MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threeducks | 2025-11-07 15:42:34+00:00
It's the OS. About 10 years ago, I had an Asus EeePC, which was an underpowered piece of trash with a 32 bit Intel Atom CPU, but it cold-booted in less than 3 seconds. And by "booted", I mean completely booted, i.e. not like Android, where you have to wait a few more minutes until all the background services settle and the UI stops lagging.

Unfortunately, the MeGoo OS was discontinued shortly after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
by D-Machine | 2025-11-07 15:42:38+00:00
Precisely this. The idea of trusting that a news corporation (or any other corporation) cares about you is just utterly absurd in 2025. We all know now, and have for some time, that, factually, this is not how things work, and profit (or funding) has to come first, or the corporation does not survive. It isn't even cynicism, just a recognition of the economic realities of contemporary society.
by macNchz | 2025-11-07 15:42:59+00:00
While some things may exist in a grey area, there’s an immense volume of blatant, obvious fraud in mainstream ads. A deepfake of Elon Musk promoting a way to get rich with crypto is just so clearly a scam, and yet it’s one I’ve seen in preroll YouTube ads multiple times.

Making the platforms have some liability for facilitating fraud would be good, though. In the meantime I block ads.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-11-07 15:43:04+00:00
>One operation can't corrupt another operation's view of state because state is immutable by default.

How true is this in practice? I mean on the one hand sure Operation 2 doesn't seem some half modified state from Operation 1. On the other hand Operation 2 now has some stale state and makes the wrong decisions does the wrong thing because it didn't see Operation 1's changes.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-07 15:43:25+00:00
I traded in a turbocharged Subaru [several 100mph+ citations] that got ~18mpg [the way I drove]. The Camry is only a little bit slower, but the gamification of MPG taught me to "let off the gas pedal." This hybrid drives up 8%-grade mountains with better mileage than the Subaru averaged on flat roads.

Over 1.5 years in the Camry, I've gone from 44 to 50 mpg — a forever-quest to improve efficiency. I now live in the right [slow] lane, invisible to other drivers.

But when I need to accelerate, the electric system delivers.
by beAbU | 2025-11-07 15:43:38+00:00
I think there is space for both.

You have your "not an engineer" people who have built airplanes, cars, motorcycles and whatnot. They are good with their tools and they are able to make amazing things. Some of them might even be doing these things for a living.

Then you get your "real" engineers who need to measure and test and spec out and define limits and must be able to provably demonstrate that the bridge will not fall over.

In software you have your journeymen who build software for a living, they are good at what they do and they are building amazing things, and then you have your "engineers" who are building avionics for rockets and planes, the control software for nuclear reactors and so on. They need to prove their software works as intended and cannot venture beyond it's parameters etc.

Two very different professions, two very different types of people, yet both are (on the surface) doing something that appears very similar.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-07 15:44:05+00:00
I read it as more rhetorical than not. No one was literally expected to ask about the future. However, one could be expected to ask oneself “what could such a low price tag on such capable hardware mean for the future?”

It is unrealistic, of course, because it is a textbook case of information asymmetry (the enemy of the market)—only a vanishingly small number of people can adequately assess the pricing, having to know enough about hardware and all the various forces that could bring it down, like potential upcoming lineup changes or inventory overflow.

The right move is to fight information asymmetry. Many developed countries, including the US, already do it in countless cases. A mild way could be requiring to disclose things like this in addition to the ToS; a more thorough way could be simply banning this business model.
by dspillett | 2025-11-07 15:44:07+00:00
> Not sure how this works on Amazon, but Bol.com (dutch "amazon competitor") sells a lot of crap too. Stuff that sometimes has the images and literal description taken from e.g. aliexpress.

That is bog-standard drop-shipping. Every open online market had a pile of that. It isn't that they've taken the images from AliExpress it is that both sets of sellers are drop-shipping product from the same source or collection of sources (or buying and reselling though that is much less common as it means managing stock) and the images come & other sales material come from there.

> So, technically, that premium price brings me me the assurance that I am protected by EU consumer laws.

When comparing Amazon (UK) or eBay to the sellers on, for example, Facebook, often there isn't a premium, Amazon (or AliExpress, or similar) are often cheaper than sellers on social media and/or advertising via adverts on YouTube and their ilk. Those sellers will often try to make the product out to be some unique high quality item with a price to match (which of course is heavily discounted if you buy in the next hour or two), and if you check your preferred general marketplace you'll find several people with the same thing, often with the same images, making no such pretence of it being unique or high-value, at a price noticeably cheaper than the seller from SM/etc. I assume this is the same with Amazon in other jurisdictions and other marketplaces like Boi.
by ano-ther | 2025-11-07 15:44:38+00:00
That’s a good overview of the benefits and challenges.

I like the convenience of passkeys, but it adds to my worries of losing or breaking a device.

Does anyone know a good solution that is as easy and portable as handling a KeePass kdbx file? (Without resorting to Apple or Windows backup solutions)

Yubikey looks ok, but they are apparently restricted to 25 keys (why?).
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-07 15:45:50+00:00
Consider books in the vein of Hardy Boys[1]. Many of these books get revised over the years by the publisher. Imagine if the book on your shelf changed and when you went to read it again, the prose differed from how you remembered. People can disagree as to the extent to which the changes are good or bad (some are clearly fixes for "whoa, that was racist even for the year it was published" others are claimed by the original authors to have stamped out the small bit of originality they were able to slip past the editors), but something is lost when you lose things the way they were originally experienced.

1: For those who don't know, this is a kids book series with a single pen-name, but with each book written for-hire. Nancy Drew and Tom Swift were created by the same publisher in a similar manner.
by turtlebro | 2025-11-07 15:47:02+00:00
According to the news media, we have been living in perpetual crisis, closing in on apocalyptic times for the last 10+ years. Constant fear and negativity through Radio, TV, Internet throughout every day, from the moment you wake up.

Yes, they are just doing their job, but here's the thing: Hardly any of it is relevant to me. Everyday its TRUMP this, that. Please tell me why should I care? Why are you putting this shit into my mind, how is this my problem?

It's getting harder and harder to disconnect from all that garbage. Unsolicited attention grabbing is what it is. Like a dumb movie everyone has to watch.

It wasn't always like this. People didn't care much about politics, sometimes you caught the news of a plane crash or something tragic, but for the most part they had their own life's to live. Now everyone is hopelessly addicted to the spectacle.

And social media isn't making it any better. I don't know if I'm seeing too grim, but please tell me you feel it as well, when you see people just regurgitating the latest dumb shit wherever you go.

Then you visit a poor country for holiday, outside the western/anglosphere, and see all those people just living their lives, not fully consumed in some narrative.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-07 15:48:35+00:00
I don't trust any of them entirely (including these two) but I use Reuters and AP for world news, they have commercial reasons to at least combat bias since they provide the news to the other orgs who then add their own ~~bias~~ commentary.

In reality I think the answer is much the same as it has always been, read the same thing from different sources and apply some critical thinking to it.

Unbiased media is simply not possible, you could 100% tell the entire story about whatever story you are telling and still be biased by the stories you don't run.

As for what we do about young people, education on media literacy in schools would help though whether already pressed schools end up been responsible for yet another thing is a good idea is going to vary from country to country but we should be preparing people for the society they are going to be living in better and that always comes back to education.
by zahlman | 2025-11-07 15:48:48+00:00
> To forstall any AI debate, let me underline the word "lazy" in the footnote here. Most recently we received a shirt with a very large cobra on it, and the cobra has at least three pupils in each eye (depending on how you count) and some very eye-watering geometry for the sclera between it.

Okay, but if it matches the illustration on the storefront, can it really be called a scam?
by alpenglow9 | 2025-11-07 15:48:50+00:00
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by gf000 | 2025-11-07 15:49:03+00:00
> and total energy usage

Surprisingly, Java is right behind manual memory managed languages in terms of energy use, due to its GC being so efficient. It turns out that if your GC can "sprint very fast", you can postpone running it till the last second, and memory drains the same amount no matter what kind of garbage it holds. Also, just "booking" that this region is now garbage without doing any work is also cheaper than calling potentially a chain of destructors or incrementing/decrementing counters.
by seec | 2025-11-07 15:49:29+00:00
As a native French speaker who reads a lot of English I can attest that the vocabulary thing is very real and quite annoying when you try to translate stuff. There are many words that are just inexistant in French and a pain in the ass to translate conceptually even using multiple words (and/or composed).

Most Frenchs are incredulous about this because they somehow think their lang is the best thing around.
by simpaticoder | 2025-11-07 15:50:31+00:00
People's first instinct is to attack the thing they don't like directly. The second instinct should be to consider the system in which those things arise, and what the incentives are for everyone involved. If you have a roomful of loud children, you could apply draconian rules on silence; or, if you notice there is no sound-deadening and so the children are unwittingly participating in a positive feedback loop to be heard above the din, you can add material. My goal is not a libertarian one, its a minimalism one. Streamlining the court system has many other benefits besides this one; the excessive cost and time required to use the court is used systematically by malefactors at every level of society. From patent trolls to absurd rates of criminal prosecutions that are never heard by a jury, it's an enormous problem in our society.

Regulation always seems simple, but there are inevitable unintended consequences. Sadly, those who see regulation as the only or best tool to shape behavior are quick to suggest yet more regulation to fix those unintended consequences, either unaware of the positive feedback loop or certain there exists some set of regulation that will finally, perfectly fix the system. I find this way of thinking naive; it is almost always better to make adjustments to the system to shape behavior that way. And in this case, the obvious way to do that is to fix the courts, and make justice affordable again.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-11-07 15:50:32+00:00
Love it when the media starts reflecting the bubble fears HN described for at least 2 years. OpenAI might not crash yet but talk of bubbles is likely to tighten AI industry companies access to investor money imo. The days of investors blindly showering money on anything AI are coming to an end looks like. Actual RoI of existing AI systems is likely to come under increasing scrutiny imo
by beAbU | 2025-11-07 15:50:36+00:00
> Writing isn't an engineering discipline. And all industries rely heavily on writing. Could it be that writing software is just writing for computers and as such could only by codified within another engineering discipline and not by its own?

I think this is a very good point!

If you are writing the control software for a rocketship's avionics, you probably need to have some understanding of aeronautics, control theory, signal processing etc. Ultimately the act of writing the software is merely an expression of all the math and theory that you have spent a lifetime acquiring.

Inversely, the engineer who is speccing out the control software for a nuclear reactor is essentially writing the software for it. It's just in human readable format such that the human journeyman who's actually slinging the code can implement it. By the time the code is being written, the engineering work has been done already.

Programming is much closer to bricklaying or assembling or machining. Software engineering is much closer to architecture design, and does not involve a lot of code writing.
by baq | 2025-11-07 15:51:27+00:00
hmmm I thought miri was used in the compiler for static analysis, wasn't aware it's a runtime interpreter.

I guess the primary reason would be running hardened code in production without compromising performance too much, same as you would run Fil-C compiled software instead of the usual way. I've no idea if it's feasible to run miri in prod.
by kube-system | 2025-11-07 15:51:31+00:00
"IP theft" is not counter to that definition. Intellectual property is a 'something'. That definition, does not require depriving someone else of something. As another valid example, see "identity theft".

Furthermore, English is not prescriptive; dictionaries are a lagging reference of observed use... so yes, the users of English absolutely do get to redefine language. That's how all modern English words originated.

And finally, if your dictionary doesn't account for "IP theft", you have simply found an incorrect dictionary, because that usage is undeniably widespread -- whether or not you agree with the concept politically.
by scott_w | 2025-11-07 15:51:40+00:00
> The answer isn't ad blocking, the answer is paying directly and in full

Netflix started showing ads on their lower tiers: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126831

If you pay for Sky/Virgin/insert Cable provider in your country, you still get copious amounts of ads. If you pay to go to the cinema, you have to sit through 15 minutes of adverts before the film starts.

I'm buying off Amazon, they're showing sponsored products (so... ads).

EA were looking at putting ads into games that you bought back in 2024: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ea-are-thinking-about-inser...

Hell, I pay for public transport, they have adverts on.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-07 15:51:53+00:00
It's not that copilot is hostile, its that microsoft is hostile by constantly and tenaciously shoving it your face at every interaction. Its the default load app, it has copilot buttons and widgets sprinkled everywhere you look. You have to click away pushes to use it. Just take this thing away and leave me to get my work done please.
by eviks | 2025-11-07 15:52:07+00:00
> So a better distinction here is mouse-first vs keyboard-first, but I think "TUI vs GUI" is close enough to that and it kinda stands in for that distinction in most cases.

It's indeed a better distinction, but no, TUI vs GUI is nowhere close, specifically for your explicitly mentioned use case of "workflow is increasingly keyboard based" because that's exactly where GUI shines as it has much fewer fundamental limitations in keyboard handling.

> than anyone going "you're right, the average GUI

That's your strawman framing, why would I care about "the average"? It's not a limit for anyone, one can always choose a better-than-average app. My point is that at the top there is no comparison because TUIs offer nothing and have much bigger fundamental limitations. So of course with the wrong framing you can find worse examples.

> And using timeouts to handle keybinding collisions or something? Dunno what that looks like nor why you would do it.

Terminals send Esc for Alt-X combos, so to differentiate those combos from a single Escape press you need to track timers (if no extra key signal, then it's Esc, if another key signal, then it's a combo). And Esc is one of the most used keys in e.g. Vim

> Your super key is always at a global level that you wouldn't expect apps to read, that's the point.

Of course I would! What I wouldn't expect is for the app to override any global OS function bound to that key, but I would definitely expect to be able to not waste a whole thumb-conveniently located modifier just because

That's very close to my point - you're used to some trivial keyboard workflow, so wasting the whole modifier is just fine, you can't even comprehend why someone wouldn't want that, it's like a mouse upside down!
by keepamovin | 2025-11-07 15:52:22+00:00
What do you think of the broader revelations of American psionic programs recently? Frakes, Barber, Anderson, Sherman, Jozak, ...

Were you utilized in those programs?

What do you think of Jorjani's latest interview with Jesse Michels? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABw7EsWh2Us
by gruez | 2025-11-07 15:53:03+00:00
>Schools operated at the city/county level are called public schools in the US, no?

Right, I'm pointing out that "state" in the english language isn't limited to just US states. If you're not convinced by that, there's also "state" owned enterprises in countries that don't even have "states" (eg. China).

>Note that the Guardian article instead talks about "city-run" and "municipal-run" grocery stores. And the reason I'm mentioning this is that "city-run" sounds harmless while "state run" is exactly what you mention: "Coops get nowhere near the pushback (if any) that state run businesses (ie. "communism") get from Americans."

The only difference between municipally and states owned enterprises (both the US state kind and "government" kind) is in scale. Objections to state ownership mainly revolve around state coercion (you can't opt out of a municipal grocery store, especially if it's funded by tax dollars), and potential for self-dealing. Both these concerns exist for municipal grocery stores, but not coops.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-07 15:53:15+00:00
> They will, however, make the Android app ecosystem more competitive, benefitting users by reducing prices and improving app availability.

Sadly, that's a thing I literally could not care less about. The gimping of sideloading, though, I care deeply about. Google's proposed changes are basically the same as removing it in terms of its usefulness to a large part of the hobbyist community.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-07 15:53:26+00:00
> The demos is always right

Bullshit. The demos is so goddamn stupid it can't be helped, it must be led. Explaining things to them does nothing. People will sacrifice freedom for convenience and short term profit every single time. They vote with emotions. They make decisions that impact entire nations without even trying to gain even a superficial understanding of things. The demos is completely responsible for the horrible status quo. Their ignorance and passivity is exactly what leads to their oppression. Trying to help them leads to nothing but pointless martyrdom. Nothing changes because change depends on them and they are unwilling.

> not in a technocracy

We're literally in the technofeudalist era. We have trillion dollar corporations running digital fiefdoms with users as the serfs tilling the artificially scarce fields. They have so much money it's unreal, and they have woken up to the wonders of lobbying.
by estebank | 2025-11-07 15:53:42+00:00
> Rust also supports reference counting GC, but that is more _verbose_ to use... It should be _simpler_ to use in my view, similar to Python. The main disadvantage of Rust, in my view, is that it's verbose.

I think there's space for Rust to become more ergonomic, but its goals limit just how far it can go. At the same time I think there's space to take Rust and make a Rust# that goes further on the Swift/Scala end of the spectrum, where things like auto-cloning of references are implemented first, that can consume Rust libraries. From the organizational point of you, you can see it as a mix between nightly and editions. From a user's point of view you can look at it as a mode to make refactoring faster, onbiarding easier and a test bed for language evolution. Not being Rust itself it would also allow for different stability guarantees (you can have breaking changes every year), which also means you can be holder on tryin things out knowing you're not permanently stuck with them. People who care about performance, correctness and reuse can still use Rust. People who would be well served by Swift/Scala, have access to Rust's libraries and toolchain.

> (Also, there is a tendency to add too many features, similar to C++, but that's a secondary concern).

These two quoted sentiments seem contradictory: making Rust less verbose to interact with reference counted values would indeed be adding a feature.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 15:53:57+00:00
> I'm not buying what you're selling

Which is why I'm not providing what you seek. Production goes to he who is paying, and in this case I am the one doing the paying. Thus, you know the content is written for me and me alone.

> What are we supposed to do about the fact that you are not arguing in good faith?

A rational actor acting in good faith would start talking terms to see the sale go through, but as you are also here in bad faith we can continue to write only for respective selves. Nobody was expecting anything else anyway. I don't imagine anyone has ever paid someone else to write a comment on HN and that isn't about to change today.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-07 15:54:33+00:00
> One practical implication of this transfer to the Homeland Security Task Forces is that the group’s remit will be broadened beyond targeting drug cartels...

Good. If this structure is good at taking down drug kingpins it will be good at tackling human trafficking and other types of organized crime (as well as the cartels' favorite trade items, illegal drugs).

Sounds like a positive change.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-07 15:54:40+00:00
Is anyone actually buying and using their glasses? I've tried to find actual sales figures but they keep it very opaque. I am so curious if despite how hard they are pushing them they will just be another flash-in-the-pan. I just can't see wide-market adoptability, maybe some niche users, but maybe I am just a hater/cynic.