MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fooker | 2025-11-30 22:57:47+00:00
> United States, one of the most sparsely populated developed nations, already has all the large cities it can support.

That was not my argument, please don't twist my words.

I was replying to the idea that you should be able to take empty land and turn it into good cities. The reason that would not work is empty land nowadays is in pretty unattractive places. It worked 300 years ago I assume.

Sure you can turn a suburb or town into a city, that's how cities appear after all.
by skywhopper | 2025-11-30 22:57:53+00:00
Having worked with Salt and Ansible and Puppet extensively, there really is no good argument to be made for the sort of push architecture the article here is struggling with. At one large SaaS company I worked for, we replaced a mix of push-based Ansible, Salt, and Puppet with a fully pull-based Ansible system that solved most of the problems of these centrally-controlled push-based systems. It was lightning-fast and far easier to manage at a growing scale.

The fact that Cloudflare sysadmins were desperately chasing Salt logs between minions and masters in recent memory is a shocking failure of imagination (or investment) on their part.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-30 22:58:09+00:00
No one at Apple or Microsoft seems to care to serve the users. We are at an interesting point in the history of computers.

This failure mode of capitalism should've been easy to anticipate: owners of capital eventually become the customers.

Capitalism is great for technology development. But stable markets don't generate the returns VCs and public company shareholders demand.

I predict a return to simple commerce: pay money for a good or service without third parties. It doesn't need to grow or generate returns.
by emidln | 2025-11-30 22:59:00+00:00
I'm not a CISO just a random dog on the internet, but this open letter seems to assume that privacy is not a part of your security posture and that spear phishing isn't common these days. (Is 'spear phishing' still the term for targeted electronic scams to steal credentials/access?)

I realize not everyone is using a physically stripped burner, a graphene os install, etc and not everyone works at a high value financial, govt, or infra target but for those of us who need to deal with opsec or are commonly targeted by spear phishing this advice seems abysmal.

In the current political climate of the US, if you are living or traveling here and the current party isn't cheering for you personally, you really should be considering both state-sponsored attacks and no longer have the luxury of assuming good faith by the state. Telling people to enable cheap drive by attacks that are in active use by certain government agencies is irresponsible malpractice at best and actively evil at worst.

Source: I've worked at analytics companies that actively deanonymized users using cookies when available. We used wifi and Bluetooth details when available. We built "multi channel marketing" which was just taking any information we could scrape from the user to fingerprint them and cross reference and deanonymize them so we could sell interactions to businesses like geofenced price discrimination, value of users, and could offer cross website information on shopping habits/financial profile. The shit I did 15 years ago didn't go away and no matter how much I wish I didn't write that, it was the tip of the iceberg and relatively benign.
by godelski | 2025-11-30 22:59:06+00:00
Max, there's two problems I see with your comment.

1) the paper didn't show a 0% FNR. I mean tables 4, 7, and B.2 are pretty explicit. It's not hard to figure out from the others either.

2) a 0% error rate requires some pretty serious assumptions to be true. For that type of result to not be incredibly suspect requires there to be zero noise in the data, analysis, and at all parts. I do not see that being true of the mentioned dataset.

Even high scores are suspect. Generalizing the previous a score is suspect if it is higher than the noise level. Can you truly attest that this condition is true?

I'm suspect that you're introducing data leakage. I haven't looked enough into your training and data to determine how that's happening but you'll probably need a pretty deep analysis as leakage is really easy to sneak in. It can do so in non obvious ways. A very common one is tuning hyper parameters on test results. You don't have to pass data to pass information. Another sly way for this to happen is that the test set isn't significantly disjoint from the training set. If the perturbation is too small then you aren't testing generalization you're testing a slightly noisy training set (which your training should be introducing noise to help regularize, so you end up just measuring your training performance).

Your numbers are too good and that's suspect. You need a lot more evidence to suggest they mean what you want them to mean.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-30 22:59:29+00:00
>when you don't care to add to their profit

I was going to, but it was delisted. I didn't expect that to happen so I was waiting until the next time I was going to travel before ordering it.

In regards to quantifying the risk I would expect there to have been prior research on the dangers of lithium ion batteries that could be referenced due to it being such a common battery chemistry.
by pandaman | 2025-11-30 22:59:59+00:00
This is not a law issue, this is people not giving any fucks about local elections. Few people know the name of their city mayor, even less know the name of the county's DA and nobody knows their city council rep. And these are the people who affect one's quality of life much more than the POTUS or state's representation in the US Congress.

You can have all the laws you want but if the DA does not charge then there is nothing you can do, even if arrested, the criminal walks free. And the police eventually stops investigating and making arrests for the crimes that the DA won't charge. And the DA will get re-elected because the voters, as stated above, have no clue, don't know who is the DA or what does he or she do.
by daveguy | 2025-11-30 23:00:18+00:00
And I bet Apple doesn't conveniently change settings in favor of data collection on a regular basis. I switched back to Linux after a few decades on Windows for work. Been back on Linux for a few months now, and haven't had any problems. My computer doesn't randomly restart (most updates don't require restart at all). No one is trying to push telemetry, half-assed AI, or OS ads on me either. So much better now on Linux.
by jbeus | 2025-11-30 23:00:54+00:00
hospitalist here - I think “everyone hates epic” is a major over-generalization. If you have worked with one implementation of Epic, you have worked with one implementation of Epic. It probably does not meet the standards of popular modern software, but it is complicated. If it is implemented as a replacement for paper charts, it can be terrible. If it is thoughtfully customized to support common and important workflows and support high quality care, it can be a life and efficiency saver.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-30 23:01:43+00:00
My parents run a Windows PC as, from what I can tell, a home for stray botnets. The main uses are checking email and working on Word documents. (They have a laptop and iPad, respectively, which does most of their work, so it's an infrequently consulted machine.)

What Linux build would you recommend that I can fire and forget, that would be compatible with the Windows 10 machine they have running and will likely never replace.
by jibal | 2025-11-30 23:02:09+00:00
An advantage over what? Reading an SO page "scrapes" the whole page with your eyeballs.

Anyway, I didn't say anything about which is preferable to use, I merely commented on where the information comes from, so your response is non sequitur. If sources like SO go away, it will affect the quality of LLM responses. "the same question from countless other parts of the internet" is a figment of your imagination when it comes to the kind of content SO accumulated. I've been in this industry for a very long time (my name appears in RFC #57) and I know what it was like to try to get answers to technical questions before SO showed up.
by arianvanp | 2025-11-30 23:04:02+00:00
Previous version was in bash. With this change you can build a nixos image not containing bash or any shell whatsoever. Not having interpreted languages on the system at all is an effective hardening technique combined with verity store containing all your executables as it makes it impossible for attackers to add new executable files to the system which stops almost all attack vectors.

You can read about the project here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/428908
by sprash | 2025-11-30 23:04:31+00:00
Desktop Linux needs standardized and stable infrastructure. X11 delivers on that perfectly.

Wayland despite receiving huge amounts funding has actually far more moving pieces. Even for the simplest tasks you have to deal with a dbus infested portal maze, many parallel infrastructure effects and high fragmentation. The API is atrociously stupid and cumbersome.

Besides that the modesetting driver of xorg also sits "properly on top of kernel abstractions". How is this in any ways a relevant criterion. What matters is that Wayland clearly makes the wrong abstractions for Desktop applications and the vast amount of parallel infrastructure required to do even the simplest tasks shows that.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-11-30 23:06:06+00:00
You're right, and after thinking about it a bit more, I think this TOS is actually more confusing than what came before. Saying explicitly that, e.g. MIT licensed software was allowed (because that license is approved by OSI), makes it unambiguous. This feels like if someone complained or had too many repos they're liable to get nuked from orbit. That being said Forgejo is FLOSS and this service is hosted for free so they're allowed to set whatever terms they want. I'll delete my upthread comment as it's misinfo.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-30 23:06:28+00:00
> You can't access certificates in linux/bash as a file path for example, but you can in powershell/windows.

sure you can, /usr/share/ca-certificates tho you do need to run 'update-ca-certificates' (in debian derivatives) to update some files, like hashed symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs

there is also of course /sys|/proc for system stuff, but yes, nowhere near as integrated as windows registry
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-11-30 23:06:39+00:00
Password managers are one of those things I am still stunned is staying popular for advice, even though it's nearly akin to "use one password for everything". I assume a big part of it is the affiliate deals subscription password managers have with infosec influencers.

There are absolutely valid use cases, but they are much fewer and further between than people claim.
by lisbbb | 2025-11-30 23:07:02+00:00
You make it sound like only "right wing" people are idiots being fooled when I honestly doubt most right wingers in the US even have time for X or most crap like this mainly because they are busy working, raising families, and living their lives. It would seem more like the unwashed leftists who inhabit the Internet and live in some kind of altered reality would succumb to the "culture war" you are talking about. People on the right are far more rugged and while many are probably kind of dumb, a lot of them aren't.
by hamandcheese | 2025-11-30 23:07:40+00:00
I've been using Nix and NixOS for about 5 or 6 years now, extremely thankful for the project. It was my gateway to open source and Linux, and has been pivotal to my career (I work on internal developer experience and environments + CI infrastructure).

It's certainly not for everyone, but for anyone who's full time job involves managing runtime environments it is second to none.
by Ciantic | 2025-11-30 23:08:40+00:00
Given that I've been using actively this just month, my opinion is bit biased.I run myself basically Fedora 43 KDE version: https://www.fedoraproject.org/kde/

However, for folks who don't want to install some random packages, maybe Atomic version of the distro is better: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

Atomic Linux desktops has the neat feature for ability to "rollback" if installation fails. A lot like with ChromeOS, the updates are done in atomic fashion and the flipped over to new version.

Normal Linux distributions are more mutable, atomic are lot more immutable.
by retrac | 2025-11-30 23:08:51+00:00
LLVM includes an equivalent to binutils, with a macro assembler, linker, objdump with disassembler, library tools, handling formats like ELF and raw binary etc.

LLVM-MOS includes all of that. It is the same process as using LLVM to cross-assemble targeting an embedded ARM board. Same GNU assembler syntax just with 6502 opcodes. This incidentally makes LLVM-MOS one of the best available 6502 assembly development environments, if you like Unix-style cross-assemblers.
by c-hendricks | 2025-11-30 23:08:52+00:00
For instance I just got tripped trying to sign out of my gitea instance since the mobile design has two identical looking avatar + username blocks on top of each other, one being the org switcher the other being a menu (with no indicator) with the sign out button.

I went to a project page, and it auto focused the search input (???), causing a zoom in on mobile.

I just prefer the design / look + feel of gitlab more than gitea/forejo. It's not really a hot take, gitlab has been around a lot longer and has much more support.
by splintersio | 2025-11-30 23:09:18+00:00
Author here. After seeing "TLS makes WiFi safe" repeated endlessly, I built this to walk through a broader thinking distance.

The /quiz version tracks contradictions in responses (surprisingly common, even among technical users). The /conversation format is for people who just want the technical explanation without the assessment.

Happy to discuss specific scenarios or threat models, but there are some principles that just wont change, do you know what they are ?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-30 23:09:33+00:00
I wonder if this could be broadened to a list of Wikipedia links to humanitarian content folks in repressed regimes are or might get blocked from. Tiananmen Square [1]. Wen Jiabao's staggering corruption [2]. Epstein's e-mails [3]. Et cetera.

Like Netflix launching Fast.com, this would directly weaponise these regimes' censoring tendencies against themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of...

[3] https://jmail.world
by analog31 | 2025-11-30 23:09:34+00:00
One issue might just be money. "Forcing" us to buy new laptops every 3 years has to be planned well enough in advance for the new OS and hardware to be ready, but meanwhile, it may have occurred to a lot of people that hanging onto the old stuff for a few more years might make the most sense right now.

Also, even many home users may be finding that they interact less and less with the "platform" now that everything including MS Office runs from a browser. I can barely remember when the differences between Windows and Linux were even relevant to my personal computer use. This was necessitated by having to find a good way to accommodate Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android all at once.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-30 23:09:49+00:00
I had game partition mounted as subpath on a drive and it just not worked well with some apps.

Some apps (in this case Steam) don't run "what is is space in current path" (despise say GetDiskFreeSpaceExW accepting full path just fine), they cut it to the drive letter, which causes them to display space of the root drive, not the actual directory that they are using and in my case was mounted as different partition
by ropetin | 2025-11-30 23:10:09+00:00
I find it interesting that the comment about VPNs offering little additional privacy or security benefits is wrapped up under 'Avoid Public WiFi' rather than being called out explicitly. It drives me nuts all the ads I see for NordVPN or whatever claiming that by using their services you are now totally safe from all the hacks. If anything, it makes the median user less safe because they have a false sense of security.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-30 23:10:23+00:00
> Windows is still stuck in a weird directory naming structure inherited from the 80's that no longer make sense when nobody has floppy drives.

I think you could make this same statement about *nix, except it's 10 years _worse_ (1970s). I strongly prefer the fhs over whatever MS thinks it's doing, but let's not pretend that the fhs isn't a pile of cruft (/usr/bin vs /bin, /etc for config, /media vs /mnt, etc)
by machomaster | 2025-11-30 23:11:02+00:00
Your claim was that you tested and "You get 5-20 FPS less and often more input latency and stutters (1%, 0.1% lows)", "it decent enough sample size to determine that the claim that Linux performs better than Windows isn't true". That you tested so well, that it can't be considered to be anecdata. You claimed that it is universal truth.

So I provided you with solid data from testers, who found many cases in which Linux was on par or faster than Windows.

And now you are trying to change the goal.
by AuthAuth | 2025-11-30 23:11:27+00:00
I moved over just to see what it was and one of the coolest things that instantly made me fall inlove was seeing being directed to a system file and finding out it was a text file that I could open and it had instructions explaining what the options were. It felt so inviting, like the computer was showing me how things worked and I could change it if i wanted something different.
by flag_fagger | 2025-11-30 23:11:29+00:00
> I don't understand why Trump would do something like this which is gonna peel off yet another group of his supporters

The guy was like a walking auction item as soon as he started his second term. He’s nearly 80. He’s gonna amass a nice fortune for his family and dip.

Come on man, the guy was shilling his own shitcoin as sitting president.
by c420 | 2025-11-30 23:12:18+00:00
"War crimes can only be committed during times of armed conflict, either international or non-international, as understood under international humanitarian law. While it is necessary that the crime in question was committed during an armed conflict, this is in itself not sufficient: the crime must be sufficiently linked to the armed conflict. This so-called nexus requirement is satisfied if the armed conflict played a substantial role in the perpetrator’s decision to commit the crime, his or her ability to commit it, or the manner in which the crime was committed.

In order to define an act as a war crime, this act must, besides having nexus to an armed conflict, be a serious violation of international humanitarian law and entail individual criminal responsibility."

https://www.rulac.org/legal-framework/international-criminal...
by fracus | 2025-11-30 23:12:21+00:00
I've been a Linux user without Windows for longer than I can remember. My biggest worry is Linux dominates the market because a FOSS OS can't dominate the market. A capitalist market won't allow it. Of course though, if say Ubuntu was heavily monetized in some way, then it simply becomes the new Windows and the FOSS community will simply present an alternative. I'm sorry you had to go on this circular journey with me.
by codebje | 2025-11-30 23:12:24+00:00
The CE-dev community's LLVM back-end for the (e)Z80 'panned out' in that it produced pretty decent Z80 assembly code, but like most hobby-level back-ends the effort to keep up to date with LLVM's changes overwhelmed the few contributors active and it's now three years since the last release. It still works, so long as you're OK using the older LLVM (and clang).

This is why these back-ends aren't accepted by the LLVM project: without a significant commitment to supporting them, they're a liability for LLVM.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-11-30 23:12:34+00:00
You can only avoid rotation on passwords that are MFA-protected.

If you implement a password manager, you must mandate auto-fill only and actively discourage (via training) copy/paste of credentials to a web site. Train the users to view “auto-fill not working” as a red flag. (This doesn’t apply to non-website credentials). Mandate all passwords to be auto-generated. Mandate that the only manually-entered password is the one for the password manager. Of course, you must have MFA on the password manager entry.

This will allow your users to comply with frequent password rotations much more easily. Auto-fill requirement/culture is critical to reducing phishing success, especially for tired eyes.
by estearum | 2025-11-30 23:12:49+00:00
People seem to think there’s some clever little gap between war crime law, US domestic law, and human rights law that mean a government can just kill people who pose no immediate threat and without any establishment of guilt.

There is not.

The Trump admin wants to say they’re invaders therefore we don’t need Congressional authorization, but they’re actually irregulars therefore we don’t need to follow Geneva, but they’re actually terrorists therefore…

All of it is nonsense.
by Bender | 2025-11-30 23:13:13+00:00
Another thing I would add to this is that while sure one could block Flock cameras, they can't stop all the newer cars that have 8 or more cameras on them and upload to a cloud. Then there are all the home cameras that can and should log everything going up and down the road to get the plates of porch pirates, kidnappers, etc... Also a number of commercially available cameras can record license plates and while they do not have the ability to query the DMV database one can just turn over access to law enforcement. It will not be long before it is impossible to go to most places without being on at least a few cameras, even out in my remote location.
by p_l | 2025-11-30 23:14:08+00:00
One thing to remember is that unless you explicitly made a device to operate in space and even there beyond LEO, you quite probably might have seen no requirement for ECC memory for radiation reasons.

ECC memory usage in the past was heavily correlated with, well, way lower quality of the hardware from chips to assembly, electromagnetic interference from unexpected sources, or even customer/field technician errors. Remember an early 1980s single user workstation might require extensive check & fix cycle just from moving it around.

An aircraft component would eliminate all major parts of that, including both through more thorough self-testing, careful sealed design, selection of high grade parts, etc.

The possibility of space radiation causing considerable issues came up as fully digital fly by wire became more common in civilian usage and has led over time to retrofitting with EDAC, but radiation-triggered SEU was deemed low enough risk due to design of the system.
by mvdtnz | 2025-11-30 23:14:47+00:00
I have been using Linux for well over a decade now but I still dual boot because of my gaming group. If I didn't play online games there would be absolutely nothing keeping me on Windows. Fedora 43 with Plasma is the closest I have been to being completely satisfied with an OS. My next computer-related purchase for sure will be an AMD GPU, as NVidia is one of the few things that makes Linux a big operational challenge.
by greyw | 2025-11-30 23:15:39+00:00
The highest marginal wealth tax rate in Zurich is 0.47% and 0.9% in Geneva starting at 2-3mn CHF. It's not irrelevant at all

If you now earn 4% on your capital and pay 0.9% wealth taxes that is like a 25% tax rate on your unrealized gains. Inflation is close to zero anyway and interest rates are negative.

Obviously I prefer that system because we can compound essentially tax free to a couple of 100k before having to think about taxes.