MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-22 22:39:16+00:00
I was thinking of:

> The need to limit unsuccessful logon attempts and take subsequent action when the maximum number of attempts is exceeded applies regardless of whether the logon occurs via a local or network connection. Due to the potential for denial of service, automatic lockouts initiated by systems are usually temporary and automatically release after a predetermined, organization-defined time period.

https://csf.tools/reference/nist-sp-800-53/r5/ac/ac-7/
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-22 22:39:17+00:00
I personally feel quite capable at git and am not looking for another flow or tool.

But. I think it's incredibly useful for organizations to have patterns for how they use git. There can be huge variance! And there's so many people who don't feel comfortable doing interactive rebases (of their feature branches), or other serious monkeying with history.

(I also think jj's flows are incredibly good about avoiding accidental loss of work in a way that git can be extremely dangerous at.)

I think there's a ton of value to having more of a pattern than the free-form jamming that git gives us. The real value I see in jj is that it's more than the toolbox of things git gives one: it's something more learnable, teachable, and directed than git. And it seems to do it pretty well, with style, and less monkey business. I'm still super greenhorn at jj, and honestly lacking the need for it, but I'm excited to see it come along. Especially since it is compatible with so many other VCS.
by krackers | 2025-10-22 22:39:55+00:00
Thank you, this makes sense! As [1] puts it pithily

>Image-patch tokens make better use of the high-dimensional embedding space than text tokens do.

That seems to imply it's not necessarily something unique about images, just a byproduct of having better conversion from "raw input -> embeddings" [2]. Although there is a certain elegance of handling both images and text with the same method.

[1] https://twitter.com/c0mbinat0r/status/1980698103234891892 [2] https://twitter.com/Kangwook_Lee/status/1980709454522744902
by karambahh | 2025-10-22 22:41:01+00:00
He has half a dozen court dates set for other stuff related to corruption/money/....

Assuming he's losing the appeal on this particular case, he will have been sentenced for scheming with a convicted murderer (Lockerbie amongst other things).

If convicted, that person will be guilty of criminal actions together with a foreign dictator and his terrorist in chief.

Not exactly stealing gums.

The case is of particular seriousness and he's a convicted person, repeat offender.

Would something as serious be put under the rug in other democracies? I'm not so sure. If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye?

(Why do I say "if convicted"? He appealed, so he is innocent until proven guilty. Why is he in jail? In large parts because his political party lobbied for this type of sentences. Leopards did eat his face)
by brudgers | 2025-10-22 22:41:05+00:00
each "unmovable" pipe/conduit etc that will end up penetrating a slab is already carefully verified before the next step is taken (such as placing concrete)

My experience is as an architect.

The CAD file isn’t the building no matter how much everyone might wish it were.

Even if the plans were the building odds of everybody using the same plan revision all the time is just about zero.

And most of the time, nobody is gonna pay for a super accurate as-built BIM. Because the point of the exercise is a certificate of occupancy.
by austhrow743 | 2025-10-22 22:42:01+00:00
Unless you're advocating slaughtering 90% of humanity, what is the purpose of this line of thinking?

Sure, some of you are just so good and nice that you're going to spend all of your time trying to better your fellow man no matter the incentives. The rest of us are spending our time and energy trying to better ourselves. It's better for everyone if the rules of the game are set up so those actions create positive externalities.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-22 22:42:22+00:00
> Also, please remember that in Europe there is no such thing as "the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law." The intent of the law IS the law.

On the other hand, there is the issue how the intent of laws (which were often passed by highly incompetent politicians, in particular when IT topics are involved) is to be interpreted.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-22 22:42:58+00:00
>In May the Senate committee on small business and entrepreneurship found that six of the 25 largest recipients of federal funding via the Small Business Innovation Research programme had “clear links” to China — but still received nearly $180 million from the Pentagon in 2023 and 2024.

>Jeff Stoff, a security academic and former China and national security analyst for the US government, said that a lot of what China was doing was not illegal. Rather, they were taking advantage of America’s corporate vulnerabilities using regulatory blind spots.

>“The Chinese understand our system and they know how to work within it with virtual impunity — most of the time,” said Stoff.

I get the impression that this whole situation is sort of like how DOGE operated. Theres this "move fast and break things" ethos that Musk brought to DOGE that the establishment was not prepared for and it just overwhelmed them.

As each day passes, Im starting to think China is applying this mentality across their entire operations and the US government is not actually prepared at all.

I'm reminded of this snippet from Dwarkesh Patel talking about how Chinese really see things:

[1]:https://youtu.be/pE3KKUKXcTM?t=2021

I keep thinking there is this unseen "deep state" that has a handle on things and that the US is still competitive but day by day it seems like like there is no one actually behind the hidden door that has a handle on things.

Am I thinking things wrong? Am I just falling for pro-Chinese propaganda and that the US establishment actually knows what they are doing? Because if they don't Americans(and probably most of the west) are probably screwed long term.
by programmertote | 2025-10-22 22:43:17+00:00
Glad to see innovation in bicycle space. That said, when I was living in NYC, I was always afraid that someone on an e-bike would hit me when I'm trying to cross the road (esp. in the evenings or when the weather doesn't permit a lot of visibility). Some of these e-bikers also ride on the pedestrian platforms and it's dangerous (as of 2022, I don't think there was any enforcement to keep them out of the platforms).

It'd be interesting to see if/how e-bike laws would evolve if this trend gets bigger (ebikes are already big in big cities like NYC)
by anechouapechou | 2025-10-22 22:43:23+00:00
There is no central, certified, Stoicism source. I have read a little bit of Seneca’s work, and it wasn’t for me. Just realize that there are many authors, and even considering the generality of the most famous ones, saying that Stoicism preaches repressing emotions is just categorically false. I’m not interested in going in circles here though. Thank you for the discussion!
by steele | 2025-10-22 22:43:47+00:00
GPD buyers are assuming the risks involved with a high consideration item without brick & mortar returns & support, one might as well wait to see what onexfly comes up with for amd 395. I'm a happy user of several GPD releases, but firmware/driver/software distribution via Google Drive, and having to ship individual replacement components from Hong Kong is reason enough to wait.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 22:44:39+00:00
"Never" is quite short-sighted.

Most people would use these tools for personal use, if nothing else. Seeing a celebrity, themselves, their friends, etc., act out any scenario they can think of is quite an appealing proposition. And porn, of course, for better or worse.

In the long-term, this has the potential to significantly change how media is created and consumed. Feature films produced by large studios will undoubtedly continue to exist, and they will also leverage the technology, but it's not difficult to imagine a new branch of personalized media becoming popular. The tools are practically already there; they just need to become more accessible, and slightly better.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-22 22:44:51+00:00
> It's never been easier for someone at home to make short videos - see TikTok and YouTube. In fact most people consume most content on those platforms. Yet there's still high demand for movies and blockbuster movies still happen

This is obviously true, but I don't see how it relates to the question being discussed. "Short videos" and "blockbuster movies" are clearly widely separated categories, despite both being audiovisual content of some kind.
by hiq | 2025-10-22 22:44:55+00:00
I've started using snippets for code reviews, where I find myself making the same comments (for different colleagues) regularly. I have a keyboard shortcut opening a fuzzy search to find the entry in a single text file. That saves a lot of time.

As an aside, I find most of these commands very long. I tend to use very short aliases, ideally 2 characters. I'm assuming the author uses tab most of the time, if the prefixes don't overlap beyond 3 characters it's not that bad, and maybe the history is more readable.
by uberman | 2025-10-22 22:45:19+00:00
No salary range listed (surprise surprise) but I would expect if they wanted you to work virtually all the time except potentially when you passed out due to lack of sleep then it would start at 1.2 million a year. Since one would reasonably factor in overtime and health ramifications, more like starting at 3 million a year. But, hey don't overlook the $1500 bonus if you live within a 15 min walk of the office!
by haskellshill | 2025-10-22 22:46:04+00:00
> `nato bar` returns Bravo Alfa Romeo. I use this most often when talking to customer service and need to read out a long alphanumeric string, which has only happened a couple of times in my whole life. But it’s sometimes useful!

Even more useful is just learning the ICAO Spelling Alphabet (aka NATO Phonetic Alphabet, of which it is neither). It takes like an afternoon and is useful in many situations, even if the receiver does not know it.
by varispeed | 2025-10-22 22:46:15+00:00
Text is linear, whereas image is parallel. I mean when people often read they don't scan text from left to right (or different direction, depending on language), but rather read the text all at once or non-linearly. Like first lock on keywords and then read adjacent words to get meaning, often even skipping some filler sentences unconsciously.

Sequential reading of text is very inefficient.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-22 22:46:24+00:00
Cisco spent years marketing every solution as a router or appliance box.

A lot of VPN installations are simply done wrong, and it only takes 1 badly configured client or cloud side-channel to make it pointless. IPSec is not supported on a lot of LANs, and 5k users would prove rather expensive to administer.

Also, GnuPG Kyber will not be supported by VPN software anytime soon, but it would be super cool if it happens. =3
by indigodaddy | 2025-10-22 22:46:35+00:00
Not really a one liner but this comes in handy for quick dns on multiple hostnames:

https://gist.github.com/jgbrwn/7dd4b262c544f750cb0291161b2ec...

(actually avoids having to do a one liner like: for h in {1..5}; do dig +short A mail”${h}”.domain.com @1.1.1.1 )

Hmm speaking of which I need to add in support for using a specific DNS server
by 7bit | 2025-10-22 22:48:34+00:00
> Most of the "old internet" protocols (email, FTP, even HTTP itself) were bootstrapped on top of built-mostly-for-plaintext Telnet.

That's just not true. Telnet and SMTP are built on top of TCP. They live on the same layer. They were originally both protocols that transmitted data with printable ascii, hence why they look similar. There are many other protocols like Telnet and SMTP that worked like that, auch as nntp, irc, and yes, even http.
by _the_inflator | 2025-10-22 22:49:03+00:00
Maybe it is then time for having something that is beyond "use strict" at the beginning auf a JavaScript document as one option to use the statement.

I think a config object in which you define for script options like sanitization and other script configuration might be helpful.

After all, there almost always need to be backward compatibility be ensured, and this might work. I am no spec guy, it is just an idea. React makes use of "use client/server", so this would be more central and explicit.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-22 22:49:38+00:00
> Another is to give people a way to get clarification ahead of time. This is called advisory opinions and governments generally hate them because as soon as you allow it, the government is going to be absolutely swamped with requests for clarification because everybody wants to pre-clear everything they're going to do rather than take the risk of getting punished for doing something without clearing it. But in order for this to work, getting a clarification has to be cheap, because "pay a million dollars for an advisory opinion to avoid the risk of a million dollar fine" isn't a real solution to the problem of people getting punished when the law is unclear.

A partial solution to this problem is: write laws in a way that need a lot less clarification because there is rarely a need for it because the laws are thought out so well.
by int_19h | 2025-10-22 22:50:30+00:00
It can get funny sometimes. There a game from 1999 that I had troubles running in Wine on Linux all the way back in 2005, and wrote a patch for it:

https://aow.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?actio...

And then the same error message started showing up on Win10. Thankfully the same patch still works...
by blacklion | 2025-10-22 22:50:42+00:00
What next? Replacing Sieve with something cumbersome, but JSON based?

There is no good desktop implementation of MUA with old technologies (IMAP, Sieve), will all this JMAP help?

I don't think so.

What is profit to have good server with new good (assume it is good, I'm not sure, but lets assume) protocols without good client?

IMAP4 is underused by modern clients: it allows to effectively store client configuration on server, nobody implements it on client side. It allows to configure per-folder Sieve scripts, nobody implements it on client side. Nobody implements good Sieve client (with folder name autocomplition and such) even for global script, not to mention per-folder ones. Heck, there is no good Sieve editor! (I know about Sieve client built on Electron, it is not good, it is incomplete and buggy).

Servers are solved problem (sendmail, exim, postfix, dovecot, cyrus). Clients are not, they stagnated at the moment GMail was announced.
by mort96 | 2025-10-22 22:52:08+00:00
I agree. These websites should just not spy on me and therefore not have a pop-up.

But in the absence of that? I appreciate at least being asked for my consent so that I can press the "I do not consent to being tracked" button. It shouldn't exist in the first place, but since these websites are unwilling to just not spy on people, this seems like the next best thing.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-22 22:52:30+00:00
>You’re essentially asking for a mathematical proof

Mathematical proofs are internally consistent. Also, yes, mathematics is used in engineering. For example (as if one was needed), GPS is all about geometry.

>Do you deny the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, His divinity, or how the “church” defines it?

I don't have a problem answering this question, but I would like to know what my personal position has to do with anything.
by roarcher | 2025-10-22 22:52:45+00:00
Man, am I ever getting tired of replying to the same irrelevant points over and over again.

> Most people would use these tools for personal use

Not what we're talking about. Not "personalized media", not large studios "leveraging the technology", not "visual effects".

See: "blockbuster movies produced by a guy in his basement for <$1000".
by hapticmonkey | 2025-10-22 22:53:46+00:00
It's quite obvious that these devices are a prototype for some eventual immersive AR glasses. Sure, they are currently bulky and heavy and have poor battery life and block your face. But these companies hope to eventually iterate all of that away.

This is the groundwork. But I don't know if they have a larger vision (pun intended) other than "oh shit, the smartphone industry has been conquered and now sees diminishing returns, we need something else to generate revenue".
by linkjuice4all | 2025-10-22 22:53:51+00:00
You're going to have a difficult time pulling a lot of energy out of the back wheel as you're slowing down. The more you decelerate the less weight you've got on your back wheel. Eventually you reach the maximum energy transfer from back wheel contact patch into the motor and lock up the back wheel, and even then you may not have considerably slowed the bike.

Regen on the front wheel would be most effective - but then you've got two motors or a less-than-ideal front motor that adds unsprung weight and has similar traction issues during acceleration as the front unloads.

It's a shame - I think a lot of people want ebikes to work, but they're not as convenient as a pedal bike (especially not in small apartments) and usually they're too heavy to really use in blended pedaling/e-assist mode.
by profsummergig | 2025-10-22 22:54:10+00:00
I don't understand the appeal of Sharpies. Even if left unused, they die out in a relatively short time. The ones meant for paper are not meant to be used on whiteboards. And they don't write (flow) particularly well on either (the colored ones are particularly terrible on whiteboards).

Maybe I'm using them wrong. Happy to be corrected, and to hear your recos on better alternatives.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-22 22:54:11+00:00
The key concept is accountability, and if only 7 people have access to a host instance... the damage done by malicious or incompetent actors is kept small.

The biggest weakness in VPN is client-side cross-network leaks.

IPSec is simply a luxury if the LAN supports it, but also an administrative nightmare for >5k users. =3
by ben_w | 2025-10-22 22:54:42+00:00
I think the lack of software that really took advantage of the possibilities and cared about the limitations — that wasn't simply a normal smartphone app with a bad UX because the display was now on your face — is the main reason Cardboard disappeared.

It's like: imagine if you just run the original DOOM in DOSBox on a phone and try to play it with the on-screen keyboard — that will obviously suck. Less obviously, even something as simple as going from a NES controller to an XBox controller can radically change experiences. You have to really consider what the right way is to use a system, and instead of doing that a lot of companies clearly go for existing zeitgeist in design language. (From memory as I heard it well before GenAI, real UX experts react to such UI designs in much the same way that artists react to Stable Diffusion).

Same goes for most VR stuff: There's some good games, but selling it as that means headsets have to be priced as consoles. That excludes the Android XR, and absolutely excludes the Apple Vision Pro.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-10-22 22:55:46+00:00
There is an insane amount of smuggling of cigarettes going on in Australia. Currently about 50% of consumption, and rising.

It's causing USA prohibition like effects. With criminal gangs distributing in charge of distribution, protection rackets are now common place. [0] Literally hundreds of tobacco shops burnt to the ground this year. So many that TV regularly features tobacco shop arsonists caught on CCTV spilling accelerant on their clothes, and setting fire to themselves. The build up of money is letting expanding their criminal enterprises into other areas, so we are seeing a corresponding rise in car crime, importation of guns, and smuggling in other areas, and some inventive stuff like using private ATM's for money laundering.

The government is now trying a law enforcement push get control of it. But of course they were doing that before, so I presume more of the same will fail.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/illegal-tobacco-is-a-...
by hirako2000 | 2025-10-22 22:56:18+00:00
Photos initially captured poorly but were still more affordable than paying a master painter, animation give life to static images, recordings allow listeners to play music without the need to attend, CGI makes for cheaper or infeasible reproductions. For all the cases where technology was adopted, it improved over what we had.

So far, Ai generated videos, and arguably photos seem to only please wishful thinkers, or untalented artists dreaming to make it.

I don't imply the tech will never get to the tipping point, but it so far provides so little value we are either many years to go, or it just won't happen.

Let's be an optimist. It will eventually get there. I doubt for any of parallels you made billions of people hammered daily by overblown posts about the upcoming revolution.

The reasons for critiques have a lot to do with promotion fatigue. Hyperboles eventually exhaust their impact.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-22 22:57:19+00:00
> Chromium is an industry wide open source project like linux for good reason

That "good" reason is thanks to Google's monopoly. Chromium is only technically opensource, it's still very much a Google project that's steered by them, ocassionally trying to sneak in anti-features like Web Environment Integrity, Manifest V3 etc.

> We're at an interesting point in browser development

Yes but that's only because of projects like LadyBird and Servo, but unfortunately they're still at a very early stage. The best we can do for web diversity is to boycott all Chromium-based browsers and support smaller projects like Ladybird and Servo (and use Gecko-based browsers in the interim).