MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 20:29:21+00:00
> even though newspaper articles prior to the elimination intimated it wouldn't be due to their "both sides" style of reporting.

No idea what you're talking about here. This isn't a left-vs-right issue, and journalism gave the concerns approximately the attention they merited.

> It's indicative of the current US administration that they managed to screw this up despite many examples world wide of how to do it properly.

No, it's indicative of problems uniquely caused by existing American governance and law. When we did it, we didn't have an issue analogous to the one with SNAP payments described throughout the thread, because our welfare programs don't work that way and our legal code isn't designed to enable the same kind of future pedantry. Besides which, the Biden and Obama administrations (and others before them) didn't even attempt this as far as I'm aware, despite that the US penny being costly for quite some time. (As far as I can tell, the current cost is mostly not due to the cost of the base metal, which is almost all zinc since 1982. Checking commodity prices and doing some back of the envelope math, switching back to copper would cost them an additional two cents per penny.)
by axiolite | 2025-11-12 20:29:28+00:00
> Just show the price including tax.

With a tax rate as precise as 1000ths of a percent in many jurisdictions*, you'd need extreme precision on the price tag (e.g. $11.798625), OR you need to substantially overcharge for tax (rounding up the tax to the penny or nickel on each individual item, instead of on the total of ALL items).

And sales tax rates can even be different from ONE CITY BLOCK TO THE NEXT.

* Arizona: 10.725% Hawaii: 4.712% Minnesota: 7.875% etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...
by nemothekid | 2025-11-12 20:29:30+00:00
While I think the problem highlighted in the article is a longstanding problem for Rust[1], I don't think the example, or finalizers was the problem with Futurelock as described by Oxide.

I'm not sure you can write a simple example in Python, because Rust's future's architecture and Python's is different. `futurelock` is an issue of cancellation safety which is a stranger concept (related to finalizers, but not in the way OP has described).

Personally, I think `tokio::select!` is dangerous and I don't use it my code - it's very easy to deadlock yourself or create weird performance issues. I think the interface is too close to Go and if you don't understand what is going on, you can create deadlocks. That said, even if you avoid `tokio::select!`, I think cancellation safety is one of those dragons that exist in async rust.

[1] https://without.boats/blog/poll-drop/
by saaaaaam | 2025-11-12 20:29:32+00:00
I’ve seen various older people that I’m connected with on Facebook posting screenshots of chats they’ve had with ChatGPT.

It’s quite bizarre from that small sample how many of them take pride in “baiting” or “bantering” with ChatGPT and then post screenshots showing how they “got one over” on the AI. I guess there’s maybe some explanation - feeling alienated by technology, not understanding it, and so needing to “prove” something. But it’s very strange and makes me feel quite uncomfortable.

Partly because of the “normal” and quite naturalistic way they talk to ChatGPT but also because some of these conversations clearly go on for hours.

So I think normies maybe do want a more conversational ChatGPT.
by jorvi | 2025-11-12 20:29:33+00:00
They've also started to be really aggressive against VPNs. I've tried Private Internet Access, Mulvad and AirVPN and often I have to cycle through 5-15(!) servers before YouTube stops saying "sign in to confirm you're not a bot".

Discord has started to become absurdly aggressive with it too, to the point that they don't even let you load messages whilst logged in if you're on a VPN.

It really makes me feel like there will be an inflection point in a few years, where the internet is cleaved in two. You'll have the 'free' internet that is full of interesting stuff but also full of malware, spam and scams, and you'll have the squeaky clean corporate internet, basically a facsimile of WeChat's super-app, of which you'll only have access with a government ID. No VPNs or anti-fingerprinting allowed.
by butlike | 2025-11-12 20:29:58+00:00
All my friends have moved on to PC, and I don't really want to build a $1000 minimum computer with crazy LEDs that takes up a ton of space with a monitor at this point in my life. And SteamDeck doesn't support KB+M well.

I have no qualms about couch gaming with a KB+M if I can do it with my friends and my already extensive Steam library. Unless they completely drop the ball on this, I'm in.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-12 20:29:59+00:00
Probably just the typical nefarious activities of YouTube. Either "accidentally" driving users to switch browsers, or experimenting with circumventing ad blockers, or negligence in testing, or who knows what.

If they want the "Google has no browser monopoly!" claim, then they should be obligated to make their services work perfectly with the alternative, instead of subtly scheming and manipulating people.

One thing you can do is to use an invidious instance. Those don't support live streams and shorts, but at least you don't have to deal with the atrocious normal YouTube frontend.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-12 20:30:00+00:00
What's your magic solution, then? Tattle to the FTC? Beg the President to reign in Tim Apple before he manifests the antichrist?

I'm afraid you're the wrong one here, this is our fealty to Apple paid back in due. If I have to be an ass to get people to stop buying surveillance slopware, so be it. You have no other option at this point, I'm not going to canvas for your rights as an Apple customer in 2025. This is what you support when you give them your money, enjoy!

Edit: I am addressing the OP's point. You called me wrong - I am defending my original point to OP, while illustrating why your dismissal is not relevant to the discussion.
by foxglacier | 2025-11-12 20:30:01+00:00
> the final coins pressed will be auctioned off and that the actual last pennies put into circulation from the US Mint were struck in June.

Seems like this is a stunt to extract a bit of money from collectors. I kind of wonder if collectors really value coins/stamps/etc. that were specially made to target the collector market and didn't even exist in the natural world. Feels icky.
by denimnerd42 | 2025-11-12 20:30:24+00:00
This makes Dallas much more viable. I'm not sure if I'd have a usecase for waymo other than going to the airport. The other use cases such as going to work when my car is in the shop require the freeway too. Only non freeway thing I'd use it for otherwise is coming home from a neighborhood party or local restaurant/bar when I've been drinking and I don't really drink.
by com2kid | 2025-11-12 20:30:36+00:00
The pop shop app being single threaded is just embarrassing. Do a search, the entire UI freezes up until the search is complete.

Also updates regularly break my KDE session and I have to restart my display server.

Sometimes I have to switch to a tty and back to my graphical console to get my display back.

It is a mess all around.

I haven't managed to get my GPU working in Docker, ugh.

That said, it does work. Mostly.
by yesfitz | 2025-11-12 20:30:56+00:00
I'm an unrepentent "neither".

Trash, Archive, Folders in Folders, Tags, forget it!

Where is it? In the Inbox. If it's unread, I need to do something, if it's read, I don't.

Although if my clients start to slow down, I will export and delete the oldest year from my personal email. So I guess I do technically archive. But only in bulk and begrudgingly.
by Lammy | 2025-11-12 20:31:05+00:00
> For example, ZFS seems interesting but Btrfs is probably close enough for most people.

They are not directly comparable since ZFS is also the volume manager for your ZFS filesystems, enabling features like `zfs send` of snapshots or entire filesystems for easy backups.

> Let's start with the first and probably most important step: setting up the network. […] I don't fully remember how I actually set up the network as it's been a while, but it involved adding the following to `/etc/rc.conf`

This would be a great time to show off FreeBSD's documentation. A great “Step 1” would be https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?networking(7)

And then later on when people reasonably wonder what the heck else is going on in `rc.conf`: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf

All of the modern `rc.conf` examples will also be using `sysrc` instead of telling you to edit the file directly, at first as a first line of defense against fatfingering the file formatting, and later when you get more advanced as a way to transparently descend into Jails' `rc.conf`s without having to think about it: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysrc

One thing FreeBSD's installer does not do a good job with that's very relevant for laptop usage is any automatic setup of hardware-specific kernel modules. You will want to enable either `coretemp` or `amdtemp` (depending on your particular Framework model) which will automatically populate all the sensor data, easily queried via `sysctl`:

- https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?coretemp

- https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?amdtemp

[Lammy@Emi] sysctl dev.cpu.{0..7}.temperature dev.cpu.0.temperature: 40.0C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 43.0C dev.cpu.2.temperature: 41.0C dev.cpu.3.temperature: 42.0C dev.cpu.4.temperature: 40.0C dev.cpu.5.temperature: 40.0C dev.cpu.6.temperature: 42.0C dev.cpu.7.temperature: 43.0C

e: and see my comment here about the quickstart firewall class options that let you avoid writing any of your own rules until you really want to! A laptop would do well with `firewall_type=client`: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794391
by inkcapmushroom | 2025-11-12 20:31:06+00:00
What if the stores detain you and force you to work in their perfume department to pay off the million-dollar multi-item fee they just thought up? What if they also do a bunch of allergen testing on you to figure out what you're allergic to and then make you exclusively sell perfumes containing those allergens?

All because of that darn penny-rounding.
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-12 20:31:06+00:00
I have been daily driving FreeBSD for a while now (as a newcomer, coming from Linux) and surprisingly the experience for me was different from what you usually hear.

Pros:

- It is actually in a way easier than Linux. The installation is less complex and more reliable than a Fedora if you are not afraid of the TUI. More important it will soon include a desktop installation script.

- All the software you will ever need is in pkg or ports unless you are a degen

- You will pick up jails for container use cases in 10 minutes and will never want to go back

- VM with vm-bhyve is simpler than libvirt and no XML to deal with.

- Same with networking, you will pick it up quickly and no more confusion between NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, ifup, etc.

- The linux-compat feature will get you very far and there are a lot of Linux apps packaged already

- Hardware support is ok if you check first on https://bsd-hardware.info/

- The wifi thing is no problem with https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

Cons:

- You won't be able to mount/read your LUKS drives from your Linux era.

- Sometime very critical packages like Chromium disappear because they won't build (for example no chromium in pkg on the current FreeBSD 15 BETA)

- Bhyve do not support SPICE so you are stuck with the perf of VNC.

- Bhyve do not have vsock so no blazing fast waypipe

- You basically loose a lot of security feature of web browsers, most of the sandboxing of Firefox and Chrome. This is really bad.

- I haven't really dived into it but it seems there is no Bluetooth LE

- It is fast but doesn't feel as fast as an Alpine

If you are thinking about it and this is ok for you, I would say go for it.
by Animats | 2025-11-12 20:31:34+00:00
That's a cute little article.

The key diagram is the one that shows the signal path through the amplifier. Input feeds grid, plate feeds next grid, final output is from plate. Everything else is supporting circuitry.

Note that between each stage there's a capacitor in the signal path. That's to block DC. If you want an amp that amplifies DC, each stage has to run at a higher voltage than the previous stage. The plate must be above the grid in voltage. This was a huge headache in tube computers, both analog and digital.

Transistor circuits don't have the increasing voltage problem. Outputs and inputs are in the same voltage range. That's because transistors are current gain devices, not voltage gain devices.
by eigenspace | 2025-11-12 20:31:36+00:00
What they're using here is still mostly off the shelf silicon with some tweaks. If they got enough volume, they probably could go for an all integrated APU with unified memory that could keep the GPU fed, but that'd be a very expensive and new thing to develop.

I hope that if this is a success, they'll have the numbers to justify a Strix-Halo like APU with a smaller CPU but keeping the big GPU for the next generation of the device.
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 20:32:09+00:00
The same thing happened many years ago with the same company (previously called Jarden Zinc).

> Americans for Common Cents is a non-profit lobbying group dedicated to the protection of the one-cent coin. The group is primarily interested in preserving the penny for economic and historical reasons. In 2012, Executive Director Mark Weller was paid $340,000 by Jarden Zinc to discuss issues relating to minting with members of Congress and the US Mint.[41] Weller has acknowledged this funding, saying that “We make no secret that one of our major sponsors is a company that makes the zinc ‘blanks’ for pennies."[42] Weller has testified on multiple occasions before Congress. In 2020 Weller testified that the use of cash protects privacy, provides economic stability and "is a public good" that should not be replaced by mobile money.[43]
by Retric | 2025-11-12 20:32:20+00:00
Repositioning is far from the only concern but it is something they care about. For example the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower crossed the Suez Canal in 2021.

The much smaller Wasp-class amphibious assault ship on the other hand can carry as many as 20 F-35B’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp-class_amphibious_assault_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assau...
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-12 20:32:40+00:00
Same number of options.

Razor is still the "default" and "Razor Pages" has a different brand name, but just means "Razor with more things in the main .razor file and fewer code-behind .razor.cs files and less of an MVC approach".

Blazor mostly only matters if you want your frontend to also be Razor. At that point you've got the fork between Blazor using SignalR for HTML pipes from Razor files to the client versus Blazor running client-side in WASM with a Virtual DOM renderer based on Razor.

Blazor seems popular among some groups that want everything in C# rather than needing as much of a Typescript frontend. Blazor WASM bundles a full version of the CLR into WASM so mostly only popular in places where you don't need to optimize the initial web bundle.
by GeekyBear | 2025-11-12 20:32:43+00:00
Proton is just a fork of Wine that also translates from Microsoft's DirectX graphics API to the native graphics API of Linux (Vulcan) so you can run Windows games on Linux.

The new thing Proton is adding is translation from x86 to ARM.

Macs already have Wine, an x86 to ARM translation layer (Rosetta), and an Apple provided translation layer from Microsoft's DirectX to the Mac's native Metal graphics API (D3DMetal) which is integrated into upstream Wine.
by aryonoco | 2025-11-12 20:32:53+00:00
If you’ve got nearly a billion users, and are multiplying your revenue on an annual basis, then yes. You’re effectively showing that you’re in hyper growth trajectory.

Hyper growth is expensive because it’s usually capital intensive. The trick is, once that growth phase is over, can you then start milking your customers while keeping a lid on costs? Not everyone can, but Amazon did, and most investors think OpenAI and Anthropic can as well.
by getnormality | 2025-11-12 20:33:02+00:00
I leave everything in the inbox and mark unread if I need to follow up. Following up may involve nothing more than a note about the task on my to-do list. I also delete a lot of useless stuff and have never regretted it.

My inbox is (1) things I need to read (2) a big searchable archive of things I might need later. Nothing more, and certainly not my to-do list. So I don't feel the need to do anything more than I'm doing.
by ghosty141 | 2025-11-12 20:33:24+00:00
There are some games yes but in my opinion right now the best VR experiences are simulators. Assetto Corsa, iRacing, DCS, MSFS etc.

I bought a Bigscreen Beyond 2 + 5090 gpu basically just to play DCS (Digital Combat Simulator, a flight sim with full fidelity figher jets that you can even fly in PvP multiplayer) and it's the coolest thing VR has to offer for me. All my relatives and friends who tried it were stunned too.
by benmmurphy | 2025-11-12 20:33:26+00:00
it does seem like the audience the article is explicitly targeted for is an edge case. people who understand enough to be writing an exploit but are somehow unaware of their target architecture works.

but i guess the real target audience is probably people that are just starting out on CTFs and just trying to string stuff together without a proper understanding of the fundamentals. everyone has to start somewhere and i guess if people are just using packers and tools to generate exploit code then its quite easy to use the wrong flags and not know what is going on.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-12 20:33:31+00:00
> Now that we’ve got ice walking around with an app that uses facial recognition to determine if you’re a citizen, fuck the facial recognition stuff. This tech should be out of government hands.

When I was in LAX last week, facial recognition on entry was only for US citizens anyway, and for it to work they need to take a photo of you when you're leaving. I don't see how it helps ICE in any way, plus it's handled by CBP.

Also, it didn't work on me, because I left clean shaved and returned with a beard.
by floundy | 2025-11-12 20:33:47+00:00
If these "greedy utility companies" were such good monopolists or duopolists wouldn't it reflect in some pretty insane stock performance?

Eversource (NYSE: ES) is my local electric/natural gas provider in Massachusetts that I hear these same arguments about. Their stock is down 21% over the past 5 years. (To contrast, the S&P500 is up 91% over this same timeframe).)
by Bender | 2025-11-12 20:34:07+00:00
I quit my day job immediately

I think that is smart for other reasons in addition to those you mentioned. I've seen plenty of articles posted to HN where people were sued by their former employer claiming that their corporate time and resources such as intellectual property were used in the production of the product. It often turns out to be false accusations but the wasted time and money from the legal battle is not worth it. Leaving the employer first may preclude such shenanigans.
by cluckindan | 2025-11-12 20:34:48+00:00
You don’t even need to ask! Generally speaking, you don’t want a guitar amp to sound nice, you want it to sound good, good being a function of many things.

For clean sound, use compatible radio preamp tubes and bias the power tubes conservatively.

For distorted sound, use the lowest overhead preamp tubes you can find, and bias the power tubes as hot as you dare without them breaking within the hour. You can always change them after a gig, or between sets. :-)
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-12 20:34:50+00:00
It looks good until I reached one bit:

> Passthrough - Monochrome passthrough via outward facing cameras

This is an outright bone-headed move that I can't believe Valve is making. Only having monochrome cameras means augmented reality is basically a non-starter.

AR has a lot of potential. I literally bought a Meta Quest 3 just for PianoVision [0] when I already had a Valve Index. I would love to see some sort of AR-based game you could play outdoors. But with only monochrome vision, that's gonna be awful.

[0] https://youtu.be/apwZTV-Rg0s
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-12 20:34:52+00:00
> So I think normies maybe do want a more conversational ChatGPT.

The backlash from GPT-5 proved that. The normies want a very different LLM from what you or I might want, and unfortunately OpenAI seems to be moving in a more direct-to-consumer focus and catering to that.

But I'm really concerned. People don't understand this technology, at all. The way they talk to it, the suicide stories, etc. point to people in general not groking that it has no real understanding or intelligence, and the AI companies aren't doing enough to educate (because why would they, they want you believe it's superintelligence).

These overly conversational chatbots will cause real-world harm to real people. They should reinforce, over and over again to the user, that they are not human, not intelligent, and do not reason or understand.

It's not really the technology itself that's the problem, as is the case with a lot of these things, it's a people & education problem, something that regulators are supposed to solve, but we aren't, we have an administration that is very anti AI regulation all in the name of "we must beat China."
by k310 | 2025-11-12 20:35:10+00:00
California passed a law to make it easier to convert strip malls to housing. Uptake has been slow, and ADU's seem more successful, but it's a start. Can't speak to larger malls.

I only know two "nearby" in the central valley, and they seem OK, though I only ever visit one because it has the only Apple store in a very large area. I spend more time at thrift stores, mainly for the unpredictable items that show up. And the Hawaiian shirts at a fraction of retail prices. Large, unfortunately, falls past my knees. Aloha, HN'ers!
by dlcarrier | 2025-11-12 20:35:17+00:00
They do in the US too, but contractors use their own vehicles. Imported right-hand drive cars can be imported, but their use is rare.

This is partially because the car dealer lobby convinced congress to prevent the importation of cars less than 25 years old. Ironically, they did so using safety regulations, so a brand-new car meeting current European safety regulations is legally unsafe, but a 25-year-old car, complying with what European safety regulations were 25 years ago, less any deterioration in those safety systems, is legally safe.
by andrewf | 2025-11-12 20:35:21+00:00
At the time I recall https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/301631.301683 being an oft-discussed data point - speeding up DEC Alpha code by recompiling it into different DEC Alpha code using runtime statistics.

This was commonly cited in forum debates about whether Java and C# could come close to the performance of compiled languages. ("JITs and GCs are fast enough, and runtime stats mean they can even be faster!" was a common refrain, but not actually as true in 1999 as it is in 2025)
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