MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjtech | 2025-11-21 02:31:42+00:00
I'm pretty sure this is just incorrect. According to the linked report[1], they tested it for compatibility with OpenDrop, so I think they simply implemented AWDL.

That might also explain the limited Pixel 10 rollout, if it required a specific WiFi chipset/firmware.

[1] https://www.netspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/google-fea...
by lathiat | 2025-11-21 02:31:51+00:00
I would argue that iPadOS (built on iPhone's coat tails) moved the field forward significantly in terms of isolation and user security.

While this has left a long tail of inconveniences, many resolved and some not, I am very confident that using 1 app on my iPhone/iPad will not leak data to another in any case that I am likely to care about as a non-significantly interesting person (political figure, etc).

... and for those people Apple even makes lockdown mode to move the bar, while acknowledging it adds extra inconvenience: https://support.apple.com/en-au/105120

I have no such confidence about macOS, Linux or Windows, in fact the reverse. macOS has done the best at trying to bolt on some sandboxing (and linux has it too) but that's still very holey and not all-in like iOS/iPadOS has ended up.

Yes, I know there have been many bugs and leaks in iOS but the security level is far and above the desktops currently, and designed that way from the ground up. So when they finally make something work like copy and paste or sharing between apps, etc... it's by and large done very well.

It's been very difficult to add that kind of thing to Linux because you're trying to do the reverse and lock things down and it breaks everything... making it very challenging.. as opposed to Apple where basically nothing useful worked at the start (no copy/paste, one app at a time, no meaningful filesystem, etc).. but managed to get the product successful in the limited state and has slowly unlocked that stuff over time. Admittedly very slowly.

I cannot speak for Android as I just have never used it or surrounded myself in info about it's design, security, etc.. it may well be very similar although they from my casual observation seemed to do a much worse job at granular privacy permissions (e.g. for the longest time permissions were all granted at install time, and so many apps want so many most people are blind to it.. as opposed to Apple's model where even if notarised for something on the app store in most cases you have to agree to it when the app first uses it.. I know they fixed that a while back but I have no idea how well things have transitioned to that now). As a very techy person deeply knowledge in many things, and using desktop Linux since 2002, it's kindof a hilarious personal failing that I have never used Android.. I really should try and resolve that at some point.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-21 02:32:10+00:00
I had a limp from an injury that persisted for 8 years before PRP cleared it up in 3 months. I would have gotten the French sucrose injections earlier but France was a far way off and I couldn’t afford it at the time. I put it in the bucket of prolotherapy not in the bucket of stem cells and on that basis it absolutely works. Being a substance derived from the patient allows it to skip over regulatory hurdles, as mentioned I would have taken sucrose but that wasn’t on offer. The evidence for prolotherapy working is extensive, far exceeding a single study.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-21 02:33:14+00:00
In 1989, he took out a full page spread in the 4 NY newspapers titled "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" calling for punitive retribution against 5 innocent brown young men without evidence. That's because he's always been a classist, racist, slumlord, bully trustfunder who was never told "no" and a nonzero slice of Americans proudly cheer it on.
by Jensson | 2025-11-21 02:33:16+00:00
> Personally I'm against the practice of enforced state-hiding

Then you are against message passing paradigms. Message passing paradigm implies you can't just go and set state/create state directly, you need to send a message and then the receiver decides what to do with that message.

Its like saying that you like functional programming with mutable state, mutable state makes it no longer functional programming even if you use functions here and there.
by pxc | 2025-11-21 02:33:17+00:00
Isn't that pretty much just Windows? That basically never occurs on Linux and it's not common on macOS, either. All the garbage I have on my work computer (a Mac) in ~/Documents is stuff that OneDrive synced over from when I used to have a Windows computer there. (If I could turn the OneDrive feature that takes over ~/Documents and ~/Downloads, I would.)
by jameslk | 2025-11-21 02:33:43+00:00
It was an internal codename that leaked out and then despite trying to use a more corporate-friendly name that was terribly boring (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), they got trolled into continuing to use nano banana because nobody would stop calling it that. Or that’s how the lore has been told so far

I wouldn’t be surprised if Google shortens the name to NBP in the future, hoping everyone collectively forgets what NB stood for. And then proceeds to enshittify the name to something like Google NBP 18.5 Hangouts Image Editor
by nmeagent | 2025-11-21 02:35:07+00:00
No. They shouldn't be able to do this within 100 miles of a border either, since that's not a reasonable distance for the border exception to apply by any sane reasoning. The rights of roughly 2/3 of the US population don't evaporate because of some absurd assertion of distance that is clearly off by two orders of magnitude. We must uproot this particular crop of dystopian bullshit and salt the earth in its place.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 02:36:28+00:00
As I told my friends, this preliminary report annoys me. It annoys me for the same reason it seemingly annoys the NTSB: American 191 is nearly identical on the surface, right down to the engine detachment and resultant loss of the aircraft, in almost the exact same spot on the airframe, ~45 years later.

Needless to say they’re going to be scrutinizing everything to determine what the cause is and the sequence of events that created the accident, but I also suspect everyone involved is just as annoyed at this as I am, given that this exact situation should have been fixed already.

* Annoyed = seething rage
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 02:37:06+00:00
> it's "getting to Mars" for SpaceX and their ecosystem, and "sustainable cislunar economy" for Nasa, ULA and Blue Origin and their respective ecosystem

In 2017 Space Policy Directive 1 amended the national space policy to pursue "the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations" [1]. This formally established the Artemis program [2].

Destin's criticisms were apt for Constellation [3], which was closer to an Apollo reboot. They were uninformed for Artemis.

[1] https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
by estearum | 2025-11-21 02:37:18+00:00
Well it should, yes, given that socialization is the result of shared social experiences.

Experiencing bullying is (unironically) one of those shared social experiences that create bonds with people (whether as victim, perpetrator, or witness)

These are real social dynamics that actually exist in adult life, and I suspect people who are totally blindsided by them are maladapted
by ctslypsmstc | 2025-11-21 02:37:31+00:00
The RavynOS project would have a good chance at being binary compatible with Mac OSX if it copied all the Darwin libraries from the Darling project and used LLVM to generate all the appropriate dylibs. That's something I would support and contribute to. It could get to the point where it could run macOS console based applications.

But if macOS binary compatibility is not the goal, then there's no need for a Mach-O loader - it brings nothing to the table. Just use ELF binaries. Although at that point there's nothing macOS about it - it's just a Mac-like UI facade for FreeBSD distro with a different API. If Ravyn doesn't want to be to macOS like WINE is to Windows, I don't see the point.
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-21 02:37:46+00:00
The intervention that most advocate for is shifting kids’ breaks to be outdoors during peak sun hours. This is free ($0.) You get 100k lux, high CRI, flicker free light with no power or setup requirements. You also get birds, trees, buildings etc in the distance as “infinity” focus targets, also for free. (Reminder that “infinity” is actually fairly close!) This approach is also proven to improve myopia rates.

Custom water-cooled ultra-powerful indoor lighting setup as suggested by sibling comment: $30k/small room (far focus not included)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-21 02:37:47+00:00
Well, yes. As you say:

Q: if they had that much experience why they chose to structure wayland in a way that's such PITA to write for ?

A: Because they were reacting to Xorg, so they wrote the exact opposite of that.

And for bonus points, because one of the problems they wanted to solve was "Xorg is hard to maintain", they made sure that the replacement was much much easier to maintain and develop... for them. Not for application devs, not for users, but for the folks making wayland, I have no doubt it's very well streamlined and easy to work on.
by jgord | 2025-11-21 02:39:53+00:00
One of my many side projects was a thing called ODO .. linux box hooked up to the TV, running a web browser provided and intranet web page where you can browse media and files tree and thus share files.

Could also use it to play media - so a phone or tablet could act as a remote control from anywhere in wifi reach, and play music on the main TV screen / speakers or on the local device.

Was pretty cool, but didnt have the funds to commercialize it.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-21 02:40:12+00:00
Placebo works very well for many people too! That's precisely the thing. That's what makes these studies tricky.

If you're a doctor, and if Prozac helps your patients, then it's obviously excellent. You should keep writing prescriptions.

If you're a scientist, you obviously want to distinguish between "real" drugs and drugs that help because people believe they should. So, you do these kinds of tests.

And then, from the perspective of ethics, once you know it's just placebo, you kinda shouldn't keep giving it to people, even if it helps? Maybe? I don't know. That's the weird part.
by SR2Z | 2025-11-21 02:40:22+00:00
> RAM gets 50x cheaper and some devs think it's fine to use 50x as much of it making their app work? That's awful.

That's ABSURD.

> That's why computers are still unresponsive half the time despite miracles of chipmaking.

Have you ever actually used VSCode? It's pretty snappy even on older hardware.

Of course, software can be written poorly and still fit in a small amount of memory, too :)

> Now the bloat's wasting a billion dollars.

Unless users had some other reason for buying a machine with a lot of RAM, like playing video games or compiling code.

Do you think most users spec their machines with the exact 4GB of RAM that it takes to run a single poorly-written Electron app?

> And please remember that a lot of people have 4GB or 8GB and no way to replace it. Their apps move to electron and they can't run them all at once anymore? Awful.

Dude, it's 2025.

I googled "cheapest smartphones India" and the first result was for the Xiaomi POCO F1. It has 8GB of RAM and costs ₹6,199 - about $62. That's a whole-ass _phone_, not just the RAM.

If you want to buy a single 8GB stick of DDR3? That's about $15 new.

> My motherboard does not support more memory. Closer to hundreds of dollars than $4.

If you are buying HUNDREDS of dollars of RAM, you are building a powerful system which almost certainly is sitting idle most of the time.

> And no I will not justify my memory use to you.

Nobody is forcing you to run an electron app, they're just not catering to this weird fetish for having lots of unused RAM all the time.
by dadoum | 2025-11-21 02:40:42+00:00
I wrote an app using Wayland and XCB/X11 and honestly, I found the Wayland part to be much easier to write than the XCB part, even though it required me to write more code.

This is partly due to the fact that everything you can do with Wayland is defined in protocols that are straightforward to use whereas in X11 you have atoms and messages with arcane name and structures for everything, a lackluster documentation and terrible error handling.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 02:40:49+00:00
All this over a $0.04 bump in licensing fees. They literally intend to break the user experience and frustrate global IT professionals (YEAH HI) to save $1m a year between the two of them.

Unbelievable, but also not surprising. All the more reason to hang onto older hardware or change vendors entirely. I’ve been bandying the phrase “Adversarial Partner” about a lot lately as it pertains to Microsoft, Apple, and Google, but I guess I have to add HP and Dell to that list too.
by ggreer | 2025-11-21 02:40:50+00:00
I believe Raptor 2 operates at a lower chamber pressure. According to Wikipedia, Raptor 3 is 350 bar, and its thrust to weight ratio is 183.6:1.

BE-4's chamber pressure is low for its design, but it would be very difficult to increase it to Raptor's levels. Full-flow staged combustion causes the propellants to be gasses when they enter the combustion chamber, and chemical reactions in gasses happen more quickly, allowing for efficient combustion in a smaller combustion chamber. The smaller volume makes it easier to contain higher pressures.
by nvahalik | 2025-11-21 02:40:52+00:00
I've had to re-learn math skills long forgotten to help my kids with their school work. It's been an interesting experience.

The expectations for home schooling are different and are, in some ways, aimed more towards reality. My son finishes the bulk of his work in an hour most days and then has time for 2 instruments, learning C++, Rust, and Python, community/church participation and more.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-21 02:41:45+00:00
10 years old and still relevant. Gil created a wrk fork https://github.com/giltene/wrk2 to handle coordinated omission better. I used using his fork for many years. But I think he stopped updating it after a while.

Good load testing tools will have modes to send in data at a fixed rate regardless of other requests to handle coordinated omission. k6 for instance defined these modes are "open" and "closed": https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/using-k6/scenarios/concep.... They mention the term "coordinated omission" on the page however I feel like they could have given a nod to Gil for the inventing term.
by fernirello | 2025-11-21 02:41:57+00:00
Transparent attempt at whitewashing Boris's image to sell some books. When he got caught hiding millions in assets to avoid paying his creditors, first he tried to bamboozle the judge. Then, he bought a worthless diplomatic passport for the Central African Republic from some guy around the Shepherd's Bush market to claim diplomatic immunity. Then, he strutted haughtily into the courtroom and declined to make any expression of contrition even after having been found guilty.

Judge sentenced him to 3 yr and change in prison; then, just 10 mo later, some tennis-loving Crown servant decided that the way to solve overcrowding in British prisons begun with freeing Boris Becker. A policy for people who'd been in jail for a minimum of 12 mo was inexplicably applied to Boris. He flew to Germany on a private plane, landed and walked, no longer subject to any legal confinement or release conditions.

One can't make this stuff up. Life imitates, and surpasses, art.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 02:42:05+00:00
> Flock wouldn't have to be knowing or even negligent

Neither do banks.

> there is no possible way they could prevent their services from being used by violent insurgencies except to not sell them at all

Prevent? No. Increase the cost of? Yes.

Trying to police domestic terrorism by restricting what they see is a bit silly. But if that were a concern, I said "make the database operators strictly liable for breaches and mis-use." Domestic terrorism is mis-use. But it's not precedented mis-use, which makes it a strange priority to get distracted by.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 02:43:45+00:00
> That's not a difference in scope; it's a difference in kind

At a certain point, difference in scale becomes difference in kind. This is fundamental to the universe to the point of thermodynamics.

(To the example, how do you think it would go if you regularly hosted hundres of card games in respect of which you didn't take a cut?)
by varenc | 2025-11-21 02:43:45+00:00
AirDrop compatible Quick Share isn't even going over the local network. It create an adhoc device-to-device wireless connection and the files are sent that way. So the two phones don't even need to be on wifi or be on the same network at all. The local network isn't involved.

Given this, I think there's minimal risk of it sending files over the internet.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 02:44:28+00:00
> Not if you believe in a right of general-purpose computing

Uh, sure. If we make up a right, there is a problem.

Currently, this right doesn't exist. We make plenty of laws without presuming it exists. Plenty of people are trying and failing to pursue voters that it should exist, and I generaly commend them. But it's weird to the point of bordring on intentional distraction to try and pot this specific issue on the basis of a demand that doesn't apply to anything else.
by kjellsbells | 2025-11-21 02:44:51+00:00
Second system effect is the curse of FOSS projects. It's been that way for decades. I don't see a reliable solution for the structural problem that doesn't somehow end up like a Benevolent Dictatorship. At the end of the day, designing complex systems by committee is hard to do. Maybe there is a maximum size of a group beyond which the communication matrix between the members starts to fracture?
by mindslight | 2025-11-21 02:44:56+00:00
One big easy line to draw is personal+individual versus commercial+corporation. There should be sweeping privacy laws that individuals can use to prevent information about them (including government issued identifiers) from being recorded, processed, and stored. Then for private vs private, a de minimis exception for individuals doing it noncommercially on a small number of people.

Delivery trucks are operated by corporations so don't have privacy protection (although the individuals driving them would from things like facial recognition). Traffic patterns can be studied without the use of individual identifiers. Law enforcement is moot because the juicy commercial surveillance databases won't be generated in the first place, and without them we can have an honest societal conversation whether the government should create their own surveillance databases of everyone's movements.

These aren't insurmountable problems. GDPR gets these answers mostly right. What it requires is drawing a line in the sand and iterating to close loopholes, rather than simply assuming futility when trying to regulate the corporate surveillance industry.
by xgulfie | 2025-11-21 02:46:53+00:00
Having sensitive information is kind of inherent to the way the training slurps up all the data these companies can find. The people who run chatgpt don't want to dox people but also don't want to filter its inputs. They don't want it to tell you how to kill yourself painlessly but they want it to know what the symptoms of various overdoses are.
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-21 02:48:04+00:00
I can't bring myself to try an SSRI. I just cannot do it. I've got a prescription for an NDRI on my desk, and I still won't take it. I am not anti-psychiatry either. I take psychiatric medication for a different condition already. But something about anti-depressants just doesn't sit well with me.

As crazy as it may sound, I think a lot of my depression stems from living a life that is not true to myself and due to countless failed attempts to be someone I cannot never be. As far as I am concerned, depression is just a symptom of my situation and not some true disorder. For the sake of analogy, I would say it's like food poisoning. Yes, the GI issues are awful, but the body is responding appropriately.
by kochikame | 2025-11-21 02:49:30+00:00
I get where you're coming from but I think your statement is a bit naive.

Education systems as we know them today are absolutely about indoctrination in so many ways. Capitalism, love of country, views on family units, beauty and aaesthetics, what has cultural value and what does not etc etc. Not to mention many school systems just straight up having classes on religion, allowing armed forces into schools to recruit and the like.

Whether you're worried about left wing or right wing indoctrination, it still holds true. All kids are being indoctrinated every time they go to school same as every time they watch TV.
by sitharus | 2025-11-21 02:49:44+00:00
> And then, from the perspective of ethics, once you know it's just placebo, you kinda shouldn't keep giving it to people, even if it helps?

That's a very big ethical question in the medical field. Placebos _do_ help, but only if people believe they will. So is it ethical to lie to a patient and give them a placebo knowing it's likely to help?
by mrandish | 2025-11-21 02:50:14+00:00
> even if the depreciation rates are slightly wrong.

The TFA cites a linked study which states "CoreWeave, for example, depreciates its GPUs over six years" which is way more than 'slightly wrong'. Just mapping that backward, 2020's hot new data center GPU was the A100 and they are just reaching their 5th year of service. How many large customers are lining up to pay top dollar to rent one of those 5 year-olds for the next 12 months? For most current workloads I think A100s are already net negative to keep operating in terms of opportunity cost. That power, cooling and rack space are more profitably allocated toward 2023's now mid-life H100 GPUs.

The rate of data center GPU progress has accelerated significantly in the last five years. I hardly know anything about AI workloads but even I know that newer GPU capabilities like FP8 are recent discoveries which can deflate the value of older GPUs almost overnight. With everyone now hunting for those optimization shortcuts, it's foolish to think more won't be discovered soon. The odds that this year's newly installed H200 GPUs will keep generating significant rental fees for 72 months are, IMHO, vanishingly small. Over a trillion dollars of loans have been secured by assets actually worth maybe half the claimed value. It's like 2009 sub-prime mortgages all over again.
by anonnon | 2025-11-21 02:50:29+00:00
> In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites — after KrebsOnSecurity revealed Onerep’s founder had created dozens of people-search services and was continuing to operate at least one of them. Sixteen months later, however, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep. This week, Mozilla announced its partnership with Onerep will officially end next month.

Why would anyone give Mozilla any money after this, even for a product that wasn't privacy-oriented (like a VPN)? Also:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...

> But a review of Onerep’s domain registration records and that of its founder reveal a different side to this company. Onerep.com says its founder and CEO is Dimitri Shelest from Minsk, Belarus, as does Shelest’s profile on LinkedIn. Historic registration records indexed by DomainTools.com say Mr. Shelest was a registrant of onerep.com who used the email address dmitrcox2@gmail.com.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-shelest

> McLean, Virginia, United States

An immigrant who makes money aggregating and selling Americans' personal information. Is there some way he can be deported?