MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasil | 2025-12-16 17:44:43+00:00
The scp program switched to calling sftp as the server in OpenSSH version 8.9, and notably Windows is now running 9.5, so large segments of scp users are now invoking sftp behind the scenes.

If you want to use the historic scp server instead, a command line option is provided to allow this:

"In case of incompatibility, the scp(1) client may be instructed to use the legacy scp/rcp using the -O flag."

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html

The old scp behavior hasn't been removed, but you need to specifically request it. It is not the default.

It would seem to me that an alternate invocation for file transfer could be tested against sftp in high latency situations:

ssh yourhost 'cat somefile' > somefile

That would be slightly faster than tar, which adds some overhead. Using tar on both sides would allow transfers of special files, soft links, and retain hard links, which neither scp nor sftp will do.

ssh yourhost 'tar cf - yourdir' | tar xpf -

Windows has also recently added a tar command.
by ck2 | 2025-12-16 17:44:52+00:00
I don't get it

99% of the population is voluntarily carrying sophisticated tracking devices with self-reporting always on

even if the signal is off it catches up later

with SEVERAL layers of tracking

not just your phone carrier but Google+Apple stores have your location as the apps are always on in the background

even phone makers have their own tracking layer sometimes

we know EVERY person that went to Epstein Island from their phone tracking and they didn't even have smartphones back then

Flock is just another lazy layer/databroker
by aucisson_masque | 2025-12-16 17:45:02+00:00
> people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

> Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.

> Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

I like what the interim CEO was doing, focusing more on the browser and forgetting these side projects that leads to nowhere, but it seems it's back to business with this one.
by kortex | 2025-12-16 17:45:08+00:00
This is why I love this site. You get input from so many specialized folks! I appreciate you contributing your expertise and I also appreciate you calling out the limits to that knowledge.

Two points I'm hoping you can help clarify:

> Researchers ... found that an increased fMRI signal is associated with reduced brain activity in around 40 percent of cases.

So it's not just that they found it was uncorrelated, they found it was anticorrelated in 40% of cases?

And you are suggesting that conclusion suffers from the same potential issues as these fMRI studies in general?

Like you mention, it seems to me if we wanted to really validate the model, we'd have to run the same experiment with two, three, or maybe even more different modalities (fMRI, PET with different tracers, etc).
by BloondAndDoom | 2025-12-16 17:45:22+00:00
I mean we have already stopped caring about dump stock photos at the beginning for every blog post, so we already don't care about shit that's meaningless, let's it's still happening because there is an audience for it.

Art can be about many things, we have a lot of tech oriented art (think about demo scene). Noe one gives a shit about art that evokes nothing for them, therefore if AI evokes nothing who cares, if it does, is it bad suddenly because it's AI? How?

Actually I think AI will force good amount of mediums to logical conclusion if what you do is mediocre, and not original and AI can do same or better, then that's about you. Once you pass that threshold that's how the world cherish you as a recognized artist. Again you can be artist even 99.9% of the world thinks what you produced is absolute garbage, that doesn't change what you do and what that means to you. Again nothing to do with AI.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-16 17:45:30+00:00
Yep. I mention this in my other reply, but having the LLM be system-level (and preferably, user replaceable) and leveraged as needed by applications (and thus, not redundant) is clearly the best model. Apple is currently the closest to this, offering system level third party LLM integrations, but a Linux distribution would be the best positioned to achieve that goal to its fullest extent.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-16 17:45:43+00:00
I live in a usually safe and crime free area in Florida, we had someone going car by car stealing from any car left open. My neighbor opened his door and told him he had him on camera, guy ran away. I had him on camera too but sadly no spotlight to catch a better look. I cant help but imagine that Flock deters people doing this sort of thing. I hate surveillance nanny states but criminals are getting bolder everyday it feels like.

I wish there was a way to implement this sort of “surveilance” in such a way that it only impacts criminals or would be criminals and only them.
by msdz | 2025-12-16 17:45:48+00:00
As has been stated above, I’m guessing in this specific example it would’ve been due to the rather strict labor laws, which I’m not going to comment my opinion on, just to clarify/explain: Here (Germany), you can basically not fire someone if your company has >10 full-time employees, and they’re not actively misbehaving (or under trainee/probationary status). Yep, this statement means exactly what it reads.

So I’m guessing that’s the reason for this “passive firing” method.
by bko | 2025-12-16 17:45:54+00:00
> Off the top of your head, how well educated is your dentist?

My dentist cleans my teeth. If it's painful every time I come or I keep getting cavities I consider changing dentists. If they suggest I replace my teeth with veneers or something extreme, I consider someone else. And I'll do a few google searches.

It seems pretty normal. You don't do this?
by MathiasPius | 2025-12-16 17:46:00+00:00
Introducing a separate charge specifically targeting those of your customers who choose to self-host your hilariously fragile infrastructure is certainly a choice.. And one I assume is in no way tied to adoption/usage-based KPIs.

Of course, if you can just fence in your competition and charge admission, it'd be silly to invest time in building a superior product.
by lab700xdev | 2025-12-16 17:46:11+00:00
Thanks for the link! fickling is excellent work (and definitely the gold standard for deep analysis). The goal with AIsbom was to build something lightweight enough to run in a fast CI/CD loop that creates a standard inventory (CycloneDX SBOM) alongside the security check. We are definitely looking at fickling's symbolic execution approach for inspiration on how to make our safety.py module more robust against obfuscation.
by NemoNobody | 2025-12-16 17:46:15+00:00
Challenging something with a question about it, is not adding to ignorance - if a statement/study/fact/belief can't hold to up to questions, from actual opposing critics, what's the point of that position existing?

Being all "PC" and "nice" about stuff that is what it is, or isn't -- THAT adds to ignorance.
by agartner | 2025-12-16 17:46:49+00:00
I guess it was only a matter of time...

Part of this is fair since there is a cost to operating the control plane.

One way around this is to go back to using check runs. I imagine a third party could handle webhooks, parse the .github/workflows/example.yml, then execute the action via https://github.com/nektos/act (or similar), then post the result.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-16 17:46:53+00:00
That proposal I've seen a few times too, basically put up a constellation up there, linked with laser comms and then transfer data to the illuminated sats in a loop. That sounds possible, but I have doubts. First of all if we take 400 km orbit, the "online" time would be something like 50 minutes. We need to boot up the system fully, run comm apps, locate a peer satellite and download data from it (which needs to be prepared in a portable form), write it locally and start calculations, then by the end of the 50 min repeat. All these operations are slow, especially boot time of the servers (which could be optimized of course). It would be great if some expert could tell us if it is feasible or not.
by liuliu | 2025-12-16 17:47:10+00:00
> You can hand out chunks of sequential ids from a central coordinator to avoid collision; this is a well-established pattern.

The problem is: is that part of postgresql? If not, someone has to write the buggy code for that well-established pattern. (BTW, I honestly think autoincrement is fine and the choice of PK is so minor you can always pay your way to solve it if you really have a problem at scale).
by qbane | 2025-12-16 17:47:17+00:00
By a quick glance, yes, this is what I want: a channel to communicate between processes via a piece of shared memory, protected by a pair of futexes.

In JS ecosystem, buffers that allow data loss is more common (aka ring buffers), but ringbuf.js [1] is the only complete implementation to my knowledge. In my use case on I/O between WASM modules where data must be transferred as-is, the process must block on buffer overrun/underrun in a synchronous manner. Therefore a circular buffer is required. I could not find such a niche library written in JS, so I decided to bite the bullet and reinvent the wheel [2].

[1]: https://github.com/padenot/ringbuf.js

[2]: https://github.com/andy0130tw/spsc
by editrix | 2025-12-16 17:48:23+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unbearable-stupidity-being-hu... Insight: Business leaders agree AI is the future. And like all matters of importance, they’ve managed to bungle the execution right now.

The news, as reported by my less-evolved colleagues in the legacy press, is that companies are failing to see a return on their AI investments. To which I say: of course you are.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE AND SEE THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unbearable-stupidity-being-hu...
by bityard | 2025-12-16 17:48:25+00:00
Kudos to the author(s) for advertising the project as open source while also actually being open source. Rare to see these days.

Largely this seems to be Yet Another LLM UI, but I'm curious what the extensions are good for? Doesn't every AI provider already have their own VS Code extension or editor? I have access to Windsurf at work for example, what does this extension do that Windsurf doesn't already?
by Syzygies | 2025-12-16 17:48:29+00:00
Yes. I was surprised there was no mention of "false sharing".

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

Rather than incrementing each counter by one, dither the counters to reduce cache conflicts? So what if the dequeue becomes a bit fuzzy. Make the queue a bit longer, so everyone survives at least as long as they would have survived before.

Or simply use a prime length queue, and change what +1 means, so one's stride is longer than the cache conflict concern. Any stride will generate the full cyclic group, for a prime.
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-16 17:49:33+00:00
I remember Planet Money doing a pretty good story on this where they spoke with sweatshop workers in Bangladesh.

Relative to the labor wage of employees in the US, they were earning absolute pennies.

Relative to the places they came from? They doubled their income and were functionally free from concerns about things like famine and infected drinkable water.

Exploitation of labor is a complicated topic (and really, the meta-fight is, as is so often the case, not between nations; it's between labor and capital. Offshoring is just another form of scabbing, but the world is not yet small enough that one should expect a fresh-off-the-farm factory worker who just had their prospects opened up to join a global strike because people in the US want to make $15/hr).

(Related: As is so often the case, if you want things better for your folks back home, lift everyone out of poverty and make everyone safe. People are less likley to take "slave-wage" jobs if the alternative is not subsistence and high risk of unpredictable outcome due to localized supply disruption, disease outbreak, or war).
by caycep | 2025-12-16 17:49:58+00:00
I think technically there's some statistical correction you apply to the voxels to avoid this. But yea...most hypotheses from fMRI are considered hypotheses until there's some other modality, i.e. electrical recordings, etc that confirm it.

i.e. the well regarded studies, i.e. Kanwisher and the visual processing areas, have follow up studies on primates and surgical volunteers w/ actual electrical activity correlating w/ visual stimuli etc
by jeffbee | 2025-12-16 17:50:03+00:00
Yeah, this is a major problem, and it obviously is not just Kansas City. In San Francisco the useless SFPD completely stopped writing traffic tickets, gradually over the last 20 years. They were writing > 14000 per month as recently as 2014 and this was below 500 per month for years until recent reforms brought it up slightly. The problem is that the police are self-selecting members of the tinted-dodge-charger club and do not perceive traffic laws as real laws. This ties in more generally to the fact that every single individual member of law enforcement throughout the United States needs to be closely scrutinized by psychologists.
by compiler-guy | 2025-12-16 17:50:11+00:00
To use an illustrative (but inevitably flawed) metaphor: Using libgccjit for this is a bit like networking two computers via the MIDI protocol.

The MIDI protocol is pretty good for what it is designed for, and you can make it work for actual real networking, but the connections will be clunky, unergonomic, and will be missing useful features that you really want in a networking protocol.
by bko | 2025-12-16 17:50:12+00:00
Sure, in that regard bureaucrats make sure my grocer has full shelves. There are likely dozens if not hundreds of people responsible for my local grocer just to make sure I have food.

I have no problem with bureaucrats. I want a choice. If I come in one day to find the shelves empty, I go somewhere else. If they make it difficult for me to check out, or are too expensive, I change. I just want choice.

You can choose to listen to the same unelected anonymous bureaucrats. Just log on to FDA or whatever, and follow their advice (e.g. follow the food pyramid). Only one of us wants to remove choice from the other, and that's the difference.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-16 17:50:27+00:00
I have fond memories of FVWM. I don't know where this was (Slashdot?), but back in the mid 2000's, someone posted a "Why are people not using FVWM? It's one of the most flexible window managers?", and linked to various people's FVWM setup. This led to a lot of folks (including me) switching to FVWM. I used it until switching to AwesomeWM around 2011.

You can see some (fairly old!) screenshots here: https://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

Glad to see it's still around.

Edit: Here's the thread (Gentoo Forums): https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=80517

The thread ran a total of 121 pages over 7 years.
by jerlendds | 2025-12-16 17:51:03+00:00
Beautiful work and it's always nice to see new projects in these spaces! I'm the creator of OSINTBuddy which is a somewhat similar project if you squint haha. We've just recently finished porting our web app to an electron binary (unreleased) for people who perform sensitive investigations (aka we have encryption at rest via Turso database) and collaboration features will be done via WebRTC + a signalling server.

I'm loving the approach you took to the UI! I had some similar ideas in mind and plan to build narrative reconstruction and timeline view tools too so it's really nice to see how others have done so! I'll definitely be following your work and I shared your project in the OSINTBuddy discord to hopefully get some more eyes on it :)

Great work, I hope you keep at it :)
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 17:51:04+00:00
I have also published and worked for some years in this field, if that helps.

The literature is huge, and my bias is that I believe most of the only really good fMRI research is methodological research (i.e. about what fMRI actually means, and how to reliably analyze it). Many of the links I've provided here speak to this.

I don't think there is much reliable fMRI research that tells us anything about people, emotions, or cognition, beyond confirming some likely localization of function to the sensory and motor cortices, and some stuff about the Default Mode Network(s) that is of unclear importance.

A lot of the more reliable stuff involves the Human Connectome Project (HCP) fMRI data, since this was done very carefully with a lot of participants, if you want a place to start for actual human-relevant findings. But the field is still really young.
by acessoproibido | 2025-12-16 17:51:08+00:00
Which is exactly what happened though? I never engaged with most of what the author laments - one thing i found hard was to exist in society without a smartphone, but thats more down to current personal circumstances than inevatibility.

My personal experience is that most people dont mind these things, for example short form content: most of my friends genuinely like that sort of content and i can to some extent also understand why. Just like heroin or smoking it will take some generations to regulate it (and tbf we still have problems with those two even though they are arguably much worse)
by ericmcer | 2025-12-16 17:51:27+00:00
We lost that like 100 years ago. Sitting and watching someone perform music in an intimate setting rarely happens anymore.

If you listen to an album by your favorite band, it is highly unlikely that your feelings/emotions and interpretations correlate with what they felt. Feeling a connection to a song is just you interpreting it through the lens of your own experience, the singer isn't connecting with listeners on some spiritual level of shared experience.

I am not an AI art fan, it grosses me out, but if we are talking purely about art as a means to convey emotions around shared experiences, then the amalgamation is probably closer to your reality than a famous musicians. You could just as easily impose your feelings around a breakup or death on an AI generated classical piano song, or a picture of a tree, or whatever.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-12-16 17:51:30+00:00
How many different courts does the typical attorney interact with? While it would be ideal if all courts used the same standards, that courts in very different jurisdictions have different format preferences doesn't seem like a big deal. If you're a real estate attorney in central Florida, are the requirements of the counties you operate in different and then the state courts different too? That seems like it would be somewhat of a hassle.
by labcomputer | 2025-12-16 17:51:33+00:00
In many states in the United States it is illegal to buy a car directly from the manufacturer or from a dealer owned by the manufacturer. In all states it is illegal for a manufacturer with an existing independent dealer network (which is to say, every manufacturer except the EV startups) to sell directly to the customer or to open a new factory-owned dealer.

So companies like Ford can only sell what independent dealers want to sell. You can go to the dealer and ask to buy a car sitting on the lot, and the dealer can just… not sell you the car. For any price. And it is also illegal for the manufacturer to force/coerce the dealer to sell it to you.

Of course the dealer can do softer things also, like talk down the car when you test drive or talk up the benefits of other cars. Or tell you that next year’s model will be much better than this one, so you should wait.

Additionally, most dealers do not actually pay for the car until it is sold to the customer (the manufacturer offers financing to the dealer, called “floor planning”).

Independent dealers do not want to sell EVs because of the perceived loss of service revenue. So they simply offer bad deals on the car that most customers would not take. The cars sit on the dealer’s lot, but that costs the dealer nothing (see above), even though Ford wants to sell an EV and customers want to buy EVs.
by Sesse__ | 2025-12-16 17:51:37+00:00
Typically it is defined by the collation. For the default collation, where all the weights are as in the file, it's none/accent/accent+case. But if you go to e.g. Japanese, you can have a fourth level of “kana-sensitive” (which distinguishes between e.g. katakana and hiragana).
by cbromann | 2025-12-16 17:51:49+00:00
What if an AI could actually use the browser — not through brittle scripts, but by seeing the UI and deciding where to click?

In this video, I explain how modern agent tools work and demonstrate it live by letting a model *play Tic-Tac-Toe in the browser*. The agent takes screenshots, reasons about the UI, and interacts with the page step by step — very different from traditional WebDriver-style automation.

I use this demo to unpack: - How AI-driven UI interaction works under the hood - Why provider-native tools enable more reliable agent behavior - How this differs from classic, deterministic browser automation - Where this approach makes sense — and where it definitely doesn’t

If you’ve built browser automation, testing frameworks, or agentic systems, this should give you a concrete mental model for where things are heading.

Tic-Tac-Toe demo repository:https://github.com/christian-bromann/tictactoe
by deepvibrations | 2025-12-16 17:51:50+00:00
There are quite a few new camera types rolling out in the UK, summary:

4D AI speed/behaviour cameras (Redspeed Centio): multi-lane radar + high-res imaging; flags speeding, phone use, no seatbelt, and can check plates against DVLA/insurance databases.

AI “Heads-Up” camera units (Acusensus): elevated/overhead infrared cameras (often on trailers/vans) to spot phone use and seatbelt/non-restrained occupants.

New digital fixed cameras (Vector SR): slimmer, more discreet spot-speed cameras (sometimes with potential add-on behaviour detection, depending on setup).

Smart motorway gantry cameras (HADECS): enforce variable speed limits on motorways from gantries.

AI-assisted litter cameras: council enforcement for objects/litter thrown from vehicles
by Bender | 2025-12-16 17:51:53+00:00
I agree but there are legacy daemons that do not follow the spec. Most here will never see them in their lifetime but I had to deal with it in the financial world. People would be amazed and terrified at all the old non-standard crap that their payroll data is flying across. They just ignore the range and send the entire file. I am happy to not have to deal with that any more.