing to do that is to either sell your data or locking you down to a fucking subscription.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 23:31:28+00:00
There's quite a spectrum of richness. I think my fridge cost US$100 used. This new 199-liter model costs US$280 new: https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/heladera-philco-top-mount-ci...

So US$3500 is 12 times the cost of a poor-person fridge (excluding used fridges and "oh, I just go over to my mom's house") and ⅓ the cost of your rich-person fridge, which puts it much closer to the latter.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfgang Puck or Gordon Ramsay has a custom walk-in fridge that cost a lot more than US$10k.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-28 23:31:30+00:00
Microsoft and Google forced organizations that were using their services to upgrade to 2FA over a few years. For a short bit it was optional, after that it's basically not possible to use these services without 2FA. Now even many grandmas are familiar with the idea that sometimes you have to copy a code from your sms to a website when logging into your bank account.

They could have done the same thing with passwords. They have 100s of millions of organizational users, who will do whatever corporate IT tells them to do. Microsoft can say, there is a password manager available on Windows. From now on, organizational users must use 100 entropy bit passwords. IT tells users - users must store passwords in the password manager and use the browser extension.

After three years of users resisting, everyone will give in. Same for university students, who will need it. After that the rest will adopt easily because it is the default thing to do.