MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ifh-hn | 2025-12-06 16:04:37+00:00
I've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things.

I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en, and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/

Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

And there's also Alpine too.
by escanda | 2025-12-06 16:05:04+00:00
It was kind of a joke intent but it gives out to better naming position although unambiguous symbols to specify a symbol; such as #' for function names. Plus now that I remember the common Lisp ANSI specification is just awesome, free and locally installable and browsable from Emacs at symbols from ages. Common Lisp images were myriads ahead in an intospectable sense, like Smalltalk. Objects and primitives can use the built-in debugger to display their inwards. The environment is just plain astonishing, moreover ten years ago - when I started - and Emacs is free as in speech and compilable from scratch, plus org-mode is awesome as well. Nowadays I feel sorry of Python introspection capabilities although hinted typing improved it so much. Not to mention Common Lisp tight generated assembly and it's garbage collector which was ahead of its own: first with Boehm and then with parallel ones. SICP was nice although nicest was the one about gravitational physics, or brownian motions, also in Scheme. Good times.
by Aeglaecia | 2025-12-06 16:06:19+00:00
a crumbling society is basically ideal for maximizing human stress and its various expressions ... or so dictated the deprecated term neurasthenia ... while many individuals are forced to deal with debilitating mental conditions , this situation is often incorrectly conflated with having experienced temporary behavioural breakdowns that later resolved (aka normal evolutionary response) ... this conflation wouldnt be such an issue if big pharma wasn't in the picture , overpathologization is definitely in somebodys best interests !
by Aachen | 2025-12-06 16:06:34+00:00
The case argument really solves everything whenever someone brings up poor choices

- Annoying glass back that scratches immediately and slides out of your hand- "just put a case on it"

- Undersized battery that won't last a day - "you can buy a case with a battery"

- The phone wobbles when you lay it on a desk or nightstand - "most people use a case anyway"

If we're meant to make our phones twice as thick, why not sell it in that form factor? Stuff that extra battery in there, make the backside grippy, and have it be able to lay down without being like a 4-legged chair where 1 leg is longer

I've never used a case on any phone. They're big enough as it is (in the xy dimensions). I did try it out of necessity when needing 2 phones in 1 pocket (work and private phone) for a week during a work trip. It's doable but just why
by jerf | 2025-12-06 16:07:04+00:00
It isn't the absolutely easiest process.

But it works on Ubuntu, it works on Debian, it works on Mac, it works on Windows, it works on a lot of things other than a Nix install.

And I have to know Docker for work anyhow. I don't have to know Nix for anything else.

You can't win on "it's net easier in Nix" than anywhere else, and a lot of us are pretty used to "it's just one line" and know exactly what that means when that one line isn't quite what we need or want. Maybe it easier after a rather large up-front investment into Nix, but I've got dozens of technologies asking me for large up-front investments.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-06 16:07:51+00:00
> "This level of simple assurance is for simpletons. You and I don't know the truth of it and can't be sure based on "it's from reddit". I'm sorry that not being sure is hard for you."

I respectfully disagree with your dismissal. Reasonable heuristics are necessary to get through life without getting lost in hours of deep dives into any random shit you hear. Anyway, the mere fact that the fridges have ads of any sort at all is reason enough to never buy one, I don't need to also believe some redditor's karma seeking tall tale.
by OisinMoran | 2025-12-06 16:08:14+00:00
Span? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been surprised on several occasions by American friends living here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that literally every Irish person above a certain age has seen a heap of episodes. That and possibly that there wasn't much else on.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-06 16:08:52+00:00
> Some of you sound like amateurs toying with pet projects, where today it's framework A on cloud provider X whereas tomorrow it's framework B on cloud provider Y. Come the next day, rinse and repeat. This is unthinkable in any remotely professional setting.

Vendor contracts have 1-3 year terms. We (a financial services firm) re-evaluate tech vendors every year for potential replacement and technologists have direct input into these processes. I understand others may operate under a different vendor strategy. As a vendor customer, your choices are to remain a customer or to leave and find another vendor. These are not feelings, these are facts. If you are unhappy but choose not to leave a vendor, that is a choice, but it is your choice to make, and unless you are a large enough customer that you have leverage over the vendor, these are your only options.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-06 16:08:58+00:00
A long time ago (maybe in the mid-90s) I knew an elderly radio amateur who could not just "copy" CW by ear, but also RTTY. He could also pretty much tell what a teleprinter was printing just by listening to the noises it made, like he'd be facing away from it on the other side of the room reading out entire words from what was coming through.

Apparently in the 50s when he did his National Service he'd been in the Signals but "not in the regiment that's on his papers", make of that what you will.

I have noticed that with PSK modes and particularly PSK31 you can hear "CQ CQ CQ" as a distinctive pattern much in the same way as it is with CW.

IBM spent a fortune developing ATM keypads that - when correctly mounted - had keys that made the exact same noise no matter how you pressed them or how worn they were.

So I don't doubt that someone suitably clever could extract audio from a room and work out what was being typed.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-06 16:09:13+00:00
Yes, this: "The order established by the Abrahamic faiths and western philosophies (which were heavily influenced by pre-existing middle eastern cultures or works) has been useful for demonstrating what ideas work and what don’t. People who want to believe in their own false narratives about alternatives will experience a rude awakening, and blame their failures on their “enemies”, like many in western cultures are doing now to their detractors. What hasn’t worked is pretending that oligopoly and monopoly are capitalism; too much influence is given to a few sources, and too many resources are spent or wasted on them."

is a potential flashpoint I think. Very sage as well! Excellent.

Also so true about India, and -- Indonesia. Russia, depends, exactly. It sounds ridiculous but it may make sense for Israel to become officially part of the US empire, it already functions similarly unofficially. Controversial and nuanced, yes. Apologies.

"LATAM and Africa will continue the blame and social manipulation games, as per usual." I don't think so. I think they are some of the wildcards. Things could change fast. US domestic fortification focused, China lacks reach to disrupt - could lead to grassroots populism that upends old orders, and combined with shifting fortunes and new tech, could be formidable. Wild card. Maybe you're right, but I just feel like there's more contemporary potential there that hasn't been expressed yet.

Oceania may end up pillaged. Or it may continue to be "less than relevant" lol. Idk. Indonesia is all important...probably.

"The UK will coast on via indirect manipulation as always since it gave up global supremacy." Sounds right, but idk, super interested to know more.
by simonh | 2025-12-06 16:09:58+00:00
I think commerce between individuals is a right.

Infringing on that should be justified in terms of protecting the rights of those involved, such as ensuring the quality of goods, enforcement of reasonable contract terms and such. We are involved in the process as participants in the market, and that’s the basis of any legitimacy we have to impose any rules in the market. That includes an obligation to fair treatment of other participants.

If someone writes notes, procedures, a diary, software etc for their own use they are under no obligation to publish it, ever. That’s basic privacy protection. Whether an executable was written from scratch in an assembler or is compiled from high level source code isn’t anyone else’s business. It should meet quality standards for commercial transactions and that’s it. There’s no more obligation to publish source than there is to publish design documents, early versions, or unpublished material. That would be an overreaching invasion of privacy.
by motiw | 2025-12-06 16:10:29+00:00
I had the exact same experience with my web app, about 10 years ago.

My conclusion was that productivity forums are more of a support group than a place to find users for new concepts.

I built an app that is 100% flexible to adjust to how you want to work, and I think most people expect such an app to tell them how to work and it has to be simple.
by jader201 | 2025-12-06 16:10:33+00:00
That thread goes into how Samsung has confirmed that this ad can’t show up like it did [1]. There are many comments in that thread debunking this. Which is why I linked the whole thread, not a single comment.

When something posts something on Reddit that sounds far fetched (fun to believe, but unlikely), we (the HN community) should default to skepticism/critical thinking, rather than assuming it’s true without evidence that it is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173338
by sumnole | 2025-12-06 16:10:47+00:00
Ads really aren't that bad. Targeted ads may even help you discover products you'll enjoy.

The ad in the article is pretty obviously an ad to anyone that can read the words, "New Series. Start Watching".

Ads like these that randomly display during idle is hardly what I consider invasive.

Hopefully OP's sister gets her mental health under control, but I wouldn't immediately raise pitch forks to ban an entire industry vital to the economy and business-consumer communication.
by krapp | 2025-12-06 16:10:50+00:00
The vast majority of humans don't consider advertisement to be as fundamental a form of inequality as you seem to.

The fact that you can't comprehend my disagreement in good faith demonstrates that there's no point in continuing this conversation. No, I don't own shares in Google, nor am I insane. I think you're the one who needs to broaden their horizons a bit. Good day.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-06 16:11:10+00:00
I don’t prefer anything

At the most basic biological level the human species can’t organize action larger than a few hundred people in any kind of coherent way.

There are no coherent organizations that are larger than a few hundred people.

It is a biological impossibility for the human species to maintain long lasting (thousands of years) groups that can have social structures that last long enough to encode genetic fitness changes at the rate of environmental change.,

We do not have the ability to comfortably maintain coherent heirarchies, and subordinated structures, around a coherent epistemological grounding.

Humans are not eusocial.

I just fundamentally don’t see any future for the species level organization whatsoever
by simtel20 | 2025-12-06 16:11:22+00:00
In that context, what leads you call yourself and the rest of humanity primarily "consumers" in response to an essay? I think this has become uncomfortably (to me) normalized, and it begs the same question that Le Guin asks about whether we understand what we are doing when we are defining ourselves. A citizen and a person doesn't have to be defined as what they consume, do they?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-06 16:11:29+00:00
I fully agree with the actually great thing being what not to have to look out for and my first thought when seeing the headline was: "Doesn't the type system handle most of that stuff?"

In other languages I get most of the benefits by sticking to functional programming practices and not mutating stuff all over the place. Rust's type system sort of encodes that, and maybe a little more, by making safe mutation a known non-interfering thing.
by skydhash | 2025-12-06 16:12:20+00:00
It’s not really about emacs, but the fact that it relies on software being available on $PATH. You could use proxy scripts for stuff that are in containers, but yeah, it’s flaky.

I’ve not encountered OS crashes for a long time, and I’m fairly confident on troubleshooting config issues. Image based OS could be fine for single purpose computing, but I tinker a lot on my PC. Anything that is declarative is usually an hassle.
by wavemode | 2025-12-06 16:12:35+00:00
That metaphor is a bit strained, since in reality, heart surgery is so high stakes that there is no (legal) way to just crank through hundreds of them for the purpose of racking up experience. (You can operate on cadavers, sure, but it's not like the cadaver is going to have a beating heart, nor exhibit the exact medical condition you're practicing for.)

So yeah, it's always better to have lots of experience, and moving fast is indeed great for quickly acquiring experience, But in some fields and situations you can't afford to move fast, you just have to spend the necessary years.

Writing is a much better example - many great writers talk about how they write all the time, every day, but very little of it gets successfully published. But the practice gives them good experience.
by maccard | 2025-12-06 16:13:22+00:00
Is that actually tiny core? It’s _likely_ it is, but that’s not good enough.

> this same thing came up a few years ago

Honestly, that makes this inexcusable. There are numerous SSL providers available for free, and if that’s antithetical to them, they can use a self signed certificate and provide an alternative method of verification (e.g. via mailing list). The fact they don’t take this seriously means there is 0 chance I would install it!

Honestly, this is a great use for a blockchain…
by thih9 | 2025-12-06 16:13:31+00:00
Finland is a cold country with similar population count and larger area. For national domestic trips, 55% of people there use cars[1]. For MN i only found stats for MN metro area, but I’d expect public transport to be more developed there. The car usage is still 83%[2].

[1]: https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/publicatio... page 6

[2]: https://metropolitan-council.github.io/TBI_Household_Synthes... “Driving remains the predominant mode of travel in the region, representing 83% of trips in 2023.”
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-06 16:13:35+00:00
I once read an essay on how people often believe that to be good at something you have to spend a lot of time theorizing about it. I think the example they used was painting or pottery or something: someone who spends 1 year thinking about the perfect pot and then makes it, vs someone who spends 1 year making pots. I was convinced and kept in mind ever since.

But I hadn't until now seen the connection to speed spelled out. Of course, to try a lot you have to be fast at each attemp.
by adamwong246 | 2025-12-06 16:13:44+00:00
Fine, but I don't care about the average person. _I_ do not want this junk in my life. I don't deserve to be treated this way. If everyone else want to be manipulated by their fridge, thats one's on them, but count me out. It doesn't matter _if_ you install your own firmware, but _if you have the right to do so_. I don't own a gun, but I still believe that owning a firearm is a human right.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-06 16:13:47+00:00
>>>> “you won’t get sick or spread the disease”

> In situations like the one five years ago, perfect understanding of how a new vaccine will interact with a relatively new virus is not going to be available.

Even five years ago, everyone that has a minimal knowledge about vaccines understood it was an unrealistic claim, because many of the vaccines don't provide that level of immunity. If you have some free time to go down the rabit hole, you can try to count them in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy_of_the_Unit...

So the questions are:

Is that quote real?

Who said that?

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I was going to hit the "reply" button, but I decided to look in Goggle and found https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/walensky-comment... Like 10 worse than what I expected.
by Aachen | 2025-12-06 16:14:11+00:00
My banks have always provided hardware 2FA. I think it used to be free and was surprised that I had to pay for the latest one, but I've had the previous one since my parents paid for everything so idk if that was maybe always the case

I've always done banking from the browser since I got access to any banking at all (probably when I was 16, ~15 years ago). Not sure what I'm supposed to be missing out on with these apps that don't work on many user-controlled devices (be it Linux-based or rooted Android). Log in with chip+pin for my Dutch bank (primary account), and a perplexing combination of high-entropy username, password, 2 randomly asked digits of a 5-digit PIN, a color code that you scan with the hardware device which needs another 5-digit PIN, and then typing over the 8-digit confirmation code. German efficiency! But I barely use that account anyway
by auggierose | 2025-12-06 16:14:24+00:00
I know. I just picked on it because on one hand it is great that Wolfram was able to execute on his vision and make it work as a viable product. It needs a lot of resources to make something as great as Mathematica. On the other hand, an essential tool like that, you want to own it for life and grow with it, and I don't think that is quite possible with a "product".
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-06 16:14:45+00:00
That means there does not exist a mechanism for one person or group, who has excess resources to reliably transfer those resources to another group in a way that does not have an implied return or reward function of some sort to the giver

Because of the nature of this transactional process it corrupts any possible transfer of power

So consolidated power in any form, is not equitable and the state of physics doesn’t allow for another regime. It’s a munchausen trilemma
by ipdashc | 2025-12-06 16:15:01+00:00
> People complain about rating performance based on what your manager or coworkers say about you.

Do they? This definitely seems better to me, and I don't think I've really heard complaints about it. Not without flaws, of course, but preferable to chasing a made-up metric. It's arguably the entire point of a manager, to know what their employees are doing at a high level. We managed to do this for hundreds of years without needing shiny dashboards and counting every meeting attended.

Metrics have their place as well, of course, but they should be one data point, and should not be chased after so religiously that recording the metrics becomes significant work on its own.
by NoNotTheDuo | 2025-12-06 16:15:32+00:00
I’m struggling to figure out the upside, as a normal end-user. I don’t manage a fleet of vehicles and I’m not developing an app based on the data.

Why should I pay this company $19/month to put their hardware in my truck? It’s not clear to me that there’s navigation (I.e. a replacement for Waze/Maps) available to me via an app. I guess it records video and can be used like a dash cam, but there are much cheaper and offline alternatives. Earn their proprietary crypto coin? No thanks.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-06 16:16:54+00:00
> Due to this my dad had to drive a higher average speed of ~65-70mph to cover the distances required and not use up his available hours.

> Before he'd drive slower 55-65 ave mph for longer hours and take frequent breaks.

The hours pre- and post-strictness changes were the same, it's just with electronic logbooks it's harder to fudge the numbers than the older paper charts.

This would imply he was worker longer hours than was strictly allowed (at a slower pace/speed). After hours could not be fudged, it meant that the pace had to go up to cover the same distance.

What should have happened was that the expectations of what was possible in a work-rest cycle should have been adjusted.

Further, one big issue with trucking (often came up in Bloomberg's Odd Losts podcasts on this topic) is that drivers are paid per load, rather than (say) per hour. Often what happens is that they're stuck at a warehouse waiting to un/load for potentially hours, which they're not paid for. The source/destination doesn't care because whether the driver is waiting for 30 or 300 minutes the fee is the same: they have no motivation to be efficient. This kills what the driver can earn in a day/week if warehouse folks lollygag.
by jsheard | 2025-12-06 16:17:35+00:00
Doesn't the UEFI firmware map a GPU framebuffer into the main address space "for free" so you can easily poke raw pixels over the bus? Then again the UEFI FB is only single-buffered, so if you rely on that in lieu of full-fat GPU drivers then you'd probably want to layer some CPU framebuffers on top anyway.
by beached_whale | 2025-12-06 16:18:13+00:00
Why should one have to endure the intrusion? Why does every product need adverts as it seems to be the place society is going? They are that bad and their place is only potentially in the places that people are looking for said products.

When every product has adverts, is it a choice any longer? Even finding devices, like TV's without ads is more difficult( no on is advertising them :) ) and paying more is often not an option.
by supportengineer | 2025-12-06 16:18:36+00:00
I believe that the full weight of the nations resources should come into play whenever there are missing or abducted people. CIA, NSA, satellites, all of it. I can’t fathom while we don’t do that already. But absent of that, Flock is the next best thing. Mainly because it reduces the friction to get this information in the hands of local law-enforcement officers. I have zero tolerance for crimes against children and fully support capital punishment for such.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-06 16:19:09+00:00
> There are plenty of platforms even easier than that where you can click "install" on "apps" that have already been configured.

Yeah, like TrueNAS, where they've decided it was good entire to run Kubernetes on NAS hardware, with all the fun and speed that comes with. You just hit "Install", wait five minutes, and you get something half-working but integrated with the rest of their "product".

I'll stick with configuration I can put in git, patch when needed and is easy to come back to after 6 months when you've forgotten all about the previous context you had.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-12-06 16:20:07+00:00
We can use deciles and the story is the same. I was just keeping it simple and my use of statistics for my point is fine.

The bottom decile in all western countries has a objectively better material conditions yet I don’t dispute they may feel less “Happiness” which the formula explains and if you drill into the components of Reality which are causing the unhappiness and it’s absolutely non-material as I explained.
by leoc | 2025-12-06 16:20:18+00:00
I mean, the panning was pretty impressive at the time as well. In Sutherland's 1994 "Bay Area Computer History Perspectives" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cevebLO-A&list=PLKTTWvMgeg... he points out flickering or 'jumping' due to the processor burden of rescaling in a number of places in the Sketchpad demo video, including at 42:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cevebLO-A&list=PLKTTWvMgeg... and at 50:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cevebLO-A&list=PLKTTWvMgeg... .