MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminalshort | 2025-10-07 00:18:38+00:00
Technology can fix plenty. I have narcolepsy and was able to diagnose myself after multiple doctors had failed, and luckily I finally found a specialist in narcolepsy who could actually confirm it. Wouldn't be possible without Google (which any of those docotors could have used but didn't). I would probably still be searching for a doctor to actually do his job. Technology can solve plenty of problems. What we need to do is get the doctors out of the loop.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-07 00:18:39+00:00
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, personally it is astonishing to me that is only 6%. I do buy the corporates explanation. I even buy the gaming explanation ( despite only heavily online games being 'better' on Windows -- from developer's perspective ). But everyone else? I can only assume it has to do with how little personal computing is done today not on smartphones.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-10-07 00:19:22+00:00
>Sounds like they’re doing with pens in Maryville what Tesla did with the Model S in Fremont.

Hopefully without all the illegal toxic waste dumping, forcing people to work during quarantine and ignoring crazy homophobic / racist environments and suing/harassing whistleblowers. The Fremont plant is not something to strive for in any way other than "it's a plant that manufactures things in the US".
by lmm | 2025-10-07 00:19:32+00:00
> Does this mean much given that israel has mandatory military service?

Yes. Mandatory military service is still military service. It's still following government orders at an impressionable age in a culture that deliberately inculcates a mentality of following orders even when they go against your every human instinct. It still means working for an organisation that knows its job is killing people, even if you're not the one pulling the trigger yourself. And Israeli military intelligence specifically has a long history of keeping supposedly retired civilians on as sleeper agents who infiltrate supposedly neutral companies.

(Does that mean this guy specifically is definitely one of them? Of course not. But to anyone with reason to be using a VPN at all it's probably too much of a risk)
by bradgessler | 2025-10-07 00:19:51+00:00
It's bittersweet.

The suckiest thing is if the fork pans out, it will look a lot like JS: "Which package manager do you want to use?". That beautiful simplicity of "just use bundler and ruby gems" will be gone.

One thing I will give them massive credit for is walking-the-walk. There wasn't really that much complaining for the aggrieved maintainers of RubyGems. They made a public statement describing their grievances, then quietly got to work on a fork. Taking on a fork of RubyGems seems impossible and foolish, but they now have a non-zero chance of succeeding because they're doing it.

Most people I've talked to inside of big orgs are going to stick with the "safe boring" thing, which will probably be RC backed by Shopify. They will probably throw security bureaucracy at the problem, which will make SOC 2, ISO 270001 auditors. I don't think we'll see a lot of innovation coming from RC since the executive director is non-technical and has demonstrated a very ham-fisted approach to running the organization that seems to be out of touch with developers.

On the flip side, I think if gems.coop takes off, it will be because it's a "better mousetrap". One of the people behind it, André, is working on https://rv.dev, which promises to be a faster, "all-in-one", tool for managing ruby versions, gem dependencies, and even has an "npx-like" run this from from the CLI, the right version of Ruby will install, the gems will install, and it will run. That's a much better DX that I could see developers going for.

I've seen discussions on the periphery of adding namespaces to gems, bringing in checksums, and overall taking a more aggressive technical approach to security. I could see that "winning" over a long enough timeframe if RC continues on their current course.

From a fund-raising PoV, I'm starting to put together the clues that André believes organizations with the means to pay for OSS infrastructure should pay for it. I think I agree with this point-of-view and think it's a path for funding that's more transparent than "A group of donors". I hope we start to see infrastructure run in a manner where the costs are accurately estimated, then divided by the number of companies with the means to pay to arrive at the price.

There's absolutely on consensus on my final point, but I think the root cause of RC's catastrophic failure is having too much of a concentration of funding from a few donors. If you're new to this drama, a major donor pulled funding from RC because they didn't ideologically agree with a conference guest. The details are out there if you want to dive into it, but to keep this thread on point, I hope Ruby Co-op figures out how to spread out their funding model across 100's or 1000's so this doesn't happen again.
by linguae | 2025-10-07 00:20:30+00:00
I don’t know…for people who can do their computing on a Chromebook, a Linux distribution would be suitable.

The people who will have the hardest time switching to Linux are those who need proprietary software products that are unavailable for Linux and whose needs are not met by open-source alternatives. Microsoft Office is still the standard for office software, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is still the standard for many creatives.

If LibreOffice ever reached 100% compatibility and feature parity with Microsoft Office, and if the Adobe Creative Cloud ever got ported to Linux, then this could spell trouble for Windows.
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 00:20:36+00:00
>nope. only useful for corporate setting. We should be able to run anything we want, however we want, without any arbitrary requirements by MS. Especially if it was proven already that it isn't a hard requirement to run the OS - just an arbitrary setting.

Right, crazy I swear I hung a lantern on that, implying you could just keep using Windows 10.

>I don't care as a customer. I want my data, I don't care about corporate profit margins - and I shouldn't need to. Data theft is pure service issue of them not vetting recovery enough - due to cutting costs on it.

Right, crazy again I swear I thought I wrapped up by saying we needed a hardware path without conflicting priorities.
by bonecrusher2102 | 2025-10-07 00:20:52+00:00
Hah, this is my time to shine. I worked in anime subtitling and timing for a number of years. I helped write our style guide — things like how to handle signs, overlapping dialogue, colors etc.

It wound up being quite a large document!

But the thing to realize here is that, all of these subs have to be placed by hand. There are AI tools that can help you match in and out times, but they have a difficult time matching English subs to Japanese dialogue. So what you have to do is have a human with some small grasp of Japanese place each of these in/out times by hand.

If you’re really good you can do one 25 minute episode in about 35 minutes. But that’s ONLY if you don’t spend any extra time coloring and moving the subs around the screen (as you would song and sign captions).

Elite tier subs can take up to two or even three or four hours per episode. That’s why the best subs, are always fan subs! Because a business will never put in 8x more time on an episodes subtitles than “bare minimum.”

Crunchy roll looks to have at least gone halfway for a while… but multiply those times across thousands of episodes over X years… and you can see why some manager somewhere finally decided 35 minutes was good enough.

I am in the Product world now, and I do think this was a bad move. Anime fans LOVE anime. The level of customer delight (and hate) in the anime industry is like no other. I really miss the excitement that my customers would get (and happily telegraph!) when I launched a product in those days. Which is all to say, you HAVE to factor delight into your product. Especially with a super fan base like you have in anime.
by lax4ever | 2025-10-07 00:21:15+00:00
The simplest remaining way that I am aware of is actually an autounattend file. This is a Microsoft supplied method that has been around for a long time and something that I truly believe will stick around untouched because it is pretty much a requirement of any enterprise Windows deployment.

Not only does it allow you to create a local admin account, but you can also skip all the other setup screens that you want by pre-supplying values. Throw this file into your Windows boot media, do a fresh install (which you should be doing when you get a new machine regardless), and away you go. I use this both personally and my work environment. Not only are you then not relying on modifying OS ISO's or compilations, but an XML file is relatively easy to verify that only the settings you have set are the ones being input into the system if you utilize a third party tool like the one available at schneegeas.de
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-07 00:21:55+00:00
In general, most modern vulnerabilities are initially identified with fuzzing systems under abnormal conditions. Whether these issues may be consistently exploited can be probabilistic in nature, and thus repeatability with a POC dataset is already difficult.

That being said, most modern exploits are already auto-generated though brute-force, as nothing more complex is required.

>Does anyone disagree?

CVE agents already pose a serious threat vector in and of itself.

1. Models can't currently be made inherently trustworthy, and the people claiming otherwise are selling something.

"Sleeper Agents in Large Language Models - Computerphile"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL22URoMZjo

2. LLMs can negatively impact logical function in human users. However, people feel 20% more productive, and that makes their contributed work dangerous.

3. People are already bad at reconciling their instincts and rational evaluation. Adding additional logical impairments is not wise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pc3IuVNuO0

4. Auto merging vulnerabilities into opensource is already a concern, as it falls into the ambiguous "Malicious sabotage" or "Incompetent noob" classifications. How do we know someone or some models intent? We can't, and thus the code base could turn into an incoherent mess for human readers.

Mitigating risk:

i. Offline agents should only have read-access to advise on identified problem patterns.

ii. Code should never be cut-and-pasted, but rather evaluated for its meaning.

iii. Assume a system is already compromised, and consider how to handle the situation. In this line of reasoning, the policy choices should become clear.

Best of luck, =3
by mmmBacon | 2025-10-07 00:22:19+00:00
I am personally paying $200/month for the ChatGPT pro version. It’s the best investment I’ve made in my career in a long time. It’s like having 2-3 direct reports. The alternatives provided by my companies are too slow and aren’t anywhere as good. If people start using it anywhere near how I’m using it, there will be profound changes to the workplace in the coming 3 years.
by zdw | 2025-10-07 00:22:20+00:00
I tend to agree with this take - look at the book or music industry, where you can buy most media in each category on most platforms, with some exceptions.

Ideally, like music, we'd get multiple vendors offering downloads that are high quality copy of video that isn't DRM encumbered.

But currently, we don't get this, and the closest legitimate way (modulo the DMCA...) to get video as a file is to buy physical media and rip it.

Serious shades of Gabe Newell's "it's a service problem, not a pricing problem" around all of this.
by lucb1e | 2025-10-07 00:22:40+00:00
Have you tried it? I see where you're coming from but don't think it would work out that 'no grandma can use it'

My plan for years has been to install Linux Mint + Cinnamon for my grandma when she next needs a new laptop... but she still hasn't needed one :(. And she's slowly getting too old for any new computer

Every Windows upgrade was a big change again. The UI would change each time, Windows Live Mail got discontinued, Office got ribbons, etc. Why reinvent the wheel each time? I've replaced:

- Windows Live Mail with Thunderbird, that has been stable.

- Microsoft Office with Libreoffice, that has been stable.

- The next item on the list was going to be Windows itself, since Cinnamon hasn't significantly changed since I started using Linux over ten years ago. It still has a start menu, system tray, window list at the bottom (without the windows collapsing and hiding!), everything made for usability and working as you expect.

The only exception is (grand)parents that need custom software. E.g. my mom has custom software (from Hema I think? Or Bruna maybe?) for editing photo albums to then send it to a print shop and get a real photo album. That will be web based nowadays I imagine. I should ask her but that could still be a barrier to switching

Edit: Similar issue on Android btw. There isn't one function that my (grand)parents use, that Android 16 has that Android 4 did not. The only thing that keeps changing under them is UI. Sure, developer APIs got nicer, support for dual-frequency GNSS is there, screens got taller... none of that needed to touch the UI. Sadly Google does a phenomenal job of obsoleting old OS versions quickly so you need to keep buying new. EU law for longer device support doesn't even help because you still need to upgrade that OS and can't simply use an LTS with security updates
by rft | 2025-10-07 00:22:43+00:00
IMO the rise of handhelds like the Steam Deck has a decent chance of pushing big publishers to consider releasing for Linux/Proton. These handhelds fit the niche between smart phone and console gamers [1] that might have some potential growth left in it. Even the availability of Windows first handhelds was not as bad for Linux gaming as SteamOS and other gaming handheld focused Linux distros have been ported to them.

On the other hand the anti cheat side has been really ratcheting up with newer releases requiring Win 11 and Secure Boot. I somewhat hope and fear we might get a blessed version of SteamOS for the Deck that is heavily locked down and has kernel/hypervisor level anti cheat functions added to it. Essentially allowing for a boot mode similar to current consoles. While it goes against the open spirit of SteamOS, it might serve as an argument to invest a bit more into the Linux side, potentially improving the ecosystem as a whole.

Or all of it might be the usual "year of the Linux desktop" pipe dream.

[1] leaving out the Switch which is heavily focused on Nintendo IP and has comparatively weak hardware
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-07 00:22:52+00:00
I agree with you here, as someone who uses all three (mostly Linux).

IMO the two biggest pains with MacOS is (1) brew is not as good as any other package manager in my experience (mostly in bugs that need manual fixing) and (2) Docker naturally is much worse (not just for performance, but for requiring 'Docker desktop'.) All the other pains are just the myriad niceities I miss from a lifetime of mostly Linux that MacOS just can never have.
by ecshafer | 2025-10-07 00:23:52+00:00
I've never worked at Autodesk, and I don't use CAD. But I see they have a Web version of AutoCAD. I assume there are a bunch of Autodesk employees on Hackernews who can correct me, and I know there's probably a boat load of issue for a huge legacy project like that. But how long until AutoCAD web is just AutoCAD? Or some competitor a'la Figma is in the web?
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-07 00:23:54+00:00
The story specifically says Sam's friend Charlie contacted campus security after Sam stopped responding to Charlie and Kayla (Sam's girlfriend). Campus security wouldn't have known to check in within a day if Sam's friends weren't on top of keeping in touch with him. (Put another way, I certainly would've rotted longer than that if this had happened to me in college-- lucked into having my own dorm room & had acquaintances but not any friends who would've gone out of their way like that.)
by esoleyman | 2025-10-07 00:23:57+00:00
The ED is specifically attuned to these presentations but the sepsis alerts and algorithms in place are horrendous and will fire off even for this with viral illnesses and syndromes.

Sepsis alerts are meant to find bacteremia in patients who present with a set of vital signs and laboratory findings indicative of it and even those definitions are not readily agreed upon.

The ED is highly accurate with its diagnosis and treatments despite everything that has been said.

Trying to find a zebra in the hoof beats of horses when the number of patients quickly outstrips your department’s capabilities is a fools errand because if the workup require will overwhelm throughout to the point that the delay in care will put other patients at risk.

There is a fine line between doing enough and doing too much that will grind your department to a halt and then have your waiting room backing up.

Unfortunately for this patient, his occult condition didn’t manifest itself within his two ED visits and we don’t have prognostic capabilities to tell who will and won’t decompensate. We all make value judgements and treat the patients in front of us
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-07 00:24:53+00:00
> I mean Israelis have Israeli citizenship...not Palestinian citizenship, individuals that have different citizenship in general will have different rights.

> If they don't have the same citizenship then they wouldn't have the same rights because they would live under different governments.

Obviously the rights we're talking about are natural rights -- see the UN declarations to that effect.

> You're making it as if it's all or nothing, when in reality there's a lot more nuance here.

You haven't actually shared any of that nuance. Which things do Palestinians exercise "rule" (complete control) over, without israel thinking that it is their business and interfering? Examples might include: Rule over sea-based import/export; rule over transit within Palestine; rule over journalism. Examples in this case unfortunately do not include any of those: in all cases, israel believes it has the right to interfere with violent veto power, which means there is no Palestinian rule.

> Their own leaders often deny them those freedoms, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

It is israel denying them those freedoms -- their unconvincing PR campaign of abusing Palestinians and blaming others for 'making them do it' has not held water in international institutions.

> Israel doesn't recognize Palestine as a state

What israel recognizes here is not relevant -- there is not an exception in international law for "the aggressor doesn't recognize any rights of the victimized". What is more relevant is what the international community recognizes, and they recognize Palestine as a state. Thus, it is entitled to all the rights a state is entitled to, including protection from a genocidal foreign occupying power which seeks to conquer their country and take their land.

> Unfortunately many of these groups(UN and UN affiliated organizations especially) have a major credibility problem

Unfortunately, the few people making this claim have an even greater credibility problem. Thus, the assertions of those groups can be dismissed, unless they want to put them forward for consensus or judgement by the relevant international bodies. One certainly can't blindly trust these critics to provide accurate information due to their well documented history of extreme bias towards israel.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-07 00:25:03+00:00
> MacOS is not an attainable gaming support platform in general, as the people who are interested in the AAA games are going to need a Pro series

The M5's GPU cores are expected to pick up the same 40% performance boost we just saw in the newly released iPhones.

AAA games written for the M4 already work just fine, the extra performance is needed when you are also emulating other graphics APIs and CPU instruction sets to run Windows games.

Windows on ARM has the same issues, but Prism isn't as good at x86 emulation.
by godelski | 2025-10-07 00:25:06+00:00
> My wife, who’s from Korea

Lol, I'm in a similar boat.

> 13 days later his temporary successor Han was also impeached

Crazier than that![0]

- Han Duck-soo: Acting president for 13 days. Impeached for refusing to investigate Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim Keon Hee (Yoon's wife). - There were 192 votes against him and 108 members *abstained* from voting. This meant that they failed to form a quorum. *This vote was strictly party lines* - They ruled that they only need 50% approval because Han was the Prime Minister. *President needs 2/3rds btw* - Choi Sang-mok: was the acting PM for those 13 days. But only serves for 87! - 24 March SK's (equivalent to) supreme court overrules Han's impeachment 7-1, and Han once again becomes the acting president.

So he was impeached after 13 days for trying to bury Yoon's impeachment case, the Conservatives refuse to show up to the hearing, and months later he gets reinstated by the highest court.

> the DPK has been impeaching everyone they disagree with.

My understanding is that there's kinda a history of this as well as pardoning. Take Park Geun-hye[2] as an example. She was the leader of the GNP (Grand National Party; SK's conservative party), and in December 2016 she was impeached (234 to 56) for influence peddling. Hwang Kyo-ahn (Prime Minister) becomes acting president. In March of 2017, their supreme court upholds the impeachment unanimously, and in May Moon Jae-in (DPK) becomes president. April 2018 Park is sentenced to 24 years in jail, and then is further prosecuted for stealing money from Korea's CIA and interfering in elections. In December 2021 Hwang pardons her and she's back home early 2022.

Before Yoon was Moon Jae-in (DPK), who the GNP tried to impeach in 2019. (Hwang Kyo-ahn was acting after Park's impeachment, who preceded Moon).

Before Park was Lee Myung-bak (GNP). He got 15 years in prison. In 2022 Yoon gave him a pardon.

Before Lee was Roh Moo-hyun (Liberal party) (Goh Kun was in between because...) but was impeached (193 to 2) in 2004 and his supporters were literally fighting people in the assembly. Month later supreme court overturned impeachment. After he left presidency people around him started getting sentenced. In 2009 he threw himself off a cliff as investigations were following him too.

Since the 60's they've had a president exiled, a coup, and even an assassination. It's fucking wild!

And don't get started on chaebols...[3]

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Han_Duck-soo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-07 00:25:22+00:00
Why do you think it is fetishization? You can quite literally sip a five euro wine while on sick leave (if your illness allows!), knowing that your finances and job are not at risk, for as long as your recovery takes. There is no hyperbole there, it's the entire point of labour protections.

Meanwhile, as far as I understand, laws only mandate unpaid leave for a limited time, and only for very serious conditions in the US.
by fishpen0 | 2025-10-07 00:25:36+00:00
Right, but if you just search for "house listings" you find zillow and redfin and other stuff. Becoming the new word for "listings" will tie specific brands to our use of language in very interesting ways. What happens if I register my app to a common word. In this example, can I take "listings" and astroturf my app to the top? Is this a new DNS "buying all the domains" race?
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-07 00:25:46+00:00
Are we sure this is the case for all Win11 builds? Or does this change only apply to users in the insiders program on the Dev channel (I presume you just be logged in with your Microsoft account to configure a machine with an insider build of Windows)

I recently was able to purchase a Win11 pro license from Newegg to upgrade a Win11 home machine without creating a MS account, that's probably an easier hole to patch if they truly want to prevent offline use entirely.