MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2025-10-30 15:47:46+00:00
Lucky to be tried in the UK, because there's no death penalty.

The language around UK Seizure of the assets is .. open to interpretation. A lot of scammed Chinese investors will be upset if the UK gov does not repatriate the profits to them. It read as if, the UK gov gets to decide IF THEY APPLY if they will re-imburse.

$58B is a lot of money. It can be read as "the UK gov has decided to fix it's balance of payments problem in a novel way"
by primitivesuave | 2025-10-30 15:48:01+00:00
The abacus is a standard part of elementary education in several Asian countries, for precisely the reasons you mentioned regarding numerical intuition. In American education, a student might only learn about the abacus from a brief paragraph in their history textbook.

Even today, there are average people in the Chinese countryside who know how to calculate the solution to a set of linear equations with counting sticks (a technique known as fāngchéng - 方程). My point being that usage of mechanical calculation assistance is indeed a useful skill, and would probably be beneficial in American/western education as well.
by kaggie | 2025-10-30 15:48:03+00:00
All I mean by that is having an honest job I don’t totally dread, not getting a high-paying job that wrecks my mental health solely because it pays a lot, buying only what I need with minimal wants, trying to live simply without extravagance. I do in fact track budgeting very consistently and have a 401K, among other things, so that I avoid homelessness and stuff. But I do not think about how to make more and more money constantly.
by cyrialize | 2025-10-30 15:48:05+00:00
My apologies, I should've been clear!

AOL doesn't charge for any helpdesk service at all. It explicitly says on their website that all helpdesk services are free and they'll never charge you.

The scam was that the scammers had a fake helpdesk service that showed up that my wife's grandparents ended up paying for.

The scammers did actually fix the issue, but the scam was that the grandparents should have never been charged!
by lovich | 2025-10-30 15:48:20+00:00
You know what the fun fact that everyone I hear complain about the US spending more than is fair on international projects ignores or appears ignorant of?

When you’re the one carrying the water, you get to decide where the water goes.

I actually prefer regimes like NATO where everyone is happy to leave the US in charge and doesn’t arm themselves. For all the projection of “strength” the current admin gives off, they are on their way towards reigning over a kingdom formed from the ashes of the republic's empire
by hypeatei | 2025-10-30 15:48:22+00:00
I don't understand why political topics such as international treaties like this are upvoted and kept on the front page? To be clear, I'm in favor of politics being discussed on here, but this is so uninteresting and pointless to discuss IMO. International law can be ignored even by countries that agreed to it. What are you going to do, invade? As pointed out, countries like China and Russia signed onto a cybercrime treaty... pure slop.

Just seems very distracting when actual abuses and interesting political topics are hidden away in /active (like ICEs use of facial recognition)
by mattmanser | 2025-10-30 15:48:26+00:00
5% per month? Where is this crazy money generator? Assume you meant per year here!

It's not zero risk:

- Your currency may collapse, see Germany 1930s, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Venezula, etc.

- Only a certain figure is protected in savings, though governments will act aggressively to protect that (see 2008 + the Icelandic/UK/Dutch palava)
by fadedsignal | 2025-10-30 15:48:29+00:00
You are right on your points. I agree on DPU but it's on the network stack. I think Nvidia wants to get into the PHY and MAC layer (CuPHY, etc.). That's where I find it unlikely due to the cost of latency. If Nvidia had wanted to buy Nokia, they could've already completed the deal. It's a possibility in the future but this $1B investment kind of showed that they are more interested in creating artificial demand for their GPUs rather than diversifying their product portfolio. I agree with you that Nvidia should just buy Nokia.
by zugi | 2025-10-30 15:48:46+00:00
> Microsoft killed the email account of an ICC prosecutor, at the request of Trump

These are legally-binding sanctions, issued under the same authority as those levied against Putin and Russia for the invasion of Ukraine:

* ICC: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...

* Russia: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/addr...

The ICC sanctions are politically unpopular in Europe, whereas the Russia sanctions are popular in Europe. But the email account was not closed simply "at the request of Trump." Companies face serious consequences if they do business with sanctioned persons or entities - that's what makes sanctions work.
by dzaima | 2025-10-30 15:49:05+00:00
Unfortunately, nice as it would be, your level of perfectionism is unfortunately not particularly common; indeed, it's possible to do things much more efficiently, but for most purposes "it works" is enough; and when it starts to not be you already have terabytes of db and just adding more disk is much easier than the hassle of migrating the entire thing to something different.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-30 15:49:33+00:00
To where?

You have no money, very little skills, you don't speak English. Even if you cobbled together money to take the train to some small town in Ohio or Iowa or something, what are you going to do as a complete social outsider who doesn't speak the language?

The idea was to stick around in the LES where you had an actual community. Try to make some money, learn English, develop some skills, and then move out. Which is exactly what people did. And the new immigrants took their places.

Also -- they had already fled. This was the fleeing. From Ireland, from Italy, from Poland, etc.
by kccqzy | 2025-10-30 15:50:04+00:00
You say "when older we can teach them what capitalism considers as investment" but you never specify the age. What exactly counts as older? My mom started telling me about how the new home we just moved into was both a place to live and also an investment at age 8. My dad started telling me about his brokerage account when I was 7. My dad also explained to me why the new car we just bought was not an investment when I was 6.

That's to say, I strongly disagree. It's almost never too early to teach this to children. As soon as children know money could be spent on exchange for things, they should begin to think about how money is made.
by lukeschlather | 2025-10-30 15:50:11+00:00
With Netflix, there are never visible artifacts, play/pause always works within a second. I am sure I'm not always getting HD but I wouldn't call it dogshit. All the other streaming services though, random hiccups are common, and the UI is slow enough that it's not just play/pause, it often takes 30 seconds just to resume what I was previously watching if I closed the browser tab.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-30 15:50:30+00:00
Because they’ve already entered into treaties making the offenses involved matters of universal jutisdiction which any state can prosecute their citizens for, and as a State Party to the Rome Statute, they would have more influence over the fairness and process of the ICC than they would over any national system outside of their own.

Also, because they are tired of the diplomatic cost and expense of working with other countries to set up ad hoc tribunals for particular conflicts and want to get the job done once and properly. (That's actually why the US was one of the leaders of the effort that produced the ICC, even though it did a U-turn against it at the last minute.)
by nizbit | 2025-10-30 15:50:47+00:00
Don’t have to look far to find out why.

Per the article: “Illicit flows of money, concealed through cryptocurrencies and digital transactions, finance the trafficking of drugs, arms, and terror. And businesses, hospitals, and airports are brought to a standstill by ransomware attacks.”

Then there’s this: Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-...
by bunderbunder | 2025-10-30 15:51:00+00:00
It seems like you're reading things that people aren't writing.

I don't know how the author's company manages their stack, so I can't speak to how they do their testing. But I do know that in many companies run-time environment management in production is not owned by engineering and it's common for ops and developers to use different methods to install run-time dependencies in the CI environment and in the production environment. In companies that work that way, testing changes to the production runtime environment isn't done in CI; it's done in staging.

If that's at all representative of how they work, then "we didn't test this with the automated tests that Engineering owns as part of their build" does not in any way imply, "we didn't test this at all."

Tangentially, the place I worked that maintained the highest quality and availability standards (by far) did something like this, and it was a deliberate reliability engineering choice. They wanted a separate testing phase and runtime environment management policy that developers couldn't unilaterally control as part of a defense in depth strategy. Jamming everything into a vertically integrated, heavily automated CI/CD pipeline is also a valid choice, but one that has its roots in Silicon Valley culture, and therefore reaches different solutions to the same problems compared to what you might see in older industries and companies.
by complianceowl | 2025-10-30 15:51:07+00:00
Almost no rebuttals on the internet are intellectually honest these days. Take the same exact action by a President of the alternative party, and it's considered "decisive", "shows our enemies we mean business". But since it's not coming from your political party, it's "oh no, what is this guy doing. He's going to get us all unalived."
by rs186 | 2025-10-30 15:51:14+00:00
True, and in fact I am aware that other teams look for paid solutions where graphs power the core features of their products. For us, it is a small feature, so we were looking for the "least trouble" path.

I don't know enough about all those other libraries and their licenses, but I do know that as long as we don't ship those libraries, especially modified versions, it's likely ok (of course that's simplified). Some internal tooling depends on GNU tools but we are just users. For things like glibc, it's just a standard system library, so linking with it is not a problem. (I am sure legal has looked at this.)

But GPL/LGPL software is definitely the minority of software we use in any way. Basically they need to be avoided as much as possible.
by username332211 | 2025-10-30 15:51:35+00:00
That was chattel slavery which doesn't generate the same feelings of devotion compared to divine monarchy. We've all seen the great sadness of the North Korean people at the passing of their Dear Leaders.

This in spite of the tendency of said Dear Leaders to keep their charges in famine conditions, something absent even from most modern systems that are close to chattel slavery, for example in the Gulf states and in human trafficking operations.
by electroly | 2025-10-30 15:52:00+00:00
An empty parking lot is effectively the gold standard for opposite-of-claustrophobia as the article seems to intend the term. It's the least claustrophobic space possible on the surface of the Earth. Even an open meadow is less open than an empty paved parking lot because it has small bushes and shrubs everywhere. This matches my intuition as a mild sufferer--I actually try to picture a brightly lit gas station parking lot if I'm feeling claustrophobic.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-30 15:52:00+00:00
A lot of Azure Insights is a value add on top of OTel. You can use "just" OTel feeding Azure Insights (and that's what the modern Aspire-influenced defaults mostly do) and possibly avoid that feeling of vendor lockin. That perspective might also give you ideas of other "modern" vendors to audition such as Grafana if you wanted to see what other people are doing with OTel rather than Event Logs and file system logs.
by nawgz | 2025-10-30 15:52:19+00:00
They gave an escape hatch to people who wrote malformed hooks so their build process wouldn't crash, I don't really think that's a meaningful use case.

Are directives horrible? Absolutely. Did I encounter any need for this across porting 4 different apps and a component library to React 19? No, it was frictionless.

Because React is the same as it has been for a long time.
by linsomniac | 2025-10-30 15:52:34+00:00
Yes, however: My father in law gave me some great advice: Pick a stock or two and put some small amount of your investments into it, like 1-5%. This makes the investing more fun. And he was very right, not the least of which because the stock I put $7K in exploded and ended up worth over $200K. ;-)

My BIL put money into Underarmor (he's an outdoors guy) and Electronic Arts (he's also a gamer), both of which have done good for him. My son put some money into Roblox (he's a gamer), and that's done well also.
by gnramires | 2025-10-30 15:52:34+00:00
Disclaimer: I really like Open source.

I think without open source something similar might have happened to a lot of software, but instead of becoming Open, they'd become gratis (free/zero cost), or almost so. The heart of the matter is that software has near-0 cost of distribution, so making 1 trillion is basically the same cost (to the developer) as making 1 unit. So since developers have free economies of scale, they are highly incentivized to lower the price to capture most of the market, I think. Software also requires relatively little maintenance, it doesn't rot[1] -- good software basically lasts forever with some minor up-keeping. Add in competition, and the tendency is for cost to go to near 0, at least for relatively popular software. But then there are two problems:

(1) If the company goes under, the software is lost, or rather it could be reverse engineered with huge difficulty and some information loss about the actual code.

(2) The incentives are still not well aligned with users. The makers are incentivized to rely on advertisements, get (and sell) user data, make their software addictive, and more.

On (1), FOSS software guarantees the source will be available and can be ported to new systems, basically becoming a common good. On (2), the incentives are very well aligned for FOSS, development can become a community effort, and in the rare case a developer would turn to collecting and selling user data or dark patterns, the software can be forked for example. In particular Open source funded by grants, donations and community/voluntary work is very aligned with public interest.

I get the downside that it could be unfair that developers aren't being paid as much, but I believe it wouldn't be much of a difference in income (for those kinds of software), and we can and should as a community donate to open source efforts (and since it's clearly in the public benefit I think governments, companies and all sorts of organizations would be wise to do so).

Finally, you're basically still free to create and sell closed source software, you just have to compete with community and volunteer efforts. I think it's well within your right (and it might make sense in some cases, say niche software). But I think it's worth considering carefully wether it's best for the product, for you and for the community to have it closed or open.

(also, indeed you can sell FOSS, but to be honest I don't know of many success stories in this regard (anyone share some examples?); I know arduino which is open software/hardware was very successful selling their genuine boards/having a pay request on download that you can dismiss. On Linux package managers make this difficult, although Flathub recently added donation buttons!).

[1] There are some issues popularly called "software rot", but it's basically some relatively minor (compared to the rot of many physical goods) compatibility issues when interacting systems change.
by dgently7 | 2025-10-30 15:52:38+00:00
There are also a bunch more available information channels that this doesn’t use that could communicate more information. Color, shape, pattern line type, “backdrops”/groups could all be implemented to provide additional visual clarity on any range of parameters you might care about.

I used to use the dcc application Nuke and it had some very complex graphs but the different nodes were all color coded so zooming out you could get a good idea of what was happening where just from the average color of a section.

It didn’t have an auto layout algo as good as this though.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-30 15:53:09+00:00
You're still thinking about dithering being about colors. It's about finding the best member of set B to stand in for a member of set A when |A|>|B|.

In color dithering A is the set of colors in the original image and B is a smaller set of colors. Often just pure black and pure white, but that doesn't have to be the case.

In Bresenham A is the relative x,y coordinates of the ideal next pixel in the line if the pixels were infinitely small (thus |A| = infinity), while B contains the relative x,y coordinates of the 3 pixels that are actually available: +1,0; 0,+1; and +1,+1 (with appropriate rotation for the other 3 quadrants).

An important feature of Bresenham's is that the error inherent in this assignment is carried forth into the decision made for the next pixel, such that the total error is diffused along the line and its average value stays close to zero. Such error diffusion is also a feature of the best color dithering algorithms, but not the one described in TFA -- ordered dithering -- because ordered dithering is not a very good algorithm and is not used much today except when its peculiar artifacts are desired.

And yes, Bresenham's original algorithm does set each pixel it chooses to pure black, but this has nothing to do with its error diffusion mechanism. Bresenham's with grayscale is also a thing and it results in even better line approximations, but it's usually referred to as antialiased Bresenham.
by ashleyn | 2025-10-30 15:53:09+00:00
Your money has to go somewhere or it will rot to inflation. If you're ultrabearish on stocks, snap up bonds. If you're bearish on stocks and bonds alike, snap up gold. Either way, bare minimum of what to do with your money long term is to preserve its value across inflation.

But really I would recommend nonetheless staying the course with investment advice on a stocks/bonds balance relative to your age. Increasingly, the economy distributes not through labour but through capital and holding stocks is essential even with their inherent risks. Even in light of that CNN article about meme stock and crypto investors having the last laugh over the past decade, indices of ordinary large-cap stocks bring you exposure to these things.
by Blub2121 | 2025-10-30 15:53:11+00:00
Basically they are intending to limit their own options of how subtitles can be displayed. The limit of not being able to position multiple subtitles at specific position is the biggest thing imo. To go with the first screenshots the post has:

For the first it is translating the info box on the left and just adding it above its dialog subtitles. This has a few problems. First the text overlaps the text in the box, not the worst thing here but that can sometimes make things hard to read and imo doesn't look good.

Second it can make it hard to know what is being translated if there are multiple text fragments on screen. Take this screenshot from the article https://daiz.moe/content/crunchyroll/dumbell-funi-4.jpg how are you supposed to know which belong to which muscle? Or this where only one of the rows is translated and you don't even know which https://daiz.moe/content/crunchyroll/mha-funi-hulu.jpg

Third with two dialogs to translate (like tv in background plus people in foreground) you could probably better indicate where what is coming from with the ability to position it.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-10-30 15:53:17+00:00
I self-hosted for 25 years. My SMTP server is at Hetzner for the last 15 years.

I was probably lucky, but I rarely had delivery problems. The last one was a couple years ago with Microsoft swallowing my emails and it was due to the combination of a fairly old exim and a TLS certificate verification quirk at *.protection.outlook.com. I found a fix in the form of a configuration option somewhere on SO.

I must admit that when I send a really important email, I check the mail server log if it went off without errors, but this does not bother me as checking logs manually once in a while is a good thing anyway.
by nightmonkey | 2025-10-30 15:53:58+00:00
https://libera.chat is what Freenode turned into after Freenode imploded. Really great communities there - F/OSS-centric, yes, but there are good unofficial channels for cloud services, and even some proprietary software and services, like vscode, AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.

ZNC is an excellent way to keep history between your IRC sessions: https://github.com/znc/znc And WeeChat is an excellent companion to ZNC and libera.chat: https://github.com/weechat/weechat And IRC for Android is an excellent IRC client that also plays well with ZNC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercul... Cheers!
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn | 2025-10-30 15:54:36+00:00
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by greatgib | 2025-10-30 15:54:49+00:00
That is the good electroshock that was needed to start doing good things.

But: "Zendis is part of an EU-level organisation that four EU countries founded on Tuesday with the aim of building sovereign digital infrastructure."

My intuition:

That is the usual European recipe for disaster. A public funded initiative to waste money in the usual way by giving it indirectly to consulting groups while producing nothing concrete and having to be scraped after a few years. At the same time, a big part of the money will be use to fund largely a big group of useless executives, representatives, communicators, and have countless workshops and conferences.

At the same time, almost zero money will go to the real existing Open Source project, their developers and maintainers.
by doug_durham | 2025-10-30 15:55:24+00:00
Having "grit" is more likely a symptom of coming from privilege. The marshmallow experiment comes to mind. Some kids were able to resist the urge to not eat the marshmallow for the promise of getting two if they waited. Others could not. The kids that could defer reward ended up having better life outcomes. In retrospect it was a test for privilege. Kids from poorer backgrounds tended to go for the immediate reward of the marshmallow. The test really showed that privileged kids have better life outcomes than kids that don't have privilege. Not really a surprising outcome.
by andai | 2025-10-30 15:55:33+00:00
>A language with better error handling ergonomics overall might fare better though.

So what always trips me up about JavaScript is that if you make a mistake, it silently propagates nonsense through the program. There's no way to configure it to even warn you about it. (There's "use strict", and there should be "use stricter!")

And this aspect of the language is somehow considered sacred, load-bearing infrastructure that may never be altered. (Even though, with "use strict" we already demonstrated that have a mechanism for fixing things without breaking them!)

I think the existence of TS might unfortunately be an unhelpful influence on JS's soundness, because now there's even less pressure to fix it than there was before.