MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-23 21:13:54+00:00
No. Divorce ruins the lives of the kids. Look at the statistics. The outcome and financial damage and emotional damage is horrid.

The problem is more that it’s normalized. I think the normalization is wrong. Similar to how North Korea normalized poverty. Marriage should be taken seriously and divorce is extremely serious. The fact that you think of it as nothing is whats out of touch.
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-23 21:14:27+00:00
>Does it magically prove I’m making a bad salary if I can’t afford my employer’s product?

Yes, if the entire premise of your employer is "here's the cheapest hot food imaginable".

>Is a five star general making a bad salary because he can’t afford a nuclear submarine?

No, because the entire premise of the military is not "here's the cheapest nuclear submarine imaginable".

What a ridiculous strawman you set up, although you swung pretty earnestly at it, Mr. Quixote.

A better example would be Walmart, whose entire premise is "we sell the cheapest goods imaginable". Despite this, a lot of Walmart (and McaDonald's employees, actually) are on government assistance. If you have a justification for why there should ever be a society where someone working at a job that boasts "we have the cheapest shit" still can't afford their job's cheap shit, then please, be my guest.
by notahacker | 2025-11-23 21:15:38+00:00
> Whose consensus? Can you back up that claim with some links?

I mean even the people who conceived speed-based tests defined intelligence broadly as “the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment” (Weschler), which aligns with other dictionary and colloquial definitions and scientists with broader interests than psychometrics, and of course daily arguments on here about whether neural networks have achieved general intelligence which focus on their performance on benchmarks humans struggle to pass, not their processing speed or token memory. Psychometricians' focus on speed for actual metrics is driven by expediency (and the belief that batteries of simple speed tests correlate well with the ability to learn to perform more complex tasks to exceptionally high levels) rather than because they think peak intellectual ability is characterised exclusively by rapid puzzle solving. Needless to say genius is defined even more in terms of accomplishment and insightfulness, which is why lists of geniuses are dominated by scientists and creatives who conceived things their peers couldn't (some of which give even grad students with an interest in the subject headaches trying to understand when being walked through it), not people who are particularly fast at solving simple puzzles.

Sure, 150 IQ people mostly just answer more questions within a time limit than 120 IQ people on some types of test, which is a function of processing speed and prioritization, but there are absolutely people who score low because they can't grasp what half the questions are looking for no matter how much time they're given. Not all of them are on the left side of the distribution, and some tests like Raven's APM give very similar rankings when taken untimed. And there are definitely plenty of smart people who couldn't say, solve Fermat's last theorem, despite being exceptional in their knowledge of mathematics and ability to solve related problems and being interested enough to try.

I think we both agree there's a tendency of people to fetishise extreme intelligence without realising that not only can you possess it and not do anything useful with it (and possess it and have massive flaws in some areas of judgement), but you can also solve pretty significant problems without be notably special in metrics related to it. Also agree that obviously IQ is a constructed scale that doesn't capture absolute differences and for this and many other reasons distinctions over 145 are pretty meaningless. But I think that aligns pretty well with "maybe psychometricians really don't know what makes exceptionally smart people exceptionally smart"...

(As for Bolt/Kipchoge, 'massive outlier' is a matter of perspective, but the amount of competition their best time is >1% faster than, selected from a pool of highly motivated full time professionals which in turn comes from a pool of millions who attempted sprint races at some point in their youth, is a point in their favour.)
by ryandrake | 2025-11-23 21:15:56+00:00
This is an unpopular opinion here, but I think in general the whole "immunity for third-party content" thing in 230 was a big mistake overall. If you're a web site that exercises editorial control over the content you publish (such as moderating, manually curating, algorithmically curating, demoting or promoting individual contents, and so on), then you have already shown that you are the ones controlling the content that gets published, not end users. So you should take responsibility for what you publish. You shouldn't be able to hide behind "But it was a third party end user who gave it to me!" You've shown (by your moderation practices) that you are the final say in what gets posted, not your users. So you should stand behind the content that you are specifically allowing.

If a web site makes a good faith effort to moderate things away that could get them in trouble, then they shouldn't get in trouble. And if they have a policy of not moderating or curating, then they should be treated like a dumb pipe, like an ISP. They shouldn't be able to have their cake (exercise editorial control) and eat it too (enjoy liability protection over what they publish).
by gjm11 | 2025-11-23 21:15:59+00:00
Could you name a specific person whose estimate of when we might get AGI has doubled twice since 2022? Or do you mean you found one person with a really short estimate in 2022, another person with a longer one in 2024, and another with a longer one now?

Also, if you compare with 50 years ago, AGI has also (better than) halved the interval experts are commonly predicting since then.

(Of course the experts could turn out to be hilariously wrong, for fusion or AI or both. I just don't think your comparison is anything like apples-to-apples.)
by hurricanepootis | 2025-11-23 21:16:04+00:00
> I also had a similar problem a while back. Some speedtests showed more bandwidth than I could get in regular HTTPS downloads. I could get multiple downloads running at the same time that in total added up to the expected speed

Yes, this is behavior I am seeing on my end too. On Arch Linux, I enabled parallel downloads for updates via pacman. Whenever updating my system, I can saturate my connection, but as soon as I get down to one huge package, like wallpapers or rocm-llvm, the download speed for that package is only 8 MB/s.
by huhkerrf | 2025-11-23 21:16:48+00:00
> After Musk bought Twitter, Davis and his wife, Nicole Hollander, slept in the San Francisco headquarters of the Twitter office with their one-month-old child while they helped Musk cut the social media company to the bone. Once, according to a Musk biographer, they spent a Christmas Eve helping Musk move data servers.

From the linked Politico story.

This is just sad. I cannot begin to understand what motivates someone to do this. Sending people to the moon, curing cancer, sure. But sacrificing so much to fire people from a social media company?
by gus_massa | 2025-11-23 21:16:50+00:00
I agree. I remember very few bugs caused by the rewrite, but I don't remember recent ones.

For example, I found a bug running the tests of the r7rs package, it was simplified to a bug in "plain" Racket and later fixed, 3 days after the initial report. It was in June 2019 https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/2675 Note that at that time, the default version of Racket was he old one (before the rewrite).
by csmoak | 2025-11-23 21:16:58+00:00
The main benefit I see is being able to more accurately represent different light sources. This applies to transmission but also reflectance.

sRGB and P3, what most displays show, by definition use the D65 illuminant, which approximates "midday sunlight in northern europe." So, when you render something indoors, either you are changing the RGB of the materials or the emissive RGB of the light source, or tonemapping the result, all of which can approximate other light sources to some extent. Spectral rendering allows you to better approximate these other light sources.
by dkdcio | 2025-11-23 21:17:33+00:00
2 points:

1) downvotes: you’re the one insinuating HN commenters (and presumably voters) are idiots; I’m not sure that I should care if I’m downvoted while correct. and regardless, doesn’t seem like I’m very downvoted (rather the opposite) so not sure what your point is. try making one next time!

2) freedom of speech: lol! I just want to point out I had no fucking clue that’s what you were angling for before. rather than launch into attacks as you do, I actually try to understand things. this argument doesn’t concern me at all, I was worried I wasn’t aware of something in the constitution you’d brilliantly raise

we are beyond having a conversation at this point, but if you actually raised your arguments against banning digital advertisement (freedom of speech and ??? solving real-world problems is hard?) I would have debated them on their merits, you troll
by graemep | 2025-11-23 21:17:46+00:00
What if an American company delivered it? American companies already control the platforms the apps will run on (so they you cannot secure it against them). On top of that the server side will probably run on an American owned platform too.

As fir the economic benefit that implies rejecting the idea that free trade is better, which is a fundamental assumption made by western governments.

I actually would like to see it happen, but one aspect is pointless without wider tech sovereignty, and the other would require a revolution to be accepted as a reasonable argument.
by wahern | 2025-11-23 21:17:49+00:00
Using the app a small soda at McDonald's is ~$1 ($1.14 near me, but that may include the SF soda tax). Less than $2 for a large for those beckoning diabetes.

But soda is definitely cheaper elsewhere, and drinks, even soda, are usually a profit center for almost any restaurant, but a loss leader at grocery stores. I remember in the mid 1990s when Coca-Cola and then Pepsi were trying to stem the tide of a decline in sales. They drastically lowered prices through certain channels, particularly grocery stores and, most memorably, vending machines outside grocery stores, where the price dropped from $0.50-$0.75 to $0.25 for a 12oz can. Almost overnight poor and working class people switched from cheaper alternatives like Kool-Aid (which was healthier--much less sugar!) to Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

I agree the app is exceptionally inconvenient, unless someone else in the car is ordering, as well as privacy intrusive. But my point is merely that McDonald's is trying to cater to price-sensitive consumers without taking a hit to their revenue, and doing so more effectively than any other fast food chain.
by carlos_marcial | 2025-11-23 21:18:00+00:00
Yes, of course I used an LLM for the response, but not just any LLM. I used an instance of ChatRAG that has all the ChatRAG documentation built into it. I’m a solo developer trying to build software, do the marketing, handle customer support, and also be a dad and a husband. Of course I’m going to use my own product to help me out. This is precisely why I know ChatRAG is good, I use it myself daily.

That said, let me clarify the points you raised. On "freshly curated each turn rather than accumulated": this is actually the correct behavior, though I can see how the phrasing was confusing. The key is that conversation history and RAG context are two different things. The full conversation history... all previous user and assistant message... is always passed to the model without truncation. But the retrieved document chunkz are a separate layer. Those get requeried based on the current message and injected into the system prompt fresh each turn. Previous RAG results dont accumulate, they are replaced with whatever is most relevant to the current query.

Why this design? Say you ask about 'Q3 revenue' and then follow up with 'What about employe benefits?' If the system accumulated chunks, you'd have Q3 revenue data polluting the context when you're now asking about something completely different. Fresh retrieval ensures the context stays relevant to what you're actually asking about right now.

On tool-based retrieval: the system does have this through MCP integration. Query classification detects when tools are needed (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Zapier, etc.) and routes accordingly. The model receives both the RAG context and access to tools, so it can use document knowledge and execute external actions within the same response when needed

Let me know if you have any other questions. I’ll be more than happy to answer, with the help of my ChatRAG instance, any other doubts you may have !
by crnkofe | 2025-11-23 21:18:19+00:00
Gotta say the article hits the right notes. I'm one of the peeps thinking about whether I actually still need Windows. I'm not a power user of office and photoshop. I could in fact live with various online office-alike suites or Linux Libre office. I also no longer need a particular piece of software that only runs on Windows. The HW I have is well supported on Linux nowadays. The only real reason for still running it is games and most of those I still play run crossplatform in large-part due to Steam. The new features being announced sound like a MS board-cooked joke. Agentic OS? For who? Secretaries? Small businesses that need local AI crawlers to find - what - 3y old invoice? I don't get it. And lets not forget their plans to turn the octopus into a subscription-based model which to me sounds horrific and likely the final step to purging it off my machines. Still a good choice for non-tech-savvy users and for users forced into it due to OS-exclusive software. Hopefully not for long though. More competition in the space should hopefully spur some innovation.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-23 21:19:02+00:00
"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests."

- Apple addressing Senator Wyden's accusation of Push Notification backdoors (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...)

“At Apple, we are always working to defend our users against even the most complex cyberattacks. The steps we’re taking today will send a clear message: in a free society, it is unacceptable to weaponise powerful state-sponsored spyware against those who seek to make the world a better place,”

- Quote from Apple's head of security engineering on the lawsuit Apple eventually dismissed against NSO Group (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/23/apple-sue...)

"The app in question is called “LassPass Password Manager” and lists Parvati Patel as the developer. The app attempts to copy our branding and user interface..."

- Lastpass telling users that a trojan horse broke through Apple's manual review process (https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...)
by sph | 2025-11-23 21:19:34+00:00
Probably like MX Linux, which has, for some reason, topped the Distrowatch popularity list for years in front of Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Debian. Strangely enough, CachyOS seems to have adopted the same strategy and it's now first place on that site.

I've been using Linux since 2001, and I honestly I find it funny how these niche flashy distros are popular with the new generations. Probably because newbies follow the screenshots and /r/unixporn posts, instead of caring about support, mind share and governance. Except Arch, because it's both a really good distro and a symbol for cool h4x0r edgelords, so it's where everybody seems to land after playing with the niche distros like Zorin until they inevitably become unsupported.

Rock-solid distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora don't have that "cool" factor so noobs don't even consider them, even though under the hood it's all the same, and on day 2 you just want something that works, rather than something that looks good on a Reddit post.

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You know Linux has gone mainstream when baby's first distro Zorin has a privacy policy and terms of service page, as it's published by a for-profit company.
by stoccupied | 2025-11-23 21:19:40+00:00
It's just a daily puzzle website (plus the ability to go back up to a week for old puzzles) but for regex. I think I've worked out most of the kinks but if you find any issues let me know. You don't need to make an account to play, I just added that for score tracking if you want. There's a how to play button at the top but if the instructions are confusing, let me know! I'm open to any kind of feedback! I don't think the puzzles are too hard (even the "hard" ones) so it should be good practice for some basic regex.
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-11-23 21:19:44+00:00
> I've known I was gay since high school, probably even earlier, but I kept choosing whatever seemed like the easiest path.

Just so you know, you're not alone here. Mine was a bit different (gender related) but the causes are essentially the same: I just kept choosing whatever path was easiest instead of facing what I was actually feeling. It made me fabulously "successful" at life and I had everything that you would expect to come along: wife, kid, big house, fancy job. It's a hard feeling to reconcile - being so successful in what most of society would say you should be ... and yet still so miserable.

So, I see you. <3
by ianopolous | 2025-11-23 21:20:19+00:00
You might be interested in Peergos [0][1] (creator here) which has official Linux apps, is E2EE, fully open source (including the server), and self-hostable. It's also recommended by privacy guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cloud/#peergos

[0] https://peergos.org

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos
by damieng | 2025-11-23 21:20:22+00:00
I also went with an Xfinity cable and Frontier fibre combo in about 2018 I think.

I just bought a Synology RT2600 router at the time and plugged each provider in then set it to load balanced.

Reliability and speeds were great. Possibly not as optimised as this perf wise but a lot easier to setup.
by fragmede | 2025-11-23 21:24:09+00:00
maybe you’re doing something different from everyone else or your expectations are too high, but three finger swiping to move between spaces on macOS should feel smooth and buttery. There's a 200 millisecond lag after you switch spaces and when your input gets rendered (it starts accepting input in the new space as soon as you switch) that, if you're staring at that and focusing on that, watching it like a hawk, exists, but if you can get over that, Spaces/virtual desktops is a useful feature. The whole screen needing to rerender shouldn't be happening. What apps (or more likely, your IT department) are you running?
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-23 21:24:10+00:00
> What would you say is the threat model that leads one to auto-encrypt sdcards?

Jumping off of daemonologist's point, the most convincing model I could think of is one where you are consistently removing the SD Card, likely because you are swapping multiple SD cards back and forth. But this still seems bad! In that case your multiple SD cards all share the same decryption key (or I guess less egregiously all at least share the same physical vulnerability of that device's nonvolatile memory).

> For a machine that needs to boot unattended, what would you do with disk decryption keys?

This depends entirely on what you mean by unattended. Here's some candidates:

1. The machine has a network connection and you would like to boot it over the network. In that case you have a small unencrypted bit that handles the boot sequence and then pass the decryption key over the wire, store in volatile memory, and wipe on shutdown or logout.

2. The machine is regularly serviced/booted by an in-person operator. You give the decryption key or passphrase to the operator to decrypt and boot the machine.

3. The machine is meant to autonomously reboot itself due to e.g. error conditions. In extreme cases when the machine detects that there is a large probability of physical compromise, it shuts down. In this case for the former I would imagine some power supply, e.g. a backup battery, that keeps the volatile memory up when rebooting and in case of large probability of physical compromise there is a forced shutdown and/or wipe of the volatile memory.

4. An operator needs to periodically boot up the machine, but the operator should not be able to access any previous data the machine has recorded (data from the moment operator arrives forward is assumed leaked to the operator because e.g. the operator can just position their own sensor in front of the machine and collect data). In that case asymmetric encryption should be used and the encryption keys should be stored on the machine, but the decryption keys should not, effectively turning the machine into a write-only device from the operator's perspective.

The only case I could imagine where you want the machine to boot unattended and you'd keep the decryption keys in nonvolatile memory on the device is if you want an operator to be able to boot the device without knowledge of the decryption key and also to be able to view historical data previously recorded by the device. But in that case there is no functional difference between that and a device that is unencrypted! In both cases you boot up the device without a password and voila all the data is in front of you ready to be read! And indeed that's basically what happened here (modulo the difficulties associated with the device being damaged). And in that case encryption seems like pure overhead for no real security benefit.
by rafabulsing | 2025-11-23 21:24:23+00:00
Even that, I don't think is entirely true. I'm pretty sure they use signals as implicit as how long you took to scroll past an autoplaying video, or if you even hovered your mouse pointer over the video but ultimately didn't click on it.

Same with friends, even if you have the exact same friends, if you message friend A more than friend B, and this otherwise identical account does the opposite, than the recommendation engine will give you different friend-related suggestions.

Then there's geolocation data, connection type/speeds, OS and browser type, account name (which, if they are real names such as on Facebook, can be used to infer age, race, etc), and many others, which can also be taken into account for further tailoring suggestions.

You can say that, oh, but some automated system that sent the exact same signals on all these fronts would end up with the same recommendations, which I guess is probably true, but it's definitely not reasonable. No two (human) users would ever be able to achieve such state for any extended period of time.

That's why we are arguing that only explicit individual actions should be allowed into these systems. You can maybe argue what would count as an explicit action. You mention adding friends, I don't think that should count as an explicit action for changing your content feed, but I can see that being debated.

Maybe the ultimate solution could be legislation requiring that any action that influences recommendation engines to be explicitly labeled as such (similar to how advertising needs to be labeled), and maybe require at least a confirmation prompt, instead of working with a single click. Then platforms would be incentivized to ask as little as possible, as otherwise confirming every single action would become a bit vexing.