MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlt713705 | 2025-10-19 20:39:27+00:00
Unfortunately there is a very affordable alternative solution:

1. Massive population reduction (war is a very efficient way to achieve this)

2. Birth control, to slow down population growth to a stable rate near 0

3. Eugenics, to ensure only people with needed capabilities are born (brave new world)

In this scenario, 500,000 people (less ?) in charge of millions of robots and a minority of semi-enslaved humans would freely enjoy control over the world. The perfect mix between Asimov and Huxley.

All the agitation about "building a 1984-style world" is, at best, just a step toward this Asimov/Huxley model, and most likely, a deliberate decoy.
by Nition | 2025-10-19 20:39:50+00:00
Yes, but the additional joke is that a room full of keyboard-mashing monkeys haven't only produced random nonsense, but have almost produced something well-crafted - much like with Cow Tools.

There's an additional layer to the Simpsons joke, with Burns dismissing what's really an incredible result (almost the opening line from A Tale of Two Cities) as useless just because of one small error. The Cow Tools equivalent might a farmer holding the saw, saying "This isn't even sharp."

Given that the monkey is sitting there smoking a cigarette, clearly stressed out, chained to the typewriter, I wonder if there's also a third or fourth layer to the Simpsons joke where the monkey represents the scriptwriter and Burns represents Fox. The equivalent for Cow Tools would be, er, Cow Comics, and it's just XKCD art quality comics on the Cow's table, and the farmer complains that the drawings aren't very good.
by alphazard | 2025-10-19 20:40:21+00:00
> In binary you need to make 53 pieces, in ternary 50, in octal 69 pieces, in decimal 81 and in hexadecimal 101.

These numbers don't quite make sense to me. Hexadecimal should have 16 symbols, and then `log16(whatever) = message length`. I get what you're trying to say though.

That trend continues up until the symbols start looking the same and no one can read them, and now the most important problem is not a position on a tradeoff curve. It's that the system is no longer reliable.

If you wanted each letter to have the highest probability of successfully being read, you would use a grid, and shade or leave blank each grid square.
by simoncion | 2025-10-19 20:41:52+00:00
I can second technion's observations about Microsoft's "24/7" support SLA.

Anyway, as the FAQ answer that I quoted mentions, there are plenty of qualified Proxmox resellers who offer support for folks who are dissatisfied with what is offered by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. One reseller explicitly advertises 24x7 support [0]. I expect others would offer 24x7 support if you asked, but don't see the need to advertise it up-front.

[0] <https://www.proxmox.com/en/partners/find-partner/all/partner...>
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-19 20:42:35+00:00
Ruined? Musk and team made it significantly better by halting the massive censorship scheme practiced by the previous Twitter regime for years. And that scheme included - like with Meta - censorship at the direction of the Biden administration. Not to mention, old Twitter effectively made an illegal campaign contribution and interfered in the election by banning the President under a flimsy pretense.

Now people can actually discuss things on Twitter freely and in an intellectually honest way. Free speech is a threat to the author and presumably Jacobin’s readers, and the article therefore tries to construct a convoluted argument by highlighting other things like optimizing revenue or “enshittification”. These may indeed be real issues but they’re certainly not unique to Twitter.
by credit_guy | 2025-10-19 20:42:43+00:00
I disagree. We should encourage this. It's the best form of export: you sell a good, but the good stays in place. It also collects taxes, taxes that are used for the benefit of the local population, without those who pays those taxes consuming a lot of local government services. On the rare occasions that these billionaires visit their luxury residence, they inject plenty of cash in the local economy. Why would you want to eliminate this?
by cogman10 | 2025-10-19 20:42:50+00:00
Ultimately, not much. The polyurethane insulation of 1995 is pretty comparable with the polyurethane insulation of 2025.

There are better insulations out there, but they cost money and are harder to work with. For example, we could theoretically vacuum seal a fridge, but that'd require an airtight seal and likely a stainless steel structure around the fridge.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-10-19 20:43:19+00:00
Oh yea. A good detective novel gives the reader all the necessary information to know the answer. Many lousier novels just keep some essential information hidden until the monologue, because they haven’t got a tricky enough mystery, and really shitty ones just accidentally reveal it, often by over-using tropes or having silly patterns like “it’s always the dark and brooding guy”. Ever read any Dan Brown? In Angels and Demons he gives it away on the first page with an anagram.
by bronco21016 | 2025-10-19 20:43:20+00:00
There are some other pictures circulating showing the exterior of the aircraft. It definitely appears something hit the aircraft. There is a skid mark on the frame around the window.[1]

Will be interesting to read if an investigative report is made public.

[1]https://viewfromthewing.com/new-cockpit-photos-may-show-what...
by lukan | 2025-10-19 20:43:40+00:00
"We didn’t say you “justified” it."

"Bruh you're justifying statutory rape"

??

Also ..

"You are really going to regret having this comment history one day I guarantee it."

.. was that a threat? In case people like you take the power?

Anyway, I do recommend to reread what I wrote in a non engaged state of mind one day.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-19 20:44:28+00:00
Do I really want my relatively expensive general-purpose CPU to be burdened with the task of managing flash using software, when a relatively inexpensive ASIC does that job very quickly and efficiently?

There's a lot of non-trivial stuff that goes on inside of a modern SSD. And to be sure, none of it is magic; all of it could certainly be implemented in software.

But is that kind of drastic move strictly necessary in order to get meaningful statistics?
Ask HN: Why not have 24/7 live YouTube channels for rare phenomena?
by amichail | 2025-10-19 20:45:11+00:00
Imagine a YouTube channel that streams rare, amazing phenomena live, 24/7, sourced from contributors around the world—but only when the event is happening.

You could have:

Specialty channels focused on one phenomenon, like lightning storms, auroras, or meteor showers. Variety channels that rotate among different rare events, from wildlife migrations to unusual cloud formations.

How it could work:

* Contributors provide live video only when something rare occurs.

* AI automatically selects safe, relevant feeds to show and keeps each channel on-topic.

* Viewers would vote on the contributed feeds that are highlighted by the AI possibly influencing its behavior in the future.

* Contributors would earn revenue when their feeds are featured.

It would be a global, interactive window to rare and fascinating events, combining science, education, and community engagement—all in real time.
by avs733 | 2025-10-19 20:45:55+00:00
1) if this was big enough to get picked up on a 737 radar I think we would be having a very different conversation...

2) even if it did... rentry velocity is like miles per second, that would give you on the order of single digit seconds to recognize something on an intersecting trajectory and take action...

3) even then, I would bet that an object on this trajectory and speed would get filtered out as noise by aircraft radar because it is so antithetical to the types of things an airliner needs to inform pilots of.
by materielle | 2025-10-19 20:46:15+00:00
I actually think this is a pretty good argument against AI dooming that I don’t here that often.

Sam Altman doesn’t own AI. His investors actually own most of the actual assets.

Eventually there is going to be pressure for open ai to deliver returns to investors. Given that the majority of the US economy is consumer spending, the incentive is going to be for open ai to increase consumer spending in some way.

That’s essentially what happened to Google during the 2000s. I know everyone is negative about social media right now. But one could envision an alternative reality where Google explicitly controls and sensors all information, took over roadways with their driving cars, completely merged with the government, etc. Basically a doomsday scenario.

What actually happened is Google was incentivized by capital to narrow the scope of their vision. Today, the company mainly sells ads to increase consumer spending.
by simoncion | 2025-10-19 20:47:18+00:00
That looks to be the headline for the public release commit. If you'd bothered to look around for a full sixty seconds, you'd have found that the commits tagged with bash-5.3 and bash-5.2 follow that format.

Here are the headlines for a couple of fix commits:

Bash-5.2 patch 12: fixes for compat mode leaving extglob enabled after command substitution Bash-5.2 patch 1: fix crash with unset arrays in arithmetic contexts

It looks like discussion of the patches happens on the mailing list, which is easy to access from the page that brought you to the repo browser.
by tbrockman | 2025-10-19 20:47:32+00:00
If you have sufficient knowledge in the subject matter you're questioning ChatGPT about, you can fairly reliably discern complete bullshit from something plausibly true that warrants additional investigation (which I'd say is more useful than your typical horoscope). In isolation it seems worth the gamble to me, so long as you don't view it as much more than consulting the tea leaves.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-19 20:47:59+00:00
And they did not in fact had dollars to back them up. They did not had them for a few years continuously. The lesson is, you never bet even on a surefire stake if there is market corruption involved. Or if mafia money involved. In case of Tether it was both.

It was a good lesson for me personally, to always check wider picture and consider unknown factors.
by vunderba | 2025-10-19 20:48:12+00:00
Whenever I see stuff like this, the ITX Llama [1], Pixel x86, etc. I think it's finally the time to build my ultimate love-letter to old school DOS and retro computing but always stop short because of the monitor issue.

I feel like a lot of my nostalgia likely stems from the bright super low latency phosphor displays of a proper CRT. No amount of WebGL shaders/filters [2] ever quite seem to capture the original experience IMHO.

[1] https://smallformfactor.net/news/retro-sff-itx-llama-is-a-br...

[2] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
by dijit | 2025-10-19 20:49:20+00:00
Some things are better than they've ever been, so there's some amount of rose-tinted glasses.

The thing is, I've been aware of the power of MacOS and especially Windows to alter my computing environment against my wishes under the threat of not being patched for a while, and it's something nobody else seems to care about even when I pointed it out.

As much as things are better on all operating systems (drivers aren't really a problem anymore, for example, and chargers are practically universal, and battery-life is glorious!)- there are things that are really shitty, and we ignore the solved problems. I'm now also feeling a huge amount of catharsis.

Linux, however, has genuinely never been better.
by Retric | 2025-10-19 20:49:29+00:00
Civil penalties can be imposed when make a single copy without a fair use exception, this is why pre BitTorrent people got into trouble for downloading music for themselves. The government doesn’t care unless you get sued but they will enforce the lawsuit if you lose.

Criminal investigation and penalties occur with wide scale commercial distribution of copyrighted works.

They copped the actual message in its entirety not just a cryptographic formula. Further, his hand written notes may have creative expression even if the process itself isn’t protected by copyright. Similar to how software code is protected.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-10-19 20:50:42+00:00
TLS uses message authentication codes which should detect tampering or bit errors. In theory, a cosmic ray could hit the RAM of the device on the receiving end and bit flip after the ISO has been decrypted but still in RAM. Checksumming does not rule bit flips out though as you could checksum the ISO and the bitflip happens between then and when the ISO is actually used to install the system.

Maybe in theory you could checksum the post installed filesystem, but Im not sure if any distros actually do that or not and it would require deterministic install layouts.
by newtonsmethod | 2025-10-19 20:50:52+00:00
I don't think the hatch act is supposed to prevent the use of the White House account for political purposes. It seems like basically every administration with an X account has done this, e.g.: https://x.com/WhiteHouse46/status/1662171756830892032 .

Although there are probably more contentious case with other government agencies.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-19 20:51:12+00:00
> Sure they do. When I go to boards.4chan.org, the server recognises my request, including where it's coming from, and returns some content. Similarly, when I buy lemonade from a company, they see my shipping address and ships the lemonade. Seems to me like it maps pretty well.

How do you suspect a given IP address maps to a geographical location?

Does ofcom supply a list of IP addresses based in the UK? What if it's a US resident using a VPN or other anonymizing tool such as Tor?
by Teever | 2025-10-19 20:51:39+00:00
I personally have noticed that 'celebrity' users like WalterBright often great technical contributions to the community but that their contributions in social/political discussions are often patronizing in a way that I don't feel would be considered acceptable if a less 'important' user was to make them.

I can spot a few shallow comments that he's made in the last few days alone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610226#45612377

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580981#45596209

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590900#45595784

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595919
by addaon | 2025-10-19 20:52:00+00:00
> The most important ingredient by far is competent people.

Having competent people is a huge time (cost) savings. But if you don't have a process that avoids shipping software even when people make mistakes (or are just bad engineers), you don't have a process that maintains quality. A bad enough team with good processes will cause a project to fail by infinite delays, but that's a minor failure mode compared to shipping bad software. People are human, mostly, and if your quality process depends on competence (or worse, on perfection), you'll eventually slip.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-19 20:52:21+00:00
Yes, DEI is racist so i'm glad it's being called out. DEI anyway benefits primarily upper class people of colour rather then helping out a community. What help is it to most black people that Obama is black, for example? What kind of people send their kids to universities anyway? It's not disadvantaged working class, so positive discrimination in universities won't help them.
by mmooss | 2025-10-19 20:52:33+00:00
An unavoidable implication seems to be that Jewish and Muslim and other non-Christian people are a problem. What results has that approach yielded in the past? Were those results fit for the Christian or any other faith? What fruit does that tree bear?

You could pursue your faith, and let others pursue theirs. That approach - liberty, fraternity, equality - has yielded wonderful results around the world. Maybe you would set an example for others that would inspire them to admire and consider your faith rather than suspect it as a threat, or for those who have suffered at its hands, hate it as an enemy.
by mulmen | 2025-10-19 20:52:48+00:00
> And they all in congress should be fired for job abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not allowed to run.

I find these takes very tiresome. What kind of insight can you draw from this all or nothing thinking? It’s reductive and uninteresting.

Not all elected representatives are refusing to work. Collective punishment creates an opportunity for bad actors to force an election and remove their colleagues from office.

> After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down". It's a scam.

Well yeah, of course they are. You still owe taxes. When the government reopens the taxes you pay will still be allocated.

> Something about "taxation without representation". I think we went to war over that before.

This is not what was meant by taxation without representation. We do have elected representation, even in a government shutdown. Congress refusing to work is not a consequence of the government shutdown, it is a political choice made by elected representatives.
by fragmede | 2025-10-19 20:53:12+00:00
The whole supply chain, in fact. The project's site isn't necessarily the real one. the GitHub repo it links to isn't necessarily the real one, the binaries it offers to download aren't necessarily the real one, GitHub isn't even necessarily the real one! There's currently a phishing copy of GitHub up at hxxps://git.hubp.de/ that somebody is going to fall for before it's taken down. If you want to be help get it blocked, load that site up and flag it as unsafe in Chrome! (It's hilarious that the site has a Cloudflare challenge to get in, btw.)

It's a big bad dark scary Internet out there. Be careful.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-19 20:53:59+00:00
Token do have use case, obviously. Like, we can see countless usecases with our own eyes. Tokens don't have any legal and at the same time competitive use case, that was the argument. All of those castle in sky constructs about how there would be property deeds on blockchain (technically and legally impossible), how there there would be game assets on blockchain (also technically impossible plus no game studio would ever be interested), how ticket scalpers would solved on blockchain (technically possible, but no ticket vendor is interested because they are the ones who benefit from scalpers) etc. And the list goes on. All of those legal use cases were a dud, because it is simply a shitty technology.

But to reiterate, there is great and massive actual use case for the tokens, yes. No one would argue against it :) . We just think that it is bad.
by notjoemama | 2025-10-19 20:54:04+00:00
> I see female sexrobots as a symptom, a manifestation of the male gaze.

Men's insecurity, of course it is. That old chestnut. I'm exhausted by having to capitulate to female centric sensibilities around physical intimacy. This has been going on for decades. Your comment is endemic of the dismissive and othering nature around men's needs and experiences. Men and women are different. Unrealistic expectations from and for both is the foundational problem here.

The only good way forward is understanding, forgiveness, gratitude, and some romanticism and adoration, from and for both sexes. A nice big sun spot that wipes out social media would help too.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-19 20:54:27+00:00
In general, this is by design in The States.

The system is setup to prevent political opportunism and provide predictability and rigidity of the system at the expense of being slower to respond to constituents.

The incentive is still there, it’s just a few years off in the next election.

(That being said… sighing loudly as he gestures around him at all the political opportunism…)
by marnett | 2025-10-19 20:54:49+00:00
I was not super precise in my remark, so I think it suffered from being misconstrued as written. My remark was strictly in the context of the Parent posts remark on Luddites prevailing or not.

In the context of Luddite societies or communities of faith, the Amish have been able to continue to persist for roughly three centuries with Luddite-like way of life as their foundation. In fact, they are not strictly Luddite in the technical sense, but intentional about what technologies are adopted with a community-focused mindset driving all decisions. This is what I meant be "fine" - as in, culture is not always a winner-take-all market. The amish have persisted, and I don't doubt they will continue to persist - and I envision a great eye will be turned to their ways as they continue protected from some of the anti-human technologies we are wrestling with in greater society.

All of this is to say, we have concrete anthropological examples we can study. I do not doubt that in the coming years and decades we will see a surge of neo-Luddite religious movements (and their techno-accelerationist counterparts) that, perhaps three centuries from now, will be looked back upon in the same context as we do the Amish today.

As an aside, if we place pro-technological development philosophy under the religious umbrella of Capitalism, I think your same critiques apply for many of the prior centuries as well. Specifically with regards to the primary benefactors being cis white men. Additionally, I do not think the racial angle is a fair critique of the Amish, which is a religious ethno-racial group in a similar vein of the Jewish community.
by kristianp | 2025-10-19 20:54:53+00:00
Abstract: Bubbles are usually viewed as a threat to financial stability. This paper takes a more nuanced view. The world economy is going through an episode of Secular Stagnation, where the equilibrium rate of return on capital r is below the growth rate of the economy g. As is well known, rational bubbles are sustainable when r≤g in a steady state equilibrium. Bubbles can then implement a dynamically efficient equilibrium. We show that from a structural point of view, bubbles, Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pensions and sovereign debt are perfect substitutes. However, when dealing with unexpected short run fluctuations in investment, sovereign debt is far more efficient than bubbles in shifting consumption over time and in risk sharing between generations. An increase in sovereign debt is therefore an efficient response to Secular Stagnation. Instead, the current Stability and Growth Pact for the Euro-zone embarks on an opposite course.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 20:55:16+00:00
Art imitates life, except when it doesn’t accurately depict the lived reality and efforts of those who did the work and won the war, in which case it’s arguably closer to myth making. The original author of the James Bond series of books, for example, engaged in this kind of propaganda, arguably with good intentions and positive impact.

It’s relevant whether or not they were depicted in a movie because that is the context of this thread, because that is the topic of the fine article itself.
by walterbell | 2025-10-19 20:55:22+00:00
"VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong", 190 comments (2025), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167239

"Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs", 100 comments (2024), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841363