MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by walterbell | 2025-11-30 17:26:09+00:00
For the billion humans in the Steve Jobs ecosystem, new/used iPads are cheaper than new/used iPhones and have good resale value.

Cellular iPad has non-duplicative use cases for 99% of time when not needed as backup for mobile phone.

Upcoming iPad Mini will likely exit Broadcom WiFi + Qualcomm cellular walled gardens of RF baseband insecurity. Pixel uses Broadcom.
by lutusp | 2025-11-30 17:26:21+00:00
I hope this article gets archived in a computer history, so people in the future can read how today's default operating system persisted in requiring its vict..., umm, users, to honor an archaic practice long past any imaginable justification, while free alternative operating systems don't have this handicap.

I regularly have this conversation with my end-user neighbor -- I explain that he has once again written his backup archive onto his original because he plugged in his Windows USB drives in the wrong sequence. His reply is, more or less, "Are computers still that backward?" "No," I reply, "Windows is still that backward."

The good news is that Linux is more sophisticated. The bad news is that Linux users must be more sophisticated as well. But this won't always be true.
by echelon | 2025-11-30 17:26:44+00:00
None of that has reached the market yet. If it was up to the sciences alone, AI couldn't bear the weight of its own costs.

It also needs to be vertically integrated to make money, otherwise it's a handout to the materials science company. I can't see any of the AI companies stretching themselves that thin. So they give it away for goodwill or good PR.
by secabeen | 2025-11-30 17:26:57+00:00
> In <pick random developing nation that isn't too poor> a man who wants to construct a septic for a house pays a man with backhoe who understands the nuances to make it happen. Concrete and diesel are bought, etc, etc, etc. Let's say $5k USD added to GDP.

The piece you're missing is that the man has to pick between 10 indistinguishable men with backhoes, of which some unknown percentage are charlatans who will dig a hole, put some pipes in it, then disappear with the money. The original man will now have a puddle of human waste next to his house, no septic system, and be $20k poorer ($10k+ in cleanup, then $10k to someone to build an actual system).

Regulation ensures that the charlatans can't operate and that everyone who pays $10k for a septic system actually gets one that works for decades. This also protects the original man's neighbors who also suffer when his property develops a cesspool. Regulation also protects against well-meaning but incompetent operators, who are also common when regulation is weak or non-existent.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-30 17:27:39+00:00
> When SCOTUS found against the power company they sent a clear message that merely being a technical, safety-critical job was an insufficient basis to establish a need to test people for intelligence.

That's your interpretation. The court regarded the test used the power company as unrelated to the demands of the job. You're welcome to disagree with the court about that (as the company probably did), but don't misrepresent their actual position.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-30 17:27:43+00:00
I find it interesting how many sponsors run their own "advent of <x>". So far I've seen "cloud", "FPGA", and a "cyber security" one in the sponsors pages (although that last one is one I remember from last year).

I'm also surprised there are a few Dutch language sponsors. Do these show up for everyone or is there some kind of region filtering applied to the sponsors shown?
by michaelmrose | 2025-11-30 17:27:45+00:00
X11 is still in fact maintained to a degree insofar as minimally fixing bugs.

Last activity 2 hours ago at time of writing.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/xorg/-/activity

Most of the people complaining are users who don't write any software. There is no practical difficulty in using an x11 wm at this point nor expected to be until major software not only doesn't support x11 by default but cannot be built with support for same.

Maybe it will be difficult to run X in 2030?
by delichon | 2025-11-30 17:27:53+00:00
The central mythical figure in the novel is John Galt, a great inventor. What more critical piece of machinery could Rand have him contribute than an engine, the driver of the industrial revolution? It doesn't work to simply remove it from the plot. It would need to be replaced by something else, like Taggart's railroads, Rearden's steel or Roark's buildings.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-30 17:28:15+00:00
It smelled fishy right from the start.

It is obvious that energy to weight ratio is one of the most important characteristic of power banks. Reputable manufacturers will optimize for this, and if they are particularly good at it, they can ask for a premium.

If a generic powerbank beats the big names, sells for cheaper and is associated with a brand that has no reason to be associated with powerbanks, then it is very likely that the weight savings come from omitting something important rather than an optimized design. If the specs are true that is.
by auxym | 2025-11-30 17:28:33+00:00
I've had a lot of fun using Nim for AOC for many years. Once you're familiar with the language and std lib, its almost as fast to write as python, but much faster (Nim compiles to C, which then gets compiled to your executable). This means that sometimes, if your solution isn't perfect in terms of algorithmic complexity, waiting a few minutes can still save you (waiting 5 mins for your slow Nim code is OK, waiting 5 hours for your slow Python isn't really, for me). Of course all problems have a solution that can run in seconds even in Python, but sometimes it's not the one I figure out first try.

Downsides: The debugging situation is pretty bad (hope you like printf debugging), smaller community means smaller package ecosystem and fewer reference solutions to look up if you're stuck or looking for interesting alternative ideas after solving a problem on your own, but there's still quality stuff out there.

Though personally I'm thinking of trying Go this year, just for fun and learning something new.

Edit: also a static type system can save you from a few stupid bugs that you then spend 15 minutes tracking down because you added a "15" to your list without converting it to an int first or something like that.
by luqtas | 2025-11-30 17:29:05+00:00
this is still a technology advancement... what if smartphone usage or asleep safely stops the car? what if this run locally? or what if it's linked to public entities that will add penalty points to your license?

as a cyclist and public transport user with no driver license, i hope personal vehicles have so much sensors that they can detect if you are drunk or stressed and limit your reaches. fuck your metallic beetle
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-30 17:29:28+00:00
The Powell Memorandum (1971) explicitly building the case for business takeover of democracy (by in many ways undermining/sabotaging the public's belief in the United States as a government), for the record, was a decade old when Reagan was in office (1981).

The Powell Memorandum is famous for being incredible explicit, for the scope & scale of how and where it would seek to dominate and control the media and abuse courts, for example. But no, even 1971 was not the first business plot to takeover the government, to foment dissent to try to rip the nation apart & assert a capitalist / oligarchical government on/against these United States.

I agree the government has the obligation to maintain the trust of it's people. But my heavens, it is deeply woefully & sad that there is such a loud angry butter popular political party whose axis is revanchist hatred of the state. It's not grounded, it's not trying for better, it's not honest: it's a constant attack on the USA at all levels, and the party exists only because that is the only message most rich people will fund: the Powell Memorandum style plot to get rid of as much government as possible.

Reagan's words against the government are indeed old ideas. Part of a long scary tradition against the state.
by bionsystem | 2025-11-30 17:29:47+00:00
Overall it works well and I like the defaults, the work done is remarkable, and it's been a huge relief considering the shitshow that's Windows 11, and even an improvement from Windows 10 which I enjoyed for years, but it lacks a bit of polish I feel, depending on what you use it for. I don't blame anybody it's really hard work to maintain something like that and a lot of things are nice, but here are some annoyances :

- It doesn't shut down properly most of the time, I have to cut the power ; which I do anyway to go to sleep but sometimes I forget after I use it in the morning before going to work, and it stays with a black screen and the fan running all day

- There are a lot of updates, a few Gbs per week, and I have to type my password several times a week (even when logged in), I can't find how to change that

- Sometimes after an update I'll lose an icon or two, or some settings like scroll speed, etc ; not a huge deal but forces me to google around to get the setting back

- Lots of apps are in flatpacks or snaps, I could try some other repos or maybe nix/guix/pkgsrc but I would lose the appstore anyway so I might as well look around for something else

- Some things seem painful to setup, nvidia drivers, incus/lxc, zfs on root... NVidia was the most important and I managed to make it work well now but didn't bother with the rest
by jijijijij | 2025-11-30 17:30:15+00:00
The code will come out just fine, so your atrophied brain will remain dependent on OliCorp's parasocial prosthesis for strenuous thinking, dissolving wariness in experiences of super productivity. Then elsewhere, when plausible, OliCorp will progressively nudge you in some direction sold as predefined weight bonus to third party customers. You won't even notice and really, isn't it a fair price for all that productivity? Of course, AI isn't always right yet, but I'd say in a very practical 95% of cases your goals and expectations are in alignment with OliCorp AI.

Don't forget, every website and service monetized automated access as a consequence of the AI scraping boom and made unauthorized web-indexing impossible, traditional search dried off. And when OliCorp finally turned off access to their legacy index monopoly in favor of AI interfacing, you really have no choice but to trust your friendly chat buddy. Who else are you gonna ask for the fix? Former friends, your family or neighbors? People you've grown to hate because sympathetic local clustering is discouraged through four color divisive information shaping. I mean, those guys really are at fault for your lack of self-efficacy, the hate is warranted. And you're too tired to bother anyway.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-30 17:30:20+00:00
Anybody who imagines that the use of the term "free" in connection these resources/services means that they fall out of the sky should stay as far away from public policy decisions as possible.

I went to school (K-BS(c)) in the UK, and it was entirely normal to talk about that as "free", despite the fact that in dozens of conversations my parents would discuss the way in which their local taxes funded all of it, including my university education. People are not that stupid ...
by mock-possum | 2025-11-30 17:30:32+00:00
“A man looking to beat a dog will easily find a stick.”

There is no such thing as ‘giving the right ammo’ - they already have the gun, and they’re looking to use jt. They will easily find the ammo no matter what you do. No conservatives asshole is sitting around thinking “god I wish I had a way to bully other people but they just haven’t given me a good enough excuse yet.”
by rwmj | 2025-11-30 17:32:51+00:00
Are Linux /dev device paths (originating from Unix) really much better? They're a pretty odd feature if you think about it. "Everything is a file", except only certain things can be files and at least by convention they only appear under /dev. Plan 9 takes the everything is a file concept to its logical conclusion and is much better designed.

Edit: Also /dev/sdX paths in Linux are not stable. They can and do vary across boot, since Linux 5.6.
by quesera | 2025-11-30 17:32:52+00:00
You appear to be on some kind of crusade here. I don't understand it, or your goals or intentions.

We can agree that racism is stupid and boring. But it's still real, and has had a great deal of influence.

If you think I'm propping up Nazis by acknowledging that "WASP" and general white privilege exist, then well, all I can say is that we live on different comprehensive planets.
by ffuxlpff | 2025-11-30 17:33:00+00:00
We were read parts of it in kindergarten. I was fascinated by the desert, at the time I loved deserts, even if I saw one only as an adult. Two years later I borrowed it from the school library. My friends teased me because they thought it is girly. I read it and found a bit confusing and boring.

Later it got more popular and adults found all kinds of deep things. It was so sentimental I've never got back to the book if I hadn't read it first as a children's book. In my mid twenties I got my own copy from a girlfriend who saw me as a little prince.

Now about a week ago I reread it again. Well, you can find all kinds of things in it but I think you should read it as a kid first time.

Children need to learn a lot of things they understand only as adults. It builds a real connection to the stories and ideas. Adults cannot absorb new thoughts anymore. They try but it's too late.

Like if you haven't read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky first time at the age of say 16 or 18 you will never be an intellectual. You didn't get the right impulses at the time. You cannot built on shallow experiences you can have after the childhood and youth.
by secabeen | 2025-11-30 17:33:25+00:00
And do you know who is responsible for the increase in tuition at Georgia Tech? The legislature and governor of the state of Georgia. State appropriations for higher ed and the tuition rates at Georgia Tech are set exclusively by the state government and its appointees on the Board of Regents for the State University System, not by university administrators in any way.

https://www.usg.edu/regents/
by kgdiem | 2025-11-30 17:33:57+00:00
I agree with you in spirit but most people in the US look at college like job training. It’s literally advertised as job training on TV, buses and billboards. Teachers, parents, and media have long been seen as “the way” to get a job.

One of the most disappointing things about college was how little people cared about the liberal arts aspect, where humanities courses were an annoying box to tick.
by skybrian | 2025-11-30 17:34:24+00:00
Apparently it only gets away without annotations if the language doesn’t support subtyping? Here’s an explanation about why bidirectional type checking is better for that:

https://www.haskellforall.com/2022/06/the-appeal-of-bidirect...

It seems to me that type-checking that relies on global constraint-solving is usually a bad idea. Annotated function types result in less confusion about what a function does.
by distances | 2025-11-30 17:35:16+00:00
Yes, dist-upgrade was the biggest pain with the Ubuntu based KDE neon too. I'd wait for multiple months after a new version was published before I'd upgrade, and still would often encounter issues that broke the boot. I made sure to reserve at least half a day for each dist-upgrade -- multiple times I fixed issues with a bootable USB image and mounting the full-disk encrypted partition to fiddle something.

I was always able to recover with some insights from random forum or Reddit posts, but I can't say this was the type hacking I wanted to do.

I'm hoping a rolling release is easier in the long run, but we'll see. Also this time I used a separate SSD for /home so that at least I could do a full reinstall and still keep my data.
by dekhn | 2025-11-30 17:35:48+00:00
I'm confused by your statement "We can now see that NIH scientists that approve drugs are allowed to approve drugs where they have a patent and commercial interest in the drugs they are approving, which is mind-bendingly wild that level of corruption is allowed."

The NIH does not approve drugs. If you have a citation that I can read that clarifies this point, I'm happy to read it.
by mmphosis | 2025-11-30 17:36:11+00:00
It is either a fork or new software based on what a people really want or need. This is not an easy hill to climb.

Unfortunately, "configuration" is the survey. I detest both configuration and surveys. Modify the open source code and rip out the Artificial Inference code because Firefox is open source, or build software from scratch: servo, ladybird, your own web browser based on a survey.
by rig666 | 2025-11-30 17:36:32+00:00
Yes because all the teenagers reading Marxist works are well adjusted and based in reality.

It's humorous how debased from reality John roger's quote is. It doesn't challenge Rand's ideas it just insults it's readers. There's this stigma among her work as if it's dangerous, just like any other right wing idea. But reality is she only asks that one better themselves. She doesn't tell her readers to make a tort against another to right some perceived systematic wrong. Unlike many modernly accepted ideas her works have never been used to justify throwing people in the gulag, ethnic genocide,or insurrection. She tells one that you are not entitled to money, sleezy money grabs do not pay in the long run, and that being hardworking + innovative will payoff in the end.

Also Tokens works are now considered xenophobic and racist by many people as well because the orcs are portrayed as this dark evil race that invades this quent European landscape. so nothing really passes the purity test.
by lutusp | 2025-11-30 17:36:52+00:00
> [ .. ] Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting.

Only if the machine's BIOS is configured to give bootable USB devices boot-order priority. So it's not about Linux -- in fact, the same thing would happen on a Windows machine.

Remember that in a properly configured Linux install, the boot partition is identified by UUID, not hardware identifier (in /etc/fstab). Consequently if you change a drive's hardware connection point, the system still boots.
by joshtbradley | 2025-11-30 17:36:54+00:00
The problem is there isn’t an alternative for people who want one. I’m self educated and self employed, and yet I’m forced to pay for healthcare I don’t need, and compete against those with the pedigree of an Ivy League.

My issue is these things boil down to class. There should be a legitimate, high quality alternative for those who can’t afford it.
by varenc | 2025-11-30 17:36:56+00:00
That's not inconsistent with what I reported. It seems to require it sometimes, but not others, for mysterious reasons.

Are you and your colleague both trying at work? Probably on the same IP? Google might attribute less trust to an IP shared between many different users than it does to a regular residential internet IP (like mine).

Did some more testing and the behavior is interesting. When connecting through a Mullvad node in the US it doesn't require login, but any Mullvad node outside of the US and it does. I might be wrong its and it's just a per-country policy.
by DaveZale | 2025-11-30 17:37:13+00:00
"The authors noted that the distinction between reality and delusion can be complicated by the actual capabilities of modern technology. Real-world algorithms do track user behavior to serve targeted content. This can sometimes mimic the experience of having one’s mind read or being watched."

Do these researchers conducting this study know about cookies, browser fingerprinting and how data brokers operate? How about AI users injected into social media? I've seen two cases of temporary but disturbing delusions in extended family members who were using that really big social network that wants users to eventually have 5-15 "AI friends" - and my conclusion is that social media can be very hazardous to heavy users.
by andriamanitra | 2025-11-30 17:37:39+00:00
I think Ruby is the ideal language for AoC:

* The expressive syntax helps keep the solutions short.

* It has extensive standard library with tons of handy methods for AoC style problems: Enumerable#each_cons, Enumerable#each_slice, Array#transpose, Array#permutation, ...

* The bundled "prime" gem (for generating primes, checking primality, and prime factorization) comes in handy for at least a few of problems each year.

* The tools for parsing inputs and string manipulation are a bit more ergonomic than what you get even in Python: first class regular expression syntax, String#scan, String#[], Regexp::union, ...

* You can easily build your solution step-by-step by chaining method calls. I would typically start with `p File.readlines("input.txt")` and keep executing the script after adding each new method call so I can inspect the intermediate results.
by karmakaze | 2025-11-30 17:37:41+00:00
I put off replacing my phone for a long time too. When I finally did it wasn't a big deal. Basically getting a SIM for a temporary phone gives me phone/text that handles 2FA except for work that needs authenticator.

The unexpected thing when I put WhatsApp on the new phone was that old messages weren't readable. They needed to do a key exchange with other participant but it never seemed to ever render. That was about the biggest inconvenience. If I hadn't installed WhatsApp on the new phone, I could keep reading old messages on web app. So it's good to grab the info you need before taking that step.

Today I had breakfast by myself without any devices. I was just looking out the window at nature. Quite a different and refreshing experience. (Even as a kid I used to read and reread the cereal boxes at breakfast.)
by WXLCKNO | 2025-11-30 17:38:44+00:00
I'm running Truenas Scale on my old i7 3770 with 16GB DDR3.

Obviously got a bunch of datasets just for storage, one for time machine backups over the network and then dedicated ones for apps.

I'm using for almost all my self hosted apps.

Home Assistant, Plex, Calibre, Immich, Paperless NGX, Code Server, Pi-Hole, Syncthing and a few others.

I've got Tailscale on it and I'm using a convenience package called caddy-reverse-proxy-cloudflare to make my apps available on subdomains of my personal domain (which is on CloudFlare ) by just adding labels to the docker containers.

And since I'm putting the Tailscale address as the DNS entry on CloudFlare, they can only be accessed by my devices when they're connected to Tailscale.

I think at this point what's amazing is the ease with which I can deploy new apps if I need something or want to try something.

I can have Claude whip up a docker compose and deploy it with Dockge.
by encom | 2025-11-30 17:39:12+00:00
>Do not give in to the mirage of convenience.

I sympathise. However, being able to start de-icing my car while still in bed at 5:30 on a January morning is a powerful feature. And I'm the kind of person who wraps his tin foil hat no less than 10 layers thick.

Ideally this shouldn't involve the internet, because the car is in wifi range, but what can I do about it?
by bigyabai | 2025-11-30 17:39:25+00:00
Even apart from DHH's controversy, I was really puzzled by Framework's online hype-manning of Omarchy. As a consumer and Linux user it made me wary of the Framework brand and uncertain of the project's goals. Promoting a downstream niche project like that is cart-before-horse behavior, my next laptop will be a COTS machine until Framework can sort out their professional ambitions.
by wging | 2025-11-30 17:39:30+00:00
That 'digital tree' idea is similar to how AoC has always worked. There's a theme-appropriate ASCII graphic on the problem page that gains color and effects as you complete problems. It's not always a tree, but it was in 2015 (the first year), and in several other years at least one tree is visible. https://adventofcode.com/2015