MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jorvi | 2025-11-30 15:29:08+00:00
I really dislike that Linux proper doesn't by default have x.xx-server, x.xx-workstation, x.xx-laptop and x.xx-desktop kernel variants. Or just doesn't have defaults, requiring distros to think about what to set during compilation.

A lot of the current defaults stem from the 90s, and often were eyeballed by the creator of said code. They're not good defaults for modern servers nor workstations nor laptops nor desktops. And all of those devices work best with different defaults.

It doesn't seem (yes, appearances can be deceiving) to be that much work, because no extra code needs to be written. For each variant, just set different default parameter values for stuff like swappiness, lazy RCUs and what not. Make it a thing to revisit the defaults every 10 years.

CachyOS and some other distros already do this, but a big chunk of distros doesn't because they think the defaults are well-thought out.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-30 15:29:46+00:00
It is irritating that apparently C is fine having endless compiler extensions without which ISO C is equally unusable to implement an operating system[0], a sign of greatness, while the same argument is used to point out as design flaws when it isn't C we are talking about.

[0] - Unless helped by an external assembler, just like on the UNIX rewrite, when K&R C was initially created.
by noirscape | 2025-11-30 15:30:13+00:00
Taking out the public leaderboard makes sense imo. Even when you don't consider the LLM problem, the public Leaderboard's design was never really suited for anyone outside of the very specific short list of (US) timezones where competing for a quick solution was every feasible.

One thing I do think would be interesting is to see solution rate per hour block. It'd give an indication of how popular advent of code is across the world.
by tjr | 2025-11-30 15:30:22+00:00
Maybe pointless, but I for one disagree with such rulings. Existing copyright law was formed as a construct between human producers and human consumers. I doubt that any human producers prior to a few years ago had any clue that their work would be fed into proprietary AI systems in order to build machines that generate huge quantities of more such works, and I think it fair to consider that they might have taken a different path had they known this.

To retroactively grant propriety AI training rights on all copyrighted material on the basis that it's no different from humans learning is, I think, misguided.
by jfengel | 2025-11-30 15:30:39+00:00
It really did work like that. Government agencies in general are largely insulated from politics. You do your day to day work and wouldn't even notice a change of administration.

The political appointees set the overall direction, and so projects come and go -- more or less at the same rate as they do even under the same administration.

Having the President interfere so directly with ongoing operations is unprecedented. Maybe that's a good thing; people wanted a change and they got it. But it's not usual.
Show HN: Demo Scope – Record/Stream iOS Web Demos with Face Cam and Touches
by admtal | 2025-11-30 15:30:40+00:00
Hi everyone, I made this app

Demo Scope lets you record or stream any mobile website with your face on screen and touch indicators showing every tap.

I built it because I needed to demo my own side projects and hated the OBS/desktop setup.

Load your site in the app, hit record, done. Or stream straight to Twitch/YouTube.

Free to try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/demo-scope/id6755395174

Would love feedback if anyone tries it.
by kotaKat | 2025-11-30 15:31:17+00:00
Ah, no -- the "watchdog" here is basically a system hardware watchdog. The OS 'feeds' the watchdog in the BIOS every X amount of time, if the dog isn't 'fed' in Y time, the computer will fully reboot itself (assuming it crashed).

Because I've installed something that can't feed the watchdog, I just turn the watchdog off.

Their OS install crap, I assume they're just trying to make sure that you can't try to put it on your own hardware (sort of like how people pirate Synology DiskStation).
by LocalH | 2025-11-30 15:31:40+00:00
It's possible the state laws in question (Tennessee) only apply to audio recordings, which would suit my desire. I also don't believe that the idea of a rolling buffer that normally discards its contents to be morally against the idea of notification of recording, or of seeking someone's consent.

I'd be fine with glasses that only record audio in such a way, that illuminate an LED once the "record" button has been pressed. If audio is being recorded into a buffer at all times, but then discarded unless triggered to start "recording", then maybe that should not count as "recording" under the law.

As a practical matter, if one is in a situation where such recording is warranted, by the time you press the record button, you've already missed important information that's relevant to the context of the recording. Allowing a 60-second rolling buffer that then gets dumped to storage when "actual" recording starts should be allowed.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-11-30 15:31:53+00:00
Any export increases of gun metal grade, high carbon steel should be a red flag these days to stateside corporations operating in war zones. Structural steel is a low carbon steel that has more 'give' and is easier to weld. It's obvious which is which.

In Sweden's case, however, even pre-war they were already exporting 40% of Germany's demand for raw ore which increased to 50% during wartime iirc. So Germany already had the infrastructure necessary to process the raw materials into steel, and at scale scale beforehand.

In modern warfare, those same foundaries would make easy aerial targets due to the massive heat output from the bessimer process required to make steel from raw ore.
by earlyreturns | 2025-11-30 15:32:04+00:00
Why pay to get a degree in the US when you are competing for jobs not based on merit or qualifications? I can see why those in h1b’d industries like cs don’t see any point, and those are the industries where the most jobs and money have historically been. As goes the STEM labor market so goes the market for stuff like accounting, communications, sociology. A fair and secure labor market is a necessary condition for higher education to pay off. American workers compete for jobs with a global workforce, therefore American universities must be cost competitive with those in India, China, etc…. Tenure is like tarrifs, the cost of protectionism is paid by the consumer.
by Arainach | 2025-11-30 15:32:13+00:00
Isn't a publicly advertised private leaderboard - especially with cash prizes - against the new guidance? Certainly the spirit of the guidance.

>What happened to the global leaderboard? The global leaderboard was one of the largest sources of stress for me, for the infrastructure, and for many users. People took things too seriously, going way outside the spirit of the contest; some people even resorted to things like DDoS attacks. Many people incorrectly concluded that they were somehow worse programmers because their own times didn't compare. What started as a fun feature in 2015 became an ever-growing problem, and so, after ten years of Advent of Code, I removed the global leaderboard. (However, I've made it so you can share a read-only view of your private leaderboard. *Please don't use this feature or data to create a "new" global leaderboard.*)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-30 15:32:33+00:00
On geopolitical scale, you either need to have big guns or big friends. No one has any true right to any land. If you don't have the foresight to recognize that, you probably don't have a place in the future.

This isn't even something only cold imperialist superpowers adopt. Hawaii itself was populated with warring chiefdoms that were killing each other and taking land for centuries before a bigger fish showed up. Small fish happily eating smaller fish but then are upset when they get eaten...
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:32:38+00:00
> Something like proxmox would destroy the stick.

Never used proxmox myself, but is that the common issue of "logs written to flash consuming writes"? Or something else? The former is probably just changing a line in the config to fix, if it's just that.

> And these days considering an all flash build if you don't have TBs of content

Maybe we're thinking in different scales, but doesn't almost all NAS' have more than 1TB of content? My own personal NAS currently has 16TB in total, I don't want to even imagine what the cost of that would be if I went with SSDs instead of HDDs. I still have SSD for caching, but main data store in a NAS should most likely be HDDs unless you have so much money you just have to spend it.
by epistasis | 2025-11-30 15:32:42+00:00
They do, on their publications. It's all there. And it's not as pervasive as you might think.

I remember a very famous cancer researcher who destroyed his career by not disclosing these relationships:

https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20180914_1/

Now, he's on the extreme end because no other cancer researcher has ever gotten quite that much, as far as I know. But there aren't even accusations that he gave favorable results to any drugs form companies that sponsored him, as far as I have every heard, it was merely that he didn't disclose that destroyed his career.

This is a level of honesty and transparency that does not exist in most of society, and we should be proud in the US that science is so clean compared to every other aspect of our society.

And for all the big money, pharma is far far more honest than grifters like those in the anti-vaxxer space who do not disclose how they are making their money, and who do directly benefit from pushing unproven experimental treatments that do not go through the same rigorous vetting that standard pharma does.
by dwa3592 | 2025-11-30 15:32:53+00:00
I found "inflate like a balloon" a bit confusing/misleading. it's more like the fracture in the rocks expands(slightly) due to the pumping of water- and when the pump is turned off, the fracture goes back to a normal position pushing the hot water up. I am not an expert but I am really bamboozled by the reliability of this bc I imagine the rock/fracture will have to give away after some time(permanent rupture) or they will have to keep expanding the fracture.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-11-30 15:33:30+00:00
Reparations can make sense sometimes. If you can identify the individual descendants who still have the resources stolen from others, returning it to the victim's descendants seems like a good thing. Stolen goods don't lose their stink just because the original thief dies.

A recent example would be art looted by the Nazis being returned to the families it was looted from.

As time passes this becomes more and more difficult, of course.
by thisisit | 2025-11-30 15:33:38+00:00
Add to the fact that people are still defending this gross corruption and both siding it. It seems to me that Americans have went from “drain the swap” to “corruption is okay because the other side does it too. My only regret is that I am not part of the government to score some money too.” It is now a race to becoming a low trust, third world government.
by tim333 | 2025-11-30 15:33:41+00:00
Datacenters in space may not work now but in the future when we get the robots a bit better who knows? From the Google blog:

>The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production. In the right orbit, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth, and produce power nearly continuously, reducing the need for batteries. In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-30 15:33:51+00:00
This next wave is already here and has been for years / decades. It's social media, where people post their experiences, products, things they watch, things they play all the time. And some of these people will get paid for posting things. Some of these people aren't real people. Some of these posts will get promoted, either with direct money or through bought upvotes.

See also the "fake news" pandemic now almost 10 years ago, where they weaponised these techniques towards steering voting behaviour in favor of right-wing politicians.

But browse Facebook (or remember when you did); at least on my side, pretty much all posts from humans (in between the ads) was them sharing what / where they were eating, where they were going on vacation, what they were watching / playing, etc. It's word-of-mouth advertising disguised as possibly shared interests.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-30 15:34:03+00:00
For contrast, gitea/forgejo use as little JavaScript as possible, and have been busy removing frontend libraries over the past year or so. For example, jquery was removed in favor of native ES6+.

Let them choke on their "app-like experience", and if you can afford it, switch over to either one. I cannot recommend it enough after using it "in production" daily for more than five years.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-30 15:34:34+00:00
Different devs have different preferred ways to work and collaborate. I doubt the FOSS community will converge on a single solution. I think we’re at a point of re-decentralization, where devs will move their projects to the forge that satisfies their personal/group requirements for control, hosting jurisdiction, corporate vs community ownership, workflow, and uptime.

This is due to increasing competition in the source forge space. It’s good that different niches can be served by their preferred choice, even if it will be less convenient for devs who want to contribute a patch on a more obscure platform.
by hocuspocus | 2025-11-30 15:34:36+00:00
I haven't defended Kotlin's approach in any way, I don't know why you want to put words in my mouth.

However if you don't see why Kotlin was well positioned, while Scala was not, then you clearly don't know much about either language.

Technical merit is subjective, but different design decisions can precisely be made to win politics or not, and JetBrains made the right ones, first to convince people internally (who knew about Scala, you know), then Google, as they were fairly well aligned.
by api | 2025-11-30 15:34:37+00:00
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.”

In my life there have been two huge destructions of public trust.

The first was the Iraq war, which could only be the result of either bald faced lies or gross incompetence or both. We blundered into the desert and set a trillion dollars and countless lives on fire and have nothing to show for it. Tons of people across the spectrum knew this was a terrible idea and were silenced or ignored.

The other was the 2008 bank bailouts. The problem isn’t that the state stepped in to avert a depression. The problem is that they did it by handing the very people who caused the crash a bonus and a promotion and then proceeded to reinflate the housing bubble to lock two generations out of home ownership. The response was that the Eastern establishment saved itself at the expense of the country, or that’s how it looked to a ton of people all across the country and the political spectrum including myself.

There have been smaller cuts but those are the big obvious ones.

You could never get a Trump or an RFK Jr without these two things.

Unfortunately these two characters are not reformers. They are vultures. They are frauds and con men dining on the corpse of trust.

I’m not Russian but I imagine that the failure of the Soviet regime and the hollowness of its propaganda did a number on trust over there, and that Putin and his allies are likewise vultures.
by lelandfe | 2025-11-30 15:34:40+00:00
Seems like you found it, but for others: one of the easiest ways to get a PR's diff/patch is to just put .diff or .patch at the end of its URL. I use this all the time!

Random PR example, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106 has a diff at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106.diff

Another thing that surprises some is that GitHub's forks are actually just "magic" branches. I.e the commits on a fork exist in the original repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/8fc3d909ad0f90561...
by matkoniecz | 2025-11-30 15:34:59+00:00
> The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted—one that is now being trampled—is the ability to go about their work free of political interference.

Communism style solutions ("it is better to have everyone being extremely poor, rather than having some poor and some rich people") is a terrible solution. Trampling on everyone because other group got trampled earlier is not a solution at all.

Presenting insane and deadly pseudoscience as science is stupid, dangerous and will kill people.

But claiming that there were no problems whatsoever and no political interference at all is a really dubious claim. This kind of reality denial is unhelpful and further erodes whatever trust was left.
by shagie | 2025-11-30 15:36:08+00:00
A data center on an orbit that is only known to the operators makes it difficult to use as a data center in a meaningful way - where do you point your uplink?

Spy satellites are individual craft. Proposals tossed about suggest significant constellates to give sufficient coverage to the land.

Suggestions involving square kilometers of solar power are not exactly things that would be easy to hide.

https://youtu.be/hKw6cRKcqzY (from YCombinator)

> Data centers in space. The problem is that data centers take up a ton of space and they need a huge amount of energy. Enter StarCloud. This is the beginning of a future where most new data centers are being built in space. They're starting small, but the goal is to build massive orbital data centers that will make computing more efficient and less of a burden on the limited resources down here on Earth.

These aren't small things. You can't hide it.

> And so we're building with a vision to build extremely large full 40 megawatt data centers. It's about 100 tons. It's what you can fit in one full Starship halo bay.
by torginus | 2025-11-30 15:36:09+00:00
Honestly I think capitalism is a farce and I don't even have an emotional response to (b/tr)illionaires getting insane handouts and the stock valuations being insanely overpriced for even the most optimistic projections created by the companies themselves.

Okay rich guys, you get to have infinite free money.

But economists, I beg of you, I am willing to kiss your shoes, but please just admit that this causes inflation, and things aren't getting more expensive 'just because'
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:36:16+00:00
> But I must admit I'm in the turn-key solution phase of my life and have cheerfully enjoyed a big-name NAS over last 5 years or so :).

You know, I thought I was too, so I threw in the towel and migrated one my NAS to TrueNAS, since it's supposed to be one of those "turn-key solutions that doesn't require maintenance", and everything got slower, harder to maintain and even managed to somehow screw up one of my old disks when I added it to my pool.

The next step after that was to migrate to NixOS and bit the bullet to ensure the stuff actually works. I'd love to just give someone money and not having to care, but it seems the motto of "If you want something done correctly, you have to do it yourself" lives deep in me, and I just cannot stomach loosing the data on my NAS, so it ends up really hard to trust any of those paid-for solutions when they're so crap.
by LocalH | 2025-11-30 15:36:17+00:00
The point of this idea is that it would be under control of the individual wearing the glasses. I would most definitely not want it to be syncing to the cloud or some stupid shit like that. The buffer, and the storage, would need to be entirely contained within the glasses (or other device, if it turns out audio is a legally safer way to implement something like this).

As I mentioned in a sibling comment, I'm not against a visual notification of such recording once the "start saving to storage" button has been pressed. At the same time, I realize that the 60 seconds or so leading up to pressing that button is also often vital (otherwise dashcams wouldn't use a rolling buffer). And in such a situation where audio (or video, in applicable jurisdictions) is being recorded only in volatile memory and overwritten when the buffer is exhausted, I don't think a recording notification should be necessary unless the user has actively engaged non-volatile recording. In that sense, it's similar to the difference between streaming and downloading media. Both are technically the same, but the intention of "streaming" is to download the media and decode it without storing it in a non-volatile fashion.
by ch4s3 | 2025-11-30 15:36:45+00:00
While the cause is UV exposure, sunburns drive most of the actual risk.[1] so it not technically true that skin cancer is only caused by sunburns, most melanomas come from sunburns. There’s a very linear dose response.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2873840/
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-11-30 15:36:53+00:00
I work for a small Us-based med-tech company that is growing. We are paring down our offshore devs and hiring only US based devs now. I can assure you that if you have a good school on your resume it puts you at the top of the list. All things being equal, if you went to University of Vermont (like I did) and and someone else when to Harvard, you better believe I'm interviewing the Harvard kid first.

>Why pay to get a degree in the US when you are competing for jobs not based on merit or qualifications?

This is one of those things that people just say and while of course there are issues with our current system, this provably false and patently absurd. Do you not do a technical interview for new devs? You don't check their merit or qualifications? You just do a lottery? It's frustrating to hear comments like this because it reeks of people thinking they're so smart while ignoring reality.
by Enginerrrd | 2025-11-30 15:36:57+00:00
I actually think math and sciences should introduce what I call "synthesis" much earlier. i.e. I don't think it's unfair to give students all the ingredients and add in a question on the exam to see if they can take those ingredients and apply it to a problem type they haven't seen before. (This is a great differentiator between C students and A students.) Or for a science class, rather than perform an experiment, I think the students should have to actually DESIGN the experiment first. (I had one laboratory exam in 2nd semester undergrad chem class that did this and it was amazing! The students also performed pretty well at it too. It consisted of being told to figure out how much zinc was in a lozenge. We were also maybe given a handy reaction formula and that was it. You had to design your analysis procedure and figure out how to get the quantity you wanted out of it, and then actually perform your analysis all within the exam period.)

I think not doing this starting in like middle school is a big part of the reason why people think math/science is useless. Unless the exact scenario they have been taught pops up, they can very rarely see the application. But the real world NEVER works this way. A problem is NEVER formulated as a straight forward well-formed problem. Figuring out how to mold it into something that you can apply the tools you know to is in and of itself a REALLY important skill to practice, and sadly, we almost NEVER practice that. Only in grad school does that type of thing come up.
by vunderba | 2025-11-30 15:37:19+00:00
From the article:

> Drives with a drive-letter other than A-Z do not appear in File Explorer, and cannot be navigated to in File Explorer.

Reminds me of the old-school ALT + 255 trick on Win9x machines where adding this "illegal trailing character" made the directory inaccessible from the regular file explorer.