MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigiain | 2025-10-08 01:44:18+00:00
> My issue with this term is that it muddies the waters for people who are using LLMs to assist with types of engineering beyond just writing code.

I'm now imagining me dying as a vibe-engineered truck has a steering/brake failure and crashes into me sending flying through the vibe-engineered papier-mâché bridge guardrails, and feeling sweet sweet release as I plummet to my doom.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-10-08 01:44:32+00:00
Not necessarily.

Centralization eventually ends up with a single entity in charge of everything, which eventually does (or doesn't do) something that causes it's value to collapse.

The real solution here is federalization: A bunch of independent self-govening entities that co-operate with other entities to assist each other in moderation.

A good non-social network example here would be adblockers.

- Each adblocker uses at least one ad tracking list, with most adblockers allowing for multiple lists to be used and a sensible default for their own users to use.

- Each list has it's own moderators that add/update/remove entries on their list based on their own values.

- Adblockers (and their users) can collaborate on requesting changes to lists, resulting in faster reactions to advertising changes on the web, and in turn faster updates passed down to users of those adblockers who participate.

- If an adblocker can't do their job anymore (e.g. their owners/workers can't do their job anymore, the owner sells out, etc...) users can switch to (or create) a new adblocker.

- If a list fails, adblockers can switch to other lists (or create a new one).

No adblocker and no list holds all the power. Adblocking as a whole is strengthened by always having viable alternatives that can be switched to, and methods to quickly create new alternatives if the need arises.

That's the power of federation: the strengths of centralization without the weaknesses.

The social media version of a federated twitter is mastodon. A whole bunch of groups running their own mastodon servers that can interact with each-other as if they were a centralized mastodon website, with similarly aligned servers sharing co-operatively maintained bad-actor lists.
by rootsudo | 2025-10-08 01:45:17+00:00
I’ve done the same thing for discovering cheaper billing profile on many services, e.g. Netflix or whatnot. Never thought to document it.

Finding it is a bit easy, processing the payment sometimes is geo locked by an account in that region (google/android) or having a form of payment in that country. Japan usually is paypay or a credit card with the BIN issued in Japan. There are many local payment providers though that do allow a foreign credit card so in the an China example:

Download WeChat/alipay, add foreign credit card, Change region, ????, profit.

It does get easier and very inexpensive if you do have foreign residencies and you can really rework purchasing.

Spotify for example is not sticky, but they are aggressive on if they aren’t sure you’re region specific to lock you into a monthly plan before allowing you to switch to yearly.

~ There was also great arbitrage for a while on providers that allowed switching to turkey residency and allowing foreign credit card billing but this ended due to the currency instability and now most software sellers anchor it to another region. ~ Also you’d be surprised about the minimum requirements to open up financial accounts in foreign countries. Linepay is pretty much open, but kinda sucks (Japan, Taiwan and Thailand) and it seems the LINE developers are maximizing at destroying their app and audience while WeChat and Alipay are amazing for what they are in general.
by themafia | 2025-10-08 01:46:42+00:00
> Is this even corruption?

It's a tool used to further it.

> Who's getting kickbacks here?

As a result of this law? Hard to say. It's rather large. Presumably they're _already_ receiving kickbacks or political protection and this allows them to protect and further that.

> It sounds like they're just incompetent

It's amazing how often they're incompetent and how little consequence they suffer from that. This is a canard, and, not a particularly useful aphorism when trying to understand this _particular_ law.

> and brainstorming stupid ideas and writing a law around whatever sticks to the wall.

You're imagining excuses on behalf of powerful people rather than examining the law they've just passed.
by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 01:46:43+00:00
> there aren't special rules for "serious play" as opposed to non-serious play

Of course there are. We don’t follow every rule in the FIDE handbook when I play at Christmas with my brother in law.

For example, I would bet that in 99% of home games, touch-move is not enforced.

> allowed under USCF rules

interesting, I didn’t know that.
by fao_ | 2025-10-08 01:47:58+00:00
> There is no comparison. Linux suffers from "not my department" syndrome. If some component in the stack borks the install you are in hell trying to fix it and risk breaking something else. > > Windows for all its faults still has some semblance of the majority of the OS being developed under one roof so things actually work together.

My favourite part of Windows is how opening the start menu causes CPU usage to spike because the start menu is made using React, versus using native UI components for it. Is... that the kind of "working together" that you mean?

I've been running Linux since 2009 and these complaints are fine to pull out when levelled at contemporary Linux, but it's grown up hugely since Valve started throwing money at it. I haven't had to do any major config on a Linux distro outside of "things I wanted to do with it, just because" since around 2021 (this includes games via Steam or Lutris). Meanwhile I very, very regularly have to hear stories from people about how much work they're putting into their Windows setup just to have a remotely functional OS, including replacing the entire start menu component with a random hack made by a private non-Microsoft sanctioned group.

It's honestly very funny, and it's going to get funnier as the trend keeps continuing.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-08 01:48:50+00:00
Those cameras aren’t usually easily or cheaply adapted to surveillance. Most are really simple and don’t have things like reliable time sync. Also, road jurisdictions are really complex and surveillance requires too much coordination. State, county, town, city all have different bureaucratic processes and funding models.

Surveillance is all about Flock. The feds are handing out grants to everyone, and the police drop the things everywhere. They can locate cars, track routine trips, and all sorts of creepy stuff.
by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 01:48:58+00:00
Apparently it’s allowed under USCF (US Chess Federation) rules, according to my sibling comment, just not under FIDE (international) rules.

Anyway, I’ve never stopped and thought about why it’s not allowed — it just seems like it obviously shouldn’t be, in serious competition. If at an NBA game they ran out of basketballs, they’d stop the game until they got one, not use a soccer ball instead.

It’s hard to imagine that at an actual FIDE-rated tournament with arbiters, etc., they would be unable to find a queen piece to use.
by anonymars | 2025-10-08 01:49:03+00:00
I'll quote Chris Gethard:

...mental health medications, to my knowledge, that’s the only type of medication that when people find out you’re taking it, they feel this freedom to offer up their entirely unsolicited opinions about it, right to your face, it happens all the time...

Like nobody has ever been diagnosed with diabetes and had their ignorant cousin go, “You’re gonna take insulin?” “For now, right? You’ll get off that shit someday.” No one in human history has ever said the words, “What’s so wrong with your life that you need chemotherapy?”
by gpm | 2025-10-08 01:49:10+00:00
Realistically the conditions I imagine being allowed under this statute are things like the customer doesn't use [this] hardware and the customer isn't given access to things like BGP.

Whatever conditions you impose they're going to have to

- Preserve access, because the wording of the law makes it clear that can't be removed.

- Be necessary to protect the telecommunications system from a threat (by the definition of 15.2)

- By the charter not be things that are punitive, substantially impact the ability of someone to speak (i.e. to access the internet), etc. For clarity free speech in Canada includes anonymity.

And I really don't see much of interest that complies with all of those. Were it not for the charter part I agree the conditions could be onerous, but "defacto termination of service" would likely be the bar where courts say that's too onerous without the charter.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-08 01:49:33+00:00
Since Youtube made that change I found its comments much, much more pleasant. Meta made an early decision with Threads to deprioritize political content which they only recently went back on (now it's an opt-out slider I think) which did do a decent job of keeping the network lighter than Twitter but also made the network a bit less intellectual than Twitter or Bluesky.
by fao_ | 2025-10-08 01:49:53+00:00
Ubuntu used to be "hot shit", but I don't think I'd recommend it for any reason these days, especially since it doesn't support Flatpaks.

Pop_OS!, Fedora, etc. are all better and much more stable, and I can't see this changing given Shuttleworth's weird, bizzare, misogynistic, and ableist hiring practices.
by downrightmike | 2025-10-08 01:51:20+00:00
AMD just jumped in for $100b to OpenAI. Sadly, the core consumers are not retail consumers, but datacenters and if you can't squeeze the chips in DCs, retail can't pick up the slack. Failing is likely to happen, mega-datacenters can't be built where the US infrastructure made in the 1950's can't support it. This all feels like last ditch effort hopium that the bubble won't pop.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-08 01:51:39+00:00
Personally, I support any sort of cheap knock-offs as long as they more-or-less last for some time. "Alvar Aalto's 406"'s price is JP¥304,200 from what I quickly found. Most expensive POÄNG is ¥16,990. Almost 20x cheaper. Increasing QoL for average people who can't afford expensive things is actually good.

Yes, I understand the whole "copying isn't innovation" part of the argument, but it is for the greater good.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-08 01:52:23+00:00
We're really still no better off than where we started at - it cannot be measured, it has to be estimated, the estimates are only able to be validated after some time period has elapsed (1 - 5 years) and the confounding factors cannot be discounted.

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't I'm arguing that the business cannot put a number on it that it can rely on. That's fine if the budget is available, but if there's no budget, almost always for reasons beyond the engineer's responsibility (VC money, market resizing, etc) then you're really struggling to be able to justify it.
by phlipski | 2025-10-08 01:53:01+00:00
Seems like a shrewd move. Historically Qualcomm products were only available to the top 5 phone vendors. You couldn't even steal a datasheet... If they're serious about opening up their products to more potential customers this might be a great way. Follow the raspberry pi model. You never know when a garage product will grow into the next multi-billion dollar socket. TI/ST/NXP/etcc could do this too and all it takes is cheap PCB's (mass produce at scale) and lots of documentation.....
by al_borland | 2025-10-08 01:53:22+00:00
What happened to DOGE and the goal of paying down the debt?

It seems if the goal for to decrease spending, we shouldn’t need to raise the debt limit. And revenue from tariff’s should be used to accelerate paying down the debt.

I know everyone seems to not care about that anymore and moved on, but I haven’t.

Servicing the debt is the biggest expense in the budget. If we don’t get it under control it will be the whole budget. If we can eliminate that debt, then we’ll have all kinds of money for other things.
by armada651 | 2025-10-08 01:53:57+00:00
> Unfortunately this seems to be a growing, hypocritical trend around the world. EU's Chat Control as another example.

It's not hypocritical, there's no such thing as an absolute right to freedom of speech in the EU like there is in the US. Chat Control is widely opposed in the EU and I don't agree with it, but it's not hypocritical nor inconsistent with how the EU treats freedom of expression.

Here are the limitations placed on freedom of expression by the European Convention on Human Rights:

> The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

You won't find those conditions in the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.
by acchow | 2025-10-08 01:54:11+00:00
"Why humans evolved intelligence but orangutans did not".

There's a different way to think about this that is closer to how evolution actually works and will make the answer clear.

Our common ancestor (common to orangutans and humans) did evolve intelligence (concurrently with harnessing fire, clothing etc.). Not all of them, but some of them. And they broke off from the group. We now call them humans.
by opello | 2025-10-08 01:54:51+00:00
> As stated it's wrong

Restatement of the premise is not an explanation. I asked "why."

> However, it's illegal under FIDE rules

Under which rule[1]? I anticipate the argument being one of identity, such as "a rook is a rook whether it is right side up or upside down." This is an argument of convention. I don't see a CAD model that describes a rook's physical representation. If both players were to agree that for the sake of a promotion that an overturned rook would in fact be played like a queen the piece identity requirement would be satisfied and no descriptive rule would be violated. Or perhaps a coin, or a stone, or anything of suitable size and ergonomics.

[1] https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf
by whacked_new | 2025-10-08 01:55:17+00:00
Super interested in this as well (and thank you for Caddy)

How does this handle data updating / fixing? My use case is importing data that's semi structured. Say you get data from a 3rd party provider from one dump, and it's for an event called "jog". Then they update their data dump format so "jog" becomes subdivided into "light run" vs "intense walk", and they also applied it retroactively. In this case you'd have to reimport a load of overlapping data.

I saw the FAQ and it only talks about imports not strictly additive.

I am dealing with similar use cases of evolving data and don't want to deal with SQL updating, and end up working entirely in plain text. One advantage is that you can use git to enable time traveling (for a single user it still works reasonably).
by fragmede | 2025-10-08 01:55:41+00:00
We should be very specific and careful with our words. pseidemann said "most humans cannot properly control a computer", which isn't the same as "most people are incapable of using a computer".

I would agree with pseidemann. There's a level of understanding and care and focus that most people lack. That doesn't make those people less worthy of love and care and support, and computers are easier to use than ever. Most people don't know what EFI is, nor should they have to. If all someone needs from the computer to be able to update their facebook, the finer details of controlling a computer aren't, and shouldn't be important to them, and that's okay!

Humanity's goal should have been to make the smartest human possible, but no one got the memo, so we're raising the bar by augmenting everyone with technology instead of implementing eugenics programs.
by swed420 | 2025-10-08 01:56:08+00:00
> It always comes back to the userbase. I don't know how many times technologists need to learn the lesson that normal people simply don't care about ideological technical principles like decentralization and often actually prefer the benefits of centralized systems like ease of use and typically stronger moderation.

The choice need not be limited to the familiar corporate hellscape vs decentralized usability nightmare dichotomy. Middle grounds can exist if we want them to.

I've seen a lot of general support for the criticisms and concepts described in this article:

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

Anyone who builds what they describe there can expect it to take off faster than ever.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-08 01:56:15+00:00
Definitely due to trademark disputes and political pressure.

Trademark makes sense, ICANN has a whole program around that: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/trademark-infringement...

As for political pressure, do we have any examples?

Consider the eBay stalking scandal [1] and ask if those doing the stalking would be willing to bribe or coerce someone to seize the blogger’s domain.

Has ICANN (or registry) ever been bribed or coerced? I understand a low quality registrar can, and can possibly take over a domain, but there is recourse (and punishment such as loss of registrar status) around these situations. I would of course avoid these micronation tlds and stick to well established tlds like com/net/org.
by mholt | 2025-10-08 01:56:18+00:00
Correct, Timelinize is not a backup utility, but having the copy of your data in your timeline acts as a backup against losing access to your data sources, such as Google Photos, or your social media account(s), etc. As opposed to simply displaying data that is stored elsewhere.

But yes, I think the likes of what Ente is doing is interesting, though I don't know the technical details.

Data content hashes are pretty appealing too! But they have some drawbacks and I decided not to lean heavily on them in this application, at least for now.
by gpm | 2025-10-08 01:57:13+00:00
No. The government has tried to get telecoms to remove Huawei equipment. They have successfully resisted. This bill appears to exist in large part to change that, specifically.

This bill does not allow the minister to remove services from any specified person. It allows the minister to order telecoms stop receiving services from specified persons (i.e. huawei). It allows the minister to put conditions on, but not remove, services the telecoms provide to a person.

I agree I wish there were more limits on the secrecy portion.
by opello | 2025-10-08 01:58:55+00:00
> it just seems like it obviously shouldn’t be, in serious competition

Why does it seem obvious? Out of some sense of accessibility to third party observers?

> If at an NBA game they ran out of basketballs, they’d stop the game until they got one, not use a soccer ball instead.

This is an unreasonable straw man because basketballs and soccer balls behave quite differently. A marble would be less suitable than an overturned rook because it may roll away, but both are similarly graspable with similar dexterity.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-08 01:58:56+00:00
I'm so looking forward to it. Many of the problems that should be trivially solved with either AI or a script are hard to impossible to solve because the data is locked away in some form.

Having an AI handle this may be inefficient, but as it uses the existing user interfaces, it might allow bypassing years of bureaucracy, and when the bureaucracy tries to fight it to justify its existence, it can fight it out with the EVERYONE MUST USE AI OR ELSE layers of management, while I can finally automate that idiotic task (using tens of kilowatts rather than a one-liner, but still better than having to do it by hand).
by coderenegade | 2025-10-08 02:00:01+00:00
To play devil's advocate, isn't it illegal wear a swastika in Germany? How is wearing a burqa, a symbol of female oppression any different?

Freedom of religion only goes so far, because the culture of the host country takes precedence. To take it to the extreme, if there were a religion where part of standard practice involved assaulting women and children, we would obviously limit those practices.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-08 02:00:02+00:00
https://www.energy-storage.news/global-bess-deployments-in-h...

https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/china-alread...

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-battery-industry-has-en...

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-chinas-bat...
by mxuribe | 2025-10-08 02:00:08+00:00
Yes, but, there are things one can do to help alleviate or avoid being classified as spammer...such as setting up SPF, DKIM, DMARc, etc. properly. Also, have folks send emails into your new inbox first, then reply, etc...Also, "warm up" the sending outbound by sending into legitimate services little by little, etc. Now, if you were to stand up your own self-hosted mail server, that makes things a little harder, but even then, there are things one can do...so its not dire.
by CSSer | 2025-10-08 02:00:32+00:00
I didn't bother to cite my sources at the time, and it seems that was a mistake. I used careless language. The overwhelming majority are Californians, at least as much as I have any right to claim to be. They lived in California for a significant enough period of time that they didn't necessarily intend to just become homeless. However, you're correct that a simple majority, not the vast majority, are native Californians.

> People experiencing homelessness in California are Californians. Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing (Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative - UCSF, page 5, June 2023)[0].

> Two-thirds (66%) were born in California[0].

> Where were you living at the time you became most recently became homeless?[1]

85.39% answered Santa Clara county in a survey conducted on homelessness in Santa Clara county conducted by the county government around the same time. 54.12% of those answered that they'd lived in Santa Clara county for more than ten years, with the next largest percentage, 21.26%, having lived there for 1-4 years.

[0]:https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CA...

[1]:https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/reports-and-publications-li...

[2]:https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/californ...
by gpm | 2025-10-08 02:00:34+00:00
Huawei gear has not been banned, unfortunately. There's been some progress in removing it, but ultimately the telecoms have refused to do so fully. Laws to get this done were in the process of being passed, but not passed, when the Trudeau government fell.

Here's a source from not that long ago: https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/01/14/telcos-slow-removal-huawe...
by Neywiny | 2025-10-08 02:00:38+00:00
Same here. I have a .dev tld (Ooh ahh very fancy). My email is [first]@[last].dev . The amount of times they go "@ gmail?" Is astonishing. These are people who all day, countless times per day, for countless years, are collecting emails (front desk clerks, support reps, whatever), and not one email in the history of emails is the format blah@blah.blah@gmail.com, but somehow they think mine is. Should've just stuck with the Gmail