MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ludwik | 2025-11-06 06:22:28+00:00
I think you misunderstood what people are taking issue with. You explain that this matter is complicated and non-trivial - and yes, that’s exactly the point!

People don’t have a problem with real-time communication via audio or video in general. They have a problem with the suggestion that it’s a trivial issue that can be easily fixed by "jumping on a quick call."

The point about there being a "fairly in-depth" description of the issues isn’t that there’s nothing more to discuss - fixing those issues would obviously require talking through the specifics. The point is that this is a real problem that requires action and commitment, so suggesting it’s a non-issue that can be clarified with “a quick call” comes off as dismissive and unproductive, whether that’s intentional or not.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-06 06:22:28+00:00
While AMD syscall or Intel sysenter can provide a much higher performance than the old "int" instructions, both syscall and sysenter have been designed very badly, as explained by Linus himself in many places. It is extremely easy to use them in ways that do not work correctly, because of subtle bugs.

It is actually quite puzzling why both the Intel designers and the AMD designers have been so incompetent in specifying a "syscall" instruction, when such instructions, but well designed, had been included in many other CPU ISAs for many decades.

When not using an established operating system, where the implementation for "syscall" has been tested for many years and hopefully all bugs have been removed, there may be a reason to use the "int" instruction to transition into the privileged mode, because it is relatively foolproof and it requires a minimum amount of code to be handled.

Now Intel has specified FRED, a new mechanism for handling interrupts, exceptions and system calls, which does not have any of the defects of "int", "syscall" and "sysenter".

The first CPU implementing FRED should be Intel Panther Lake, to be launched by the end of this year, but surprisingly, recently when Intel has made a presentation providing information about Panther Lake no word was said about FRED, even if this is expected to be the greatest innovation of Panther Lake.

I hope that the Panther Lake implementation of FRED is not buggy, which could have made Intel to disable it and postpone its introduction to a future CPU, like they have done many times in the past. For instance, the "sysenter" instruction was intended to be introduced in Intel Pentium Pro, by the end of 1995, but because of bugs it was disabled and not documented until Pentium II, in mid 1997, where it finally worked.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-06 06:23:20+00:00
I get what you're saying, and I agree it might be fun to play around with ChatGPT and Wikipedia and YouTube and WebMD to try to guess what that green bump on your arm is, but it's not research--it needs to be treated as entertainment.

When it comes to taking actual real-world action, I would take 5-8 minutes with a real doctor over 5-8 months of browsing the Internet. The doctor has gone to med school, passed the boards, done his residency, and you at least have that as evidence that he might know what he is doing. The Internet offers no such evidence.

I fear that our society in general is quickly entering a very dangerous territory where there's no such thing as expertise, and unaccountable, probabilistic tools and web resources of unknown provenience are seen as just as good as an expert in his field.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-06 06:24:19+00:00
Buried lede (in that none of the comments mention this): wireless micro-financing without transaction fees works for 10 African countries and is enabling a rural energy revolution. (though M-PESA isn't without controversy, and clearly it could benefit from competition)

Meanwhile, developed nations have millions of people who pay up to 500% interest on payday loans, 29% interest on credit cards, and can't get bank accounts. Small businesses can't grow quickly due to (among other things) high transaction fees cutting into already-meager profits. We only hear news about big business and products and services for people with money. We forget that if we want our economy to grow, and adopt things like increased personal/residential solar power, we need to unburden the poorest, grow their own wealth, and infuse that back into the economy.

Perhaps we should stop obsessing so much over AI, and obsess a little more over making it less expensive and difficult to be poor. Seems to be working in Kenya.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-06 06:24:36+00:00
It's not just that though. They pulled a stupid stunt during covid.

If you're campaigning for fair use, don't give your enemy ammunition to shoot you with by stretching said fair use too far. That was just really dumb.

Besides, for those willing to look outside official channels there's plenty of book library services available already. Just let them do what they do well and don't contaminate an above-board service with that.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-06 06:24:45+00:00
even if that were the case (others have explained why that’s not so), that would be an inappropriate time to apologize. you don’t apologize for how someone else feels. you apologize when you recognize that you did something harmful and when the harmed party is amenable to receiving it. otherwise, you’re really just being a jerk who’s only acknowledging that you don’t like how someone else feels.
by toast0 | 2025-11-06 06:25:45+00:00
> If I can watch an NFL replay in 4k a few seconds after the ball is snapped, why not record (and overwrite) all flights that take off and land at every airport?

An NFL game has a ton of cameras, a ton of camera operators, those fancy cameras on wire things, an onsite editing crew, and an audience.

To get good recordings, you'd need to invest a lot of time and money, and very few of the recordings would ever be watched. Doesn't seem worth the investment given third party recording seem to turn up quite often and video isn't terribly necessary for the investigation.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-06 06:26:33+00:00
Agreed. It was poking the bear. The other big three grey-circuit services have nothing to lose because they never claimed to be legit.

If you claim the moral high ground you have to be impeccable. It also didn't help anyone during COVID because all the stuff was out there already on less legit services. Some make it super easy with telegram bots etc.

I'm sad that they screwed this up. Because the archive is a very valuable service. They've lost a lot of money, goodwill and reputation now. And gained nothing.

The worst part is, it's unimaginable that this would ever have ended well.

It wasn't a bad idea in principle but they should have worked to get some publishers on board, could have been a PR win for them too.
by ssivark | 2025-11-06 06:26:34+00:00
I was reading the HN discussion [1] about the Mozilla support fiasco in Japan [2], and was reminded of this Drucker classic about the American -vs- Japanese approaches to decision making.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
by numpad0 | 2025-11-06 06:26:56+00:00
ThereShouldBeTheQuoteAudioTrackQuoteOptionUnderGearIconMenuAtTheRightBottomCornerOfVideoUserInterfaceAmongWhichEnglishIsOfCourseNearTheBottomOfTheListButNotQuiteTheLastItem

but it only applies to that specific video, and yeah, it makes no sense that this passed sniff tests for Google.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-06 06:27:01+00:00
Mozilla hasn’t supported development on the Rust project for about 5 years now, since laying off all the developers working on it in August 2020.

Since then several Rust project developers did find full time jobs in companies like Amazon, Meta etc. But corporate interest ebbs and flows. For example Huawei employed a couple of engineers to improve the compiler for several years but they lost interest a couple of months ago.

The Rust Foundation is powered by donations, but a lot of its expenses went on funding infrastructure, security, legal expenses. But this problem of funding the maintainers of the project is on their radar. Yesterday they started an initiative to fund raise for the Maintainers Fund, with the money going straight to maintainers who aren’t being paid by their employer to do it full time. (https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-rust-foundat...)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-06 06:27:10+00:00
"Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try, there is a certain percentage of nodes for whom hole punching will never work."

It might be helpful to cite the percentage

It's relatively small

A default policy that relays traffic through a third party is asinine

For the small percentage, the third parties will always be there if they need them. The internet has an enormous supply of middlemen, like Google

For everyone else, the third parties, i.e. the middlemen, can be avoided
by eesmith | 2025-11-06 06:27:25+00:00
Times changed. Historical names did not.

"many of the early RFCs were actual Requests for Comments and were titled as such to avoid sounding too declarative and to encourage discussion.[8][9] The RFC leaves questions open and is written in a less formal style. This less formal style is now typical of Internet Draft documents, the precursor step before being approved as an RFC." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
by godelski | 2025-11-06 06:27:38+00:00
I think you frame it that way you need to offer the other version.

I do wonder how many people would buy non-spy versions of devices given the option. More specifically, what that differential in price would be too. At worst it would be interesting to have a price explicitly stating what our data is worth. Many people actually internalize that it's not that valuable, but doing this would make it explicit.
by asad0108 | 2025-11-06 06:27:49+00:00
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The amount of fear in bullish investors and bubble companies is unreal
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-06 06:28:06+00:00
It’s like animal feral fear. The OpenAi post on Wallstreetbets had a mod delete it. All over they’ve been suppressing what was a freely given quote from their CFO. But you can also see it in the same way investors are acting in sheer terror when there is a tiny 1% drop. They’ve put gasoline and dynamite all over, so even the smallest stuff terrifies them. You should not be this terrified by these bumps, so if they are, what does that say about them.
by blharr | 2025-11-06 06:28:12+00:00
I just saw almost the exact same clause when installing VMWare recently. My understanding is that its a standard clause that exists to stay within compliance of US Export Control laws

> EXPORT CONTROL: You acknowledge that the Software is of United States origin, is provided subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations...(2) you will not permit the Software to be used for any purposes prohibited by law, including, any prohibited development, design, manufacture or production of missiles or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

>https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/vmware-vsphere-software-devel...
by Stranger43 | 2025-11-06 06:28:39+00:00
Taking the moral argument aside the fact that the largest best funded navy run by the wealthiest country have to call in airstrikes against barely(if at all) armed fishing vessels, that may or may not be smugglers, rather then board arrest and at least make an attempt at tracing the cash flow back to the wealthy businessmen who is organizing/funding the smuggling reeks of weakness and desperation rather then being the signal of strength and competency it's intended to be.

Sure it's a widely understood and often repeated problem with especially western naval and military doctrine that the peace time buildup favors white elephants(battleships, F35s etc) that, as was the case of the British high see fleet of WWII, end up inactive while entire new(often much cheaper and less sophisticated) classes of ships like destroyer escorts or Patrol boats have to be build as replacements. But still the US haven't quite deteriorated so badly yet that it couldn't reacquire whatever boarding capacity got lost in the relentless pursuit of military industrial complex profits quite quickly.
by kilibe | 2025-11-06 06:28:48+00:00
John, your 10,000+ hours of research isn't just documenting inventions—it's lighting up the lamps for those hidden geniuses. Stephen Carlsen's story reminds me that our digital world stands on the shoulders of countless 'Mr TIFF's. RIP, and thanks for making his name eternal. PS: What's your next invention-hunting target?
by kiernan | 2025-11-06 06:29:45+00:00
I like to have it both ways. Given the options available so far I've preferred to have bookmarks shared between both and mainly keep tabs / working context separate.

The best I've managed so far is to run separate instances of Firefox with the same Sync Account which appear as separate 'devices'. Nightly with a different icon and theme makes it obvious which is which.

This way if I come across something interesting I want dig into further on my own time, I can bookmark it as well as 'Send Tab To Device -> Home' or 'Phone' depending on where I want to be and what environment I want to have available when I see it later (e.g. read only, or hands on).

Yes, I may be hoarding a lot of tabs but that's a separate issue...
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-11-06 06:29:49+00:00
From wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams

> In September 2024, a series of investigations into Adams's administration emerged. Adams was indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Adams pleaded not guilty to the charges. He alleged that the charges were retaliation for opposing the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. In February 2025, the Department of Justice in the Donald Trump administration instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against Adams. Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case against Adams on April 2, 2025
by brewdad | 2025-11-06 06:29:54+00:00
Yeah, I have very soft water. I tried using a liquid rinse aid when I switched from a name brand pod with a rinse aid to the cheap Kirkland pods. The rinse aid made things worse and I did end up with a residue on my glassware.

It’s cheap enough to try it and see if it helps but don’t feel obligated to use it if it doesn’t.
by mattlondon | 2025-11-06 06:30:26+00:00
You are confusing medium intelligence with high intelligence I fear.

Truly intelligent people won't be getting into doom spirals and self-sabotage. They will - obviously - use their superior intelligence to avoid that situation (or mitigate it before it becomes an issue), but the merely middling folks get trapped by it and cannot work their way out of it because they're just not intelligent enough to realise it is happening and/or work out how to stop it.

Good luck.
by NoPicklez | 2025-11-06 06:31:20+00:00
Crazy, I went to boarding school 2009-2011 and our dinner hall was always loud with talking and laughter. However sometimes it would slowly get quieter until the room went silent with everyone looking oddly at each other, then a massive wave of laughter would erupt.

Some weird phenomenon.

I also remember downloading Froggy jump on my iPhone and playing it with friends, but you certainly put your phone away more than you do now. You also had it taken off of you if you were on it when you shouldn't have been. If my parents found out they took my phone off of me, they'd probably crack it at me because I wasn't paying attention. I get the feeling many parents might just get angry at the teacher rather than their child.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-11-06 06:32:30+00:00
Are you taking on new customers? I know a few folks hungry for old fashioned, on premises accounting and task tracking now that Intuit is pushing everyone to cloud subscriptions.

Ideally it would be a perpetual license so we can never have the rug pulled on business critical data, but I like the "x years of updates and support" model

You can contact me at my username + gmail if you wouldn't mind discussing further
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-06 06:32:34+00:00
Do you expect someone who has just watched a bot replace 20 years of their work, with no prior consultation or review, to now write a detailed post about how translations by the bot are not specifically wrong?

The core issue here is the way the bot was deployed. The fact that they had the poor taste to make it auto-replace articles written by their own volunteers is idiotic and disrespectful in the extreme. A new bot should work entirely in the back end, sending proposals for translations to the volunteers, who can choose to accept them or ignore them. Once the rate of acceptance is very high, for a specific individual language, then you might consider automating further.

And yes, this effort needs to be done for each language separately. Just because the bot works well in Italian doesn't in any way guarantee that it will work well in Japanese. Machine translation quality varies wildly by language, this is a well known and obvious fact.
by yawaramin | 2025-11-06 06:34:32+00:00
Htmx supporters have explained why htmx over Datastar many times. This is not even the first thread about this topic. Even in this thread you can easily find people (including myself) explaining why htmx and what it does differently. We don't need to repetitively explain the same exact justifications every time someone asks. Do a little reading, it's all there.

If you are making technical decisions about web programming based on HN threads though, best of luck to you.
by Flimm | 2025-11-06 06:34:57+00:00
I strongly disagree. Python 2 had no bytes type to get rid of. It had a string type that could not handle code points above U+00FF at all, and could not handle code points above U+007F very well. In addition, Python 2 had a Unicode type, and the types would get automatically converted to each other and/or encoded/decoded, often incorrectly, and sometimes throwing runtime exceptions.

Python 3 introduced the bytes type that you like so much. It sounds like you would enjoy a Python 4 with only a bytes type and no string type, and presumably with a strong convention to only use UTF-8 or with required encoding arguments everywhere.

In both Python 2 and Python 3, you still have to learn how to handle grapheme clusters carefully.
by brewdad | 2025-11-06 06:35:10+00:00
I keep my Bosch set to Auto and Extra Dry and use Kirkland pods. Rarely do I have anything that comes out less than perfect.

The Extra Dry setting seems to help with getting the glass and ceramics dryer. Plastics still come out quite wet since it uses a hotter final rinse rather than a heating element to get dishes “dryer”.
by breppp | 2025-11-06 06:35:31+00:00
I assume the pretext is actually the war on terror because of the heavy involvement of Venezuela and its drug cartels with financing and supporting of Hezbollah and the IRGC

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/world/americas/venezuela-...

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA3...
by geokon | 2025-11-06 06:35:51+00:00
Yeah the complexity of NetCDF was the ick factor that made me use GeoTIFF. It's just not the level of complexity I wanted to deal with in-program. I didn't want to wade through the details to understand the format, and I didn't want to then lock users to some subset

Seemed easier to let users preprocess their NetCDFs into GeoTIFFs manually. I have a bunch of hacky scripts to massage NetCDFs from different sources in to compatible GeoTIFFs

> meaning that you can stream subsets of GeoTIFF files without having to scan through the entire file for each request.

Interesting. My performance bottleneck right now is the user selects a small regions and then the program has to read in GBs of global precipitation maps (from IMERG) and cut out tiny squares. In the extreme cases it can mean ~2 minutes of waiting for a result. This means the user can't casually select and try out different regions with quick feedback. If you have a beefy machine you can keep it all in RAM sometimes and it works better.. but it's not ideal (my 16GB machine can only handle simpler scenarios)

I'll take a closer look at in the future. At the moment I just use Java's default TIFF reader and ImageBuffer class. Maybe it'd be easy to convert to COG format and adapt in a COG reader
by bulbar | 2025-11-06 06:36:16+00:00
Law at biblical times had a different foundation than today. Today the foundation is legal positivism, which is the philosophical decoupling of moral and law (which sounds terrible at first glance, but is important if you think it through). Therefore, it is not useful to apply the definition of the terms from back then, because the whole context in which they were used doesn't exist anymore.

In the Western world, the meaning of murder and killing is different and while that described action might be an unlawful killing (by accident) it most likely was not a murder.
by rramadass | 2025-11-06 06:36:44+00:00
Related:

Why Israel Just Banned 700 Chinese Cars from Its Military—And What It Means for Security - https://securityboulevard.com/2025/11/why-israel-just-banned...

IDF recalls 700 Chinese EVs used by senior officers over security concerns - https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/idf-recalls-chinese-evs-se...
by kilibe | 2025-11-06 06:37:14+00:00
How do you envision SPy's generics evolving to handle something like SQLAlchemy-style query builders, where dynamic introspection is key? Eager for the next posts on the type system and static dispatch—already forking the repo to tinker with that raytracer demo. Thanks for open-sourcing this under Anaconda's wing; it's the kind of ambitious reset Python needs.
by HiPhish | 2025-11-06 06:37:50+00:00
Are you allowed to share how you repaired the software? Because if not then what I said stands, he cannot sell these little Raspberry Pis or publish information on how people can build them themselves. That's one of the problems Louis Rossmann has been talking about in regards to the FULU bounty program.

https://bounties.fulu.org/
by harry8 | 2025-11-06 06:38:11+00:00
> Was literally just transcoding some video, playing a podcast, and browsing the web.

Yeah that's the perfect use case for current system design. Nobody sane wants to turn that case into an embedded system running a single process with hard deadline guarantees. Your laptop may not be ideal for controlling a couple of tonnes of steel at high speed, for example. Start thinking about how you would design for that and you'll see the point (whether you want to agree or not).
by CSSer | 2025-11-06 06:38:46+00:00
Okay, but where do you put it? I mean, yes, I know there's /usr/local/bin and /opt/bin, but why do I have to compile then mv it myself? It's a small paper cut. Does cargo or go have a global build command? That would be a nice all-in-one. And why should I have to download the source code if, honestly, I don't care as long as it works? Nah, I don't think build from source has taken over at all. It's 2025 and I use a package manager (or three) on every major operating system across multiple languages. It's because, as a vendor experience, I can one-line and use just about anything.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-11-06 06:38:56+00:00
Not sure what your point is here. If this is supposed to be a “bad comparison” to the US, the US has far and away more stabbing deaths than the UK, see [1]. That’s in addition to the gun-deaths, where the US completely eclipses the UK, see [2], being hundreds. Of times higher.

[1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-...

[2]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...