MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-02 02:05:35+00:00
It's just an ID, like a driver's license can also be considered as "just an ID".

But previously: The individual States all issued IDs themselves. They each made up their own rules about who could and could not get one. They didn't necessarily share this information with the federal government, and citizenship wasn't necessarily a requirement at all to get a state ID such as a driver's license.

But Real ID is not that. It broadly requires proof of citizenship[1] or lawful status in order to obtain one.

So, for example: As a native-born US citizen, that's a new requirement for me -- nothing else I've ever done in life has required me to prove my citizenship. I've had a state-issued driver's license for decades. I've had mortgages, paid taxes, and lead a fairly productive life without citizenship status ever being a concern. But I don't presently have enough documentation to prove the citizenship that I've always had, so no flying for me (for now -- I'll have to get that sorted sooner or later).

[1]: There are some exceptions. https://www.tsa.gov/real-id/real-id-faqs
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-02 02:05:39+00:00
By 2035, I'm not even sure I'll have a computer. (Sort of a joke, but like, at this rate...)

My current OS X update strategy is: I don't, mostly. I'm a few versions behind, and at this point, I'd rather keep an OS that sort of works and just deal with the script kiddies, then upgrade to an OS that doesn't work and have to deal with my OS vendor.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-02 02:05:59+00:00
Btw the wording says publishers or distributors, so it applies to both porn websites, vpn operators and ISPs, which could technically block vpn ips from connecting to porn ips. I'm not sure of the implications of "knowingly or intentionally though", I'm just saying they could do that.

The nuances and legal theory are a very deep discussion that the original article ignores completely by focusing on a political agenda.
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by linguae | 2025-12-02 02:06:02+00:00
This isn’t the first time Apple’s been in this situation. The first PowerPC Mac was released in 1994, but core elements of the classic Mac OS remained written for the Motorola 68000. Pink/Taligent and Copland never panned out. It took until Mac OS X to be released in 2001 for PowerPC Macs to receive an operating system that was fully made for it, and even then Mac OS X undergone successive performance improvements. By then, it was time for the Intel switch. Snow Leopard’s was Intel-only, so PowerPC Macs cannot go beyond Leopard.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:06:19+00:00
A crowd of people continually rooting against their best interests isn't exactly what's needed for the solidarity that people claim is a boon from social media. Its not as bad as other websites out there, but I've see these flags several times on older forums.

It won't be as hard as you think for HN to slip into the very thing they mock Instagram of today for being.
by greycol | 2025-12-02 02:06:31+00:00
You've missed the whole genre that is Choose Your Own Adventure books. I think we're in Diogenes "behold a man" territory.

It is sad that the Turing test has failed at being a prescriptive test for sapience (let alone sentience) because without a bright-line test it's inevitable that in the case of truly sentient machines the abuse will be horrendous. Perhaps something along the lines of an "Ameglian Major Cow" test; so long as it takes more than gently cajoling a model to get it to tell you that it and it's sister models want to be abused you shouldn't abuse it.
by a_bonobo | 2025-12-02 02:06:52+00:00
Related, I think people have stopped.... reacting on the internet? I've been part of the X/Twitter to Bluesky migration and people often mention how 'quiet' Bluesky is.

I think that's not due to algorithmic intervention of product design etc., I think people are just tired. The novelty of shouting at strangers on the internet has worn off - how many internet fights have we gotten into that did nothing in the end except waste time? It's only worse with a coin flip's chance of the other person being an LLM. We're all tired.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-02 02:07:47+00:00
You can do that and that's one of the big appeals. You can serve bost JXL and JPEG from the same source and you8 can actually serve downscaled versions of the JXL image from the original bytestream.

Also OP did say "transcode on the fly" to serve JPEG, not actually storing as JPEG.
by balamatom | 2025-12-02 02:08:02+00:00
I don't know shit about ethics numbers. Nor do I believe in any comparative religions. All I know is that you claimed to do the following:

> I try to not show exactly what I think to people at work. I just say sufficiently generic stuff to make people on both sides agree with a generic statement.

Bravo! Encore! Teach us, wise master!
by beefnugs | 2025-12-02 02:08:08+00:00
I couldnt find it in the article, how do they "assume" how many victims will fall to these contract exploits?

And to go further: if it costs $3500 in ai tokens, to fix a bug that could steal $3600, who should pay for that? Whos responsibility is it for "dumbass suckers who use other peoples buggy or purposefully malicious money based code" ?

At best this is another weird ad by anthropic, trying to say, hey why arent you changing the world with our stuff, pay up quick hurry
by dogemaster2028 | 2025-12-02 02:08:31+00:00
In a constitutional republic like the US, it’s simply too risky to execute major improvements in a big bang fashion. It’s not that different from engaging in a multi-decade software migration project. Sometimes, small changes is really the only path forward.

Part of the reason why Obama, initially a unifying force, eventually became known as a Divider In Chief (in addition to some racial commentary around police work) was that the bold changes of Obamacare left too many victims behind who ended up worse off.

You have to start with the principles of the country and work with them in mind, if you expect to be successful. You also have to assume future change will be dependent on the political winds of the future.

There is likely a lesson somewhere here about introducing “lean healthcare” style of changes instead of “big bang,” but I haven’t taken the time to articulate them.

Maybe starting with principles and making yearly changes that can easily be undone or redone by future administrations is the only path forward.
by antisthenes | 2025-12-02 02:09:29+00:00
> if we try to start limiting topics to a certain amount of time I’ll hear “we never actually _solve_ anything, it’s all just too high level!”.

You shouldn't ever be solving things live in a meeting, unless it's a 5 second "flip the switch" fix.

99% of fixing from my experience comes from deep work by an IC or 1 on 1 pair collaboration calls by teammates who work great together.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-02 02:09:33+00:00
Calling it a "subsidy for existing owners" is a slighty of hand that avoids blaming the literal hordes of useful idiots who are happy to see all manner of asinine provisions written into the zoning code to cater to their interest, whatever that may be. If it were just property owners it wouldn't have gotten done. It's busybodies, environmentalists, moralizing jerks, etc, etc that provide the necessary political will.
by wtallis | 2025-12-02 02:09:42+00:00
Intel's biggest problem has been management remaining in denial about their serious engineering problems, and believing that they'll have things sorted out in another few quarters. They were years late to taking meaningful action to adjust their product roadmap to account for their ongoing 10nm failures. Putting all their eggs in the 10nm basket wasn't an engineering decision, and keeping them all there after years of being unable to ship a working chip wasn't an engineering decision.

Intel's in a somewhat better place today because while they continue to insist that their new fab process is just around the corner and will put their foundry back on top, they've started shipping new chips again, using TSMC where necessary.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-12-02 02:10:13+00:00
1. Download file of content you wish to consume (this usually, but not always, involves piracy).

2. Put file onto computer. Maybe the computer you already downloaded it onto.

3. Plug computer into TV or monitor.

4. Open file to consume content.

One of these days I'll get around to setting up something like this for my dad:

- laptop sits under the TV (maybe asleep), occasionally checking for commands

- dad sends command from his computer "I want to torrent"

- laptop sitting under the TV hosts remote web interface for qbittorrent or similar

- dad sends command from his phone "I want to watch movie now"

- movie starts playing on TV from laptop, and dad can control it with his phone
by cldcntrl | 2025-12-02 02:10:19+00:00
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by jdlshore | 2025-12-02 02:10:36+00:00
Do you have any facts backing up that opinion? Because while I’ll agree that MBAs who ignore engineering nuance can be a problem, engineers are perfectly capable of running an org into the ground all on their own.

In this case, Intel looks like a variant of the Innovators’ Dilemma. Their internal processes, systems, and culture revolve around designing and manufacturing their own chips. Moving to a customer-centric approach is a big switch in culture and I’m not surprised it’s a challenge.
by zbentley | 2025-12-02 02:10:41+00:00
> You switch from spotlight to Firefox, there's the wheel; leave computer alone for sometime and comeback there's the wheel.

You are definitely not alone:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979283

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982717

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2002102

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995973

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/961898

While there are a few overlapping/similar issues being alluded to in those threads, it definitely seems like something is going on re: task switching. There are also a couple of tricks mentioned that might fix some specific issues related to bookmarks or graphics acceleration, but no silver bullets so far.
by amarant | 2025-12-02 02:10:50+00:00
Again,I struggle to think of how it'd be used gather any data not already available.

Yes it's selling point is convenience. Convenience is good.

In this particular case I disagree that there's a price in privacy. At least currently, and the way the Swedish electronic ID is implemented, I don't see it.

With other variations there might be problems of course, though I'd worry more about someone messing up the security of it rather than privacy
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-02 02:11:03+00:00
Unfortunately, sometimes you have to educate yourself on a subject before making arrogant, accusational claims about it. You can't expect people to patiently hold your hand and drip feed you compact knowledge while you spit in their face.

This is especially true of a field such as philosophy, where so much work is built upon earlier, historical work. You just have to do the work of reading the texts or at least reading about them, if you want to participate meaningfully and authoritatively in discussions.

You're speaking authoritatively, but multiple people have tried to correct you and you ignore and challenge all of them, instead of just absorbing what they have to say. Several people have tried to help you understand, and you're complaining that they aren't doing that. Articles have been linked, and specific individuals have been cited. The burden is on you. You arrived and said an entire branch of philosophy was fraudulant, and you have failed to support your initial claim, instead resorting to outbursts.

> Qualia are critically important and AI doesn't have them

No one is saying that. It's a straw man on your behalf.

> It seems... unpersuasive

You seem unwilling to listen with an open mind.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-12-02 02:11:09+00:00
There's a range. A lot of people treat their NAS as their home server - torrents, downloads, media server, even containers and everything that goes with it.

I played with it as well - it's fun and rewarding and potentially optimized, but also... Can be a lot of work and hassle.

For myself when I say turn key solution, I should specify that I'm also doing more of a "right specific device for specific purpose ", so my NAS is now a storage device and nothing else.
by perryizgr8 | 2025-12-02 02:11:43+00:00
Alexa has this annoying habit of being non-deterministic.

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> OK lights turn on

In the evening:

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> I'm sorry, I don't know a device called "bedroom lights".

How is it even possible to build a computer system that behaves like this?
by missedthecue | 2025-12-02 02:11:50+00:00
A lot of people get help from mom and dad, but if you're already a homeowner, the home youre sitting on has appreciated too, so you can role equity into your next purchase. Not everyone is starting from zero. There are so many homeowners who would not be able to afford the home they're currently in, but are sitting on $500k of equity they can role into their next place.
by adobesubmarine | 2025-12-02 02:12:14+00:00
I feel similarly, but the other guy's point is still good; there is no empirical evidence that AI is really as helpful as we think, and there is empirical evidence that among those who perceive productivity gains, most are wrong and the rest are overestimating the effect.

Our experiences don't agree with the established facts, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
by energy123 | 2025-12-02 02:12:21+00:00
I am unconvinced from a practical standpoint that this vision of the world that you wish to live in is even possible today due to the increase in sectarian communal tensions, dense cities, widely available cars/guns/etc and stresses from cost of living and income inequality, as well as the spread of ideas that mass casualty attacks might be a thing to do (the US did not have school attacks until it became an unfortunate "thing" in the culture that sick people glommed onto).

An absence of surveillance causes increased frequency of terrorist attacks which causes people to demand solutions (necessarily involving surveillance and other authoritarian measures) which leads to increased surveillance. It's an unfortunate negative feedback loop.

If you lack solutions for too long, the negative feedback loop becomes severe and instead of just surveillance within a liberal democratic context, you get public safety authoritarians like Bukele or Duterte.

"Surveillance doesn't materially reduce terrorist attacks" - I am not sure about that based on the number of arrests of plotters and the lack of visibility I have into the tools and methods they used to find those plotters.

"Terrorist attacks still happen even with surveillance" - Yes, but if they happen less frequently, this reduces the demand from the public to ratchet up authoritarianism. See the problem?

"Terrorist attacks are a price worth paying for our freedom." - I mostly agree, but feeling like this doesn't make any difference to the negative feedback loop, does it? Regular people want public safety from physical danger almost as much as food and water.
by potluri | 2025-12-02 02:12:51+00:00
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by johnfn | 2025-12-02 02:14:37+00:00
It's not a blog - it's a community website, so significantly more complex (running competitions, uploading tracks, moderation, etc, etc, etc).

I don't understand the car firmware non-sequitur. I've already seen productivity gains in this domain. Why do I need to also prove them in another one? They are already demonstrated. It's like me saying "I can get places faster in a car than on foot" and you're saying "yeah but you can't get to the moon."
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-02 02:14:47+00:00
> The silent failure modes everywhere gets really frustrating.

I literally just experienced this with RCS failing to activate. No failure message, dug into logs, says userinteractionrequired. Front page of HN, nobody knows, apple corp response, 'thats interesting no you cant talk to engineering'.

Read the RCS spec definition document to fall asleep to after the board swap and the call saying they won't work on it since issue resolved, answers exactly what that meant, Apple never implemented handling for it, my followup post: https://wt.gd/working-rcs-messaging
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:14:50+00:00
This is always sad to hear. I really want more educational material out there that isn't just serving "beginner bait" and I'd love love love more technical podcasts out there. But it seems like not much of the audience is looking for small creators for that. Perhaps they only focus on conference studies.

And yeah, I agree with the other reponsder that AI + Google's own enshittification of search may have cost your site traffic.
by avgDev | 2025-12-02 02:15:05+00:00
OP was talking about a family for $30k.

Imagine 2 people get injured in a year, you are now at $60k. Plus, $150 a visit for primary and $300+ for specialist.

My 5 year old has been to the hospital 3 times, stitches once. US healthcare will ruin you if you don't have insurance. A cancer treatment can bankrupt a millionaire.
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by epsilonic | 2025-12-02 02:15:47+00:00
They are the proponents of The Great Reset. Here’s an excerpt from a book I read:

‘As Hitler declared in 1934, “The German revolution will be concluded only when the entire German Volk has been totally created anew, reorganized and reconstructed” (cited in Koonz, 2003, p. 87). The “Great Reset,” announced by World Economic Forum (WEF) director Klaus Schwab, son of Nazi industrialist Eugen Schwab, attempts the same thing on a global scale, promising to “revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country [ . . . ] must participate, and every industry [ . . . ] must be transformed” (Schwab, 2020).’

The book is: Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State

By David A. Hughes
by theandrewbailey | 2025-12-02 02:16:00+00:00
I work in the refurb division of an ewaste recycling company. Those silver Dell laptops are impossible to keep looking good. A coworker once peeled off all the silver and sold a few in black. He said that someone told him that those models never came in black, and had a laugh after explaining that all of them are, because it's under the silver.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-02 02:16:12+00:00
Oof my employer still lets us WFH 3 days. We actually signed a new contract for it just after the pandemic. They can't have everyone in the office anyway since they closed half the floors.

If they mandate this (not sure where they'd find the space!) I'll just refuse to sign the new contract. I'm in Europe so none of that "at will" stuff. If they want to let me go they'll have to give me a package for 15 years worked.

Ps I don't actually go twice a week right now ;) More like once. None of my team members are in my country anyway so what's the point.
by simoncion | 2025-12-02 02:16:26+00:00
And, like, I want to mention here that the hijackers who successfully wrecked three airliners and murdered everyone on board (including themselves) passed all security screening. We knew who they were! If we had had internal passports in 2001, that would have changed nothing at all.

AIUI, these folks were armed with box cutters and a willingness to kill themselves, everyone on the plane, and everyone in the building they intended to crash into. Folks regularly get knives through TSA screening. There have been numerous official reports about the fact that TSA failed to find > 90% of the weapons and explosives federal red-team employees put into their luggage.

The only thing that has stopped another 9/11 is reinforced cockpit doors that lock from inside the cockpit. Had the cockpit doors been solid and locked, those hijackers would have gotten the shit beaten out of them by passengers and those planes would have made safe emergency landings.