MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-07 01:57:42+00:00
Erm. That person has posted a detailed explanation on how he has measured.

How can this be ridiculous? Is it ridiculous because the data does not match your believes...? Confirmation bias?

It's Data. And it hints, amongst other things that they have seen the same that I am seeing on every single Starlink installation I got my hands on so far: There is no active handover, and no shared state between Sats.

And you are referring to the wrong layer, talking about the ground station. Of course that does not move, and does not forget about your IP. Wrong layer.

It's about the Satellites (!) not doing an active handover and not sharing L2 state, like it would the case for any meshed network, no matter if cellular or WiFi. The analogy here would be a WiFi access point or a cell tower, and you roaming from one to the next while having a phone call, not having any drop-outs. That's the industry standard for Wireless. Starlink isn't there (yet).

If you don't think that true data is true, check ARP table of the MAC of your gateway IP changing after handover.

You appear to be a happy Starlink user - so do you care to share some 24h benchmark with us to prove your claims? I would highly appreciate that!

So far sadly none of the "But it works!" people has been able or willing to provide a benchmark on their own setup. `

Again: I am not here to win and argument. But to change my conclusions, I need data that hints at my conclusions potentially being wrong. As explained elsewhere in this thread, due to lack of serious benchmarks, most of this is based on anecdotical data points.
by cmurf | 2025-10-07 01:58:24+00:00
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority By E. LaBoetie (Philosopher and Writer, 1530-1563)

https://billkatz.substack.com/p/discourse-on-voluntary-servi...

But if not one thing is yielded to him, if without any violence he is simply not obeyed, he becomes naked and undone and nothing, just as when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.
by TheDong | 2025-10-07 01:58:43+00:00
Why is this bad? Do you run user-authored lua scripts against your redis?

Do you have your redis exposed without any authentication on the public internet?

If you do either of those, sure, this is bad for you.

I've worked with quite a few redis setups and know the details of even more, I do not know a single redis setup which would be vulnerable to this.

I've never heard a single instance of someone deciding that redis's lua sandbox is secure enough that they'll let their users upload arbitrary lua code and run it, and trust the lua sandbox to keep that redis box safe.

Like, because it's a use-after-free in the lua environment which requires a malicious lua script, this is just such a giant nothing-burger to me and every redis setup I've ever used, all of which only run trusted lua scripts.
by tristor | 2025-10-07 01:59:08+00:00
Honestly, when I was doing it, I didn't really find any of that difficult. The biggest pressure was from other people who I met while traveling to go out and party or do fun activities while I preferred working. I used time zones to my advantage when I was in Europe and Africa, so I'd have a nice relaxing morning, have a good breakfast, and then work in the mid-day through the evening, go to bed and do it again, and my weekends were still my weekends to do whatever I chose. When I was in South America I just worked normal east coast hours because most of the continent is on EST time zone or similar. It really wasn't as big a deal as you might imagine.

It's not like I was homeless, I would know I wanted to spend a month or thereabouts in a city and I'd get an AirBnB or otherwise arrange accommodations, I'd pay for a coworking space to have a good place to work with stable internet connectivity (this actually was one of the most difficult things in some parts of the world, back then), and I'd eat like the locals either cooking at the AirBnB or going to local restaurants/cafes.

I don't think being nomadic has to mean living like a hobo, those are not necessarily the same things. I never stayed anywhere that didn't have basic indoor plumbing at least, although a few times I'd have to hand wash clothes in a sink and hang them to dry outside the window, which was kind of a bummer but not a world-ender.

Overall, my productivity didn't suffer at all, and I didn't find it stressful from the things you mentioned with even a modicum of planning ahead. In fact, being able to explore different parts of the world and head out when I felt satisfied or got bored, meant that I always had some sort of moment for inspiration that helped to fuel both my curiosity and my work.
by seshagiric | 2025-10-07 01:59:24+00:00
IIRC:

What you can do:

1. At setup time, you are not forced to provide any apple ID.

2. You can login to your notebook without needing Apple ID

3. Install apps directly (i.e not from app store)

What you cannot

1. Install apps from App Store

2. Get Apple care etc.
by quotemstr | 2025-10-07 01:59:58+00:00
> dissipated in the atmosphere...an obvious lie

What do you think the word "dissipates" means? Antimatter annihilation? Some other mass to energy conversion? That atoms making up re-entering satellites obviously aren't going to disappear.

> Since when did pollution from fires become a controversial topic?

"Fires"?

This whole discussion is like people with a hatred of religion going around saying we have to abolish the Catholic Church because votive candles produce soot. A study showing that would not motivated by earnest and dispassionate scientific curiosity about the laws of the universe, but by a desire to achieve a political end.

The public should fund foundational research, not partisan apologetics.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 02:00:46+00:00
I've pointed out where you can get the data from a professor.

You can also fly to one of the many Islands (or Iqaluit) I've mentioned and do your testing.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...

It's quite fascinating, there's people who's only (or first) experience with Starlink is via lasers and there's people on the Internet who'll tell you it doesn't work (I forgot to mention Georgia and Kazakhstan)

You really will hear everything on the Internet.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-07 02:00:49+00:00
Nuclear and renewables do not like to share a grid. Their attributes do not complement each other at all, despite their differences, because fundamentally both of them are not dispatchable. In practice what happens is either nuclear has enough subsidies to survive or renewables completely wreck the economics of it by supplying way cheaper power most of the time.

Both forms of generation want to be paired with something dispatchable, either gas turbines or energy storage. A mix of renewables and nuclear is a mix that is weaker than the sum of its parts, not stronger.
by closeparen | 2025-10-07 02:01:04+00:00
If you can compromise an employee desktop and put a too-cheap-to-meter intelligence equivalent to a medium-skilled software developer in there to handcraft an attack on whatever internal applications they have access to, it's kind of over. This kind of stuff isn’t normally hardened against custom or creative attacks. Cybersecurity rests on bot attacks having known signatures, and sophisticated human attackers having better things to do with their time.
by another_twist | 2025-10-07 02:01:09+00:00
So I have read the MIT paper and the methodology as well as the conclusions are just something else.

For example, the number comes from perceived successes and failures and not actual measurements. The customer conclusions are also - it doesnt improve or it doesnt remember. Literally buying into the hype of recursive self improvement and completely oblivious to the fact that API dont control model weights and such cant do much self improvement besides writing more CRUD layers. The other complaints are about integrations which are totally valid. But in industries which still run windows XYZ without any API platforms so thats not going away in those cases.

Point being, if the paper itself is not very good discourse just a well marketed punditry, why should we discuss on the 5% number. It makes no sense.
by jaltman | 2025-10-07 02:01:32+00:00
The Amdahl's Law limitations are specific to the implementation and not at all tied to the protocols. The 1990 AFS 3.0 server design was built upon a cooperative threading system ("Light Weight Processes") designed by James Gosling as part of the Andrew Project. Cooperative processing influences the design of the locking model since there isn't any simultaneous between tasks. When the AFS fileserver was converted to pthreads for AFS 3.5, the global state of each library was protected by wrapping it with a global mutex. Each mutex was acquired when entering the library and dropped when exiting it. To complete any fileserver RPC required acquisition of at least six or seven global mutexes depending upon the type of vnode being be accessed. In practice, the global mutexes restricted the fileserver process to 1.7 cores regardless of how many cores were present in the system.

AuriStor's RX and UBIK protocol and implementation improvements would be worthless if the application services couldn't scale. To accomplish this required converting each subsystem so it could operate with minimal lock contention.

This 2023 presentation by Simon Wilkinson describes the improvements that were made to AuriStor's RX implementation up to that point.

https://www.auristor.com/downloads/auristor-rx-hare-and-the-...

The RX tortoise is catching up with the TCP hare.

Connecting to [10.0.2.15]:2345 RECV: threads 1, times 1, bytes 2000000000: 881 msec [18.15 Gbit/s]
by programjames | 2025-10-07 02:01:38+00:00
I think the take is: If 100k people watch the episode, spending $200 more for higher quality subtitling comes out to... a whopping 0.2 cents per person (per episode). Let's just say that would cost an extra $1/month per person. Are they price sensitive enough that they won't go to a competitor that's a few dollars more expensive per month if it has better subtitles? I don't know, but maybe some manager believed they were, and thus it was worth it to make the subscription a little cheaper.
by hattmall | 2025-10-07 02:02:35+00:00
>those sales will exist pretty much indefinitely.

To an extent sure, but when people that grew up as home consumers not using Windows become business leaders they won't have the brand loyalty to Microsoft that the current aging out generation does.

If Google doesn't characteristically fumble the bag their dominance with ChromeOS in schools has potential pay major dividends in 10-15 years.

Windows centric software development is pretty much completely driven by business leaders 50+ years old on the young end.
by flexagoon | 2025-10-07 02:03:07+00:00
There are very simple options to selfhost a VPN nowadays. For example, Amnezia allows you to just type your server ssh credentials into their mobile app, and it will automatically set up AmneziaWG on your server and add it to the app. You can then create Amnezia or plain WireGuard config files from extra devices right from there.
by jibal | 2025-10-07 02:03:29+00:00
"here's a related example why you might be correct"

Again: YOU DIDN'T SAY THAT. And there's no obvious logic that connects the two--certainly the person you responded to didn't see any such logic and said so: "The fact that moose are preyed upon by Orcas is irrelevant here."

As someone else said: "Consider instead reflecting on why your point was misunderstood?"

i.e., take responsibility because--seriously--this is on you.

What is sad is how you completely ignored and blew off what I wrote and then just repeated the very same thing I critiqued, and implied that I was at fault for the "strange discussion"--when in fact there was nothing at all strange about the clear and valid points that I made.

And as others have noted, it's not "only on the internet"--the internet is simply where the vast majority of such discussions occur. But it's not the only place where someone might say "oh, you didn't make that clear, and it's still not clear to me how they are logically connected". And it's not the only place that I have encountered people who reason poorly, act in bad faith, and blame everyone but themselves.

I won't comment further.
by Aerroon | 2025-10-07 02:03:37+00:00
If anyone wants some background info on the "idiot" comment:

A Bavarian man captioned an image of Robert Habeck (the vice chancellor of Germany at the time) with "Schwachkopf Professional" - "Professional Idiot". It was styled after the Schwarzkopf ad campaign. For this, Habeck filed a criminal complaint "to stop hate crime" against the man and the man's apartment was searched by the police and a tablet confiscated. Oh, and he was arrested over it as well. [0]

(The man was also accused of posting some nazi imagery earlier in the year, but the order to search his house seems to be related only to the insult. [1])

Imagine if you could be arrested for calling your (vice) president an idiot.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/falschaussage-im-fall-sc... (it's in German)
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-07 02:04:33+00:00
That's a pretty rude response to a considered reply.

I am not saying we give all money to Altman. I'm saying AI is likely overvalued. But can it evolve into something far more capable given investment? Yes, it may.

Flying cars and space travel didn't happen, but might have. And funnily enough, they might still happen, with drone taxis and Virgin Galactic / SpaceX. Might. That's how it works with speculative investment.
by yegor | 2025-10-07 02:04:56+00:00
Proton used to have mail, they they launched a VPN. Then cloud storage, then password manager, then docs + calendar, then wallet, now also AI and MFA app. They're following literally in Nord's footsteps, all Nord needs to do is launch a mail service and the circle is complete.

Proton is doing influencer marketing now too btw. Parallels are uncanny. All this while claiming to fight Google/big tech, but essentially offering the same products that store the same personal data.
by Ms-J | 2025-10-07 02:05:29+00:00
Can anyone give info on who owns Trust.Zone VPN? The company saves all credentials and doesn't allow the user to generate anything, such as Wireguard private keys. The service is very likely logging everything, and already admits to logging bandwidth, which is severe enough.

Wouldn't be surprised if this was a honeypot for logging Russian internet users, as it appears to cater to Eastern users.
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-07 02:06:22+00:00
Not sure. If they would actively read that telemetry data they would notice that the market share of Win11 due to their actions is shrinking, not rising.

But maybe they are holding the telemetry graphs upside down? ;)

And, obviously, a Windows system not connected to the Internet will not give you Telemetry, so this part of your customer base is invisible to you. As a PM, you would have to actually talk with your actual customers to learn about it.

Or they could have just done a survey where customers can vote on what they want. I assume that "Half of the OS settings dialogues now apply changes the moment you klick a checkbox, without a OK / Cancel button; and the other half of the OS allows you to review your changes and revert them in one go if you want."

It's just said seeing this great NT system getting crippled and ruined by actively making it harder to use and limiting choices.
by krainboltgreene | 2025-10-07 02:06:26+00:00
> My first-order heuristic is that legitimate websites tend to get one of the top TLDs (.com/.org, maybe .net/.io)

This is so funny to hear after 18 years in the west coast silicon-valley lead tech industry. All of the app, io, tv, tech, guru, and now ai I've seen and only when it's "coop" does anyone complain.
by TheDong | 2025-10-07 02:07:06+00:00
The number of redis setups out there which rely on user-uploaded lua scripts and the lua sandbox being sufficient for that has got to be... close to 0?

Like, the lua scripting feature is there for developers to write static trusted lua, check it in, and run transactional stuff etc, and so anyone uploading arbitrary user code as a script is already wildly outside of a normal use of redis.

Seems wild that something which requires using the thing wrong, and also which impacts close to 0 real deployments of the thing, gets a CVSS 10.
by monero-xmr | 2025-10-07 02:07:26+00:00
A non-open ended path collapses into a decision tree. Very hard to think of customer support use-cases that do not collapse into decision trees. Most prompt engineering on the SaaS side results in very long prompts to re-invent decision trees and protect against edge cases. Ultimately the AI makes a “decision function call” which hits a decision tree. LLM is very poor replacement for a decision tree.

I use LLM every day of my life to make myself highly productive. But I do not use LLM tools to replace my decision trees.
by phire | 2025-10-07 02:08:18+00:00
Acid 2 bakes in the assumption that you will be displaying it on a desktop/laptop monitor with 100% scaling; It depends on pixel accuracy.

This was a reasonably universal assumption in 2005, but became less and less valid over time, we now have high-dpi screens and the whole idea of pixel accuracy has fallen out of favour (it was never a good idea, but 2005) as phone browsers are expected to rescale websites for better readability/usability.

The result is that Acid 2 fails on my phone, and on my laptop it will pass/fail depending on which screen the window is on.

Acid 3 was too forwards looking and rigid. While Acid 2 was (mostly) testing accepted standards (which IE6 implemented very poorly), Acid 3 tested a bunch of draft standards. It was very strict on many things that weren't well defined and later versions of the standards took the opposite approach.

Basically, Acid 2 was very good at shaming Microsoft into fixing Internet Explorer; But in the long run the whole concept of popular cherry picked torture tests proved to be of limited usefulness (and actually counterproductive) to promoting standards compliant browsers.
by adrianN | 2025-10-07 02:09:46+00:00
That's 3.3 amps behind the breaker. So if your wiring is set up for 16 amps you can now draw 19.3 amps before the breaker kicks in. That's within the safety margin. But if you allow PV to feed in more you exceed the safety margins and can cause the wiring to overheat.
by Theodores | 2025-10-07 02:10:28+00:00
Where are the customer testimonials or the samples to play with?

There also needs to be an 'about' page, to explain what the motivation is.

Given the AI invasion, isn't this a product category that has to either provide AI or have a stance against it?

Some work needs to go into how this is marketed and sold. Compare with how a JetBrains IDE is sold, plus what the pricing is.
by anextio | 2025-10-07 02:10:52+00:00
Malicious compliance?

The EU DMA says they have to allow third party browser engines access to the same resources (the JIT) that Safari has. It specifically allows them to place reasonable requirements on those third party alternatives:

> The gatekeeper shall not be prevented from taking, to the extent that they are strictly necessary and proportionate, measures to ensure that third-party software applications or software application stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system provided by the gatekeeper, provided that such measures are duly justified by the gatekeeper.

Access to rwx memory is inherently dangerous, and it's completely reasonable to expect third parties to have proven that they are serious about producing a usable browser engine before putting such a risky product on the market for consumers to download. The law does not require them to allow any third party application to access the JIT, only a third party application that competes with Safari (a usable web browser).
by OisinMoran | 2025-10-07 02:11:37+00:00
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing. I'm a big fan of Hofstadter, but knew about ambigrams before I knew about him, so I'm delighted (but not all that surprised) to find out he coined the term!

I too love the art of creating an ambigram and my favourite one I've created is one that reads PUSH from one side of a glass door and PULL from the other. Here it is: https://www.instagram.com/p/DH6W36voMe-/

Another textual constraint challenge I found similarly satisfying with Hofstadter's "repeated savoring of unanticipated small pieces of visual magic", was one I set myself as a teen to create the word CTRL (my graffiti tag) out of two components for each letter, but the same two components for every letter. I managed to dig out an image of it: https://gist.github.com/OisinMoran/0ca8dbdfea83d2250e723a034...
by cyberax | 2025-10-07 02:11:37+00:00
The LTSC edition is unaffected.

You _can_ buy it, but it's a bit of a quest. You need to register as a company and buy at least five Windows licenses (you don't have to use them), and after that you can get a license for an LTSC version.

It works out to about $700, if you want to go down this route.
by monero-xmr | 2025-10-07 02:11:53+00:00
I think your worries are misplaced. This is bread and butter for lawyers. The problem with this case is it’s very fuzzy. We are seeing one side of the story as a lawsuit is certainly coming. Doctors are human and deal with high stress, life or death situations. They have medical malpractice insurance exactly for this. Even if you have a 99.9% perfect doctor, they will see many thousands of patients over their career, and that still means 1/1000 will die. People play the lottery on far worse odds.

I found the article interesting less as a damning of the medical system and more of a spiritual situation. None of us know when a freak random event will end us. It is a sobering reality
by beecasthurlbow | 2025-10-07 02:11:58+00:00
If new apps are automatically surfaced, how do you know you’re getting the authentic app? Eg “Zilow” vs “Zillow” or something… is this the new typosquatting?

ChatGPT can also suggest apps when they’re relevant to the conversation. For example, if you’re talking about buying a new home, ChatGPT can surface the Zillow app as a suggestion so you can browse listings that match your budget on an interactive map right inside ChatGPT. […] As more developers build with the Apps SDK, the list of what’s possible will keep growing. Because these apps appear naturally in your chats, you’ll find them when they’re most likely to be useful.
by Cloudef | 2025-10-07 02:12:47+00:00
Right, of course SPIR-V is a IR format for the drivers and not the final GPU machine code. I don't think WGSL is a bad language by any means, but I still find it odd that the spec doesn't allow loading SPIR-V to cut out the extra transformation steps, and potential bugs or bad transformations in the WGSL implementation.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 02:13:24+00:00
There's lots of users in laser only areas doing RTC via VOIP or video. Some of them on Ships in the Persian Gulf (look up SEA-2. https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/)

That person has posted an install in a moving vehicle with the antenna inside.

Do you think I can't read or what?

The ground stations don't handle user IP addresses or even IP packets.

They are strictly layer 2 from the user perspective and traffic is terminated at POP's.

Here's a scientist that does actual work, not the nonsense you've been posting as "data".

https://www.reddit.com/user/panuvic/submitted/

I gave you his email.

I've pointed out to you where you can travel to test laser service yourself.

I'm not saying "but it works"

I pointed out to you places that can't be served without laser connectivity.

It's like asking me to prove the earth isn't flat.