MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teucris | 2025-11-30 17:39:56+00:00
I agree that it was in her philosophical framework to accept social security - apologies if my comment seemed in bad faith due to that not being clearer. The irony does not lie with her, but rather those that use her philosophy to eliminate the safety net that she herself ended up using.

Sure, she could have used the money she had put into social security to invest, and maybe would have come out better off. But for those of us who see how public services can enrich an entire society, there is irony to how this all played out.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-30 17:40:24+00:00
I read a lot about this when Rust was considering adopting a trademark policy. The main use cases for enforcing the trademark were

- preventing someone who hardforked the project from creating an incompatible language while using the same name.

- preventing someone from distributing malware while still using the same name.

Because if you notice, neither of these clash with the MIT license that many languages use. You need to enforce your trademark to stop this kind of behaviour.

Zigbook can argue that they aren’t causing any confusion between themselves and the Zig language. The Zig foundation could argue that the name implies an endorsement by the project and they should call themselves The Unofficial Zig Book instead. I don’t know which way it goes.
by pillars | 2025-11-30 17:40:40+00:00
Some Model Engineering related resources:

1. Engineering drawings of small model engines used for model aircrafts. They are designed for manufacturing and working, not not like showcase item. We can actually build them.

https://outerzone.co.uk/plans.asp?cat=Engines&Xcardsperpage=...

2. https://modelenginenews.org/midge/index.html
by knallfrosch | 2025-11-30 17:40:46+00:00
ChatGPT has zero moat. Negative, really.

They own zero hardware or software stacks. Their AI just got wiped by Google. Unknown Chinese companies release free models that are mere weeks behind them.

Apple can restrict the ChatGPT app on iOS to not sext with users. What's Altman going to do? Cry in a corner?
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-30 17:40:50+00:00
While we disagree on Rands work, I do respect a reasoned opinion.

I agree down-voting just makes people emotional, and doesn't add anything.

Personally, I saw Rands writing as lazy thinly veiled fictional despotism, and targeted peoples need for simple answers in a chaotic world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control#By_proxy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randian_hero

This doesn't mean both perspectives can't seem true =3
by vunderba | 2025-11-30 17:41:18+00:00
Nice. There's a couple of these (unfake which uses pixel snapping/palette reduction, sd-palettize which uses k-means to palette reduce, etc.) that I've used in the past in a Stable Diffusion -> Pixel Art pipeline.

I think it'd be worth calling out the differences.

[1] - https://github.com/jenissimo/unfake.js

[2] - https://github.com/Astropulse/sd-palettize
by zmgsabst | 2025-11-30 17:41:31+00:00
Actually, Alaska and the West Coast were attacked during the war — but only relatively lightly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood

That last one, in which a Japanese sub bombarded Santa Barbara, played a role in the later Japanese internment by escalating fears of an invasion.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-30 17:41:42+00:00
On a 2021 Camry there is an below-dash fuse labeled "DCM" which you can remove (and it does disable OnStar/telemetry, but not sat.radio[0]) — it also disables one of the speakers (used for phone calls), which there is a bypass to resolve (but it still requires removing infotainment, so at that point just unplug it there.?!).

[0] It was my understanding that, like GPS-receivers, Sirius/XM was one-way streaming, only..?
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-30 17:41:44+00:00
Yeah, I agree that sucks. If you go back to my first reply in the thread, I said:

Unfortunately, the insurance policy against that trap - that annoying people will keep asking "why?" - itself has a steep price, sometimes almost turning into a heckler's veto. It's a tough problem.

Sometimes that ignorant schmuck annoying us is the only thing pulling us out of a hole. Consider Alfred Wegener and his theory of continental drift. He was a meteorologist with no formal training in geology, and his ideas were rejected with what I've seen described as "militantly hostile" reactions. Before Barry Marshall, it was doctrine that peptic ulcers were caused by stress, and stomach acid. His theory that the real cause was bacterial led to cancelled speaking slots, blocked grant applications, and so forth. He finally resorted to intentionally infecting himself with H. Pylori and developing gastritis, then curing himself with antibiotics. Ignaz Semmelweis offended surgeons - seen as "holy" men in noble work - by suggesting that their unwashed hands were killing patients.

Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher of science, said "When a shift does happen, it's almost invariably the case that an outsider or a newcomer, at least, is going to be the one who pulls it off... Insiders are highly unlikely to shift a paradigm and history tells us they won't do it".

I agree that people repeatedly making you (again, the general "you") explain can slow down progress quite a lot. But this seems to be the price for having a democracy rather than a technical oligarchy.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-30 17:41:46+00:00
They're not assumptions, I outlined in my comment it was my thoughts and beliefs.

> Custom distros are not new operating system

Nothing is. Windows uses old DOS code, macOS uses BSD code, nobody's OS is truly written "from scratch" in 2025. Just because you can recycle old programs doesn't mean writing an OS is easy.

> majority of hw support is because linux supports it. It would probably be more work for Valve to support only their hw

And much of Linux hardware support is not in-kernel, period. Valve could not flip a switch and start supporting Asahi Macs or Nvidia's proprietary UNIX drivers; they would be committing to patching and maintaining all of their future quirks and surprises. Not even Valve should be wasting their time doing that.

> I am also not sure why you think they wouldn't want to end up replacing Windows.

They do! But "wanting to replace Windows" and "wanting to write the replacement for Windows" are two different things. Valve's current software team has a headcount lower than 500, they aren't equipped to compete with Microsoft even if they wanted to. It's much easier for them to ship all-in-one style devices that keep expectations low and replicate Windows' most desirable features.

> which already failed once

Steam Machine was a home console, it did not replace Windows for anything that wasn't directly ported to Linux. The lesson from this era is simple; supporting Linux is hard. It's hard for developers, hard for consumers and especially hard for Valve.
by aunty_helen | 2025-11-30 17:42:17+00:00
Boards will always recommend to vote against shareholder proposals by default. 1000:1

Having a large shareholder indicate they will go with a shareholder proposal is the newsworthy part. It indicates there’s something that should be being addresssed by the board which isn’t already, which is publicly embarrassing for them.

I helped build a system that would estimate the vote for these large institutional investors because if a board tables a vote and a institutional investor votes against it, it’s a really bad look.
by wging | 2025-11-30 17:43:16+00:00
Yes (or so I thought too!), but apparently no: https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith

(post title: "Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code", but starts off "The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out that the programming language I was working on fit the task remarkably well.")
by stockresearcher | 2025-11-30 17:43:25+00:00
This has (more or less) been covered before!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652502

VMS expects to be run as a cluster of machines with a single drive system. How that actually happens is “hidden” from user view, and what you see are “logicals”, which can be stacked on top of each other and otherwise manipulated by a user/process without affecting the underlying file system. The results can be insane in the hands of inexperienced folks. But that is where NT came from.
by seec | 2025-11-30 17:43:44+00:00
Ah yes, the neoliberal boogeyman.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the matter. > Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, depoliticisation, consumer choice, labor market flexibilization, economic globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending.

Do you agree with that definition ? If so, none of what is happening in the EU is consistent with that description. If not, I'm all hears for what you think it means.

> The left has not been popular in the EU since the 70s What constitute the left has mutated and is not called as such anymore. It is now found in the "green" parties and adjacent. The hard left is actually very popular, at least as much as the right wing, but I'll grant you they are becoming less desirable because people are pushing back on the immigration the hard left is very much for that. It is incoherent because it mechanically reduce the power/earning of their supposed electorate but on the other hand it grants them dominating power in key places and they get the votes of the bourgeoisie.

Here is some data on public government spending in the EU. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263220/public-spending-r... https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/government-spendin...

Most of the rich countries are over 50% and approaching 60% very fast. After COVID, spending has increased at an insane rate, via debt creation. It's basically like a poor family using credit to buy an ultra expensive fancy car but I guess that's very austere to you.

It's balsy to pretend that the EU suffer from austerity when the data readily show the contrary. The only tax revisions to be found are to raise them, not the other way around.

To be clear, I'm all for the targeted raising of taxes on the boomers, who got us into this mess. I also think some of the regulations goals are laudable (notably transition to electric everything and building improvements but I disagree that regulation is the way to get there. Considering that the EU economy is basically in the dump, I'll say that the world largely agree with me.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-30 17:44:17+00:00
This [1] is a graph of educational attainment in the US. And the percent of people into the 60s who had a college degree was in the single digits, with it being near zero in times past. It then started ramping up extremely quickly. The main thing that changed is a lot more jobs started requiring degrees around that time.

If people were genuinely pursuing college for self betterment, then you'd think the numbers would have been dramatically higher in the past, especially back in the day when you could comfortably afford college even on just a part time job. The increase in enrollment also came right alongside sharp increases in cost.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
by abe_m | 2025-11-30 17:44:23+00:00
They don't directly approve drugs, but are involved in the testing pathway for some, and have been caught manipulating data to cause the approval.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2700754/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC545012/

Note the dates on those greatly precede Donald Trump ever running for the Presidency.
by microflash | 2025-11-30 17:44:26+00:00
Seems whatever I had disabled earlier is still disabled on my install of FF 145.

I do have these additional settings.

browser.ml.chat.maxLength=0 browser.ml.chat.prompt.prefix="{}" browser.ml.chat.prompts.0="{}" browser.ml.chat.prompts.1="{}" browser.ml.chat.prompts.3="{}" browser.ml.chat.prompts.4="{}" browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom=false browser.ml.linkPreview.longPress=false browser.ml.modelHubRootUrl="example.com"
by mobiledev2014 | 2025-11-30 17:45:26+00:00
This course was integral in kicking off my career over a decade ago. I think there's no better way to learn to build an iOS app, and the fact that it's free is a true gift. Pre-reqs are in the first lecture:

-Experience writing code (100% of the work in this course involves programming) -At least CS106A (Programming Methodology) + CS106B or X (Programming Abstractions) and CS107 (Computer Organization & Systems); CS108 (Object Oriented Programming), CS43 (Functional Programming Abstractions), CS11O (Principles of Computer Systems), CS147 (Introduction to Human Computer Interaction Design) are awesome! -Know some "structured" programming paradigm, e.g. OOP or Functional Programming -Preferably you know more than one language (cause you're gonna learn a new one here!)
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-30 17:45:42+00:00
>as a cyclist and public transport user with no driver license, i hope personal vehicles have so much sensors that they can detect if you are drunk or stressed and limit your reaches. fuck your metallic beetle

What a great illustration of the sort of selfish opinions that people like to peddle under the guise of perceived common good.

Are you willing to have your bike brakes linked up with GPS and red light signals? It's in the name of safety and progress after all.
by delusional | 2025-11-30 17:45:55+00:00
> You can't access certificates in linux/bash as a file path for example, but you can in powershell/windows.

I don't understand what you mean by this. I can access them "as a file" because they are in fact just files

$ ls /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir | tail -n 5 UCA_Global_G2_Root.pem USERTrust_ECC_Certification_Authority.pem USERTrust_RSA_Certification_Authority.pem vTrus_ECC_Root_CA.pem vTrus_Root_CA.pem
by lutusp | 2025-11-30 17:46:33+00:00
> Are Linux /dev device paths (originating from Unix) really much better?

Not better at all, which is why Linux uses partition UUIDs to identify specific storage partitions, regardless of hardware identifiers. This isn't automatic, the user must make it happen, which explains why Linux users need to know more than Windows users (and why Linux adoption is stalled).

> Edit: Also /dev/sdX paths in Linux are not stable. They can and do vary across boot, since Linux 5.6.

Yes, true, another reason to use partition UUIDs.

> Plan 9 takes the everything is a file concept to its logical conclusion and is much better designed.

It's a shame that Plan 9 didn't get traction -- too far ahead of its time I guess.
by kmontrose | 2025-11-30 17:48:00+00:00
This rebuttal is... poor, I guess? Not disingenuous or anything, but lots of wishful thinking and (for lack of a better term) "inside baseball"-objections.

Like sure H3 might be a byproduct of other mining on the Moon, but the hard part is the mining at all yes? It's wishful thinking to handwave away another hard problem and then say "this rebuts the other hard problem". Or "we'll get the metal for a Venus cloud city by moving asteroids into orbit" - yeah... if we can move and mine asteroids, building on Venus would be a lot easier but we can't do those things? Or an assumption of high enough immigration rates to offset genetic diversity concerns - space travel is hard, expensive, and all of this is at (or beyond) the limits of current engineering why assume a certain scale?

There's a fair amount of "only Musk and/or Bezos say X, but there are others in the community you say not-X" - which I'm sure is true but seems irrelevant? Like it or not, a handful of rich folks (and Hollywood and other popular media collectively) set the bounds of discussion here. Most telling in the rebuttal around Moon and Mars settlement, where the argument seems to be "A City on Mars is right, but we should also be talking about Venus and Titan (etc.)" - if I grab a random non-expert off the street, they're gonna list Mars, Moon, and maybe "space stations". Heck, didn't the current NASA admin announce plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon? Presumably that's to power something (not that I expect it to ever be built) base-or-settlement-y?

A City on Mars is a pop-sci book so I'm sure there are plenty of issues, but (at least as a non-expert) the critiques I've seen (and this one in particular) are really poor.
by safeshare | 2025-11-30 17:48:04+00:00
I built a tiny browser-based tool called SafeShare. You paste a URL, it removes common tracking parameters (utm_source, gclid, fbclid, etc.), tries to unwrap obvious redirect parameters (url=, redirect=, u=…), and shows you a cleaner link to share.

There is no login, no accounts, no tracking cookies – it runs as a simple web app on GitHub Pages and processes links locally in the browser.

It’s intentionally limited to “link hygiene” and transparency: – It’s not a full security scanner. – It does not follow every redirect hop across the network. – It focuses on cleaning links you want to share (mail, messenger, newsletter, social), not on doing deep inspection. App: https://j-ai-71.github.io/Supersystem/app.html Code: https://github.com/j-ai-71/Supersystem

I’d be happy about feedback from this crowd: – Would you actually use a tool like this in your own workflow? – Which parameters or patterns would you expect it to handle that it doesn’t yet? – Is the UX clear enough, or is something confusing/over-engineered?

Any comments, criticism or “this is useless, but here’s what would be useful instead” are welcome.
by wheels | 2025-11-30 17:48:05+00:00
This was my thought the first time I heard these talked about on a podcast where it talked about there being infinite cooling ... and I just kind of face-palmed because it was like, "This is being discussed by people who don't know things about space." We already have places on earth with effectively unlimited solar power and effectively unlimited cooling (though not the same places) but without having to launch stuff into space.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-30 17:48:38+00:00
I’m a very casual gamer but even I run into obvious cheaters in any popular online game all the time.

Cheating is rampant anywhere there’s an online competition. The cheaters don’t care about respecting others, they get a thrill out of getting a lot of points against other people who are trying to compete.

Even in the real world, my runner friends always have stories about people getting caught cutting trails and all of the lengths their running organizations have to go through now to catch cheaters because it’s so common.

The thing about cheaters in a large competition is that it doesn’t take many to crowd out the leaderboard, because the leaderboard is where they get selected out. If there are 1000 teams competing and only 1% cheat, that 1% could still fill the top 10.
by friedtofu | 2025-11-30 17:48:47+00:00
I've been daily driving CachyOS for ~3 years now. It was the first distro I could use "out of the box" with a Nvidia 1080 TI and later 3060 along with an old Intel i7-8700k without having to spend a significant amount of time tweaking and fiddling with config files just to get a working Plasma/Wayland setup.

Though I definitely think the resources and guides Archwiki provided plus the fact that I had been distro hopping(Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS among others) the last couple years before I settled into CachyOS/Arch helped a lot.

I will say though(at least in my experience) attempting to use a tiling/dynamic WM like hyprland, sway, river, anything that depends on wlroots did not work well, which is to be expected as i dont believe any of the desktop environments I listed support Nvidia.

KDE Plasma(The default DE) and XFCE which I only used for a short while gave me the most stable and consistent environment. Generally I never promote CachyOS, but this is the first time I've seen it on the front page of HN, if you're willing to put in a little effort(i.e read through the CachyOS docs and maybe a couple pages of the Archwiki) I'm pretty sure CachyOS is the best experience "out of the box" for users with a Nvidia GPU/intel CPU/iGPU. Outside of straight up upstream Arch as long as youre willing to put in the time to configure it post install to optimize your system.
by anonymars | 2025-11-30 17:48:58+00:00
Perhaps. But what if a person living in Massachusetts travels to another state?

I found this when looking into it more: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/feds-tell-automakers-no...

"Now, according to Reuters, NHTSA has written to automakers to advise them not to comply with the Massachusetts law. Among its problems are the fact that someone “could utilize such open access to remotely command vehicles to operate dangerously, including attacking multiple vehicles concurrently,” and that “open access to vehicle manufacturers’ telematics offerings with the ability to remotely send commands allows for manipulation of systems on a vehicle, including safety-critical functions such as steering, acceleration, or braking.”

Faced with this dilemma, it’s quite possible the automakers will respond by simply disabling telematics and connected services for customers in the state. Subaru already took that step when it introduced its model year 2022 vehicles, and NHTSA says other OEMs may do the same."
by aunty_helen | 2025-11-30 17:49:23+00:00
Some more context, KSA is spending up large, think 100s of projects a week, for their vision 2030 where they will have spent 100b on software systems and AI.

These are govt contracts and a lot of them have strict data sovereignty restrictions. Google has a big data center there for the exact reason to mop up this work. They also have an AI lab there.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-30 17:50:47+00:00
> high school debate used to be an extracurricular thing students could do for fun.

High school debate has been ruthless for a long time, even before AI. There has been a rise in the use of techniques designed to abuse the rules and derail arguments for several years. In some regions, debates have become more about teams leveraging the rules and technicalities against their opponents than organically trying to debate a subject.
by lazide | 2025-11-30 17:51:20+00:00
So let me recap.

Your plan here is to lump a bunch of people together by skin color (but with labels theoretically only tangentially related to skin color), and blame them for a bunch of stuff most don’t really benefit from - near as I can tell, for instance, Musk made his fortune by having rich parents and being a manipulative asshole, and being white only helped a little bit - and you don’t expect a portion of them to lose their minds and fight back.

And those people, by your assertion, have most of the guns, power, and money.

How do you think that is going to work out? Do you think it is helping to calm anything down, or result in a more reasonable outcome?

And do you think that regardless of the size or quantity of bodies fed into the resulting meat grinder that Musk would suffer one bit for it, for example?

Or is this not actually helping him? By turning idiots to his side?
Show HN: Schema Pilot – Visual Database Designer with Instant Prisma
by Punyakrit | 2025-11-30 17:51:31+00:00
I’ve started working on Schema Pilot, an open-source idea for a visual database designer that generates Prisma schema + SQL automatically from a drag-and-drop interface.

Right now it’s very early — mostly the landing page + initial planning for the core engine. But the vision is:

visually create tables & relations

auto-generate FK logic

export clean Prisma + SQL

eventually import existing Prisma schemas

I'm building it in the open and would love feedback, contributors, or anyone interested in the problem space.

Repo: https://github.com/punyakrit/schema-pilot

Happy to answer questions!