MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ferret7446 | 2025-10-27 07:38:04+00:00
You are mistaken; legislation is not what achieved those. Massive, focused public scrutiny on pinpoint issues is what achieved those.

Passing legislation without the latter is meaningless, and if you have the latter, you don't necessarily need legislation; the free market will force a correction (although politicians will follow the will of the people anyway).

You cannot achieve that across the countless toxins and/or potential toxins that exist in our world; the public does not have enough attention to spare for that.

Or to put it more simply, regular people don't have the time or energy to spare on worrying about every little thing that could potentially, maybe be toxic, in some tiny way over decades.
by brabel | 2025-10-27 07:38:32+00:00
> Code you write today will still work tomorrow.

Haha no! Zig makes breaking changes in the stdlib in every release. I can guarantee you won’t be able to update a non trivial project between any of the latest 10 versions and beyond without changing your code , often substantially, and the next release is changing pretty much all code doing any kind of IO. I know because I keep track of that in a project and can see diffs between each of the latest versions. This allows me to modify other code much more easily.

But TBH, in 0.15 only zig build broke IIRC. However, I just didn’t happen to use some of the things that changed, I believe.
by deepscanner | 2025-10-27 07:39:14+00:00
There was a guy who not only didn't need your help. He came nicely and politely talking to you about a idea for future updates and has done all the technical investigation to check how the feature is and how it could be implemented.

You banned him without even acknowledging him.

Also, Opnsense, home assistant, the homelab community, the dozen of thousand of docker maintainers, they ALL either support directly the people using their software or at least do not try to hinder the community efforts to build their own self help spaces. Which you tried to do with Reddit.

People have simply asked a simple question yet you banned them directly, as if they are asking you directly, they didn't DM you directly and they asked the group telegram that you said they will find help in, yet you want to be the one leading the conversation and not let anyone ask questions and have other people helping them.

Just the moment you were writing this comment on, you were clearly irritated and banned people from Telegram for asking mundane questions just because you were in a bad mood.

Also, and the final thing that leaves no doubt, purging the whole github issue backlog was just demonic. There was literally no gain from this beside some sadistic privilege of showing who's boss.
by palata | 2025-10-27 07:39:22+00:00
> and yes you also had to be able to get past his constant lying and the media sanewashing him at every possible moment

You could justify anything he could ever do with that argument, couldn't you?

1. Say everything and its opposite, so that you cover all bases.

2. Do whatever the fuck you want.

3. Say you had been very clear you would do it, people "just" had to know the future and discard the lies.
by keepamovin | 2025-10-27 07:40:04+00:00
I think if you can put an AI in a humanoid robot (control for appearance), and it can convince me that it's a human after interacting it for a couple of months (control for edgecases), I'd consider it AGI. Surely it might be "smarter than" a human, but for the purpose of my assessing whether it's AGI, interacting with something "way smarter" would be distracting and hamper the assessment, so it has to be "play human" for the purpose of the task. If it can do that, AGI, I'd say. That would be pretty cool. Surely, this is coming, soon.
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-10-27 07:40:15+00:00
I feel every human just regurgitates words too. And most are worse than an AI.

I have countless examples of lawyers, hr and other public gov bodies that breach the law without knowing the consequences. I also have examples of AI giving bad advice, but it’s al better than an average human right now.

An AI could easily save them a ton of money in the fees they are paying for breaching the law.
by GianFabien | 2025-10-27 07:40:41+00:00
AI is simply the latest tool. There was time when a similar question was whether to learn assembly language because we now had compilers (C, Pascal, FORTRAN etc). That question glossed over the value of understanding the foundations. When things don't work as expected, debugging requires deeper knowledge.

AI is a fantastic research assistant and even a tutor. But you still have to ask "good questions" and remain sceptical, both of which in turn requires foundational knowledge.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-27 07:41:07+00:00
> look at the kids these days. They are so dependent, and so sensitive to negative stimuli or emotions.

I think many of us have found people writing comments like this are not interacting with children very much. More just reading the takes of others who also don't interact with children.

And if this was a legitimate problem to address, you would not address it by taking away baby monitors.
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by Someone | 2025-10-27 07:42:58+00:00
> I am measuring the performance of equivalent cat <file> | sort | uniq -c | sort -n functionality.

It likely won’t matter much here, but invoking cat is unnecessary.

sort <file> | uniq -c | sort -n

will do the job just fine. GNU’s sort also has a few flags controlling buffer size and parallelism. Those may matter more (see https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sort...)
by frm88 | 2025-10-27 07:44:15+00:00
Norstrilia I absultely second. Actually, all of Cordwainer Smith is worth a read, but stories set in The Instrumentality of Mankind certainly are.

The culture novels by Iain M. Banks are also amazing, ship names in particular, but also themes.

And then there is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (or is this too recent) another fine example of exploring the absurdity of mankind.

I often find that older works deal more with ideas and philosophy than the modern works, which tend to be more formulaic with some notable exceptions, like K. J. Parker and Adrian Tchaikovsky - there are less niche works - or so I feel.
Does Claude web UI freeze for anyone else?
by maufl | 2025-10-27 07:44:47+00:00
I've always had the problem that the Claude web UI freezes every now and then when an answer is appearing. It then consumes 100% of one of my CPU cores and Firefox asks me whether I want to stop the script. I've been even able to debug the problem and find out exactly where it runs into an infinite loop. It seem that it divides by elapsed time as returned by `Date.now` and because I'm using Firefox with the resist finger print settings on the difference might be zero https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/now#reduced_time_precision

What I'm wondering now is, am I the only one running into this problem? If it would affect more people I would have expected this to be fixed already.
by arjie | 2025-10-27 07:45:01+00:00
Pity you got whacked. I think people read the "you will survive even getting the disease" and assumed you were anti-vax when the reasoning is second order: if the First World won't use these drugs it signals danger to those who don't have the tools to independently verify.

An interesting angle, though I wouldn't say I agree. As one example, I believe all of us in India routinely receive the BCG vaccine against TB right after birth. It's not routinely done in the US (unless I'm wrong and don't remember it). The US choosing not to do it doesn't make Indian people want to not get it.

More likely, there's something else that's making people worried about the standard vaccines.
by noone_youknow | 2025-10-27 07:45:23+00:00
This is really great work! Always impressed to see hobby OS projects that get this far, well done.

That said, I’m once again reminded that we sorely need some updated resources for aspiring OS developers in 2025. Targeting 32-bit x86 and legacy devices that haven’t been “the norm” for decades suggests to me a heavy influence from resources like the osdev wiki which, while occasionally useful, are increasingly outdated in the modern world and lead to many questionable choices early on.

I have come to believe (through multiple iterations of my own OS projects) that there’s more value in largely ignoring resources such as osdev and focusing instead on first-principles design, correct layering, and building based on modern platforms (be that x86_64 or something else) and ignoring legacy devices like the PIT and PS2 etc.

I just wish we had good introductory documentation resources to reflect that, and that outdated resources weren’t overwhelmingly surfaced by search engines and now AI “summaries”.

None of the above is intended to take away from OPs achievement, which is fantastic, or from the work done over the years by the osdev community, who I’m sure largely do the best they can with what they have.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-27 07:46:50+00:00
I think the job analysis is overly simplistic. The reality is that worker migration from poorer countries to richer ones is a huge low wage problem. Instead of allowing low-skilled labor to pay better in order to attract workers who expect better conditions, you keep the wages fixed and import workers for whom even the bad life you're offering is better than their current life.

Of course, this doesn't mean that allowing 0 immigration in is the right solution, or preventing immigrants from working. And I should also point out that, generally, US leaders have the least amount of problem with this aspect of immigration - even now, Trump has instructed ICE not to go for deporting agricultural and tourism workers in any mass numbers.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-27 07:47:03+00:00
The way you deal with this is that you write the server to be async I/O based with NPROC threads, not a thread-per-client design, and then you can use CPS for the business logic, but in this case it's so trivial... You can probably get by with just a handful of bytes of memory pressure per client in the app + whatever the per-client TCB is for the TCP connection for a total of less than 200 bytes per client.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-27 07:49:10+00:00
> However, there was React producing some error because of my old browser, and preventing me from buying the ticket

Unlikely. A general JS error could be displayed with the React logo because that's a default in certain modes. Doesn't mean React made the error.

React projects are usually setup with Babel to transpile for compatibility with very old browsers. It's more likely a code error than someone setting up React without transpilation, which you have to go out of your way to do.
by csomar | 2025-10-27 07:49:18+00:00
> That is such a sane thing to do. I was always astonished and sad how often strangers in foreign countries instantly link my origin to the actions of the people in power. As if this is completely under my control and with no doubt I support and approve whatever they do.

I've never witnessed this happen. People (in person) are usually not aggressive and would not tell what's on their mind. Maybe if a Ukrainian and a Russian are to meet in a bar, things can get heated.

Mind to share the countries where you saw this happen?
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-27 07:49:43+00:00
The key point is "at those wages". The overall assumption in the economy is that it's good and proper for low-skilled jobs to be very low paying, despite otherwise being very unattractive. As long as people are unwilling to pay the proper cost for hard labor, they'll keep hitting this problem of local people not willing to do the work for a pittance. Then, when they circumvent the local workers, they'll be surprised that local workers are discontent.
by samiklu | 2025-10-27 07:51:11+00:00
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by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-27 07:51:16+00:00
If that worked this wouldn't be a discussion.

Most of these misbehaved crawlers are either cloud hosted (with tens of thousands of IPs), using residential proxies (with tens of thousands of IPs) or straight up using a botnet (again with tens of thousands of IPs). None respect robots.txt and precious few even provide an identifiable user-agent string.
by harperlee | 2025-10-27 07:52:12+00:00
Game for kids, where you dedicate a third of the screen to a locked hint list and a very prominent "Buy Hint Tokens" button? Hard pass.

https://www.hacktivate.app/img/framed-ipad-3.png

The game industry needs to move away from milking vulnerable people with pay-to-win schemes.
by pcl | 2025-10-27 07:53:00+00:00
No, this doesn't get at the point of end-to-end encryption. Better to look at it in terms of the parties involved -- E2EE implies that there are two or more parties, and that only some of those parties should have unencrypted access.

In the case in point, the parent (camera owner) is one party and Nanit is another party. (Prior to the work in the linked post, AWS S3 was another party). The goal of E2EE is to deny plaintext access to some of these parties. So, in an E2EE deployment, Nanit (and AWS) would not have unencrypted access to the video content, even though they're storing it.

As chrismorgan pointed out, if Nanit did not have access to the unencrypted data, they could not do server-side video processing.

(Also, FWIW, there are multiple clients in this scenario -- the parents' phones are clients, and need unencrypted access to the video stream.)

(As an aside, where I used to work, we did some cool stuff with granting conditional access to certain server-side subsystems, so that the general data flow was all end-to-end encrypted, but customers could allow certain of our processes to be "ends" and have key access. This was really elegant; customers could dial in the level of server-side access that we had, and could see via the key authorization metadata which services had that access.)
by peteforde | 2025-10-27 07:53:01+00:00
That's really interesting, thanks.

Your answer prompted me to do some further research. It's true that IPC-2221A does reference 1/16th as a historical precedent.

That said...

Lawrence Berkeley is an American institution, and it's fair to say that your perspective is American-centric. Without rehashing the ages old argument, it is still true that the US stands with Liberia and Myanmar in your steadfast refusal to standardize on the metric system.

It's your prerogative to conclude that this is an Asian thing, but it's very much an almost everyone else thing.

I will concede that it drives me nuts that not only does the lumber industry still use inches here, it's also officially and somehow legally not even accurate in inches. Why we can't have nice things...
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 07:53:12+00:00
MW defines verbal as "of, relating to, or consisting of words".

I don't think anyone would argue that animals don't communicate with each other. Some may even have language we can't interpret, which may consist of something like words.

The question is why we would model an AGI after verbal language as opposed to modeling it after the native intelligence of all life which eventually leads to communication as a result. Language and communication is a side-effect of intelligence, it's a compounding interest on intelligence, but it is not intelligence itself, any more than a map is the terrain.
by lkuty | 2025-10-27 07:54:52+00:00
This raises the interesting point of finding a balance between knowing/searching and letting go when it comes to health. Lead is a major one but obession about health can lead to anxiety, stress. I think that finding the major factors that affect health is what matters (sunlight, sleep, walking, cooking with stainless steel, etc.) and letting go of all the minor details. This is an issue that has been close to my heart for years, and my perspective on it has changed over time. Anxiety can be a real problem.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-27 07:56:32+00:00
No. This is a common misconception. I know, you asked an LLM and it said you were very right and it cited a bunch of legal cases which prove you correct. You didn't check any of those citations, because they looked right, because it's an LLM and generating plausible nonsense is exactly what it's good at.

Or worse, you just relied on a vague memory that other people said the reason they have to do something reprehensible was because it's legally required, and even though you've heard that bullshit from a dozen US politicians in the last week and know it's bullshit you thought they must be correct.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-27 07:56:55+00:00
If this was done the classical C way, you would always have to stack-save a number of registers, even if they are not really needed. The only difference here is that the compiler will do the save for you, in whatever way fits the context best. Sometimes it will stack-save, sometimes it will decide to use a different option. It's always strictly better than explicitly saving/restoring N registers unaware of the context. Keep in mind, that in Zig, the compiler always knows the entire code base. It does not work on object/function boundaries. That leads to better optimizations.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-27 07:57:21+00:00
Well, measles, in a rich country with good healthcare and healthy children is mostly (mostly!) an inconvenience. You can expect to survive it without much consequence. Wikipedia quotes death rate of 0.2% in the US in the period 1985-1992. Perhaps countries with universal access to healthcare would do much better. It would surely be much better today again with better healthcare, and even the unvaccinated will mostly never get it. I quite clearly exclude the left tail from my post.

But it's much worse if anyone from a poorer country takes notice and tries to copy.
by raczekk | 2025-10-27 07:58:00+00:00
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by jonasdegendt | 2025-10-27 07:58:13+00:00
Out of curiosity, why?

My first thought is, why bother with local storage if your turnaround on video chunks is 2 seconds? What's disk going to add besides a little bit more resiliency in that 2 second time frame? This at the cost of having slower pod startups given you have to mount the PVC, and a small performance hit of writing to a filesystem instead of memory.

All moot anyway given that the cameras/proxy allegedly has retries built-in, but interested to hear your thoughts.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-27 07:58:44+00:00
Another headset that will get forgotten on a drawer in a couple of years.

Since I first saw one in 1994, the only thing good for VR headset is games, and there is not enough of them to be worth the money.

Only AR has a future, for VR give me the holodeck, not tiny screens almost injected into my eyes.

EDIT: added not as per reply comment
by rkomorn | 2025-10-27 07:58:51+00:00
One of the "barriers" to me is that (AFAIK) an LLM/agent/whatever doesn't operate without you hitting the equivalent of an on switch.

It does not think idle thoughts while it's not being asked questions. It's not ruminating over its past responses after having replied. It's just off until the next prompt.

Side note: whatever future we get where LLMs get their own food is probably not one I want a part of. I've seen the movies.
by lgleason | 2025-10-27 08:00:22+00:00
Most places went off grid because of how unreliable the national grid is. The cost of that electricity is also significantly higher than it would have been with well run central grid using fossil fuel.

The lloyds numbers you shared show a steep decline in investment over the past three years.

The IDC is an arm of the South African government, so having it call itself a top investment destination is like having a marketer trying to sell you on their own product.

The UN report only shows the inflow by region, not country.

The PWC report shows everything being down with the exception of net operating cash flow which does not tell you a lot about the sector as a whole. Their predictions do not point to anything to substantiate their prediction of 5.7% per annum manufacturing GDP growth. Of course then again, if these numbers are not inflation adjusted and inflation is at or above 5.7% then that may be where that is coming from.

Given that the average GDP per person is 8k US a year, without a significant increase of the GDP it's not possible to increase the standard of living for the population has a whole. You can't get blood from a stone.
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-27 08:00:35+00:00
In interviews, I've literally asked senior devops engineers and senior software engineers if they have hosted their own git servers and how to initialise one and not a single one has mentioned git init --bare..... which is disconcerting. They can deploy appliances (like gitlab, gitea) and build pipelines just fine, but none of them realized how git actually works underneath and how simple it all is.