MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-12 13:58:02+00:00
This dates back to at least the late 1990s for financial reports. A friend demoed such a system to me at that time.

Much statistically-based news (finance, business reports, weather, sport, disasters, astronomical events) are heavily formulaic and can at least in large part or initial report be automated, which speeds information dissemination.

Of course, it's also possible to distribute raw data tables, charts, or maps, which ... mainstream news organisations seem phenomenally averse to doing. Even "better" business-heavy publications (FT, Economist, Bloomberg, WSJ) do so quite sparingly.

A few days ago I was looking at a Reuters report on a strategic chokepoint north of the Philippines which it and the US are looking toward to help contain possible Chinese naval operations. Lots of pictures of various equipment, landscapes, and people. Zero maps. Am disappoint.
by mohaine | 2025-11-12 13:58:36+00:00
Been awhile since I've worked at one but it is usually grounded in trying to achieve 100% MS usage.

It is rarish to find a partial MS shop. Most of this is how hard MS makes it to use other tools. Even in 2025 they have good interop with external tools hamstrung.

Example: SQL Servers JDBC driver will convert an entire table's of data from ASCII to UTF and a full table scan instead of convertering your UTF bind to ASCII and using the ASCII based index. This doesn't break interop but does make it painful to code and one more reason to just use .Net.
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 13:59:11+00:00
> ...what I do have to pay out of the ass, every month, is for someone else’s basic life sustaining services.

Ah.

Well, I've every expectation that you're free to move to some second- or third-tier country that both welcomes newcomers and lets folks fend for themselves, financially. [0] Bon voyage!

[0] I would suggest you move to the US, but we've been (and continue to be) batshit insane about preventing folks from moving in. Sorry!
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-12 13:59:32+00:00
Scientific paper as well: <https://fediscience.org/@GeorgKrammer/115536337398227063>

Original <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081> and retraction: <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081>.
by kube-system | 2025-11-12 13:59:51+00:00
I was a bit glib with my answer, but I don’t think what they said is wrong. Just because something is a written standard doesn’t mean it is an observed standard. WaPo was clearly referring to the lack of an observed standard. I don’t think they were denying the existence of API specifications, nor do I think that’s a reasonable interpretation. They’re saying that nobody treated it the same way, which is true, and it’s also the reason why it was deprecated in the first place.
by 47282847 | 2025-11-12 13:59:55+00:00
Search for widevine decrypt. You’ll find code and forums where at least some L3 (software) keys are publicly shared. For high resolution on some platforms, you need L1 keys, but as far as I understand the decryption process basically stays the same once you have a working key.

Random article: https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/picking-the-widevine-locks

Claimed to be L1 key leaks (probably all blacklisted by now): https://github.com/Mavrick102/WIDEVINE-CDM-L1-Giveaway
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-12 13:59:57+00:00
You’re still leaving out a few things

1. International travel - I can (and have) used Visa and MC cards world wide. My Amex cards not so much. They aren’t accepted widely internationally - except strangely enough in the UK when we went.

2. Fraud protection/mis billing - the last thing I want is every random company having a settled payment without my being able to dispute it with the credit card company. While the dispute is happening, it’s not my money being held up.

3. Subscriptions - subscriptions are hard enough to cancel. At least I can easily cancel a credit card

4. Credit card holds - right now, if you rent a car or stay in a hotel for example, they put a hold on your credit card. They can do the same with a debit card. But that’s your money on hold and inaccessible.

5. Related to #4, once you put a credit card on file in those cases, they actually can charge you whatever they want - damages, etc. Do you really want them having direct access to your bank account?
by griffiths | 2025-11-12 14:00:08+00:00
As others have mentioned Vault, Keycloak, Flink are language agnostic. Regarding the switch from Java to .NET, I would rather recommend switching to Kotlin instead of .NET for a developer experience similar to C#, while still keeping your existing expertise in Java and its ecosystem. And this comes from someone in a .NET shop currently, but have worked with Java before. IMHO both languages and surrounding ecosystems are good. Both have their pros and cons and quirks.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-12 14:00:17+00:00
This raises a lot of questions. Did they actually ask for money to these big companies? Did they get rejected?

Another approach could be to move this under the umbrella of any of the other OSS foundations. I can imagine the Linux Foundation would be a good place. Well funded, already has most of the stakeholders involved, and this clearly falls in their scope of interest at least. It would not surprise me if that wasn't discussed at some point.

This smells a bit like something that might be more complicated than it looks.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-12 14:00:36+00:00
> Notably NTPd doesn't support leap-smear, which means those who absolutely must have monotonic time can't use it at all.

It should be noted that there currently exists no standard, technical or statutory, for how to do leap smearing. If an event happens and you need to tie your timestamped event logs to the 'greater reality' in some legally binding way there's (AIUI) no way to do that.

A few years ago there was a draft on the idea:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-stenn-ntp-leap-smear-...

And the currently-draft NTPv5 has something about:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv5/

Though the flag simply says that the timescale is smeared and not (AFAICT) how it is being done.

See also perhaps RFC 8633 § 2.7.1:

[…] Operators who have legal obligations or other strong requirements to be synchronized with UTC or civil time SHOULD NOT use leap smearing because the distributed time cannot be guaranteed to be traceable to UTC during the smear interval. […] Any use of leap-smearing servers should be limited to within a single, well-controlled environment. Leap smearing MUST NOT be used for public-facing NTP servers, as they will disagree with non- smearing servers (as well as UTC) during the leap smear interval, and there is no standardized way for a client to detect that a server is using leap smearing. However, be aware that some public-facing servers may be configured this way in spite of this guidance.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8633/
by ned7 | 2025-11-12 14:01:30+00:00
I recently wrote a physics paper that was peer-reviewed and accepted by the International Journal of Quantum Foundations. My aim with the paper was showing that the Born rule, which is the empirically established postulate of quantum mechanics, can be rigorously derived from fundamental relativistic symmetries (Poincaré representations group). This derivation can transform this important quantum postulate into a dynamical universal law necessitated by relativity.

I would highly appreciate your feedback on it.

Disclaimer: Almost 30% of the paper was written using AI for grammatical consistency and collecting/organizing citations and refs.
by mlichvar | 2025-11-12 14:01:46+00:00
The major Linux distributions replaced ntp with ntpsec. A better question would be who is still running ntp. I know about FreeBSD and NetBSD.

ntpsec as a project seems to be doing ok. They are releasing new versions, fix reported issues, accept patches, and develop the code publicly. While ntp still has a huge list of acknowledged but unfixed CVEs.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-12 14:01:56+00:00
not sure I agree. AI seems to be following the same 3-stage path of many inventions: innovation > adoption > diffusion. LeCun and co focus on the first, and LLMs in their current form appear to be incremental at improvements; we're still using the same basis from more than ten years ago. FB and industry are signalling a focus on harvesting the innovation and that could last - but also take - many years or decades. Your fundamental researchers are not interested (or the right people) in that position.
by ktallett | 2025-11-12 14:02:14+00:00
It feels like a more evolved version of those who have what they consider to be relationships with anime characters or virtual idols in Japan. Often treating a doll or lifesize pillow replica of that character as someone the person can interact and spend time with. Obviously like the AI, the fact it is so common does suggest that it must be filling a unmet need in the person and I guess the key focus needs to be how do we help those stuck in that situation to become unstuck and how do we help those feel that unmet need is fulfilled?
by ohduran | 2025-11-12 14:02:33+00:00
Election timeout is random to prevent split votes. The up-to-date restriction ensures that you can only get elected if you're ahead, which, combined with the requirement to gather the votes of the majority of the votes, ensures that the leader has all committed entries.

Check section 5.4.3 in the paper, where it proves it quite elegantly IMHO: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
by IggleSniggle | 2025-11-12 14:02:55+00:00
That's been me before. If you're wondering why people ghost at the technical when they seemed like great candidates: sometimes, at least, they like engineering because it's a discipline where they can get things "right" within some defined band / acceptable tolerance. In interview context, where there's somebody watching and judging, the degree of tolerance is unknown, and you know you won't be given time to choose the most correct approach regardless, and that solving the technical problem is just an indirect proxy for solving the "is this person a good social fit" problem (because you know you have the technical ability), all acts as anti-motivator for practicing for leetcode style interviews.

Its easier to say "I just didn't study and that's why I didn't get the job" than it is to say "even though I spent a bunch of time optimizing for this interview scenario and know I absolutely aced the technical interview, they still didn't like me."

Heck, I've been in interviews where I found the technical aspect a relatively easy bar to pass, and I blurted out something strange just to sabotage myself. If they can look past that and still see that I know what I'm doing and bring a lot to the table, I know they are people that I can do my best work with without needing to be constantly second guessing myself in conversation.

Some companies seem to forget that interviews go both ways, and that job candidates are screening for something different than what companies are screening for.
by philipallstar | 2025-11-12 14:03:02+00:00
> The bureaucracy aims to keep waste and corruption to a minimum during peacetime

This is the problem though - the bureaucracy is guaranteed to add a lot of cost, both in its own personnel, the personnel in the companies employed to deal with the bureaucracy, and the additional time taken for all bids to be evaluated. This is guaranteed to slow down everything, with the promise that it will try to prevent issues. Which, if the bureaucracy is badly run, weaponised, or captured, is a terrible trade.
by dwringer | 2025-11-12 14:03:23+00:00
Gemini has been doing this to me for the past few weeks at the end of basically every single response now, and it often seems to result in the subsequent responses getting off track and lower quality as all these extra tangets start polluting the context. Not to mention how distracting it is as it throws off the reply I was already halfway in the middle of composing by the time I read it.
by Mindwipe | 2025-11-12 14:03:37+00:00
It's just an understandable reluctance to insert a bunch of additional dependencies in your playback stack unless you really, really have to.

People underestimate how much engineering Netflix have put in over the years to get it to work seamlessly and without much playback start latency, and replicating that over literally millions of existing videos is pretty non-trivial, as is re-transcoding.

It's not because of older devices - any TV that has got a YouTube app for a decade was required to support Widevine as part of the agreement to get the app, so the tail end of devices you'd cut off would be tiny, and even if they wanted to keep them in use you could probably use the client certificate to authenticate them and disallow general web access. It wouldn't be 100% fullproof but if any open source project used an extracted key you could revoke it quickly.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-12 14:03:51+00:00
>within any reasonably predictable future timeframe

I think given the pace of technological advancement and given how every generation we see at least one major piece of electronics completely wipe out generations of predictions, this statement doesn’t serve a productive purpose other than to make “I don’t agree” sound like some variation of “it’s an objective fact that what you said is impossible.” You’re just spiking the conversation, even if that is not your intention.

I didn’t say this is definitely going to happen. I’m just saying clearly the way we engage with computers is shifting and that means companies will adjust accordingly. It’s not that far fetched.

As for “within any reasonably predictable future timeframe,” for all we know YouTube will become a relic.
by lerno | 2025-11-12 14:04:01+00:00
If you are comparing Zig to Rust and C++, which are very well known to be difficult to learn, then that is not really saying anything about the ease of learning it. Compare it to Swift, D or Odin. Is it "incredibly simple" compared to those languages as well?

Similarly, one can claim that pretty much anything compiles "incredibly fast" if one compares with Rust, C++ and Swift.

But comparing to worst in class doesn't actually say anything.

One note about this:

> If you have not written a real application in Zig and evaluated it for vulnerabilities, but are claiming that creating Zig was irresponsible, and using it is too; you are cargo culting.

I don't know what this has to do with my comments at all, but I want to point out that you are using "cargo culting" wrong. This describes imitating practices of something successful, thinking that by this imitation, success will follow as well.

> No one reasonable has claimed that memory safe languages should not exist,

Again, I have not talked anything about whether memory safe languages should or should not exist. You are confusing me with someone else.
by atraac | 2025-11-12 14:04:14+00:00
Those things have nothing to do with C# though, rather than your personal experience with companies that were using it.

If I judged every single company i worked at/interacted with, that uses NodeJs, I'd think that every single Node dev is a 13 year old child with no real experience but who think's he's the hottest shit. That has nothing to do with Node and doesn't really describe _all_ the companies out there.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-12 14:04:20+00:00
In short: Aggressive overprovisioning.

Enterprise SSDs are not expensive only because they have better flash chips, but they have much more of them.

A top of the line write oriented SSD comes with 4-7x more capacity than what it says on the tin, but that extra capacity is used for cell replacement rather than capacity itself.

Mixed use comes with 2-4x overprovisioning, and read oriented is around 2x IIRC.
by tinco | 2025-11-12 14:04:28+00:00
I don't believe we need more academic research to achieve AGI. The sort of applications that are solving the recent AGI challenges are just severely resource constrained AGI. The only difference between those systems and human intelligence are resources and incentives.

Not that I believe AGI is the measure of success, there's probably much more efficient ways to achieve company goals than simulating humans.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-12 14:05:08+00:00
Did you deep dive into this? Given the amount of downvotes I have I’m sure you weren’t the only one if you did.

About 30 percent of developers have no degree. Which means… if the average graduate of CS is 130, how low does the average swe without it a degree have to be in order to bring it down to 110?

I mean I spelled out the math. Dear readers, Draw what conclusion you want from that while asking yourself: “Do I have a degree?”

I will say that iq varies heavily across schools as well.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 14:05:15+00:00
Those trillion dollar companies are running a lot of public NTP server infrastructure. Here is a list of public NTP addresses from different big tech companies: https://gist.github.com/mutin-sa/eea1c396b1e610a2da1e5550d94...

> Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it

Are you confusing the NTP Foundation (the group asking for donations) with NTP the protocol or the NTP software itself?

This donation request isn’t even for the public NTP pool. Read the donation page carefully.

The big companies you’re angry at are neither dependent upon nor leeching from this group. They run their own NTP infrastructure, which in some cases has their own developments and adjustments.

Google’s, for example, uses time-smearing to handle leaps. This is different than the standard and therefore you shouldn’t mix Google’s leap-smearing NTP system with NTP servers that don’t leap smear.

> Let it fail and see what happens.

This is a real “cut off your nose to spite your face” moment, but worse: Those public companies don’t depend on any of this. They provide their own server pools and in some cases develop their own software with their own advancements. Cheering for the NTP Foundation to fail because you think it will hurt big companies is very uninformed.
by stanac | 2025-11-12 14:05:50+00:00
Not really, you should learn Typescript by learning JavaScript first. Then consider learning C#. Or if you want to focus on the back end side learn C# and skip TS/JS.

They are created by the same person but they are very different in my opinion.

TypeScript is "a tool" for JS, it is possible to compile without errors but still fail in runtime (e.g. wrong object type returned from API), on the other hand parsing JSON with C# will give you correct object type, it may fail if some properties are missing but it will fail at parsing call, not further down when you try to use missing property. In other words typing is not glued on top of the language it's core of the language.
by jve | 2025-11-12 14:06:00+00:00
> To the uneducated, C# is linked to Visual Studio.. the IDE..

Not native English - does "to the uneducated" means you are directing this sentence that knows no better or you are uneducated?

Because if it is former, you need to re-educate yourself.

C# is not linked to IDE. You can do `dotnet build`? Can run on Linux if you will. Database choice? You are NOT limited to SQL Server or Windows server.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 14:06:18+00:00
Seems its already in Arch's repositories, and seems to work, just add another flag to the invocation:

yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --remote-components ejs:github -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXX'

It is downloading a solver at runtime, took maybe half a second in total, downloads are starting way faster than before it seems to me.

[youtube] [jsc:deno] Solving JS challenges using deno [youtube] [jsc:deno] Downloading challenge solver lib script from https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs/releases/download/0.3.1/yt.solver.lib.min.js

It would be great if we could download the solver manually with a separate command, before running the download command, as I'm probably not alone in running yt-dlp in a restricted environment, and being able to package it up together with the solver before runtime would let me avoid lessening the restrictions for that environment. Not a huge issue though, happy in general the start of downloads seems much faster now.
by aryonoco | 2025-11-12 14:06:21+00:00
People used to say this about Amazon all the time. Remember how Amazon basically didn’t turn any real profits for 2 decades? The joke was that Amazon was a charitable organisation being funded by Wall Street for the benefit of human kind.

That didn’t last. People in the know knew that once you have a billion users and insane revenue and market power and have basically bought or driven out of business most of your competitors (Diapers.com, Jet.com, etc) you can eventually slow down your physical expansion, tighten the screws on your suppliers, increase efficiencies, and start printing money.

The VCs who are funding these companies are hoping that they have found the next Amazon. Many will probably go out of business, but some might join the ranks of trillion dollar companies.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-12 14:06:42+00:00
In history I did this with cybersecurity. I'd tried all kinds of apps like obsidian, one note, evernote, etherpad, dokuwiki, opennote.

The reality is that none of them are particularly good. Obsidian is my current solution, but i dont like it.

What I really need to give a chance: Llama Index. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/framework/#use-cases

Obviously I'd need some time to customize it for my needs, but it sure does seem to be what i want.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-12 14:07:05+00:00
The linked study is of 29 “people” (assuming they are real).

How do we know if these examples aren’t just the 0.1% of the population that is, for all intend and purposes, “out there”?

So much of “news” is just finding these corner cases that evoke emotion, but ultimately have no impact.
by getpokedagain | 2025-11-12 14:07:19+00:00
Maybe a basic note app does not require an account and subscription. Maybe it does not mandate an entire organization and marketing team to deal with security updates. The economy around marketing these types of basic apps is crazy.

I think the op is likely poorly wording their feeling or perhaps are early in exploring their frustrations. They may sound entitled because of this. Their intuition does ring true however. Its 2025 and we are talking a notes app. Handheld pdas had notes applications in the 80s why on earth would we need a subscription let alone dozens of competing subscriptions to take notes. OP will probably find they can get what they need from copy left software and happily ignore this noise in time.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-12 14:07:44+00:00
> Well this is terrifying: the billionaire-backed Evie magazine—a conservative publication that says IUDs can make you hear voices and drown your children—plans to launch a wearable period-tracker that collects data about your cycle, sleep, diet, and movement.

> This true nightmare fuel is a project of Brittany Hugoboom, the conservative influencer who created Evie and a period-tracking app with her husband, Gabriel. It gets worse: the Hugobooms are funded by none other than pronatalist Trump ally, Peter Thiel.

> That’s right, the billionaire behind Palantir and the rise of JD Vance is very interested in women’s pregnancies: Thiel bankrolled Hugoboom’s “28” app, which has raised all sorts of questions about data-collection and privacy in post-Roe America.

The "pronatalist" description of Thiel had me curious, so I looked that up and he does have a history of funding fertility companies and pushing for higher birthrates: https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-oligarchs-and-the-rise-of-...

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1824669688934363177

> PETER THIEL ON DECLINING BIRTH RATE:

> “Once you get an inverted demographic pyramid, at some point do you vote for benefits for the old or for the young? If the people with kids get financially penalized and the people without kids vote benefits for themselves, it will be very difficult to flip back.”