MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-10-12 17:27:16+00:00
What makes this even worse is that MSFT doesn't just do it with their "free", subsidized or bundled versions. They also do it to users who are using the full paid versions of the OS and Office. I paid an extra hundred dollars to get Windows Pro pre-installed on my laptop and a key reason I did so was to avoid this crap. But they still have all the same upsells and dark patterns.

All Windows Pro gives me is the very complex enterprise policy manager with its thousands of options but all the upsell nags, user privacy and other "good for MSFT monetization" options are still defaulted on in Windows Pro. And these options are buried deep in separate tree nodes. It's the same dark pattern Facebook uses around privacy settings. Whenever they have to provide privacy options that allow opting out they adopt "malicious compliance" and over do it in as granular and complex a way as possible - with no "opt out of everything" macro option.

Now I know that I can change all the policy manager options in the registry editor too, and frankly, it's not really much more complex. A couple years ago I realized I make so many changes fixing a new Windows install to be livable and useful that I'd never remember them all. So every time I make a registry change to fix something, I store a registry script that'll make the edit automatically in dedicated folder on my server (it's easy to export a single registry key as a script). As of today there are over a hundred scripts there. I'm getting to the point where I'm probably going to switch to Linux soon. Which sucks because I used to really like Windows (with a few notable exceptions which can be addressed with fixes and helper apps). But the level of work required to keep Windows usable and useful has skyrocketed in recent years. Before I was just dealing with occasional random bugs, regressions and feature oversights by a generally well intentioned OS vendor. Now I'm fighting a rapidly escalating battle against a malicious opponent. It's so dumb because I'd actually pay $100/yr for a "Power Windows" version with no ads, upsells, agenda promotions, dark patterns and a full restoration of all the power user features they keep dropping from Windows 11 (like advanced taskbar functionality).
by skytwosea | 2025-10-12 17:27:25+00:00
I was born and raised in Vancouver, and have deep personal ties to the junior mining industry - I worked for two decades as an exploration geologist, and my Dad has been in the industry since the early 1970s.

Bre-X was brutal. I was barely into my teens, but I recall - and have spoken at length with my Dad and many others - about how he was out of work for several years after the scandal. Investment completely dried up. Industry recovery took years, and was accompanied by the implementation [1] of fairly stringent disclosure rules, which define reporting standards to this day. Nonetheless, scams are still commonplace, and pretty much everyone I know has a story or two of a shifty promoter pulling the rug out.

Mineral exploration is a tough business. You can't just sudo apt install a drill rig! The logistics and expense of even small exploration programs are a bit insane. Crews head out to some of the most remote corners the world has to offer, moving hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars of heavy equipment, fuel, food, and camp gear on to site for just a few months of near-constant work, then moving (hopefully most of) it out again. Hundreds of tons of rock and soil samples are collected, by drilling, by walking the ground, by trenching; these samples are shipped out to processing and assay labs. Some properties have the benefit of road access - deep-wilderness, often decommissioned logging roads - but many are accessible by helicopter only. It's an adventure, but it is also very demanding and taxing. There is very little year-to-year consistency, even in bull markets.

Sixty to seventy years ago, the majors - mining companies with actual mines and annual revenue - did the lion's share of exploration work. Over the years, however, the majors have divested almost entirely from risky grassroots exploration, leaving it almost entirely up to junior explorers who must raise their capital from investors.

There are lots of fascinating tales:

- How to Get Rich in a Gold Rush: https://youtu.be/yW5iGLLgzRc?si=Pk_9eZF0vBEjF2f4 two-part youtube documentary on the VSE

- Gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(2016_film) great movie starring Matthew McConaughey, loosely based on the Bre-X scandal

- The Big Score: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2370656) excellent book that covers the story of the Voisey's Bay discovery in Labrador

- Fire Into Ice: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1166624.Fire_into_Ice_Ch...

- Barren Lands: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22322947-barren-lands

[1] https://www.cim.org/news/2019/how-cim-helped-an-industry-roc...
by ipsum2 | 2025-10-12 17:27:28+00:00
That has always been the policy. To answer your question, Meta has released ~100 models since the Superintelligence Lab reorg.

https://huggingface.co/facebook/models

The most interesting ones to me are:

- CWM (Code world model), an LLM for coding https://github.com/facebookresearch/cwm

- DINOv3, A vision encoder https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/

- MAPAnything, a 3d reconstruction model https://huggingface.co/facebook/map-anything

- VJEPA v2, Self-supervised video pre-training model https://github.com/facebookresearch/vjepa2
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 17:27:43+00:00
Government policy has significant impacts on the probability of total loss events, such as wildfire or flooding.

Climate change is a really good excuse for insurance companies to raise premiums... people just shrug their shoulders and say "what are you gonna do?", then pay the new premiums.

Some of what insurance companies say may be true, but quite a bit of it is not. Funny how we don't believe health insurance companies but we'll take property insurance companies for their word.

Governments control budgeting and staffing for first responder units, they control training budgets, they control responses. While climate change may be impacting some of these events, they should never spiral into massive total loss events like as-of late.
by hadrien01 | 2025-10-12 17:27:45+00:00
France is currently developing La Suite numérique[1], which includes email based on Open-Xchange. The German federal government also proposes Open-Xchange in their openDesk suite[2].

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ [2] https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#email
by nomel | 2025-10-12 17:27:54+00:00
Driving forces could be interpreted as wrong, but they’re probably correct about orders and outcome:

Step 1 is policy/goal for California [1].

Step 2 decades old policy in Europe (and recently canceled in Canada?), as vehicle carbon tax. There’s also EV tax credits of course, which are practically identical, from the purchasing perspective - “If I buy ice, I pay this much more in taxes”.

Step 3 is a potential market driven eventuality.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/california-sets-goal-...
by cperciva | 2025-10-12 17:28:42+00:00
I was referring to the US SEC and DOJ, they will easily establish jurisdiction against anyone touching US markets in some way, anywhere in the world

They can claim jurisdiction, sure, but they can't execute search warrants or arrest people in Canada. Our agencies are generally happy to let the SEC clean up our messes for us, but the paperwork still slows things down compared.
by c22 | 2025-10-12 17:29:42+00:00
We've been sending people to prison for heroin use for decades but people still seem to take it up.

Even the non-legal consequences of heroin addiction always seemed real enough to disincentivize me from trying it. Clearly those who become dependent on heroin approached their use from a different perspective than mine so I expect any solution I could think of to help these people would have to look outside the realm of 'what would work for me.'
by muppetman | 2025-10-12 17:29:44+00:00
Right, my post wasn't to suggest my Adguard is open for everyone :)

1, it's bound to a particular subdomain (I'm sure you can figure that out) - And it's still the same IP so you'd have only gotten certificate mismatch warnings 2, it's behind a Firewall that only allows connections from the country I'm in - this is almost certainly what's stopped you being able to access the port.

If you meet those two criteria you'll be able to query it.

My point was it's quite easy to do this yourself though and then you don't need to bother with a VPN all the time, saving battery and the hassle of having to either a) Have it on all the time even when you're at home or b) Remembering to turn it on every time to leave home.
by 9x39 | 2025-10-12 17:29:49+00:00
Hopefully everyone uses an Enterprise SKU of Windows so you can just control it with Group Policy.

On Enterprise, you can use its built-in App Locker features to block the execution of any Windows component. I've used it to block Windows Update completely at home after it filled my drive to the last byte and I was sick of my gaming box disobeying.
by nrjames | 2025-10-12 17:30:48+00:00
I've been excited about Kuzu DB as a SQLite-style graph database. It looks like the devs are moving on to something else and no longer will support it, as of 10 October.

Their message reads, "Kuzu is working on something new! We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB. You can access the full archive of KuzuDB here: GitHub" https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu
by Rohansi | 2025-10-12 17:31:23+00:00
It's not that it's a problem I just don't think it's the best place to be. It was not designed to be used like this. Yes, it's better now but it's still not great - you still ship JS as text blobs that need to be parsed and compiled by every browser.

I don't see how alternatives to JavaScript are a risk to open web standards. WebAssembly is itself a part of those same standards. It's just a shame that it was built as an extension of JavaScript instead of being an actual alternative.
by gitaarik | 2025-10-12 17:31:52+00:00
The way it integrates into Django is more than just an abstraction to SQL. It's also an abstraction to your table schema, mapped to your model. In short, it's the Pythonic way of fetching data from your models in Django.

It allows for functional programming, as in building queries upon other queries. And predefined filters, easily combining queries, etc. And much more.

Of course you don't need all of that. But in a big project, where you might query some particular tables a lot of the times, and there are common joins you make between tables, then sometimes it is nice to have predefined models and columns and relations, so you need less verbosity when building the queries.

You do of course need to learn a new tool to build queries, but it does pay off in some cases.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-12 17:32:02+00:00
Arson and the heavy and warm Santa Ana winds which is climate related

LA was experience hurricane force 80 mph winds, which were its own issue

LA always has small smoldering fires from arson and other sources

With that baseline then it’s still climate related, leaving us to evaluate if that particular weather event was part of any change or has its own prior frequency and intensity.

It also reveals how vulnerable the area is to climate change either way
by c0balt | 2025-10-12 17:32:30+00:00
To add to this, most emails are likely within the organization and/or between public institution.

E-Mail was (last time I checked) not an approved medium for delivery of important documents as it does not (per design) have a mandatory receipt of the message being delivered. So a citizens does not need to worry a lot about this for important documents/mail.

(Fax was so popular for public institutions in Germany because it satisfied this standard. It meant it usually was the lowest barrier option and you could rely on it for all (un)important documents)
by 9x39 | 2025-10-12 17:32:52+00:00
I have absolutely seen them reinstall components like that, force their AV back on, force Windows Update back on, etc. It's probably actually good imo for the users I've seen, but admittedly "computer says no" is infuriating if you're sure of what you want.

Try using Group Policy to disable it. I think Applocker is on Win 11 Pro now - if it is, you can block the execution of whatever programs and DLLs you want. I've used that to block Windows Update.
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-12 17:33:14+00:00
The most vocal part of the opensource community tries to sell opensource as an ideology and that that ideology is correct; the sales pitch is "your ideology is wrong." Most people are perfectly happy with their ideology and are not looking for a new one, certainly not looking to be told it is wrong and insulted.

The community (which is often part of the sales pitch) is a minefield to navigate, you have to put in the time to understand the ideology or face its wrath. The general drama of OSS. Most people have enough drama in their life and find ads and sitting on hold with tech support to be preferable.

OSS puts very little effort into trying to understand what most people want from their software and just keeps trying to offer free alternatives which are more about ideology instead of the software needs of most people.

The community just does not make a good impression on most people so they don't pursue it. With most people I have long since learned to be careful about how I talk about OSS because most people have someone in their life who has been trying to convert them for years and that is what OSS has become to them, that friend or coworker or family member they are very patient with. If you want to change people you have to be willing to be changed by them.
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-12 17:33:30+00:00
Joshua de Vos, of CoinDesk - didn't CoinDesk just finish firing some people who didn't use "AI"? Shouldn't the "AI" help them sus this out?

This article does point out why securities markets try to thread the needle. If they allow insider trading, large numbers of investors/speculators won't enter the market - it's a guaranteed loss unless you're an insider. No new money enters the market, and there's not all that much profit to be made. If very strict insider trading rules are enforced, it's much much harder to make really gigantic profits. Mixed incentives.
by a123b456c | 2025-10-12 17:34:33+00:00
I think you're pointing in the right direction, but I would rephrase as,

what's the likelihood that the solution exists in the github repo in a way that the machine can recognize as relevant to your prompt?

If many versions of the solution exist, due to the problem's common occurrence, and if you can evaluate the LLM's output, then you're good to go.
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 17:34:43+00:00
A significant amount of that damage was due to government policy, or rather failures of government policy.

Fire hydrants literally went dry in the middle of firefighting. Fire Departments were critically understaffed, and were using critically outdated dispatching systems that didn't share information or communication effectively.

The fire was started by arson, and it ravaged the city due to government failures.
by crote | 2025-10-12 17:34:58+00:00
Interestingly, I had the opposite experience.

With Ubuntu I kept running into bugs which had already been fixed upstream, or which were caused either by Debian's or Ubuntu's patches. And even filing regular bug reports was basically impossible: the Ubuntu packagers will almost certainly ignore it, the Debian packagers aren't interested in bugs happening in mutated versions of outdated packages in their unstable repo, and the upstream maintainers aren't interested in bug reports for weirdly-patched old releases.

After several attempts at getting bugs fixed (sometimes even sending complete patches) and getting no response for years I gave up on Ubuntu and switched to Fedora. Their policy is to ship the freshest upstream releases possible, with as few patches as possible. This means I can just directly file my bug reports at the upstream vendor, and a fix will usually land on my system fairly quickly.

I do notice that I am slowly using more and more Flatpak desktop apps: why bother with the middleman when you can trivially get the latest release directly from the upstream vendor?
by tpmoney | 2025-10-12 17:35:21+00:00
As someone who spent some time over the last few years working through trying to daily drive neovim, helix, emacs, and nano, the out of the box experience with helix is far and away the best experience of them. The defaults are very well chosen. Additionally the contextual help and hints are very good for helping you use and remember commands you don't use often. I also personally found that helix's order of operations for commands to make a lot more sense to my brain compared to vim's.

Part of it for me is that I really don't like the massive plugin / config wall that is the modern neovim/spacemacs experience. I truly appreciate the extensibility and the fact that those plugins allow for things helix just can't do right now (e.g. emacs is effectively the IDE for any lisp language and you can't load up a repl in helix). But the problem with that becomes not only do I need to learn the application itself, but now I need to learn a whole bunch of plugins, and often learn about the differences between them because everyone has their own preferences in combinations, so looking up how to do something covered by a plugin often leads you to multiple incompatible answers. And even if you bite the bullet on trying to build your own config from scratch (which I did with emacs) you're still often just taking on faith other people's recommendations on stuff, or spending a lot of time learning about a plugin to make a decision and that time is time you're not spending on whatever you want to be doing.

Helix benefits from being new and not carrying generations of legacy decisions behind it. As a result, helix can make decisions and defaults that fit "modern" expectations. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it's also probably what I would recommend for someone "new to the TUI" as a place to start when you just need something with a good chunk of modern conveniences and don't want to spend the next few weeks getting the editor configured.
by rubymamis | 2025-10-12 17:35:28+00:00
I still don't hear any concrete feedback regarding QML and Qt Quick - the stack is very suited to desktop apps as well. My FOSS app (1,500,000 downloads) has a Kanban UI written in QML[1] and people seems to like it. I do think the choice of Javascript as the scripting language for QML is not ideal to say the least (although there were some improvements to type safety like using `required` in model-view, etc).

Also, most QML components are just C++ objects exposing QML api. And I think there are some compile flags to convert QML to C++ (even some JS code).

[1] https://www.notes-foss.com
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-12 17:36:25+00:00
That'd be a vaguely interesting point, if I—searching my heart—I could find any evidence of this going both way.

Congress has never folded power to a president like this before. The Supreme Court has never faced such backlash from district courts (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/judicial-cris...). Scientists & researchers have never been up in arms about us health policy or what is being done. Colleges and universities have never been policed by a president, confronted with loyalty pacts.
by dogbait | 2025-10-12 17:36:33+00:00
I work at a FAANG adjacent company as an EM and the 4x engineers who’ve recently been PIPd all went off the deep end using agents to write huge amounts of convoluted or unsuitable code.

One of them has decades of experience coding and even devised our onboarding training for using Cursor and Bedrock at the company but they too were called out for building a wholly unsuitable and unmaintainable service which could have been more simply solved with some common libraries and Docker micro services rather than 10k+ lines of custom code.

We all receive a copy of Cursor and IntelliJ + Copilot on joining and I just keep seeing engineers (surprisingly the more experienced ones so far) footgunning themselves with these tools.
by ixsploit | 2025-10-12 17:36:33+00:00
I really like the great defaults helix comes with.

I used neovim for 20 years and still like it a lot. But after some plugins broke I wanted to give helix a try. I am missing a plugin system in helix.

However, for me, helix comes with the nearly perfect amount of functionality, while being extremely responsive. It also made me appreciate stuff like multicursor, which I haven’t tried before.

I tried multiple out of the box nvim solutions, but never liked one of those.

I looked into zed, but don’t see much of a reason to use it. Maybe I should give it a try.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-10-12 17:36:37+00:00
Australia, The Philippines, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and possibly France would join American military intervention. Not to mention Taiwan itself. Probably get logistical support from other places like Singapore, Thailand, etc.

American sentiment would change if mass casualties were inflicted on US troops.

This war scenario is different for Americans than Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. There is direct threat to the American homeland if Taiwan falls. Not to mention destroying our technology infrastructure and industry.
by 9x39 | 2025-10-12 17:37:23+00:00
I hear where you're coming from. The corporate shops customize fleets with group policy and InTune, and it's a hassle to do the same one-off at home.

You might get traction with trying the IOT LTSC versions, which are often very stripped down. Used to be LTSB, then LTSC, but now on 11 I think you need to opt for IOT LTSC which is different than just LTSC.

IOT LTSC will have half the processes out of the box and less bullshit that you hate. It's possible apps that do OS checks will grump at you - Adobe Lightroom for example comes to mind, but it's an idea.
by Crinkle | 2025-10-12 17:37:30+00:00
Thank you so much for triggering this memory.

I read a BASIC programming book when I was around 10, and the ELIZA example was hilarious and fascinating to me. I implemented several Eliza versions in secondary school as a way to learn new programming languages, and went on to study Computational Linguistics in university. Occasionally I tried to find the book and particular Eliza example but failed, and I doubt I have the book now.

When I saw the name Tim Hartnell, I knew it was him. I found the example on page 216 of Tim Hartnell's Giant Book of Computer Games.
by grumbel | 2025-10-12 17:38:13+00:00
If I'd wanted my user account tied to a server controlled by somebody else, I'd just use Twitter. Mastodon isn't solving any problems here.

The beauty of Nostr is that it turns the server into a dumb relay, the server controls and owns nothing and you can replace it with another one at anytime or broadcast to multiple at once to begin with. The user is in full control and everything is held together by public-key crypto.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-12 17:38:23+00:00
I noticed that too, when working on a frontend project with hot code reloading it would immediately reflect the change even if it was still requiring review in the editor. It's convenient but also an obvious flaw that immediately turns any prompt injection into a RCE. It diligently asking me for confirmation still on every other kind of interaction feels like a dangerous false sense of security.