MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghc | 2025-12-06 14:37:50+00:00
Society, in a sense, is highly dependent on trustworthy interactions. Credit, ownership transfers, banking, etc. all depend on trust. If we go back to only being able to trust in-person interactions, we'll be stepping back to a financial system from over 100 years ago.

Because of this, I believe that solutions will be developed. Nothing is 100% fool-proof, but the government depends on a solution being found.
by stavarotti | 2025-12-06 14:38:50+00:00
Life is stressful (in some respects, overly so), but we’ve dealt with this for millennia by having a strong support system. Not to be reductive over the multitudes of problems people face today, but most can and should be solvable by having a good support system. Family and good friends with whom you can speak frankly can do wonders. It doesn’t solve the affordability or job problems, but having someone to talk to, someone that you can trust and has lived experience, can go a long way. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve solved “problems” or at least lessened their impact, by consulting family and friends.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-06 14:39:48+00:00
https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/introduction...

Probably an older NanoKVM.

"NanoKVM-Cube hardware is built on the LicheeRV Nano platform. To coordinate production and maintain consistency with the LicheeRV Nano for the SMT project, the hardware retains the display, touch, MIC, and amplifier circuits. To address potential privacy concerns, versions 2.2.6 of the application and 1.4.1 of the firmware and above will remove the relevant drivers. We will also eliminate these components in future productions."
by p-e-w | 2025-12-06 14:40:19+00:00
The world dismantled landlines, phone booths, mail order catalogues, fax machines, tens of millions of storefronts, government offices, and entire industries in favor of the Internet.

So at this point no, the world can most definitely not “just live without the Internet”. And emergency services aren’t the only important thing that exists to the extent that anything else can just be handwaved away.
by Neywiny | 2025-12-06 14:40:20+00:00
The following link has some charts for just the ethanol. They look about as expected. Some things get better the more ethanol you use, some get diminishing returns, some have an inflection point and get worse, some are just worse as you increase ethanol percentage.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aimen-Zeiny/publication...
by nxor | 2025-12-06 14:42:13+00:00
Proximity to some of the country's best high schools, universities, and the people who work there, as well as some of the most unique industries in the country, could have played a role. In other places, if not most, people don't even know these things exist. Everyone has the internet, sure, and anyone from anywhere can learn about anything, but it's hard to compete with people who encountered useful/the right information early in life.
by palata | 2025-12-06 14:42:42+00:00
The Nextcloud iOS app does it. For some reason it requires the location permission "all the time" for that, presumably as a way to "wake" the app from time to time?

I decided to try Nextcloud exactly because of this. My problem with it is more that the whole thing is a bit unreliable. Like once in a while the app will get into a state where the only way I found to recover is to just erase everything and re-sync everything. And the app will resend ALL the pictures, even though they are already on the server.

And I can't do that with my family members' phones. It doesn't matter to me if the app takes a month to sync the photos, but it has to require zero maintenance. I can deal with the server side, but I need it to "just work" on the smartphones.
by Dwedit | 2025-12-06 14:42:55+00:00
One way to use unofficial instructions is so you can use Read-Modify-Write instructions in addressing modes that the official instruction cannot be used in.

To understand, it helps if you write out the instruction table in columns, so here's the CMP and DEC instructions:

Byte C1: (add 4 to get to the next instruction in this table)

CMP X,ind [x indirect, read instruction's immediate value, add X, then read that pointer from zeropage, written like CMP ($nn,x)]

CMP zpg [zeropage, written like CMP $nn]

CMP # [immediate value, written like CMP #$nn]

CMP abs [absolute address, written like CMP $nnnn]

CMP ind,Y [indirect Y, read pointer from zeropage then add Y, written like CMP ($nnnn,Y)]

CMP zpg,X [zeropage plus X, add X to the zeropage address, written like CMP $nn,X]

CMP abs,Y [absolute address plus Y, add Y to the address, written like CMP $nnnn,Y]

CMP abs,X [absolute address plus X, add X to the address, written like CMP $nnnn,X]

So that's 8 possible addressing modes for this instruction.

Immediately afterwards:

Byte C2: (add 4 to get to the next instruction in this table)

???

DEC zpg

DEX

DEC abs

???

DEC zpg,X

???

DEC abs,X

That's 5 possible addressing modes. So where's "DEC X,ind", "DEC ind,Y", and "DEC abs,Y"? They don't exist.

Table for Byte C3 is 8 undocumented instructions that aren't supposed to be used. So people determined what the instruction did. Turns out, it's a combination of CMP and DEC, so people named the instruction "DCP".

Byte C3:

DCP X,ind

DCP zpg

???

DCP abs

DCP ind,Y

DCP zpg,X

DCP abs,Y

DCP abs,X

Unlike the "DEC" instruction, you have the "X,ind", "ind,Y", and "abs,Y" addressing modes available. So if you want to decrement memory, and don't care about your flags being correct (because it's also doing a CMP operation), you can use this DCP instruction.

Same idea with INC and SBC, you get the ISC instruction. For when you want to increment, and don't care about register A and flags afterwards.
by Insanity | 2025-12-06 14:43:52+00:00
One that is really insane to me is Ads when driving on the highway. I can’t recall seeing that in Europe, but now in Canada when I take the highway there’s Ads everywhere. Some of them rotate.

Ironically they also have a sign that changes, one of the updates is “don’t drive distracted”… and like, I wasn’t distracted until the sign flashed at me lol.
by nxor | 2025-12-06 14:44:26+00:00
It's not cynical, and even if it doesn't apply here, the truth is it's frequently the case. I agree it's wrong to generalize and to oversimplify but it's also wrong to ignore the role that wealth and proximity to information play in a person's life. (Again, not saying that's the case here. The title is asking for this discussion. And frankly why can't people express this view?)
by a022311 | 2025-12-06 14:44:38+00:00
> You need to be a web dev or a sys admin to be able to wrangle that thing.

I totally disagree. You do need a tiny bit of command line experience to install and update it (nothing more than using a text editor and running `docker compose up`), but that's really it. All administration happens from the web UI after that. I've been using Immich for at least 2 years and I've never had to manually do something other than an update.

> Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos - I don't want to host a Google Photos for others.

Honestly, I can't understand what exactly you're expecting. If Google Photos suits your needs for sharing photos with others, that's great! As for Immich, have you read how it started[0]? I think it's solved the problem amazingly well and it still stays true to its initial ambitions.

[0]: https://v1.142.1.archive.immich.app/docs/overview/welcome
by sanex | 2025-12-06 14:44:43+00:00
I've been waiting what feels like years for immich stable to be released for this reason. Luckily it finally happened about a month ago. I'm about to go through swapping out the main OS SSD on my server. If I'm able to see the immich backups after reinstalling TrueNAS I'm going to call it resilient enough for me.
by echelon_musk | 2025-12-06 14:46:14+00:00
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https://www.youtube.com/@tarkka

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https://www.youtube.com/@Erik-not-Eric

https://www.youtube.com/@Clough42

https://www.youtube.com/@Alecsteele

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https://www.youtube.com/@NoEngineerHere

https://www.youtube.com/@StefanGotteswinter

https://www.youtube.com/@oxtoolco

https://www.youtube.com/@ROBRENZ

https://www.youtube.com/@MrCrispin

https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring

https://www.youtube.com/@ArtisanMakes

https://www.youtube.com/@MHAnything

https://www.youtube.com/@Jellyfishmachine

https://www.youtube.com/@MakerB
by havblue | 2025-12-06 14:46:28+00:00
If we start with admitting some level of consolidation is inevitable, I don't see much of an alternative to what is happening. I would think a merger with another similar studio could be similar to KMart merging with Sears, two companies with the same downsides. While Netflix will be the biggest game in town for streaming, that landscape will still have plenty of competition if you compare it to say, telecom providers or ISPs.
by dsvf | 2025-12-06 14:47:18+00:00
Not my experience hosting immich for close to two years now. There was only one "breaking change" a long time ago where you would have to manually change a docker image in the compose file, but since then things have been smooth for me.

Immich may not be the pinnacle of all software development, but with the alternative being Google photos:

- Uploading too many photos won't clog my email and vice versa

- I'm not afraid of getting locked out of my photo account for unclear reasons and being unable to reach anyone to regain access

- If I upload family photos from the beach, then my account won't get automatically flagged/disabled for whatever

- Backups are trivially easy compared to Google takeout

- The devs are reachable and responsive. Encounter a problem? You'll at least reach a human being instead of getting stranded with a useless non-support forum

I would instead say that my (and my family's) photos are too important to me to pass their hosting on to a company known for its arbitrary decisions and then being an impenetrable labyrinth if there is an issue.

So you do pay some price, but it is an illusion to think that the price of Google photos (be that in cash, your data or your effort) is much lower.

Things that did break during this time: - my hacky remote filesystem - network connectivity of a too cheap server but these were on me and my stinginess.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-12-06 14:47:31+00:00
To be accurate, I should qualify that for me it’s “light/medium” and not a true blonde roast.

I haven’t had the pleasure of trying to brew my own blonde roast yet.

But I was amazed when I first tried a black coffee brewed properly, and it took me far longer than I want to admit to learn the basic nuances; it was a very fun journey though.
by toss1 | 2025-12-06 14:48:42+00:00
Way to deliberately miss the point.

The point in this thread is that Waymo's control system evidently has zero ability to interact with or appropriately consider humans, only the physical objects it treats as inanimate. Beyond ignoring school bus [STOP] signs, cited here are crowding other drivers parallel parking, ignoring people coming out to check in/around/under a Waymo car, and ignoring small or low living things.

Yes, accidents happen and kill pets and children with all those other vehicle types you cited. That is NOT the point.

When those accidents happen, it is not usually because the human simply ignored the other human, and if it was, it is considered a crime. Child or pet runs out and trips, adult runs out after and starts frantically looking under your car — you just ignore the human and proceed ahead and injure or kill a child or pet under the car, it isn't considered an accident, but an act of willful negligence.

Crowd a person trying to parallel park? Maybe not life-threatening, but are certainly an asshat if you do it, and also stupid since it will take longer for them to park and clear your way.

Not stopping for a school bus dropping off children? That will get children injured and killed, and is flat-out illegal.

In this case, Waymo is ignoring all those types of situations, likely not maliciously, but because those cases are inconvenient to fully deal with in the rush to achieve profitability.

Risking and threatening the lives of people and pets in a public arena where they have no ability to opt-in to the hazard for mere profit, is flat-out irresponsible. Get it sorted on your own testing grounds first. Oh, that's not profitable? Well then, you do not have a working business model.

"Fixing" your business model at the expense of risking the lives of innocent people is about as antisocial as it gets; "Some of you may die but that's a risk I'm willing to take" — is pathological capitalism.

I'd give them a couple of chances to fix it, but if they say they did, and then it happens again, boot them off the streets until they prove they did.
by palata | 2025-12-06 14:49:11+00:00
The first rule is: "have common sense".

When you say "this code is difficult to maintain because of [Kiss|DRY|you name it]", what you actually mean is that the code was badly written by the humans (or LLMs now?) who wrote it. Probably because of a lack of experience.

I don't see the point in comparing them. Nobody says "you should use this or that". You should just write maintainable code, and that's a job. You will improve with time.
by randerson | 2025-12-06 14:49:24+00:00
I've long wondered what would happen if, say, NYT sued me for blocking their many ads (despite being a paying subscriber). My argument would be that I'd never click on the ads anyway out of principle, so the ad blocker is just me delegating the ignoring of ads that I would've done myself regardless. Also that if I couldn't turn off ads, I wouldn't have subscribed and they'd make even less revenue.

That said, I doubt these companies would sue because of the risk of setting a precedent in favor of the consumer. Scary legal letters (e.g. cease & desist letters) perhaps. But given enough customers, at least one will have the resources to hire a good lawyer and fight it all the way to court.
by turnsout | 2025-12-06 14:49:25+00:00
If you continue this argument ad infinitum, you'll eventually conclude that agriculture was our first mistake, and we should have just stayed in the cave.

Like, how is this line of reasoning constructive?

I guarantee our hunter-gatherer ancestors felt all the same emotions—burnout, comparison, envy, anxiety, stress, overwhelm, hopelessness. The setting has changed, but our brains have not changed that much.
by daggersandscars | 2025-12-06 14:50:08+00:00
If you have a router you control, many routers allow you to take away internet access from a device while keeping it on your local network. Some (all?) Asus routers can do this from their UI.

This won’t help with devices that require 24x7 internet access, but it’s great for things you want to access the local network but don’t trust not to send info to a third party. (TVs, music amps with built in streaming, home surveillance systems [1], etc.)

Also handy for briefly turning on Internet access for software updates or one time activation.

[1] while making a surveillance system available online safely and with software you control isn’t hard, it’s not trivial. Turning Internet access off for your cameras without a plan will mean you can’t monitor your home or get alerts when away from your local network.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-06 14:50:25+00:00
The company I work for has paid subscriptions to Lattice, Bonusly, SalesForce, Gong, Zoom, Jira, Slack, GSuite, Rippling (a YC company), OneRange and Notion.

No we aren’t going to sign a 1000 seat license to pay for a dumb AI, VC bait three person company we have never heard of.

On the other hand, even if we could replace a subscription by a vibe coded internal app, if it isn’t part of our core competitive advantage - ie “it won’t make the beer taste better” - we aren’t going to spend the effort to write it or more importantly maintain it.

While each of us have a yearly “tools and training allowance” that we can use for almost anything job related, we can’t use any random SaaS that could touch proprietary data. If it was offline sure.
by rainsford | 2025-12-06 14:50:38+00:00
Obviously there are confounding variables besides vaccination status, but I find it pretty compelling that the decrease in COVID mortality among the vaccinated group was significantly larger than the decrease in all-cause mortality of that group. This suggests whatever the difference was between the two groups, besides vaccination, either had a much larger impact on COVID than other causes of death or that the vaccine had some positive impact.

One example of the former explanation I could imagine is that people who got vaccinated against COVID were probably also more likely to take other preventative measures, like wearing a mask or avoiding larger crowds of people. Those precautions would be more likely to be effective against a contagious disease like COVID but less likely to protect them against some other causes of death like heart disease.

I'm not sure how likely I find that as an explanation compared to the alternative that the vaccines provide at least some level of protection. My observation was that widespread measures specifically meant to defend against COVID, like masking and social distancing, largely went away well before the end of the time period covered by this study, at least in the US.

Amusingly, I suspect the anti-vax contingent would likely be bothered by data suggesting anything the COVID vaccinated group was doing differently protected against COVID, since their position seems to largely be that not only is the COVID vaccine useless, but so are any other measures meant to reduce the spread.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-06 14:50:39+00:00
No worries. Title change worked. I commentee because "secretly" is really the key word.

Not clear if this means without a warrant.

Secretly accessing premises to fit bugs has been happening for decades in the US (and other countries?). Watch documentaries about the FBI vs the mafia. But, crucially, there are/were very strict rules and a high threshold.
by dqv | 2025-12-06 14:52:49+00:00
Yeah, of course. When a "normal" person asks for a reasonable accommodation--like being able to wear a smooth cotton polo alternative they bought with their own money rather than the piqué fabric one assigned by the company--they get "wow you want to be so special and unique, no you need to wear the shirt assigned by the company and get over it." Is it any surprise that someone would want to go get an autism diagnosis or whatever else so they can... just wear the damn shirt that doesn't make them half-grimace at all the customers?

They're going to be accused of wanting the special and unique stamp in either case, but at least in the second one they can feel somewhat comfortable.

People will, of course, conjure up an unreasonable accommodation (in an attempt to paint all accommodations as unreasonable) in their head to try to justify why this sort of request can't be accommodated, which just increases the fuel for the desire to get the autism diagnosis.

Put another way, if people were a little more accepting, less only-slightly-weird people would be seeking these diagnoses.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-06 14:53:09+00:00
> it came from reddit therefore it is fake

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.

> The odds of two truly independent instances of somebody named Carol appearing in this manner of circumstance

What on earth are you talking about? There there are not "two people named Carol appearing in this manner." The first is the protagonist of a sci-fi show. You know, a fictional person. There is 1 - count them, one, supposed victim appearing in this manner. Which is possible regardless of the name chosen for the show and ad.
by coderjames | 2025-12-06 14:53:17+00:00
I think it might be a organizational architecture that needs to change.

> However, we have never before applied a killswitch to a rule with an action of “execute”.

> This is a straightforward error in the code, which had existed undetected for many years

So they shipped an untested configuration change that triggered untested code straight to production. This is "tell me you have no tests without telling me you have no tests" level of facepalm. I work on safety-critical software where if we had this type of quality escape both internal auditors and external regulators would be breathing down our necks wondering how our engineering process failed and let this through. They need to rearchitect their org to put greater emphasis on verification and software quality assurance.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-06 14:54:00+00:00
> K3s is just a repackaged, simplified k8s distro. You get the same behavior and the same tools as you have any time you operate an on-premises k8s cluster, and these, in my experience, are somewhere between good and excellent. So I can't imagine what you have in mind here.

...the fact it's still k8s which is a mountain of complexity compared to near anything else out there ?
by hansvm | 2025-12-06 14:54:09+00:00
Ah, you mean like if we had some sort of knowledgeable, impartial third-party to grant the police permissions. They could, get this, "judge" whether the absolute bare minimum of evidence is likely to exist. So long as Flock didn't provide a way to circumvent an approval process like that, you could maybe reduce the instances of abusers stalking their victims to "acceptable" levels.

What do you think the chances are that we could invent a system like that? You don't think Flock and the police would find a way to circumvent it do you?
by cardanome | 2025-12-06 14:54:36+00:00
This is the third article in a row that I am seeing on hacker news that is spreading misinformation about autism.

This seems to be targeted campaign. I urge people to not be fooled by ill-researched blog posts. Listen to autistic people. Listen to researchers that represent the scientific consensus.

Any diagnosis for autism will first consider whether the symptoms can be explained better by another diagnosis. This is why you fill out a lot of questionnaires and the like when you get your diagnosis. This is the state of art.

Also women are systematically underdiagnosed when it comes to autism, they often get labeled with boderline and the like. The idea that someone is labeling everything as autism is silly.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-06 14:54:39+00:00
Well, I exiled myself to the countryside because I want to be able to choose how much exposure to society I want.

I guess I gamed the problems you are talking about, but as a side effect I am sometimes probably weirder than before (which is a non problem when you live where I live).

I would probably live a sad and boring life if I were to live in any small/medium/big city.
by vertnerd | 2025-12-06 14:54:48+00:00
I used to be an educator, and many of my students had an autism diagnosis. I would get to know them and often eventually decide that they were "just like" me, except that whatever their problems were, I had it worse.

So then I would look at these autism checklists and say, "yep, that's me," but when I actually looked at the strict diagnostic criteria, it wasn't that clear.

Looking at this article, I get it. There are other, more focused criteria that can be more appropriate. But those diagnoses don't trigger the special services, so they don't get used often enough.

What is my takeaway? People often don't conform to a model of average human behavior. Being unusual isn't necessarily a grave character flaw (which is what my mother had me believe) but merely an expression of the great variety of human intellect and behavior. It gives me license, without official diagnosis, to enjoy being who I am without shame or embarrassment.