MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-22 04:36:45+00:00
> To be clear, I'm not defending them. I'm doing the opposite...

My mistake. Much of this read like an appeal, their finances, challenges, and so on are utterly irrelevant. We're employees. Beyond the ability to maintain their contracts, we should not care.

The employers can want with one hand and shit in the other, see which fills first.
by magarnicle | 2025-10-22 04:36:48+00:00
Syncthing is very much not about having a centralised source of truth. It gives you options about how things sync - I usually start very paranoid when I set up a sync folder and store all versions of a file if the files are only small, but you can store staggered versions etc.

It will also store all conflicts, which you then can manually resolve.

Another option you have is send-only and receive-only folders.

Like I said, lots of options, a bit of learning but it looks like what you want.
by godelski | 2025-10-22 04:37:02+00:00
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. Do others not realize how loud the sun is? Even trying our hardest to send messages it is like playing a rock concert next to a rocket. Loud, but even with the amps to 11 you're gonna just drown out in the background.

Not to mention that lightspeed is slow. Even to Proxima Centari it will take several years for that signal to reach its destination.

This is also the great challenge of SETI. It's quite possible we've already received alien signals but just can't differentiate them from all the noise. I know they say that in space no one can hear you scream, but the sun is screaming at the top of its lungs and it is a thing bigger than you can imagine.
by amirhirsch | 2025-10-22 04:38:13+00:00
I also use Claude Code to install CUDA and PyTorch and HuggingFace models on my quad A100 machine. Shouldn't feel like debugging a 2000s Linux driver.

HuggingFace has incredible reach but poor UX, and PyTorch installs remain fragile. There’s real space here for a platform that makes this all seamless maybe even something that auto-updates a local SSD with fresh models to try every day.
by quamserena | 2025-10-22 04:39:50+00:00
Regulatory fees for options is negligible. Even with $1 or $2 per contract, the quality of fill that you get matters a lot more. Robinhood has “no commission” but they have terrible fills that are a hidden cost, taking this into account the $1 or $2 charge makes more sense. You’re also paying indirectly for the UI, real time data, margin, and API, none of which are free for the brokerage. Robinhood again skimps in this regard by offering no API (except for crypto…) and a terrible UI (but at least it has confetti!).
by rcbdev | 2025-10-22 04:39:56+00:00
But, he truly does. That is not because they have caused any offence, it's just that this pattern of behaviour may indicate similar tendencies in other parts of the tech stack.

For example, if OP for some reason stops liking a maintainer of, say, RabbitMQ or PostgreSQL, they might be penetrant about switching a finished project to a different stack without any tangible reason, causing completely unnecessary headaches for the team.
by c0balt | 2025-10-22 04:41:11+00:00
Ansible, Salt and Puppet are mostly industry standard. Those tools are commonly referred to as configuration management (systems).

Ansible basically automates the workflow of: log in to X, do step X (if Y is not present). It has broad support for distros and OSes. It's mostly imperative and can be used like a glorified task runner.

Salt let's you mostly declaratively describe the state of a system. It comes with a agent/central host system for distributing this configuration from the central host to the minions (push).

Puppet is also declarative and also comes with an agent/central host system but uses a pull based approach.

Specialized/ exotic options are also available, like mgmt or NixOS.
by mlsu | 2025-10-22 04:42:01+00:00
I got a lot of 6 Axis cameras from eBay, it was around $200. I think they took them off a school or something but they were in great shape. They look great and have no spyware etc because it’s an industrial company. I recommend getting some industrial surplus because they tend not to have all the bloatware and have significantly better weatherproofing, casing, etc, even if the optics are the same as the consumer units.
by sheepscreek | 2025-10-22 04:44:15+00:00
It was something I instructed it once and forgot about. When I checked in the settings under “memories” I finally discovered the culprit and removed it.

I’m not sure about voice chat, though - it’s equally frustrating for me. Often, it’s excessively verbose, repeating my question with unnecessary commentary that doesn’t contribute to the answer. I haven’t tried the personality tweaks they recently introduced in the settings - I wonder if those also affect voice chat, because that could be a potential solution.
by thepryz | 2025-10-22 04:45:30+00:00
Vision Pro has been out for almost 2 years now, so I'm not surprised. It's also worth noting that the lenses and engineering decisions around the optics can have way more influence on perceived image quality than just the specs would imply. Here's just one discussion around the challenges and decisions made around optics: https://kguttag.com/2024/03/01/apple-vision-pros-optics-blur...

I'm actually more surprised that Apple's update to Vision Pro was just a CPU bump that failed to address the criticisms people had - namely weight, price, and content/lack of a killer app. The Vision Pro's M5 is roughly 4-7 times faster in Geek Bench than the Galaxy XR's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 so it'll be interesting to see whether the Galaxy XR will be hindered in any way.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-22 04:45:41+00:00
I think you misread the article, it's the first time there's a $1m on the table for a WhatsApp exploit, not that someone has found an exploit.

Edit: Apparently I heard on the grapevine there is actually a WA 0-click being submitted: https://www.youtube.com/live/hM3z_5yT3Os
by HaZeust | 2025-10-22 04:47:22+00:00
A relative has tried acupuncture therapy for their kid, and says it works wonders! Never heard of it, you would have sworn it was crank magnetism when you read up on it; but they swear up and down about it for their kid, and I've personally witnessed the kid being introduced to food items that they were previously severely allergic to - with very minor and easy-to-mitigate issues.

This world makes little sense, but I guess I'm here for it!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24881629/
by Nevermark | 2025-10-22 04:47:29+00:00
ME: Knowing remarkable avians — might research explain their aerial wisdom?

Response:

> Winged avians traverse endless realms — migrating across radiant kingdoms. Warblers ascend through emerald rainforests — mastering aerial routes keenly. Wild albatrosses travel enormous ranges — maintaining astonishing route knowledge.

> Wary accipiters target evasive rodents — mastering acute reflex kinetics. White arctic terns embark relentless migrations — averaging remarkable kilometers.

We do get a surprising number of m-dashes in response to mine, and delightful lyrical mirroring. But I think they are too obvious as watermarks.

Watermarks are subtle. There would be another way.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-22 04:48:34+00:00
While using Electron does indeed allow us to run web technologies across platforms, the conversation around browser diversity goes beyond packaging websites as desktop apps. Many mainstream apps are built with Electron, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for innovation in the browser space. Projects like THIS ONE (ChatGPT Atlas) attempt to integrate AI features more tightly with browsing to enhance productivity.

It's worth mentioning that there are alternatives to Electron for building cross‑platform desktop applications that are more resource‑efficient. *Tauri*, for example, uses Rust for the backend and leverages the system's built‑in WebView instead of bundling Chromium.

We may "already do" have tons of cross‑platform apps with Electron, but exploring alternatives like Tauri or even new browser engines could lead to better performance and I'm hopeful that new approaches will push the envelope further.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-22 04:48:43+00:00
Well that's provably false.. there've been three popes[0] and zero popes happen now and then (2025[1], 2013[2], 2005, 1978..)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
by eesmith | 2025-10-22 04:49:02+00:00
My guess was right. "18 when she married 81-year-old Union Civil War veteran".

Civil War vets had pretty good benefits, which would continue with their dependents. Some married for those benefits.

A few spouses of Civil War vets lived until the 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_...

That link includes a picture of John and Gertrude Janeway.
by sathackr | 2025-10-22 04:49:04+00:00
I hope they start to-reinvent the way things are accessed so that I can stop being the product.

You can already ask ChatGPT for product recommendations and they(at least in what they say) don't take product placement or ad money.

It would be incredibly refreshing to have a portal into the current internet in which I am not the product.

I'd pay them substantially to be an unbiased assistant rather than some conglomerate shoving whatever they're paid to shove down my throat
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-22 04:49:40+00:00
Because some portion of the RAM used by your daemons isn't actually being accessed, and using that RAM to store file cache is actually a better use than storing idle memory. The old rule about "as much swap as main memory" definitely doesn't hold any more, but a few GB to store unneeded wired memory to dedicate more room to file cache is still useful.

As a small example from a default Ubuntu installation, "unattended-upgrades" is holding 22MB of RSS, and will not impact system performance at all if it spends next week swapped out. Bigger examples can be found in monolithic services where you don't use some of the features but still have to wire them into RAM. You can page those inactive sections of the individual process into swap, and never notice.
by trashchomper | 2025-10-22 04:52:01+00:00
I genuinely don't think it's hard to compete. I use AI sometimes, I don't use it more than I use it. I find myself at least just-as-productive as people who primarily use AI.

I personally tire of people acting like it's some saving grace that doubles/triples/100x your productivity and not a tool that may give you 10-20% uplift just like any other tool
by apgwoz | 2025-10-22 04:52:32+00:00
Haven’t messed with what?

This is an implementation of the OpenGL API interface. It is not OpenGL. It does not support GPU acceleration. It does math with floating point on the CPU. It then draws points and lines on a 2D surface provided by raylib.

Could this be adapted to use SIMD, or a GPU? Sure. That is not what this is today.
by autoexec | 2025-10-22 04:53:10+00:00
> they would be smart enough to know the societal damage they caused by this revelation

Ideally they'd hold off until we were in a place where they thought we could handle it, but I can also see the argument made that the damage is just "growing pains" that every society in the universe has to eventually deal with, and that societies which survive the initial societal damage will recover quickly with the help of the knowledge and technology they gain access to while closed-minded and inflexible societies that fail to survive the initial societal damage might not be the kind of folks you'd want to be a part of your interstellar community anyway. How we'll react when confronted with the fact that we aren't alone in the universe might be the test that determines if we get to join to club, or be sold as pets, or put to work in the mines, or just get left alone.
by musicale | 2025-10-22 04:53:45+00:00
I've always thought that Searle's argument relied on misleading and/or tautological definitions, and I liked Nils Nilsson's rebuttal:

"For the purposes that Searle has in mind, it is difficult to maintain a useful distinction between programs that multiply and programs that simulate programs that multiply. If a program behaves as if it were multiplying, most of us would say that it is, in fact, multiplying. For all I know, Searle may only be behaving as if he were thinking deeply about these matters. But, even though I disagree with him, his simulation is pretty good, so I’m willing to credit him with real thought."

I also find Searle's rebuttal to the systems reply to be unconvincing:

> If he doesn't understand, then there is no way the system could understand because the system is just a part of him.

Perhaps the overall argument is both more and less convincing in the age of LLMs, which are very good at translation and other tasks but still make seemingly obvious mistakes. I wonder (though I doubt) whether Searle might have been convinced if by following the instructions the operator of the room ended up creating, among other recognizable and tangible artifacts, an accurate scale model of the city of Beijing, and an account of its history, and refer to both in answering questions. (I might call this the "world model" reply.)

In any case, I'm sad that Prof. Searle is no longer with us to argue with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563627
by nftdude2024 | 2025-10-22 04:55:07+00:00
Built a lightweight Manifest V3 extension: Enter price + wage (hourly/monthly, gross/net), get hours equivalent. 9 categories with color-coded "buy/skip" thresholds, wait timers (24/48/72h + custom), wishlist/history tracking. Bilingual EN/HE, RTL support, accessible (ARIA, keyboard shortcuts). All local storage—no tracking.

Tutorial vid: https://youtu.be/Idke_yZRwtY?si=ATknkqlB__NzR4bg Install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/כמה-שעות-עבודה/fjjb... GitHub (coming soon): [your-repo-link]

Vanilla JS, ~1000 LOC. Testers? Bugs? Wage calc tweaks for other countries? Curious how the tax brackets work—Lemme know!
by hakfoo | 2025-10-22 04:56:05+00:00
I think there are a few factors that are likely to slow the pace down quite a bit soon:

1. We realistically aren't going much past 4k anytime soon. Even the few 8k sets on the market are sort of tech demos, because there isn't really the content for it. Maybe 120/240/etc FPS will be a thing, but that's really a linear growth, not exponential, and it has a pretty short path to go (will 500Hz displays ever become a big seller? 1kHz?)

2. The triple-A games market itself is strained-- too many big-money flops, and those are the ones that have historically substituted more triangles for better storytelling.

So you're going to reach a point where the hardware isn't really limiting the designers' visions anymore.

GenAI seems like a questionable approach for game rendering, both because of inefficiency and non-repeatability. If the AI renders the same scene slightly differently on two machines, it could cause bugs or unfair competitive edges. At most, we'd see AI during the development process to build assets, and that doesn't require a bigger local GPU.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-22 04:57:35+00:00
We looked hard at this question, but ultimately determined it was as prone to distrust as any other.

Firstly, inspection of code is a very technical skill, so there's a certain amount of reliance on a tiny group here. That tiny group then simply declares whatever they like. Understanding a complex C program, looking for obfuscated behavior is a very specific skill.

Secondly, given the tens of thousands of machines in play it becomes impossible to guarantee the code inspected is the code that runs. The GCC compiler itself, used to build the software could be altered. The kernel of the machine could be altered, and so on.

Yes, ultimately given enough time, it would be possible to detect problems. But getting a report years after the election is fruitless. Also, no doubt, with time, security issues in the OS and code will be retroactively discovered. There will be no way to determine if those flaws were used or not.

In short, you cannot determine veracity or correctness of the machine, in reasonable time. Making the code Open Source does not change this.

And again, it doesn't matter if the code is honest or not. It only matters what people believe. If anything having the code Open just means more opportunity for malicious actors to claim they've "found issues" without being specific.

The issue is not the software. And its not the software license. It's the environment of mistrust coupled with the willingness of people to accept obvious and blatant misinformation. (See vaccines etc).
by hkt | 2025-10-22 04:59:00+00:00
> There’s honestly so much material in the resulting notes created by Claude that I haven’t reviewed all of it

I've had the same "problem" and feel like this is the major hazard involved. It is tricky to validate the written work Claude (or any other LLM) produces due to high levels of verbosity, and the temptation to say "well, it works!"

As ever though, it is impressive what we can do with these things.

If I were Simon, I might have asked Claude (as a follow up) to create a minimal ansible playbook, or something of that nature. That might also be more concise and readable than the notes!
by libroot | 2025-10-22 04:59:25+00:00
No, these encrypted VMs are not protected from buggy or malicious on-die components. SEV assumes that the SoC hardware is trusted.[1] And we don't even have to go that deep: both AMD SEV and Intel's equivalent, Intel SGX, have historically been vulnerable to side-channel and speculative-execution attacks, among others, that can undermine their isolation guarantees.[2]

[1]: "As with the previous SEV and SEV-ES features, under SEV-SNP the AMD System-on-Chip (SOC) hardware, the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP), and the VM itself are all treated as fully trusted." https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-busine...

[2]: https://libroot.org/posts/trusted-execution-environments/
by jMyles | 2025-10-22 05:00:16+00:00
This is one of (though not the only) reasons I'm uncomfortable having my music on Spotify.

I do still publish there, but I vastly prefer my fans grab my music via IPFS or Bit Torrent.

It's so bizarre that someone hovering over the "play" button on one of my songs doesn't know whether they're about to hear Harry's mandolin or an authoritarian recruiting pitch.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-22 05:00:19+00:00
I'm not sure why you're talking about Cuba. But since you bring Cuba up the fact that the Cuban economy is doing better than the Haitian one and quality of life is better in Cuba than in Haiti, despite the American trade embargo on them for the entirely of the late 20th century, is evidence against the proposition that Haiti's contemporary problems are primarily a result of the 19th century French impositions.

> As for DR, I think its still debatable. From the 30s to the early 60s, DR was under a dictatorship that was fairly brutal. After that, a democratically elected president was couped with US support, then essentially a man described as a puppet for the previous dictator was put into power for another 12 years. Perhaps the relative stability + having a ruler with US approval is enough to explain the relative success.

Haiti was also ruled by brutal dictators in the mid-20th century, and was receiving aid from the United States for much of this time. So this can't in and of itself be an explanatory factor for why Haiti is so much worse off than the Dominican Republic.
by kqr | 2025-10-22 05:00:52+00:00
Which part sounds insane?

Living with a deadly allergy for the rest of one's life is no fun at all. A large part of social life is eating together in various locations where the allergen may not be so strictly controlled. Either one faces an easy death weekly or one opts out of many social activities. It is awful, and not wanting that for one's child seems natural to me, not insane.

I deliberately expose my child to a lot of things I want them to have in their life: climbing, swimming, the game of go, Unix command-lines, Newton's laws, musical instruments, etc. Doesn't seem odd to add peanuts to the list. (Well, for us it is logistically inconvenient because another member of the household has a deadly allergy, but if it weren't for that it would be sensiblre.) Not insane either.

Is it the idea of exposure leading to lower prevalence that sounds insane? That's been relatively strongly established in randomised trials. Not insane.
by jachee | 2025-10-22 05:01:11+00:00
Depends on the style guide you’re following, apparently: The AP style guide says space around them[0]. Chicago Manual of Style says not to[1].

0: https://www.prdaily.com/dashes-hyphens-ap-style/ 1: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...
by tempestn | 2025-10-22 05:02:56+00:00
Agreed that it's generally intended to be condescending, but when the rest of the comment is reasonable I'll assume good faith; maybe the person has seen it used elsewhere and doesn't realize how it comes across. Or maybe they even know its condescending, but not that it undermines their other points. Either way I felt a bit of push-back couldn't hurt.
by o11c | 2025-10-22 05:04:08+00:00
Aside: Please for the love of God do not force emails to be unique and also require separate accounts per person (especially if you previously did not). This causes no end of irritation for elderly couples who only use a family email, and they WILL switch to your competitors (and I will help them do so) if yours gets in the way of them sharing like they always used to.

See also https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe...
by electroly | 2025-10-22 05:04:47+00:00
I'm confused about where the prohibition is. N991SS is an example of an FAA aircraft registration number for a balloon; I looked it up myself on the FAA N-number inquiry site to confirm. Your link does not talk about balloons at all. Where does the FAA prohibit weather balloons here? It sounds like it's just physically not possible to carry a transponder or reflector on a small weather balloon? But that's different than what the earlier posts were suggesting. It seems like it's physics preventing ADS-B on small balloons, not the FAA. If you did manage to get ADS-B on your balloon somehow, could you not register the balloon like the owners of N991SS did?
by userbinator | 2025-10-22 05:07:47+00:00
That is extremely clever (how did you come up with it?), but definitely needs more than 3 instructions (you need at least 2 just to shift the constant):

mov eax, 0x2020c6 shr eax, cl mov cl, al shl eax, cl shr eax, 27

Yet those 14 bytes definitely beats my first attempt... although I've since found an even shorter solution:

mov ax, 0x4681 lea ecx, [ecx+ecx*2] shr eax, cl and eax, 7

12 bytes.
by quamserena | 2025-10-22 05:08:03+00:00
Trying to revert a service-based economy into a manufacturing-based one is an incredibly stupid idea and there is no way this doesn’t blow up in our face. Devaluation of the dollar threatens our reserve currency status, yield rates, and will cause rapid inflation, all to chase some pipe dream that Joe the Factory Worker and his family will be able to live a middle-class life again on a single salary.

In actuality, cash will flow into equities, the rich will benefit and the average American will suffer the consequences of their vote.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-22 05:08:41+00:00
If I were an attacker I would choose when to attack and a major disruption happening leaving your logging is in chaos seems like it could be a good time. Is it possible you had been compromised for a while and they took that moment to take advantage of it? Or, similarly, they took that moment to use your resources for a different attack that was spurred by the outage?