MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Xymist | 2025-10-19 19:46:04+00:00
I feel like you're trying to be sarky with the "#winWin", but genuinely yes. If the tradeoff is that someone gets to feel important and have a plaque put up with their name on it, and something good but expensive happens which otherwise could not, everyone absolutely does win. Even better than taxes because it's a specific goal and consensual on all sides.
by birktj | 2025-10-19 19:46:14+00:00
I strongly disagree and I am having trouble understanding what kind of world you envision, what will it look like?

The problem as I see it is not robots coming for my job and taking away my ability to earn a salary. That can be solved by societal structures like you are saying, even though I am somewhat pessimistic of our ability to do so in our current political climate.

The problem I see is robots coming for my mind and taking away any stakes and my ability to do anything that matters. If the robot is an expert in all fields why would you bother to learn anything? The fact that it takes time and energy to learn new skills and knowledge is what makes the world interesting. And this is exactly what happened before when machines took over a lot of human labour, luckily there were still plenty of things they couldn't do and thus ways to keep the world interesting. But if the machines start to think for us, what then is left for us to do?
by lukan | 2025-10-19 19:46:30+00:00
"Nobody spends energy worrying that the universe is an evil compiler that warps reality specifically to target us"

I have not heard that specific scenario yet, but indeed quite similar ones from very depressed/mentally ill people. Basically that the whole universe was created to torture them specifically. (Probably there is even a medical term for that)

But yes, a sane person should rather be concerned to not fall scam to one of the various criminal groups. That is a real cyber threat for most people and companies.

So minding basic security helps, even if the NSA will likely get past that in no time.
by dcre | 2025-10-19 19:46:42+00:00
“At the heart of the note is a golden rule I’ve developed, which is that if you use large language model AI to create an application or a service, it can never be commercial.

One of the reasons is the way they were built. The original large language model AI was built using vectors to try and understand the statistical likelihood that words follow each other in the sentence. And while they’re very clever, and it’s a very good bit of engineering required to do it, they’re also very limited.

The second thing is the way LLMs were applied to coding. What they’ve learned from — the coding that’s out there, both in and outside the public domain — means that they’re effectively showing you rote learned pieces of code. That’s, again, going to be limited if you want to start developing new applications.”

Frankly kind of amazing to be so wrong right out of the gate. LLMs do not predict the most likely next token. Base models do that, but the RLed chat models we actually use do not — RL optimizes for reward and the unit of being rewarded is larger than a single token. On the second point, approximately all commercial software consists of a big pile of chunks of code that are themselves rote and uninteresting on their own.

They may well end up at the right conclusion, but if you start out with false premises as the pillars of your analysis, the path that leads you to the right place can only be accidental.
by EA-3167 | 2025-10-19 19:46:45+00:00
This is such a worthless and pedantic hill to die on, and one that seems to reveal a profound lack of empathy. Not everyone comes from the same background, not everyone had a good start free from abuse, and some 16 year olds are far more vulnerable legally, societally, and mentally than even their slightly older peers.

With the benefit of being quite a bit older I’m increasingly struck by just how young and frankly childlike teens are. The age of consent isn’t perfect, it’s a compromise and an exercise in drawing lines, but that doesn’t make it worthless or indicate that you should “well actually” people who are abusing them.

Why not read Virginia Giuffre’s book about her experiences for more insight into something you should frankly listen and learn about a lot more before you lecture.
by mindslight | 2025-10-19 19:46:47+00:00
I'm really hoping that the pendulum swings back hard enough for these criminals to become personas-non-grata in the United States, and maybe even most of the Western World. Eventually real Americans will have had enough with the pOlItiCaL pRoSeCuTiOn and lAwFaRe fairytale narratives pumped out by their LLM bots, and hopefully we can just get over it and move to strip every generation of these fuckers of their stolen wealth. They can abscond to China or Russia and find out how much Xi or Putin actually values their service.

(I'm of course always expecting to be disappointed though)
by xtiansimon | 2025-10-19 19:47:53+00:00
Like I said, this is addressed by NY state bureau of elections: “… allows a voter with disabilities to privately and independently vote on a paper ballot. Audio and tactile interfaces allow voters with sight challenges to complete their ballot. Voters can listen to the selections over headphones or view an LCD screen with an image of their ballot that can be adjusted for size and contrast. A "Sip-N-Puff", or other compatible personal interface devices may also be used by voters with limited hand dexterity.”

https://elections.ny.gov/ess-automark
by etlun | 2025-10-19 19:48:01+00:00
Author here, we found it while building & documenting automated dependency assessment workflows for ZeroPath recently. Better-Auth made for a good test case given its popularity (300K weekly downloads).

The vulnerability is a logic error in how the API keys plugin determines user context when a userId is specified. Fix is in version 1.3.26. This is the kind of business logic flaw that traditional dependency vetting (stars, existing CVEs, reputation) doesn't catch. We're working on tooling to make these audits more practical at scale.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-19 19:48:02+00:00
Which RFC? The challenge as with all technical specifications is that you have revisions over time and even some times get split up into multiple RFCs. And then as with all interoper issues, is the RFC that you implement the one that other systems you’re interacting with also implementing that RFC. And then even after all of that, you have implementation differences where even if you follow the RFC to the letter, other implementations either made intentional alternate legal choices or had bugs.

RFCs are generally easy to read but there’s a meaningful chasm between understanding the RFC and what actually gets implemented in practice.
by metalman | 2025-10-19 19:48:25+00:00
I use this

https://weather.ndc.nasa.gov/goes/

as my go(es) to weather "app", billion dollar live sat feed on my phone, for lots of things, other than just local weather,including general investigation into *stuff™ such as finding citys, of which huston is easy, cause it glows in the infrared like nothing else, with the major ring roads and highways clearly visible from geosyncronous orbit at I think a 1 km/pixle resolution, in hot dry high pressure weather huston is clearly an oven. today is cloudy there, but watch for "better", ha!, weather
by pdimitar | 2025-10-19 19:49:21+00:00
Sorry for off-topic but IMO MacBooks started losing value hard since the release of macOS Tahoe.

They were super fast, now part of them are sluggish.

As much as people hate to hear it, Apple is finished. They peaked and have nowhere to go. AI bubble is not going to last more than 1-3 years still, and Apple's inability to make a stable OS upgrade that doesn't ruin people's machines performance puts them in a corner.

Combine this with the fact that MS announced end of support for Windows 10 and both these corporations ironically start to make a strong case for Linux.

Is Linux desktop quite there? Maybe not fully but it's IMO pushing beyond 80% and people who don't like Windows and macOS anymore are starting to weigh their options.
by mchusma | 2025-10-19 19:49:27+00:00
A couple of thoughts: 1. A lot of replacement concerns are macro vs micro concerns. 1.a. Micro, automation pretty much always makes sense. E.g. port automation - consumers, businesses, basically everyone loses by opposing port automation, except a handful of workers. 1.b. Macro, if you apply this to everything, things do start to look a bit strange. Like if humans can't really do much economic activity, this is unfamiliar territory.

However, in the US, the labor-force participation rate is 60%. There are a LOT of adults out there who don't work now. While I do think people find value in work, I would guess that number is less than 50% (potentially much lower). Which makes me think that 30% or fewer of adults are deriving significant value from their work.

On the one hand, something that effects 30% is pretty massive. But it feels less apocolyptic/overwhelming than it may seem.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-19 19:49:56+00:00
> ”Well how would you know who to return it to? It's crypto, … which doesn't allow you to track simple things like transaction history”

That’s not actually correct. The blockchain contains a permanent, immutable, and public record of every transaction.

Obviously you also need a way to connect a given wallet ID (address) back to it’s owner, but if transactions originated from regulated platforms like Binance then they will have those records thanks to KYC/AML rules.

If the transaction originated from a private wallet, a fraud victim could simply submit proof of their wallet ID as part of their claim.
by chongli | 2025-10-19 19:50:09+00:00
This is fun to do during lectures but in my experience only about 5-10% of my learning happened in math class. The other 90% happened at home as I worked through the problem sets.

Essentially the lectures served as an inefficient way of delivering me a set of notes which I’d then reference during homework sessions. I could often predict what was coming next in the lecture but the really hard parts were the key parts in some technical lemmas that were necessary to complete the theorem. Learning how to figure out a key step like that had to come completely on my own (with no spoilers).

In a lot of ways, math lectures really started to turn into an experience similar to watching a Let’s Play of a favourite video game. Watching those can tell you exactly what you need to do to get past the part where you’re stuck but they don’t in general make you better at video games. For that you need to actually play them yourself.
by godelski | 2025-10-19 19:52:03+00:00
> This is a weird conversation.

People are disagreeing with your refinement. The toaster example is exactly this.

Maybe what was interpreted is different than what you meant to convey, but certainly my interpretation was not unique. I'm willing to update my responses if you are willing to clarify but we'll need to work together on that. Because unfortunately just because the words make perfect sense to you doesn't mean they do to others.

I'll even argue that this is some of the importance of understanding. Or at least what we call understanding.
by ansgri | 2025-10-19 19:53:05+00:00
The issue with color to grayscale conversion for human consumption is in most cases there is no well-defined ground truth. People don’t see in grayscale, so the appearance preservation approach doesn’t work. And the source image was most likely heavily color corrected to match certain aesthetic. So the problem becomes “to preserve as much information, both content and aesthetic, within constraints of the target grayscale medium”.

The bottom line is, use some standardized conversion (like described here — just to avoid surprising users) if images don’t actually matter, some contrast-preserving method if content matters, and edit creatively otherwise.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-19 19:53:18+00:00
And scheduling a call between Indonesia's President and Eric Trump[0].

> In a private exchange picked up by microphones, the Indonesian leader asked to meet Eric Trump, to which the president answered, “I’ll have Eric call you,”

> We’re building a great hotel, and that’s going to start very soon. And I never met the president, and I used to go over there quite a bit. And obviously we manage teams over there, and it’s pretty amazing that he knew who I was. And, you know, it’s obviously — I don’t get involved in politics in Indonesia — but when I heard that, I started laughing. ‘Can I please meet Eric?’ He must know the projects very well.

0: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesi...
by yodsanklai | 2025-10-19 19:53:25+00:00
> 1. Follow actively the lessons.

It sounds obvious, but I wonder if this works for everyone. I've always had a very hard time to follow lessons (I studied maths then CS), but did work hard on the side and ultimately did quite well at tests and national exams.

I think the lecture format didn't work well for me, and I would have been better off with the just material, and access to a professor for questions.
by pks016 | 2025-10-19 19:53:27+00:00
Windows 11 rant:

My home mini pc is having Bluetooth issues from last 6-7 months after some update. I can't go back, tried every possible solutions. Best option: wait for them to fix it.

The issue: Sometimes if the Windows boot normally, Bluetooth won't turn on. I have to force restart to have it on. My guess is it's trying to optimize the power or something. I gave up.

My other laptop and work computer are still Windows 10, so some sanity left. I have installed kubuntu on another spare laptop and slowing moving towards linux entirely.
by sorenjan | 2025-10-19 19:54:03+00:00
Swedish has a word for heists where the thieves go in through the ceiling, it's called a "rififikupp", named after the french novel "Du rififi chez les hommes". The latest one became a Netflix mini series (The Helicopter Heist), the most famous one before that was at the modern museum where some Picassos where stolen.
by cortic | 2025-10-19 19:54:26+00:00
> Better coolants

The Montreal protocol (1987) put us back into the dark ages with coolants for a while (both with CFC ban and later phase outs of HFCs). I suspect if you tested a refrigerator from 40 years ago they would give modern ones a run for their money...

It was obviously a worthwhile sacrifice for the ozone layer though.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-10-19 19:55:37+00:00
That's normal. For engineers and mixers, compression is one of the more difficult phenomena to hear and build an intuition for.

My advice for learning is to totally overdo the compression on a drum track (snare, kick, hats, etc) and play with the settings. Ideally these drums are uncompressed.

Using a 4:1 ratio, lower your threshold all the way down until you're getting > 10 dB of gain reduction and then start playing with the attack time. What do you hear when the attack time is at 0 ms? What do you hear when you start to slow the attack time? 5 ms? 10 ms? 30 ms? 100 ms?

Then do the same with your release time. Start with it set as fast as it will go and then start to slow it down. What do you hear happening?

Once you have the attack time and release time feeling good then raise your threshold so that the compression is less heavy-handed (unless you like it). Set the threshold where the level of compression feels good to you.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-19 19:55:51+00:00
Correction: There was flap burn through, just not all the way to the back.

https://bsky.app/profile/dutchspace.bsky.social/post/3m37ofb...

The damage I'd noticed before today was all correlated with where tiles were removed, but the top half of this flap had all its tiles at flight start and still ended up a mess.
by awesomeusername | 2025-10-19 19:56:02+00:00
We use Proxmox.

NVidia are pushing hard in the direction of combined accelerators and ARM CPU (i.e. DGX, Thor, Jetson, etc).

Some of the upcoming hardware hits a sweet spot in terms of performance / $ / W. It's hard to ignore.

But Proxmox is ignoring ARM. Which is a big mistake IMO
by woodruffw | 2025-10-19 19:56:24+00:00
This is a very funny thing to assert on a forum that's entirely delivered via openly standardized (via IETF, W3C, etc.) technologies!

(Also, you certainly can monetize an RFC. In fact, that's the norm in a lot of RFC categories: the various PKCS-derived RFCs are a direct extension of various patented standards that RSA[1] sold software atop of.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security
by o11c | 2025-10-19 19:57:22+00:00
Minor note: on Debian (and possibly other distros), you don't have to use `locale-gen` to dynamically build things into `$complocaledir/locale-archive` (which, incidentally, can cause random breakage for programs that happen to start during system upgrades).

The `locales-all` package works more like macOS. It's only a ~10MB download but unpacks to take ~250MB of disk space (these numbers will vary based on your libc version and packaging format).

There are a lot of sparse arrays and UTF32 character data in compiled locales.

Incidentally, the command to dump a locale's data is:

LC_ALL=whatever locale -ck `locale | sed 's/=.*//; /LANG\|LC_ALL/d'`
by NicuCalcea | 2025-10-19 19:57:29+00:00
> under the assumption that they are aware of every possible law in existence

That's why Ofcom started the correspondence, to inform 4chan of laws it may not have been aware of.

> Someone in the [US] can't expect to have reasonable influence over the laws in the [UK] that they're now required to follow

UK companies comply with US laws all the time if they want to continue serving US audiences. I wish this wasn't the case, but this isn't new. Similarly, lots of US news websites aren't available in the EU/UK because they don't comply with GDPR. None of this is new, there's lots of precedent for it.

> You're still trying to apply rules for jurisdiction, that don't map well to the Internet

Sure they do. When I go to boards.4chan.org, the server recognises my request, including where it's coming from, and returns some content. Similarly, when I buy lemonade from a company, they see my shipping address and ships the lemonade. Seems to me like it maps pretty well.

> To call internet geolocation complex or error prone would be an understatement

All other service providers have imposed IP-based limits and that has satisfied Ofcom, so no need to make it more complex than necessary.

> Legal or not, unreasonable demands deserve rejection.

Of course, 4chan is free to reject the demands, just like The Pirate Bay (based in Sweden) have rejected demands from the US government, that was always an option. Ofcom is making the demands to then be able to enforce the OSA, for example by blocking 4chan, without 4chan saying they were not aware of the demands.
by eurleif | 2025-10-19 19:58:06+00:00
SSDs (many of them at least) actually do make little noises when they're busy! I noticed my PC was making a noise, and I went on a wild goose chase trying to track it down. (Was something wrong with one of the fans? Was it coil whine from the GPU?) I didn't immediately suspect the SSD, because everyone claims they're silent. Then I finally realized the noise corresponded with disk activity, and I found a YouTube video confirming it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-BHI667po
by lukan | 2025-10-19 19:58:25+00:00
I might have underestimated the trigger potential here, but can you state, where I did "lecture" anything or anyone here?

The original claim was, Ginsberg went after "young male children".

Sounds very, very bad.

Wikipedia said so far the youngest was 16.

Still bad, but not as bad in my opinion. So, to form my opinion after the initial accusation I requested more information.

Nothing more, nothing less. It is not all the same to me.
by technion | 2025-10-19 19:58:35+00:00
Microsoft seems perfectly capable of advertising 24/7 support whilst never managing to call back within 24 hours on business crippling sev1 tickets. Just look at how often someone on /r/sysadmin is shocked to find this is the norm.

I know thst youre right about the wording turning off orgs but I do wonder when the biggest enterprise organisation can barely offer it in practice what really is the show stopper for business.
by materielle | 2025-10-19 19:58:41+00:00
Devils advocate: is it really such a problem? Perhaps it should be banned simply on moralistic grounds.

But I fail to see how a hundred or so buildings sold to millionaires and billionaires numbering in the thousands has any affect at all in a city with 20 million people.

Again, surely it’s not the best nor most democratic thing that these buildings exist at all.

But I don’t see how it can impact the bread and butter real estate and rental market. Surely this is caused by the city’s numerous bad housing policies like rent control, zoning, public transportation, education.
by adsharma | 2025-10-19 19:58:44+00:00
Love the DuckLake spec. Now there is something similar for Graphs.

https://adsharma.github.io/graph-archiving/ https://adsharma.github.io/beating-the-CAP-theorem-for-graph...

The catalog is based on the now archived kuzu graph db project. Development continuing here: https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug
by tanelpoder | 2025-10-19 19:58:48+00:00
Indeed, would be nice if there were a standardized API/naming for internal NVMe events, so you'd not have to look up the vendor-specific RAW counters and their offsets. Somewhat like the libpfm/PerfMon2 library for standardized naming for common CPU counters/events across architectures.

The `nvme id-ctrl -H` (human readable) option does parse and explain some configuration settings and hardware capabilities in a more standardized human readable fashion, but availability of internal activity counters, events vary greatly across vendors, products, firmware versions (and even your currently installed nvme & smartctl software package versions).

Regarding eBPF (for OS level view), the `biolatency` tool supports -F option to additionally break down I/Os by the IORQ flags. I have added the iorq_flags to my eBPF `xcapture` tool as well, so I can break down IOs (and latencies) by submitter PID, user, program, etc and see IORQ flags like "WRITE|SYNC|FUA" that help to understand why some write operations are slower than others (especially on commodity SSDs without power-loss-protected write cache).

An example output of viewing IORQ flags in general is below:

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/xcapture-xtop-beta/#disk-io-wai...
by thrance | 2025-10-19 19:58:55+00:00
You misunderstood me. I don't lament not having the museum to myself. I lament the loss of a time when we could go to places without planning to weeks in advance.

Nowadays, we still need to wait in line to get in the museum, as we always needed to, the only difference is that there's a panel that reads "online reservations" in front of the line, and that you get bounced if you don't have a reservation.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-19 19:59:41+00:00
More than state power vs federal power, we the people should hold the power. Two meta issues at play are gerrymandering and judges.

Gerrymandering gives power to who the state legislators want. Federal and many state judges are appointed and serve for life. What good is states rights if your state passes a popular law and some federal judge or activist judge shoots it down because of who passed it?

A big reason we even have to discuss this at all is because Washington clearly doesn't represent regular Americans' best interests or desires.
by jcgl | 2025-10-19 19:59:58+00:00
Hm, that would very much make it a tough sell for me I must say. In addition to the three (seemingly apt) reasons given by GP, this monolithic approach makes it so much harder to adopt--rather than composing this feature into existing editors, plugin systems, etc. (such as treesitter has done), the editor/IDE needs to be built around this, using it as the core data structure. Even leaving aside my own personal editor preferences (I feel rather bonded with neovim at this point), it means your IDE has to compete on all dimensions of the IDE experience at once, rather than being able to work one a single dimension at a time. As far as user adoption goes, I mean.