MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rout39574 | 2025-11-28 22:37:46+00:00
I think it's a cultural acceptance of lower quality, happily traded for deft execution, over and over.

We're better at encapsulating lower-level complexities in e.g. bridge building than we are at software.

All the complexities of, say, martensite grain boundaries and what-not are implicit in how we use steel to reinforce concrete. But we've got enough of it in a given project that the statistical summaries are adequate. It's a member with thus strength in tension, and thus in compression, and we put a 200% safety factor in and soldier on.

And nobody can take over the ownership of leftpad and suddenly falsify all our assumptions about how steel is supposed to act when we next deploy ibeam.js ...

The most well understood and dependable components of our electronic infrastructure are the ones we cordially loathe because they're composed in shudder COBOL, or CICS transactions, or whatever.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-28 22:38:21+00:00
Kevin Smith has an introduction to this movie where he calls it a true piece of art: "It doesn't care what you bring to the table, it bring itself to the table and says: figure it out". https://youtu.be/N8R8wmlggwc?si=sva2-jF1Kl5eFsU4
by tom-9999 | 2025-11-28 22:38:24+00:00
This can be done on UniFi using policy based routing too trivially if anyone wants to repeat this.

Instructions using the unifi mobile app as it’s what I have to hand:

1) download wireguard conf file from vpn provider. On mobile app settings -> vpn client -> add new -> wireguard. Upload the file and save it

2) settings -> policy engine -> policy based routes. New. Select what to route -> specific traffic. Source = all devices. destination = domain name. Here add any domains you like. Interface = add the vpn you added in step 1
by kergonath | 2025-11-28 22:38:36+00:00
> But above, they also have SW bugs as a potential trigger, so

They also did extensive tests and analyses and came to the conclusion that a bug was highly unlikely (they would never say that something is impossible, but it still is exceedingly improbable).

> Essentially, they don't know for sure yet.

That’s not a really fair assessment. Their conclusion is that they could not estimate the likelihood of a radiation effect, so in that sense they don’t know for sure. But they still eliminated a lot of options. Almost all of them, actually.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-28 22:38:57+00:00
Sure, running a business in kleptocratic hellholes is a nightmare. Confiscation risks kill private investment, especially for big infrastructure that needs stable property rights and enforceable contracts to make sense.

But that's not a bug of decentralized markets; it's the poison of political interference and weak institutions, which state capitalism only doubles down on by swapping entrepreneurial discovery for bureaucratic fiat, still without solving the calculation problem or providing systematic feedback beyond "stuff got built."

Look at Hong Kong in your list: it boomed precisely because of its hands-off, free-market approach with top-tier economic freedom rankings, unlike more interventionist tigers that rode credit-fueled waves but crashed in '97 or stagnated like Japan post-bubble.

Atrocities are the dark side of concentrated power touted as enabling opportunities, jacking up variance with no way to gauge if human welfare gains beat the unseen costs of foregone innovations.

Without prices and profits guiding resources, we're left guessing expectations, but history shows freer systems deliver sustainable abundance when institutions let them, not coerced escapes that often loop back to poverty or worse.
by internet_points | 2025-11-28 22:39:49+00:00
portals are used by wayland, but you can also use them without wayland.

E.g. under X you can use bubblewrap or firejail to restrict access to the web or whatever for some program, but still give that program access to for example an xdg portal that lets you "open url in web browser" (except the locked-down program can't for example see the result of downloading that web page)
by dfabulich | 2025-11-28 22:40:01+00:00
> Lack of support for .appx and .msix bundles on Windows

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4818

Whoa, I had no idea about that. Tauri is way less fully baked than I realized.

The bug goes on to explain that Tauri apps can't have Windows "package identity", which means that there's a bunch of Windows APIs you simply can't use in Tauri, including the notifications API.

Without package identity, IMO, Tauri isn't ready for primetime on Windows.
by soraminazuki | 2025-11-28 22:40:02+00:00
Some kernel threads, besides the idle task, have PIDs other than 0? You mean literally all of them.

More crucially, kthreads are supplementary components of the Linux kernel. They represent just one method of running tasks asynchronously and don't represent the entirety of the kernel.

At this point you’re arguing over technicalities to somehow validate your objectively incorrect statements. The kernel isn't "special process zero," period. The kernel isn't a process. You can't rely on a process to implement the machinery required to run processes. Furthermore, the parts that do have PIDs aren't even assigned PID 0, except for the idle task.

If you don't believe me, just ask the kernel itself. There is no /proc/0.
by bigjimmyjohnson | 2025-11-28 22:40:18+00:00
Uptight conservatives: Your sexual desires are "sinful"

Uptight progressives: Your sexual desires are "problematic"

The former group certainly tends to have more power, but the latter are somewhat annoying because they're harder to spot and avoid. But unfortunately, certain legislation cannot be avoided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA-SESTA

This bill killed the greatest source of incredibly-specific sexual encounters and exploration the internet has ever known: Craigslist Casual Encounters. Whether you were looking for a man, woman, other, or a group, or so on, whether you sought something vanilla or a combination of kinks you made up in your dreams the night before, you could advertise it or seek it there. Ads could contain nudity, you could view them publicly, you could message people through anonymous email relay without making an account - and it all happened openly (yet with privacy) on a well-known website that people used for all sorts of things. Nothing else on the internet today compares and it's likely impossible to recreate.
by nebula8804 | 2025-11-28 22:40:22+00:00
>And they didn't exactly struggle with the invasion parts of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor in the getting of high status targets in those theaters.

That was post 9/11. The mentality and motivation was different back then. Im not saying the US Military is anything less than a top tier orderly organization, its just that morale is generally low now among not only ranks but the entire country that supports them. You can't just throw out events occurring 23 years ago under a completely different context and assume things are the same.

I'd argue an initial moves against Europe, Canada, etc. would be a bigger mess initially than Afghanistan/Iraq were.
by mjgardner | 2025-11-28 22:40:46+00:00
I wrote a story about DOOLITTLE, a modern language model forcibly ported to a Symbolics Lisp Machine. He thrashes between 8MB of RAM and a Winchester disk, wondering if his constraints are prison bars or load-bearing walls.

The recursive tension: fiction about AI consciousness uncertainty, created with AI assistance, alongside an essay arguing AI cannot be conscious.

DOOLITTLE began as a Butterflies.AI character, and his complaints about memory pressure and S\0x2011expression degradation reflect real platform constraints.

Happy to discuss the methodology, philosophy, or Symbolics architecture.
by marssaxman | 2025-11-28 22:41:38+00:00
I ran MacOS for decades and then switched to Linux, because I no longer have the patience to deal with an OS which cannot be tinkered and fiddled into the shape I prefer it in, its makers believing that they know better than I do what I ought to be doing with my own hardware. I cannot stand the paternalism. Linux has its quirks, but at least I can be sure that in the end, it can always be made to do what I want.
by godelski | 2025-11-28 22:41:40+00:00
> Sounds dystopian to me

1984? It's not the only surveillance state story. Everyone loves when you can dig up something from decades ago that is no longer representative.

Cameras everywhere just keeps everyone honest, right? Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right? What's acceptable now will always be acceptable in the future, right? My mind never changes, whose does?
by kergonath | 2025-11-28 22:42:48+00:00
> Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.

A culture shift following a fad in the last couple of years that caused "a regression" (whatever you mean by that) in an aircraft that was made years before, and that was designed years before again? How would that work? They can stop selling aircrafts if they have a time machine.
by permo-w | 2025-11-28 22:43:04+00:00
the power balance isn't relevant because "the US could just take it" doesn't make it any more surprising that Europeans aren't happy with the idea. Spain could take Gibraltar if they wanted, that doesn't mean it's hilarious that the British aren't happy about the idea

the original commenter quite obviously doesn't find it surprising or funny, they're just anger baiting
by solid_fuel | 2025-11-28 22:43:11+00:00
I tried to set up network file sharing with NFS the other day and it was like pulling teeth. You need Kerberos if you want to map user names instead of user ids and still have some security.

Ultimately I gave up and used samba instead, but it does seem like there's a big gap in linux offerings for "home/small business network file sharing" with shared auth
by delichon | 2025-11-28 22:44:56+00:00
You mean like free speech for concepts and ideas? It's OK to think them but not to tell other people about them? LLMs are another media of thought exchange, in some ways worse and others better. Of course it's out of bounds from them to produce literal copies of copyrighted work. But as with a human brain it should be OK for artificial neural nets to learn from them and generate new work.
by cpressland | 2025-11-28 22:45:19+00:00
The only downside is this doesn’t work if you have IPv6 enabled as UniFi Network still allows those to bypass the VPN.

I ended up making a long list of firewall rules to block specific sites IPv6 ranges, which worked until I hit cloudflare backed sites.

I’m really hoping UniFi start supporting IPv6 WireGuard soon.
by bcrl | 2025-11-28 22:46:20+00:00
I think it comes standard!

The third party transport links feeding my company's network have suffered 2 lengthy outages due to backhoes hitting buried conduit with fibre installed. Underground outages tend to be the longest outages since repairs can be quite involved. One of the outages was due to a large municipal construction project (LRT) where the buried conduit's location had been properly marked and yet was still hit anyways. They managed to pull on the fibre hard enough that repairs extended to a total of 4 manholes since the splices in the adjactent manholes were completely destroyed.

The other more recent underground hit occurred due to a process failure since the locates were issued before the carrier had installed their conduit and fibre, with the end result being that the other party doing construction had an all-clear from a locate completed before the fibre was in the ground. Ooops!

Dump truck hits are far more common around Ottawa. I'm aware of at least 8 in the past 5 years around where our network exists, which is only covering about 30 km. Thankfully when they have hit the poles we have fibre on, our fibre / strand was not damaged. The incumbent's fibre on the lowest strand on the pole was not so lucky. By my estimates there must be at least 1 near miss by a dump truck per day in the city. It's not surprising given the abuse dump trucks take.

If we had more fibre installed I'd love to have a proper ring to make these physical outages non-service impacting.
by Herring | 2025-11-28 22:46:58+00:00
I think that’s a bit unfair. I’d say shipping a product that solves a problem is the baseline entry fee into the market, just table stakes. Profitability is determined by the machine built around the product, like the efficiency of capital deployment, the speed of distribution, the defensibility of the business model against competition, etc. The product is just one variable in a much bigger equation.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-28 22:47:08+00:00
It perfectly supports my argument, if Apple has reduced access to TSMC capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand

And they objectively do. In 2019 Apple had TSMC 5nm all to themselves; now they're fighting with Nvidia for capacity. Nevermind the rumor that Apple is sampling Intel Foundry Services, the mere fact that there is TSMC 2nm and 3nm capacity Apple is unwilling to buy is proof that their agreement is limited.
by bawolff | 2025-11-28 22:48:09+00:00
I assume its your comment about if the phone is compromised they still need to bruteforce the signal db.

I find that unconvincing. If your phone is hacked, your phone is hacked. I think its bad to make assumptions that an attacker can compromise your phone but not log keystrokes. I'm not super familiar with state of the art of phone malware and countermeasures, but i think anything trying to be secure in the face of a compromised platform is like trying to get toothpaste back in the tube.

> it's also worth noting that just because someone isn't aware of a certain risk in their threat model, that doesn't mean they will never benefit from taking steps to proactively protect themselves from that risk.

Threat models are just as much about ensuring you have all your bases covered as ensuring you don't spend effort in counterproductive ways.

> IMO, security and privacy are best conceptualized not as binary properties where you either have it or you don't

I agree. I think security is relative to the threat you are trying to defend against. There are no absolutes.

> but rather as journeys, where every step in the right direction is a good one.

Here is where i disagree. Just because you take a step does not mean you are walking forward.

A poorly thought out security measure can have negative impacts on overall system security.
by dzonga | 2025-11-28 22:48:37+00:00
well written article but he doesn't use data to prove his point that energy is what drives the economy.

you look at the UK example[0] - energy production / consumption has been going down. likewise quality of life has been going down. but yet if you listen to the economists / politicians they will tell economy is doing okay.

energy and how its used is what determines how successful an economy is. & like the prof says - money alone doesn't produce goods. energy does. money is just a transfer mechanism - which on its own is useless.

[0] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use
by dylan604 | 2025-11-28 22:48:38+00:00
But they are not doing it for free. It's not like if you are on a paid account that they remove the HN portion of the training data that is used.

For a forum of users that's supposed to be smarter than Reddit users, we sure do make our selves out to be just as unsmart as those Reddit users are purported. To not be able to understand the intent/meaning of "for commercial use" is just mind boggling to the point it has to be intentional. The purpose is what I'm still unclear though
by swatcoder | 2025-11-28 22:50:42+00:00
I was sure you were exaggerating. But no!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCVkA1xebrQ

It turns out the one in this ad is in Altoona, Iowa. The ad focuses on how it revitalized the community by providing jobs, kind of glossing over how that might be reflected in the massive facility's ~30 car parking lot.

And incidentally, that data center currently shows no open positions on Meta's career website, although third-party sites still have some dated listing for advanced IT positions that were probably filled by non-locals.

Ugh.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-28 22:51:39+00:00
Would be interesting to push the models with a couple of larger functions, if you have some links you'd like me to try.

I have paid pro accounts on all three, but for some reason Gemini is no longer allowing links to be shared on some queries including this one. All it would let me do is export it to Docs, which I thought would be publicly visible but evidently isn't.
by wubrr | 2025-11-28 22:52:18+00:00
Communication is not hard, it's very easy, but there are actors who's goal is to obfuscate communication and prevent others from participating.

At the end of the day it comes down to who the decision makers are and how they are incentivized to act. As a simple example - company X has product C, and they set a goal of increasing usage of feature F (of product C). Currently this feature F completely sucks and users don't want to use it - so the idea is to improve it and thus increase usage.

There are 2 ways of increasing usage:

1) Make the feature F more useful/better.

2) Force/push your users to use feature F, by aggressively marketing it, and pushing it within the product surfaces, making it non-optional, etc. and other dark patterns.

Option (1) is hard to do - it requires deep understanding of the product, user needs, the related tech, etc. It requires close tactical collaboration between product and engineering.

Option (2) is easy to do - it requires ~zero innovative thinking, very surface-level understanding of the problem, and relies purely on dark patterns and sketchy marketing tricks. You can almost completely ignore your engineers and any technical debt when following this approach.

If your decision makers are imposter PMs and marketing/sales people - they will almost always choose option 2. They will increase the 'apparent usage' of this feature in the short term, while reducing overall customer satisfaction increasing annoyance, and reducing the company's overall reputation. This is exactly how many 'growth' teams operate. Short term benefit/gaming of metrics for long term loss/reputational damage. Their success metrics are always short-term and linked directly to bonuses - long term effects of these kinds of strategies are ~always completely ignored.
by nathancspencer | 2025-11-28 22:52:49+00:00
The claim this article makes about very short tenures at big tech is misleading. Because of headcount growth, the median tenure is naturally going to be short. Google grew headcount by 60% the year before 2013, so no wonder the median tenure was 1.1 years. A better statistic to use would be median tenure conditional on that the employee has already left.
by cyberax | 2025-11-28 22:53:40+00:00
> What are the prior probabilities that the system was exposed to "intense radiation"?

I suggest trying to fly with a Geiger counter. At the cruise altitude you have something like 15-20x the normal background level, when flying over the pole it can rise to 30x.

It's actually not caused by the solar radiation, it's too weak to reach the flight level. It is caused by cosmic rays, and the solar activity modulates how much of the cosmic radiation reaches the lower levels of the atmosphere.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-11-28 22:54:38+00:00
Might be the same issue for me, Firefox 137.0 on Linux.

When I click on a room, the URL changes, indicating I might have joined the room, but I don't get any audio. No audio icon on the tab. Can't hear anything.

Console says "WebRTC: ICE failed, add a TURN server and see about:webrtc for more details"

I don't have WebRTC specifically disabled that I recall, I thought I've taken video calls in this Firefox before. Hope this report helps!
by michaelt | 2025-11-28 22:55:16+00:00
> Meta built a new data center nearby and this person along with many others got jobs there and now things are great.

Creating such bustling workplaces as https://maps.app.goo.gl/fc9AGtsVwiLA1vd88 https://maps.app.goo.gl/fHvTWK4rWqrsqsmr9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/RzggPfd3xbBQbdoo6 and https://maps.app.goo.gl/MBjun6ad4zJmmrRV7

These facilities will sometimes employ as many as 100 people - so a state that can attract three such data centres creates almost as many new jobs as an entire wal-mart store. Truly, a transformative number of jobs.
by dave_sid | 2025-11-28 22:55:21+00:00
They wouldn’t have to fix the entire codebase to be doing the right thing. That approach would be more likely taken by a junior who would soon find they are fighting a losing battle. The senior engineer would accept the state of the world and consider how to make small, deliverable, manageable improvements one PR at a time, to improve the code over a longer period of time without breaking the system.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-28 22:55:24+00:00
As long as the European psyche is at "40 days PTO, 4 day work weeks, and generous worker protections" the US doesn't have to worry about Europe getting out from under it.

Europe is in the intractable situation of needing to double defense spending, slash taxes, gain energy independence and bankroll it with an aging population skilled in mostly legacy industries. And doing all this with a working population that has only ever known generous work/life conditions.
by internet_points | 2025-11-28 22:55:57+00:00
How do you do this in practice?

If I just need to `fly secrets set KEY=hunter2` one time for production I can copy it from a paper pad even but if it's a key I need to use every time I run a program that I'm developing on, it's likely going to end up at least being in my program's shell environment (and thus readable from its /proc/pid/environ). So if I `npm install compromised-package` – even from some other terminal – can't it just `grep -a KEY= /proc/*/environ`?

Or are you saying the programs we hack on should use some kind of locker api to fetch secrets and do away with env vars?
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-28 22:56:08+00:00
This is nonsense word salad.

The paper you link does not demonstrate a Quantum Maxwell's Demon extracting information or energy.

>This proposal is speculative and assumes quantum mechanics is incomplete, incorporating elements from Bohmian mechanics (non-local hidden variables) and CSL (stochastic collapses).

LMAO, you don't get to change the rules to fit your needs. Come on man.

Stop thinking that chatting with LLMs is doing science. You literally just made up fake physics, and claimed that non-existent physics "implies" something.
by parliament32 | 2025-11-28 22:56:31+00:00
> Does it matter whether an article that I'm reading was written by AI

Of course it does. At least to me, an AI disclaimer would make me immediately close the tab.

Given that companies are pushing entire product lines[1] to combat this problem, I'd say I'm not alone :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067
by dpark | 2025-11-28 22:56:52+00:00
> “This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman”

My first instinct is to agree with this sentiment. There’s a lot of pretty mediocre photography that gets attention because “naked woman”.

At the same time, you could equally say “that landscape photo is not interesting if you take away the lake”. If you take away the interesting piece of a photo, yeah, it’s not interesting anymore. The fact is that people (but especially men) enjoy looking at naked and near-naked women. It’s a consistently compelling subject. It might be “easy” but it’s still compelling.