MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Induane | 2025-10-12 18:42:37+00:00
It's impossible on my Tesla. You get a notice to install and a warning that you won't be able to drive for up to 45 minutes. You cannot click install unless the car is in park. You can always decide never to install an update.

This isn't exceptional design on the part of Tesla. It is absolutely baseline common sense. I can't believe it isn't the defacto rule. I guess it might need to be regulated because apparently some companies are THAT untrustworthy.

All regulations are written in blood.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 18:43:01+00:00
You can disable OneDrive using App locker.

Applocker can help prevent users from running unwanted software (including DLLs and scripts).

AppLocker is included with all editions of Windows except Windows 10 version 1809 or earlier.

However, AppLocker requires Local Security Policy, which isn't available in Home edition of Windows, but it can be installed easily for free.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/local-security-policy-missing...

Here's how to use AppLocker to block an unwanted app:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/124008-use-applocker-all...
by IshKebab | 2025-10-12 18:43:05+00:00
The problems with all not-SV HDLs are:

1. None of the commercial tools support them. All other HDLs compile to SV (or plain Verilog) and then you're wasting hours and hours debugging generated code. Not fun. Ask me how I know...

2. SV has an absolute mountain of features and other HDLs rarely come close. Especially when it comes to multi-clock designs (which are annoying and awkward but very common), and especially verification.

The only glimpse of hope I see on the horizon is Veryl, which hews close enough to SV that interop is going to be easy and the generated code is going to be very readable. Plus it's made by very experienced people. It's kind of the Typescript of SystemVerilog.
by elevation | 2025-10-12 18:43:22+00:00
Unifi WiFi has been highly reliable for me in simple set ups.

An elderly friend had high-speed Internet installed in his farmhouse. The lath and plaster walls were reinforced with chicken wire mesh, and ISP’s WiFi router box couldn’t penetrate it. I thought maybe he would need a few UAPs, but a single UAP-LR puck has been serving reliable Wi-Fi for 10+ years with no need for a unify controller. I’ve repeated this installation for other elderly and non-technical friends. I get absolutely zero service calls.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-12 18:43:35+00:00
This bug is just an early release of a future feature.

https://youtu.be/T1Rpo8BRwYg

In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live.
by a022311 | 2025-10-12 18:45:04+00:00
I've used this for a few months and it ended up taking too much space and was quite fragile in my experience.

Even with this and OneDrive enabled, I managed to lose years of family photos when trying to free up space thinking "oh I've got this backed up" and then thinking the same when freeing up space when deleting my backup. I wish Windows could be less confusing...
by pandaman | 2025-10-12 18:45:18+00:00
Bullets might not care but you would if you had been a woman and made to unload a truck of 40 lbs ammo crates. Also carrying 90 lbs of load out (some of which are also bullets) feels very different. You also seem to overlook demographic implications of sending 18 y.o. women to war or just keeping them from starting family. Especially during war time, when you already lose population.
by wjnc | 2025-10-12 18:45:19+00:00
I think we imagine them to sell mostly consulting and re-using those 0-days on thousands of unconnected victoms bringing in many millions for a billion dollar valuation. This is somewhat in jest, but goes to show that the value of the zero days themselves doesn’t necessarily impact valuation much. That’s just an asset. It’s the business they have on top of that and the value it extracts that determines the free cash flow that an investor would hit with a multiple.
by danabramov | 2025-10-12 18:45:35+00:00
>What do you mean by this?

RSS is a way to aggregate data from many sites into one place. AT lets you do the same, but with bells and whistles (the data is signed and typed, and there's a realtime stream in addition to pulling on demand). If you're forced to describe AT via existing technologies, AT is basically like RSS for typed JSON in Git over HTTP or WebSockets that scales to millions of users.

It is completely up to you what you decide to index. If you want to build an app that listens to records of "Bluesky post" type that are created only by people you follow, you absolutely can.

See https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3m2fjnh5hpc2f (which runs locally and indexes posts relevant to you) and https://reddwarf.whey.party/ (which doesn't have a database at all and pulls data from original servers on demand + using https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ for some queries).

The reason you don't see more of these is because an isolated experience is... well, isolated. So people are less interested in running something like this compared to, say, a whole new AT app. But AT can scale down to Mastodon-like use cases too.

>ATProto requires a giant indexing database that has access to every post in the network.

Only if you want to index every post, i.e. if you want to run a full-scale social app for millions of users. As an app builder, you get to choose what you index.

For a start, you probably only want to store the records relevant to your app. For example, I doubt that Tangled (https://tangled.org/), which is an AT app, has a database with every Bluesky post. That seems absurd because Tangled is focused on a completely different use case — a social layer around Git. So Tangled only indexes records like "Tangled repo", "Tangled follow", "Tangled star", and so on.

Naturally, Tangled wants to index all posts related to Tangled — that's just how apps work. If you wanted to build a centralized app, you'd also want it to contain the whole database of what you want the app to show. This isn't specific to AT, that's just common sense—to be able to show every possible post on demand with aggregated information (such as like counts), you have to index that information, hit someone else's index, or fetch posts from the source (but then you won't know the aggregated like counts).

That said — if you want to build a copy of a specific app (like Bluesky) but filtered down to just the people you follow (with no global search, algorithmic feeds, etc), you absolutely can, as I've linked earlier. Or you can build something hybrid relying on global caches, or some other subset of the network (say, last 2 weeks of posts). How you do indexing is up to you. You're the developer here.
by manquer | 2025-10-12 18:45:45+00:00
Are non big label musicians even making any money on Spotify given the notoriously low per stream rate that Spotify pays out ?

Even if 80%[1] of all money is going through large platforms like Spotify and YouTube, the real question is how much % of indie money is going through them.

The best bet for semi professional or indie today is to do live performances, sell merch or have fans on Patreon or get viral on TikTok and so on, nobody is living on Spotify money.

Platforms are more used to grow audiences and improve discoverability than make any real money as an indie artist.

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[1] Big platforms combined may very well be 80%, however I doubt Spotify alone is 80% of the even the English market, let alone global where it is just many times pretty much only YouTube or some regional player bundling services.

[2] iTunes may not be significant, Apple Music and Amazon Music are. They have enormous distribution due to install base and Prime, and they sell a ton of bundled deals with telecom and other packages.

Then there is TikTok which is huge for music too

There are other players in streaming like Satellite with Sirius XM or traditional FM/AM Radio who also pay for streaming music.

The organized music market is pretty vast, Spotify hardly controls 80% of anything.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-12 18:45:46+00:00
Seems like you just haven’t been paying attention. Even commercial VPNs like PIA and others now use Wireguard instead of traditional VPN stacks. Tailscale and other companies in that space are starting to replace VPN stacks with Wireguard solutions.

The reasons are abundant, the main ones being performance is drastically better, security is easier to guarantee because the stack itself is smaller and simpler, and it’s significantly more configurable and easier to obtain the behavior you want.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-12 18:46:20+00:00
> that doesn't devolve into lunacy

I mean he did literally dissolve into lunacy. He also was shunned for his "blasphemous" views on the role of the church. He died in penury, and largely in disgrace.

But, he should be read more, the rights of man is surprisingly readable, especially given the time and subject matter.
by mrb | 2025-10-12 18:46:21+00:00
I can't think of a scenario where this is useful. They claim "Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN" but then go on implementing this on a board with a puny set of four 1 Gbps ports... The standard software implementation of Wireguard (Linux kernel) can already saturate Gbps links (wirespeed, check) and can even approach 10 Gbps on a mid-range CPU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172082

If they had produced a platform with four 10 Gbps ports, then it would become interesting. But the whole hardware and bitstream would have to be redevelopped almost from scratch.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-12 18:46:32+00:00
Wireguard is slowly eating the space alive and thats a good thing.

Here's a very educational comparison between Wireguard, OpenVPN and IPSec. It shows how easy wireguard is to manage compared to the other solutions and measures and explains the noticeable differences in speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaPT7_T87g

Very recommended!
by PaulKeeble | 2025-10-12 18:47:03+00:00
Ironic perhaps that Fibromylgia has been chosen given there are tests for the small fibre neuropathy that causes and it now has a firm diagnostic pathway.

The same will happen for Long Covid and ME/CFS, the diagnostics are there in research, they even show up in scans and tests that can be run in healthcare systems today, its just there is a resistance to run them.
by griffzhowl | 2025-10-12 18:47:14+00:00
The german way seems to be a wet sponge followed by a squeegee to wipe off excess water. Here's a masterclass from Frederic Schuller (and a rigorous advanced course in quantum mechanics)

https://youtu.be/GbqA9Xn_iM0?si=Cy7EQOvPtoRqgmhc&t=1070
by bri3d | 2025-10-12 18:47:39+00:00
This is conceptually interesting but seems quite a ways from a real end to end implementation - a bit of a smell of academic grantware that I hope can reach completion.

Fully available source from RTL up (although the license seems proprietary?) is very interesting from an audit standpoint, and 1G line speed performance, although easily achieved by any recent desktop hardware, is quite respectable in worst case scenarios (large routing table and small frames). The architecture makes sense (software managed handshakes configure a hardware packet pipeline). WireGuard really lacks acceleration in most contexts (newer Intel QAT supposedly can accelerate ChaCha20 but trying to figure out how one might actually make it work is truly mind bending), so it’s a pretty interesting place to do a hardware implementation.
by tombert | 2025-10-12 18:47:44+00:00
I'm not sure my mom even does anything that the browser Office won't do; she uses Excel heavily but she's not using any advanced formulas or VBA or anything, and her use of Microsoft Word is generally using pretty basic formatting. Honestly I don't think that she does anything that can't easily be handled by Google Drive or OnlyOffice. That doesn't matter though; the web browser is a complete non-starter, and if it doesn't have the Microsoft Office branding she doesn't want to go for it.

This didn't used to bother me much, until Microsoft decided it would be best to brick her computer because the people who run Windows Update don't know what they're doing. The one job of Windows Update is to not break shit, and they've proven incapable of that. Whomever works on it should be embarrassed for working on one of the most consistently hated pieces of technology know to humanity.

I thought about using one of those appliance releases of Windows, but I also don't really want to LARP as a Windows Sysadmin, especially since I don't even have a Windows computer in my house. If I were to somehow convince her to use Linux, there would be "security via ignorance"; she doesn't know anything about how to use Linux so she wouldn't do much outside of the easy, relatively safe path, and if she did break it then it would be much easier for me to log in and fix it with tmate or Tailscale + SSH.
by rectang | 2025-10-12 18:47:49+00:00
Amending the Constitution to fix such holes is impractical when it would require the approval of states whose hold on perpetual minority rule would be threatened.

So then we're looking at a constitutional convention. Can you imagine our current crop of politicians cooperating to negotiate something which improves on the current Constitution? I'd expect a prisoner's dilemma with a defect-defect outcome and the winner taking all of the diminished spoils.

I think we're stuck with what we've got and we have to hope that enough voters are persuadable, allowing us to emerge from the hole.
by ysleepy | 2025-10-12 18:48:44+00:00
They're fine, but they're incompatible with building fat-jars ro have single file deployment and dead to me because of that. Spring does some ugly jar-in-jar custom classloader stuff which I hate out of principle because it's spring.

Oracle hates that people build fat-jars and refuses to adress the huge benefit of single file deployables.
by d3rockk | 2025-10-12 18:48:46+00:00
"The goal, in short, was “down with algorithmic listening, down with royalty theft, down with AI-generated music”."

In the article they do mention Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and Hotline TNT delisting their music and then further speaking out in protest- removal being 1/3 parts of the listed "goal".

But really it seems like the discourse on Spotify is making waves again with the recent reveal of Ek's Helsing investment. Given this is the same dude who said that "the cost of making content is close to zero", it's understandable that people are speaking out.
by jasode | 2025-10-12 18:49:21+00:00
>Call me naive, but can't an artist just refuse to be listed on Spotify? No meetings, groups, boycotts necessary.

They want the listeners to change their habits away from Spotify and engage with music differently -- on another platform -- e.g. maybe like Bandcamp. The listeners would discover music at Bandcamp and make purchases there where the artists get more money.

But only a minority of hardcore fans will buy music à la carte like that. Most other mainstream listeners would prefer to have ~100 million songs for a flat monthly subscrption. The tiny 0.04 cents per stream is not a concern of the subscribers. That's why it's an uphill battle.
by philiplu | 2025-10-12 18:51:01+00:00
Sorry - my 9 year old golden doodle still doesn't get the concept of fetch. He's an expert at keep-away though. Throw the toy or ball, he'll chase it gleefully, then come back to just out of reach, drop the toy, and hover over it waiting for me to make a move at it. He'll lunge for the toy, back up a bit, drop it, and the cycle continues.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-12 18:51:10+00:00
> after you’ve grown enough

In the mainstream music industry you can’t grow without being signed, so it's a bit of a catch-22.

Even artists known as "independent", like Billie Eilish, only have their big breakthrough after signing a deal that gives them access to producers, funding for music videos, radio shows, publicists, interviews, concerts, etc.. having access to streaming/publishing is only 10% of the deal.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 18:51:35+00:00
> 90% of everything most Americans buy is unaffordable for daily wage earners in many nations of the world.

This is a sad statement about the world in general, and USA in particular unfortunately.

And the rich vs poor inequality gap has widened drastically.

There was an Oxfam report that the world’s top 1% richest elites own more wealth than 95% of humanity.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-top-1-own-mor...

During the pandemic, the world's billionaires became 54% richer, while the poor became poorer.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandem...

During the first 2 years of the pandemic, the top 10 richest men doubled their fortunes, while incomes of 99% of humanity fell.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-doub...
by mihaaly | 2025-10-12 18:51:36+00:00
I feel that the algorithmic listeners problem will not be solved with this. Nothing to solve there actualy. That's how some paople are, and that is all fine. They will not become more engaged in conscious music listening. And those paying attention can use it the way they need, seek out music they like, not leaning into the lukewarm stream of suggestions.

I used Spotify a lot until I quit many years ago not because of not having my freedom to listen (their approach of lossless drove me away). I use Tidal, it is a piece of sh*t, the player is made by unattentive stupid children with no clue, the single worst piece of software I had the unfortune to use, but the access to the catalogue and the reasonable price I got keeps me there still. I can browse, discover, build up my own beautiful playlists that I listen to for months so the individual palylists become the sound of an era in my life.

If there was a different service from musicians themselves with rich database - must contain lukewarm lemonade too! as sometimes it is lukewarm lemonade day, also oldies and goldies - and not too high prices but a better player (not hard to do), I'd switch in an instant never looking back.

Just like I did with Spotify (for a different reason).
by robotresearcher | 2025-10-12 18:51:41+00:00
The difference with the Apple knob is that you would be given a strong cue for what to do after you tap on the knob. The current knob design has no cue until you press and slide, when you see a value change. But you have to do it right before you get any cue. Real knobs are turned; not tapped, pressed or slid. The slider shows you an affordance that works. The knob shows you an affordance that does not.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-12 18:51:55+00:00
Not steer-by-"wire" exactly but in the 1970s and 1980s Citroën had cars with "DIRAVI" steering. In normal operation there was no direct mechanical link between the steering wheel and road wheels. The whole thing was a big hydraulic servo, with "resistance" applied to the steering wheel using a heart-shaped cam, a big spring, and a small hydraulic piston that had progressively more pressure behind it based on road speed.

If you let the steering wheel go it would spring back to the middle even with the car at a standstill because of the resistance cam.

If it lost hydraulic pressure while you were driving there was still generally enough in the system to allow you to pull over safely, and you could drive for much longer distances if you could cope with about a quarter of a turn of "play" in the steering wheel. With no pressure at all, turning the steering wheel would move the shuttle valve in the steering controller until it bottomed out and then the linkage would just turn the pinion on the steering rack, which was normally used for servo feedback. Uncomfortable, but acceptable for "get off the road" situations.

The hydraulic system also worked the self-levelling suspension, the fully-powered braking system (similar to the WABCO systems on a lot of more modern vehicles), and on some manual gearbox models the clutch.

Not really "drive by wire", because it's not electronic, but it really is a system where the steering rack could be fully decoupled from the steering wheel.
by curious9999 | 2025-10-12 18:52:07+00:00
> Most likely the raise of AOT compiled alternatives, for scenarios where C and C++ were only being used due to being compiled languages, big names in C++ compiler world rather put money on their own alternatives, are the two main reasons of the slow down.

What alternatives?

Rust claws at market share but has problems with basic stuff like doubly linked lists, WIP gccrs and memory unsafety, Carbon looks like a meme with too few people working on it, Ada has a neglected dialect and a proprietary dialect, Go has garbage collection, Zig has not even reached 1.0, Swift is more of an application language than a systems language, Circle is dead.

What else is there?

Not that C++ doesn't have challenges.
by projectazorian | 2025-10-12 18:52:32+00:00
Correct. And even if you've identified whatever changes need to be made, that doesn't mean you're ready to quit therapy. Often the required changes are difficult and emotionally challenging!

BTW, I think a lot of the HN cynicism on this subject comes from how psychotherapy is practiced in California specifically. California has a separate licensing system from the rest of the country and doesn't allow eg. teletherapy from therapists in other states. As a result I found that therapists in CA were more expensive, more difficult to access, and significantly lower quality than I've experienced elsewhere. I've heard that regulatory reforms might be on the way though, hopefully that happens.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-12 18:53:02+00:00
>OSS developer tooling is usually made by and for the community. The interests of the dev tool makers align with the interests of the developers using it, because they are the same people.

That’s the case for the vast majority of projects. Most of them are made and controlled by 1 person. And many that are controlled by more than one person are de facto or even de jure controlled by a single large company.

99.99% of the “community” will never contribute meaningfully to a project.

Sure you can fork OSS projects, but for anything remotely complicated doing so will turn into a full time job.
by Pulcinella | 2025-10-12 18:53:20+00:00
Why would many, many, many people choose to piss and shit themselves in public instead of stopping for a few minutes to use the restroom? Why would someone choose the push a button every 5 seconds to the point where it ruins their life?

Put it another way: why would gambling companies continue to develop gambling machines? Why not stop with the mechanical, one-armed-bandit of the early 1900s if what they do has no effect on people?
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 18:53:21+00:00
Quality is not alright, unfortunately.

> Today, Mayor Tim Keller announced that the City of Albuquerque filed a lawsuit against Build Your Dreams for failure to meet contractual obligations and delivering unsafe buses to the City

https://www.cabq.gov/mayor/news/mayor-tim-keller-byd-will-be...

One of the issues was that there was no blockage/pressure sensor on the door/wheelchair ramps. I believe the city claimed the door closed with enough pressure mame someone. The busses couldn't hold a charge to even complete the daily bus routes that the city had ordered them for and when the city decided to add generators on the busses to make them last an entire day, my memory is that BYD said that would void the warranty - leaving the city with useless, unusable busses.

This is one example. There are countless, and BYD is often the name mentioned in the articles I see going by.