MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apparent | 2025-11-29 23:56:08+00:00
Toward the end, there's a snippet about how a smart speaker might listen to your conversations and raise pricing when it knows you're in need of a particular item. In such a world, one might also be able to trick the system into lowering prices by purposely having conversations in front of the device, indicating that you don't like a product very much or are on the fence about purchasing it.

Regardless, I'll never own a smart speaker that's always listening.

But I did think the piece was missing context about how dynamic pricing means that people who are low-propensity buyers of a particular product would get a better deal on it. That is, they'd get a better deal than if everyone had to pay the same price. Dynamic pricing goes both ways.
by para_parolu | 2025-11-29 23:56:18+00:00
I’m surprised there is no YouTuber who would make such a show. Like, add many cameras to the car, put a laptop with GPS on the backseat, and leave the car in the Oakland public parking lot. Then use the videos as proof for the police and the laptop’s location to quickly find the criminal. I don’t think there is a law that prevents it.
by randcraw | 2025-11-29 23:56:24+00:00
As the article says, this change in opinion has been very big and very recent. Don't expect universities to sit still and do nothing.

I see several possible reactions. One is to do what Georgia Tech and U Texas are doing -- to offer online degrees for MUCH reduced cost, like $10k. Will such 30 credit MS degree programs (that don't require BS first) replace 120 credit BS degrees? That makes a lot of sense to me.

The popularity of residential degree programs may be ending, due to insanely high cost and the need to retrain often as AI automation changes the employment picture rapidly and unpredictably.
by dagmx | 2025-11-29 23:57:25+00:00
It’s specifically using the ARKit facial tracking that gives you FACS blend shape values

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ARKit/tracking-and...

This plugin to blender is basically just receiving those values from the OS API and applying it. It’s a fairly common integration and almost all alternatives depend on ARKit on an iPhone as a result rather than implementing any algorithms themselves.

Variations of this plugins functionality have existed since the introduction of the iPhone X in 2017.
by dmurray | 2025-11-29 23:57:44+00:00
> It's not that each congruence gives you new information

So it's not that each congruence gives you N bits of information, and you want kN bits in total. It's more like each congruence has a 1/k chance of giving you the full kN bits.

But in some information theory sense those are the same! Or concretely, if you were testing a large quantity of numbers in parallel, you would get information from each congruence.
by Sammi | 2025-11-29 23:57:57+00:00
The economic modal of china is irrelevant to how their geography makes them easy to blockade. I think you might have just misread what I was saying here. I was saying how they don't have a viable long game _if_ they choose to start a war that the west doesn't approve of. Because they are practically land locked like the USSR when compared to the west.

Nothing replaces oil as an energy source for military reach.

China is decades away from having any pipelines to north siberia where most of the russian oil is. There's really nothing practical even on the drawing board atm.

Pipelines are the easiest transport of oil to stop. Look at ukraine.
by watwut | 2025-11-29 23:57:59+00:00
> Good kings provided protection from the very real threat of foreign barbarians, provided a common legal framework, and eased commerce, and thus human flourishing. Good kings deserve commendation even if monarchy has issues.

Are you having some concrete historical personalities in mind or are you actually just making up imaginary kings who simultaneously created a common legal framework, fought against invaders while not invading others, eased commers and also enhanced "human flourishing"? And did all that while other people in kingdom and surrounding kingdoms were basically unimportant to all that and the king was the center person to all of that?

Cause I am going to argue that whatever benefits and disadvantages of monarchy, your king is imaginary. Despite being powerful, kings were very much limited by what went on around them and what they could not control.
by gnulinux996 | 2025-11-29 23:58:38+00:00
> Interesting how many people in a hacker forum seem to be so pro-establishment

Here's my perspective:

1) Coastal liberal inner city males with a tech flair and an interest in Apple, have decided that due to lack of social skills and/or inner circle it would be good to keep themselves busy with creating a business. Actually, business is a Republican term, let's call it a startup, - hold that rainbow flag for me will you -.

2) They start to realize, that startups operate in an environment with rules, their "business plan" eventually bumps into those rules. Those rules are what made their piece of land - commonly called a country - a nice place to live.

3) Meanwhile, various interests parade on "news" outlets telling the constituents that "rules bad for business, business made us great, everything else tried has failed".

4) Deregulation is the pill, libertarianism/freedom/liberty talk is the bacon wrapped around it

5) The city male realizes that he has more in common with the bigshot businessman that he thought, its only a few billions that set them apart

6) Furthermore, it has been accepted as an axiom that anyone can make it in US (immigrant went from poor being rich feelgood story on cnbc anyone?)

Business establishment is legitimate power in the US, also they are not being pro-establishment, they are being pro let-me-do-this-thats-the-only-thing-i-have-going-for-me

Also, let's ditch the terms good/evil. They are straight up juvenile.
by roenxi | 2025-11-29 23:59:33+00:00
The quality of an education isn't proportional to the amount of money spent; learning is remarkably cheap if a school wants to focus on outcomes. There's a bit of give in where the teacher sits on the bumpkin-genius scale (although even then, the range of salaries isn't that wide in the big picture).

Although forcing the funding to go through a collective rather than letting people choose a school and pay on in individual basis would probably deliver a pretty serious blow to the quality.
by krater23 | 2025-11-29 23:59:35+00:00
This comes some years too late. Who is really using StackOverflow to ask questions? I know that ChatGPT can answer all questions that StackOverflow can answer in a fast, friendly and nearby as correct way. It has limitations, but the most people on StackOverflow are jsut doing the same than ChatGPT, just repeat after other people. All this things will be gone soon.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-29 23:59:58+00:00
Outside of console or handheld like experiences, I am not sure what this distro gives that Mint, proprietary nvidia drivers and Steam dont give me? I basically just download windows games as external applicationd through steam and use proton. Though I suppose a one click like “run this as proton” and “run this in this proton environment” could be useful. But once you learn how to change targets its not super complicated.
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-30 00:00:01+00:00
> could reduce their achievements to whatever configuration of gray matter

Even if we could do that it would not "reduce" any personal value. I think these are biases you may have. Accountability can be defined, even in that total view.

And right now, even in the incomplete view that we have, it is defined socially and politically. And that's what my real take is:

That the ideas that most people have of self, person-hood, achievement, merit and value, are political ideas.They are not necessarily true/accurate ideas. They serve a political purpose.

> What level of analysis would you consider "complete"?

We can go further than what we have now. In fact I think we MUST go further in order to make the world a better place.

Our current analysis is really just a cheap political tool that serves to preserve a sort of caste-system, most employed for classism and racism. That vague notion that "some people are just different" is the base for many political violations.

If anything the ideal, final form of what I am saying is this: Real Incorruptible Democracy.

So we don't need a scientific model describing of a persons thoughts in real, chemical, atomic detail, we need a world that can take peoples individual circumstance into real political consideration and action.

This could be what a real science of people is.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-30 00:00:16+00:00
My comment is generalizing, as is the thread subject. It has been a downwards moving trend, and for young workers I will say that a college degree is now a negative factor. But that doesn't define the candidate.

Also: Any positive or negative effect of a college degree is either amplified or moderated by candidates self-selecting. A candidate who greatly values their college degree will seek out employers who do the same, and vice-versa.
by johnea | 2025-11-30 00:00:59+00:00
I guess wikipedia doesn't agree with you:

"BIND is the de facto standard DNS server"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_softw...

9 just being the currently deployed version.

A non-wikipedia reference:

https://dn.org/a-comprehensive-comparison-of-popular-dns-ser...

Although this article does state that bind's "configuration files and options require careful attention to detail".

So, maybe it's not appropriate for the modern hype-cycle s/w development model?

In general, I don't think I'm disagreeing with you, so I'm not sure what message the reply is intended to convey.

Technitium seems like another one of those: "My weekend hobby project was to reinvent fire, and the wheel" sort of things, that seem popular on the HN feed.

My favorite feature of bind is "split views". This allows the same service to provide DNS on the local LAN, as well as authoritative DNS to the internet.
by razingeden | 2025-11-30 00:01:15+00:00
i asked an LLM to parse all three attachments and just explain what the software is and does :

https://pastebin.com/p6ibtBpJ

tldr, it mines your public social media posts and maps your degree of connection to people who post “extremist” content (guilt by association) and then ties that to any internal private dirt the FBI has on you

evades 4th amendment, warrant, FISA types of reporting because its all stuff you chose to post publicly on one of these platforms.
by fragmede | 2025-11-30 00:01:23+00:00
Photoshop does not monitor your traffic in Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Brave/Ladybug/etc. Photoshop does hit the Internet to use Creative Cloud for fonts and stuff, so they do know about that, though. The difference is in kind. How you're using Photoshop is relevant to Adobe, the creators of Photoshop. The websites you're browsing are not relevant to them and none of their business.
by bilekas | 2025-11-30 00:02:30+00:00
for me personally, growing up from the MS-DOS era.. When clippy first came on the scene, it wasn't that I was concerned he was stealing my data or my school essays and projects, it was he was ridiculously annoying and on my relatively good PC for the time (Gateway nostalgia) it actually had a performance impact, at least it felt that way.

So while I get the sentiment of "Be like clippy" it just makes me thing that copilot is clippy v2.
by watwut | 2025-11-30 00:02:54+00:00
They had own civilization. They lost war and were genocided out. And for the record, they had wars against themselves too, just like Europeans had wars against other Europeans.

Both slavery and territorial expansion by force were wealth builders. Both took quite a lot of time too. Both were quite barbaric from our point of view, but cruelty and violence can be wealth builder. After all, Putin is super wealthy too. Stalin ended up wealthy too. Hitler same deal. There is not much difference in there.
by delichon | 2025-11-30 00:04:27+00:00
I wish it were dubious. I recently worked with 11th grade Algebra 2 students in New Mexico and found exactly that, and worse. Most couldn't begin to do algebra because they couldn't do simple addition and subtraction. Out of a class of 24 there were two who were arguably ready for it. But everyone is moved forward anyway. I understand your skepticism because I was shocked by it. The teachers said it all went down the drain during Covid and has not recovered.

It must severely limit what they can learn in college.
by mc32 | 2025-11-30 00:04:41+00:00
The local tribes were mostly one of two types, the nomadic (ex. Comanche) and the agricultural (Apache). The former would often raid the latter, killing many of the men and taking the women and children --often, but not always, they'd end up being their slaves. So the behavior of the Europeans you describe of the time was not out of the ordinary for the locals.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-30 00:05:08+00:00
Tokyo fundamentally doesn't define pedestrian only zones except in very specific conditions.

I get why you'd feel unsafe, but IMHO it's the exact opposite effect: 99% of the streets don't have a sidewalk or anything specific for pedestrian, and thus are pedestrian first.

Small kids, dogs, cats, elderlies will be walking in the middle of the street. As a result cars drive way slower than they'd do in Paris and they need to be way more alert to what's happening. Every small street is basically the same as the pedestrian zone in the middle of Paris.
by wging | 2025-11-30 00:05:56+00:00
I read the article as saying that there's no official C library but unofficial ones do exist. Quote below, emphasis mine.

> A official c library doesn’t exist yet unfortunately, but there’s several out there you can try.

Also, it looks like there is more than zero support for C programs calling Landlock APIs. Even without a 3rd-party library you're not just calling syscall() with a magic number:

https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/landlock.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/6bda50f4/include/uapi...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/6bda50f4/include/linu...
by AngryData | 2025-11-30 00:06:16+00:00
Yeah, so many people like to point at specific inventions and ask why it wasn't done sooner or such, but 99% of the time it was because of a lack of material science that made production near impossible.

It doesn't matter if someone has a PhD in steam engine engineering, if they went back in time to the Roman empire there still would be no steam engines because there are only a handful of examples of accidentally good enough steel in the entire world, which you don't even have a way to identify yet other than buying 10000x extra and spending years testing every sample to find the good stuff, not to mention you need even more of that high quality steel just to make the tools required to cut good steel into a capable boiler design.

If you can't bang something together with wood, stone, and dirt, it requires advanced material science and entire industries behind it to produce and be worth the effort. Yeah a steam powered water pump would be useful to the Romans, but not if it took 5,000 men working for years and dumping endless amounts of money into it to find just the right ore source and smelting procedures just to produce a single engine that only replaces the labor of 50 guys with buckets.
by jiveturkey | 2025-11-30 00:07:00+00:00
I definitely wouldn't want to work on your team, if that's how you interpret such an answer. Perfect interview then -- we've both eliminated the other as a viable employee/employer, so that's a win and we got there from just 1 trivial coding question. There's so much more to say here, but this is no longer timely, plus this isn't great forum for such discussion.

FWIW I have never been asked this question or similar, but since it's so famous I do have my own answer at the ready, which is just slightly more complex than the naive solution, but still well within the realm of production-worthy (maintainable, testable, readable) code. We don't really ever see any discussion of such because of course it isn't "interesting".
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-11-30 00:07:24+00:00
> You don’t need every job to choose you. You just need the one that’s the right fit.

You mean, the first one to say yes. Tbh seems more like first to say yes, not first to be fit and say yes.

> You don’t need every house to accept your offer. You just need the one that feels like home.

Same here. Is easy to find one to say yes. Hard to be “feels like home” && say yes.

> You don’t need every person to want to build a life with you. You just need the one.

“The one” is hard.

>You don’t need ten universities to say yes. You just need the one that opens the right door.

Same. What even means “the right door”? How can you even know before you got in?

I think it’s a bad analogy. At least frame it a more realistic: your only need one job to say yes. Might not be the right job but it’s a job. Same for all other.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-30 00:07:29+00:00
Do you not know that the US is a Federal system and there are (at minimum) 50 different ways that schools are funded?

California's schools (for instance) aren't funded by local taxes, they're funded by the state and allocated funding based on a formula[1] of performance, need, population, etc. They can be augmented by local taxes, but in practice that's rare as the wealthy just avoid the system altogether; instead, opting for private institutions.

That's at least 12% of the population that is not funded in the manner you outline.

1 - https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/
by gritten | 2025-11-30 00:07:50+00:00
It's a computer, not a political crusade.

There will be people of all types and ideologies in the Framework laptop supply chain somewhere. I don't see how this man's political views are at all relevant to the computer you are buying, even if you managed to convince me that he is guilty of thought crime in the first place.

My first Framework is preordered now. I really don't care if a Nazi or a transsexual furry Marxist or anything in between has contributed along the way. I bought a computer from a computer manufacturer.
by nerdponx | 2025-11-30 00:08:35+00:00
> the reality of the common implementation is that planning is dispensed with. It gives some management a great excuse to look no further than the next jira ticket, if that.

Maybe I'm just lucky but I've never experienced this. If anything, the companies I've worked for didn't do anything particularly agile, and were often deliberately trying to change habits and workflows to be more agile. This often came down from engineering managers who wanted to know how the whole project was going to go the day it started, so they could report upwards with a delivery timeline.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-30 00:09:22+00:00
Why are the problems of people who don't own large houses with spare rooms they can afford to dedicate to their company for free, or living arrangements otherwise conducive to working remotely a "them" problem, but your failure to live within walking distance of your jobs not a "you" problem? Perhaps the truth here is that your experience isn't a universal experience, and just because remote working works out exceptionally well for you doesn't mean that applies universally. Maybe people who want to work in offices legitimately find that to be a better way to work.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-11-30 00:09:28+00:00
While I understand the point of Linux distros overall, because they allow very specific usage like embedded, etc., I really don't get the point of those generalist but slightly specialized distributions focused on a single aspect that consumers use a computer for.

I'm far from a Linux super-user, I only use it for my servers and Raspberry Pis, but even I would rather pick Debian and install the necessary stuff by hand. This feels like opting-in to bloat on your newly installed OS.

I'll happily listen if anyone has a good selling point for those, but I can't think of any OS less attractive than something tailored for a single use-case on my generalist PC build.
by roarcher | 2025-11-30 00:10:07+00:00
> They serve a political purpose.

Indeed.

> That vague notion that "some people are just different" is the base for many political violations.

As is the idea that everyone is an interchangeable unit of labor, all producing the same outputs if only they were given the same inputs.

> If anything the ideal, final form of what I am saying is this: Real Incorruptible Democracy.

I don't know what you mean by this, but I am highly skeptical of anything that claims a title like "incorruptible". Such things are usually the exact opposite, sort of like countries with "Democratic Republic" in their name or ships billed as "unsinkable".
by Animats | 2025-11-30 00:11:05+00:00
I just had that kind of experience, but with Stack Exchange.

The Ubuntu people seem to have recently pushed to users a new version of the CUPS printer scheduler that doesn't like the syntax of some old cupsd.conf files. This breaks all printing on affected machines.

So where are the bug reports? Stack Exchange. Nobody over there is going to fix it. This needs to be discussed on Ubuntu Forums, where the maintainers might read it. For now, I posted similar discussions on the CUPS forum and Ubuntu's own forum, and linked them to each other. There's a finger-pointing problem coming up - is this a CUPS bug or a Ubuntu bug? (What writes the cupsd.conf file anyway? Ubuntu Settings?) I don't want to file a bug report until the finger-pointing phase has commentary from people who actually know the innards of Linux printing, or I'll get shot down by one side blaming the other. Let those guys fight it out.
by khannn | 2025-11-30 00:12:37+00:00
Your post is so muddled. The cheapest new EV on the US market is a Nissan Leaf at ~30k MSRP new, but I found a used 2025 model with 1341 miles for $17,899 in a cursory search. Nissan has a dealership in my city so I know it can be serviced here or at worst the next largest city near here while a Chinese brand would be a crapshoot until it spreads to my medium-small city. I can only imagine the stink people will put on Chinese cars, even hybrids and American made EVs get poo-poo'd.

I imagine that a Chinese automaker such as BYD would price itself low, something like an EV at ICE prices, to get a foothold in the American market. I really wish BYD was around here so I could drive one and look at the build quality myself, it's almost like the domestic Automakers and the CIA are putting out hit pieces about the brand.
by doener | 2025-11-30 00:12:39+00:00
A few points from the website:

- Out-of-the-box support for Xbox, Wii, Switch, PS3, PS4, PS5, and numerous other controllers.

- Nvidia drivers and the latest Mesa for AMD & Intel pre-installed, with tweaks applied as needed

- Bazzite ships with support for additional Wi-Fi adapters, display standards like DisplayLink, and more

- Out of the box support for not only desktop PCs, but handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-30 00:13:09+00:00
Sure. And you don't need Guy Hawks mask to have Anonymous, yet we did.

Right to repair (RtR) needs a vocal majority to really move the needle. Politicians hate when people unite around things that they work against. Namely unchecked corps doing whatever they want and donating them money.

When are anti-monopoly judges going to split GOOG and MSFT?
by hokumguru | 2025-11-30 00:13:18+00:00
The reason I use Bazzite is very simple: I only use my desktop computer for gaming and when I turn it on, I want it to work immediately without issues.

With previous distros I always had issues configuring something or another with games/drivers. Bazzite has been the closest to Windows/console experience for me wrt Linux pc gaming.

If this is a generalist computer, then you are absolutely correct. This is not the distro for you. This is very specifically built for gaming.