MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moepstar | 2025-11-19 21:45:59+00:00
_If_ the device does have a serial by id, you’ll be fine - if not (I.e. it is mapped by /dev/bus/usb/001/002 for example) you’re mostly out of luck. Cases in point recently encountered: USB printers (to be used in container with CUPS), Eaton UPS to be used in container with NUT.

No amount of scripting with systemd path units, pre and post hooks, udev rules could make those work reliably (for me).

Solution, or workaround, after much headdesking: put services into a VM, map USB device by vendor:device ID, done.

If anyone could shed a light into why that is possible with a VM but not a LXC container, I’d be thankful!
by delusional | 2025-11-19 21:46:29+00:00
Reading about the case, you get the sense that this is the general disposition from these abusers. They know what they're doing is wrong, and they understand the power imbalance, but they sort of excuse it and justify it by softly believing that the women actually want them. That they are actually sexy. And that they are helping the women, somehow.

It's quite disgusting, but also totally believable. Importantly, the soft explanations don't excuse the behavior.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-19 21:46:49+00:00
The other option is that Arduino simply fades away. Their hardware doesn't have anything to offer that you can't get on aliexpress or spin yourself for a tenth the cost.

The framework is the only arguably valuable thing they offer, but even that's not enough to prop a business up on.

Most likely everything will continue exactly as-is: Arduino hardware will become increasingly dated and undesirable, and open source Arduino-compatible libraries will continue flourishing until nobody remembers that Arduino was a hardware platform before it was software framework.

I think we've long since passed the point where Wiring will ever go away, but I doubt we'll still be calling it Arduino for too much longer. Arduino is probably dead, and espressif is moving in.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-19 21:46:51+00:00
Having talked to many, many, many self-proclaimed centrists. A lot of them are either left- or right-wing moderates who don't want to claim a camp. Primarily because both sides are so polarized these days.

Did you know Elon Musk considers himself center left? Some people think he's a right wing nutjob. Plenty of right wingers think he's a leftist still.
by tekacs | 2025-11-19 21:47:06+00:00
Yeah, Gemini 2.x and 3 in gemini-cli has the tendency to 'go the opposite direction' and it feels - to me - like an incredibly strong demonstration of why 'sycophancy' in LLMs is so valuable (at least so long as they're in the middle of the midwit curve).

I'll give Gemini direction, it'll research... start trying to solve it as I've told it to... and then exclaim, "Oh! It turns out that <X> isn't what <user> thought!" and then it pivots into trying to 'solve' the problem a totally different way.

The issue however... is that it's:

1) Often no longer solving the problem that I actually wanted to solve. It's very outcome-oriented, so it'll pivot into 'solving' a linker issue by trying to get a working binary – but IDGAF about the working binary 'by hook or crook'! I'm trying to fix the damn linker issue!

2) Just... wrong. It missed something, misinterpreted something it read, forgot something that I told it earlier, etc.

So... although there's absolutely merit to be had in LLMs being able to think for themselves, I'm a huge fan of stronger and stronger instruction adherence / following – because I can ALWAYS just ask for it to be creative and make its own decisions if I _want that_ in a given context. That said, I say that fully understanding the fact that training in instruction adherence could potentially 'break' their creativity/free thinking.

Either way, I would love Gemini 1000x more if it were trained to be far more adherent to my prompts.
by kulahan | 2025-11-19 21:47:30+00:00
My opinion as well. I'm a centrist solely because no party seems to fully define me. It doesn't mean I think we need a split-down-the-middle solution for every problem. Sometimes you need to lean far to one side or another to make things work. That's... fine? Why do people seem to get so upset about this. I swear this sentiment is treated like you're a terrorist for saying it, but I've also never met a single person who can look at any political party and say it represents all of their ideals.
by onion2k | 2025-11-19 21:47:47+00:00
if the service running your actual business logic dies

In a modern tech business that's everything from the frontend to the database though, including all the bits to keep that running at scale. That's too much for most companies to handle when they're starting and scaling. You'll need to compromise on that value early on, and you'll probably persuade yourself that it's tech debt you'll pay off later. But you won't, because you can't, and that will lead you to dislike the system you built.

It's much simpler and more motivating to accept that in any modern tech business has to rely on third parties, and the fact you pay them money means they probably won't screw it up. It has to be an accepted risk or you'll be paralysed by having too much to do.
by perihelions | 2025-11-19 21:47:47+00:00
> "It was them joking about how to leverage his power to pressure her into a relationship"

Supporting background:

> "Summers went on to describe what he saw as his “best shot”: that the woman finds him “invaluable and interesting” and concludes “she can’t have it without romance / sex.”

> "Throughout June, Summers fed Epstein updates about the woman’s workload and continued contact. Epstein urged him to play the “long game” and keep her in what he called a “forced holding pattern.”"

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstei...
by azdaz | 2025-11-19 21:48:02+00:00
Evidence shows that it is not as inherent and built-in from birth as many people think, but is better characterised as a self-belief that can change over time.

Detransitioners are probably the best-known example. There are others, like males with autogynephilia who eventually end up believing they are women, sometimes even in middle-age or later. Also, there are medical case reports about transsexuals with dementia forgetting they identify as the opposite sex, and being shocked and horrified at what has been done to their body. As well as that, there are the "gender-fluid" people whose identity fluctuates rapidly rather than being fixed.
by bogwog | 2025-11-19 21:48:31+00:00
Google is a monopolist. They have no real competitive pressure, so they're incentivized to extract as much value from you as possible rather than waste time trying to retain you as a user (cuz where are you gonna go lol). Forcing short form video on you could be seen as either an attempt to get you addicted to the format, or just a way for some product manager to fluff up their metrics for a promotion.

No matter what you decide to do, they're going to profit off of you. The only remaining question is "how much".

Personally, I don't want to make it easy for them. That's why I like to use alternative YouTube frontends that limit data collection and block ads. I sure as shit don't pay for premium. Whatever effect that has on their business is likely negligible, but it at least makes me feel better about the situation.
by matrss | 2025-11-19 21:48:43+00:00
A good package manager, e.g. GNU Guix, let's you define a reproducible environment of all of your dependencies. This accounts for all of those external headers and shared libraries, which will be made available in an isolated build environment that only contains them and nothing else.

Eliminating nondeterminism from your builds might require some thinking, there are a number of places this can creep in (timestamps, random numbers, nondeterministic execution, ...). A good package manager can at least give you tooling to validate that you have eliminated nondeterminism (e.g. `guix build --check ...`).

Once you control the entire environment and your build is reproducible in principal, you might still encounter some fun issues, like "time traps". Guix has a great blog post about some of these issues and how they mitigate them: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/adventures-on-the-quest-fo...
by IMTDb | 2025-11-19 21:49:03+00:00
I m not sure I follow your logic; are you saying that the regulation is not that bad because you are not fined enough if you don't follow it ? Some of us just follow regulations because it's the law - regardless of the fine. I feel like we should be allowed to express our opinion about their merits or shortcomings without considering the penalty aspect which is an entirely separate conversation.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-11-19 21:49:24+00:00
They have a lot in common with housecats, except that they are more clever. Decades ago we heard a crunch crunch sound from the rear mudroom. We looked and saw a raccoon reaching in and eating dry cat out of a box with the cat looking on enviously.

Camping I heard a crunching sound, looked out from the tent to see a racoon helping itself to granola in the back of the car. Lock your doors.
by bugglebeetle | 2025-11-19 21:49:47+00:00
The solution to this if you want less specification in advance is to simply ask Codex a series of leading questions about a feature of fix. I typically start with something like “it seems like X could be improved with the addition of Y? Can you review the relevant parts of the codebase in a, b, and c to assess?” It will then do so and come back with a set of suggestions that follow this guidance, which you can revise and selectively tell it to implement. In my experience, this fills the context with the appropriate details to then let it make more of its own decisions in a generally correct way without as much handholding.
by yapyap | 2025-11-19 21:50:12+00:00
> I get that too many regulations is a bad thing

Well yeah, cause your sentence relies on itself.

_Too many_ regulations is a bad thing.

But to have a lot of regulations, especially in fields where there is not much to be gained but oh so much being lost in the interest of capital gains like in generative AI, is a blessing rathr than a curse.
by tekacs | 2025-11-19 21:50:17+00:00
Immediately rebutting myself: a major caveat to this that I'm discovering with Gemini is that... for super long-running sessions, there is a kind of merit to Gemini's recalcitrance.

When it's running for a while, Gemini's willing to go totally off-piste and outcome-orientedness _does_ result in sessions where I left it to do its thing and... came back to a working solution, in a situation where codex or others wouldn't have gotten there.

In particular, Gemini 3 feels like it's able to drive much higher _variance_ in its output (less collapse to a central norm), which seems to let it explore the solution space more meaningfully and yet relatively efficiently.
by wduquette | 2025-11-19 21:50:43+00:00
What killed Perl for me was readability, long before Perl 6/Raku. I was an Awk programmer from way back, so took to Perl quickly once it was available. Then in the late 90's I wrote a utility program in Perl that generated some nice HTML documentation for me from some kind of input format I no longer recall.

A year later I tried to use that script on another project, but had to make some changes; and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Shortly thereafter I had occasion to look at some Tcl/Tk I'd written at about the same time...and it made perfect sense to me.

Had I used Perl on a daily basis, rather than occasionally, I might have stuck with it. Instead I switched to Tcl/Tk, and never regretted it.
by kvemkon | 2025-11-19 21:50:52+00:00
> Python 2 to 3 took a really long time

It took AdaCore so long to port the plugin system of the GNAT Studio (GPS) to Python 3 (which seems to be a fraction of the whole code base), that even conservative Debian had to remove the whole GNAT-GPS package.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1082332
by bamboozled | 2025-11-19 21:51:00+00:00
I think this is a side effect of having "paid law enforcement", it's not that the cops are bad, but their bosses are. The people who fund the law enforcement are ultimately at the mercy of the "rich and powerful" in some way or another, so basically people of a certain status get a pass.

It might look different if tax payers funded Law enforcement via different means, but it would never be allowed to happen, by,,,the elites.
by bityard | 2025-11-19 21:52:19+00:00
As a maker, I've been following Adafruit since they sold a handful of products, probably assembled and boxed on Limor's dining room table.

Adafruit has forked microcontroller libraries and toolchains before, and a huge chunk of their success has been directly due to Arduino and related things. So it will not surprise me if they are gearing up to announce their brand-spanking new Arduino-compatible devices, software, and ecosystem.

They could call it Adaduino.
by jedberg | 2025-11-19 21:52:35+00:00
Yes! I'd say probably more than 1/2 my tokens are unrelated to code.

My favorite is I had (and still do have) a whole conversion about the water in my pool. I send it pictures of my water and test strips and it suggests how much of which chemical to add.

I asked about a recipe.

I used it to translate handwritten German from my grandmother.

I brainstorm business process ideas with it.

I ask it for medical advice (like, what should I google to find out what this bump is)

I brainstorm product ideas with it, like a PM.

And that's all just in the last three weeks.
by inerte | 2025-11-19 21:53:00+00:00
> the public doesn't need to be know the budget and shortlist of possible locations for the next Gigafactory

Putting aside your other sensible comments, this one is true from Tesla's side, but false from the government side. I don't "need" to know what Tesla is doing, but I "need" to know what the government is doing. Let's say Tesla is weighing its options where to open the next factory, I want to know what governments are doing to attract (or not) their business.
by renegade-otter | 2025-11-19 21:53:23+00:00
Europe has much more fatal startup-killing regulation problems than cookies, however. Who cares about cookies? I am on your site, you are going to plant/collect cookies. These goddamned banners are a solution in search of a problem, and it's yet another hurdle a company of, say, 3 has to go through, for very little reason.
by silisili | 2025-11-19 21:53:23+00:00
This is, in essence, what caused mass inflation in the first place.

People making $X/mo, thinking "well, I can afford a $500k house because it costs $Y a month", where Y is some nominal amount less than X. That works for a little while, until the price of everything creeps up and now Y + expenditures > X. Entirely predictable outcome.

In reality, a savvy person making $100k a year in the US can live comfortably, if they live within their means. Those last 4 words seem lost on most people, unfortunately.
by user34283 | 2025-11-19 21:53:30+00:00
Users can opt-out by not using the service or buying an ad-free version if available.

One would think that developers should not be forced to offer for free a version monetized with 60% less effective ads. And I understand currently this is indeed not the case for small developers, they can offer paid ad-free or free but with personalized ads. Large platforms apparently cannot.
by braebo | 2025-11-19 21:53:43+00:00
What’s that saying… _facts have a liberal bias_?

The first two goals immediately contradict each other:

> Claude should avoid giving users unsolicited political opinions and should err on the side of providing balanced information on political questions;

> Claude should maintain factual accuracy and comprehensiveness when asked about any topic;

Either I’m just in a bad mood and not thinking about it all clearly enough, or this is the dumbest shit I’ve read from Anthropic yet.
by int_19h | 2025-11-19 21:53:57+00:00
I think that the specifics of the protocol don't actually matter all that much. What matters is that it's sufficiently unappealing to filter out most potential users; you genuinely have to feel strongly about the state of the web etc to spend a lot of time on Gemini.

In that sense, I suspect that OP is right and they could have achieved the same on top of, say, HTML 2 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866).
by andai | 2025-11-19 21:53:57+00:00
I wonder about the cognitive and mental health correlates of living in a world that no longer makes any sense.

I remember 10 years ago watching a documentary about the previous ten years explaining how we we had moved into a post meaning world, and how this was being weaponized by various interests.

That time seems positively quaint to me now!

I was reading a book from the 1960s, and it was talking about how the world is too complicated now and moving too fast.

And of course if you read books from the late 19th century they say the exact same thing...

https://xkcd.com/1227/
by nine_k | 2025-11-19 21:54:20+00:00
More regulation, or stronger regulation, as in less wiggle room for businesses, may be a good thing. Case in point: a regulation requiring to disclose the ingredients of food.

Too many regulations is almost always a bad thing: numerous pieces of regulation rarely fit together seamlessly. It becomes easier to miss some obscure piece, or to encounter a contradiction, or to find a loophole. The cost of compliance also grows, and that disproportionately favors big established players.
by vacuity | 2025-11-19 21:54:21+00:00
Percentages and arithmetic in daily life, programming, financial bookkeeping...to be fair, the math I use often is pretty basic, but even so, the report from UCSD seems to be saying that a significant fraction of the remedial math students can't even perform at that level.

Other math I use rarely, but I'm still glad I learned, say, geometry or calculus when a situation pops up.
by freejazz | 2025-11-19 21:54:23+00:00
>Exacz. Remember when I ask the other guy to make his argument explicit and you told me there was no need to. This is completely ridiculous.

I said it was obviously an argument that this guy was a hypocrite. You jumped from that to evil. Let's just pretend you were having a conversation with me and I wrote "sounds like the guy is a hypocrite."

>If Karp isn't evil for creating "racist AI", what else should I make of it. There is no actual argument to engage with, which is why I asked for it.

Only accused him of being a hypocrite; fueling that which he claims to fear, for his own personal gain.

>You are completely disregarding what I said. Nobodies internal narrative is "I murder people to make money".

No, their internal narrative is "I make money". Again, typing your words into my own posts.
by arbol | 2025-11-19 21:55:19+00:00
I'm sorry, I don't fully understand your question. This is what I meant by invalid: Anyone using chrome 142 has the same JA4 - I've checked across OS/devices. If you use nodeJS and set your user agent to "chrome 142" then you will have an invalid/incorrect JA4 and you'll stick out from the crowd.
by mort96 | 2025-11-19 21:55:36+00:00
Any company can "go the way of Qualcomm", as you call it. To my knowledge, there's no indication that there's any more danger of them going that way relative to, say, TI or ST?

Don't get me wrong, the fall of Arduino is a real loss. Espressif is a company in the business of making money, while Arduino's mission was to build a robust tinkerer ecosystem. Absent an acquisition, it's probably fair to say that Arduino would be less likely than Espressif, ST or TI to do bullshit like this.
by moron4hire | 2025-11-19 21:55:37+00:00
At least those things felt like a sincere attempt to move HCI forward. Perhaps not very well tested to understand how all the parts work together, but at least sincere. MS' Copilot brand is a broken solution in search of a problem.

It's almost like the kind of trap a lot of solo devs get into where they build a thing that is interesting to them but then can't find anyone else interested. But at least the solo devs built something that worked for themselves. I can't imagine anyone at MS eating their own dog food on this stuff.

At a company like MS, that shouldn't happen. They're supposed to have the resources to understand what their customers want. But we've seen this trend for the last 15 years. Companies like MS, Meta, Google, don't want to engage and collaborate with the customer. They want to push ideas down and be celebrated for their design brilliance. They don't even really A/B test this stuff anymore. The inmates are running the asylum.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-19 21:55:59+00:00
I feel like they’re in a lose-lose situation here. They get hammered for this approach… but if they take a more activist approach and say “I can generate rhetoric that could influence someone’s political beliefs” (which opens a serious can of AI worms) they will get hammered for not disabusing people of ideas some rough consensus of society disagrees with.

I don’t think society at large knows what it wants LLMs to really do.
by omnimus | 2025-11-19 21:56:22+00:00
I think what they mean is that what EU in general kinda knows that for various they won't be able to make their version of money machine big tech. So why not to try different path? The individual laws will always be flawed because there is huge pressure to make them flawed by corps and lobby that want's to exploit them.

But if you ask anyone in europe on the street they have no sympathy for big tech. If anything they want stronger GDPR and more of it.
by chollida1 | 2025-11-19 21:56:29+00:00
My notes on the earnings....

Pre Earnings Watching:

- does market(QQQ) sell off regardless of earnings, we don't expect surprises given that they affirmed guidance so recently

- what does SK Hynix do based on these earnings, that may be the trade

- Are China numbers broken out

- What the rest of the MAG7 does after hours based on this.

- they have insane gross margins of about 74%, these shrinking could be a good indicator of a slowdown or competition.

Numbers:

- Rev $57B Est $55.2B

- Datacenter rev $51.2B Est, $49.3B

- Gaming Rev $4.3B Est $4.4, amazing that this was their original revenue and what the company was built on, not it could go away and it would be a bad quarter

- Adj EPS $1.3

- Adj Gross Margins of 73.6% slightly down and the only real metric that didn't improve, but we'll expect it to be better as Blackwell ramps

- Q4 Est Rev around $66B, good sized jump and one of the biggest issues for the market. The Bull market goes on for atleast another quarter then.

- Balance sheet has $60B on it. Come on Jensen put that in BTC so you can juice the stock market and the crypto market.

- FCF $22B, wow

- $37B in divs and buy backs YTD

- From Bloomberg....Kress says sizable H20 orders never materialized as competition heats up in China, adding she’s disappointed the company wasn’t able to sell there.

This is pretty darn interesting

- stocks not moving much after hours but its important to note that due to it being the most valuable company in the world each percent is approx $100B in movement, that's a lot of capital

- tech basket is up after hours as you'd expect, 2-4%, QQQs up

- no mention of China, disappointing, but you can see why they might not mention China in today's climate

- Saw ZeroHedge report NVDA had 4 customers who each represent more than 10% of NVDA's total revenue, with the biggest at 22%

- Interesting tidbit, they say they got $2B of revenue from older hopper chips

- Kress stressed that the useful life of GPUs is being extended, which helps alot of the tech companies that were stretching the depreciation of their chips from the 4 years they used to use to up to 7 in some cases.

I wonder if she was asked to speak to that point by the hyper scalers CFOs?