MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 00:54:39+00:00
>I have a big problem with a government forcing companies to enable toggles on features because users complain about the UX.

I have a big problem with companies forcing me to use garbage I don't want to use.

>If there are problems with copyright, that's an issue for the courts -- not a user toggle.

But in the meantime, companies can just get away with breaking the law.

>If you have problems with the electricity, then that's an issue for electricity infrastructure regulations.

But in the meantime, companies can drive up the cost of electricity with reckless abandon.

>If you think it doens't work, then don't use it.

I wish I lived in your world where I can opt out of all of this AI garbage.

>Passing a law forcing a company to turn off a legal feature by default is absurd.

"Legal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. You know the court system is slow, and companies running roughshod over the law until the litigation works itself out "because they're all already doing it anyway" is par for the course. AirBnB should've been illegal, but by the time we went to litigate it, it was too big. Spotify sold pirated music until it was too big to litigate. How convenient that this keeps happening. To the casual observer, it would almost seem intentional, but no, it's probably just some crazy coincidence.

>It's no different from asking a publisher to censor pages of a book that some people don't like, and make them available only by a second mail-order purchase to the publisher. That's censorship.

Forcing companies to stop being deleterious to society is not censorship, and it isn't Handmaid's Tale to enforce a semblance of consumer rights.
by devilbunny | 2025-12-01 00:55:44+00:00
Quite common across the US. It's a doctor, usually trained in internal medicine, who does not see patients in a clinic. Only in the hospital.

Very few general medicine doctors see clinic patients and hospital patients these days. In subspecialties, it's still common to do both, but we've started to see OB hospitalists, and it's not unheard of for surgeons who have aged out of doing surgery (malpractice insurance becomes onerous to obtain in procedural specialties after age 70) to continue working in their former practice as clinic-only doctors, which allows the younger ones to stay in the OR (which is where the surgeon makes almost all of their money) rather than run back to clinic fifteen minutes down the road to see routine follow-ups.
by andrehacker | 2025-12-01 00:55:51+00:00
As much as I love FreeBSD, the release schedule is a real challenge in production: each point release is only supported for about three months. Since every release includes all ports and packages, you end up having to recertify your main application constantly.

Compare this to RedHat: yes, a paid subscription is expensive, but RedHat backports security fixes into the original code, so open source package updates don’t break your application, and critical CVEs are still addressed.

Microsoft, for all its faults, provides remarkable stability by supporting backward compatibility to a sometimes ridiculous extent.

Is FreeBSD amazing, stable, and an I/O workhorse? Absolutely: just ask Netflix. But is it a good choice for general-purpose, application-focused (as opposed to infrastructure-focused) large deployments? Hm, no ?
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-01 00:56:27+00:00
> Jose Pawel Mustafa Mungabi de la Svenson-Kurosawaskiwitz

How in the #%*^ did you figure out my secret question?

I absolutely hate security theatre. And these kinds of things are just that. In fact, I’m sure that difficult to remember passwords make us less secure as we forget or write them down.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-01 00:56:31+00:00
I reflect on the asymmetry of where we are now.

There's people who want a government, want to do good, want governance.

But if they also have to win the hearts and minds, ongoingly, against an advanced persistent threat of disinformation networks and the most well funded US citizens, working for a Powell Memorandum revolt of the elites, well...

It sure seems like doing governance is much much much harder than it used to be. The enemies of the state are making it much most costly, creating a vast unrest that saps constant energy and attention.

I can't 100% disagree with you. But there's been 50 years of well spoken plot to overburden the government and topple the state's ability to act. Whatever people are feeling today has certainly been deeply shaped by the centuries of the rich & their opposition to democracy & governance. That seems more clear and present than ever, seems so clear that people have been lead so strongly to dissent. We don't have any control groups to assess this by. But pleading that it's all genuine, none of this is manufactured, that it's all objectively deserved: I cannot imagine polarizing yourself so hard as to deny the air we breath, the information environment we've drowned in with Hastert Rule democracy, tiny little Tea Party shenanigans ruling the airwaves (vs vastly bigger No Kings getting barely mentions), and the Grok-goverened brave new X world. The propaganda of dissent and obstruction has been working, and it has fed and shaped and sharpened the crusade against the United States as a competent capable governing entity.
by josephcsible | 2025-12-01 00:56:34+00:00
Those ones are generally blocked by basic firewalls that have been enabled by default since Windows XP SP2, which is now over 21 years old. And devices running software older than that are in practice cut off from the Internet anyway, since pretty much every website these days has a minimum TLS version requirement of newer than the newest available back then. And my outbound example was meant to show how you would still be vulnerable even going through a mobile hotspot.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-01 00:56:48+00:00
... I also need to point out that the other suggestions here eg Fedora and Zorin co are also valid choices in my opinion.

You should revel in the fact that you now have choice and not a single option. That does mean you will have to pick one.

All of the options you have been presented with will work fine - there is literally no wrong answer here!

All of them are very well documented and you will not get a "SFC /SCANNOW" type answer if you have a problem.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-01 00:57:41+00:00
So what's your argument?

You're not being forced to use the AI features. If you don't want to use them, don't use them. There's zero antitrust or anticompetitive issue here.

Your argument that Google and Apple should be "regulated into the ground" isn't an argument. It's a vengeful emotion or part of a vague ideology or something.

If I want blenders to be sold in bright orange, but the three brands at my local store are all black or silver, I really don't think it's right for the government should pass a law requiring stores to carry blenders in bright orange. But that's what you're asking for, for the government to determine which features software products have.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-12-01 00:58:51+00:00
unfortunately all this work on sora has very real military use case. I personally think all this investment in sora by open AI is largely to create a digital fog of war. Now when a rocket splatters a 6 year old palestinian girl's head across the pavement like a jackson polock painting, They will be able to claim its AI generated by state sponsored actors in order to prevent disruption to the manufactured consent aperatus.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-01 00:58:52+00:00
No, "protected computer" refers to computers protected by the CFAA.

>(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or

>(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States.
by fleshmonad | 2025-12-01 00:59:19+00:00
>to navigate

cd where/you/want/to/navigate

ranger (if you want interactive)

>check free disk space

df -h

> check photos in an album view

nsxiv -t *.{jpeg|png}

> see all the file properties

ls -l

But I guess you are right. If one wants to use a computer like you use it on windows, then linux is a bad choice. The best choice in that case is windows.

Your file manager is not your operating system, use something else to view images.

I have all those "usage scenarios", which are in fact absolute basics and thus it's worth remembering 3 commands. The problem arises when one uses a Desktop environment with a dock and all other bloated nonsense. Maybe computing is solved once people reverse the brain damage inflicted by Windows and MacOS.

I'm not sorry for my attitude, because OP is the reason computing sucks and becomes more bloated and telemetry ridden every year. It's pure laziness to learn something new. Linux should be there for everyone, but shouldn't be called "immature" just because someone needs a perfect clone of the windows file picker, or wants his proprietary windows programs to run. Thats all good and fair, but not linux' problem.
by the_wolo | 2025-12-01 00:59:30+00:00
You'll find a consistent set of axioms in most bigger theories. The question is if their model maps well onto the real world (which is fuzzy and inconsistent) or if it needs a lot of "if we only do a little more of X, it might finally work".

My problem with Ayn Rand is that she starts the description of her world view with agreeable statements like "A is A and therefore one can see truth (or draw objective conclusions) just by looking" (which disregards the problem of missing information). But then goes on to draw a moral from that idea which basically negates the whole point of objectivity by making the subject the center of the world. But that's not yet what makes her work propaganda.

What makes her work propaganda is that she, from there "induced" that, since there's only the individual that matters, it is only moral that one tries to maximize one's own happiness and that a fully capitalist society without any regulations whatsoever were we worship the then-to-be-godlike individual entrepreneur would be the only way to achieve said happiness. This also implies that while is is only moral to strive for one's own happiness, there is only a certain kind of individual who actually deserves it. The rest is there to worship or just be screwed over and over again, because there can be only a few winners.

So we've come a long way from making seemingly agreeable statements to justifying a system that dehumanizes most of its subjects (pun not intended) and makes them nothing more but a fleshy mass to the disposal of a select few winners. And that's just what propaganda does: drawing conclusions from a seemingly agreeable standpoint in a way that seems to be logical, but in its essence ignores the fuzziness and incompleteness of the world for the sake of some sense of purity. Don't be fooled by that. There's always complexity hiding somewhere. And while A might seem to be A, you just don't know, how large the hidden b is, yet.

In practice, I'd recommend to look for mental tools that help you analyze but always leave room to deal with the inconsistency of reality. Outside of formal science, consistency is a trap. Building a world view from a set of basic axioms works for mathematics, but not for the extremely complex network that is human relations. I had to learn that the hard way. I'd recommend thinking in networks, path dependencies, path probabilities and network centrality (power) instead. It leads you down a path that allows you to form a much clearer critique than you ever could by adopting Ayn Rand's way of thinking.
by coffeecoders | 2025-12-01 00:59:44+00:00
I don't know who said it, but it fits the current Windows vs Linux moment perfectly. "Most people don’t want control. They want optionally having control."

Windows gives you the worst of both worlds. It restricts the control over the things that matter, and dumps unnecessary knobs on everything else.

Linux flipped that. It stays out of your way, lets you change what you actually care about, and never fights you for ownership of your own computer.

Linux won/is winning because it quietly became the place where your computer feels like yours again.
by splintersio | 2025-12-01 01:01:06+00:00
well, the good news is, that the attacker (should there be one) has to be either on the same flight, or have pesistence (bi-directional entry) into that infrastructure

that's a good edge case for not using a hotspot, but at the same time, i've never been on a flight with 'good' internet, but the main question, what to tell the general population about joining untrusted networks, now, you get thousands of feet in the air, you might think it's a tolerable risk to join sleazyJetFreeWiFi, and I would agree, it's unlikely that it's an evil-twin attack, but coming back to giving population level advice, is this kind of nuance useful ? or just fun

gg
by exidy | 2025-12-01 01:01:49+00:00
Inherited from the 80s? Microsoft effectively inherited drive letters via an 8086 semi-clone of CP/M called QDOS[0], it was the basis for PC-DOS and later MS-DOS. CP/M dates back to 1974.

But Gary Kildall didn't come up with the idea of drive letters in CP/M all on his own, he was likely influenced by TOPS-10[1] and CP/CMS[2], both from the late 60s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-10

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
by NegativeK | 2025-12-01 01:02:15+00:00
While you and I would love it if password managers would rotate creds, we're not yet at the point where people will use password managers. They're still using CompanynameFall2025!. Next month, they'll dutifully rotate their password to CompanynameWinter2025! because their work policy is still stuck on shitty standards.

> This kind of advice is well-intentioned but misleading. It consumes the limited time people have to protect themselves and diverts attention from actions that truly reduce the likelihood and impact of real compromises.

When you've got 15 seconds to _maybe_ get someone to change their behavior for the better, you need to discard everything that's not essential and stay very very far away from "yes, but" in your explanations.
by partomniscient | 2025-12-01 01:02:20+00:00
A few things - they're custom builds - my main server has ECC ram in a Gigabyte gaming motherboard, and does mail/files (now just ripped DVD's & Blu-rays), its had ZFS for ages. Ran low on space and bought a Beelink ME mini, and moved stuff across. That was the smoothest build ever. Booted off a USB stick, it detected all 6 nvme drives and was up and transferring stuff onto it in record time. Not the cheapest way to go about things for $/TB, but I could afford it. Store audio and general backup on these (mostly read, rarely write) with the movies on the spinning rust server. Both raidz1-0.

Plus an offsite virtual web server/backup mail server.

Not using jails or anything fancy. Just leave them alone aside from running freebsd-update and pkg update commands occasionally. Stable as.

The only complicated part is that on a couple of systems the motherboards the realtek network card isn't detected and so to bootstrap the install process the easiest way is to tether a phone via USB in order to get a network connection to then pkg install the driver for it.

Can dual boot my main PC into FreeBSD desktop mode - trying to wean myself of Windows 10, but as I said gaming/audio just works, so its the default boot device. Gaming on FreeBSD is problematic, I did manage to play Factorio for 15 minutes, but then it locks up complaining about a missing ALSA file, its acknowledged that its suboptimal and gaming Linux is just easier than continually messing around trying to get all the bits working consistently. Some people insist on it, but it still seems too precarious for me.

Hence considering Cachy OS. Wanted to triple boot my desktop machine, but turns out the motherboard despite having four slots for drives, doesn't actually support more than 2 of them. Uh, thanks Gigabyte...

The media PC is a ASUS NUC 14 Pro Mini running CachyOS, mostly happy with it compared to other distro's but they all have their quirks. Plus it hard locks occasionally when streaming (e.g. Netflix). Just remembering which package manager and how to use it is a minor challenge. I remember the era where there was basically just .deb and .rpm

I haven't used a laptop in ages, and dislike using a smartphone. I want my multi-monitor setup. I still remember thinking how dumb it was we had 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 and then they standardised on 1920x1080.

Ironically, Apple's Cinema Displays which cost a lot back in the day - mid 2000's did do 1920x1200 via DVI and we've got a few that still work to this day. My wife was in Apple-land because of her profession (graphic design), and I couldn't resist, Apple wasn't quite as evil back then. I think they have Sanyo displays in them. So props to those designing hardware that just keeps going.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-01 01:02:29+00:00
> DAP gets its raw data from a Google Analytics account.

A lot of adblockers also block GA. See [0], it's basically half of adblockers (by usage).

Technically-savvy users are both more likely to use adblockers, and more likely to switch to Linux, and more likely to alter the default settings of their adblocker to make it block more stuff. Also privacy-aware users, counter-cultural users, etc.

So the data is probably underestimating the amount of Linux sessions because it can't see them.

> By DAP's count, the Linux desktop now has a 5.8% market share.

We can probably up that by another couple of percentage points at least, just from this effect.

At extremes, if we accept the argument that the vast majority of Linux users will be using an ad-blocker that they have configured to block GA, then 5.8% seems incredibly low.

[0] https://www.quantable.com/analytics/whats-blocking-google-an...
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-12-01 01:02:55+00:00
The E10k reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's story about the motivation for dtrace. Sun engineers were working day and night, trying to debug what seemed to be a Solaris kernel networking bug, on a benchmarking cluster of E10k machines. I won't spoil the end, but it's great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVfAMRj-7E&t=2640s
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-12-01 01:03:07+00:00
1) Integration or removal of features isn't speech. And has been subject to government compulsion for a long time (e.g. seat belts and catalytic converters in automobiles).

2) Business speech is limited in many, many ways. There is even compelled speech in business (e.g. black box warnings, mandatory sonograms prior to abortions).
by eichin | 2025-12-01 01:03:16+00:00
Thinking of it in terms of namespaces might help; it's not that the drive is special, it's that there's a view that starts from / and one disk filesystem happens to be dropped there and others are dropped elsewhere; with something like initramfs there aren't any drives on /, just a chunk of ram, though you usually pivot to a physical one later (many linux-based embedded systems don't because your one "drive" is an SD card that can't handle real use, so you just keep the "skeleton" in memory and drop various bits of eMMC or SD or whatever into the tree as-convenient.)
by csa | 2025-12-01 01:04:04+00:00
> Which viewpoint did you oppose? It matters.

> If it was "Women should be allowed to vote" I can understand the teachers reluctance to engage in debate.

I was in a class like this at an elite school 3 decades ago. I was told by two other students that my role as a cis straight white male was to say nothing or validate what others said.

This was during a time that the core concepts of what is currently called DEI were being fleshed out.

My “sin” was asking whether certain research and data were being reported and represented accurately (they weren’t). The creative interpretations led to policy suggestions that were about 180 degrees from what the author intended. How did I know that? I knew the researcher and had discussed it with him directly.

That class was an absolute circle jerk, and it’s the kind of circle jerk that gives progressives a very bad name while being completely unnecessary (i.e., many parts of the progressive agenda have plenty of solid research support without wildly creative interpretations).

Anyway, the professor in this class was having none of it. He appreciated my questions. That said, half the class thought I was satan incarnate.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-01 01:04:07+00:00
Not only does GPT lack the pretty nasty culture of SO, it’s so much faster to work with.

I anticipate SO will go into decline and get worse as a result. I wonder how much GPT will suffer without it as a source.

In a way, they’re kind of a match made in heaven: domain experts who share experience and knowledge not found in the user docs alone, cleaned of the antisocial nastiness usually filtered by tech writers and PR peeps.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-01 01:04:18+00:00
Depends on the TPMS implementation to be honest. Most of the UHF ones are impossible to receive unless you're using some optimally placed/pretty powerful equipment. Even then, the protocol is entirely up to the vendor, as long as the system is reliable.

My car is old enough that it doesn't have TPMS sensors but I have looked into third party ones. It looks like there's all kinds of systems, from custom UHF to Bluetooth LE. No idea what your car uses.
by wingmanjd | 2025-12-01 01:04:43+00:00
We at $DAYJOB had an internal git server that was literally what the parent of this comment mentioned (`git init --bare`). It became a little cumbersome, so when I stumbled across forgejo, I was happy to see that importing the existing git repos was a breeze, just had to point the config to look at the existing git storage root and assign groups and permissions via the GUI.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-01 01:04:47+00:00
> I have a big problem with companies forcing me to use garbage I don't want to use.

That pretty much sums it up. And the answer is: too bad. Deal with it, like the rest of us.

I have a big problem with companies not sending me a check for a million dollars. But companies don't obey my whims. And I'm not going to complain that the government should do something about it, because that would be silly and immature.

In reality, companies try their best to build products that make money, and they compete with each other to do so. These principles have led to amazing products. And as long as no consumers are being harmed (e.g. fraud, safety, etc.), asking the government to interfere in product decisions is a terrible idea. The free market exists because it does a better job than any other system at giving consumers what they want. Just because you or a group of people personally don't like a particular product isn't a reason to overturn the free market and start asking the government to interfere with product design. Because if you start down that path, pretty soon they're going to be interfering with the things you like.
by robertwpearce | 2025-12-01 01:05:25+00:00
I decided to start learning Zig this past week, and typing in "zig book" to a search engine led me to that project. After a handful of pages, I had no clue what was going on and couldn't follow it (that said, I am new).

I quickly found https://ziglang.org/learn/, and the guide is great. For ziglings, make sure you're on the latest dev build (as it says in the README)! (Edit: or get the tagged release for the version you have!)
by sothatsit | 2025-12-01 01:05:32+00:00
All of my family members bar one use ChatGPT for search, or to come up with recipes, or other random stuff, and really like it. My girlfriend uses it to help her write stories. All of my friends use it for work. Many of these people are non-technical.

You don’t get to 100s of millions of weekly active users with a product only technical people are interested in.