MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benchly | 2025-11-13 11:38:09+00:00
I've thought on this as someone who travels between the US and Canada a lot, and the scene about the embezzlement scheme from Office Space often comes to mind (the "Pennies for everyone" tray: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ea64c5fd-3c6d-46f9-b729-beef7b0...)

For me, it's not about the pennies I'm losing. You're right, I don't care about them and the end of their minting doesn't mean much to me at all. No, it's about who is getting the pennies I'm losing. Let's say Nestle, a company I loath, has a box of instant noodles for $0.99 USD. Our hypothetical noodles are very popular, so everyone in the US tends to buy them.

Suddenly, pennies go away. Nestle thinks "hmm, so our customers were already paying $0.99, might as well just bump the price up to $1.00, nobody will care." And they'd be correct. As a typical consumer, I'd pay $1.00 for something that I was just paying $0.99 for because the difference is negligible to me.

But if everyone in the US buys them for lunch, that's not a negligible difference to Nestle. That's nearly $3,500,000 USD in extra revenue that week. If the consumer behavior remains consistent, that's an extra $182,000,000 USD per year. Maybe that seems like small potatoes compared to what Nestle grosses annually on a global scale, but even the richest of companies can do A LOT with that much extra cash.

But of course, that is an extreme and overly simplified example. However, it illustrates the idea that while the individual will not really feel the change, the collectives or corporations will.

I'm not an economics expert by any stretch of the imagination, but one thing I'm fairly sure about is when something like this type of change happens, the corporations are unchallenged at finding ways to exploit it, which usually translates to more money going up to them and less coming back down to the individual.
by chistev | 2025-11-13 11:38:17+00:00
Maybe we aren't the first living things to exist in the universe, but the first intelligent ones, and intelligent here meaning creatures with ability to ask these questions and make space probes to explore the universe.

Maybe intelligence isn't always a product of evolution. Even here on Earth, in the, what, 4 billion years history of the planet, humans are the only evolved creatures with intelligence as defined here. Maybe intelligence doesn't always occur.

A lengthy tangentially related post on my blog if you care -

https://www.rxjourney.net/extraterrestrial-intelligence-and-...
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 11:38:21+00:00
Completely useless take in the real world where these payments are common, it makes no difference whatsoever if an individual or even vast majority of victims stop paying. Ransomware will remain incredibly lucrative until payments are outlawed.

The cost of an attack like this is in the thousands of dollars at most, the ransom payments tend to be in the millions. The economics of not paying just don’t add up in the current situation.
by maxlin | 2025-11-13 11:38:55+00:00
It's all in the same direction. The kind of ignorance a question like "What’s divisive about a pride flag?", even if sincere really highlights this. There are a lot of people and thoughts in the world, and there is a lot of effort trying to forcefully suppress some to then trying to make other things appear "non-divisive". This hegemony that is in effect in a lot of places has way too much similarity to authoritarian regimes where there is no visible criticism of Dear Leader, because if any is spotted, off to the gulag you go. See, Dear Leader is loved by everyone!

In the end, people that tend to say things like "kill/punch/etc [group]" just because of their own inhumanity and need to say such things because they feel some groups are "fine as targets", while trying at their best to put said labels on anyone they disagree with (with almost no one actually truly belonging under those labels!), tend to be the same crowd that go in the direction of the less extreme political signaling. This is why the common solution of just banning stickers altogether is the norm when a solution is put in place. Sadly legit relevant signaling like showing one's knowledge of specific technologies with stickers suffers as collateral damage, but is not comparable to the damage of losing team spirit in a team that could otherwise pool their resources and knowledge on a task they CAN work together with.

And I say this as someone who has been in a leadership position in teams where I knew there was a lot of potential for such things to ruin everything. If I didn't witness things being kept professional in said teams, especially in one of them, I wouldn't have believed it could ever even have worked as well as it did, and it did so well. Better than other parts of the company even, given there was genuine effort put in to stay kosher and people ended up being more mindful of each other.

>but you don’t seem to have the courage to respond.

What? I wrote my comment literally yesterday lol. Now looking at the replies, most of them either don't seem to have much sincerity to them or have little chance of furthering anyone's understanding if engaged. I've learnt that it's better to minimize time wasted on trolls when there's little benefit to arguing with them even for the public representation when I can instead use my time working on my projects.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-11-13 11:39:25+00:00
Separating the UI from the functionality is not as easy as it sounds. Often the first iteration of a program has the business logic tightly coupled to the UI, and is designed for a single platform. You need engineers with foresight to refactor before it becomes a mess

Also even the non UI is not trivial. I once worked on a very la4ge code base that was console only. We en we eventually gave up on our Windows and Mac ports. Granted it was C++ …
by kace91 | 2025-11-13 11:40:05+00:00
I’m of two minds about this.

The ass licking is dangerous to our already too tight information bubbles, that part is clear. But that aside, I think I prefer a conversational/buddylike interaction to an encyclopedic tone.

Intuitively I think it is easier to make the connection that this random buddy might be wrong, rather than thinking the encyclopedia is wrong. Casualness might serve to reduce the tendency to think of the output as actual truth.
by Orygin | 2025-11-13 11:40:50+00:00
A 25 years old bug in software is not the same as a backdoor (not a bug, a full on backdoor..). The bug is so old if someone put it there intentionally, well congrats on the 25yo 0day.

Meanwhile the XZ backdoor was 100% meant to be used. I didn't say when and that doesn't matter, there is a malicious actor with the knowledge to exploit it. We can't say the same regarding the bug in a 1998 codec that was found by extensive fuzzing, and without obvious exploitation path.

Now, should it be patched? Absolutely, but should the patch be done asap at the cost of other maybe more important security patches? Maybe, maybe not. Not all bugs are security vulns, and not all security vulns are exploitable
by andy_ppp | 2025-11-13 11:46:02+00:00
I've actually set the output to be much better in the preferences:

"Have a European sensibility (I am European). Don't patronise me and tell me if I'm wrong. Don't be sycophantic. Be terse. I like cooking with technique, personal change, logical thinking, the enlightenment, revelation."

Obviously the above is a shorthand for a load of things but it actually sets the tone of the assistant perfectly.
by onion2k | 2025-11-13 11:46:04+00:00
It probably isn't really using that much but it will have reserved that much. V8 reserves memory in chunks of 256MB using virtualalloc with MEM_RESERVE on Windows (I think). It has to do that for each isolated process where an isolate is a tab, webview, worker, etc. A page that's built up from 4 isolated processes will reserve 1GB of RAM. That's only virtual alloc though, so other OS processes can take the memory if they really need it.

There is essentially no way to tell if a JS app is using a lot of memory just by looking at what the process has reserved. There's loads of things that end up in that space - cached pages, cached compiled code, cached bitmaps of rendered pages, etc.

The task monitor tells you what Chrome or Chromium (e.g. Electron) is doing, not what the web app is doing.

There is a good argument to suggest Chromium is hogging more than it should. That's not really WhatsApp's fault though.
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 11:46:07+00:00
> Does Google refuse to veriy their firmware if they offer this feature?

If a manufacturer doesn't follow the Android CDD (https://source.android.com/docs/compatibility/cdd), Google will not allow them to bundle Google's closed source apps (which include the Google Play store). It was originally a measure to prevent fragmentation. I don't know whether this particular detail (not exposing this particular permission) is part of the CDD.
by mrcsharp | 2025-11-13 11:46:11+00:00
Definitely started that way for me. It was cool to see a console app written in C# be compiled straight to native and run. Since then, a lot of work has been done to make AOT viable for more workloads.

I wouldn't use it for an MVC application yet because a lot of features won't work but there are plenty of other areas that are using it now and one of the biggest examples is Avalonia apps compiling to native.
by Qem | 2025-11-13 11:46:13+00:00
> By the time birth rates plummet below replacement rate in Africa, they would have risen well above replacement again in Europe and North America.

What makes you think they will rise again in a timely manner? Demographers naively predicted the rates would stop decreasing and magicaly stabilize close to replacement levels, and failed miserably. To my best knowledge there is no indication the current trends will reverse or at least stabilize any soon.
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-13 11:46:17+00:00
America isn’t against baked in taxes because of the appearance of a deal, it’s because there is the large part of the population that is against _taxation_. Their argument (which is probably right) is that if you bake in the tax then it will be ignored by more buyers and it will be easier to raise.

Lots of odd American customs can be explained by this phenomenon. The other major difference in the states is that we don’t have many places that only have federal taxes. States and every locality from the county to the water reclamation board can have tax authority. Those 2 things in conjunction go a long way to explain the differences you see in US tax treatment.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-11-13 11:46:31+00:00
Helm is the number 1 reason I'm looking to leave behind my DevOps/SRE job. Basically every job or project I accept involves working with helm in some capacity and I'm just tired of working with mostly garbage helm charts, especially big meta-charts or having to fork a chart to add a config parameter value override somewhere. Debugging broken chart installs or incomplete upgrades is also nothing but pain. Most helm charts remind me of working with ansible-galaxy roles around ~2015.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-13 11:46:44+00:00
Not at all, you're mixing up with YA BASIC, that came with PS 2 demo disc.

People that weren't there keep mixing channels on this one.

To acquire PS2 Linux, you had to pay additionally 300 euros for the Linux distribution, the PS2 hard disk, and cables that would only work in monitors using sync on green signal.

Initially the price was much higher, and got reduced to around 300 in 2004.
by dawnerd | 2025-11-13 11:46:46+00:00
I’m still going to keep using the digital id lane whenever I can. The gov and tsa already has my biometrics because of my passport + global entry + precheck status. Might as well use the much faster security lane.

But this offering from Apple seems like it could be a nice choice for folks with passports but no desire to get pre or global entry. (Which seriously if you have a credit card that covers it, definitely do it)
by Aerroon | 2025-11-13 11:47:00+00:00
I don't think it's entirely the case. They are on franchises, but not the ones you think of - they're playing live service games that have been around for years. Games like League of Legends, Counterstrike, Fortnite, Dota, WoW, PUBG etc. Games like Battlefield are up there, but I don't think they're the games people mainly play over the years. (Although Fifa and GTA definitely are.)

For example, the top 10 games in Korean PC bangs last week were:

1. League of Legends

2. PUBG (I think)

3. Fifa

4. Valorant

5. Overwatch 2

6. Sudden Attack (a KR FPS game)

7. Maple Story

8. Lost Ark

9. Dungeon Fighter Online

10. StarCraft (Brood War, I believe)

The next 15: Diablo 2 Resurrection, World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, Lineage, Eternal Return, Path of Exile, Warcraft 3, Black Desert, Cyphers, Aion, Path of Exile 2, Diablo 3, StarCraft 2, Tales Runner, Final Fantasy 14.

Lineage and Brood War weren't even made in this millennium!
by bayindirh | 2025-11-13 11:47:07+00:00
AI is not an hammer. It's a thing you stick to a wall and push a button, and it drives tons of nails to the wall the way you wanted.

A better analogy would be a robot vacuum which does a lousy job.

In either case, I'd recommend using a more manual method, a manual or air-hammer or a hand driven wet/dry vacuum.
by kragen | 2025-11-13 11:47:32+00:00
For me the great benefit of rounded shapes is that they make it visually apparent what's foreground and what's background. If you just divide an area up into rectangular subareas, it's hard to know which of these rectangles are supposed to represent figure and which are just empty background. The T-joint between a vertical line and a horizontal line gives no clue as to whether the vertical line is supposed to connect to the left half of the horizontal line, the right half, both, or neither. A little curvature makes it clear which direction the edge of a depicted object is continuing.
by maxlin | 2025-11-13 11:47:36+00:00
Sincere or not, the obvious should be stated here that distain for extremely politicized gender movements has little to do with outstanding opinions for said actual sexualities. I've personally voted for (several!) gay political candidates and attended a gay wedding, among other similar things.

The current day form of the lgbt(...) movement has done more damage to their representation than the natural, mostly not strong but dismissive opinions of the common folk could ever have. The screaming intentional ignorance of criticism of its increasingly radical extensions and effects sometimes makes me think we're not just living in the world of Idiocracy, but in the version of the world that comes after it ...
by ojhughes | 2025-11-13 11:47:47+00:00
Helm shines when you’re consuming vendor charts (nginx-ingress, cert-manager, Prometheus stack). It’s basically a package manager for k8s. Add a repo, pin a version, set values, and upgrade/rollback as one unit. For third-party infra, the chart’s values.yaml provides a fairly clean and often well documented interface
by arooaroo | 2025-11-13 11:48:22+00:00
I put my phone’s brightness down to minimum at night. Nonetheless I use HN purposely as a dim light when the phone’s torch would be too bright and a beige glow does the job splendidly. (Typically, when I’m moving around the house late at night and everyone else is asleep - when pitch black the torch is too extreme.)

That said, given the amount of time I spend reading on the site I do wish there was a dark mode option.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-11-13 11:48:52+00:00
This problem is more nuanced that any party involved in the discussion admits.

It is a combination of consumerist, pseudo-individulistic, hedonistic, nihilistic culture, economic exploitation under late-stage capitalism, destruction of familial and local ties, access to birth control, women emancipation etc.

Even such authoritarian countries like China are still very much soaked in the same systemic goo, so you may ban abortions if you like, but that won't change much.
by iamcalledrob | 2025-11-13 11:49:21+00:00
Personally I think the challenges with this approach (having literally used a Go shared library + native UI myself): 1. The web still exists. You can't practically use a Go shared library on the web. And you probably don't want your shared library written in JS. 2. In my experience, most of the coordination is about the UI, not the underlying implementation. So the human cost isn't reduced much with shared libraries. 3. At a big company, "feature teams" can't easily ship native desktop UI because feature team eng only knows web...

I do think this approach is super viable with a product development approach that is more waterfall, however. Where a team owns the platform and it's design.
by kragen | 2025-11-13 11:49:26+00:00
You're right, they didn't use to have rounded corners: https://web.archive.org/web/20131201025758/http://www.nngrou...

That was when border-radius already existed.

Of course their older designs didn't have rounded corners because that would have required using images, which would have made the page load slowly: https://web.archive.org/web/19990222172600/http://www.nngrou...
by imtringued | 2025-11-13 11:50:00+00:00
It depends on the application. Big Endian is pretty good for networking and sorting. If you store the address in Big Endian, you can start doing streaming prefix matching, because the most significant address byte is arriving first. When you consider how many routers and switches a packet has to cross, any buffering or Endian conversion is going to increase latency.
by JoachimS | 2025-11-13 11:50:49+00:00
The book Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir this is exactly what they do - have a layer of the bacteria (which is integral to the plot) between the hull and where the humans lived.

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

Good, fun book. The main protagonists are a bit too inventive and quick to do solve, fix things. But in all fairness it's SF after all.
by Semaphor | 2025-11-13 11:52:45+00:00
For those who are wondering what Line is, it’s a Japanese messenger turned super-app [0]

> Line became Japan's largest social network in 2013 and is used by over 70% of the population as of 2023; it is also popular mainly in Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand.

The font looks decent, nice of them to have it under the SIL Open Font License.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(software)
by kinderpingui | 2025-11-13 11:52:51+00:00
I wrote this to explain how MoE achieves 64x more parameters with only 2x compute cost. The key insight is sparse activation - each token only hits 2 experts out of 8, while all expert weights stay loaded.

Includes working PyTorch code for the routing mechanism and shows how experts naturally specialize (one handles punctuation, another numbers, etc) without explicit supervision.

Models like Mixtral-8x7B (45B params, runs like 14B) prove this works at scale. Happy to answer questions about the implementation.
by jcgl | 2025-11-13 11:53:14+00:00
(I actually appreciate you doing a Kagi search for me, btw. I've heard great things about Kagi, and it would've been great if something came up there that didn't on DDG or Google.)

My whole digital life other than my iPhone works very well! Never better, really. Been Linux-exclusive for years after switching after the release of Windows 10.

Just a real pity that iOS doesn't provide something as simple as a proper export feature. A kicker is that the Photos app does allow you to "Export Unmodified Original" for multiple photos or even whole albums. But you can't do this to everything in Photos (what used to be called the camera roll). There's no "select all" button to work around this.
by ozim | 2025-11-13 11:53:18+00:00
I don't think that is real - I don't believe every company was able to afford having DBA, Dev, QA, Business Analysts, Ops etc. as always fully separate FTE.

Only biggest companies were able to have that. If you have a single application to run there is no work for DBA as FTE, in big company where you have multiple projects you can most likely have DBA as a department that handles dozens of databases and running infra. Same with Ops, you can have SRE or OPS doing your infra if you have dozens of applications to run.

Problem is having separate QA/DBA/Dev/Ops departments was breaking because people would "do their stuff" and throw problems over the fence. So everything would go to shit and we have seen it in big companies.

Other thing is - I have read about multiple companies trying "to be professional" burning money on exactly having separate roles, but in reality you cannot simply afford FTE or having full department of DBA or QA or OPS or just Dev - unless you basically are swimming in money.
by masfoobar | 2025-11-13 11:54:07+00:00
You know there are people.. programmers.. who are not C# developers... and likely refuse C# because of various reasons.. right? It can be based on the fact its Microsoft. My comment is based on startups and, from my experience, people like go all in on C# because decisions have been made to go all-in Microsoft.

C# has come a long way in the last 10 years. This much is clear, providing better support outside of the Windows ecosystem. However, many outside of the Windows/Microsoft ways are likely to be using languages like Go.

> What are you talking about C# being tied to Visual Studio? This is 2025 not 1995.

There was no C# in 1995. (See it's easy attacking a sentence)
by leshenka | 2025-11-13 11:54:27+00:00
There's a double edged sword here. Not even talking about DRM.

I would love to be able, myself, decide if it's fine to capture a screen for an application but I'd also would love to protect me or my non-tech-savvy relatives from accidentally share sensitive info (e.g. banking) when screen casting.

In my opinion there should be a waiver buried deep in the settings that allows me to disable such protections with a grace period of a week or so. Grace period is crucial because scammers are able to make people do virtually anything under stress and hurrying.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-13 11:55:14+00:00
Nonsense. People don't buy a PS5 and regret they can't play League of Legends. There's been games exclusive to one platform or the other since the dawn of time, yet people still buy them for the games they do have.

That thing is going to run a ton of games that other consoles don't.

Few customers are going to replace their PC with it, but if you have the cash and want to add a sleek console to your living room that will also stream from your desktop in a pinch, it's probably a great deal.