MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vbezhenar | 2025-11-13 10:44:15+00:00
There are many applications which are distributed as helm charts. Those charts install multiple deployments, service accounts and whatnot. They barely document all these things.

So if you want to avoid helm, you gotta do a whole lot of reverse-engineering. You gotta render a chart, explore all the manifests, explore all the configuration options, find out if they're needed or not.

An alternative is to just use helm, invoking it and forgetting about it. You can't blame people for going the easy way, I guess...
by nsoonhui | 2025-11-13 10:44:27+00:00
I want to be proven wrong, but I feel that demographic collapse is the single biggest crisis facing the developed world today. In this regard, the US is actually doing better than East Asian countries and Europe, but the trend is unmistakable — modern, affluent states are committing voluntary suicide because their citizens are simply not willing to have children.

Generally, populations with higher birth rates come from poorer countries or communities with lower living standards. Israel is the only major exception, but once you analyze the social strata it becomes clear why: higher-income groups still have lower fertility than the religious ones (especially the ultra-Orthodox and Arab Muslims) by a wide margin, even though the higher-income groups still have higher birth rates than other OECD countries. This creates long-term strains on society.

Another interesting fact is that groups with higher socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have lower birth rates. If SES correlates with IQ, then there’s an uncomfortable but politically incorrect implication: the smarter groups are having fewer children, while the less advantaged groups are having more. A few generations later, it’s not hard to see where this leads — human intelligence may trend downward. That is simply evolution at work.

Climate change, wars, pandemics, and natural disasters won’t wipe out humanity; we’ve survived all of those and recovered. But demographic collapse driven by high living standards is new territory, and I am genuinely, deeply worried.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-13 10:44:29+00:00
That's foveated rendering. Foveated streaming, which is newly presented here, is a more general approach which can apply to any video signal, be it from a game, movie or desktop environment.

They are complementary things. Foveated rendering means your GPU has to do less work which means higher frame rates for the same resolution/quality settings. Foveated streaming is more about just being able get video data across from the rendering device to the headset. You need both things to get great results as either rendering or video transport could be a bottleneck.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 10:45:05+00:00
I wouldn't be so quick. Everybody gets hacked, sooner or later. Whether they'll own up to it or not is what makes the difference and I've seen far, far worse than this response by Checkout.com, it seems to be one of the better responses to such an event that I've seen to date.

> Like, how many other deprecated third party systems were identified handling a significant portion of your customer data after this hack?

The problem with that is that you'll never know. Because you'd have to audit each and every service provider and I think only Ebay does that. And they're not exactly a paragon of virtue either.

> Who declined to allocate the necessary budget to keep systems updated?

See: prevention paradox. Until this sinks in it will happen over and over again.

> But mere words like these are absolutely meaningless in today's world. People are right to dismiss them.

Again, yes, but: they are at least attempting to use the right words. Now they need to follow them up with the right actions.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-13 10:45:42+00:00
Your first link shows a graph that indicates more than 50% of Americans believe there is at least some competition, or a lot of competition; and that less than 1/3rd believe there is not enough, or no, competition in every sector of the economy that would be relevant to this discussion.

And that most Americans believe that bigger companies tend to have lower prices than smaller ones.

It’s not particularly clear then that there should be a lot of motivation to change things.
by vbezhenar | 2025-11-13 10:46:55+00:00
Helm works at text level. This approach could have worked with YAML, JSON, XML or any other text format. You can template C++ code with Helm if you really want. It's just golang templates below.

And that makes it wrong. YAML is structured format and proper templating should work with JSON-like data structures, not with text. Kustomize is better example.
by pbalau | 2025-11-13 10:48:03+00:00
> what romanian football player won the premier league

> The only Romanian football player to have won the English Premier League (as of 2025) is Florin Andone, but wait — actually, that’s incorrect; he never won the league.

> ...

> No Romanian footballer has ever won the Premier League (as of 2025).

Yes, this is what we needed, more "conversational" ChatGPT... Let alone the fact the answer is wrong.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 10:48:21+00:00
No, that would not help me as a customer. Because I would never believe that that party would keep their word, besides, it can't be verified. You'll have that shadow hanging around for ever. The good thing is that those assholes now have less budget to go after the next party. The herd is safe from wolves by standing together, not by trying to see which of their number should be sacrificed next.
by imtringued | 2025-11-13 10:49:34+00:00
The benchmark results on the first page are kind of meaningless without an explanation of what the task is and why the results came out the way they did. Yes, I know it is softmax, but if you have a hand written softmax kernel, why would the hand written kernel for Parrot be so much better than the one for Pytorch?

Usually information is concealed in situations where revealing more information works against you. Being quiet invites skepticism.

As far as I can tell, this is basically a very bare bones JAX, but for C++. That's pretty good, because I am honestly getting tired of everything being locked inside a monolithic Python ecosystem that is difficult to call from other languages.
by vbezhenar | 2025-11-13 10:49:45+00:00
Kubernetes API uses JSON. JSON is JavaScript Object Notation. So naturally the best approach to work with JSON is to write JavaScript or TypeScript code. You can just output JSON and consume it with kubectl. You can read data from whatever format you want, process it and output JSON. You can write your little functions to reduce boilerplate. There are many options that are obvious once you just embrace JavaScript.

Of course most other programming languages will work just as well, it's just JavaScript being the most natural fit for JSON.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-13 10:50:14+00:00
> I'm honestly surprised nobody else tried a "boot to game library" PC

Microsoft used to have Windows Media Centre, which was a version of Windows designed for HTPC use that booted straight to the media centre control screen. The last version of that was in Windows 7.

It is actually possible to replace the desktop in Windows, window management (but not chrome, that's part of Aero and/or individual "owner draw" applications), Explorer etc. Nobody's really bothered with that.

Microsoft are just too used to not having to compete, so they don't provide lots of variant SKUs for different uses. Even "point of sale" and LTS are somewhat neglected.
by mhitza | 2025-11-13 10:50:22+00:00
> The game console must be fun, optimized for best experience and should not break. Will that be possible with an open platform where anyone can install anything?

Yes, SteamOS is just that. A system that is easy to rollback if you mess things up. And you have to go deep under the covers to mess things up (switch to desktop mode, disable readonly system partition, modify wrong files).

Valve should really focus on improving the polish of the steam store, as that abomination of a (react ?) frontend breaks often in very surprising ways.

SteamOS as a console system is close to a 9/10. As far as polish of steam app/store and the ux, a fair 7/10.
by Aerroon | 2025-11-13 10:51:34+00:00
I used to play a 3D MMO (Lineage 2) with hundreds of people on screen with spell effects, sounds etc on a computer with 512 MB of RAM.

I was also running a mIRC client in rooms with hundreds to thousands of people at once.

And I was able to do both at the same time.

Now that computer can't even run 1v1 chat.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 10:51:52+00:00
There’s a very real difference between the data possibly still being saved in some huge storage dump of a ransomware group and being available for everybody to exploit on a leak site.

It’s a sliding scale, where payment firmly pushes you in the more comfortable direction.

Also, the uncomfortable truth is that ransomware payments are very common. Not paying will make essentially no difference, the business would probably still be incredibly lucrative even if payment rates dropped to 5% of what they are now.

If there was global co-operation to outlaw ransom payments, that’d be great. Until then, individual companies refusing to pay is largely pointless.
by solatic | 2025-11-13 10:53:15+00:00
Most people in this thread, it seems, just want a simple way to manage Kubernetes manifests, something that keeps track of different settings for different environments and what's in common for each environment in order to generate the final manifests for an environment. If so, Helm is over-engineered for your use-case. Stick with Kustomize or jsonnet.

Helm's contribution (as horrible as text templating on YAML is) is, yes, to be a package manager. Part of a Helm chart includes jobs ("hooks") that can be run at different stages (pre-install, pre-upgrade, etc.) as well as a job to run when someone runs "helm test", and a way to rollback changes ("helm rollback"), which is more powerful than just rolling back a Deployment, because it will rollback changes to CRDs, give you hooks/jobs that can run pre- and post-rollback, etc.

Helm charts are meant to be written by someone with the relevant skills sitting next to the developers, so that it can be handed off to another team to deploy into production. If that's not your organization or process, or if your developers are giving your ops teams Docker images instead of Helm charts, you're probably over-engineering by adopting it.
by cloudflare728 | 2025-11-13 10:54:31+00:00
Seems like big no-no.

>The big reason why C corps are preferable is because S corporation shareholders can only be people -- not other businesses, like VC firms. (S corps also can't issue preferred stock.) An S corporation can't take venture capital without first reverting back to C corp status. But an S corporation can save a lot of money on taxes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784
by saaaaaam | 2025-11-13 10:54:54+00:00
I think this is why I find it so uncomfortable: you’re just getting weird hyped up responses mirroring your own inputs. I’ve not used ChatGPT for a while because I found its insidious desperation to please really creepy.

I use Claude when I need a chat interface, but a recent release made it start fawning as well. They seem to have dialled it back a bit, and I’ve added custom tone instructions, but occasionally it forgets and reverts to emoji-ridden slop.
by misiek08 | 2025-11-13 10:55:01+00:00
This one doesn't change that much like others said, but it is still burning money. Universities and their projects waste a lot of money - from buying hardware via complicated processes to projects wasting millions of USD (in cases I know it is EUR). Sponsored by companies like Samsung or Siemens, not releasing anything useful for years and still extending projects for "further research" :(

It's their money in this case so they can burn it any way they want and great to see they didn't support script kiddies here (assuming it was some leftover files on forgotten object storage bucket, sadly unencrypted or with keys available nearby).
by vkazanov | 2025-11-13 10:55:33+00:00
Well, you have quite an advanced use case.

Remember that the majority of users doesn't use anything other than the default steam store ui. This case works like charm. I use with my tv, or standalone, my 10 year old uses, and we love it. I just make sure to play games announced as supported.

With custom things, desktop mode, non-steam software installation it's a typical customization story. It is amazing that you can do it at all but nobody will be supporting you on this journey.
by Hammershaft | 2025-11-13 10:56:25+00:00
Demographic collapse paired with high fertility for scientifically illiterate religious groups (Like the amish, who have a fertility rate of over 6) might still pair terribly with climate change driven by positive feedback loops (like methane leaking from thawing permafrost). We'll lose the technological and state capacity needed to mitigate & adapt while the global climate slowly trends towards an uninhabitable equilibrium.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 10:57:20+00:00
If this is actually frequently happening, your claim should be pretty easy to prove. Most stolen databases are sold fairly publicly.

The ransom payments tend to be so big anyway that selling the data and associated reputational damage is most likely not worth the hassle.

Basic game theory shows that the best course of action for any ransomware group with multiple victims is to act honestly. You can never be sure, but the incentives are there and they’re pretty obvious.

The big groups are making in the neighbourhood of $billions, earning extra millions by sabotaging their main source of revenue seems ridiculous.
by pembrook | 2025-11-13 10:57:34+00:00
In attacks on software systems specifically though, I always find this aggressive stance toward the victimized business odd, especially when otherwise reasonable security standards have been met. You simply cannot plug all holes.

As AI tools accelerate hacking capabilities, at what point do we seriously start going after the attackers across borders and stop blaming the victimized businesses?

We solved this in the past. Let’s say you ran a brick-and-mortar business, and even though you secured your sensitive customer paperwork in a locked safe (which most probably didn’t), someone broke into the building and cracked the safe with industrial-grade drilling equipment.

You would rightly focus your ire and efforts on the perpetrators, and not say ”gahhh what an evil dumb business, you didn’t think to install a safe of at least 1 meter thick titanium to protect against industrial grade drilling!????”

If we want to have nice things going forward, the solution is going to have to involve much more aggressive cybercrime enforcement globally. If 100,000 North Koreans landed on the shores of Los Angeles and began looting en masse, the solution would not be to have everybody build medieval stone fortresses around their homes.
by close04 | 2025-11-13 10:57:47+00:00
There are a few DRM-free Steam games but most devs on Steam enable the DRM. This isn't Steam's fault but Steam is holding the reins of that access. It works great now, so smooth you can't tell there's DRM. But at the end of the day most of my collection is at the whims of Valve.

I'm personally concerned about what happens when Gabe retires or shuffles off this mortal coil, and his replacement comes with a "fresh" revenue idea. He's a one of a kind visionary leader, it's not a sure thing that his successor is the same. I've been baited and switched so many times in the past few decades that it's hard to blindly trust any company for more than the very immediate future.
by solarwinds | 2025-11-13 10:58:00+00:00
Yeah, another hot take from some guy who has no clue what he's talking about.

To this day Kazakhstan pays out monthly monetary compensations to people whose health was negatively affected by the nuclear tests on the Semipalatinsk nuclear polygon. Several people I know personally receive these compensations.

https://egov.kz/cms/en/news/nuclear_tests

https://egov.kz/cms/en/services/family_support/pass035_mtszn
by plodman | 2025-11-13 10:58:04+00:00
Maybe this is less of an issue now we’re in the digital era of console games but one of the biggest aspects for me is that if I buy one of these new machines, my existing library is just there. No starting from scratch or worrying about backwards compatibility. It’s a PC that has everything I need from the get go.

The story was the same with the Deck. Granted it took a little while for many games to be fully supported but the transparency from Valve on the store pages about compatibility was great and is in a far better state now.
by kragen | 2025-11-13 10:58:15+00:00
> An extreme caricature example of a "lumper" would just use the word "computer" to label all Turing Complete devices with logic gates.

I don't think that's a caricature at all; I've often seen people argue that it should include things like Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer, basically because historically it did, even though such devices are neither Turing-complete nor contain logic gates.
by thro1 | 2025-11-13 10:58:26+00:00
There are diodeless (no matrix) split keyboards (https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1dh9o8k/...) like Cantor: https://github.com/diepala/cantor .

They use chips similar to that one: XIAO ESP32S3 nRF52840 Sense Plus - wireless, energy efficient, with 20 pins GPIO or more - one pin for one key - https://thepihut.com/products/xiao-nrf52840-sense-plus (there was an option of 16 pins extra using expander https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/io_expander_for_xiao/ - which is not made anymore, but you can use same chip MCP23017 to get that effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq6jbXaX4oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74DgM2nAeLo , up to 128 I/O pins: https://resinchemtech.blogspot.com/2023/10/IO-expander.html - in that case - 36 simultaneous inputs by hand) - and with Hall sensor keys or similar we are soon talking about _easy_ having ~40+

.. simultaneus muiltiple ANALOG inputs in "keyboards" - like in Mitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7HfcdJhi8 - or XBOX Controller Mods: Analog WASD Gaming Keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwDImE0DU4 .
by mns | 2025-11-13 10:58:34+00:00
Some countries are even working against people having children. Germany introduced a new law that now if the parents have their combined salaries over a certain amount, you get 0 child care. And the funny thing is that that limit is very low for people living in a big city. This policy came from the Greens actually, which are supposed to be more left leaning. But they couldn't care about this, or women or families, for them anyone who earns a bit above average needs to be punished. In our case, just when we were actually thinking of having a baby, we realised that if we actually would do it, our income would be basically more than halved because my wife earns even more than me, so not only would we earn way less, but we would earn way less with an extra child in our family, so yeah, thanks for the support.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-13 10:58:52+00:00
The point here is that app developers have to identify themselves. Google has no intention to verify the content of sideloaded apps, just that it is signed by a real person, for accountability.

They don't know if the person who signed the app is the developer, but should the app happen to be a scam and there is a police investigation, that is the person who will have to answer questions, like "who did you transfer these private keys to?".

This, according to Google and possibly regulators in countries where this will be implemented, will help combat a certain type of scam.

It shouldn't be a problem for YouTube Vanced, at least in the proposed form. The authors, who are already idendified just need to sign their APK. AFAIK, what they are doing is not illegal or they would have been shut down long ago. It may be a problem for others though, and particularly F-Droid, because F-Droid recompiles apps, they can't reasonably be signed by the original author.

The F-Droid situation can resolve itself if F-Droid is allowed to sign the apps it publishes, and in fact, doing that is an improvement in security as it can be a guarantee that the APK you got is indeed the one compiled by F-Droid from publicly available source code.
by redbell | 2025-11-13 10:59:17+00:00
I feel this trend is going to stick for the upcoming years! It's not just Meta, every big player there is adopting this mentality.

Take Microsoft for instance, they have been pushing heavily what they called the New Outlook, which is basically a web-based client mirroring Outlook on the web (OWA) , packed into an EXE file (not sure if it is Electronized or not)! Then, they renamed the real native Outlook app as Classic Outlook to feel old-fashioned and outdated and as result, we ended up losing some core features that made Outlook, Outlook. We lose: COM Add-ins and VBA Macros, MAPI Support, Word as Email Editor, .PST File Support.. to name a few..

This would be probably one of the reasons contributing to the Collapse of Civilization (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317)
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by olivefu | 2025-11-13 10:59:24+00:00
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by MrBra | 2025-11-13 10:59:47+00:00
For me it's been super stable. I've hardly seen any bugs. And in those remote cases, it would be more correct to call them quirks than bugs, which have later been fixed anyway. I've been using for intensive gaming, AI projects, and audio production. And when I say audio production I don't say Audacity. I say recent versions of Ableton Live running on ASIO drivers with windows VSTs and Max 4 Live instruments at 5 ms latency, all of this running through Wine with an amazing Wine managing software called Bottle (hehe). As for gaming,, it's not hard to see people claming they get even more fps than they get with windows. It's not a PopOS thing, it's the Linux ecosystem that is finally getting mature enough to pull this out (this time for real). On top of this, System74, the company behind PopOS who is selling laptops with that OS, are also optimizing the kernel to make sure everything runs super smoothly... I really don't see where your "buggy as hell" is coming from.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-13 11:00:24+00:00
What if there is a 12-hour delay to unlock "power user mode", and during that entire 12-hour unlock period, the phone keeps displaying various scam education information to help even an unsophisticated user figure out what's going on? Surely Google can devote a few full-time employees to keeping such educational materials up to date, so they ideally contain detailed descriptions of the most common scams a user is going to be subject to at any given time.