MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cool_man_bob | 2025-10-26 01:00:00+00:00
Even worse, without use for them, they’re a liability. Having a boatload of now useless probably angry is a dangerous scenario. Peasant rebellion are rare, but too happen, particularly when starvation is on the table.

So the play will be to boil the frog so to say. Find a way to make it acceptable to get rid of these “extra” people without too much noise. Consider the current rhetoric around homeless people.
by doganugurlu | 2025-10-26 01:00:37+00:00
I have no idea how I would feel if someone used my face in fetish or sexual content. Never happened. It’d probably make me uncomfortable. But, I imagine I would be ok if I grew up in a culture where sex wasn’t as much of a taboo. Maybe I would find it flattering.

My mental test for deciding whether something should be illegal or unacceptable is questioning if any one would see it the same if religion never existed.

During #metoo I remember reading an article where the author was uncomfortable with the “drug fueled sex parties in Silicon Valley.” They basically didn’t want consenting adults to do drugs or engage in group sex. The argument against fetish content with AI generated characters reminded me of the #metoo author’s discomfort with the drug/sex freedom of the Bay Area. The article about Sora sounds like the author is uncomfortable with people generating fetish content, regardless of the content featuring real people or not.

It’s sad that the liberals now include the prudes/conservatives.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-26 01:00:54+00:00
I want to love Qubes, but it is a lot more heavyweight than I want to pursue. I have no crypto fortune or government/industrial secrets worth stealing, so it would be putting on a lot of pain knowing I am not a person of interest. I already run my development work inside a VM, but that has some papercuts. Going full Qubes would probably get even more annoying.

A security/isolation layer like this I could use for free feels like it would get me so close to the Qubes ideal without having to completely change how I interface with my machine.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-26 01:03:16+00:00
1. Radical new paradigm that critiques and disregards most of the traditional infrastructure.

2. Completely FOSS, barely any salaried devs, if any they are donation based.

3. Culture for code "reuse" instead of actually coding. Everyone wants it in their own flavour (we have tar, but I kinda want async-oop-tar)

4. Cognitive dissonance between 3 and 1, rusties don't want to succumb and use a standard tar library because of performance (self inflicted performance hit from creating an incompatible ecosystem) or pride (we need a version written in rust). All of this to download software that is probably written in C and from another ecosystem anyways. (An encoding/compression is a signature and tarballs are signature CLinux)

Something's gotta give
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-26 01:03:39+00:00
IMHO fundamentally the MR/PR author is the one requesting reviews (be it mandatory to merge or not), and they are the ones to decide if the comments are valid/require actions or not.

If the reviewer didn't accept your PR you already know they're expecting something more, and what it is will be in the comments.

I don't know if GitHub comments can be individually marked as optional or not, but even then the reviewer might not know the actual impact of what they're pointing at.

For instance if you're deleting a bit of feature that has been already disabled at the step before, a reviewer pointing it out as blocking might as well be lacking context. I find it more natural for a comment to be mostly factual and let you check if it needs a fix or not.

It's more work on your part, but it's also your PR (all of that within reason, and not being jerks)
by margalabargala | 2025-10-26 01:04:14+00:00
> Would it help you to be able to contact me when I then say "actually, I do not care"? And then what?

Well, yes, because it's not just you being contacted. In this hypothetical world, it's also all the other people that you have banned. And if any of them know the answer, they can answer and help the person, you can announce you do not care and be ignored, and then everybody goes on and the world is a strictly better place for it.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-26 01:05:00+00:00
I want to be more deliberate about securing my tools, but all of the options seem so complex that I do not know where to begin. Then you get various pithy statements like, "chroot is not a security layer", "X cannot be used when you use Y", and it feels hopeless for a novice. Most of the documentation for these tools seem to expect a baseline system administration greater than my own.

I instead lean on heavyweight VMs, but would love something like this which should be a hard security boundary for little cost.
by NanoCoaster | 2025-10-26 01:05:10+00:00
> People have lost faith in us.

That's a very powerful way to sum up what I've been feeling for a while.

People did lose faith, and to be honest, I can't really blame them. From a layman's perspective, it's not obvious that there's a distinction between "Big Tech" and other so-called "providers of services" (the term itself feels kind of icky) in the internet. Throw the "Tech Bro" term in there and things get even more difficult.

I'm guessing a lot of people never really knew about forums, chat communities and other things like that existing outside of the big social media companies' mostly-walled gardens. Maybe they heard some scary things about 4chan, well, that'll help.

To many of them, it's the little man vs. the big tech companies that skirted regulations for way too long. That there's a possible third party (or rather, category) involved is not obvious from the outside.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-26 01:06:30+00:00
You could do this with a couple of TI MSP-EXP430F5529LP boards (<$16 each from Digikey). They include demo code with HID features. I've used this platform extensively, but I never used the USB features for anything other than a JTAG interface for development. I once recommended it to a friend with no embedded development experience, and he had his own custom "mouse jiggler" up and working in one day.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

Alternatively, the newer ESP32-S3 boards (<$6 each) have dual USB-C interfaces, so you could do it with only one (smaller) card instead of two. Development might take longer though.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4789XC

If you want to allow a network connection between the two computers, you could load soft-KVM software on each, and go from there.

https://goinglinux.com/open-source-cross-platform-kvm-softwa...
by dangus | 2025-10-26 01:07:28+00:00
While I agree with the author, I don’t find it nearly as difficult to escape AI.

AI on the iPhone is basically a global toggle, one switch turns it all off.

The author used a weird third party browser but if they were just using Firefox or Chrome there really wouldn’t be any AI that couldn’t be turned off/ignored.

Same deal with Windows, there’s no AI features doing anything on my windows 11 PC. Everything on offer has a toggle or uninstall option and the level of nag is far less than the Windows 10 OneDrive days.

The main thing you can’t escape is AI making the internet worse. Then again I do find AI searching to often be way more useful than the pre-AI search that’s clogged with results that don’t match the meaning of what you’re asking for and SEO spam that AI queries can more easily defeat.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-26 01:08:19+00:00
I don’t think one is a prude or a conservative for not wanting AI generated porn of themselves to exist.

I also don’t think one is a prude or a conservative for thinking there are consent and power issues around anything that commingles sex and the workplace.

Things can be unacceptable without being illegal. Things can even be unacceptable without needing to be banned or privately controlled.

My bar for what should be unacceptable is a lot lower than my bar for what should be illegal or privately banned.

Making weird pregnancy fetish videos of real people without their permission is definitely unacceptable. I have no issue with the idea that anyone doing that should be shamed.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-26 01:09:27+00:00
Terrible argument, you should say because of generative AI where anybody can fabricate any image/video/audio of anyone in any context without their consent we urgently need new regulation of social media platforms to accommodate this profound change in our reality. Then make your argument.

You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces since forever, that is not a problem. Because nobody can photograph you stabbing someone and uploading it on social media without you actually stabbing someone. This is now different, because anyone now can make that photograph of you stabbing someone and post it.

That must be your argument.

And it must be on the social media side, because in X months some open model on GitHub is gonna make every watermark or cloud-based safety feature meaningless anyway.
by YZF | 2025-10-26 01:09:31+00:00
I am very consistent. What's inconsistent about my argument?

Can you give me three other examples of states where their existence is similar to the existence of "Palestine"? How is Palestine not a snowflake here? And if it is, why? What in your mind does the "existence of a state" mean exactly? What is your reference?

Please answer my question about the State of Palestine pre 1967. Did that state exist before 1967? Did it exist e.g. in the 1970's or the 80's? Did it meet the same criteria? What has changed?

Please expand on why you think a State of Palestine existed before 1948 and Israel.

What was the timeline for recognition of the State of Palestine by those 80% countries you're so happy to enlist in your support. What's different about the conditions before and after that timeline? What is the international law basis for the existence of the Palestinian Authority?
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-26 01:10:04+00:00
I suspect it is because they get really hairy.

Loading ELFs and processing relocations is actually not too bad. It’s fun after the initial learning curve.

Then one has to worry about handling of “dlopen” and the loader creating the data structures it cares about. Yuck!!!

It’s kinda a shame because the glibc loader is a bit bloated with all the audit and preload handling. Great for flexibility, not for security.
by lxe | 2025-10-26 01:10:19+00:00
It would be great to have the questions of “what is it? What is it for?” Answered quickly and succinctly above the fold on the marketing site.

You probably have an influx of traffic that you could convert to customers through “what is this? -> oh cool I could use this!” pipeline if the marketing website enabled that.

What is NATS, how does it compare to other similar software, and why use a hosted solution… all this should be easily found.

And if I see a “enter name and email to download a resource” it just immediately turns me off from even engaging with the site.
by bb88 | 2025-10-26 01:10:31+00:00
You can use two arduinos and connect them in such a way they are talking through the GPIO ports to each other.

You could do something similar with a couple of Raspberry Pi's or RPI nanos. It doesn't really matter as both can be configured as USB devices and to access their GPIO ports.

The trick is getting them to act as a USB device and then to have them send data over the GPIO ports.

Fortunately I don't think either of those should be super hard.
by MaxL93 | 2025-10-26 01:11:10+00:00
It should be noted that most of EDF's massive losses are due to the ARENH.

The European Union insists that EDF must sell energy at very discounted prices, so that third-party "providers" can make an entry on the energy market. The idea was that they would eventually sell their own energy supply, but most just pocketed the difference between the dirt-cheap energy & what they charged customers, then ran away the moment there was any hint of change on the horizon.

Or, to put it in simpler, blunter terms: in the name of "competition", EDF was forced to heavily subsidize companies that turned out to be nothing more than rent-seekers that only sought to, effectively, grab free subsidy money.

Here are some articles about it:

2022: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/10/edf-sues-fr... 2023: https://www.ft.com/content/e2fc3abf-4803-4561-8ef2-0c77fd2d0... 2024: https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/europes-under-radar-ind...
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-26 01:11:34+00:00
> Yep, it's either dogs or r̸u̸s̸s̸i̸a̸n̸ chinese bots.

Please consider users of screen readers and other assistive technologies, as your nonstandard usage of nonstandard characters makes parsing your comment difficult if not impossible. Not a slight or a correction, as I am a fan of Zalgo text myself, but after being informed by others about how inscrutable it can be to the differently abled, I have reconsidered using it.
by mattfrommars | 2025-10-26 01:13:57+00:00
> I will mainly do Consultancy and some freelancing,

I am genuinely how did you ascertain working on this will have enough demand for folks to hire you to do consultancy in this space? I have in .NET space and have never heard of this tool before.

Plus, .NET is not that popular either compared to proliferation of python/java/node.js frameworks

Look at HN job threads, .NET demand is very limited.
by jeffbee | 2025-10-26 01:16:29+00:00
How do you think SVP buys energy from its contracted generators? They don't own transmission from those places (unlike SMUD which, to an incomplete extent, actually does own its generating assets and transmission lines). SVP pays regulated wholesale distribution rates to PG&E to get access to their contracted generators. But the process determining such rates ignores the way that wildfire liability is assigned to PG&E, which is a significant part of current PG&E retail rates. It also ignores mandates such as rural electrification. PG&E must serve every yokel in California no matter how far out, while SVP and other MUDs contribute nothing to rural electrification mandates.
by andy99 | 2025-10-26 01:16:52+00:00
When I use google docs now, every time I pause to think my focus is destroyed by a pop up inviting me to “help me write with AI”. I have to constantly dismiss similar “features” (ads) in most tools I use now. I wish there was a global toggle.

I actually use LLMs regularly as part of my work, but never for the dumb stuff these PMs are trying to ram down my throat. And it pretty obvious the applications that annoy people are useless, otherwise they wouldn’t need to harass you with them.
by smcin | 2025-10-26 01:17:34+00:00
A good-faith reading of the sort of suggestion the author never made is for the blanket opt-in consent to allow other users generate images/videos of you to be segmented into separate consents for PG, adult, fetish etc.; also face/whole body. A very clear consent form that tells them upfront "If you consent to users generating fetish consent of you, here are some examples of what's allowed and forbidden".

> Is the author suggesting we should stop people from creating fetish content of purely AI-generated characters?

Presumably not, but she's farming outrage rather than suggesting any fix. In the above suggested setup, people could then generate fetish consent from the much smaller set of users who consented to have fetish consent generated from them. But then of course they might expect some royalties or revenue-sharing, or at least identification/attribution/watermarking so the depicted user could drive traffic to social-media. OpenAI is skirting around not just segmented consent but any concept of revenue-sharing (i.e. OpenAI wants to dip its toe into OnlyFans territory, but without any revenue-sharing or licensing deal with creators).
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-26 01:18:24+00:00
It's not exactly the case you might be pointing at, but there will definitely be times where I don't accept but would want someone else to do so. IMHO it should happen explicitely.

For instance sometimes the translation isn't consistent with other screens, but that's not an issue I'm willing to follow to the bitter end. If that's the only thing I have concerns about, leaving a comment to check with the copy writing team and let that team approve or not is a decent course of action.

Same with security issues, queries that will cost decent money at each execution, design inconsistencies, etc.

In these cases, not approving is also less ambiguous than approving but requesting extra action that don't require additional review from us (assuming we're very explicit in the comment about being ok with the rest of the code and not needing a re-review)
by musicale | 2025-10-26 01:19:23+00:00
I thought the "work location" feature, where you set your work location to "office" or "remote", was pretty OK for letting people know if you are in the office. People do a similar thing with slack so you don't waste time trying to find someone in the office if they are working remotely.

(Am I the only person with wired ethernet on my desk(s)? I gave up on wi-fi during the pandemic due to terrible Zoom performance, and have kept wired ever since - lower latency, lower jitter, no interference, and faster overall.)

Maybe the new bit for Teams is aggregation and tracking. That probably isn't going to have any good effects.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-26 01:19:36+00:00
> malloc, realloc, free

Wrapper around sbrk, mmap, etc. whatever the modern variant is.

> fopen, FILE

Wrapper around open, write, read, close.

> stdatomic implementations

You can argue, these are wrappers around thread syscalls.

> math functions like cos, sin tan, some string functions are all defined in C library

True for these, but they are so small, they could just be inlined directly, on their own they wouldn't necessarily deserve a library.

> That's why I used more specific term GNU/Linux at the start.

While GNU/Linux does describe a complete OS, it doesn't describe any specific OS. Every Distro does it's own thing, so I think these is what you actually need to call an OS. But everything is built so that the user can take the control over the architecture and which components the OS consists of, so every installation can be a snowflake, and then it is technically its own OS.

I personally consider libc and the compiler (which both make a C implementation) to be part of the OS. I think this is both grounded in theory and in practice. Only in some weird middle ground between theory and practice you can consider them to not be.
by alexanderdmitri | 2025-10-26 01:19:56+00:00
19.7% of children and adolescents are obese in the United States[0]. These are definitely forces outside their control during critical years of development. It's like blaming someone for being impoverished when they grew up in an impoverished atmosphere (also a popular view in the States).

Sure they could beat the odds on either issue when get older, but it's tough when you live in a system that works against you. It's good to say individuals should hold themselves accountable and not give up in the face of adversity, but from a macro-level it doesn't help fix the problem. I'd argue the your fault / deal with it attitude on these trends make those problems worse for a population.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood-obesity-facts/childhoo...
by steve_taylor | 2025-10-26 01:20:57+00:00
By the time that blackout occurred, the grid was already quite stable and rolling blackouts were a thing of the past. The state-wide blackout was the result of a severe storm, which included lightning, gale-force winds and three tornadoes, taking out critical transmission lines, combined with inadequate protection circuits not set up to account for lightning strikes. When the state failed over to the Victoria interconnect, the interconnect shut down because the load was too high. So although the grid was stable, it had some failure points that were exposed during this severe and unusual storm.

The battery array was just one measure taken to increase grid resilience in such a scenario. The general idea was to have an instantly dispatchable electricity supply ready to go at any time while bringing gas-powered electricity online. A nice side effect of the battery is that it flattens out wholesale price spikes and makes a bit of money for itself in the process.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-26 01:21:18+00:00
> I don't think the extension is installed by people that wanna dislike, rather by people that wanna see the dislike count.

Yes but the corollary is that the dislikes you see are an estimate extrapolated from dislikes from people who use the extension.

In other words if people want their dislike to be seen, they need the extension.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-26 01:22:46+00:00
On the Target web site tonight I was looking at a monitor stand and the Q&A section has some questions written and answered by Target's AI so as to seed the section with content.

One of the AI questions is, "What is the weight capacity of the monitor stand?" and the answer is, "The monitor stand is designed to support and elevate a computer monitor, ensuring stability."

What are we even doing here? Will anyone ever be accountable for all this stupidity that all of us see every day?
by turtlebro | 2025-10-26 01:22:49+00:00
It's not a fact, it's the opinion of a rather small group of elitist iOS super users. Native is an utterly overrated concept these days and in no way the solution to build an app with good UX. Users don't care whether you use SwiftUI, Components or Widgets. Users don't even know what a native app is. Stop acting like it's the only true holy way.
by andbberger | 2025-10-26 01:23:30+00:00
and there was a huge fire at the moss landing plant which left heavy metals and god knows what else raining down onto sensitive marine mammal habitat. kayak up elkhorn slough and you'll encounter dozens of otters, seals... less than a kilometer from the battery plant.

I don't think we're going to be appreciating the environmental consequences of that accident for years. heavy metals don't decay, they'll be there forever.

a pox on david brouwer and his faux environmentalism, and the politics and economic machinations that ever proposed solar and batteries as an alternate to baseload fission plants. (in fact brouwer did his damage long before solar was ever practical, so he has even less ground to stand on)
by thunky | 2025-10-26 01:23:33+00:00
> You can have both sync and aync communication

Sure, and PR descriptions and comments are a way to do that (async).

But IME it helps to start with a good description of what the changes are rather than just having a pile of code changes dumped on you where you then have to reverse engineer the intent.

It seems draining to me to have to have to start from nothing and interrogate someone for every PR that comes in.

> You can also talk to people without scheduling a meeting

I didn't say anything about scheduling.