MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ignoramous | 2025-12-05 17:29:25+00:00
> this sounds like the sort of cowboy decision

Ouch. Harsh given that Cloudflare's being over-honest (to disabling the internal tool) and the outage's relatively limited impact (time wise & no. of customers wise). It was just an unfortunate latent bug: Nov 18 was Rust's Unwrap, Dec 5 its Lua's turn with its dynamic typing.

Now, the real cowboy decision I want to see is Cloudflare [0] running a company-wide Rust/Lua code-review with Codex / Claude...

cf TFA:

if rule_result.action == "execute" then rule_result.execute.results = ruleset_results[tonumber(rule_result.execute.results_index)] end This code expects that, if the ruleset has action="execute", the "rule_result.execute" object will exist ... error in the [Lua] code, which had existed undetected for many years ... prevented by languages with strong type systems. In our replacement [FL2 proxy] ... code written in Rust ... the error did not occur.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166
by geniusyan | 2025-12-05 17:29:35+00:00
Hey HN, I'm excited to share Ind-QwenTTS, a mini TTS system I trained from scratch focusing on Indian languages and accents. It's built on top of Qwen2.5-0.5B and uses SNAC for discrete audio codecs, turning speech synthesis into a causal language modeling task. The goal was to address the lack of high-quality TTS for low-resource Indian setups like Indian-accented English
by Nasrudith | 2025-12-05 17:29:45+00:00
No they hate feeling manipulated. They not only expect social manipulation they think you are downright rude, unsocialized, and untrustworthy if you don't manipulate them reflexively. Just look at mirroring alone.

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

I hated to come to this conclusion, but the average neurotypical person is fundamentally so batshit insane they think that not manipulating them is a sign you aren't trustworthy and ability to conceal your emotions and put on an appropriate emotional kabuki dance is a sign of trustworthiness.
by dasil003 | 2025-12-05 17:29:56+00:00
The production side is the problem. Netflix churns out shovelware crap designed to be on in the background. Every once in a while they get lucky or stick their neck out to acquire something good, but the batting average is very low. HBO on the other hand has the highest batting average, and the brand actually still stands for quality.

Of course Netflix is saying all the right things now to keep anti-trust off their backs, but at some which culture do you think is going to win out?
by dogman144 | 2025-12-05 17:30:21+00:00
Haha very important disclaimer there, because reading your post sounds a lot like a person who works for big ag.

The other reason these laws exist is a long history by Big Ag (Monsanto, Cargill) doing the following, and has been done in the states for a while:

1) gmo/patented seeds in field on the left, community non-big ag seeds on the right field.

2) Cross-pollination occurs because we’re talking crops. Variations on this.

3) Monsanto sues Farmer John and Jane into the ground next season for stealing tech via the crops he’s growing.

Add in a little bit of fear (encryption backdoors for the children, laws to prevent dangerous counterfeit seeds!), and you have monopoly on farming run by big corps.

Also, US corps have a long history of POC’ing underhanded approaches in Africa.

What could be going on here!?

Edit - Man, rereading, “forced to plant [dangerous] saved seeds,” guess it’s Big Ag + tech startups now pushing this. Maybe… those farmers just want to control their “IP” (saved seeds) so they don’t have to buy them from a cartel of seed providers? This is such a well known problem in the states, is this marketing really working in Africa?

Final edit on the soapbox - other reason why this matters is genetic diversity. Crop blight is a thing. There is no way the natural “herd immunity” of a basket of seed variants in a community is outstripped in effectiveness by a growing monoculture of owned hybrid seeds that stay in front of the blights each season. Coffee rust already jumped the Atlantic from Africa to SA. Often feels like I’ve read this sci-fi novel already (there is a good one - Windup Girl).
by overfeed | 2025-12-05 17:30:29+00:00
They are completely ignoring the context of this whole thread, which exists because the highest court in the land (Kenyan land, that is) has affirmed that right.

Ggp's is as absurd as a North Korean commenting on a SCOTUS ruling on the right to a fair trial by saying "This is a new human right I didn't even know I had."
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 17:31:40+00:00
Some classes of software, as the author rightly points out, yeah.

But there is much out there that still run the exact same software that they wrote 20, 30 or even longer time ago. Personally, it's most noticable with musical instruments I use, where most of the synthesizers are still running the exact same software as they launched with, +- some recreational hacks sometimes.

Once you control both the hardware and software, things become a lot easier (yet not problem-free). I'm sure there is more stuff out there than synthesizers that is similar, from signage to 3D printing firmware. I still come across random (important) devices running Windows XP out there in the wild.
by thih9 | 2025-12-05 17:32:00+00:00
> If you mask learning deficiencies with extra time on texts, soothe social anxiety by forgoing presentations, and neglect time management skills with deadline extensions, you might forge a path to better grades. But you'll also find yourself less capable of tackling the challenges of adult life.

I call BS. There are lots of “adult life” occupations where the above are not needed are or not as important.

Not to mention that deadline extensions, extra time, or delegating a presentation to someone else are very common in many fields.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-12-05 17:32:32+00:00
To give a slight counter point, I had a lead role in the taskforce in charge of putting in place the first Green Taxonomy reporting in a construction company. The Green Taxonomy is one the law which was written at the same time as the CSDDD and the CSRD.

It's probably the worst piece of law and one of the most useless thing I have ever seen in my life. When the reporting became mandatory, most of the documents required to decide if your activity was concerned were yet to be published. Application documents were inexistent. The commission had refused to coordinate with national accounting bodies to ensure things would be simple to interpret and the result was a monster. To give you an idea of how batshit crazy it was, as a construction company, we were supposed to evaluate how the regulations on chemical of every countries we operated in align with European limits for every chemicals our suppliers may use while working for us. Go ask your Indonesian third rank suppliers every components that is in their hand soap. All of that to publish a useless report with no actual impact in the field. Only a mad bureaucracy with no idea of how a company operates can produce such bullshit.

I am fairly convince the CSDDD was the same. I knew what was in the CSRD and it's so impractical, it's hard to believe.

Brussels under Von Der Leyen 1 was apparently completely crazy. It's good to see some sanity prevail.
by barbazoo | 2025-12-05 17:32:35+00:00
If one didn’t have an account with meta they just wouldn’t get the visa then or how does it work?

Does the government have any direct link to meta re what accounts people actually have. I’m surprised people aren’t up in arms about this, I guess it affects mostly visitors and immigrants but the fact that the government needs to see your activity on a private company’s web app is wild to me.
by hardolaf | 2025-12-05 17:32:36+00:00
I tried out Netgear Orbi and I don't know who it's actually for. It tried deploying it at my dad's place, but had to return it because it just doesn't work. Dropped in Ubiquiti gear to replace it and I had the entire network up and running within 15 minutes of applying power. And it's had zero of the issues that I had with Netgear's system.
by meffmadd | 2025-12-05 17:33:06+00:00
Yeah true, but also this is a bit like saying the lock screen of your phone should not become a "one stop shop" for all push notifications. I actually do not own an Apple TV but I just imaging you have a list of shows from different streaming providers on the "home screen" (like it is on my PS4). And on a technical level it is just an API you integrate with (same as push notifications), which helps UX.
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-05 17:33:23+00:00
I had the first Twingo model with that engine. Sure, reliability was exceptional, and it also felt nice to drive for a low power engine (55 HP). What wasn't exceptional however was fuel economy, which significantly increased the total cost of ownership of a car like the Twingo.

I think the car made it to almost 300000 km with the engine showing barely any sign of wear. Some parts broke down, and there was still regular maintenance, which, combined with poor fuel economy and state subsidies made it not economically viable to keep the car even though it still ran. The newer model we bought later didn't last as long, the engine was good but not as robust, but it was still worth changing because of fuel economy alone.

At no point we considered environmental factors, only cost, but they are tied, since better fuel economy means both lower costs and lower emissions.

So in the end, you we a engine that was reliable for sure but didn't meet modern standards in terms of running costs, emissions and performance. When the Twingo came out, the use of the Cléon-Fonte engine was generally considered a serious downside, and it was changed to the more modern and appropriate "Energy" engine shortly after.
by runarberg | 2025-12-05 17:33:30+00:00
I am not a CS expert, but this does not look like a full implementation of rule 110, nor is it even pure CSS (there is HTML involved).

What I see in the SO answer is an interface for Rule 110 with an additional set of instruction (written in a natural language) for the user to execute manually. So you can use CSS + HTML to create an interface for a Rule 110, which is then written in a natural language around that interface. The answer even states that (very relevant) caveat.

> [...] so long as you consider an appropriate accompanying HTML file and user interactions to be part of the “execution” of CSS.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-05 17:33:52+00:00
> Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online content rules

This is what the article said. [edit, mostly wrong: "You gave the reason that was used for an investigation of TikTok, and I don't know where you got the blue check thing from."]

> I hold back no criticism on free speech issues in eu (ie chat control) when it is correct to do so, but this case doesn't look like it

edit: I got a bad load that cut off the end. What was actually said, however was,

> EU regulators said X's DSA violations included the deceptive design of its blue checkmark for verified accounts, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository and its failure to provide researchers access to public data.

Italics mine. The first line however, is about breaching "online content rules."
by mystraline | 2025-12-05 17:35:05+00:00
Radio is a lot simpler. Used to work in that realm back in the Napster and Kazaa days.

You have a broadcast station. You know that estimated 30k people are listening. You sell those numbers to advertisers. Now you play a song 1x, you record that fact. At the end of the month, you tally up 30k users for that artist and you cut a check to ASCAP or BMI. Thats it. You just keep track of how many plays and your audience size, and send checks monthly itemized.

They were downloading pirate Britney Spears over Napster and playing it on air. And since 100% royalties are paid for, was actually legal. Not a lawyer, but they evidently checked and was fine.

I'd like something similar for video. Grab shows however, and put together the biggest streaming library of EVERYTHING, and cut royalty checks for rights holders. But nope, can't do that. Companies are too greedy.
by dman | 2025-12-05 17:35:11+00:00
This is the last response I have from them in my inbox (Sep 24, 2015, 8:56 AM). Never heard back from them after this inspite of repeated subsequent queries

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by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-05 17:35:27+00:00
The standard complaint is the opposite. In a generic first past the post two party system you should end up with two barely distinguishable centrist parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

But the US system is far from generic. Instead it has several tweaks that make it tend towards extremism. The primary system is probably the biggest factor.
by peterbonney | 2025-12-05 17:35:33+00:00
The devil is really in the details on how the orders were executed in the backtest, slippage, etc. Instead of comparing to the S&P 500 I'd love to see it benchmarked against a range of active strategies, including common non-AI approaches (e.g. mean reversion, momentum, basic value focus, basic growth focus, etc.) and some simple predictive (non-generative) AI models. This would help shake out whether there is selection alpha coming out of the models, or whether there is execution alpha coming out of the backtest.
by sombragris | 2025-12-05 17:35:34+00:00
Someone studied in the US under a F1 visa and a scholarship. No other substantial income other than that. This person while in the U.S. had to file tax forms, although there was no tax to be paid because this person had no income outside the scholarships. The student finished the studies in, say, October last year and then left the country for his home country. The student graduated and does not intend to return to the U.S.

The educational institution sent the student's home address some tax form that he had to file by April 15, but the former student forgot to do that.

The question is: would the student have problems getting a U.S. visa as a tourist and entering the U.S. several years after that? If yes, how could that be fixed? Thanks in advance.
by estebank | 2025-12-05 17:35:37+00:00
> For almost everything a managed runtime like Go or Java or .NET is going to be just as effectively deployed, significantly cheaper to develop

That might be true. I personally still prefer to use a language with sum-types and exhaustive pattern matching for encoding business logic.

> and much cheaper to maintain.

[citation needed]

> Where are the rustacean routing engines and database backends and codecs and kernels? Not in deployment anywhere, not yet.

It is used at Amazon on Firecracker, S3, EC2, CloudFront, Route 53, and that's just what was publicly talked about in 2020[0].

It is used in Android, including in the Kernel[1].

It is used at Microsoft, including in the Kernel[2].

It is used extensively in Firefox, and less extensively in Chrome. JPEG XL might be reincorporated into them because there's a Rust codec in the works.

For databases, the earliest I remember is TiKV[3], which hit 1.0 back in 2018. There are others since.

> C still rules that world, even for new features.

Sure. So?

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-a...

[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move...

[2]: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/282471/microsoft-is-rewriti...

[3]: https://github.com/tikv/tikv
by archon810 | 2025-12-05 17:35:37+00:00
I recently ran into an issue with the Cloudflare API feature that if you want to roll back requires contacting the support team because there's no way to roll it back with the API or GUI. Even when the exact issue was pointed out, it took multiple days to change the setting and to my knowledge there's still no API fix available.

https://www.answeroverflow.com/m/1234405297787764816
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 17:35:40+00:00
> I don't want my X posts being handed over to researchers even if they are technically public.

Then X shouldn't make their business available in the EU, but because X wants EU users, they're participating in a market where they need to follow the law of the market. If you disagree with X's choice of participating in that market, you should vote with your wallet/attention.

> On social media and chat platforms there is an expectation of the posts and chat messages you make to be private due to being in an obscure section of the website

That might be, but the internet unfortunately doesn't work like that, they are public platforms, so the information there is treated as public information, which it is. If you make it invite-only, I understand the expectation of privacy and private conversation, but for platforms with open signup? Don't participate and share stuff you don't want to be public, it's kind of easy.
by dundercoder | 2025-12-05 17:35:44+00:00
I would love to use RSS to disseminate updates I’m working on, especially to my family. But my family wouldn’t know what RSS was, let alone use a reader. Are there ways my family could already be using RSS and not know? I don’t want to try to get them to install yet another app or use another service because the friction will prevent them from doing it.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-12-05 17:36:14+00:00
There are two wildly different models: subscribe only to a few people/channels/things and read or deliberately skip nearly everything, or subscribe to a large number of people/channels/things and let them wash over you while watching a small subset. The people seeking the former are also often the people who want "just give me reverse-chronological", the people who do the latter often like algorithms to help them deal with the firehose.

Personally, I subscribe to a few channels on YouTube and only follow social accounts of people I know well enough to want to read everything from, and deliberately avoid high-volume posters. As a result, I want reverse-chronological and I read/watch almost everything I subscribe to, with things I skip still being noticed and just deliberately skipped over. I know many others who do the same, and I often see that preference expressed here and elsewhere.

But I also know people who follow thousands of accounts and channels and similar, who just let the firehose wash over them, curated by an algorithmic feed. I don't understand that preference, but I know it exists, and I know it's why not everyone agrees with the preference of "just give me reverse-chronological, not an algorithm!".
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 17:36:33+00:00
>I do not see how being anonymous or not would fix that.

I mean there are some valid things that show up here. For example Bob is racist, and Steve is racist, but they don't know they are deeply racist. You typically have to slowly enter into conversation to ensure you don't offend them.

Being anonymous can shortcut this process. You show up on a semi-local forum as Anon1 and talk to Anon2 about how you want get rid of all those dirty $_fill_in_the_blank's. You realize you share the same convictions, and it's safer to exchange details on who you really are.

Now, it's correct non-anonymous internet is bad, especially if you are a targeted group that hasn't done anything wrong, for example gay groups.
by everdrive | 2025-12-05 17:36:49+00:00
Android and iOS need to be shaken up so badly that I welcome more or less anything into this space, no matter how flawed. That said, I think the chances I buy one of these is very low. At the moment, I keep a smart phone solely so that finding work is not difficult. You need quite the personal network to explain that "I don't have a smart phone."

Otherwise, I'm trying to abstain from smart phone usage as much as possible: the market is probably _never_ going to solve one which solves addiction problem. (the best solution for this is to have a desktop computer which you only sit at for specific tasks)

On the other hand, if I could run my company's OTP and it were much more private than iOS or Android I would probably jump ship.
by dpc_01234 | 2025-12-05 17:36:50+00:00
Is _everything_ working? Last time I put Linux on a x86_64 Air Book I was given for free, everything was working _except_ resume from suspend would crash and reboot the system, and from the reading on it, it seems it is a know issue due to T4 security chip or something. Made me believe that if older chips doesn't yet work, the newer ones probably have more caveats. Or am I wrong?

Generally I'm reluctant investing in Linux on a hardware from company more or less hostile to it, but I also don't have any need for ARM laptop, and I'm happy with my Framework.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-05 17:36:59+00:00
I definitely agree. It shouldn't be "autism spectrum", it should be "autism syndrome".

When we have a cluster of symptoms that travel together we can see there's an underlying issue without knowing what that underlying issue is. And we normally use the word "syndrome" for that. For example, AIDS or IBS. And society tends to dismiss it for as long as possible because to face it is to admit there's a problem with no answer. For an example that's still in the denial phase, look at long Covid. There's clearly something there, like AIDS it's a slew of apparently unrelated issues. Which says that, like AIDS, there's probably some underlying issue that is itself very hard to see and we are only seeing the secondary effects.
by atoav | 2025-12-05 17:37:27+00:00
Jumping between the files? The cascading part means you can always add in a file after and overwrite it. I don't see how this would get better without the cascading part.

My point isn't that CSS is perfect. My point is that someone has yet to show me a better styling language that isn't purely hypothetical. I am happy to learn new languages if there are clear benefits.
by phatskat | 2025-12-05 17:37:55+00:00
> Is it too much to ask for the exact wording of what the memo says?

I’ll be curious to see this when it finally leaks too

> “anyone involved in censorship of free speech”. To me that seems like a good thing?

It seems like it until you remember that the current party in power considers things like a private business saying “we don’t tolerate hate speech” as infringing on free speech. At this point, the right uses “free speech” as a battle cry to shut down people who don’t agree with them. The government telling anyone they can’t have DEI practices, or forcing compliance with their views on what’s appropriate by withholding budget, or targeting citizens for their social media posts - these are actual free speech issues.
by commandlinefan | 2025-12-05 17:38:04+00:00
I agree with you that modern streaming service are a hassle, BUT - I'm old enough to remember Blockbuster, too. It used to be that if you wanted to watch a movie, you drove to the video store, found a copy, paid $2 to rent it for 24 hours, tried to remember to rewind it and got it back to the store before it was late. Streaming services are _definitely_ more convenient.

Right now, you can pretty much rent any movie you want through Amazon Prime with not late fee or rewind penalty, but you have to pay a couple of (extra!) dollars to do it. This is, undebatably, a massive improvement over the way it used to be in every way, but it still bothers me even though I can't put my finger on exactly why.