MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by firefax | 2025-10-09 14:58:56+00:00
>For security reasons, we can't delete an account for you. You’ll need to be able to log into your account to request deletion. If you can't remember your password or username, see some tips for logging in.

First option doesn't seem to work given I cannot log in (SSO issue in post -- I don't have a "password" to Instagram, only to make use of FB SSO).

>File DMCA takedown notices with them for your photos, you own the copyright. You can leverage US copyright to its full extent in this use case. Instagram is under no obligation to enable your participation on the platform, but you remain the owner of the content associated with the account.

Thanks, this is the kind of legal hack I was looking for.

I filled out a DMCA form linking to every photo on the account and stated that since they won't let me log into said account, I am revoking consent for use of all images.

I will post back here when I hear back.

At the "meta" level (no pun intended), I worry for Facebook's stock price if returning users are arbitrarily denied the ability to manage their public facing digital identity.

We grow and change over time -- edit our biographies, our avatars, which art is most prominent. To claim someone is so "inauthentic" they must be banned from the platform but to continue hosting their content seems absurd. I've mostly heard of such policies being directed at things like election disinformation or COVID skepticism, not... nightshots of the Tokyo skyline. And if I was "inauthentic", should my content be wiped so my disinformation can't be spread further?

It hurts my feelings, on a personal level, having joined as a college freshman to return to feelings of arbitrary punishment I thought we leave behind in K12, especially given that I've been nothing but kind on the platform in the past.
by HAL3000 | 2025-10-09 14:59:40+00:00
All of the examples in videos are cherry picked. Go ask anyone working on humanoid robots today, almost everything you see here, if repeated 10 times, will enter failure mode because the happy path is so narrow. There should really be benchmarks where you invite robots from different companies, ask them beforehand about their capabilities, and then create an environment that is within those capabilities but was not used in the training data, and you will see the real failure rate. These things are not ready for anything besides tech demos currently. Most of the training is done in simulations that approximate physics, and the rest is done manually by humans using joysticks (almost everything they do with hands). Failure rates are staggering.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-09 14:59:46+00:00
How old are you ? Kids will grow up with these techs like we grew up with TV and early consoles, they'll love it and see it as a baseline.

I don't understand tiktok at all, but when I go for my daily walks I see groups of kids (10-15) standing on benches in groups of 3-5, each of them doomscrolling on their phone, kids walking while scrolling (and the permanent deformed neck that come with it), it's the norm not the exception.
by bawolff | 2025-10-09 14:59:48+00:00
> You left out the fact that you can’t post to /r/conservative until the moderators there audit your post history and perform an interview with you to confirm your ideology matches theirs.

> If someone does pass the test they’re allowed to comment. If they make a comment that disagrees with the message the moderators want to push, their commenting privilege is revoked.

Be that as it may, i dont see how the solution to /r/conservative being a weird echo chamber, is for other subs to be an anti-/r/conservative echochamber. Seems like both are wrong, and two wrongs dont make a right.
by kalleboo | 2025-10-09 15:00:03+00:00
To elaborate - in the U.S., you can usually get out of a subscription by telling your credit card to cancel the payments (or cancel the card, etc). In Germany, it's not uncommon for them to start sending you to collections if you do that, since, after all, you never cancelled the contract properly. They're not technically wrong but it's still extremely customer-hostile.
by nxrabl | 2025-10-09 15:00:16+00:00
Standard always struck me as kind of scummy - it tries to present itself as something bigger than what it really is, which is a tiny CLI wrapper around one guy’s ESLint config. You have to scroll way down the FAQ section before ESLint even gets mentioned. The author is just squatting on the “standard” namespace and using it to blag his way into relevance. Think how much more good it would do if the sponsors of this project were actually supporting ESLint directly instead of this useless middleware.
by deaux | 2025-10-09 15:00:30+00:00
Through top-down, hard mandates directly by the exec level, absolutely! They're an unstoppable force, beating those incentives.

The execs aren't the ones directly choosing, overseeing and implementing these AI efforts - or in the preceding decades, the software efforts. 9 out of 10 times, they know very little about the details. They may ""spearhead"" it in so far that's possible, but there's tonnes of layers inbetween with their own incentives which are required to cooperate to actually make it work.

If the execs say "Whole office full-time RTO from next month 5 days a week", they really don't depend on those layers at all, as it's suicide for anyone to just ignore it or even fake it.
by btreecat | 2025-10-09 15:00:30+00:00
> > What features do you feel a more average of the target audience > > Auth and middleware packages that are essential for a production site. > > > I use it at home as part of my K8s cluster. > > That's not heavy use.

Didn't claim it was heavy use, I explicitly stated the context of the use and why I might not have run into the same issues being alluded to.

The question stands, with something like keycloak why would someone pay for an auth layer?
by mothballed | 2025-10-09 15:01:01+00:00
If you say anything remotely controversial anywhere on reddit you will be hunted by a moderator of another sub and then targeted for banning.

I pointed out on a sub that the question on the 4473 (form to buy a firearm) asking if you are a drug user is a 5th amendment violation as it asks you to incriminate yourself to exercise a right.

An Ivy league lawyer, moderator of another sub, about a whole year later, found it, declared that it was illegal legal advice, then had my whole account nuked using his legal credentials to scare reddit into getting rid of me.
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-09 15:01:19+00:00
I get today’s realities of it but I would have preferred a world where IPv6 killed NAT and middleboxes properly supported more protocols than TCP and UDP. The original intent of IP was to have more than two protocols built on top of it. Many were built and deployed but then killed by IPv4 address exhaustion and NAT, as well as poorly configured firewalls and middleboxes that specifically wanted to mess with level 4 traffic.

UDP is a good solution but all it does is provide an 8 byte overhead and nothing that IP itself doesn’t provide for something like SCTP.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-09 15:01:33+00:00
>The violent left bullies

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-v...

>Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.

Of course this reply isn't for you.If you're spreading this level of rhetoric nothing is going to change your mind. Instead it's information for others.
by beAbU | 2025-10-09 15:01:49+00:00
So now we are dropping shipping containers with wings out of the sky when things go south with the towing.

In order to make such a contingency safe, we'll need swathes of ground that are clear of any population so that these things can crash without collateral damage.

If you have a corridor of land that's void of population between your origin and destination, then you might as well, you know, lay down some tracks or tarmac and get rid of the whole flying business altogether.

Now, if you have a body of water between your points this might be a better suited plan I think.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-09 15:02:06+00:00
Maybe more interestingly, line 659, slightly above that, explains that we know we got [u8] but today the ordinary Rust allocator promises capacity is correct, so we just ignore the length of that slice.

We could, as that comment suggests, check the slice and see if there's enough room for more than our chosen capacity. We could also debug_assert that it's not less room, 'cos the Allocator promised it would be big enough. I dunno if that's worthwhile.
by cafard | 2025-10-09 15:02:19+00:00
In the essay "Writers and Money", collected in The Hall of Uselessness, Simon Leys writes

""" From his own experiences, Chardonne concluded: "Any good book will sell 3,000 copies, no more, no less. We used to publish every year translations of some forty foreign novels. Invariably, one of these would suddenly sell 100,000 copies (which would pay for all our other publications)--and we never knew why. """

Earlier in the paragraph, Leys refers to Chardonne's then boss as "a notorious gambler."
by 3D30497420 | 2025-10-09 15:02:31+00:00
This sort of thing gets to two critical problems of the American system: 1. It is largely designed to make money, not actually help patients. So every step in the healthcare chain that can extract a bit of value will do so, largely to boost profits. 2. Insane complexity with limited transparency. How much will something cost? Hard to tell. Will it be covered? Who knows?

On the opacity, I have one informative anecdote. I had a single blood test done awhile back and no one knew if insurance would cover it, or which of the dozen or so billing codes it involved (taking the sample, delivering the sample, testing the sample, etc.) might be covered. It was an expensive test so I spent days bouncing between the doctor's billing team and the insurance company until the settled answer was: No one knows, do the test and insurance will decide. So I did it and insurance denied covering the doctor-recommended test. The salaries involved for all the billing people (and my time) would have covered the cost of the test. </rant>
by maxdo | 2025-10-09 15:02:35+00:00
typical US lagging system, most of the reports are 2-3 generations back on hardware and software, Sure you can open investigation, but isn't that too late ?

p.s. i've been a long sceptic of FSD from tesla, but latest changes, really really shows huge progress, even 1 year away and now these are two different worlds.
by pavlov | 2025-10-09 15:02:42+00:00
Conveniently those interpretations can be whatever suits the current lifetime-appointed guardians of the sacred legal text. It helps that the text is old and originally ambiguous.

When Napoleon seized power in 1799, he crafted a French constitution that he wanted to be “short and obscure”, the better to enable his authoritarian power. The United States has ended in the same place.
by goosedragons | 2025-10-09 15:03:03+00:00
You don't have to throw out your whole PC. Could you have waited for the next time you upgraded and thought about it then? Maybe if it's a desktop swapped out the GPU and kept the rest of the components?

It wasn't even clear from your original post that you even kept the same PC FFS. Nor did you clarify what "bog standard" PC components you used. Just expected perfection.
by djoldman | 2025-10-09 15:03:06+00:00
We'll never know, but:

I wonder what would happen if we moved the "medically necessary" requirement burden of proof from the doctor/patient to the insurer. So the insurer would be required to pay out a claim regardless of whether the insurer thought it was medically necessary, but their recourse could be to try to claw it back post-payment.
by mckirk | 2025-10-09 15:03:06+00:00
I think 'ending up with an accidental BahnCard and losing a painful amount of money because of it' might be almost a rite of passage at this point.

Happened to me as well; I had a 'youth' card for people below the age of 27, even remembered that some cards auto-renew and checked online to see if mine would, because I wanted to make sure I wouldn't just get upgraded to the regular and much more expensive BahnCard... couldn't find a renewal date and thought I'd be fine. But apparently I didn't check thoroughly enough, and only got informed of now having 200€ less and a shiny new BahnCard by email. Also emailed support, also didn't get anywhere.

Later I mention this to a friend... and he says 'ah, yeah, same with me'.
by chronci739 | 2025-10-09 15:03:10+00:00
> But waymo does not operate nearly at the same degree as what Tesla FSD aspires to (anywhere, anytime).

I aspire to be a trillionaire. Does that count for anything?

> While a good amount of functionality exists, the liability model and accidents are big road blocks to seeing this technology truly mainstream, not just select cities/routes/etc

Waymo just started service at SFO airport last month.

What’s your definition of mainstream? Everywhere anytime like an Uber?
by DannyPage | 2025-10-09 15:04:24+00:00
But there was no care in the images, which made me skeptical of the content. The free chapters are also poorly written. It reads like he dictated the content and didn't do a single review pass on it. The Docker Compose chapter especially is very light on details and doesn't explain how to use the various features and what tradeoffs or issues you may encounter. Like the AI images, the whole product feels rushed and haphazard and lacking in quality.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-09 15:04:35+00:00
He's my favorite working author! (Well, maybe that's Pynchon)

I recommend not only his early works like Satantango but also his recent ones like Seiobo There Below (lucky to have a signed copy of this one).

The short ones are interesting too. Animalinside (with Max Neumann), The Last Wolf.

Interested in checking Chasing Homer which has musical accompaniment: "Publishers Weekly described the book as a cross between a Jean-Claude Van Damme film and the works of Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka"
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-10-09 15:04:37+00:00
Commenting from neighboring Poland: my sense is that the dark patterns are less a result of deliberate manipulation and more a result of crappy publicly funded tendered software development.

It's, like, when the designs are made in a perpetual bureaucratic Kafkaesque then the results are like this. They're only building to specification, there is no UX research.

You're not going to not take the train. Not like the ticket experience is going to make a big difference with another train provider.
by lxgr | 2025-10-09 15:04:41+00:00
IPv6 doesn't provide a length header, so that's already 2 bytes arguably necessary for all protocols layered on top of that.

Source and destination port just seem like a reasonable baseline for alternate protocols, that's 4 more – leaving just the checksum. (If you're really desperate for space and have integrity provided by your protocol, you can even cram two more bytes in there!)

Sure, it would be conceptually nice to be able to skip UDP, but I think in terms of performance it absolutely does not matter.
by asmor | 2025-10-09 15:04:58+00:00
This is mostly a UX problem. Many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Maybe someone could write a linter for checking symbol tables for depending on shared libraries not in the Steam runtime and private symbol use.

But also, compiling everything with dynamic libraries is kind of an interesting side effect of having all the source code in a single context of a distribution; maybe you should always statically compile if you're not part of this system.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-09 15:05:27+00:00
Your claim is blatantly false. Any claim of the contrary is wrong. I won't go as far as to insult you in the way you did. I was talking about violent crime, which is indeed on the rise [1] (here sourced by the far right "Tagesschau" \irony), you are linking a study on crime, which includes non-violent crime such as petty theft. Violent crime is at a level not seen for 15 years. I suggest you read the comments of people thoroughly before embarassingly accusing them of spreading propaganda - which can be disproven with a 5 second google search.

[1]: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/straftaten-kri...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-09 15:05:37+00:00
I'll say that you should not feel bad about this. Meta doesn't care about you, they are like Oracle, a lawnmower. As long as they print money, they will do whatever they want without any concern or care for humans on or adjacent to their platform. They don't care about you, or anyone else who uses their services. Hope the legal hack helps! Wishing you good luck in this matter.

> "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." - Bryan Cantril

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 15:05:56+00:00
You've done a couple of things right: very few dependencies, simple, easy to understand code. C gets hairy when you try to be clever.

I'm busy writing some of the most optimized-but-still-portable code that I've ever written and it is very interesting to see how even a slight difference in how you express something can cause a massive difference in execution speed (especially, obviously, in inner loops). Your code is clearly written from what your comfort zone with C is and I'm really impressed by the restraint on display. At the same time, some of the code feels a bit repetitive and would benefit from more universal mechanisms. But that would require more effort and I'm not even sure if that is productive. One part where I see this is in the argument parsing code as well as in the way you handle strings, it is all coded very explicitly, which substantially increases the chance of making a mistake.

Another limitation is that using AI to help you write the code means you don't actually understand what it does, and this in turn may expose you to side effects that you are not able to eliminate because you did not consider them while writing, it is as if someone else gave you that code and asked you to trust them they did not make any mistakes.
by FitchApps | 2025-10-09 15:06:06+00:00
Reminds me when I asked Claude (through Windsurf) to create a S3 Lambda trigger to resize images (as soon as PNG image appears in S3, resize it). The code looked flawless and I deployed ..only to learn that I introduced a perpetual loop :) For every image resized, a new one would be created and resized. In 5 min, the trigger created hundreds of thousands of images ...what a joy was to clean that up in S3
by fwip | 2025-10-09 15:06:10+00:00
It would be nice if the tools we usually use for LLMs had a bit more programmability. In this example, It we could imagine being able to chunk up work by processing a few items, then reverting to a previous saved LLM checkpoint of state, and repeating until the list is complete.

I imagine that the cost of saving & loading the current state must be prohibitively high for this to be a normal pattern, though.
by paulcole | 2025-10-09 15:06:17+00:00
I'm biased because I'm 45 and have never driven a car in my life. I grew up in a very rural area in Florida, went to a big state college, and then moved to Portland, OR because it was a decent place to live without a car.

I knew from a very young age that driving a car seemed like a dumb way to live and so wondered why everyone did it and why nobody decided to try something different?

My view is that if people really hated driving they would change their lives to do it less! Instead they make excuses about how they have to drive. I judge people's actions and the way most people choose to live tells me that they love driving!
by tialaramex | 2025-10-09 15:06:21+00:00
Because there's only a single function here, it has to either be Vec::reserve or Vec::reserve_exact

If you don't offer Vec::reserve_exact then people who needed that run out of RAM and will dub your stdlib garbage. If you don't offer Vec::reserve as we've seen C++ programmers will say "Skill issue" whenever a noob gets awful performance as a result. So, it's an easy choice.
by BuckRogers | 2025-10-09 15:06:22+00:00
I’m also an 80s DOS user. Commodore actually before that. And yes Linux Mint is the standout. There are people in the Linux community though that resist it for various reasons. It’s like trying to round up cats.

I read all of the comments here and I see an awful lot of people that stand on their heads to avoid using Windows, yet it seems they want what Windows offers.

I’ve used many distro’s over the decades. But for a user, Mint is the best. Unfortunately for someone who is anti-Windows, it’s also the closest thing to a Windows clone!

I refuse to dual boot and run all of the emulation software. But what killed it for me was the most popular competitive games. The most advanced anti-cheat software that keeps gaming fun from cheaters is only on Windows. So that’s what I use exclusively. Those more effective anti-cheat mechanisms are never going to be on Linux. Windows is increasingly going to be where it’s at for desktop gaming unless a guy wants to move over to consoles. There’s just no real answer for this.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-09 15:06:45+00:00
Overall great article, applicable to other languages too.

I'm curious about the Goroutine pinning though:

// Pin goroutine to specific CPU func PinToCPU(cpuID int) { runtime.LockOSThread() // ... tid := unix.Gettid() unix.SchedSetaffinity(tid, &cpuSet) }

The way I read this snippet is it pins the go runtime thread that happens to run this goroutine to a cpu, not the goroutine itself. Afaik a goroutine can move from one thread to another, decided by the go scheduler. This obviously has some merits, however without pinning the actual goroutine...
by bob1029 | 2025-10-09 15:07:13+00:00
> Functional programming isn’t an afterthought in C#, it’s effective and you should learn it if you haven’t already.

I think C# is the best functional programming language because you always have access to a procedural code safety valve if the situation calls for it.

100% purity down the entire vertical is a very strong anti-pattern. You want to focus on putting the functional code where it is most likely to be wrong or cause trouble (your business logic). Worrying about making the underlying infrastructure functional is where I start to zone out.

Does F# care if a DLL it references was coded in a functional style?