MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sipofwater | 2025-10-23 23:05:31+00:00
"US votes against Guam resolution at UN, commission director seeks unified action": https://www.postguam.com/news/local/us-votes-against-guam-re... (www.postguam.com/news/local/us-votes-against-guam-resolution-at-un-commission-director-seeks-unified-action/article_7a598a74-6c97-4624-bf51-c21691ccf7d5.html); https://archive.ph/F2am7
by nteon | 2025-10-23 23:05:38+00:00
the downside is that the go runtime doesn't expect memory reads to page fault, so you may end up with stalls/latency/under-utilization if part of your dataset is paged out (like if you have a large cdb file w/ random access patterns). Using file IO, the Go runtime could be running a different goroutine if there is a disk read, but with mmap that thread is descheduled but holding an m & p. I'm also not sure if there would be increased stop the world pauses, or if the async preemption stuff would "just work".

Section 3.2 of this paper has more details: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf
by al_borland | 2025-10-23 23:06:32+00:00
From what I can tell, if you close the app while a short is playing, you’ll be dumped back into shorts when opening the app again. I’ve made it a point to always go back to the home tab before closing the app, which seems to avoid the issue.

I assume their goal is to make YouTube feel like TikTok, for those who want that.

Personally, I think there should be a setting so I can pick which page the app opens up to. I’d like it to open up to my Watch Later list, or subscriptions.
by ranadomo | 2025-10-23 23:06:34+00:00
That relatively small in-person games would use rigged shuffling machines, cameras, see-through playing cards, lenses etc seems to all but guarantee that every manner of deception and fraud is being perpetrated by all online gambling sites.

Just stuffing any table with two or more "players/bots" that can see all the cards or share their hands with each other would guarantee enormous payouts on the hundreds of millions at stake in the industry. There are obviously a million more things sites could be doing to take money and there's absolutely no source code control the government does to ensure that the whatever code the regulators look at is running in production and that no other systems are running in parallel, like a bot service that colludes to win.
by beeflet | 2025-10-23 23:06:37+00:00
>Fees are currently around $1.

Fees are CURRENTLY around $1 because no one is using the L1 network. There is no demand now because of all of the times when the transaction fees were $30.

>Also, Bitcoin can process far more than 7 tps through the Lighting network.

The lightning network is insecure during periods of high demand because you aren't able to safely close channels. Also, you still need to fund channels on L1 in the first place!
by tecoholic | 2025-10-23 23:06:40+00:00
This looks like a start of a cascade. Capture data (memory) - too much data confuses context - selective memory based on situation - selection is a chore for humans - automate it with a “pre prompt” - that will select relevant memories for the conversation

Now we have conversations that are 2 layers deep. Maybe there are going to be better solutions, but this feels like the solid step up from LLM as tools onto LLM as services.
by pandaman | 2025-10-23 23:06:48+00:00
The problem I see with the e-bikers is that they just can't ride even at 20 mph. They don't fall off the bike because it moves fast enough but otherwise they are completely inept: break with the rear wheel only, can't stay in the lane, can't corner, don't signal turns, don't warn when passing etc.

20 mph is a moderate speed for a road bike, however, you need to ride a lot to comfortably get to this speed and as a result, when you get there, your skills are adequate. A roadie riding 20+ mph is not going to enter a blind corner in a left lane or skid out trying to maneuver around some trash on the path. Why should we punish people who bike for exercise? It's not like e-bikers are going to wipe much less at 20 mph, your 100 lbs "sauron" without front brakes is going to skid even at 10 mph.
by dv35z | 2025-10-23 23:06:50+00:00
Invest and contribute in your local community / neighborhood maker-space. If one doesn't exist, consider leading the initiative to create and promote one. This can be nicely partnered with a local business incubator / investment community.

This is an excellent guide for creating & running a successful maker-space: https://www.maker-works.com/operations-book
by combyn8tor | 2025-10-23 23:06:53+00:00
"you're essentially stepping into the role of an enterprise MDM IT department, auditing software updates for stability before letting them go out."

If my daughter's Spotify app breaks after an update she knows to immediately contact my on-call pager and alert our family CEO and legal department.

Just give me a checkbox that allows updates.

If an app developer changes something fundamental about the app, then the changes will be subject to the app store age guidelines. If the app is recategorised to 18+ it won't be able to install anyway. Billions of devices around the world have auto app updates turned on. The risk of a rogue update is outweighed by the benefit of getting instant access to security updates. I'm managing a kids iPad with a couple of mainstream games and school apps installed, not running a fortune 500.
by milesvp | 2025-10-23 23:07:13+00:00
Some of it is practice, but it can’t be understated that many of those games were built with extreme low latency. Input low latency, CRT low latency.

The games were already “NES hard” add a couple frames of latency, and you may have halved the time to react to an in game event since you’re going from 1-2frames of lag to 4+. That really effects reaction time. And even for games like Super Mario Bros that are largely muscle memory since all the stages are largely deterministic, the added input lag just makes the game harder than you remember since you may already be used to the lower latency. Oh, and I haven’t even touched on jitter. You might be able to deal with exactly 3frames worse input and screen lag, but if there is ever any deviance from that, the game just got exponentially harder. You could expect almost no jitter on a NES (aside from slow downs from too many sprites), and brains are really bad at compensating for random jitter. I’ve seen demos of marquees played on monitors both with 8fps, one looked jerky, the other looked completely smooth, and the only difference was the smooth one had near zero variance in the framerate.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-23 23:07:33+00:00
I don't click on shorts, so removing them from the UI improves the recommendation feed for me. My recommendations are mostly good educational content, but shorts are never interesting.

For some others, shorts are too much of a temptation. You can find a lot of comments even on HN from people admitting that short-form video content on any platform (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok) can pull them into a time warp where they've wasted more time than they wanted to spend on videos. I suppose there are some people who can manage long-form YouTube use but struggle with shorts, but I suspect a better solution for people with self-control challenges is to disable recommendations completely (which will also make YT shorts disappear)
by neilv | 2025-10-23 23:08:18+00:00
How YouTube Shorts get me is that I will navigate to one from a link someone posts, or a search hit, and (if I'm not on guard), 10-30 minutes later I will realize I've been in shorts-scrolling zombie mode.

And IME video shorts almost never have any value beyond: (1) mindless junk food; or (2) awareness of what other people are seeing.

So I'm going to try just blocking YouTube Shorts entirely, by URL.
by cmurf | 2025-10-23 23:09:16+00:00
It wasn't only family members. Biden granted clemency or pardons to over 4200 people. Notably for the same blanket pardon from 2014 to 2025 for family members, includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, and General Mark Milley.

And all of the members of Congress on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack for anything having to do with their role on that committee.

Schiff was on that committee. He said the pardon was unnecessary and unwise.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-jos...
by kadoban | 2025-10-23 23:11:35+00:00
The "specially designed contact lenses" thing in cards depends on pre-marked cards, either a man on the inside doing it before the game or surreptiously marking them during play (some ink on your hand for example that you can sneak on to cards as you see them in play). That or the glasses can just feed you information gathered elsewhere, like from someone with a view of the cards.

They're not x-ray glasses and won't help you with scratch cards. Besides, someone working with a store or bribing a cashier would make way more sense than goofy theatrics about auras.
by dmix | 2025-10-23 23:12:15+00:00
I'm just curious to see how they handle highways more broadly which is where the real danger is and where Tesla got in trouble in the early days. Waymo avoided doing that until late last year, and even then it's on a very controlled freeway test in Phoenix, not random highways

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/01/from-surface-streets-to-freew...
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-23 23:12:24+00:00
So, while I broadly share most of NotJustBike's views on the world, this particular context is different.

I was asking for an electric motorcycle with a top speed of at least 50mph, intended to be used over the sort of distances that people would not use an e-bike or a bicycle for (in my case, like the 25mile/40km journey from my home into the nearest city).

I do actually ride my bike to/from the city sometimes, and probably the coldest I've ever been cycling (and I ride a lot) was on a winter morning doing this, when I underestimated the depth of the cold without direct sunshine.

Moving at powered speed, with little to zero effort, is extremely chilling (potentially even life-threatening).

So yes ... yes to better cycling infrastructure even inside cities with challenging winter conditions, but also yes to recognizing that not all two-wheeled transport fits that particular description.
by ericyd | 2025-10-23 23:12:44+00:00
I'll admit i didn't read all of either document, but I'm not convinced of the argument that one cannot attribute a failure to a root cause simply because the system is complex and required multiple points of failure to fail catastrophically.

One could make a similar argument in sports that no one person ever scores a point because they are only put into scoring position by a complex series of actions which preceded the actual point. I think that's technically true but practically useless. It's good to have a wide perspective of an issue but I see nothing wrong with identifying the crux of a failure like this one.
by rtpg | 2025-10-23 23:13:00+00:00
Shortcuts convinced me to go to iOS. Android has similar stuff but they're all kinda futzy and hacky in unfortunate ways.

It's a bit surprising to me that, say, Zapier hasn't skunkworked up something like Shortcuts that could be crossplatform. It's not immediately their core competency but being able to roll out low code UIs across employees of a phone through that would make a lot of sense.

The unfortunate thing with iOS is that while there's some secret stuff with deep linking ultimately less stuff is exposed than what one might entirely want. But I _was_ able to make a "fake" Find My for my bluetooth headphones in about 5 minutes (bluetooth disconnect -> record lat/lon into a text file on my phone) and that was fun.
by mastazi | 2025-10-23 23:13:36+00:00
As a teen I attended a school with a curriculum focused on classical studies (Italian "Liceo Classico") and reading your comment I immediately thought "Oh, this commenter must be from the Epicurean School" LOL

Some quotes by Epicurus:

> Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

> The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

And this absolute banger:

> Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
by wrp | 2025-10-23 23:14:06+00:00
Problem solving is a well-explored field in experimental psychology. TFA is a bit unfocused, making both some generally supported speculations and some traditional ideas that haven't been supported. A very good survey is the edited volume, The Psychology of Problem Solving (Davidson 2003).

Although TFA doesn't refer to it by name, "insight" problem solving is when you are stuck on something and then suddenly realize the solution. The common explanation for being stuck is "fixation" on the wrong things. In agreement with TFA, there is indication that verbalization supports fixation more than visualization.
by mort96 | 2025-10-23 23:15:24+00:00
I work in many domains, some where a GC is totally no problem, and some where I'd rather not have a GC (such as microcontrollers, games, the occasional kernel code, software running on embedded Linux devices with very limited memory).

I'm happy with C++ and Rust for those tasks. For other tasks where I want a GC, I'm perfectly happy with some combination of Go, Python and Typescript. I'm realistically never going to look into D.
by imiric | 2025-10-23 23:15:39+00:00
I would say that Canonical is more at fault in this case.

I'm frankly appalled that an essential feature such as system updates didn't have an automated test that would catch this issue immediately after uutils was integrated.

Nevermind the fact that this entire replacement of coreutils is done purely out of financial and political rather than technical reasons, and that they're willing to treat their users as guinea pigs. Despicable.
by dmix | 2025-10-23 23:15:48+00:00
South Park had a good satire on this sort of generic anti-corporation comment. paraphrasing

"Corporations are bad"

"Why?"

"Because, you know, they act all corporate-y."

https://www.tiktok.com/@plutotvuk/video/7311643257383963937 (sorry googles first result was titktok)
by rcleveng | 2025-10-23 23:15:50+00:00
which is really funny, since the Microsoft mice (only a few are left) and keyboards (discontinued) are by far some of my favorite peripherals.

On the apple mouse side, I got a white corded mouse with the tiny eraser looking mousewheel back in around 2003 or so, it's still in use today with a M4 mac mini. Works like a champ, Keyboard from that era is also still in use and used daily in our family.
by hackeraccount | 2025-10-23 23:16:08+00:00
I said this up thread. Trying to get 20% of GDP (or probably even a bit less then that) out of the economy and into the Federal government hasn't worked historically. I would encourage you to look at what people really paid when rates were 90%. They didn't pay 90% of the money that was coming through their door.

I'll agree that eliminating SNAP is an extreme measure that in the overall picture saves little (unlike modest cuts to SS and Medicare) but consider that 20% of Americans are to some measure dependent on SNAP. There's something wrong with that in my view.
by tastyfreeze | 2025-10-23 23:16:18+00:00
If somebody that is here illegally picks up a gun and fights citizens or government they are a foreign combatant on US soil. Fighting them is not civil war it is national defense and is the whole reason the federal government was established.

Now, if you are talking about citizens supporting an invasion against those that oppose it that is civil war. I agree that is a none zero possibility. However, telling citizens to get fucked while taking their money and giving it to non citizens, to me, was certain to lead to violent conflict between citizens.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-23 23:17:08+00:00
1. mmap was added to Unix later by Sun, it wasn't in the original Unix

2. As the article points out mmap is very fast for reading huge amounts of data but is a lot slower at other file operations. For reading smallish files, which is the majority of calls most software will make to the filesystem, the regular file syscalls are better.

3. If you're on a modern Linux you might be better off with io_uring than mmap.
by al_borland | 2025-10-23 23:17:09+00:00
I wish there was something for the app on the AppleTV.

I’m a Premium subscriber as well. In theory, they have nothing to gain from pushing shorts on me or increasing my engagement. It should be all about making the user happy. Yet paying users seem to have to deal with these decisions that are driven by ad-funded users.

I tend to want videos that are about 4 minutes long (what used to be the norm). Now it seems like most of the videos recommended to me are 10-60 minutes long, with the average one being 15-20 minutes. When I’m looking for something shorter it seems like Shorts are the only option. However those are usually either too short, or too long to be in the Shorts format without having control over the video on the TV.

Their perverted incentive structures created this mess. They should just have the one normal format for videos, have auto-play that people can opt-in to if they’re into that, and let people making videos of whatever length is best for the content without forcing videos to either be artificially long or short in an effort to optimize for the monetization algorithm.
by xp84 | 2025-10-23 23:17:12+00:00
Even better, share the frame(s) that the guess was drawn from with a human for verification before triggering ANYTHING. How much trouble could that possibly be? How many "guns" is this thing detecting in a day across all sites? I doubt more than a couple or we'd have heard about tons of incidents, false positives or not.

I wanna see the frames too.
by nawgz | 2025-10-23 23:17:30+00:00
Docs seem really underbaked.

- where does the state and telemetry get stored?

- if something is sleeping for 7 days, and you release a new version in that time, what is invoked?

- how do you configure retries? Looks like it retries forever

And I echo the hatred of the magic strings. Terrible dx
by cb321 | 2025-10-23 23:17:44+00:00
Oh, it's fine. At your leisure. I didn't mean to go against the assertions themselves, but more just kind of speak to their "unargued" quality and often sketchy presentation. Even that Simon piece has a lot of this in there, where it's sort of "by defenition of 'complexity'/by unelaborated observation".

In engineered systems, there is just a disconnect between on our own/small scale KISS and what happens in large organizations, and then what happens over time. This is the real root cause/why, but I'm not sure it's fixable. Maybe partly addressable, tho'.

One thing that might give you a moment of worry is both in that Simon and far, far more broadly all over academia both long before and ever since, biological systems like our bodies are an archetypal example of "complex". Besides medical failures, life mostly has this one main trick -- make many copies and if they don't all fail before they, too, can copy then a stable-ish pattern emerges.

Stable populations + "litter size/replication factor" largely imply average failure rates. For most species it is horrific. On the David Attenborough specials they'll play the sad music and tell you X% of these offspring never make it to mating age. The alternative is not the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo apocalypse, but the "whatever-that-species-is-biopocalypse". Sorry - it's late and my joke circuits are maybe fritzing. So, both big 'L' and little 'l' life, too, "is on the edge", just structurally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality (with sand piles and whatnot) used to be a kind of statistical physics hope for a theory of everything of these kinds of phenomena, but it just doesn't get deployed. Things will seem "shallowly critical" but not so upon deeper inspection. So, maybe it's not not a useful enough approximation.

Anyway, good luck with your housing meetup!
by nine_k | 2025-10-23 23:17:53+00:00
But there is no window. There is a box with a dragon in it. When I bring my eyes closer to the box, I expect to see more of the box, and more of the dragon. You can try it with any real box; substitute any appropriate object for the dragon. Pick your favorite 3D environment that features walls and dragons; notice how both grow, covering more of your FOV. This is what I expect to see as I draw closer to the screen.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-10-23 23:18:44+00:00
I think both third party app stores (without aggressive scare screens) and third party payments will be globally available on both platforms in the next few years. But it will take some time for enough piecemeal jurisdictions to require it for it to become burdensome for the companies to have different options in different regulatory regimes, and to make it no longer worth blocking in jurisdictions which haven't ruled against them yet.
by awillen | 2025-10-23 23:18:53+00:00
"The CAT said in its ruling that developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent's lawyers said was usually 30%."

Where does the 17.5% come from? I can't find it here or in the link Reuters article. Is that just the number that the tribunal decided was fair? If so I'd love to read the analysis of how they got there.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-23 23:18:58+00:00
I've been using Leechblock, a more generalized blocker for all kinds of sites that might otherwise be unobjectionable, to do this. It doesn't hide links/thumbnails for shorts, but prevents me from visiting them (since I have leechblock set to block them "24/7 and until the end of time"). I got some sanity back.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-23 23:19:51+00:00
> It's not all roses and we're paying for the freewheeling approach to this day in some cases, cf. email spam and BGP hijacking. But it gave results and provided unstoppable momentum.

Those are hard problems that ITU/OSI did not exactly have solutions for. Literally any thing that can be a target of spam becomes a target of spam soon enough, and fixing that is hard.

As for BGP, the rpki should fix that, though I'm told if I look I'll be sad (so I'm not looking).
by hodgehog11 | 2025-10-23 23:20:13+00:00
Biden pardoned those family members because he knew Trump would personally go after them and make an example of them regardless of what they actually did. It shouldn't have happened, but it's pretty clear why it did.

Also, how on Earth are their "crimes" as egregious as those that Trump has pardoned in his recent term? Seriously, what did they do? How many people did they hurt? You can't just say "corruption" in an ambiguous sense, because then millions of other people would also apply. Also, "I don't know but it's fishy!" doesn't work when we know literally everything in Hunter Biden's life. That was the whole controversy.

The Binance founder directly impacted people in a significant way. The rioters were violent protesters that resulted in loss of life and others fearing for their life. It isn't the pardon itself that is bad, or the number, but the message it sends as to why they would do it. Biden was "if you're in the family of the president, you'll get forgiveness for your poor life decisions". Duh, like it or not, that's always been true, and Biden got roasted for it anyway. He's done, his family is out.

Trump is "if you're rich or you worship me, literal crime is legal".
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-23 23:20:18+00:00
In our experience building a high performance database server: absolutely. If your line of thinking is “if you have enough free memory”, then these types of optimizations aren’t for you. one of the main benefits is eliminating an extra copy.

additionally, mmap is heavily optimized for random access, so if that’s what you’re doing, then you’ll have a much better time with it than fread.

(I hope a plug is not frowned upon here: if you like this kind of stuff, we’re a fully remote company and hiring C++ devs: https://apply.workable.com/quasar/j/436B0BEE43/ )