MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wongarsu | 2025-11-03 01:15:19+00:00
Being walkable doesn't preclude having transit though. It does clash with cars because cars need parking, and parking takes so much space that walking distances quickly become an issue. But subways, trams or even buses don't have that issue, they don't meaningfully decrease walkability

European cities are also quite car-infected, but in many the older core still work somewhat similar to how cities worked back then: you have the daily necessities within a 10 minute walk, for anything else you can fetch transit to the city center within 15 minutes, where you generally get everything else (except Ikea)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-03 01:15:27+00:00
But there is no vulnerability at all. For a normally configured X server with TCP listening, the server should be configured to use MIT magic cookies for authentication. This randomly-generated string is needed to authenticate and establish a connection to the X server. You can use the xauth command to manually configure it as needed.

It's the equivalent of HTTP Digest authentication, and nobody's demanding that we rewrite HTTP because Digest authentication. It's in plaintext, so you shouldn't use it; but if a hacker doesn't know the secret, they can't get in.
by hoherd | 2025-11-03 01:15:52+00:00
My son (8yo) and I have been running bazzite on mid tier AMD hardware for almost a year. It was so solid and such a good experience that I just upgraded us to a desktop with an nvidia 5080. Bazzite deck mode (beta) has been glitchy, but desktop mode has been rock solid. This is a total game changer. I gave up my Xbox subscription and am so happy to be back on Steam without having to tolerate windows.

Steam Deck on the go, Bazzite for desktop. Match made in heaven.
by vosper | 2025-11-03 01:17:01+00:00
> The ugly glass UX, the weird floating controls, the always on display, blah blah

I'm on the "some like it" boat, to my surprise. I think the glass effect is eye-catching in a good way, and is much-less of a readability issue than I had expected. I often notice how cool it looks over my rotating background photos. I also love the always-on display because I don't have a watch.
by quequon | 2025-11-03 01:17:46+00:00
Classic shilling behavior of the insufferably embarrassing: redefining words to the benefit of those who pay your bills to the confusion of everyone else.

The definition of engineering, according to people outside the pocket of the llm industry:

> The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems.

How do these techniques apply scientific and mathematical principals?

I would argue to do either of those requires reproducibility, and yet somehow you are arguing the less reproducible something is that the more like "physical engineering" it becomes.
by hekkle | 2025-11-03 01:17:54+00:00
At least they are disguising it. Australia has, in the state of SA the "Police Complaints and Discipline Act 2016", that expressly allows police officers to investigate their own corruption, and when they inevitably conclude they did nothing illegal, anyone who complains to anyone other including human right's organisations will be arrested and charged.

Source: I was arrested by my ex-wife's boyfriend, who denied all my human rights in detention. All his ridiculous charges were thrown out, but he, and his police partner was allowed to investigate himself as to whether he violated any laws. I then received a threatening letter from the Attorney-General telling me I would be charged if I brought it up the particulars of it with anyone.
by tarwich | 2025-11-03 01:18:00+00:00
When I learned about git bisect I thought it was a little uppity. I thought it was something I would never use in a practical scenario. Working on large code bases. However, sometimes a bug pops up and we don't know when it started. We use git bisect not place blame on a person, but to try to figure out when the bug was no longer there so we know what code introduced it. Yes, clean code helps. Sometimes git bisect is really nice to have.
by loeg | 2025-11-03 01:18:15+00:00
No, that doesn't follow. That only means the networking and parsing functions can't be sandboxed in the same process that drops new root-owned files. C and C++ services have been using subprocesses for sandboxing risky functionality for a long time now. It appears Apt has some version of this:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/apt-pkg/co...
by adi_kurian | 2025-11-03 01:20:57+00:00
I have always found this complaint quite odd. Em-dashes are great. I use them all the time.

Never spent too much time thinking about em-dashes. Writers I like probably use them all the time—again, never really thought about it.

There are many other language model artifacts that are genuinely shite and are worth criticizing. Though, come to think of it, they have been getting stamped out with each iteration in model. Used to spend a lot of time trying to get models to refrain from words like "crucial".

What I do find strange is how the latest SOTA models appear to write with contractions by default, which began sometime in the past year. Anthropic models, in particular.
by 8organicbits | 2025-11-03 01:22:09+00:00
> In general, filing abuse reports to residential IP addresses is a waste of time. The administrators do appreciate knowing what kinds of abusive traffic is causing grief, but many times the users of those IP addresses don't know that their computer is sending abusive traffic to your services.

It's interesting that I need to smog my car to prevent harm to my surroundings, but my computer can harm freely
by edot | 2025-11-03 01:22:47+00:00
Yes, this is one of my primary use cases for deep research right now. It will become garbage in a few short years once OpenAI starts selling influence / ads. I think they’ve started a bit with doing this but the recommendations still seem mostly “correct”. My prior way of doing this was Googling with site:Reddit.com for real reviews and not SEO spam reviewers.
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 01:23:50+00:00
The cast of interviewees is interesting:

1. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigation reports

2. Experienced captains of Great Lakes ships, e.g. one has 45 years a Great Lakes mariner, 18 as a captain.

3. "diver, documentary filmmaker, Great Lakes shipwreck historian and author of the 2022 book "Tattletale Sounds: The Edmund Fitzgerald investigations."

Imagine we were talking about IT systems - e.g., Google Cloud - and we had an outside expert panel that did a detailed investigation; long-time Google Cloud senior engineers; and a documentary filmmaker and author, who examined the (malfunctioned systems).

Who would you listen to? #3 gets most of the space in the article. I'd listen to #2 especially and certainly #1.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-03 01:24:09+00:00
> The reality is that most SNAP recipients are not going to go to food banks or anything like that; they're just going to use their own money and buy groceries or McDonald's... Sometimes that's concerts and fancy clothes....

I'm sorry, it seems like maybe we have very different understandings of the concept of living paycheck to paycheck, while also relying on SNAP benefits. Non-white collar employees of both Amazon and Walmart do so regularly. There is no three month cushion for millions of Americans, there is not even a one week cushion for many.

I am not saying this as snark. I just don't think that 99% of us folks on this website live this reality, so it might seem impossible. Please help us get on the same page here. Maybe I am the one who is misunderstanding, but what you said sounds a lot like "fly-over state" type mentality, that somehow does not take into account the real struggle of millions of Americans. We have a lot of real poor people here, are you really telling them to "buy less concerts and fancy clothes??"

edit: Nvm. I don't want to make this a giant thread on this post, about if poor people exist or not. I will not reply further, as I just now realized that I got baited into politics. The actual reality is that millions of Americans will now be skipping even more meals. If you don't believe that they exist, then there is nothing I can do about that. Clearly you have never been hungry, and that is a level of naivete that I wish upon everyone.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-03 01:25:37+00:00
I think you've fallen into a message board hole.

Of the humans alive today, basically a rounding error of them are ever going to come anywhere near the CFAA. Firstly, the intent requirement. Which has been pointed out to you upthread and you just sortof waved away that judges are willing to accept anything as proof of intent, despite that not seeming to be the case from the cases I can see. Secondly, the average human alive is not poking at web vulnerabilities as part of their humanitarian journalism. The CFAA is nearly a perfect overlap where the people at risk of accidentally violating it are the folks who have the means to ask a professional about their nuanced situation.

The CFAA (like many laws) has problems, but you've really latched onto whether or not something counts as a crime for the CFAA in a way that doesn't seem to be attached with a real threat model.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-03 01:26:19+00:00
What, were they too difficult for Donald Trump to work out? I thought Israel was enthusiastic to work with American diplomats, but all they've done is ignore them and vote on performative joke legislature in the Knesset.

Both sides violated the ceasefire. You seem so enthusiastic to justify Israel's strikes, why couldn't they have abated their deliberate violations? What was so urgent that Donald Trump couldn't fix it? Your lack of faith in America is worrysome.
by beders | 2025-11-03 01:27:14+00:00
The Clojure (or any Lisp) journey is very different, not because of the language per se, but because of the developer experience.

In Clojure, there's no appreciable compilation time. During my work week I barely, if ever, restart the application I'm working on: I'm working inside of it via a REPL connection.

It's an entirely different ball game and if you just compare language features you are missing out on an incredible interactive coding experience.
by iliaxj | 2025-11-03 01:28:05+00:00
Sometimes it doesn't though. Sometimes the engine seizes because a piece of tubing broke and you left your coolant down the road two turns ago. Or you steer off a cliff because there was coolant on the road for some reason. Or the meat sack in front of the wheel just didn't get enough sleep and your response time is degraded and you just can't quite get the thing to feel how you usually do. Ultimately the failure rate is low enough to trust your life on it, but that's just a matter of degree.
by alphazard | 2025-11-03 01:30:16+00:00
These things go slowly an then all at once. The catalyst will be one or a few of the AAA November titles shipping with Linux support. That will eliminate most of the gaming crowd's last reason to cling to Microsoft.

It may even kill console gaming because the Steam Deck is already a fantastic experience just waiting for more games. It's not a small demographic either, it's something like 40% of males age 18-35, plus all of the people in their circles who come to them for tech support. Once market share gets up to 30% or so it becomes a cool trend, that other gamers want to emulate, streamers and influencers get involved. Then around 50% market share the bullying starts. "Windows is for people too stupid to figure out Linux" says a Linux Mint enjoyer to a Windows 11 plebian.

Valve has done a great job getting things started, but it's the studios' turn to make a move now.
by pvankessel | 2025-11-03 01:30:25+00:00
The automation one is so true! When I first deployed a huge job to MTurk, with so much money on the line I wanted to be careful, and I wrote some heuristics to auto-ban Turkers who worked their way through the HITs suspiciously quickly (2 standard deviations above the norm, iirc) - and damn did I wake up to a BUNCH of angry (but kind) emails. Turns out, there was a popular hotkey programming tool that Turk Masters made use of to work through the more prized HITs more efficiently, and on one of their forums someone shared a script for ours. I checked their work and it was quality, they were just hyper-optimizing. It was reassuring to see how much they cared about doing a good job.
by wk_end | 2025-11-03 01:30:50+00:00
It's not that simple, right? Because the computation can actually rely on the types, so the types can't always just be erased. The complexity around knowing when the types are going to be erased or not is part of what motivated Idris 2's adoption of quantities.

https://idris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/updates/updates.html...
by g9yuayon | 2025-11-03 01:31:08+00:00
I'm curious why Lisp didn't gain mass popularity despite its advantages. In fact, I was wondering if it's popularity has event decreased in the past decade or so. I remember in the 2000s and even early 2010s, there were active discussion on Clojure, Scheme, and functional/logic programming in general. There seems much less discussion or usage nowadays. One theory is that popular languages have absorbed many features of functional programming, so the mainstream programmers do not feel the need to switch. My pet theory is that many of us mortals get the productivity boost from the ecosystem, in particular powerful libraries and frameworks. Given that, the amazing features of lisp, such as its s-expression, may not be powerful enough to sway users to switch.
by muglug | 2025-11-03 01:32:14+00:00
I'm a fan of more formal methods in progam analysis, but this particular excercise is very hindsight-is-20/20

> In this case, we can set up an invariant stating that the DNS should never be deleted once a newer plan has been applied

If that invariant had been expressed in the original code — as I'm sure it now is — it wouldn't have broken in the first place. The invariant is obvious in hindsight, but it's hardly axiomatic.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-03 01:32:39+00:00
> If you just happen on a dump of a company's data, you didn't have the necessary intent. If you hit a login form and figure out that it has flaws and then use those flaws to access data, you do.

A good first question here is why should that be the thing that matters?

Take the scenario where it lets anyone create an account. It's not yet obvious at that point what the thing is even for, but you sign up for an account and it gives you one. Once you sign in the things you have access to might be the sort of things you might not expect to be public, but then how are you distinguishing that from a data dump with the same stuff in it? Or is this one allowed because they're still essentially granting access to the public?

If someone who works there gives you the password, are you now authorized because they just authorized you, or not authorized because the password was only meant for people who work there? What if the password is included as part of the link?

So is the form of access control really the thing that ought to matter? Or is it what you're accessing? But now notice that the company isn't going to purposely authorize you to view the evidence of their criminal activity, so maybe a law that imposes a blanket ban on anybody accessing anything a company doesn't want them to is broader than it ought to be.
by thombles | 2025-11-03 01:33:04+00:00
One place bisect shines is when a flaky test snuck in due to some race condition but you can’t figure out what. If you have to run a test 100000 times to be convinced the bug isn’t present, this can be pretty slow. Bisecting makes it practical to narrow in on the faulty commit, and with the right script you can just leave it running in the background for an hour.
by atoav | 2025-11-03 01:33:35+00:00
As someone who was throwing the most popular parties in my hometown¹ during my youth probably the number 1 thing is finding the right mixture of people.

Nearly the most boring thing you can do is only inviting people who know each other, ideally it is an explosive mix of different ages, backgrounds, interests, styles to avoid people sticking together in their known constellations.

¹: one if the proudest moments was when some random stranger in an European capital spoke to me on the street and told me: "Hey I know you, I have been to your party!" and I had no idea who they were
by buildsjets | 2025-11-03 01:33:47+00:00
I'd say a different era rather than a different reality.

The Dave Barry quote is obviously humor. But back from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, I was genuinely at numerous house parties, basement concerts, and un-permitted raves which where broken up by authorities, including some where the power was cut, (or worse, where the music was cut and lights flipped on full bright) and the cops forced everyone to pile into their cars and drive home, with whatever head full of chemicals they might be taking on the road with them. Poor saucer-eyed kids.

Ah, memories, memories. Where is that brain damage they promised us? I'm still involved in a local music scene somewhat. And yeah, there will always be an underground. And yes, some of the underground gets old and had to get up at 7am to pay the mortgage so some of this may be looking back with rozy glasses. But it just seems to get smaller every year. I don't hear bumping bass from the neighborhoods on Saturday night like I used to.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-03 01:34:33+00:00
It did, but it could receive messages thanks to MIT Magic Cookies, which you could send because of Tk’s excellent integration with X. I can’t remember now if it was the browser you could also effectively spy on via similar means. Long time ago. I have largely forgotten how my tool worked now but the code I wrote (modified wish shell) might still be out there.
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-03 01:35:04+00:00
> Rivian’s marketing people probably hate that they’re doing this

Somehow I doubt it. It's a big payday for the company and a big vote of confidence by a customer that doesn't mess around (as far as practical concerns go, ethics obviously doubtful). If Rivian wants to sell practical work EVs, this is their ideal scenario. People actually in the market for EV vans are going to do the math, and mostly won't care about the vague contamination by association with the Amazon brand.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-03 01:35:31+00:00
Exactly. That drives alot of the faddish nature of business. After Microsoft and Adobe started printing money with SaaS, suddenly everyone decided that selling software, one of the most lucrative businesses to ever be devised was a loser. Everyone wants $50/user/month now.

I realized it at a big enterprise. I couldn't figure out why one of my suppliers was flying out senior execs if I looked at the salesguy funny. We had a $2M account, and it turns out in the transition to SaaS, they value it like a financial product like insurance or a bond. So my stupid $2M spend may impact the market cap of the company 100x... which gets the Chief Revenue/Sales Dude a fat bonus.
by fourthark | 2025-11-03 01:36:29+00:00
Weirdly, I’ve found that when that happens I can close Claude and then run `claude --continue` and now it has room to compact. Makes no sense.

But I have no idea what state it will be in after compact, so it’s better to ask it to write a complete and thorough report including what source files to read. Lot more work but better than going off the rails.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-03 01:39:07+00:00
> Walkable cities are too small to have the wealth of options a car (or transit) city does.

It's counter intuitive but it's quiet the opposite. I've lived in the UK for a while and in some pretty walkable cities. Even in the smaller cities, what you'd find is a wealth of different shops and options catering to all sorts of needs.

But then just consider that when you are walking you are being exposed to all the shops in the city.

Cars isolate. You are much less likely to notice the hole in the wall specialty shop and you are much more likely to instead just go to a Walmart or national brand place to get what you want. And you'll much more likely want to stop at all in one stores such as Walmart because you don't want to hop in your car multiple times to get the shopping done. In walkable cities, it's almost like a mall experience in every city center. 3 doors down is the hardware store and 2 more stores is the candy shop.

And because that downtown location is a highly desirable place with lots of foot traffic, any shop that goes out of business gets quickly replaced with another. Which means you generally end up with a lot of pretty high quality stores.
by krferriter | 2025-11-03 01:39:08+00:00
Linux also doesn't have as good hardware support. While Linux will probably run on most hardware. It doesn't run well. Like you may just immediately give up half or more of your laptop battery life if you switch from Windows to Linux on a particular machine, even if you use a lightweight and up-to-date environment and use TLP and whatever else to tweak kernel settings. I used Linux on my personal laptops for many years. No amount of tweaking could make it perfectly smooth and have comparable battery life and cooling.

New apple-silicon Macbooks also get such good battery life and performance now that if you are switching from Windows to a Unix-y personal computer, is is increasingly hard to not say that you should go to Mac.
by rzerowan | 2025-11-03 01:40:20+00:00
Question , would this be a desirable outcome for drivers. As far as i can tell most kernel driver crashes are the ones that would benefit from such protection.Plus obviate the need to do full rewrites - if such a GC can protect from the faults and help with the recovery.Assuming the GC after recovery process is similar to erlang BEAM where a reload can bring back healthy state.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-03 01:40:29+00:00
> But now notice that the company isn't going to purposely authorize you to view the evidence of their criminal activity, so maybe a law that imposes a blanket ban on anybody accessing anything a company doesn't want them to is broader than it ought to be.

I think we've jumped pretty clearly here from actual discussion about the CFAA to a policy stance you're taking about how you feel it should be acceptable to hack companies if they deserve it.
by pron | 2025-11-03 01:40:32+00:00
In some of those benchmarks, Quarkus (which is very much "typical Java") beats Axum, and there's far more software being written in "niche Java" than in "typical Rust". As for Netty, it's "avoiding the JVM" (standard library, really) less now, and to the extent that it still does, it might not be working in its favour. E.g. we've been able to get better results with plain blocking code and virtual threads than with Netty, except in situations where Netty's codecs have optimisations done over many years, and could have been equally applied to ordinary Java blocking code (as I'm sure they will be in due time).
by SecretDreams | 2025-11-03 01:42:31+00:00
The current version of America is trying to smother the Canadian auto sector, notably Ontario and Quebec as you referenced. They're somewhat succeeding as we speak. If it's a foregone conclusion that they will continue down this route, why wouldn't Canada let Asian EVs in?

The anti Asia tariffs only make sense if Canada's current allies actually treat them like allies..
by fragmede | 2025-11-03 01:43:41+00:00
I'll probably get uninvited from the party for pointing this out, but Partiful is free for users because they are datamining the shit out of us. If Palantir gives any here the creeps, just fyi, Partiful was founded by several former Palantir employees, including CEO Shreya Murthy and CTO Joy Tao.