MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-10-16 05:51:16+00:00
I am starting to see the benefits to secure boot and TPM from a gaming perspective. I realize this can still be tampered with but it eliminates so many casual cheaters that the edge case is practically irrelevant.

I don't see how my TPM module will prevent me from using the machine the way I want. The offer of a cryptographic assurance to a 3rd party is something I happily provide in order to gain access to a competitive gaming resource. Cheaters really fucking suck and if this is what it takes to ruin their day, then fantastic. I'm looking forward to TPM3.0 now after seeing how ruinous this has been to their schemes. These tools are effective.

Battlefield 6 is especially problematic for malcontents because its developers also enjoy using statistical methods to detect cheaters. TPM2.0 + statistical methods + $69.99 per try = probably can't afford to play this game unfairly for very long. Even if you can afford it, the in game progression takes an eternity. You're gonna need that 8x scope if you want your "undetectable" frame scanning aimbot to be of any use.
by csomar | 2025-10-16 05:51:20+00:00
The camel's back is already broken, it just so happens that changing OSs is very hard. MSFT has a leak; once they lose a customer, and that customer has figured out alternatives, they are never getting them back.

See this for all OSs/platforms: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...

See this for Desktop OSs: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

They are on a slow death spiral. Their solution to raise revenue when their marketshare goes down is to squeeze harder. So they lose more users and the vicious cycle continues. In 10-15 years, they'll dip below 50% of marketshare, at which point there will be various alternatives which will accelerate their downfall. This already happened in tablets/phones.

It might also happen faster since they have a stronghold in Asia and China is now looking to accelerate the building of alternatives.
by prmoustache | 2025-10-16 05:51:34+00:00
Reordering pages is easily done with the print system of your operating system.

I don't count signing as editing really as the structure and content do not change, you sre just attaching s certificate. Th spanish government offer/maintain an open source java tool to digitally sign pdfs: https://administracionelectronica.gob.es/ctt/clienteafirma https://github.com/ctt-gob-es/clienteafirma/

I've also copy pasted scan of my signature on contracts using Gimp in order to not have to print them, it is fairly easy.

For the rest I would tend to ask first for thread original working document if I don't have it already. Having said that I have edited in a hurry an old cv for my partner using libreoffice draw in the past.
by somat | 2025-10-16 05:54:15+00:00
Apologies for bringing vi into it but wouldn't the vi / or ? search be even closer? put your search in then hit n to repeat.

I think the real genius of the interface is reducing it down to a set of dedicated keys that always work. It is hard to explain how good an interface feels if you can get it down to one action. The closest common analog I can think of is the X11 single click paste. When you spell it out "well, copy/paste changes from [select, ctl+c, click, ctl+v] to [select, click]" it does not sound like much. But It flows so much better and I have to admit I get all sorts of grumpy when going back to a windows machine and I do not have my single click paste. On reflection drag/drop might be close to single click paste. But I never do it. Does anyone use drag/drop for common editing?
by simonask | 2025-10-16 05:56:20+00:00
Spitballing here, but subpixel rendering also requires integration with the rendering pipeline, specifically that you have the infrastructure to pass fractional offsets to the rasterization engine based on the concrete screen position of a glyph, and that the glyph atlas is a full RGBA texture (not just an alpha texture), and that the rasterizer knows about the particular texture format (RGBA vs BGRA etc.)
by paulddraper | 2025-10-16 05:56:47+00:00
There’s a ton of work that goes into multi-generational management, incremental vs stop the world, frequency heuristics, etc.

A lot of the challenge is there is not just one universal answer for these, the optimum strategies vary case by case.

You are correct that each memory arena is the boundary of the GC. Any GC between them must be handled manually.
by rixed | 2025-10-16 05:57:13+00:00
Want another exemple as fresh as yesterday?

I'm on a move, had to pay some transport company to move some stuff for me, pick-up date tomorrow. Paid online, website asked for a confirmation from my bank's app (N26), fair enough. Opened the app, just to be greated with "Please Update. The latest app version includes new features, enhancements and stability improvements" with the only choice: "Update now".

Being confronted with an app designed to refuse to work was irritating enough (for context, I'm from a generation were we used to own our devices), but I clicked on "Update" anyway, just to be told by apple store that there was no update for my iPhone 7.

Ok, the writting was on the wall. You know, I own one iphone and 2 android phones already, all of them several years old but in pristine condition. That's how I am, I care for things. I'm not going to buy yet another one, if only because I hate waste and fear mismanagement of natural resources. That's how I am, I care for things.

Now you are mandating me to add more e-waste? There is no way I'm going to do that, so I decided to connect to N26's wensite, but guess what? You need the app to login. Well, if you insist you can also login with a short message, which I did, just to check that there was no way to confirm a paiement on the website.

But you can contact "support", so I tried that. To their credit, the robot bouncer was quick to admit incompetence and to connect me with a friendly fellow human, who was unfortunately only allowed to lecture me about why those "new features and enhancements" were essential to my account's security, while being unable to tell me exaclty what they were or what was the problem with the current version, and suggested I login from someone else's phone instead.

Security? Whose security?

To anyone working in tech, let me remind you what an actual threat model is.

My actual threat model in the actual world is that your company might stole my money, or prevent me from access it which amount to the same thing. Data points: Despite all the stories on the news about mischievous hackerz from russia and china, I've been stolen money only twice in my life, not a lot of but at the time I needed it, and twice by banks.

My threat model is that the electronic gadget that I bought and carry with me all the time stops obeying me and starts obeying some adversarial company. And that, in perfect novlang mastery, you want me to call this a "trusted device".

My threat model is that our civilization might drown in e-waste.

Want another exemple of app only service? Wait for a days or two, as I'm confident I will face the same issue soon.
by hennell | 2025-10-16 05:57:21+00:00
I'm probably not typical, but I have 6 chargers around that would charge that already. Some smaller, some with travel adapters for EU/US/UK usage. Most with multiple slots so you can do a laptop and phone at least.

And while they might not be common exactly, they are pretty available - and I can only assume more so when shops realise that Apple buyers will need a charger and they can easily find cheaper chargers with more features than the official one.
by j_bum | 2025-10-16 05:57:53+00:00
It is awesome.

But what I’ll say is, ideally they would demonstrate whether this model can perform any better than simple linear models for predicting gene expression interactions.

We’ve seen that some of the single cell “foundation” models aren’t actually the best at in silico perturbation modeling. Simple linear models can outperform them.

So this article makes me wonder: if we take this dataset they’ve acquired, and run very standard single cell RNA seq analyses (including pathway analyses), would this published association pop out?

My guess is that yes… it would. You’d just need the right scientist, right computational biologist, and right question.

However, I don’t say this to discredit the work in TFA. We are still in the early days of scSeq foundation models, and I am excited about their potential.
by awkwardpotato | 2025-10-16 05:58:13+00:00
Intuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source).

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intu...
by frm88 | 2025-10-16 05:58:18+00:00
This seems both a) vague and b) based on a sample size of n=1. 85% of all visual artists in the U. S. make less than 25k/year [0]. Also, don't forget that most artists work in companies (again: visual art), like making story boards for anime etc.

[0] https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/art-world-statistics-ev...
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-16 05:58:20+00:00
Honeypots would only work if the criminals are sentenced to long prison terms which is costly.

I asked chatgpt about why low level crime is low in Japan and it gave three interesting reasons.

1. Collective culture - basically focusing the harmony of society over the self. Not doing things that would harm others.

2. Fear of shame by others if caught

3. Communities are against anti social behavior

Assume these are correct for low levels crimes. Does this sound like America? We are a country where the freedom to be an asshole has high value. Individualism and personal freedom are over community.

Think about loud cars, it provides personal pleasure at the expense of others.

I also think about how much HOAs are hated (though some support them obviously because they exist*).

There's also a movement against empathy, another reason you might not want to cause harm to others.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-10-16 05:58:41+00:00
They're working on all that. I think "ACP" is supposed to be the answer. Then you can use the models in your IDEs, and they can all develop against the same spec so it'll be easy to pop into whatever model.

Gpt 5 is supposed to cleverly decide when to think harder.

But ya we're not there yet and I'm tired of it too, but what can you do.
by WJW | 2025-10-16 05:58:42+00:00
Haskell is much like this? A function like `borp :: a -> b` maps from type a to type b. If you want to have side effects like mutable state, you need to encode that in the function signature, like `borpWithState :: a -> State s b`, where s is the type of the mutable state.

In this case it's almost the opposite of most programming languages. In (say) Ruby or Java, any function or method can do anything; write to stdout, throw exceptions, access the network, mutate global state, etc. In haskell, a function can only do calculations and return the result by default. All the other things are still possible, but you do have to encode it in the type of the function.

EDIT: The annotations you mention with regards to identity elements etc do exist, but they live mostly on the data structures rather than on the functions that operate on those data structures.
by rolandog | 2025-10-16 05:58:46+00:00
> With such enormous sums at stake and dogged persistence from authoritarian governments it's just not going to happen anytime soon.

Not with that attitude! We need to help inform our friends and families about how easily things can be misused against their will; case in point, the recent DEF CON presentation on smart "vape detectors" that have microphones [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/WCnojaEpF2I
by jader201 | 2025-10-16 06:00:54+00:00
I don’t, no.

But my point isn’t so much about willingness to pay for such a treatment, but ability to pay for such a treatment.

My understanding is that some treatments like this are sometimes not covered by insurance, so only high income individuals are able to afford them.

On the other hand, long-term care often is covered by insurance, and the insurance is more affordable.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-16 06:01:25+00:00
Ok I had time to read through this, and yeah I agree, multicore test should not be waiting on so much shared state.

There are examples of programs that aren't totally parallel or serial, they'll scale to maybe 6 cores on a 32-core machine. But there's so much variation in that, idk how you'd pick the right amount of sharing, so the only reasonable thing to test is something embarassingly parallel or close. Geekbench 6's scaling curve is way too flat.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-16 06:02:03+00:00
> if we'd just stop being so selfish

You couldn't be more wrong. The overwhelming majority of people are against animal cruelty and creating more antibiotic resistance through cattle farming, even if it means slightly-to-modestly more expensive meat. The reason it continues is a failure to inform (seen the insides of many factory farms on the news lately?), organize, and act to that end. It is not because of selfishness that it continues (except the selfishness of those profiting from it, but there will always be someone selfish, no matter how selfless the average person gets), but because the virtuous have not gathered enough power to stop it (at home and especially abroad [1]).

Self-flagellation will accomplish nothing.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-livestock-...
by renlo | 2025-10-16 06:03:42+00:00
Localstack makes that pretty easy. Before Localstack I had a pre-staging environment (dev) target I would deploy to. Their free/community offering includes a Lambda environment; you deploy your dev "Lambda" locally to docker, using the same terraform / deploy flow you'd normally use but pointed at a Localstack server which mimics the AWS API instead. Some of their other offerings require you to pay though (Cloudfront, ECS, others) and I don't use those, yet at least.
by rixed | 2025-10-16 06:05:12+00:00
There is an important element in 1984 that is missing from BNW and very relevant to modern history: the never-ending fictious war between several similar regimes to justify internal control.

In my opinion, the movie "Brazil" (inspired by 1984) made the same argument even more modern by replacing that war on some external "enemy" with a war on internal "terrorists".

Unfortunately, 1984 and BNW are not exclusive, and certainy social psychology can implement elements of both.
Ask HN: What's the product Coinbase is selling?
by tzury | 2025-10-16 06:05:15+00:00
Please, answer only if you are using or used the product in the past.

I was genuinely curious but could it use it given their territory based / regulation limitations. As I moved last year to the Emirates I applied and activated the account, and could not understand what am I buying.

It seems as if the main feed in the app is not about buying or selling BTC or ETH.

In simple terms, what is the problem they are solving?
by rock_artist | 2025-10-16 06:05:50+00:00
Well, I personally know of cases Apple did explicit patching for specific apps to keep them working / avoid breaking.

My simple guess is that slipped QA or wasn’t escalated from Apple’s feedback.

Considering the amount of electron apps, expecting all developers and all users to update all their app (and guessing which one is Electron based) isn’t good user-experience.

Let’s say the change is needed in the OS, you’d expect transition time. Also, a good UX on OS would be to notify user this app is using some API in a way that could reduce experience. but guessing and expecting only the developer and user parties without the OS side is making less sense imho.
by keiferski | 2025-10-16 06:07:28+00:00
In practice it's really not that difficult of a question. "Artists" have a portfolio of work and are usually (but not always) engaged with organizations related to the arts: galleries, nonprofits, etc.

If you show up and say, "this random obscure software thing I'm doing is art," without any effort at portraying yourself as an artist, working in the arts, writing about your work, showing it in galleries or online, etc., then no, you probably aren't going to get funding. But you'd have to be pretty clueless about the entire process to think this is viable in the first place. These organizations are funding people that are socially "artists", and are not interested in some abstract debate about the meaning of art and then funding people that fit that definition.

There are plenty of people doing obscure software-related things (usually described as digital art) that are absolutely considered artists for programs like this. But they are deliberately engaged with the process, so the supposed problem alluded to here doesn't really exist in practice.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-16 06:07:37+00:00
I'm sorry, but are you saying pressing the space bar is a power user move? Really? MS cannot include it, as that'd be admitting someone else came up with a better move. Having it as an installable option just says, yeah, it's cool, but only for those worthy. WTF? They just as easily could have had it be ctrl+windows+spacebar, and then it would be just a natural windows user shortcut. Maybe throw in +alt so that it's just smash all four bottom buttons in an angry move. even Apple didn't require it to be OpenApple+spacebar or ClosedApple+spacebar. It's just spacebar right out of the box. No secondary installs or buttons required.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-16 06:08:32+00:00
I think you are overstating how much of manufacturing is automated. There's still a great deal of human labor involved.

>If I had a nickel for every time a government or leader adopts bad policies despite the obvious future negative consequences I'd be the world's richest person.

This is everyone. The voters are at fault as well because sometimes they support those that create short term wins over the long term.

For outsourcing politicians beliefs that the US workforce would become the white collar workers of the the world which is true would increase the quality of working life.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-16 06:08:39+00:00
That's a defeatist attitude. You could just as well say the opposite that Google fundamentally is a multinational company. That means to some extent it has to fight governments to create a flat market they can operate in, just by nature of what they are.

To say nothing of the fact that many governments would extend control over Google's services until nothing allowed is worth doing anymore (for example Pakistan has demonstrated many times they'd love to kill Youtube, as apparently French children's movies insult some sort of prophet, which apparently justifies blocking the whole thing)

And third many governments are adversarial towards one another. Which means Google just can't comply. India probably tries to threaten Google into stopping services in Pakistan. But while the India-Pakistan relationship regularly results in killings, nearly all governments are adversarial to some extent and will try to threaten any multinational into attacking other countries.

At best Google can give in to government pressure very slowly, because when that control gets strong enough governments would certainly use it to kill off Google.
by strcat | 2025-10-16 06:08:57+00:00
You're responding to verifiable technical information by linking to harassment content based on fabricated stories.

The company you've linked was scamming people who wanted GrapheneOS phones by selling them end-of-life devices no longer supported by it and devices near end-of-life while pretending they were perfectly fine and would last years. They were misleading people about what they were getting and violating our trademark. Despite profiting from selling devices with GrapheneOS, they were also actively misleading people about it with many inaccurate claims. Their response to us politely bringing it up was blocking our project account and attacking us. When we warned our community, they responded by joining in with spreading fabricated stories about our team aimed at directing harassment towards us. The videos linked in the article are harassment content filled with fabrications and misrepresentations. The initial video is from someone responsible for encouraging repeated swatting attacks towards our team and the 2nd is from someone who openly uses Kiwi Farms which they directly personally involved to target us.

/e/ leadership spent years trying to mislead people about GrapheneOS including highly inaccurate claims about privacy and usability. We began debunking this and posting accurate technical criticisms of /e/. Despite spending years attacking us with little to no response from us, /e/ has responded to us informing people about it by joining the harassment you've tried to promote. Their CEO / founder has directly participated in it. It's a very typical pattern from /e/ and their community for the response to accurate technical information to be fabricated stories aimed at targeting us with harassment.
by b112 | 2025-10-16 06:09:25+00:00
The main reason for all of this, is scams. Nutjobs without any medical background making claims without any scientific evidence.

Or scam artists putting sawdust from a "special tree" into a bottle, and saying it cured his aunt, so it will cure you! If you look at the history of such things, it's just a constant battle against people being fleeced out of money.

Con artists (and some of these wear lab coats and are quite professional in appearance and speak) know that desperation means easy prey. It's disgusting, but there it is.

And it wasn't just a little problem. It was a huge problem. If the legal framework we have in place was torn down, you'd see all that re-emerge in a second.

I agree that there should indeed be a way to balance snail oil salesman techniques, with the choice of someone in a dire circumstance. I did once read that there are FDA approved methods to get in on early stage/pre-clinical trials. These are targeted for people with severe conditions. People aren't being heartless here.

But at the same time, loved ones will litigate to get money back from scam artists. This also includes going after doctors or facilities or anyone willing to enable such actions. And if treatments go sideways, and no one validated that it was anything more than made up gibberish? The lawsuits will fly then, too. The cops may follow.

And it should be this way

Truth is, you are free to imbibe and consume anything you want. No one can really stop you. And whatever method is being used here, I'm sure you could replicate it, buy the hardware, and so on. You are free to do this.

It's just that no one wants to help.

So you are free.
by solumunus | 2025-10-16 06:09:33+00:00
Work it out brother. If you can learn to code at a good level then you should be able to learn how to increase your productivity with LLM’s. When, where and how to use them is the key.

I don’t think it’s appreciated enough how valuable having a structured and consistent architecture combined with lots of specific custom context. Claude knows how my integration tests should look, it knows how my services should look, what dependencies they have and how they interact with the database. It knows my entire DB schema with all foreign key relationships. If I’m starting a new feature I can have it build 5 or 6 services (not without first making suggestions on things I’m missing) with integration tests, with raw sql all generated by Claude, and run an integration test loop until the services are doing what they should. I rarely have to step in and actually code. It shines for this use case and the productivity boost is genuinely incredible.

Other situations I know doing it myself will be better and/or quicker than asking Claude.