MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by commandersaki | 2025-12-06 12:10:46+00:00
Been there and absolutely can see this happening, it is sometimes a prodromal symptom called a 'sign of reference' [1].

I recall during my first psychosis episode thinking a TNT logistics van contained a bomb and was being used as a terrorist vehicle to blow up a building (or maybe at the time I think it could have been targeting myself directly).

Also, in that same episode, the train stations in Sydney were being plastered on every possible space and surface with high contrast white on blue posters that said "HEY TOSSER!" [2]; it was an anti littering ad campaign bringing some levity to the situation. My mind was overwhelmed by both its alerting nature and the fact that everywhere I would turn I'd see a poster, and in my infirmity it felt like someone was pointing a finger an inch from my forehead arresting me to say I should stop being a tosser in the derogatory (Australian slang) sense (though my mind was contending with the many multiple meanings).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_referen...

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/wyVDNN4
by pas | 2025-12-06 12:11:44+00:00
It depends on the company culture.

(Fancy US tech companies like to be very selective, have a competitive mindset, hire "the best" according to their filters, and then want people to show how amazing they are, uu, so much impact, woah... and in effect people need to constantly manage upwards.

While in many other companies, or "orgs", having a good team cohesion is more important. To blend in a bit, get accepted even if it means foregoing some ambition.)

That said it's always good to have receipts.
by leoc | 2025-12-06 12:12:27+00:00
Sutherland started programming on the TX-0, which was widely accessible on the MIT campus, but Sketchpad was definitely done on the big gun, the TX-2, which was still inside Lincoln Laboratories. (Sutherland's uncle-in-law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Getting helped get him into Lincoln Labs. See https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273819... .) There's an active TX-2 emulation project at the moment https://tx-2.github.io/ , which has the primary goal of getting Sketchpad running.
by googlebot6178 | 2025-12-06 12:13:27+00:00
Since Google eliminated country specific search sites like google.co.uk and bans you from changing location you have to get VPN. If you happen to be travelling and want to do Xmas shopping for UK Google now blocks this possibility because it assumes you want to shop for delivery at your airport transfer lounge location because it doesn't understand user intent or helpful content, in its own bubble land it unbelievably says this is a smoother experience for users! Most expats now are forced onto vpn if they still use Google. Fortunately ai is doing away with the need for Google altogether.
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-06 12:14:21+00:00
The only relevant subdivision of PFAS is by chain length: small, medium, large. Even so, they all accumulate in the environment. Just because you with your short term selfish interest doesn't take any responsibility for the world at large, willing to totally destroy it for small personal gain, does not mean that others don't either. All PFAS are very harmful in the environment because it's like paperclips that keep being made but not ever being unmade. Medium and long chain are also harmful in the human body due to significant accumulation.

Teflon does not get a free pass. It is a toxin. The last I recall, it causes brain damage in children. There is a reason why sane people avoid nonstick cookware.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-12-06 12:14:32+00:00
You are 100% correct. UDP can be used to solve this problem, in fact, UDP can be used to solve any (software) networking problem, because its kind of what networking is.

The thing that webdevs want to solve is related but different, and whether the forest is missed for the trees is sometimes hard to tell.

What webdevs want to solve is data replication in a distributed system of transactions where availability is guaranteed, performance is evaluated horizontally, change is frequent and easy, barrier to entry is low, tooling is widely available, tech is heterogeneous, and the domain is complex relational objects.

Those requirements give you a different set of tradeoffs vs financial exchanges, which despite having their own enormous challenges, certainly have different goals to the above.

So does that mean this article is a good solution to the problem? I'm not sure, its hard to tell sometimes whether all the distributed aircastles invented for web-dev really pay out vs just having a tightly integrated low-level solution, but regardless of the hypothetical optimum, its hard to argue that the proposed solution is probably a good fit for the web dev culture vs UDP, which unfortunately is something very important to take into account if you want to get stuff done.
by lillecarl | 2025-12-06 12:14:59+00:00
Android 16 is adding "Desktop Mode" to do exactly this, I bet in a few Android releases this will be good enough for most "desktop usecases". They'll have a "Linux" app that gives you a VM exactly like WSL2 on Windows or Crostini on ChromeOS.

If we allow ourselves to dream it's not impossible we'll be able to run Windows games on Android in some future :)
by grafmax | 2025-12-06 12:15:27+00:00
Capitalism is a system where workers create value through their work and are compensated with a portion of that value in the forms of wages. The business owner, the capitalist, is able to extract a portion of that for themselves because they own the business. The state maintains this exploitation of workers’ productivity through so-called property rights - the “rights” of the business owner over the worker. Without the state, this system falls apart.
by Klaster_1 | 2025-12-06 12:15:34+00:00
>Freight brokers now control ≈⅓ of all loads and often award them to the lowest bidder, pushing spot rates below the cost of legal operation ... routinely run 14–20-hour days using tampered ELDs.

Is the sort of "innovation" you often hear here about when people say "EU can't innovate because of regulations"?
by jbaber | 2025-12-06 12:15:35+00:00
I'm an average person who uses fastmail with a custom domain with a separate registrar. Fastmail does all the right DKIM, DMARC, etc. magic.

And still my mail sometimes goes to spam essentially because it's not "@gmail.com" This is a really real problem that will never go away because everyone in a position to do something about it being so monopolistic cannot understand it.
by dotancohen | 2025-12-06 12:16:28+00:00
I recently had an obviously disturbed man come to the window of my Tesla asking for help. He did not specifically say money, but that's what he wanted. Long story short, he sees that the Tesla has identified a human standing next to the car, but the Tesla showed four people. The man asked how does the vehicle know there are people there, I told him that the Tesla has eight cameras around it. He then asked how does it know there were four people, I explained that the Tesla does not know there were four people, rather the Tesla has a hard time figuring out where something as small as a human is - it is designed to detect larger things like other vehicles. The man was obviously extremely affected, and walked away without another word.

Only later did I understand that the Tesla may have just confirmed what he had suspected all along - that there are in fact four people in the place where he is standing.
by michaelt | 2025-12-06 12:16:40+00:00
> Non-domiciled CDLs introduced, permitting foreign nationals to obtain U.S. commercial licenses

In many countries it's common to see freight being driven by foreign drivers simply because that's how cross-border deliveries are done.

If a truck of widgets is made in Poland and shipped to a store in Spain, a Polish driver will drive it the whole way.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-06 12:16:47+00:00
This is what gets me with the AI promotion. If it's so good at increasing productivity, then where's all the result? Currently, we still have shitty software, updates that break things (Windows password icon?) and zero day threats.

How about tech companies focus on the actual problems first rather than desperately grabbing attention for a product that doesn't seem to deliver anything useful and instead hallucinates and regurgitates falsehoods. It's the opposite of a benefit and we're burning up the planet to make ourselves worse off.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-06 12:17:07+00:00
It's not clear what "full access to everyone's data" actually means, isn't it limited to things that are already publicly available? So for example, I don't think researchers would get access to someone's Likes because that feature is now considered private, but they could access things like Posts and Retweets. My expectation is that researchers would be allowed to run queries against publicly available data as part of their research, but they wouldn't be allowed to do a huge download with a copy of everything posted during the last 5 years.

Facebook / Meta is compliant with these laws, and the way that they handle researcher access is by providing carefully controlled remote environments with sandboxed access to user data, which forms the basis for my understanding of how researchers are typically provided access to social media data.
by chaz6 | 2025-12-06 12:17:20+00:00
I am in the UK, and I work for a combined FNO/ISP (a company that owns and operates both the access network and the internet service). It makes me angry that corporations and governments are ruining what was once a thriving network that allowed people to communicate freely with one another. I hope that we will be able to save what remains before it's completely out of our control. My fear is that eventually all devices will be required to have a government-mandated backdoor installed, and anyone found with a non-compliant device will be treated as a criminal.

For now, I used my Hetzner server via Tailscale running fast-socks5 [1] using FoxyProxy [2] (for Mozilla Firefox) which allows me to select a list of domains to re-direct through the socks proxy. I also have Tor installed which is useful when roaming.

[1] https://github.com/dizda/fast-socks5 [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-sta...
by Supernaut | 2025-12-06 12:17:49+00:00
The author mentions his father's "$2000 computer", a figure has no impact in 2025, when $2,000 doesn't seem like a particularly large amount of money to have spent on a state of the art PC.

I'm of the opinion that writers should make it a habit in pieces like these to always include prices that have been adjusted for inflation. In this case, $2,000 corresponds to $6,731.61, which provides better context for the story.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-06 12:19:41+00:00
You’ll need to have some plausible amount of non-ssh traffic otherwise your account will be automatically re-assigned as an Enterprise Infrastructure Account. It will be temporarily suspended while you apply for a license.

EIAs are £452.17/month (a statutory amount originally defined in The Online Safety Act’s 2027 update, subject to triple-lock inflation), licensed, and subject to inspection. There’s a four month waiting list for licensing due to backlogs at the local County Court.

The alternative is therefore to use up a strike and apply to have the account repurposed back to a Citizen User Account. CUAs must remain below a 50:1 down/up ratio and must have p90 non-https “control” traffic of 48kbps or less. They are expensive too but you get a 25% discount if you install your ISP’s mobileconfig / MDM profile though. With the profile discount the price is now only £64.99 a month.

(This assumes you run an Approved Platform capable of mobile device management. Anything else — Linux based, old versions of macOS, Windows <= 13 etc. — has to pay the full price and CUAs are limited to one Custom Access device per connection.)

You can get it down to £49.99 a month if you sign up for a 12-month trial of their home security system — cameras, door “e-locks”, that sort of thing. The devices are locked down but you can see the last 48h of events on their cloud portal. The devices have tamper detectors and the traffic is encrypted e2e but luckily that doesn’t count towards your CUA agreement’s limits on opaque traffic.
by t312227 | 2025-12-06 12:20:02+00:00
hello,

as alwas: imho. (!)

is it possible to install for example a current "vanilla" debian arm64 on this mainboard!?

what i mean by that:

write the "official" debian arm64 installation image to a thumbdrive, press some key & boot into the installation!?

and run the resulting system with the distributions "offical" kernel from the debian arm64-architecture!?

w/o jumping thru a few "hoops" like a lion in a circus ... ;)

i know ... the "openness" of the descendants of ibm pc at compatible machines was some kind of a "historical" error by ibm, but i got used to it!!

i like to "own" hardware i bought with my hard-earned money. i heavily prefer hardware, which is easily bootable from "inoffical" boot-medias - read: FOSS ... eg. linux/*BSD/...

and i'm not interested in "clamped down" hardware a la "most" available ARM boards - regardless of notebooks/tablets/phones ...

just my 0.02€
by iso1631 | 2025-12-06 12:22:18+00:00
ANPR cameras which the rest of the world (and apparently America) have had for decades have recently become big news in America, I believe because they're now being used for immigration purposes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

I'm not sure why these are so bad but generally everyone loves things like Ring cameras which do the same thing but with people rather than vehicles. I suspect there's something in the American Psyche and how they treat cars, and the inherent trust of the billionaires and distrust of "The Feds"
by couscouspie | 2025-12-06 12:23:09+00:00
I find this topic of link aggregation, feeds and readlists highly interesting and believe that herein lies the solution for a new web similar to like reddit basically imagined it, before going full commercial.

Both presented ways in looking at an RSS feed make sense and come with their own set of pros and cons. But to me it looks like it is entirely possible and the best solution to treat it as both at the same time: the feed is a stream, but you treat it as an inbox not for the items that are streamed themselves (e.g. blog entries), but as the notification that they exist. So, I will try out in the future to keep three lanes: a readlis, where you store the things you want to read, a read-it where you store the things you actually read already and the RSS-feed aggregor "inbox" where you marked things as read if you decided to either put it on the readlist or not. So the read-marker of the RSS-feed aggregor becomes a "noted-it" button.

A fourth lane that forwards interesting reads or notifications could be the building brick of a new internet, where you aggregate things from people you like or trust and index them as your personalised search engine.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-06 12:23:11+00:00
This is "category" in the sense of Gilbert Ryle's category error.

A logical type or a specific conceptual classification dictated by the rules of language and logic.

This is exactly getting hung up on the precise semantic meaning of the words being used.

The lack of precision is going to have huge consequences with this large of bets on the idea that we have "intelligent" machines that "think" or have "cognition" when in reality we have probabilistic language models and all kinds of category errors in the language surrounding these models.

Probably a better example here is that category in this sense is lifted from Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Types.

It is the loose equivalent of asking why are you getting hung up on the type of a variable in a programming language? A float or a string? Who cares if it works?

The problem is in introducing non-obvious bugs.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-06 12:23:52+00:00
There's no vibes here buddy.

You ran the usual leftist playbook of bobbing and weaving around the list of atrocities combined with a round or two of no true Scotsman. You skipped the attempts to change the subject with some whataboutisms for some reason, but that's fine.

You said people were flourishing in the East under the opposite of "toxic individualism", which would be the collectivism of the numerous failed attempts to implement socialism.

I pointed to the fact that those nations (past or present) do not allow their citizens to leave freely, including building physical barriers to prevent people from leaving, and you try to argue that I was only talking about the Berlin Wall and that East Germany, a vassal state of a USSR that generally isn't considered part of the traditional western world, is clearly part of the west. I'd say that's wrong, but it's far from the only example so it doesn't matter.

I did mention the iron curtain, but another primary example is North Korea, and you no true Scotsman that away and say you were obviously only talking about China.

The same China that doesn't allow citizens to leave freely, where millions died under idiotic leftist economic policies, and where the rise from abject poverty to a middle income nation is perfectly correlated with the rejection of the path to communism and the adoption of more liberal, individualistic economic policies, and is another great example of my point.

In short, see my comment above, get bent, and go troll elsewhere.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 12:26:54+00:00
It's easy to handwave away if you assign arbitrary analogies though.

If we stay on topic, it's much harder to do since we don't actually know how the brain works. Outside at least that it is a computer doing (almost certainly) analog computation.

Years ago I built a quasi mechanical calculator. The computation was done mechanically, and the interface was done electronically. From a calculators POV it was an abomination, but a few abstraction layers down, they were both doing the same thing, albeit my mecha-calc being dramatically worse at it.

I don't think the brain is an LLM, like my Mecha-calc was a (slow) calculator, but I also don't think we know enough about the brain to firmly put it many degrees away from an LLM. Both are infact electrical signal processors with heavy statistical computation. I doubt you believe the brain is a trans-physical magic soul box.
by wasmainiac | 2025-12-06 12:27:28+00:00
Hi Stephen, is that you?

Jokes and sales pitches aside. We kinda have that already, we platforms that allow us to run the same code on, x86, arm, wasm… and so on. It’s just there is no consensus on which platform to use. Nor should there be since that would slow progress of new and better ways to program.

We will never have one language to span graphics, full stack, embedded, scientific, high performance, etc without excessive bloat.
by cs702 | 2025-12-06 12:27:32+00:00
Interesting.

The OP claims that deregulation efforts from 2016 to 2022, originally meant to address the truck driver shortage, actually led to many minimally trained drivers joining small truck fleets that pay below-market salaries and routinely run 14- to 20-hour days using tampered hardware for logging mileage. These poorly trained drivers, according to the OP, would not pass the vetting of large, compliant carriers. Freight brokers, which now "control" a third of all loads, typically award them to the lowest bidder, pushing spot rates "below the cost of legal operation." The consequences, according to the OP: legitimate carriers are barely breaking even, cargo theft is more prevalent, and roads are less safe.

Hmm... maybe? I'm not sure I agree. There's an alternate narrative that is also compelling. Could it be that the rise of freight brokers and the adoption of new technology by small fleets enables them to compete more effectively with large fleets, making this market much more competitive than it ever was? Could it be that shippers now have more viable truck-shipping options at a lower cost, thanks to less opaque freight pricing? Could it be that society as a whole benefits from less expensive truck delivery services? Won't this market, sooner or later, be dominated by self-driving trucks, bringing prices down much further, benefiting society as a whole even more?
by vouwfietsman | 2025-12-06 12:28:36+00:00
I'm not sure I follow, though I agree with your definition of idempotency I think ensuring idempotency on the receiving side is sometimes impossible without recognizing that you are receiving an already processed message, in other words: you recognize that you have already received the incoming message and don't process it, in other words: you can tell that this message is the same as an earlier one, in other words: the identity of the message corresponds to the identity of an earlier message.

Its true that idempotency can sometimes be achieved without explicitly having message identity, but in cases it cannot, a key is usually provided to solve this problem. This key indeed encodes the identity of the message, but is usually called an "idempotency key" to signal its use.

The system then becomes idempotent not by having repeated executions result in identical state on some deeper level, but by detecting and avoiding repeated executions on the surface of the system.
by ptero | 2025-12-06 12:28:41+00:00
> Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos

That is a totally reasonable view. But others have different preferences. I, for example, do not want to share all my photos with Google, govvies and anyone else they leak them to.

So I self host, back up and share my files with the family. I can always dump what I want to insta, etc. but it is my choice what to share, picture by picture, with default "off". And have no dark patterns trying to catch a finger accidentally hitting a "back up to cloud" for the full album.

That, to me, is a big deal, worth dealing with occasional IT hassles for. Which is just a personal preference.
by godzillafarts | 2025-12-06 12:28:45+00:00
My wife and I have been so fed up with the streaming landscape that we’ve been amassing a library of physical Blu-rays on the cheap from places like McKay’s, etc. It takes a little work, but it’s been really good for our family and encourages us to be thoughtful about what we consume.

Honestly I don’t see us going back to streaming. The content isn’t that compelling; most of what we watch is older (we have kids, so lots of Disney movies), and we’re not really interested in most of the newer shows that would warrant us paying a subscription in order to watch new episodes as they drop. Before we cancelled, I remember looking at the carousel on my Netflix Home Screen and being completely uninterested in any of the content they were pushing.

I’m also not worried about some licensing deal nuking one of my kids’ favorite movies from the catalog now. No ads is just the cherry on top.
by cassiogo | 2025-12-06 12:29:34+00:00
Such a weird take. Of course "self hosting" means "self hosting".

Sure it could be easier/safer to manage, everything can be better.

Over the last couple of years hosting it I had a single issue with an upgrade but that was because I simply ignore the upgrade instructions and YOLOed the docker compose update.

Again, is it perfect? No. Would I expect a non tech savy user to manage their own instance? Again no.