MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numbers_guy | 2025-11-30 12:52:11+00:00
If NVIDIA is blocked in China and China keeps developing AI models of comparable quality using home grown chips, it puts into question the dominance of NVIDIA in the market. If NVIDIA is allowed to continue operating in China, it doesn't matter much if China actually uses NVIDIA or Huawei, as long as there is some plausible deniability that China is using NVIDIA powered clusters for their strongest models.
by nuuuwan | 2025-11-30 12:52:36+00:00
## Higher-Frequency River Level Data from the Irrigation Department

The Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka receives its river water level data from the Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Irrigation Department.

The Irrigation Department publishes the same measurements, but at a much higher frequency. If you are doing analysis or building tools related to water levels or flooding, the Department’s dataset is the better choice.

I am collecting the Irrigation Department data here: [https://github.com/nuuuwan/lk_irrigation](https://github.com/nuuuwan/lk_irrigation)

I will continue maintaining this repo ( [https://github.com/nuuuwan/lk_dmc_vis](https://github.com/nuuuwan/lk_dmc_vis) since many users are already using it. However, if you need higher-resolution measurements, I recommend using [lk_irrigation](https://github.com/nuuuwan/lk_irrigation)
by hocuspocus | 2025-11-30 12:53:21+00:00
- The resources simply didn't exist, Typesafe couldn't even become profitable doing what Scala does best.

- Scala was a bad fit, especially on low-end and slow Android devices.

- Google doesn't like languages like Scala. They use it for Chisel but it's not a language allowed for backend services, while Kotlin is.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-30 12:55:31+00:00
I think a combination of custom users + a whole bunch of sandboxing is exactly what you'd get out of systemd-nspawn if you're willing to write the config: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-nspawn

bwrap seems a lot easier but if you want more control (or, for instance, want to run a Ubuntu basis because that's what a lot of games are compiled against), systemd-nspawn can be quite powerful.
by poly2it | 2025-11-30 12:56:39+00:00
This piques my interest, what is the legally required recognition of a derivative's parent work? Must I be able to list dependencies, or should I be able to verify whether a parent work is included in mine? What if my work is a second derivative of a work which I am unaware of, because the work in between improperly didn't recognise its parent? Am I legally responsible to investigate such cases?
by mindcrash | 2025-11-30 12:57:03+00:00
Unless you mess with feature flags uBO doesn't work on mainline Chrome/Chromium anymore because Google officially dropped Manifest v2 support. (And thus they can kill the involved feature flags and patch out the code any moment they want).

The only way to more or less reliably use uBO is by installing Ungoogled Chromium, because the minute Google completely patches out Manifest v2 support they will patch it back in.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-30 12:57:13+00:00
Yeah, I know how car insurance works and just figured it’d be overly verbose to specify some scenario where the neighbour was driving some uninsured vehicle like a tractor and the incident happened outside of public roads.

I do think I still managed to make my point though, preventing civil lawsuits arising from possibly criminal behaviour is unrealistic. That would make it extremely difficult for individuals to seek compensation for almost any damage they might suffer, they’d have to first wait for months or years before the police gets back to them.

>I am guessing here the "intent" can also be "aware of it but did not invest enough to curb it while it is profiting off it".

Fraud by negligence is a fairly exotic concept and to my understanding usually specifically relies on laws regarding negligent misrepresentation. I’d be surprised if that would work in Sweden.

I did find this government report which is related even if it discusses a slightly different kind of fraud https://bra.se/download/18.3433db6019301deaa6b8132/173142652...

>For liability for fraud to come into question, the prosecutor has to be able to prove that the crime is deliberate. This means that the criminal act has been committed consciously or intentionally. Liability for fraud is conditional on the objective requisites being covered by the perpetrator’s intent. It is not possible to judge a person to be liable for fraud because someone has been paid too much compensation as a result of negligence, or because the person did not know about certain obligations in conjunction with the compensation. Carelessness is thus not sufficient. It must be possible to prove that the perpetrator has committed the act intentionally. This intent must cover all elements of the criminal act. The great problem with fraud crime is to prove the intent. The actual circumstances surrounding what really occurred are often a lesser pro- blem. The assessment of the intent is complicated by the fact that the rules concerning social insurance can be difficult to understand. The difficulty in proving intent has meant that several assessors have considered that the fraud regulations do not work quite as they should. Proposals have therefore been made that negligence should be sufficient for judging that a person has misled the Social Insurance Agency or some other payment-issuer within the compensation and benefit systems (Örnemark Hansen, 1995). This criticism against the intention require- ment has led to the new Benefit Crime Act (2007:612).
by docfath | 2025-11-30 12:57:16+00:00
> A high fraction of college attendance is better correlated with the 21st century decline in America's situation.

Correlation != causation, but let’s go the correlation route and see where it goes…

China had correlation between higher-ed and economic growth, so I think you’re just trying to make an argument to support a fascist dictator who doesn’t want to be the dumbest person in the room.

The decline in Christianity, rise in apathy, rise of industry in other countries, offensive wars, rise of entertainment culture, etc. are correlated also.

One could also argue that the rise of uneducated conservatives was associated with U.S. decline.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-30 12:57:46+00:00
> This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop.

For me it was Debian 12 with Sway (Wayland) followed by Debian 13 with labwc and Sway.

Now I can switch from a tiling window manager (WM) to a floating WM depending on the work task.
by noselasd | 2025-11-30 12:59:13+00:00
A typical CPU heatsink dissipates 10-30% of heat through radiation, and the rest through convection. In space you're in a vacuum so you can't disipated heat through convection.

You need to rework your physical equipment quite substantially to make up for the fact you can't shed 70-90% of the heat in the same manner as you can down here on Earth
by xrd | 2025-11-30 12:59:32+00:00
Did you make up A-Lot-AI? Can I suggest "A-Lott-a-AI"?

If you did, this is the greatest thing created in 3 ABC ("After Bullshit ChatGPTification"; ChatGPT launched in 2022.).

NB: Since ChatGPT is basically the new Messiah for many, I really think we should now be using dates like 3 ABC or 5 POS. POS stands for "Prior to Overlord Slop/Shit". I suggest we give up AD/BC.

But, please, I'm not the messiah! (hopefully you have watched Life of Brian!)
by acron0 | 2025-11-30 12:59:50+00:00
> Running someone else's patch set of Arch is the easiest way to have a terrible Linux experience. Having a nice interface to lull people into believing what they are getting is a professional product and then handing them a fundamentally broken system, where some hobbyists have patched a proper Linux distro so bad, that you are not even allowed to ask for help on the Arch forum is down right devious and presents the worst of the Linux world.

Except, this isn't the experience for the majority of users moving to Cachy, Bazzite, Zorin, whatever. What they're getting is a fresh, usable experience specifically in the "flavor" they care about.

Linux, and especially Arch, has an image problem, and it's the reason, despite how good these base distros might be, that people aren't coming. It takes a clever bit of branding and a marginalisation of all the gatekeeping (just like you're trying to do right now) to let users finally think "actually, maybe this is something I can use".
by metalman | 2025-11-30 12:59:52+00:00
it's telling that travelling "first class" means more leg room , a wet towlett, and microwaved slop, but all in all is just bieng pushed through a big metal tube, like everybody else, and the important people are gone, as they travel private, bank private, go to private clubs, etc Hard working generational busineses and farm familys are now explisetly, second class, and even having millions will only get you an airplane with propellors and not the required jet, with the rapidly changing and irrational policys making those smaller, hard won fortunes, precarious. It's a situation where the "base" is waking up under threat from all sides and will start to make exceptionaly, pragmatic decsions.
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-30 13:00:16+00:00
Actually no, not really. The safeguards were mostly customs, not laws, so they can be safely ignored.

And what few laws there are, like the emoluments clause, seem to be entirely unenforceable because it’s not clear anyone has standing to bring a suit and the president presumably isn’t going to enforce the law on himself.

What we’ve learned in the last twelve years is our democracy was built on the good will of the people we elected, and when we stopped demanding the good will with our votes it was no longer guaranteed.
Show HN: Free and open-source platform to invest credit card rewards
by hg30 | 2025-11-30 13:00:48+00:00
I built this around the idea of micro-investing: investing small amounts consistently. I provided a few different strategies out of the box for you to use: round up (if you bought something for $5.30, it would invest $.70), investing credit card rewards (if you pay $100 for something with a credit card that earns 2% back, it will invest $2), and timed investment (invest $X every week, month, etc.). I personally learned a lot about investing when I started automating my own investments, maybe you will too!
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-30 13:02:35+00:00
The ability for Netflix to operate as it does is entirely dependent on banks lending it vast sums of money, the same banks that staffed the Obama admin who continued the bailouts. Corruption doesn’t have to be a direct quid pro quo, that’s the standard needed for bribery, I did not suggest Obama was bribed. Because it’s in the interest of the corrupt to hide their practices the general way of avoiding it is to avoid the appearance of impropriety, and on that standard I believe Obama has failed.
by dmix | 2025-11-30 13:03:07+00:00
Right, there was clearly much more capacity for advanced education with the rise of technology (farming advancements, medicine, electronics etc) that started before WW2

There is something to the point about needing a correction in post secondary education and making university again a specialized place rather than the catch all default generalized institutions. Where 70% of the population tries to waits 3-5yrs+ to enter the workforce in exchange for lots of debt. A debt heavily incentivized by cheap gov backed loans, subsidies, credential inflation, and very profitable immigration schemes.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-30 13:04:03+00:00
I think literally nobody knows the price either side is paying right now. And I do mean literally, including Trump, Putin, and Zelensky. The fog of war applies to participants, let alone outsiders who are basing our views on figures and claims that obviously going to be driven heavily by propaganda.

But beyond this, I don't think this war is about Ukraine anymore than a war in Taiwan will be about Taiwan. It's little more than a proxy for hegemony in both cases. Russia did not want NATO parked in their Achille's heel of the Ukrainian flatlands. NATO did, and we pushed forward against endless threats of it being a redline, essentially as a means of indirectly imposing our will on Russia and establishing a hierarchy of dominance.

And similarly, for those that don't the Taiwan-China history - the Mao led Chinese revolution was a success. The existing government of mainland China fled to Taiwan where they brutally oppressed the locals, in an era known as the 'white terror' [1], and established power through 40 years of martial law. And of course we backed them, solely to use them as a weapon against China, because geopolitics.

This is why these wars are so important for the participants. The US couldn't care less about Ukraine, but withdrawing without ruining our ability to militarily threaten other peer or near peer countries is difficult. And similarly the last thing Russia needs is more land, but if they never act on claims of red lines, then they can never expect their interests to be considered in the case of a conflict in interests between them and the West.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
Show HN: Pinakes – Open-source library system with built-in public catalog
by fabiodalez | 2025-11-30 13:04:12+00:00
Pinakes is a self-hosted library management system. Upload files to any PHP/MySQL host, run the installer, start cataloging.

What it does:

- ISBN scraping auto-fills metadata from Open Library, Google Books, and European library catalogs. Adding a book takes seconds. - Full circulation: loans, returns, renewals, reservations with FIFO queues, automatic email reminders for due dates and overdue books. - Multi-copy support with barcodes. Dewey Decimal preloaded (1,369 categories). CSV bulk import. - Public catalog with search, patron self-service (renewals, reservations, wishlists), reviews and ratings. - Interactive calendar with ICS export for syncing loans to Google Calendar/Outlook. - CMS with homepage editor, 10 color themes, custom pages. - eBook/audiobook support with streaming player. - SRU protocol for interoperability with other library systems. - Plugin architecture for custom integrations.

Stack: PHP 8.1+, MySQL 5.7+, Slim 4, vanilla JS.

To try: clone repo, run `php -S localhost:8000 router.php`, open browser.

GPL-3. No telemetry.

Looking for testers and contributors.
by nickjj | 2025-11-30 13:05:07+00:00
I used to co-run an online gaming ladder back in the Quake 3 days.

There were aim bots and other client side hacks back then but we requested that folks record and upload demos of themselves for competitive matches. This allowed anyone to replay the game from your exact POV in-game, complete with hearing and seeing exactly what the real player saw at the time.

We all survived back then without kernel level anti-cheat tools with a very high certainty that no one was cheating.

Even if you tried to hide it, it was pretty obvious when someone was cheating. I don't recall a single unsolved case where someone was cheating and got away with it while the community really thought otherwise. This was with over 10,000 registered players and tons of active teams playing every day. No where near the scale of gaming today of course, but it's a big enough sample that the method does work for online competitive play.

Nowadays it would be even easier to detect foul play because with live streaming and human announcers, you're under a lot more analysis by the public in real-time.
by nemo44x | 2025-11-30 13:06:46+00:00
I was a hiring manager at a company that didn’t recruit from top universities for strategic reasons. In short we were smaller and a startup so it would have been difficult to compete. As we grew we had a presence at university job fairs but still avoided the top schools.

Similarly we avoided engineers from the Bay Area due to cost concerns.

The company was also a pioneer in the distributed work environment. A decade before Covid. So that opened a huge market for recruitment at that time.
by pera | 2025-11-30 13:07:19+00:00
That's strange, which OS? I am on Arch and also on 145 and I get the "Ask an AI Chatbot" in the context menu. The settings used to work in the past so I am not sure what's going on.

I believe these are all the settings I have disabled for AI:

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.chat.shortcuts

browser.ml.chat.sidebar

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnable

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

Am I missing anything?
by butvacuum | 2025-11-30 13:07:43+00:00
More likely/precisely, it's flagged as malware because it's bypassing protections build into windows credential guard- eg, impersonating(or injecting code into) outlook.exe.

making an exception for such a heuristic is, in all cases, wrong since it will always be abused.

The actual answer is: Defender needs a PUP category.
by cubefox | 2025-11-30 13:09:16+00:00
Usual terminology for the three main learning paradigms:

- Supervised learning (e.g. matching labels to pictures)

- unsupervised learning / self-supervised learning (pretraining)

- reinforcement learning

Now the confusing thing is that Dwarkesh Patel instead calls pretraining "supervised learning" and you call reinforcement learning a form of unsupervised learning.
by zie | 2025-11-30 13:09:43+00:00
You can make containers mostly as hardened security wise as a VM (but generally none of that comes by default), the big thing you can't get that a VM gives you is a new kernel instance. In a VM you have to break 2 kernels to totally own a machine.

In a container, provided the container software doesn't do it for you(which is likely true), you just have to break 1 kernel.
by halapro | 2025-11-30 13:10:09+00:00
This is particularly useful when editing the top-level comment of a popular issue to specify the current status. Or when a peer opened a placeholder issue and you fill it up. Etc.

If you actually use GitHub as a social network of sorts, there are many reasons to do edit comments. All the edits are visible anyway. You're on Git-Hub, you can already edit everything you have write access to.
by firesteelrain | 2025-11-30 13:10:50+00:00
Sure, there are real issues with cost, debt, and credential creep, but that does not change the basic point: the expansion of education itself was a net positive for decades. The problems we have now come from financing, policy choices, and a labor market that shifted under globalization. Blaming education levels for broader economic or social trends just mixes up the cause and effect.
by darqis | 2025-11-30 13:10:51+00:00
My site c64g.com was completely removed from Google's search index, in apparently November 13th, after 21 years of being in the index. It even has Adsense and Google Analytics and still it was removed. I suspect some AI running wild and false flagging the site. It's an established site for c64 games, you can even play some in the browser.

Where can I get a human to take a look at it?
by s20n | 2025-11-30 13:11:00+00:00
I used i3 for the longest time and I'd say a wayland based alternative like sway or miracle is a better choice nowadays. Even KDE Plasma recently dropped x11 support [1] so going forward, most apps will target wayland first.

Migrating my i3 config to sway hardly took any effort. I was also able to get rid of a lot of xorg specific configurations from various x11 dotfiles and put them directly in the sway config (Such as Natural Scrolling)

[1]: https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-to-drop-x11-support/.
by mystraline | 2025-11-30 13:11:13+00:00
> Just don't mention MeshCore anywhere around Meshtastic, or they'll kickban you.

Thats not the problem. And Ive also mentioned Meshcore as well on their discord with no threats of banning or anything of the sort. Ive also seen people come in the group, with "Meshtastic sucks and Meshcore is best", and the worst by admins was 'we have no problem discussing but that tone was overly harsh'.

Liam Kottle, the head of Meshcore ran the first Meshtastic map from grabbed MQTT data. However, he was grabbing and saving everything, including public channels, direct messages, GPS, telemetry. Everything. 1.5y ago, people were going to his map and snooping on Defcon Meshtastic DM's, since even 1 node who reported MQTT would send everything. And then, DMs were simply filtered by the UI, but were effectively encrypted by the same shared key.

Normally there was a general expectation that the data was ephemeral. Liam basically created and caused this data problem by saving and making available everything sent to MQTT.

Meshtastic devs ended up having to tighten down the public MQTT broker a bunch. They also made the client on phones be more restrictive what was done and sent to MQTT. Also made "OK to forward MQTT" flag in the data packets too. And 2.5 introduced PKI TOFU for direct messages to prevent leakage.

Aside the personnel difficulties, the technical issues with Meshcore are similar at node capacity too. Messages still dont get delivered near capacity. Core requires infrastructure nodes. Its more like APRS+LoRa than anything like a mesh.
by Red_Tarsius | 2025-11-30 13:11:21+00:00
I knew it was coming but I didn't expect my post to age so fast! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027642 Less than a week a go I praised AI chatbots for their lack of intrusive content. It's the number one reason I'm a plus subscriber to ChatGPT. I hope they won't force me to seek out an alternative LLM experience.
by jyounker | 2025-11-30 13:14:05+00:00
He is famous for his writing, and not for being a chef.

His 2000 book, "Kitchen Confidential," was a New York Times best seller, and it's what put him on the map. It's still one of my favorite books, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The chapter on his bread baker, "Adam Real Last Name Unknown," is one of the funniest things I've ever had the pleasure to read.
by seec | 2025-11-30 13:14:06+00:00
The problem is that they are not cost competitive at the time of sales and the type of people who buy those are not exactly the smartest when it comes to total cost of ownership calculation. Over time an electric version would be much cheaper (a few hundred kilometers depending on electricity price) but it's also not as convenient/capable/performant so it's a not exactly an easy sell to the target customer.

I do agree that they are highly annoying but the reality is that they are still in use because there is no real equivalency in the electric world.
by YmiYugy | 2025-11-30 13:14:33+00:00
The idea is pretty cool, but it doesn't work super well. 1. I imagine most major news outlets don't have RSS feeds these days. 2. A lot of stuff originates from news agencies, so they don't spread from website to website, but radiate out from the agency. 3. Most of the included sources are pretty small. To draw meaningful conclusions we would need infos like popularity, political leaning, nation of origin, etc. 4. The similarity check doesn't appear to do translation. So when news spreads from one country to another we loose the thread.
by zie | 2025-11-30 13:14:52+00:00
Yes, but basically nobody uses either of those things. Some vendors like Redhat enables some of it by default, but when people have issues getting software to work, the first thing they are told to try is to turn all that stuff off.

Which means in the real world, the likelihood of that stuff being on and secure is fairly low, but not zero.

With landlock, pledge/unveil and similar tech, the developers of the software write and configure it, it's on by default and probably can't be turned off(or at least not easily).
by pacifika | 2025-11-30 13:15:13+00:00
I set this up to reinvigorate my T2 MacBook Pro (with Cosmic) but it keeps restarting when the lid is closed, and keyboard and trackpad don’t always resume on restore. I was impressed with the docs!

I’m thinking of trying Ubuntu, but maybe T2 Linux will always be a compromise, hardly CachyOS fault I reckon.