MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by h33t-l4x0r | 2025-11-16 13:17:13+00:00
That's not my position at all. Obviously you had no agency in your genetics. I assume you don't believe you had agency in pre-natal nutrition or the circumstance of your upbringing.

The rest of your life is just reacting to things downstream from that with an algorithm based on your nature and your nurture.

If it weren't for quantum effects you could model the outcome and it would be the same every time.
by yetihehe | 2025-11-16 13:17:22+00:00
> Support from professional software vendors [..] and Nvidia could be better, admittedly, but these restrictions aren't very relevant to me.

Quality of support from Nvidia on linux is the reason that I went with AMD for my linux work+gaming rig. That's why probably Valve chosen AMD too. As amount of linux gamers increases, maybe Nvidia will see the light too. For me, linux+AMD+Steam stack "just works".
by rs186 | 2025-11-16 13:18:13+00:00
Medium used to be a decent platform full of high quality articles. Then the quality started to drop. These days, it's full of AI slops, the ones with lower quality.

This is an article I stumbled upon recently: https://medium.com/@saraswatp/understanding-scaled-dot-produ...

Apparently the author did not bother to do basic proofreading of the article even once before posting it.

Yet it showed up at the top of my Google search results. I guess that's the state of today's Internet in a nutshell.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-11-16 13:18:29+00:00
This is why I've been all in on Steam for so long! The catalog is so huge, there's a massive number of fantastic couch multiplayer games. It is indeed a bit more fiddly... I've found that it's generally easier to connect my Steam Deck to the TV and play lower fidelity games than it is to fiddle with a Windows machine that needs to be prepped for friends popping in every other month.

Although, Nintendo is still doing a good job at keeping the couch-social experience alive, and building 1st party games that can be good solo experiences but really shine when played next to a friend sitting on the same couch.
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-11-16 13:18:36+00:00
We desperately need regional pricing. If we had that, manufacturers and data centres would be able to move to places like this, or to scotland, and get almost free electricity.

And then electricity producers would have a huge incentive to build generation in places where electricity is actually used. And NIMBYs would be told to fuck off, because letting someone build an energy source would make your electricity cheap.
by woooooo | 2025-11-16 13:20:03+00:00
There's an incentive to blame "Chinese/Russian state sponsored actors" because it makes them less culpable than "we got owned by a rando".

It's like the inverse of "nobody got fired for using IBM" -- "nobody can blame you for getting hacked by superspies". So, in the absence of any evidence, it's entirely possible they have no idea who did it and are reaching for the most convenient label.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-16 13:20:20+00:00
I propose a project that we name Blarrble, it will generate text.

We will need a large number of humans to filter and label the data inputs for Blarrble, and another group of humans to test the outputs of Blarrble to fix it when it generate errors and outright nonsense that we can't techsplain and technobabble away to a credulous audience.

Can we make (m|b|tr)illions and solve teenage unemployment before the Blarrble bubble bursts?
by tjpnz | 2025-11-16 13:20:41+00:00
>In two years, you’ll upgrade your M1 to an M4+: there’s the power upgrade.

>If CrossOver is struggling to run that particular game you so badly want to play, it’ll be buttery smooth in a few years. You’re going to do the laptop upgrade anyway regardless of the Steam Machine.

The only times I've heard the fan come on on my M4 were with games like Kerbal Space Program and Cities Skylines. Having tried both of them on a variety of MBPs over the years (both Intel and Apple Silicon) I'm not convinced they'll ever run well - in fact they both play worse on my M4. Newer games like CP2077 and No Man's Sky do put in a good showing but they've been optimized for Metal.
by fundatus | 2025-11-16 13:23:01+00:00
Well, at least for Germany it was the actual nuclear fallout over large areas of the country after Chernobyl. Which is btw still measurable today. [1] That's a pretty scary thing to happen to you and one just has to accept that these are the actual lived experiences of people that form their opinions.

[1] https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...
by krona | 2025-11-16 13:23:40+00:00
That £59.90 figure is 2012 prices.

In 2024 money offshore was £102 offshore, onshore £89. AR7 estimates are >10% higher. Those prices were not high enough for Hornsea 4, who cancelled the contract (with a big write down for the entire project) after being awarded it.

Hinkley C is, as everyone knows, a disaster.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-16 13:24:13+00:00
Another example of Betteridge’s law:

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

Perplexity is one of my first options for search (and superficial research) at this point.

They just signed a $400m deal with Snapchat. They’ll get acquired or something, worst case. They’ll be fine.

Edit: this might be an interesting case for Polymarket. Retail can’t be on or against private companies, but maybe a prediction market would be good for revealed preferences vs stated preferences here
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-11-16 13:24:14+00:00
Hydrogen is the worst possible fuel. It's the least dense material in existence so you need a ton of it. It has to be made from either cracking polluting materials, or using a huge amount of electricity. It is really difficult to store and really flammable.

Nuclear is endless clean energy. Why do people like you keep ruining everything? If it wasn't for you, we'd have had full nuclear by 1980. No oil problems, no terrorist states, no dubai.
by yetihehe | 2025-11-16 13:24:27+00:00
> You can't debug your way out of bad Nvidia support or nonexistent Dassault support.

With bad Nvidia support very often you can, there exist a lot of workarounds found by people.

With Dassault support you are right, because a lot less people use their products than Nvidia products and those people typically don't share on public forums.

People using Steam Machine will be sharing problems and solutions on public forums and there will be more of them than people using Dassault products.
by Reason077 | 2025-11-16 13:24:32+00:00
Yes, like I said, UK CfD strike prices (both nuclear and wind) are always quoted in 2012 prices.

But even adjusting for inflation, offshore wind's £59.90 is a fraction of the retail price that UK consumers and most businesses pay for electricity. There's plenty of margin left for the middlemen (regulator, grid operator, distribution network operator, electricity retailer, etc).

... and Hinkley Point C's £92.50 is £133.79 today, and could be £160+ by the time it actually starts generating in (maybe?) 2031.
by rfoo | 2025-11-16 13:25:39+00:00
> Do public reports like this one often go deep enough into the weeds to name names

Yes. They often include IoCs, or at the very least, the rationale behind the attribution, like "sharing infrastructure with [name of a known APT effort here]".

For example, here is a proper decade-old report from the most unpopular country right now: https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sit...

It established solid technical links between the campaign they are tracking to earlier, already attributed campaigns.

So, even our enemy got this right, ten years ago, there really is no excuse for this slop.
by spockz | 2025-11-16 13:28:17+00:00
This is par for the course on traction batteries. You need official dealer software to dial them in.

My VW Passat hybrid did not even let me change the cooling fluid myself because it is also used to cool the battery. In fact anything remotely tied to the high voltage battery is not user serviceable, and dealers are only allowed to replace instead of repair.

And this car is from 2015 so the enshittification started there already.
by rjn32s | 2025-11-16 13:28:17+00:00
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by iLove_AI | 2025-11-16 13:28:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the creator of this project. I built ECHOLOCK for the recent Cyber AI Hackathon 2025.

The Problem: I was frustrated by the lag in threat intelligence. When one system detects a new phishing site, it can take hours or days for that information to protect everyone else.

The Solution: ECHOLOCK is a hybrid detection system, but its main feature is a federated network. When any node in the network detects a new, high-confidence threat, it uses Redis Pub/Sub to instantly publish that threat's fingerprint to all other nodes. This means the entire network gets immunity in seconds from a threat only one node has seen.

The backend is built with Flask, and the AI model is a LinearSVC which I chose for its speed and small footprint (91% accuracy at 45MB). The README has more technical details and architecture diagrams.

The project is open-source, and I'd love to get any technical feedback you have on the architecture or the federated approach.

Thanks!
by collinmcnulty | 2025-11-16 13:28:24+00:00
I found this helpful in the context of the author’s other work. “Maybe you can try a different way” feels less useful than “if you really, really wanted to do this, what would you do that you’re not doing right now”? Even though they’re effectively the same thing, I can usually think of an answer to the second question quickly. It reminds me of Mr Krabs having to let go of the dime.
by hellcow | 2025-11-16 13:28:34+00:00
I built my last company on OpenBSD. It was easy to understand the entire system, and secure-by-default (everything disabled) is the right posture for servers. Pledge and unveil worked brilliantly to restrict our Go processes to specific syscall sets and files. The firewall on OpenBSD is miles better to configure than iptables. I never had challenges upgrading them--they just kept working for years.
by fundatus | 2025-11-16 13:28:35+00:00
That's not what we're seeing with nuclear power though. At least so far. Counterintuitively it seems to get more expensive the more you build of the same design: [1]

> Among the surprising findings in the study, which covered 50 years of U.S. nuclear power plant construction data, was that, contrary to expectations, building subsequent plants based on an existing design actually costs more, not less, than building the initial plant.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118
by sekh60 | 2025-11-16 13:29:06+00:00
I have a Framework Ryzen AI 300 series. Had the screen flickering after a kernel update several weeks ago. Fix was to add "amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x2" to the grub kernel cmdline. Running Fedora 43, fully up to date as of yesterday. I sadly can't find the official forum thread about it. Hope it helps though.
by ferd | 2025-11-16 13:29:27+00:00
You are always dealing with state and control-flow in software design. The challenge is to minimize state at much as possible, make it immutable as much as possible and simplify you control-flow as much as possible. OO-style inheritance of implementation (with mutable state dispersed all over the place and pinball-style control-flow) goes against those goals.

Closer to the "ideal": declarative approaches, pure functions, data-oriented pipelines, logic programming.
by marcusb | 2025-11-16 13:29:27+00:00
The security world overemphasizes (fetishizes, even,) the "advanced" part because zero days and security tools to compensate against zero days are cool and fun, and underemphasizes the "persistent" part because that's boring and hard work and no fun.

And, unless you are Rob Joyce, talking about the persistent part doesn't get you on the main stage at a security conference (e.g., https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA)
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-16 13:29:42+00:00
The hot mess that is Claude Code (if you multi-orchestrate with it, it'll start to grind even very powerful systems to a halt, 15+ seconds of unresponsiveness, all because CC constantly serializes/deserializes a JSON data file that grows quite large every time you do stuff), their horrible service uptime compared to all their competitors, their month long performance degradation their users had to scream at them to get them to investigate, the fact that they had to outsource their web client and it's still bad, etc.
by deng | 2025-11-16 13:29:52+00:00
The Arduino was 30$ when it came out. The Raspberry was 35$.

I'd be astonished if they manage to get the Steam Machine down to 800$ (bundled with a controller). Knowing how Valve loves their margins, it's probably closer to 1000$ or even more. This is not something you spontaneously buy to play around with.
by pfdietz | 2025-11-16 13:30:05+00:00
This would be green hydrogen. Sure, it has low density, but underground storage is pretty cheap at scale. Yes, it's flammable, but that can be handled, and is handled routinely -- the world currently produces and consumes 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen per year.

The huge advantage of hydrogen here is that a gas turbine power plant might cost $600/kW, a tiny fraction of the cost of a nuclear power plant. So if you have a need for a backup plant whose cost will be dominated by amortization of its fixed cost, hydrogen beats nuclear.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-16 13:30:18+00:00
I just totally disagree.

I want AI to be as strong as possible. I want AGI, I especially want super intelligence. I will figure out a new and better job if you give me super intelligence.

The problem is not cognitive dissonance, the problem is we don't have what we are pretending we have.

We have the dot com bubble but with a bunch of Gopher servers and the web browser as this theoretical idea yet to be invented and that is the bull case. The bear case is we have the dot com bubble but still haven't figured out how to build the actual internet. Massive investment in rotary phone capacity because everyone in the future is going to be using so much phone dial up bandwidth when we finally figure out how to build the internet.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2025-11-16 13:30:50+00:00
My therapist calls this "touching the hot stove". When you put a lot of effort into a problem and fail over and over, your mind "gives up" as a protective measure. You can drive yourself crazy trying to push forward and find a solution in a straight line.

It is sometimes useful to get outside input or take a break and wait for new circumstances.

Not going to lie, it is also very possible a husband going to law enforcement gets taken more seriously than a woman reporting stalking.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-16 13:31:33+00:00
Get a blindfold and throw a dart. You're talking about a +/-15yr range depending on the OEM and the product line in question.

Some random Suzuki on a platform that they're dearth to refresh and that primarily garners 3rd world sales is gonna grow "fuck you pay me" features a lot later than a 4Runner, or whatever else 200k+ households buy when they pop out a kid these days.

You need to do your research on a per model basis, generalizations won't help unless you're familiar enough with how that OEM does things to take an educated guess in which case you probably don't need the generalization in the first place.
by gmokki | 2025-11-16 13:31:44+00:00
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Lands-Wayland-Pointer-Warp

Wayland and SDL got support this summer.

And Xwayland has had support for past 10 years: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Pointer-Confinement
by yoavm | 2025-11-16 13:31:57+00:00
No, you are spreading lies. I won't engage any further but I'll just say that there is absolutely no video evidence, not even one, showing a rape of a Palestinian by Israeli soldiers. What there is is a video that shows Israeli soldiers standing around and beating a Palestinian prisoner, that happened to be a Hamas police-officer. The video is very unclear.

The vast majority of the discussion in Israel isn't around the the right to torture prisoners (I have actually never heard anyone argue that). That's also a lie. The discussion is around whether or not it happened.

The usage of rape as part of Palestinian resistance isn't exactly a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ori_Ansbacher

The main difference is that in Israel, people who are suspected in doing such things would be trialed, and if found guilty, sent to jail. That's true by the way not specifically for rape, but also for harming a Palestinian in any other ways. Trails against settlers violence, for example, take place all the time. Yes, much more needs to be done, but it happens. On the Palestinian side, however, I cannot recall a single case of Palestinian facing legal charges for ever harming a Jew, and it's not because it never happens.

Does Israel have a perfect legal system? Absolutely not. But it has a system that has put many Israelis behind bars, while the Palestinian Authority usually pays compensation for those who blew up civilian buses when I was child.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-16 13:32:04+00:00
I am not competitive. That's a deliberate stance, and one that I've held for decades.

It does contribute to the fact that I haven't achieved greatness, but I have no regrets, and haven't done badly, despite that. It's not weakness, as some folks have found out, over the years.

When I "win," then someone else "loses." I have a problem with that.
by mannykannot | 2025-11-16 13:33:36+00:00
I had not thought much about it until now, but when I did, I guessed it was a cost-cutting move, as it seems to piggyback on equipment needed for other features (principally ABS).

Now that you've mentioned it, I'm wondering if the auto manufacturers needed to get a bunch of regulators to drop secondary/emergency braking requirements in order to do this?
by cardanome | 2025-11-16 13:33:50+00:00
My only problem is that the hardware looks downright antiquated compared to the near-silent and power efficient setup offering world leading single-core performance that you get with a Mac Mini.

Especially when both run ARM so you have a apple(s) to apples comparison.

I still hope they succeed. Steam is the one good monopolists that will probably only go full evil when Gabe dies.

My dream would be Steam OS on hardware that can rival apple silicone.
by setopt | 2025-11-16 13:33:50+00:00
Sure, I know about C-h b and C-h m and find those useful. But I think what the GP post describes is more contextual: A way to not display every keybinding, but only those directly accessible by pressing the currently held modifier combo followed by one key (so holding Ctrl+Meta for more than a couple of seconds might remind you of all structural editing commands for example).

This is indeed not possible in a classical terminal emulator (don’t know if kkp for example has extensions for it). But most GUI apps can detect individual modifiers being pressed and released, even as separate events. Some editors like VSCode can also bind modifier taps to actions using this ability. In Emacs however this is AFAIK not possible even in the GUI, because of how keybindings are handled deep down.

The UI pattern described by the GP does exist in some other apps and platforms. For example, if you connect an external keyboard to an iPad, holding down the Cmd modifier for a couple of seconds will show you a popup which-key-like overview of all Cmd+key keybindings.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-16 13:34:01+00:00
Yes - in a high-functioning, professional outfit that'd be quite true. Vs. this item is about a huge US Gov't security organization. Try searching on a few phrases like "FBI incompetence scandal". Or similar for "CIA", or "NSA", or ...

The best that we can realistically hope for is that they'll muddle toward being better, as older managers retire and the org's social consensus drifts away from "Competence Theater is good enough", "CYA is SOP", and "Phrenology works".

</sad cynicism>
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-16 13:34:10+00:00
Ubuntu seems to have a trend of taking something that works under Debian and somehow messing that up. Upgrades are one thing but for a while we had separate instruction on how to make Yubikey tokens work under each version of Ubuntu (we used them as smartcards for SSH key auth), while Debian instructions stayed the same...

Update was also hit and miss on user's desktop machines, for a while ubuntu had a nasty habit of installing new kernel upgrades... without removing old ones, which eventually made boot run out of space and poor user usually had to give it to helpdesk to fix.

Tho tbh most of the problems in any distro with packages is "an user installed 3rd party repo that don't have well structured packages and it got messy".
by throwpoaster | 2025-11-16 13:34:18+00:00
If you, the reader, are having "productivity problems" please get assessed for ADHD.

A lot of productivity writing has the frame "trust me, I was incorrigible and this system worked for me. If it worked for me it will work for you."

None of those systems ever worked for me. I worried about learned helplessness. I worried that imposter syndrome was actually just me being an imposter. I worried I wasn't trying hard enough, and spent enormous effort trying every idea I could: meditation, delegation, therapy, coaching, exercise, diet, sleep, prayer, etc., etc., on and on.

After DECADES of stress and pain it turned out to be a dopamine deficiency. Contemporary medication addressed this for me, quickly and effectively.
by tyleo | 2025-11-16 13:34:24+00:00
My personal preference for composition over inheritance is that it forces callers to call the owned-object’s methods directly rather than automatically through inheritance.

There is more typing/boilerplate but when you read the class file you get a full picture of what’s happening rather than some parts happening automatically in a different file.

I like to say that code should be written with a reader bias: the singular writer should do more work if it makes the class more obvious for the multitude of readers. I feel like composition is a good example of that.
by jesprenj | 2025-11-16 13:34:38+00:00
On my peugeot 5008, pressing the electronic parkong brake button for more than cca 500ms while driving fully engages all brakes of the car (not only rear ones), but ABS remains functional. So in an emergency, one could theoretically still use this as an emergency brake. Although I agree that it's quite dumb, because it of course wouldn't work in case of computer/electric failure. What a shame indeed.
by bityard | 2025-11-16 13:34:50+00:00
I had a car with a Hyundai engine. We loved that car. Unfortunately, we did not love the engine. At only 90k miles, it started burning 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles.

I want to be clear that I know what I'm doing around cars and an meticulous with regular maintenance, so this wasn't caused by neglect.

Doing some research online, it turns out this happens to pretty much all of them at some point after the warranty is up. There is also a separate issue with these engines where they randomly grenade themselves which caused a class action lawsuit.

These issues are so common that you simply cannot buy a replacement engine from Hyundai, because there are no more left. There are remanufactured ones available, but they cost more than the car is likely worth, even before labor.

All my cars are Honda or Toyota from now on.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-11-16 13:35:00+00:00
> The silhouette of Brown is neatly demarcated against the bubbling surface of the Sun. His downward trajectory is perfectly framed between sunspots, active regions on the surface of the Sun that are slightly cooler than their surrounding areas. This is not just a pretty picture; it is truly a masterpiece

Excuse me while I go wash off the stench of AI-generated descriptions. The picture is very nice, though.