MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gerdesj | 2025-11-03 02:12:46+00:00
Are you sure? I live within 1 mile of Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl (OK) and within say five miles of a lot more supermarkets and all the cheeses are mixed up somewhat across the aisles. I will have to stray to Sherborne or Crewkerne for the really exotic mob (Waitrose).

I'm quite partial to Somerset brie and I'm putting my head up over the parapet here 8)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-03 02:15:04+00:00
> At least half of the 3,309 fugitives arrested in FIST VII were later released on bail

Lmfao god bless America right?

That reminds me of one of my favorite lines in one of my favorite movies, Thank You for Smoking. seriously if you are reading this and have not watched it, stop what you’re doing and go watch it right now.

Nick Naylor’s (a tobacco lobbyist) son asks, “dad, why is America the greatest country in the world?” Nick is reading something, doesn’t look up and takes a slight beat to think about it, then just calmly responds, “our endless appeal system.”

That movie is unbelievable. I know out of context that line just seems like edge lord nonsense, but Aaron Eckhardt (sp?) just sells it so hard.
by 999900000999 | 2025-11-03 02:16:13+00:00
Lawsuit city.

For many disabled people driving isn’t really possible. Now they have to hop on a rollercoaster ?

High speed rail would be more than enough for me. DC to NYC in 1 hour flat. Philly to NYC in 30 min.

Sacramento to SF in 1 hour, which would allow for normal people to buy homes and commute into town.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-03 02:16:51+00:00
I'm definitely not on the same wavelength as you this evening.

> New York City has America’s best bagels

That's a big claim.

You say it's because they are best fresh -- are you saying that the rest of the country does not have anybody who makes fresh bagels? That's what I get from your first comment, but then you moved the goalposts a bit by qualifying "at an affordable price." So maybe other cities in the US do have bagels that are just as good as NYC but they are more expensive?

I see there is one final qualification you've made: "the New York bagel." In that case, obviously NYC has the best New York bagel ;).
by VladVladikoff | 2025-11-03 02:17:38+00:00
Recently I gave a list of 300 links to deep research and asked it to go through each one to analyze a certain question about them. Repeatedly it would take shortcuts and not actually do the full list. Is this caused by a context window limits? Or maybe Open AI limits request size? Is it possible to not run into these types of limits with locally hosted models?
by ruralfam | 2025-11-03 02:17:55+00:00
Used it to capture respondent data for a unique research tool we run. Got good results. Had to custom-code all the server/client interactions to handle MTurks' requirements. Went well. Still use the content from MTurk users as demo of "...how to get unique insights from your consumers". As things progressed, stopped using it. However all our project setup/server/client code still have variables/functions that start with mturk_. Not causing any issues, so there they sit. I feel guitly every time I think about not having cleansed the code. BTW: Just added new custom code for Prolific. Hoping to test their respondents this week. However Prolific's affect on the code was nothing compared to interacting with MTurk's servers.
by toast0 | 2025-11-03 02:19:36+00:00
Someone with generation that takes time to curtail will need somewhere to put it; at the limit, they may pay someone else to take it. Also, some generators are getting paid in multiple ways, if you're getting a subsidy for every kWh you put on the grid, you might be willing to pay for the privilege of putting it out there.

I agree though, if the typical case is negative pricing, during solar peak, it doesn't make sense to build more solar capacity. One trend is to have solar panels oriented toward morning or evening sun rather than midday sun, less kWh generated overall, but possibly more valuable kWh due to time of day.

If you get enough grid accessible battery capacity, during normal conditions, the price ceiling falls and the floor raises. Of course, when all the batteries are full or empty, the price can go negative again.
by vindarel | 2025-11-03 02:19:47+00:00
Just to counter-balance the inferred conclusion that Common Lisp would not have any commercial usage (sorry, words are important, FUD is too close from hasty wording or hasty conclusions): https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (example companies using CL today, and yes some pick it for new projects, and yes some hire) (and I don't want to argue if the list is impressive or not: it's some commercial usage :D best,)
by nirinor | 2025-11-03 02:19:54+00:00
So, are computing gradients details of backpropagation that it is failing to abstract over, or are gradients the goal that backpropagation achieves? It isn't both, its just the latter.

This is like complaining about long division not behaving nicely when dividing by 0. The algorithm isn't the problem, and blaming the wrong part does not help understanding.

It distracts from what is actually helping which is using different functions with nicer behaving gradients, e.g., the Huber loss instead of quadratic.
by ethin | 2025-11-03 02:20:48+00:00
Yeah, pretty much. I would be less disagreeable about Wayland if they had solved this problem early (and yes, they should've thought about this early during Wayland because the most prominent target is desktop environments). But they didn't, and I don't even know if they'll come up with some unified solution that all DEs/WMs can agree on or whether they'll just keep allowing DEs/WMs to do their own thing. Either way, fragmentation is never a good idea on what, I think, many would consider critical functionality. At least, I consider the requirements to implement accessibility to be rather critical, which is the primary reason I still use Xorg.
by drmpeg | 2025-11-03 02:22:48+00:00
When I worked at LSI Logic in the 2000's, there were a lot of young Europeans (mostly Italian) on the staff. They had rented a house in Palo Alto which was affectionately called "The Pleasure Lounge".

It was just one of those houses that had the awesome party vibe. The only rule was that if you had to puke, you had to go in the back yard and do it in front of the Mother of Mary statue.

The best part was if you made it to 4 am, the Italians would break out the spaghetti, cook a big pot of it and serve it with just olive oil (no tomato sauce). Sitting around the kitchen table wicked hammered eating plain spaghetti is the correct way to end a party.
by mircerlancerous | 2025-11-03 02:22:51+00:00
Neat project, regardless of some of the opinions of practicality.

What you want to do is make sure your client device is an HID device, so that it's recognized as a keyboard. I think something like this will do: https://makerspot.com/cp2110-usb-hid-to-uart-serial-adapter/

For the server side, you'll either want a USB to serial adapter with a microcontroller in between, or one of the RP2040 Raspberry pis as it can be both those at once. https://www.waveshare.com/rp2040-zero.htm

Actually you can probably do it with two RP2040s (or maybe just one) as their USB ports I believe can be configured for different roles.

Good luck, and share your results!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-03 02:23:13+00:00
> are you saying that the rest of the country does not have anybody who makes fresh bagels?

Of the kind that stale in two hours? Yes. It wouldn’t be economical.

> maybe other cities in the US do have bagels that are just as good as NYC but they are more expensive?

Never say never, but I haven’t seen it. I have seen private chefs pull it off. But they basically required a sous chef to deal with the lye and boiling.

> there is one final qualification you've made: "the New York bagel." In that case, obviously NYC has the best New York bagel

Yup :). (I qualified the first reference with OG, btw.)

But I’m going further. You can’t make a New York bagel outside New York without hundreds of customers reliably streaming through the door who will fuck off if you try to take a shortcut.

Other cities have great bagels. (Montrèal.) But they’re not that. That’s what I mean by discernment. Literally, discerning one thing from another. If you’ve eaten New York bagels for a stretch, you can discern them from others. If you like that, you’ll seek it out, rewarding those who do the work and punishing those who dope them with preservatives. That creates symbiosis between the bagel eater and maker.

Same with cheese. Same with barbecue. Or chivitos or chaat or all the other local, perishable yummies that are peculiar in an infuriatingly-tedious way.
by bobthepanda | 2025-11-03 02:24:10+00:00
The technical definition of American cheese is that.

In practice, unless you are going to look specifically for it, Kraft, Velveeta et. al. are more than happy to sell you "American cheese product" which does not meet FDA standards for labeling for American cheese, and in practice a lot of people criticizing American cheese are actually criticizing cheese product, which is what is super easy to find both in American supermarkets and abroad.

Europeans also generally take offense at some of the stuff in American supermarkets that has implied labeling like European cheese, like the powdered Kraft Parmesan.
by hirako2000 | 2025-11-03 02:24:30+00:00
Digest as I understand it is a weak authentication protocol, it doesn't mean it is implemented with known vulnerabilities.

I distinguish vulnerability from weak. The weakness is not necessarily intended, but the question is, does it do what it is supposed to do. Or is there a known bug: non intended possible exploit, that would make it a vulnerability.

If it isn't known then it doesn't exist. But we can assume all software do have bugs.

Digest is part of the http protocol, if the protocol is found to have vulnerability I can imagine it would be dropped and be rewritten. The digest part, not the entire http protocol.

A hacker may not have the password, but manages to brute forces it. Is that a digest vulnerability or does it fall onto the application to integrate some preventing brute force authentication measures?

My take is digest doesn't pretend to prevent brute force attacks.

Some may not agree with that logic, but since about everything is made of a combination of vectors, and that each typically has some weakness, all you get is a balance between usability, cost, and security.

We can make the case for your typical cryptographic signature, or encryption algorithm. ECDSA standing as well respected, solid cipher. Is it vulnerable? It is vulnerable to the potential power of machines we may build in times to come. Quantum or leaps ahead. Will it be vulnerable then? Yes but it isn't a vulnerability. We would then call ECDSA obsolete.

Digest is obsolete yes.

The interesting part about cryptographic methods is that we may know of some being obsolete ahead of time. So long as we can determine they can be brute forced. For now it isn't obsolete despite the existence of quantum resistant alternatives. Hacker news uses ECDSA for the exchange of keys between server and client, then encrypts all connections using another algorithm safe against quantum computers. Thanks. But beyond that, probably not.

Is X obsolete? Vulnerable? Seems like X developers themselves admit it is a vulnerability. They didn't know of the possible exploit. As to the severity? It's often subjective from my experience.

Happy to be wrong, and we don't have to agree.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-03 02:26:35+00:00
> I agree that Wayland's security model prevents some undesirable interactions that X11 allows, but it also prevents or makes difficult some desirable interactions, so it's a mixed bag.

That is so true, I wanted to have a typing sound from my pc everytime I typed on wayland and I looked at LITERALLY every single solution and none of them worked... simply because of the security model of wayland (so things like Mechvibes and alternatives don't work generally speaking)

On one hand, its a good thing to prevent things like password injection etc. but on the other, really?

I got frustrated and I created a lot of github issues on every such project if they said that they are working on wayland and I didn't care if it meant running it as sudo, I just asked them kindly if there was a way or not/ what's the issue here

There are still times where I get a lot of notifications simply because someone commented on those issues

So naturally a lot of people are/were frustrated about it. Not sure if its a good thing or not, but I 100% agree about this comment of yours

Another big issue imo to me feels like ssh, X servers ssh forwarding/vnc just works, Yet I haven't really found ways to do things like VNC on wayland on a server or something as easy (or even possible?) on wayland as compared to x servers, Please let me know if there are apps which do this though, I know about weston but I haven't found ways to work with it/make it work (maybe my skill issue)

Are there any solutions to these things though? Fundamentally that mechvibes things requires an app to view the key from every other application and make a sound, Nothing stops it from being a key-logger as well if it had that capability and Wayland was created with a better security model but as you say and I experienced, that security model comes up with its own compromises and I am not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing....
by signa11 | 2025-11-03 02:27:28+00:00
ok, finally got a chance to look at it in some detail, and here is the scoop:

let's see what the values are ?

% defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate

this gives me:

{ AvailableUpdatesNotificationCountKey = "-1"; AvailableUpdatesNotificationProductKey = "MSU_UPDATE_24G90_patch_15.6.1_minor"; MajorOSUserNotificationDate = "2032-12-31 23:22:47 +0000"; UserNotificationDate = "2032-12-31 23:22:47 +0000"; }

ofcourse those are modified values, which is done like so:

% defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate AvailableUpdatesNotificationCountKey -1 % defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate UserNotificationDate -date "2032-12-31 23:22:47 +0000"

you get the idea.

with this, i don't see the nags just yet, but probably it is a bit early to conclude ?
by blovescoffee | 2025-11-03 02:27:59+00:00
I would not consider this to be a potluck. I've been to many parties in both LATAM and the US. LATAM parties are indeed just like US parties very often but in many cases they are much more "communal" without being a potluck per-se. A potluck is still too formal a name for what I've experienced at least. Someone's uncle will bring a piñata, someone's aunt will cook pozole, a cousin will bring a speaker, and so on. And these types of parties are not "uncool" or even "laidback" they can be wild.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-03 02:28:34+00:00
Are you entertaining the idea that chatGPT should become Pastoral Care for the masses? Sounds like an easier target than AGI.

(Stoics have already taken issue with the notion that fear is the motive for all human action, and yes, consciousness is a part of their prescription)

Separately,

"Hard work seems to lead to things getting better"

sounds like an unsung (fully human) impulse

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/10/24/gambl...
by xwolfi | 2025-11-03 02:29:39+00:00
A simulation to what purpose ? What's the difference between a simulation and reality ? What is more "real" about the original hardware than about us ?

It doesn't make obvious sense to waste such vast amount of energy for absolutely no purpose that we can observe: surely you could add a grain of doubt in your absolute statements no ?

The universe is probably nothing very interesting, and reality depressingly obvious once we figure it out. It's like all these astrological sky maps they were doing to predict the mood of the gods above, before we realized we were a rock turning around an hydrogen ball, itself turning around the galactic center, completely non-special, like every other block of rock out there.

Being in a simulation is just a way for you to replace god with a machine equivalent. You want a purpose, a father figure, an observer and a designer. Sadly, I think you and I are as precious as an ant, completely not part of any simulation, having no purpose and barely any effect on the universe. We're here because we could and we'll disappear because we must, with barely a blip, while everything in the universe is turning around senselessly.
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-03 02:32:07+00:00
That doesn't make sense. Mercedes makes vans. Ford makes E350s but still sells plenty of mustangs. Hell, does the rivian delivery truck even have rivian branding? I haven't seen it if it does.

And moreover, Tesla has been talking up plans for its vaporware semi for ages. If they wanted to avoid diluting the brand, they wouldn't promise such a thing.
by pjs_ | 2025-11-03 02:32:16+00:00
This is great advice, parties are a lost technology in some parts of society, like the pyramids. We should throw more parties

For a dinner party specifically I like to force everyone to go for a walk before dessert. By that point they’re all hot and drunk, sending them outside for a quick lap cools everybody off, gets them talking, and is good for the digestion. Then you can come home and crack into that bottle of wine someone brought
by bandrami | 2025-11-03 02:32:54+00:00
In the 90s I was stationed at Anacostia Naval Air Station and would drive in to the base every morning through the warehouse district (it's now the stadium the Nationals play in). At 04:30 most of the raves would be letting out and bleary saucer-eyed teenagers would stagger into the streets of Southwest DC to start walking to their suburban homes.
by pepoluan | 2025-11-03 02:34:08+00:00
What's "correct" for you might not be "correct" for others. Furthermore, your owb definition of "correct" changes depending on circumstances; sometimes you want it hotter, sometimes you want it colder. Sometimes you want to change it partway through.

How do you calculate for that?

Back in the 90s, Fuzzy Logic was thought to be the solution. In a way, yes, but only for niche/specialized purposes, and they still have to limit the variables being evaluated.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-03 02:34:40+00:00
> Firstly, the intent requirement. Which has been pointed out to you upthread and you just sortof waved away that judges are willing to accept anything as proof of intent, despite that not seeming to be the case from the cases I can see.

It's not that they're willing to accept anything, it's that isn't really how intent works, because intent is a question of fact when the ambiguity is a question of law.

Which is how it produces an unreasonable result: It's not the intent to commit a crime, it's the intent to commit an act, whether or not you knew it was a crime. And when the law was ambiguous, you can't have known, because the judge hadn't decided it yet. So you do X, you end up in court, the judge finally decides if X is illegal, and then if it is the government has to prove if you intended to do X. But you did intend to do that, you just didn't intend for that to be illegal, which is the part they don't include in the accounting.

It seems like I should also clarify this point from my post above:

> and failed to include the part about intent to commit a crime

The salient thing that burglary has and the CFAA is missing isn't the intent to commit unauthorized access, it's the intent to commit a separate crime, e.g. unauthorized access with the intent to commit credit card fraud. Because without that the penalties make no sense and it's not clear that should even be an independent crime, since there are definitely times when accessing a server the operator doesn't want you to should be allowed and basically all of the cases where it shouldn't are the instances where you're doing it to commit a separate crime.

> The CFAA is nearly a perfect overlap where the people at risk of accidentally violating it are the folks who have the means to ask a professional about their nuanced situation.

So you're in a situation where there hasn't been a high court case with the same fact pattern yet. You ask a professional and they tell you so. What now?
by Rileyen | 2025-11-03 02:35:51+00:00
I used to think dependent types were the future, but once I actually started working on real projects, I realized they might be logically elegant and reduce errors, but the development efficiency really takes a hit. These days, I care more about solutions that are clear, maintainable, and easy to get started with. If a tool gets the job done, can scale, and the team can understand it, then it’s a good tool.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-03 02:35:51+00:00
Linux packaging tools are bad and the people who make Linux packages generally don't do a very good job at it limited by tools and motivation.

So much linux software doesn't come with sane defaults out of the box, doesn't have an easy path to common desired configurations, and doesn't have reasonable documentation. PARTICULARLY for "open" software that has a paid hosted option.

I say this after decades of a career where a very large proportion of the frustration and "stupid work" I've had to do involved getting a piece of software to do something obvious.

Working with the BSDs is just delightful in how wanting to do something turns into something working with ease.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-11-03 02:35:53+00:00
I'm not a fan of New York bagels. They're generally too doughy and "white bread" tasting for me. Plenty of places have excellent bagels that are pre-boiled with lye. The lye boiling process is not special. What is unique is the particular taste and texture, and it's just one kind of bagel that you can prefer or not prefer.

Your whole comment below about "discernment" and seeking New York bagels out sounds like a personal preference (bred by familiarity), not actually finding the creme de la creme of bagels.

The same goes for Chicago/New York pizza. It's not special. It's just the pizza you metaphorically grew up with.
by ThrowawayB7 | 2025-11-03 02:36:13+00:00
Even if you consider running on tightly locked down devices to support a monopoly a win, the adoption of the Linux kernel for Android has the same basis as it does for server adoption: people love getting the hard work of others for free. It's basically buying market share. I mean, if Microsoft also started giving away Windows for free and took a bunch of market share away, would you consider that a legitimate win for them?
by photon_garden | 2025-11-03 02:36:14+00:00
> The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations

The Maya are still around! I spent a few months in the Guatemalan highlands last year and all the kids in the village spoke Kaqchikel, one of the Mayan languages, at home.

(Young people speaking the language is key to language health.)
by brightball | 2025-11-03 02:40:17+00:00
We threw a few big parties at my apartment in Clemson around 2001. Never had the cops called, but it’s mainly because we let all of our neighbors know in advance and asked them to let us know if there was a problem.

I will never forget the nice 70 year old lady who lived in the apartment above us. She said, “If it gets too loud, I’ll just turn my hearing aid off.”