MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sam_goody | 2025-12-21 20:35:45+00:00
In Win 11 Home, and want to add a local account and not change it to a Windows account, and not share my stuff with MS. No Cloud or "Backups", thank you.

The option to enable a local account was through the command line only. The dark patterns and persausion to convince me not to was off putting.

But every time I boot in to have to go through the nag screen is off the wall.

It is truly crazy how much I understand the dedication people have to avoid using a unfamiliar system.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-21 20:35:59+00:00
Being overweight is a chronic disease.

Just like alcoholism, or any kind of other addictions.

I've struggled with alcohol abuse, and once you come to the realization that you're abusing it, the fix FOR ME was relatively simple: I stopped (under medical supervision) drinking, or to be more precise: I stopped starting to drink. I have no problems not drinking, I have a problem that when I start I cannot stop.

I have the same issue with food. Not eating is a lot easier than stopping to eat. But I cannot completely stop eating.

Yet with alcohol people are like: hey, good for you.

With my weight issues people are like: dude, just eat less, or exercise more.

(I stopped sharing the food story with people).
by jmward01 | 2025-12-21 20:36:46+00:00
Other medications become lifelong medications but without this level of scrutiny. I am 100% in favor of finding a more permanent treatment, but switching blood pressure meds, and cholesterol meds, and other daily meds for a single once a week med is a massive improvement, especially since the all source mortality data keeps rolling in showing the efficacy here is orders of magnitude better than all the other medications out there. A constant issue here is that we keep calling this a 'weight loss drug' and society views being fat as a moral failing ant that you 'just don't have the will power' to overcome. We need to stop. If this is a lifelong drug it is worth it compared to the relatively ineffective, and just as lifelong, alternatives out there.
by smurda | 2025-12-21 20:36:57+00:00
I lived in downtown SLC near Pioneer Park where there are a few shelters and affordable housing complexes. As a result, Pioneer Park became a place where most unhoused congregate downtown. IMO this is an effort to get the unhoused out of downtown.

The location of the new facility is out by the airport, in the middle of nowhere, cutting off the unhoused from the social fabric.

If the goal is to help the unhoused be woven into the social fabric the answer is to build up, not out, so they are a part of city living, and should include:

1) Small-scale, incremental affordable housing, 2) Mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhoods, and 3) Preservation of older, cheaper buildings

I like the spirit of the project. I don't like that is quarantining a portion of society.
by altairprime | 2025-12-21 20:36:57+00:00
Someone installed one of these at a shop in SFbay a couple years ago and I tracked it down, took an SPL recording snapshot, and emailed the city to report a violation of noise laws with the proof. The noisemaker was physically uninstalled after a few weeks and did not return. So, presumably Home Depot is violating LA Noise Ordinance, and could reasonably be expected to accrue fines or even forced to cease operating their retail business on that property, given a properly filed code violation report; and, since any persistent sound levels necessary to cause discomfort are almost certainly an OSHA violation, a side copy to the relevant Home Depot worker unions in LA/Cali/US might produce a rather significant result as well.
by theodpHN | 2025-12-21 20:37:11+00:00
Just out of curiosity, how have you seen risk/compliance, regulatory, and audit departments at organizations deal with the disconnect between security and privacy for something like mainframe logging (e.g., JES2, JES3), which is typically inherently governed, and modern distributed logging, which is typically inherently permissive? Both are vastly different approaches, but each is somehow considered 'compliant.' Btw, employees at a company I was at were once investigated for insider trading simply because it was discovered the company used pooled logs that were accessible by production support programmers (the company decided to override the default mainframe security), which was deemed a possible source of insider trading information that could be tapped into by those who had log access (programmers were eventually cleared if it was discovered their small personal trades were immaterial and just coincidental with the company's trading, but the investigation led to uncomfortable confrontations for some!).
by shireboy | 2025-12-21 20:37:57+00:00
Kinda get what he’s saying: provide more metadata with structured logging as opposed to lots of string only logs. Ok, modern logging frameworks steer you towards that anyway. But as a counterpoint: often it can be hard to safely enrich logging like that. In the example they include subscription age, user info, etc. More than once I’ve seen logging code lookup metadata or assume it existed, only to cause perf issues or outright errors as expected data didn’t exist. Similar with sampling, it can be frustrating when the thing you need gets sampled out. In the end “it depends” on scenario, but I still find myself not logging enough or else logging too much
by bassamhameed | 2025-12-21 20:38:19+00:00
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by simonebrunozzi | 2025-12-21 20:38:31+00:00
Zaleucus [0] from Locri wrote the first law system in the 7th century BC. Might be connected to what you have shared.

Today's Locri is in Calabria, a region in Italy that many consider infested with mafia-like organizations, which is of course sad, but also ironic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaleucus
by amarant | 2025-12-21 20:39:06+00:00
I have more money and no kids, I still relate to your comment.

I burned out basically because I'm stupid and decided to work a demanding full time job while also remodeling my house by myself. Like all renovation jobs, it ended up being bigger than planned (I actually expected it to grow from us discovering something that had to be done during the renovation, I just never expected the thing we found to be as large as it was: we had to redo the whole foundation of our 1840 house, and because a machine wouldn't fit through the doors, we ended up digging out around 16m3 of hard packed dirt by hand and carrying it out of the house, also by hand)

What was supposed to be a kitchen upgrade turned into roughly half our house looking like something out of tomb raider for a year. 8 hours of intellectually demanding office work followed by 8 hours of grueling digging in "the mine" as came to nickname the ground floor really did a number on both me and my wife.

She crashed out first, which left me with no choice but to keep pushing long past what I felt I could handle. Saw a doctor who diagnosed me with burnout and told me to rest for 6 months,I instead held out for another ~6 months until my wife was back on her legs before allowing myself to rest.

The 6 months of sick leave the doctor prescribed wasn't nearly enough.

But hey, my kitchen is fucking gorgeous, so there's that, at least!
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-21 20:39:18+00:00
Hey there, early Gen X here. We lived with the existential dread of nuclear war (The Day After traumatized a whole generation), our parents left us on our own with just 3 channels of TV for company because they both had to work, and our sexual awakening turned into a horror movie because of fear of AIDS (a death sentence at the time).

Also, there were no jobs.
by charlie-83 | 2025-12-21 20:39:19+00:00
The article brushes over the idea of a binary open source/proprietary in favour of a range of openness. Talking about the different degrees of openness in open source is a valuable thing to do but it's important to keep the clear line as well.

I want more nuanced discussions but I don't want to end up in a situation where people cannot tell whether software is open/proprietary because the language has become so blurred (its already confusing enough as it is).
by Taikonerd | 2025-12-21 20:39:43+00:00
Interesting link: a company called Fractyl Health is studying a surgical procedure they call "Revita," that they hope can keep weight off for patients after they discontinue GLP-1s.[0]

The premise, IIUC, is that obesity is driven partly by mucosal overgrowth on the duodenum. This thicker-than-expected layer of mucus is less porous, which leads your digestive system to underestimate the number of calories you've consumed. Revita basically re-surfaces the duodenum.

So, the idea is that you get to a lower weight with the GLP-1 drugs, and then Revita can hopefully reset your set point there.

Their first clinical trial is still in progress, but I think it's interesting to watch.

[0]: https://www.fractyl.com/our-platforms/revita/
by zzrrt | 2025-12-21 20:39:43+00:00
I’m not so sure. After years of ignoring every other sign, what would it take for them to believe? His suggestive comments about his own daughter on multiple occasions, his opinion of 12-year old Paris Hilton, his mentioning 12 years old as a limit with Howard Stern[1], turning up in beauty pageant changing rooms, the “grab em by the p*ssy” tape, the swerving between Epstein case is a hoax to frame him vs. it’s real but only implicates Democrats.

I think of JD Vance, when Trump’s Epstein birthday card had been described but not released, he scoffed they didn’t provide an image. Weeks later, we had an image released by Congress, so then JD Vance tweaked his arguments a bit but still denies basically everything. The evidence he requested did not change his mind anyway. Trump’s supporters, for the most part, will say it’s AI, faked images, paid liars, mentally ill accusers, Trump haters, fake news, Trump was only there to inform on Democrats, it’s not what it looks like, the media is lying about girls’ birthdates, etc etc before they’ll ever admit he’s a sick man. If they wanted to believe that, the evidence is already there.

Personally I have a fair amount of doubt that he has committed a crime against a minor, but he is obviously lecherous and well below the supposed moral sexual standards of many of his supporters. It should not matter to them whether a 60+ year old married man only peeks and banters about young girls or if he has actually touched them. If they’re still around, it will take a lot to snap them out of it.

[1] I know he didn’t actually say that 13 is okay or whatever, but what kind of pervert or fool jumps all the way down to 12 when asked? Way below the lowest age of consent in the States. This should be disqualifying on the grounds of horrendously bad judgment to phrase it that way in public, let alone what it may or may not reveal about his criminality.
by AlexB138 | 2025-12-21 20:39:45+00:00
This first half of this definitely struck a chord. I spent the first three quarters of this year taking care of a terminally ill parent, then seeing them through hospice. If that sort of experience doesn't make a person step back from their life and question what they're doing nothing will.

I decided to step away from my job as an engineering VP and try something I actually wanted to do. It's terrifying, especially in this economy, but I wake up and feel excitement in the morning instead of dread for the first time in as long as I can remember.
by rob74 | 2025-12-21 20:39:52+00:00
Yes. So Microsoft (which manufactures hardware itself and has close ties to other hardware manufacturers) needed to find... other ways to, er, motivate people to buy new hardware anyway. Which brings us back to the blog post we are commenting on.

Not sure Windows as a subscription service is the end goal though. But maybe we should all wish for M$ to do that, maybe that would be what's needed to finally bring about the Year of The Linux Desktop™.
by KomoD | 2025-12-21 20:39:53+00:00
One reason not to choose Njalla is that they changed their legal entity without (to my knowledge) telling anyone. THat's a bit of a red flag for me.

They were incorporated as 1337 Services LLC in Nevis (the Caribbean island) and recently it suddenly changed to Njalla SRL in Costa Rica. Looks like some guy wrote a post about it where he contacted them, they said "internal restructuring, nothing to worry about" and refused to elaborate further.

I know Peter Sunde (of TPB fame) founded it but I don't know if it has changed hands now.
by m01 | 2025-12-21 20:40:25+00:00
> It's hard to tell someone to connect to 2601:3c7:4f80:1a01:4d2:3b7a:9c10:6f5e.

If you would like your IPv6 addresses to be more human-friendly, you could use DHCPv6 (in addition to/instead of SLAAC) and end up with addresses like 2001:db8:3c7:4f80::123. Sure, it's 5 groups of e.g. 3-4 hex digits rather than 4 groups of up to 3 digits, but I think it's much easier than your example. You might set your router to use <prefix>::1 and/or fe80::1 (see OpenWRT's ipv6 suffix/ip6ifaceid option).

DNS servers (that you might occasionally have to type into config by hand) tend to have "nice" IPv6 addresses, e.g. Quad9 apparently uses 2620:fe::fe [1].

> But I'm really not interested in maintaining public DNS for the dynamic addresses at home on my LAN.

I think dnsmasq can these days create AAAA records for local machines whose hostnames it learns via e.g. DHCP.

If you have a public server on the internet and your provider gives you a random-looking address using all 128 bits (and no /64 prefix for example) perhaps using (public) DNS is fine.

Opinions my own.

[1] https://quad9.net.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-21 20:41:19+00:00
There are a lot more distros than RH, Ubuntu, Gentoo and LFS. And none of them will show you ads except maybe Ubuntu. Plus you can also look at *BSD.

None of them comes close to what Microsoft is doing. To me, your comment looks like you do not understand the Linux eco-system. Plus IIRC, LFS can now come with compiled binaries.
by interlocutor | 2025-12-21 20:41:40+00:00
Here's a better list:

- Being under the public eye—all the time—is one of the top reasons to not be famous. Famous people must constantly self-monitor what they say and do because casual mistakes can trigger disproportionate backlash or headlines.

- You lose the ability to have genuine, equal interactions—people treat you differently, with deference or expectation, rather than as a peer.

- Privacy disappears as curious strangers can easily discover where you live, details about your family, and how much wealth you have—information you'd normally share only with people you trust.

- Strangers form opinions about you before ever meeting you, based on whatever fragments of your public persona they've encountered.

- A public persona can become a cage, limiting your freedom to change, experiment, or reinvent yourself.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-21 20:43:02+00:00
Wow, this makes me glad to not really be involved with anything publicly, not interact with the media, and not run popular web site or manage social media. The only thing I participate with under my real name is HN. In probably over a decade here, I got a grand total of one unhinged, threatening E-mail over something I posted, and no IRL stalkers. Looks like I've been lucky so far.
by II2II | 2025-12-21 20:43:05+00:00
I'm not sure what the current state of most distributions is, but I remember update applications providing an option to accept or reject individual packages. Even without that, you could preview the list of pending updates and delay them indefinitely, do manual updates of individual packages, or configure it to ignore particular packages during updates. Historically, I believe that you could block certain updates on Windows as well - or maybe you could just rollback and update. Of course none of this is considered user friendly so things may have changed.
by to11mtm | 2025-12-21 20:43:06+00:00
> Not burning the gas but using it as a compressed gas battery. It liquifies easier than air, etc., but would be a big fire risk if there were leaks while this is not.

FWIW Back in the day, Ammonia was used for refrigeration because it had the right properties for that process; I mention that one because while it's not a fire risk it's definitely a health risk, also it's a bit more reactive (i.e. leaks are more likely to happen)

> Seems neat.

Agreed!
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-21 20:43:14+00:00
Good luck running 70m in a CO2 dense atmosphere. And CO2 hugs the ground it does not float away. It will persist in low areas for quite a while.

Anyone in the local vicinity would need to carry emergency oxygen at all times to be able to get to a safe distance in case of rupture. Otherwise it's a death sentence, and not a particularly pleasant one as CO2 is the signal that triggers the feeling of suffocation.
by jchw | 2025-12-21 20:43:20+00:00
It's not that I don't believe it is likely, it's more like I don't like spreading an unqualified stereotype that I haven't actually validated in any way other than personal anecdotes. It's not like it's a terribly harmful stereotype (at least, I don't have anything against day laborers at all) but just as a matter of good hygiene I believe it's good to hedge a bit when you're spreading information that is essentially folklore. (In this case the point was to spread the folklore part, so I didn't feel it necessary to go and try to validate it with data myself.)
by manoj07ar2002 | 2025-12-21 20:43:47+00:00
Building Orbit in public - a tool to help devs catch Al regressions before they ship. Think of it like CI tests, but for Al behavior:

* output correctness * prompt safety * cost regressions I just opened a waitlist for early users and feedback:

https://useorbit.manus.space

Would love thoughts from anyone building Al features right now - what would vou want a tool like this to do better?
by like_any_other | 2025-12-21 20:44:06+00:00
> Fix the problem the proposal tries to fix, and the proposal goes away.

Bullshit. We are by far - by FAR - the most surveilled we have ever been in history, including under the worst of the Stasi, yet they lie to us about "going dark". The most minuscule scrap of privacy is a problem to be solved to them.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-21 20:44:08+00:00
> work remote and make about 15% more than the average Google E5 SWE and maybe 85% of a FB E5 SWE according to levels.fyi

You're making on par if not higher than most Ivy League grads.

> you go to Yale's LinkedIn, Google is the 3rd highest employer of alumni

Look at their profiles. The overwhelming majority did the terminal Yale MSCS [0]. Back when Yale CS was in a tailspin a decade ago [1], they were admitting almost anyone with a pulse in the terminal MSCS to help rebuild the alumni network. Penn did something similar with Wharton SF 20 years ago when they missed the biotech train.

> If CS Yalies aren't working at SpaceX or Broadcom or FANG I'm genuinely unsure of where they'd be working. I'm imagining most work at HRT, Jane Street, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI getting $750k-$1.5m at 29

Not really. They end up doing the same jobs as you. Yale has a similar amount of grads at Amazon.

Also, based on the hiring practices of portfolio companies and my friend's startups - the plum jobs end up going to CS/ECE/EECS alumni from Stanford/MIT/Cal/UCLA/UW/UIUC/UT Austin/CMU or regionally well connected programs like SJSU, CalPoly SLO, and mid-tier UCs.

It's the same way if you did decent in accounting or finance at StevensTech or Baruch, you can end up in high finance in a couple years.

> Broadcom

I am intimately aware of their hiring practices. I can safely tell you that Broadcom is not hiring new grads from Ivies (or the US at all). Broadcom is following a strict "fire-and-move-to-India" strategy and paying $90k-140k TCs in Hyderabad, or bringing talent on L1/2s.

[0] - https://engineering.yale.edu/academic-study/departments/comp...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/want-a-jo...
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-21 20:44:31+00:00
I acknowledged the point about Aider being the first terminal agent in a different comment. I am equally surprised at how well Anthropic has done compared to rest of the pack (Mistral comes to mind, had a head start but seems to have lost its way.

They definitely have found a good product-market fit with white collar working professional. 4.5 Opus gets the best balance between smarts and speed.
by 63stack | 2025-12-21 20:45:46+00:00
>So instead of speaking from the high ground, please, tell us what your solution about mass disinformation happening from US social media megacorps, Russia mass disinformation, mass recruitment of people for sabotage on critical infrastructure.

Why is the onus of explaining this on the people opposing it? Did any of the proposing politicians ever explain how their plan is going to solve any of these, rather than just being a massive power grab packaged up in "think about the children"? There are plenty of explanations on why this is not going to stop crime, why do you want more explanations and solutions from people telling you this is not going to work, rather than asking the people proposing "how is this going to work"?
by kosma | 2025-12-21 20:45:55+00:00
Surprisingly effective solution:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "ProductVersion"="Windows 10" "TargetReleaseVersion"=dword:00000001 "TargetReleaseVersionInfo"="22H2"
by Y-bar | 2025-12-21 20:46:01+00:00
The man who fancies himself a modern-day Sauron (yes! [1]), who says “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." and who wants to assemble a neo-theocracy by a wealthy elite does something.

Some people: “we do not like this”

Random internet guy: “stop disliking this guy!”

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/takedemocracyback.org/post/3lk4u55a...
by b_mc2 | 2025-12-21 20:46:29+00:00
Some additional context:

- Gortyn Code "Thanks" speech video [1]

- Mike Towndrow/Indie Game Awards Retraction announcement video [2]

- IGA FAQ Game Eligibility, info on retraction [3]

"Initially discovered through itch.io’s Game Boy Competition 2023 and later played on cart, Gortyn Code was selected as an Indie Vanguard due to their impressive work in GB Studio and for crafting such an amazing throwback for the modern day. The physical cart of Chantey is being produced and sold by ModRetro, and it is the sole marketplace where it can be purchased. The IGAs nomination committee were unfortunately made aware of ModRetro’s vile nature the day after the 2025 premiere with the news of their horrid and disgusting handheld console. As the company strictly goes against the values of the IGAs, and due to the ties with ModRetro, the Indie Vanguard recognition has also been retracted.

The decision does not reflect Gortyn Code, but ModRetro alone. Chantey remains a wonderful throwback to the Game Boy era. We encourage you to continue following their journey on itch.io."

- ModRetro's Anduril Edition Chromatic, all proceeds go to support veteran suicide prevention [4][5]

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[1] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2647339751?t=0h45m15s

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/indiegameawards.gg/post/3magufzccy2...

[3] https://www.indiegameawards.gg/faq#:~:text=Initially%20disco...

[4] https://modretro.com/products/anduril-chromatic-porta-pro-bu...

[5] https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2002221958700872045