MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxlin | 2025-10-01 05:10:17+00:00
Having dabbled in trying to make a quick delta patch system like Steam's, which required me to understand delta patching methods and made small patches to big files in a 10gb+ installation in a few seconds, this is sure is quite interesting!

I wonder if Steam ever decides to supercharge their content handling with some user-space filesystem stuff. With fast connections, there isn't really a reason they couldn't launch games in seconds, streaming data on-demand with smart pre-caching steering based on automatically trained access pattern data. And especially with finely tuned delta patching like this, online game pauses for patching could be almost entirely eliminated. Stop & go instead of a pit stop.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-01 05:10:43+00:00
I was old enough to know better, but I knew a couple of younger people who were doing it because "it was easy" and policing of such things hadn't caught up to the internet yet, so for someone at their age they would have just considered it to be "dumb stuff on the internet".

It doesn't translate to today's Internet.

(This would have been ~25 years ago, maybe a bit more)
by sheepscreek | 2025-10-01 05:13:08+00:00
Probably wouldn’t have been feasible - I heard developers had to compile their games with Stadia support. Maybe it was an entirely different platform, with its own alternative to DirectX, or maybe had some kind of lightweight emulation (such as Proton) but I remember vaguely the few games I played had custom stadia key bindings (with stadia symbols). They would display like that within the game. So definitely some customization did happen.

This is unlike the model that PlayStation, Xbox and even Nvidia are following - I don’t know about Amazon Luna.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-01 05:13:14+00:00
Not the USA, but political turmoil in South Korea and even Japan has been pretty harsh lately (and India, might as well call Trump the USA’s Modi). Yes, Trump is an autocrat, but the presidential drama in South Korea has just been downright bizarre in comparison. Every western developed country right now is dealing with a declining birth rate combined with the inability to compete in infrastructure and manufacturing anymore (even Germany), especially when compared with China but also other Asian tigers.

It is clear that something is going on and it isn’t just an American thing. I can’t really tell you what that is though.
by gdulli | 2025-10-01 05:14:08+00:00
Blatantly wrong, since a focus of theirs is extending the current ACA funding from the previous budget which the current proposed budget doesn't have. Do you repeat the talking points sincerely without understanding them, or disingenuously with an understanding of why they're false?

I mean, do you understand how many pages and details there are in a federal budget, do you think it's plausible that an incoming administration wouldn't make hundreds of changes from the budget of an administration of the opposite party? That's a plausible scenario?
by komali2 | 2025-10-01 05:14:11+00:00
I'm unconvinced. Banks wield massive political power through their capital, and so get away with highway robbery all the time. 2008 financial crisis comes to mind. It seems to me that the rules are one sided and so it seems this "foundational part" of high functioning society is just guarding the highwaymen with the cityguard, when the swords should be facing the other direction.
by seszett | 2025-10-01 05:14:16+00:00
I don't remember the exact details now but that was mostly out of spite from presumably one entity (or a handful at most) that owns many US local newspapers though. They're not subject to GDPR anyway as they explicitly don't target EU users as customers, they just wanted to put pressure, pass a message to the EU.

And as you can see they didn't even bother updating their block after Brexit.
by BinaryMuse | 2025-10-01 05:14:40+00:00
A viewer and editor, but essentially yes — the Hub handles sharing and collaboration for you, as well as realtime collaborative editing and a few other features (and likely a few more to come). We want the Hub to feel like the most frictionless way to collaborate on runbooks, but we understand that some folks don't want host their runbooks with a third party, and sometimes fitting into an existing VCS workflow makes the most sense.
by silisili | 2025-10-01 05:15:37+00:00
That's me. If there's one thing I've learned about it, it's that we'll never get rich quick as over logical people.

Of course Dropbox is dumb when rsync exists. Of course og Twitter was dumb when group sms existed. Of course Bitcoin is dumb because...(waves hands in all encompassing disbelief). Wrong every time.

It doesn't pay to be the 'smartest guy in the room', as a figure of speech. It pays to be able to figure out how the everyman will act, no matter how much it pains you. And maybe those people who do are the real 'smartest people in the room.'
by riffraff | 2025-10-01 05:15:46+00:00
> That's the only way to properly conform to jurisdiction, amirite?

No, you're not? It's pretty obvious that if you try to, say, sell illegal drugs to my citizens, I as a country will come after you even if it's legal on your side.

The internet blurred the lines because you don't "show up" in the buyer's country but there's nothing new here: both seller and buyer need to respect the law.
by waste_monk | 2025-10-01 05:15:59+00:00
I see plenty of "glove box"-type lab equipment which has an airtight enclosure (often rated to some degree of vacuum), and gloves which allow handling of things inside. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to DIY such an enclosure, but pressurise it to 1 ATM instead? E.g. a small air compressor and a relief valve set to ~15psi or so?

I am thinking that you would put a kettle of water inside, pressurise the container, and then boil the kettle (would need a power or gas line installed) and make the coffee using the handling gloves. Then depressurise the container and retrieve the beverage.

I'm no engineer so I would be interested to know if this would set me down a path of "you'll accidentally maim yourself", but I wouldn't think you'd need anything fancy or hazardous in terms of materials or engineering, given most human-made structures exist at 1atm.

Would probably need to be careful to let the coffee sit for a few minutes to avoid flash-boiling it though, unless you're adding cold milk.
by za3faran | 2025-10-01 05:18:50+00:00
> The Arab Empire's conquests are called both Muslim conquests or Arab conquests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests).

If you look at the citation for the latter designation, you will see that it is a non-Muslim/non-Arab source. Never have I heard the term (الفتوحات العربية) in any proper source.

As far as I know "Arab conquests" is a modern phrasing used in English (orientalist historiography). It reflects the ethnic origin of the initial armies (mostly Arab tribes) but is not how pre-modern Muslim sources described them.

> Yes, but I was talking specifically about the Arab conquests that preceded the Ottoman Empire by centuries

If you mean the Rashidun, Umayyad, or Abbasid Caliphates, then those were not simply "Arabian" empires - they were Islamic. Non-Arab peoples were deeply involved at every stage. The unifying goal wasn't to spread Arab nationalism but the spread of Islam.

> Not only is that obviously not even remotely true, but the Arab Empire conquered and colonised the Levant, Maghreb, and Europe's Iberian Peninsula centuries before the crusades

They certainly conquered territory, yes. But the term "colonization" (especially with the European background involved) is very loaded, if not misleading. Unlike European colonialism, which involved stealing natural resources, dispossession, and often depopulation - Islamic conquests generally integrated local populations as I previously pointed out. Andalus was ruled by a combination of Arabs, Berbers, and large numbers of local converts. Likewise, in the Levant and Maghreb, indigenous societies weren't replaced or erased. They remained, adapted, and in many cases thrived under Islamic rule.

> Nothing justifies mass killings, and each of those atrocities stands on its own.

Agreed. But my point was that the Western-backed Israeli regime and WWII Germany share a disturbing structural resemblance: both are rooted in ethno-supremacist, ethnic-cleansing ideologies, and both commit mass killings against civilian populations. At least the nazis tried to hide their crimes; the israeli regime doesn’t even bother, and they boast about it (there are countless video interviews and confessions of israeli soliders that affirm this - several recent ones of israeli soldiers confessing their PTSD symptoms in court because of their crimes are very telling and distrurbing). The so-called "allies" hardly had clean hands either, their own history of indiscriminate mass killings during WWII (firebombing cities, nuclear attacks, colonial massacres) shows the same willingness to treat civilian life as expendable.

On a side note, what happened in Syria was a direct result of French colonial policy when they and Britain colonized the Levant, and israel is trying to follow the exact same play book in post-liberation Syria today. I won't get started on Lebanon either.
by apple1417 | 2025-10-01 05:19:11+00:00
2800 day streak here, primarily in Finnish. I haven't been a fan of the app for a long time, but the problem I've always had switching is the question: What else? There might be a thousand different Spanish courses, but for less popular languages there just aren't many choices, the fact that they still host one is great. Yes I haven't really learnt much, it's more maintaining what I do know, but I'd've lost it without.

Incidentally I do think Finnish is one of the cases where it could work well. The way I see it the difficulty in learning Finnish is primarily learning an entirely new vocabulary, the grammar and sentence structure isn't that hard, and Duolingo could work well to teach you thousands of new words. The problem is they have a very limited amount of exercises, to the point my phone's auto complete can solve half of them.

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Please don't just link me stuff you've found on Google, I've tried them all. My favourite was Yle Kielikoulu, but that's been shut down.
by ValtteriL | 2025-10-01 05:19:43+00:00
I tried to use it in my business. I wrote contracts, testing reports, and even slide decks with it. Eventually, I decided the friction to be too much.

My partner (lawyer) didn't want to spend any time learning it as Word is the de facto in her field. So I had to either maintain also Word, or be on my own.

Testing report template consumed a lot of time to construct. I didn't have enough iterations generating reports to reap benefits from codification and git version control. Adequate Word templates on the other hand were easy to outsource for $100.

Slide decks were beautiful to me as an engineer but they didn't seem to convince the buyers (usually non-technical). I'm not super keen on presenting and the added stress from unfamiliar presentation tooling didn't help.
by sensanaty | 2025-10-01 05:20:49+00:00
This "barrier of entry" rhetoric reads like a pure buzzword dreamed up by AI pushers with no actual meaning to it. The barrier has NEVER been lower to produce books or comic strips or anything else like that. Hell, look at xkcd, there's nothing technically challenging about it, it's quite literally just stick figures, yet it's massively popular because it's clever and well thought out.

What exactly is this enabling, other than the mass generation of low quality, throwaway crap that exists solely to fatten up Altman's wallet some more?
by mitchell209 | 2025-10-01 05:21:16+00:00
Most of their failures are usually on their custom features instead of basic WebKit / Safari functionality, in my experience. As a basic browser it’s great, but I consistently have issues with 1Password logins, especially if passkeys are involved. That isn’t necessarily their fault but the end result of me being unable to use their browser is the same. And if I’m going to use a basic browser I might as well use Safari and not deal with any third party software.
by zer00eyz | 2025-10-01 05:21:41+00:00
"Public messages risk a wide audience seeing the message and recognizing it’s inappropriate, then taking action against the person, reporting them, or highlighting the inappropriate messages for mob reprisals."

You're defending this, as policing?

> If you think not letting anonymous people talk to children

Follow this rational to the end state, and we should all have to keep our kitchen knives chained to the counter because they might be used to stab someone.

Let's ban chemistry cause someone might make a bomb.

Everyone should wear helmets all the time cause they might trip and bump their heads.

Dont tell me you're saving the children with the digital version of "papers please". Dont pass a law where "parenting" is the real and easy solution.
by scrubs | 2025-10-01 05:21:41+00:00
If my mother or other older people i know who need Medicare, medicaid, ssn, snap lose it or see huge increases while taxes are reduced for the top 5% while trump enriches himself while congress remains paid and insured ... I'm gonna have to start getting involved in someway ... these (my mother and friends) people are not lazy assholes.

If my ssn is screwed with which I've paid into for decades ... because of interest on debt and other basic financial mismagement ... there's gonna be push back.

The overreach of the right is building cases for nyc next lefty mayor (likely) and Sanders, aoc, Robert reichs of the world btw ... too far left can have its own other problems. We don't need that either.

We are in serious need of competence and getting the basics done right for the right reasons.

While i could go on at length about trump's own rank stupidity we all must see the root cause is an instiutionally corrupt and incompetent congress. That power vacuum is filled by trump now.. but it's congress that bears the ultimate responsibility. Democrats are not criminally so flagrant or culpable but democrat policy and no street smarts didn't help. They are a very weak compeitor.
by sturadnidge | 2025-10-01 05:21:42+00:00
How many of said countries require more than a simple majority to pass a budget though? To my knowledge the US is quite the exception in that it requires a _special_ majority for such things.

A simple majority could be challenging if the government is formed via coalition, but if you have any examples where 1) a single party formed government and 2) a simple majority was the only requirement to pass a budget and 3) a budget failed to pass… then enlighten me by all means!
by joshmn | 2025-10-01 05:23:17+00:00
I am considered still in-custody so I have taken the site offline. I never, ever expected any kind of attention given to it. I don't want to provide mixed signals to any BOP of DOJ employee that may misinterpret the purpose of this website.

I am flattered by the reception here, though. Maybe in due time I can talk more about things and it can find its way back to the front page of my CMD+T muscle memory.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 05:24:05+00:00
The Guardian is owned by a British left leaning nonprofit.

As someone who actually worked with the DNC a decadish ago, the issue is the organization has been hemorrhaging talent for a decade, and hiring pipeline became horrid in the run-up of the 2020 primaries, because it became multiple internal turf wars, as state level Dems were stagnating in states like CA and IL, thus leading to dissent internally.

The moderate vs progressive culture war didn't help internally either (eg. asking whether "Latinx" might be alienating Latiné voters wouldn't end well if you wanted a career in the CA and TX Dems).
by lennertjansen | 2025-10-01 05:24:07+00:00
the custom priced tier has usage based pricing. Admittedly, we’re still trying to nail down the unit economics of it all, which is pretty tricky in our case. That’s partly why wanted to release the free dev tier and cheap pro tier, so people can get started with building lightweight projects already. But I 100% agree that the next step is a self-serve PAYG tier.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-01 05:25:56+00:00
Here's a collection for dang/tomhow, as this is (as it always has in the past) going to collect duplicates as everyone posts their own news source's version:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423880 (NPR before the shutdown)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434179 (The Guardian, politically biased headline)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434441 (Reuters)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434146 (BBC News)
by praptak | 2025-10-01 05:25:57+00:00
Sounds like a bogus charge where the only purpose is to scare you into pleading guilty to something else.

Btw it sounds like it's a good idea to never report bugs to Major League Baseball. Refusing to pay beg bounty is one thing but offering bounty to then paint it as extortion by the researcher?

White hats take note.
by masklinn | 2025-10-01 05:26:05+00:00
> One would think this question would have been answered directly in the FAA report

No, one would not, as it is of no interest to any regulator. They’re not dealing with any sort of non-mcas non-737 max.

> We got zero data on how often MCAS made adjustments and how often in the report.

This has no relevance to what I am talking about.

> we only have Boeing's word for it

We don’t have that because it is of no interest to Boeing either.
by achenet | 2025-10-01 05:26:05+00:00
> Granted, it is weird to think about living in a country where this is a finanical product that so many institutions just have.

I suppose it's like working for a company with a really weird build or CI/CD process that breaks regularly, to the point where many devs in the company have a prepared "the build process broke again" workaround script ready.

People are generally pretty intelligent, au least until they get into politics
by Terr_ | 2025-10-01 05:26:09+00:00
I want to point out that that a new and dangerous kind of "shutdown" was already happening before today, just in a patchy partisan manner. [0][1] In a nutshell:

1. Democrats and Republicans reach a typical legislative compromise with enough votes to pass a law, declaring that federal government shall do both [A] and [B].

2. President Trump: "Meh, I just don't wanna do [B], nobody do [B] or else you're fired."

3. Republican legislators: "Sure, we didn't want [B] anyway, we'll sit back and let Trump break the law without impeaching him. We'll can spend that money for something else we like later."

So... what's the point of Democrats compromising on a package of budget laws, when the Republican party keeps conspiring to break the very laws they agreed-to but don't like?

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[0] https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/new-data-show-t...

[1] https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/the-t...
by astrange | 2025-10-01 05:26:36+00:00
Until you have to replace a roof, or a tenant destroys the house, or it just doesn't rent for a while and nobody notices a water pipe breaking.

It's risky to own a lot of buildings, and worse the risks are correlated if they're all in the same place (there could be a flood or wildfire etc.)

Commercial real estate is different because your tenants are (more) professional.
by jakebasile | 2025-10-01 05:26:54+00:00
As I understand it, GeForce Now actually does require changes to the game to run in the standard and until recently only option of "Ready To Play". This is the supposed reason that new updates to games sometimes take time to get released on the service, since either the developers themselves or Nvidia needs to modify it to work correctly on the service. I have no idea if this is true, but it makes sense to me.

They recently added "Install to Play" where you can install games from Steam that aren't modified for the service. They charge for storage for this though.

Sadly, there's still tons of games unavaiable because publishers need to opt in and many don't.
by deaux | 2025-10-01 05:27:06+00:00
> The only workplaces that realistically allow people to use Linux desktops are academia and top-5%-sexiness-factor startups. The other 95% of us have to use what our boss tells us to use (and he got told by the insurance company that scammed him into cybersecurity insurance).

This is super ironic and shows your "us" in "the rest of us" is a tiny, marginal group, maybe "Silicon Valley programmers" or something. In most small software companies they couldn't care less what you use, the only thing they look at is perceived "speed". You could install Red Star OS and get a few pats on the back if you're closing the highest number of Jira tickets.

Hell, nowadays more and more are full remote and the devs do their work on their personal device. Or they do BYOD. Work devices are a cost center.

It's the opposite, the only places that force a particular OS are the top companies for whom compliance, fleet management and such are priorities.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-01 05:27:58+00:00
This. Why bother going through DD properly if you can just sue the seller later if it turns out everything isn't what you expected?

I get that this is about the seller lying during the sale process, which is appropriate imho, you shouldn't be able to just lie about stuff like this. But it's the DD team's job to spot this stuff, that's what DD is all about. I notice the judge criticised the bank as well, which is a step in the right direction.
by diedyesterday | 2025-10-01 05:29:12+00:00
Google is still far far better than the competition which is crawling with manipulated results and fake sites and phishing scams. The other are so much easier to take advantage of and manipulate (e.g. search ranking). No security based filtering ,etc.

I have been personally bitten by results on the likes of Bing or DDG (fake browser addons on top, crypto phishing sites on top, etc.)

Also user experience varies somewhat and for me with the same search prompt ("midjourney"), the intended site is the first result.
by ipaddr | 2025-10-01 05:30:48+00:00
The hope is that we have no employment and we moved into a different form of society where AI takes care of us and allows us to focus on more spiritual meaningful things.

For now AI is deleting many of the jobs the computer created.

The reality is we will more likely end up in a society where wealth/power at the very top will grow and the masses will be controlled by AI.
by fmbb | 2025-10-01 05:31:24+00:00
This is what Open AI themselves believe the risk is:

> By "defeat," I don't mean "subtly manipulate us" or "make us less informed" or something like that - I mean a literal "defeat" in the sense that we could all be killed, enslaved or forcibly contained.

Linked from https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/
by joshmn | 2025-10-01 05:31:33+00:00
I sent him an email too.

I appreciate your interest in this and the interest of the community at large. It's comforting in a way—I feel like the world's worst criminal still. At the same time it's validating to have done something that this community—which I hold in high regard—finds interesting. Maybe in due time I will feel more comfortable to talk more about it; I think I found more product market fit with my words.
by hinkley | 2025-10-01 05:31:59+00:00
The software I wrote for them had to be legal to ship to every country except The Four, which created some new copyright scenarios I’d never dealt with before. When you’re trying to sell to 190 countries, you gotta be ready for a lot, and I’m not surprised that the external stairs are still a thing. Doubly so for a regional jet, which could be flying from all of your country to the nearest international airport.
by riffraff | 2025-10-01 05:32:06+00:00
Ooooh that's why nimrod is an insult! Now it makes sense! Thank you!

Btw, let me add my personal pet peeve: "egregiously" somehow went from meaning "very good" to mean "very bad" in American English.

In my native language "egregiamente" still has the original meaning so I was confused for a long time.