MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 16:48:13+00:00
iCloud nags appear in the Settings app and Notifications menu. When you are signed out, Apple will assault you with notifications (that you must disabled with a script) until you log in: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250786208?sortBy=rank

I've got my fair share of horror-stories with both OSes, I switched between dailying Mojave and Windows 10 for a big portion of my life. Nothing will ever top updating to Catalina, booting up Ableton Live and seeing all my paid plugins go from "working fine" to "completely unsupported" in the span of an update.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-12 16:48:28+00:00
Losing power steering would be no big deal. Anything that caused a sudden loss in forward velocity worries me.

There's construction on the Interstate highway in my area with lanes that have no "breakdown" space ("contraflow" lanes). I would be terrified to lose power in that lane. I would be worried about getting rear-ended and / or causing a pile-up.
by SenHeng | 2025-10-12 16:48:30+00:00
If you’re doing the nakasendo then just skip Kyoto and stick around in Matsumoto. Head north to Azumino/Tateshina or south to Suwa.

https://www.go-nagano.net/en/trip-idea/id16492

Forgot to mention, the uncharacteristically warm and long summer meant there hasn’t been enough food in the forests and bears have been coming into towns to forage. Lots of people have been hurt and killed by bears this year. Up 2.7 times according to the news today. Be careful when hiking anywhere secluded.
by Nathanael_M | 2025-10-12 16:48:42+00:00
I hope we get regular updates. Email deliverability is a frustration outside of the M365/Gmail ecosystems, but it’s not as bad as it’s sometimes made out to be, and I’m optimistic that increased rigour with the implementation of SPF/DMARC/DKIM will lead to better deliverability across the board. I’m curious if they see increases/decreases in spam, missed messages, successful phishing attempts, etc. Lastly, I’d love to know if they have had to change any security policies, and how are they handling identity management across the organization.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-12 16:48:42+00:00
It baffles me how many people on HN cannot operate with a simple deny-all firewall. The windows version and updates I install are the only updates installed. The files I back up are the only files that back up. Nothing can connect to the internet. Not Windows Update, Not google chrome update, Not onedrive, Nor any virus or malware program.

Reliance on the internet is the problem. No windows version including windows 11 REQUIRES the internet to operate. Install your OS from disk. Activate by phone(or don't bother...). Install seasoned updates from catalog. If the program wont specify the ports and servers it uses, DON'T USE IT AND DONT WRITE CODE FOR IT.
by beAbU | 2025-10-12 16:50:02+00:00
You are being downvoted and the replies so far aren't helping you understand why your statement is very wrong.

"Steer by wire" means there is nothing but copper signal wires between your steering wheel and the front wheels. Your steering wheel is essentially a video game controller.

This has nothing to do with the car's mode of propulsion though, and both EVs and ICE cars can have steer by wire controls. So far, it's only the cybertruck that has this paradigm, all other EV's all have normal power steering.

For normal power steering systems there are two types: hydraulic and electric. Both types have a solid steel shaft between your steering wheel and the front wheels. You can remove the engine/motor completely, and you'll still be able to steer the car. The hydraulic or electric motor merely helps you turn the wheel, nothing more. Hydraulic is being phased out for electric in both EVs and ICE vehicles.
by Llamamoe | 2025-10-12 16:50:07+00:00
They did but if you go through the actual studies, the incidence of myocarditis was low, and almost all cases were non-serious, with no measured long-term impacts.

Further, the studies on long COVID incidence in vaccinated vs unvaccinated people suggested that the rates in vaccinated individuals were lower, though iirc it was only by something like a third or half. (among people who were symptomatic, at least, the total protective effect was likely greater)
by spwa4 | 2025-10-12 16:50:31+00:00
You entirely avoided the question, and then try to deceive ... which I guess is an answer in itself.

When searching for socialist dictatorships, the relevant bit of information is that the application of Marxist theory in practice—especially in the 20th and 21st centuries—has always resulted in authoritarian rule, human rights abuses, and repression and economic hardship for hundreds of millions. And yes, Venezuela and Iran are examples of that. Every. Single. Time. Communism, Marxism, ... never resulted in the magical la-la-land that keeps getting promised. Not once. With irrelevant exceptions, like ironically Israel, whose parliament peacefully chose to abandon communism rather than repress the population into total misery.

The question was why Wikipedia needs to hide the examples of total socialist failures and instead pushes TINY details of Marxist theory. "Socialist dictatorship" obviously also refers to the many countries where socialism has resulted in repression, hardship and failure rather than justice, and hiding that is obviously not neutral.

Similar to the Gaza genocide page. One viewpoint, anything but neutral, is pushed to the total exclusion of the obvious alternate viewpoints. Even the extreme viewpoint on the other side has merit: that what Hamas is doing is at the very least attempted genocide (that is nothing new for Hamas: they have in the past successfully committed genocide against other Palestinian factions, the very definition of genocide, more than once. Plus, of course, that a terrorist organization that has mass-murder as an explicit goal in their charter is obviously not very concerned with human rights), and what Israel is successfully doing is not genocide. But that shall not be discussed (read the talk page).

Is that neutrality?

It's also extremely obvious that Wikipedia's bias is first and foremost about extreme leftist propaganda (extreme meaning viewpoints that even regular leftists would take offense to), not about Gaza. Take the icons of communism, you see the same. Leon Trotsky is obviously first and foremost a mass-murderer. That's what we call a military commander who had hundreds of people's bones broken and then thrown into the sea, who locks a school with children inside and burns it to the ground, no matter how "bourgeois" those children were (not that the children were very bourgeois at all). And yes, the other side also did bad things. But it is entirely left out. Why? This is not some tiny detail. All that is discussed are very fine details of different branches of communism. Or take the actions of prominent leftist states against immigration, violent anti-religionism or anti-LGBT socialist violence is silenced (illustrating that there have been huge swings in socialist thought). Or the fact that socialism was, and is, very much opposed to science (and I don't just mean Lysenkoism or North Korea's pine needle tea against famine). Yet all these were, and are, part of all big communist states. Soviets did that. China did (and does) that. North Korea does that. Even Cuba gives it a try now and then.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-12 16:51:00+00:00
Most fires aren't arson, but instead downed power lines.

But even that isn't a good measure of people setting fires because humans put out so many fires of all different causes it's nearly impossible to figure out what the pre and post human era damage would be.

For example if we put out 10 dry lightning caused fires when they are a few acres in size was that more or less than would have happened prehistorically. Nearly impossible to tell.

What we can tell is the number of fires of all causes, natural or human is rapidly accelerating in the past few decades and the fires are burning faster, hotter, and longer than in previous record keeping.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 16:51:07+00:00
It is very serious. I love the way Catalina and Mojave looks; dark mode or light mode, it just screams "professional" at the top of it's lungs.

Big Sur is, somehow, the exact opposite. Corners are rounded off as if they could hurt someone, and margins are padded more than a cell in solitary confinement. Space is wasted everywhere. It's Fischer-Price design philosophy and I'm hardly the only one to point it out.

In a side-by-side, so much screen real estate gets wasted that it's genuinely disgusting: https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/assets/img/macos-new-ui/fin...
by DaveZale | 2025-10-12 16:51:17+00:00
Okay, but be careful what you wish for. Here in Colorado, USA, I have noticed a sharp decline in the quality of weather forecasting after 2000 staff were cut from NOAA. Also, weather balloon launches are said to be less frequent. Good weather data is not important to most citizens, but in this area, quality forecasts can help to avoid personal harm when outdoors, and even property damage due to hailstorms. Farmers also need to have an idea of when they can safely work their fields.
by giobox | 2025-10-12 16:51:32+00:00
Not so much Windows Mobile, which never achieved serious market share. It was originally more planned to be a Blackberry competitor, and the early Android handset prototype concepts were all blackberry knockoffs with similar physical keyboard layouts.

It has always appeared though like you suggest, that the project quickly pivoted to candy bar touch phones following the release of the original iPhone. It's worthwhile to remember that the industry wasn't nearly as convinced that touching glass was the future of mobile typing in 2007 as it later became, and the sales volume of Blackberrys back then was often incorrectly cited as evidence to support the case against touch.

> https://www.bgr.com/tech/iphone-vs-android-original-google-b...
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-12 16:51:36+00:00
The big challenge/mistake of "science" over the years has been trying to prove slow-moving, gradual influences by pointing to extreme - often outlier - events. If you say it was a super hot summer because of climate change you inevitably open yourself to the rebuttal "but the winter before had the coldest January in 50 years!"-type of response. Combined with decades of perpetual doom & gloom and a proposed solution that depends on major immediate sacrifice and trust in politicians that the pay-off will come to your grandkids - is there any surprise we've not made any progress? Fighting climate change has a major positioning and marketing problem.
by nomilk | 2025-10-12 16:51:45+00:00
This work is 10x more effort than it sounds too due to how severely mistakes are penalised (i.e. unrecoverable files), necessitating extreme caution.

When uploading 10k photos from macOS to Google Cloud using the Google Cloud macOS app, it said syncing had completed about 2 hours earlier than my back-of-the-envelope calculations predicted. "Great", I thought, but was still a bit suspicious, so just in case, before deleting the local copy, I closed the Google Drive app and reopened it, and it immediately started syncing - there were 2k photos/videos to go (!!). That's how insanely easily it could be to lose precious memories due to a tiniest bug in cloud software.

Surgical precision and extreme thoroughness are the only ways to approach these seemingly simple operations of moving files from one computer to another.
by akarnam37 | 2025-10-12 16:51:56+00:00
Thanks!

Yeah — I started with localStorage mostly because FocusBox’s data model is super lightweight (a few task objects + session state). It kept the initial version simple and easy to reason about.

That said, I’ve definitely thought about moving to IndexedDB (or a wrapper like Dexie) if/when I add features like session history or richer analytics.

sync — I’ve been exploring ideas around optional, user-controlled sync (Dropbox or even GitHub Gist). I love your approach of using 3rd-party storage rather than a backend — keeps things local-first but still portable.

how did you handle conflict resolution with Dropbox? That’s one piece I’ve been thinking through for sync.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-12 16:52:02+00:00
For my taste there was already enough separation of UI and logic in a widget-based UI with callbacks or signals/slots. I was using Qt for desktop app development, so didn't see any benefit to Qt Quick and QML which seemed more intended for mobile, and a step away from native desktop feel. Qt Designer also helped separate UI from logic, but although it was great I found it didn't quite hit the mark. I would use it for prototyping, but then reimplement for real.

In general I got into Qt wanting a nice GUI toolkit for C++ on Linux. The cross-platform support was a bonus, but not something that I ever actually used. MOC was already an unwanted step away from pure C++ development, and QML would have been another one. At the same time Qt Quick and QML support seemed to suck all the wind out of further Qt development for desktop use.
by hylaride | 2025-10-12 16:52:06+00:00
> past Federal governments have said "hey look this is stupid let's just merge the regulators so we can do one good job instead of 10 bad jobs" but politics got in the way.

It gets messy. Ontario is the de-facto "legitimate" Canadian securities regulator because it's where our overwhelmingly largest stock exchange is (the TSX). Ontario obviously wants to protect that. When he was Minister of Finance for Ontario, Jim Flaherty defended the status quo tooth and nail. As soon as he became minister of finance federally, he immediately changed his tune.

Part of the problem is that the constitutional quirks in Canada have frustratingly annoying jurisdictional separations. For example, criminal law is a federal responsibility. The provinces cannot sentence somebody to prison for more than 2 years (which is why you often see people sentenced to "two years less a day"), so securities violations that aren't outright traditional fraud are essentially a slap on the wrist. There are other quirks, for example criminal law is defined federally, but policing is mostly provincial. There's also the fact bail is set at the provincial level and the federal government gets enormous grief about people getting bail too easily, when it's the provinces not properly funding the jails, forcing judges to essentially let all but the worst offenders out to reoffend (the problem is somewhat overblown in the media, but it is a problem).

The issue is made worse by the fact that the last time somebody tried to amend the constitution, it blew up in the government of the day's face (that was already unpopular for other reasons) and politicians have been fearful of touching it since, because they know it'll balloon into all sorts of regional demands - the constitution was barely able to be patriated in the early 1980s - and even then with some very questionable clauses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...
by VladVladikoff | 2025-10-12 16:52:21+00:00
Shoemakers kids have holes in their shoes. In my heyday of freelance work my website was always the last priority. The freelance work I was doing kept me so busy I had no time to spit shine my own site.

This is a Wordpress site, pagespeed is 96 https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-storwell-com/wn...
by ruszki | 2025-10-12 16:52:24+00:00
From my point of view, it seemed from you article that you didn't even really understand functional languages in two decades (at least Haskell), which it seemed you to try to state also. So that doesn't matter too much.

Anyway, I just wanted to say, that it's totally pointless to state something like "I know it well"... Say what's your problem with it, "I don't like it" doesn't add anything to the conversation. I'm quite sure whatever you would say as problems, most people would agree, maybe there would be even tips under it how to prevent it. That will never happen with the kind of comments which you made above.
by jaykru | 2025-10-12 16:52:30+00:00
I've faced many fewer hiccups on CachyOS/Arch in the past few months than on Windows. In the first month of owning this hardware, I had an unexplained BSOD that actually bricked my whole Win11 install. And this is pretty recent/funky 2-in-1 hardware, not an old ThinkPad I've cherry-picked for good Linux support. This is an important moment for free software; the big platforms are finally cinching down on users hard enough that we have a shot at convincing regular people to join us. Please don't blow it with vague complaints.
by delichon | 2025-10-12 16:52:58+00:00
Perhaps not surprising, working breeds – many of which are known to have been artificially selected for high toy or predatory motivation – were overrepresented in the sample.

This is the vibe I get from my golden retriever. Chasing the tennis ball is more than play, it's a justification for life, her contribution to the pack. Actually eating food has a higher priority than chasing the ball, but not much else does. When I got her I thought that the "retriever" part was optional but it turns out to be obligate. As in I'm obligated to throw the damn ball.
by waynesonfire | 2025-10-12 16:53:07+00:00
I havn't had to deal with this problem until recently and seems like an obvious scalablity issue so I'm sure I'm not the only one to have hit this.

How do I handle, say 100K concurrent transactions in an OLTP database? Here are my learnings that make this difficult,

- a transaction has a one-to-one mapping with a connection

- a connection can only process one transaction at at time, so pooling isn't going to help.

- database connections are "expensive"

- a client can open at maximum, 65k connections as otherwise it would run out of ports.

A 100k connections isn't that crazy; say you have 100k concurrent users and each one needs a transaction to manage it's independent state. Transactions are useful as they enforce consistency.
by evanelias | 2025-10-12 16:53:35+00:00
The bigger tell is that half the article is unnecessary space-filling hyperbole...

The overwhelming majority of the speed-up here would come from the database, which is trivially easy to run on tmpfs. When using Docker, it's literally a one-liner! For example:

docker run -d --tmpfs /var/lib/mysql -p 127.0.0.1::3306/tcp -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=[password] mariadb:11.8

Of course you need a really good backup story for this to be a reasonable choice.
by aboringusername | 2025-10-12 16:53:39+00:00
I've often wondered if there is a way you can be malicious with this, a way of 'beating' them at their own game.

1: Make random files full of absolute garbage data

2: Upload 5GB of garbage data, delete (free limit capacity)

3: Repeat 1 and 2, forever, 24/7.

At 10mbps it would take 68.3 minutes, at 50mbps it would take 13.7 minutes to upload 5gb.

At 10mbps you could upload 5gb 7665 times, at 50mbps 38,325 times a year.

that works out to 38,325gb/10mbps and 191,625 GB at 50mbps per year

So yeah, if Microsoft wants to allow a user to upload 10's of thousands of completely worthless useless bytes of data and delete and reupload why not?

Anyone care to think how many hard drives you could destroy with the constant writing? And you could also automate downloads too, so they have to deal with reads.

Let's see how long they want your 'data' for then ey?

Consider it a digital form of 'fly tipping' and it's completely free, legal and they have begged you to do it!
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-12 16:53:41+00:00
> looking for ways that are 100% backward-compatible to inccur no change in its commercial userbase?

Non-commercial users also care about backwards compatibility.

Also FWIW Qt does break backwards compatibility in major versions, though the breakage isn't huge. And regardless of commercial or non-commercial, it is in general a good idea to avoid breaking people's working code.
by dbreunig | 2025-10-12 16:53:57+00:00
There was a good study on this a few years ago that ran the numbers on this and landed on white paint for residential homes as the best option, for a few reasons, if I remember correctly:

- Installation, maintenance and transmission costs are lower when solar is aggregated on farms - Solar offsets air conditioning, but that moves the heat outside. White roofs reduce the need for AC, which helps significantly with urban heat scenarios

A quick search yields a UCL study, which supports the lower claim: https://phys.org/news/2024-07-roofs-white-city.html
by Marsymars | 2025-10-12 16:54:30+00:00
> So can someone who owns a modern car please help me understand why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off?

In practice, getting t-boned at an intersection where I have the right of way is a much greater risk to me than my car getting shut off, so it makes sense to optimize for safety in the former case.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-12 16:54:48+00:00
Eh, lots of us use Little Snitch or the equivalent. But I confess that seems like victim blaming to me. Users shouldn’t be expected to watch their freaking OS vendor like a hawk. That’s the one vendor you kind of have to trust: if they’re lying to you about what they’re doing, all bets are off.

This to me sounds like “I check my tire pressure every 8 miles because I don’t want them to explode catastrophically like they do for other people. Everyone should be doing this!” No. No, everyone should not have to do this.
by andrexdev | 2025-10-12 16:54:57+00:00
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by croemer | 2025-10-12 16:55:00+00:00
> I'm shocked to see an informal survey based study (which will just confirm the owners pre-existing biases and opinions) being published in Nature of all things.

It's not "Nature", it's "Scientific Reports" with impact factor of only 3.8 vs 48 of "Nature".

Sure the publisher is "Springer Nature", and the domain is "nature.com" but that doesn't make the journal "Nature".
by joleyj | 2025-10-12 16:55:32+00:00
>> This is not true for most so-called Engineers in the US. >> Anyone can declare themselves an engineer with no exam, >> no sponsor, no assermentation and no real legal ties >> to their shoddy work.

I don't think that's correct. While there are exemptions, each state requires anyone offering engineering services to the public to be licensed.

https://educatingengineers.com/blog/pe-license-requirements-...
by unkulunkulu | 2025-10-12 16:55:37+00:00
can you provide more context for this claim? my intuition and experience tells me the opposite.

what is the definition here? are impulsive avoidance copings like playing a video game instead of doing the hard work of addressing the worries/planned hard activities not a “video game addiction”?

and if we are talking physical withdrawal, then how should we call the same aspect of nicotine/alcohol addiction mechanics?