MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oblio | 2025-12-15 20:40:18+00:00
The problem is, this looks so much like a rerun of post WW1 America.

Tariffs (check - Smoot Hawley), American isolationism (check - America First), I guess we won't be far from the economic crisis (not checked yet - Great Depression).

At best, the US will slowly turn into Qing China. Unrivalled in its sphere of influence, stagnant and complacent. The US has always had a very strong anti-scientific undercurrent and a lot of it was kept in check by importing foreign elites wholesale (fairly sure the US public school system up to university level is nothing to write home about, on average). If the US turns against foreigners, most of the good ones will stop coming.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-15 20:40:32+00:00
> Consider the fact that median real income tends to move up [1]. This is the metric that matters.

Well, it's what matters if the CPI metric is perfect and doesn't e.g. over-weight things like food that haven't increased in cost as much as some other things.

And again, nobody is claiming that efficiency hasn't improved or that that isn't good. The issue is, if efficiency improves by 300% and then you get a 70% improvement out of it, that's bad -- people should have gotten the whole thing instead of having rent seekers capture a huge proportion of the improvement.

And for some specific subset of "efficiency improvements" the result isn't even guaranteed to be positive for the average person, so we don't need to lump them all together into an aggregate.
by maxglute | 2025-12-15 20:40:34+00:00
He's nice enough all things considered, nelson mandella kind of person in LKW words. It is statistically remarkable how dovish he has been given size of PRC military now, all historic hegemons even local were up to more violence by this stage of rise.

There really aren't anything substantial, nothing the west can sustain anymore let alone in 5/10 years or 2049. It may very well be PRC is poised to be the least biggest loser, aka relative winner. IMO we're in stage where the longer PRC waits and accumulates the harder they win and frankly there's shit all west is able to do about it (on procurement side over next 10-20 years) with gap extending in PRC favor.
by ivansavz | 2025-12-15 20:40:47+00:00
The result of `Y @ X` has shape (3,), so the next line (concatenate as columns) fails.

To make `Z` a column vector, we would need something like `Z = (Y @ X)[:,np.newaxis]`.

Although, I'm not sure why the author is using `concatenate` when the more idiomatic function would be stack, so the change you suggest works and is pretty clean:

Z = Y @ X np.stack([Z, Z], axis=1) # array([[14, 14], # [32, 32], # [50, 50]])

with convention that vectors are shape (3,) instead of (3,1).
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-15 20:40:56+00:00
It appears that one of the most central aspects of MAGA is a postmodernist rejection of the very existence of expertise- except, ironically, in the art of grifting itself because they see “recognized experts” in any field as just very successful grifters. Hence replacing competent government employees at every level with incompetent employees. It would track that technology developed for and by the MAGA community is developed with the same philosophy. Anyone planning to buy the Trump phone?
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-15 20:41:04+00:00
I can't wait for the day when Flock's "proactive AI" flags the way you are driving or your vehicle movements as suspicious and alerts LE to just ... "check in on you".

Or when they enable the mics in their devices to just start recording your conversations with your friend in a public place and does the same. "AI didn't like what you were talking about, so alerted the local PD".
by vel0city | 2025-12-15 20:41:04+00:00
> Even when eggs are clearly labeled "caged" and "free range", many people will buy the "caged" eggs despite the clear implications in terms of animal welfare.

Are many egg cartons actually labeled as "caged" around you? Where I am its either advertised as cage-free or its unlabeled. Its not like the options are "tiny torture chambers": $2.99, "unclean hellscape": $3.99, "rainbows and sunshine": $4.99. Its also hard to tell what these things mean, because "cage-free" can still be a pretty terrible existence for the birds as well.

But I do agree though, if there's a seemingly similar product with a much cheaper price tag a ton of people (myself included) will often reach for the cheaper product.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-12-15 20:41:12+00:00
QStudio is a tool for SQL analysis. Banks and hedge funds had been paying for it but this year we decided to open source it so that more people can use it. Like DBeaver/DataGrip it provides code highlighting, supports 30+ databases etc. but it also allows 15+ chart types with customization, excel export and table formatting.
by PStamatiou | 2025-12-15 20:41:36+00:00
> you’re left with a sealed brick that you don’t fully control

Totally agreed. I had seen umbrel and others in the past but recently decided to just get a 4-bay m.2 ssd enclosure (using RAID 1 for 2 sets of 2), not a NAS (after previously having a Synology NAS). I only want pure file access in a small, quiet form factor and I can have another Mac host and cloud backup. Currently using Tailscale Drive (alpha feature) to share it with devices and working pretty well so far.

https://x.com/Stammy/status/2000355524429402472
by caconym_ | 2025-12-15 20:41:47+00:00
Conjecture on the functional similarities between LLMs and humans isn't relevant here, nor are sophomoric musings on the nature of originality in creative endeavors. LLMs are software products whose creation involves the unauthorized reproduction, storage, and transformation of countless copyright-protected works—all problematic, even if we ignore the potential for infringing outputs—and it is simple to argue that, as a commercial application whose creators openly tout their potential to displace human creators, LLMs fail all four fair use "tests".
by wryun | 2025-12-15 20:41:49+00:00
OpenWrt devs had this epiphany many years ago:

https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/ubus https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/ubus#what_s_the_difference_...

(no endorsement implied; in particular, ubus has not much of a security model, though OpenWrt has an excuse for that)
by starryex | 2025-12-15 20:41:56+00:00
Having done the hardware game, it's not so much the clones that get you, it's the VCs/shareholders.

You need a lot of money to make hardware, so you get vc money and eventually shareholder money. But if you're not selling new hardware all the time, the company isn't making money. So they dictate that you need to make new hardware, yearly.

Making new hardware yearly is enough of an undertaking that you no longer have time to iterate on the software that could enable new features. And often hardware iterations aren't going to change that much, it's hard to "invent" new hardware. It's better to make a hardware platform that enables new exciting features, and iterate on the software. But that isn't going to sell yearly.

So unless you have a software subscription model that people love, every hardware company tends to stagnate because they are too busy making hardware yearly to make "better" products.

You see this very clearly in cameras vs phones. The camera companies are still making cameras yearly but none of them incorporate the software features that have led phones to outpace them. A lot of phones with so so cameras take better pictures (to the average eye) than actual cameras because the software features enhance the photos.

I worked on firmware for such a "noun and verb" product that IPOd a decade ago, and lived the struggle realtime.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-15 20:42:23+00:00
There were a ton of "I'm a red blooded god fearing patriot"-type accounts being operated out of Russia, India, Pakistan, etc - the BBC link in another chain of this thread covers it. I think this is more about the global economy and the economics of western political engagement on digital platforms rather than some grand conspiracy, personally, but in a very literal sense, the post could be described as not technically inaccurate, even if missing the point and assigning personalized blame where it probably isn't warranted.
by dathinab | 2025-12-15 20:42:32+00:00
and assuming you have a practical way to

- verify the attestation

- make sure it means the code they have published is the attested code

- make sure the published code does what it should

- and catch any divergence to this *fast enough* to not cause much damage

....

it's without question better then doing nothing

but it's fundamentally not a perfect solution

but it's very unclear if there even is a perfect solution, I would guess due to the characteristics of phone numbers there isn't a perfect solution
by 0x3f | 2025-12-15 20:42:41+00:00
> None of these laws limit your freedom of speech do they

Of course they do? Think we've descended into absurdity here if that's the claim.

Suffice to say, the Chinese response to Jimmy Lai would be along the lines of "well of course he has free speech, if only he did it in a completely different way that was acceptable to my sensibilities".
by kouru225 | 2025-12-15 20:42:50+00:00
Actors have known this for decades: self-expression isn’t only a stage problem. It’s a life problem. Most people fail to express themselves on an hourly basis. Being good at expressing yourself is unnatural. Having clarity of what “yourself” even is is unnatural. The truth is that we’re all making comments, jokes, deciding what’s important and what not using old programming in our brains… programming that was given to us by our childhood and our education. Very few people can consistently have the luxury of being/ability to be creative with that old programming, and even those that can often have to plan ahead of time/rigidly control the environment in order to achieve a creative result.

The exact same problem exists with writing. In fact, this problem seems to exist across all fields: science, for example, is filled with people who have never done a groundbreaking study, presented a new idea, or solved an unsolved problem. These people and their jobs are so common that the education system orients itself to teach to them rather than anyone else. In the same way, an education in literature focused on the more likely traits you’ll need to get a job: hitting deadlines, following the expected story structure, etc etc.

Having confined ourselves to a tiny little box, can we really be surprised that we’re so easy to imitate?
by hvb2 | 2025-12-15 20:43:14+00:00
I disagree.

My point was that, just like with renewables, a 100% nuclear grid doesn't work either.

They can adjust power but they're typically used as he load with some other source dealing with the peak load needed a short time a day. Typical peak capacity can be off in the middle of the night for example. Nuclear doesn't like that.

I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying it's typically not used for that because it's not flexible enough. Wikipedia seems to agree with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant
by joshstrange | 2025-12-15 20:43:14+00:00
This is hard, because on one hand I do love self-hosting (I self-host a number of the services they list in their "App Store") but I don't quite get the target market for this (probably because I'm not in it).

The lack of RAID or similar means that you've traded the cloud for 1 component losing all your data. Coupled with the lack of any (obvious) backup solution is concerning. Do you really want to backup your files/images to a single point of failure? If this is supposed to be turn-key then I think there are opportunities to sell cloud backup as an add-on but as-is you are handing people a ticking time bomb.

I'm not a fan of the Crypto angle highlighted in the store, it's a red flag.

I'm interested in what the app compatibility story is here. Like how much post-install configuration are they handling?

> Sonarr on umbrelOS will automatically connect to download clients installed from the Umbrel App Store. Choose from Transmission, qBittorerent, and SABnzbd. Simply install your preferred client(s).

Does that mean they have post-install hooks (on both Sonarr and the download client's end) to configure those? Or is that just speak for "Yeah, you can easily configure XYZ download client that you also installed".

All-in-all it seems overpriced and limited for what it's offering and that's all assuming they stick around and don't peter out. Maybe this is a good first step for someone interested in this but I feel like the type of person interested in this either already can figure out how to set it up themselves (Synology, UnRaid, Docker, etc) or will need a lot of handholding when things break/don't work as expected.

It's entirely possible that there are a lot of people that this would be good for, I just don't know who it would be.

Lastly, no mention of anything like SSO or Remote Access (both things that could be a good value-add IMHO alongside cloud backup). It's overly nerdy in some ways and underly nerdy in others which is why I can't figure out the target audience.
by chasil | 2025-12-15 20:43:26+00:00
As I understand it, systemctl uses D-Bus to send commands to systemd. I have read that systemd implemented their own D-Bus which is faster than stand-alone D-Bus.

So this gives me pause:

'Ever seen kwallet or gnome-keyring? Yeah, these things. These are supposed to be "secret storage" for things like signing keys, passwords, etc. They can be protected by a password, which means they are secure... right? No. No, they aren't. These secrets may be encrypted on disk, which technically prevents them from being stolen if your laptop is stolen. If you just cringed at that because disk encryption has been a thing for 20 years now or so, you're not alone. However, the best thing is this: any app on the bus can read all secrets in the store if the store is unlocked. No, this is not a #%&@ing joke. Once you input that password, any app can just read all of them without you noticing."

So, how does systemd ensure that D-Bus commands cannot originate from an unprivileged account?

Does systemd's D-Bus implementation use a different security architecture than stand-alone D-Bus?

I admit that I don't know anything about these mechanisms.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lxd0hl/systemctl_vs...
by 01100011 | 2025-12-15 20:43:28+00:00
I'm 50 and got my NES in Xmas '86. It's funny how the difficulty has changed. I remember having no problem with carrier landings as a kid, beat Metroid(with the bikini ending) without reading Nintendo Power or calling the help line, figured out turtle trapping on my own...

Going back and trying to do all this via emulation is now a lot harder. I don't know if it's the timing or the fact that I'm just old and crappy now, but if I didn't have the save states of an emulator I would have given up on gaming ages ago due to frustration.

Then again I don't have the hyperfocus and 12 hour marathon gaming sessions like I did for much of my youth.
by alexgotoi | 2025-12-15 20:44:04+00:00
The automation irony: we build AI to reduce human workload, but end up creating systems that need constant human supervision anyway. Classic.

What's interesting is this mirrors every automation wave. We thought assembly lines would eliminate human work - instead they just changed what work meant. AI's doing the same, just at software speed instead of industrial speed.

Long-term I'm optimistic - automation creates more than it destroys, always has. Short-term though? Messy transition for anyone whose job is 'being the interface layer.

Will include this thread in my next issue of https://hackernewsai.com/
by iamnothere | 2025-12-15 20:44:06+00:00
Key excerpt:

> In pretrial proceedings, judge Failla cited a ruling that made a distinction between speech that is functional and speech that is expressive – a line of argumentation that the Government is now continuing, claiming that Storm should not be afforded First Amendment protections because his speech actually does something.

> It's a question that is central to Storm's First Amendment defense: can people, or can they not, be held criminally liable for the words they write, even if such words may be misused by bad actors?

> To better grasp the implications of such argumentation for the broader software development space, imagine Linus Torvalds being held accountable for entering into a criminal conspiracy with North Korea because most high-powered computer networks in the world, which likely includes those in North Korea, continue to run on Linux; Google being held accountable for Lazarus hackers who may use Chrome; or WhatsApp being held accountable when criminals use it, as judge Failla pondered herself earlier in the proceedings.

> "The government asks this Court to disregard the expressive conduct identified by Mr. Storm," the defense now states, noting that "this is not how the First Amendment works," as software always performs a function.
by tstrimple | 2025-12-15 20:44:22+00:00
If by summer reading assignments, are you referring to Scholastic summer reading programs? I quite enjoyed those as the available options for reading were very wide and I could always get some new Goosebumps books from the book fairs. But those are parent initiated, not something the school assigns. They can't really assign anything over the summer as they have no authority to do so outside of some IEP designed to get a particular student back on track.
by greedo | 2025-12-15 20:44:24+00:00
Stalin was undoubtedly evil with the blood of millions on his hands.

I don't think that the West had any chance to liberate the Soviet bloc (I'm assuming what you meant is the Warsaw Pact countries). The Red Army was simply too big, too powerful, and too experienced at the end of WW2. Even using the few atomic bombs available between 1945-1949 (when the Soviets exploded their first atomic weapon), the USSR was just too big a country, with too many people.

And if you look at the willingness to take casualties that the Red Army demonstrated while fighting the Nazis, trying to take on the USSR would have been folly.

The West was spent after WW2 (as were the Soviets), with no appetite for further conflict. Even the US was tired of war, and only the drumbeat against the Red Menace did much to motivate the populace.
by jsheard | 2025-12-15 20:44:28+00:00
> And, per other comments, this will make LE the only viable option to modernize, and thus much more of a central point of failure than before.

Let's Encrypt isn't the only free ACME provider, you can take your pick from them, ZeroSSL, SSL.com, Google and Actalis, or several of them for redundancy. If you use Caddy that's even the default behavior - it tries ZeroSSL first and automatically falls back to Let's Encrypt if that fails for whatever reason.
by mothballed | 2025-12-15 20:44:31+00:00
80% of US college grads have debt under 30k. Despite the bleak picture painted, servicing that interest at say 7% is $175 a month, or about 3.5% the average salary of a new grad.

This pales in comparison to some of the elephant in the room ways most common ways to go broke, which is to say get something like a child support judgement against you (20% pretax, like 26+% post-tax in middle income brackets) or have an alimony payment (these conveniently don't generally show up in bankruptcy statistics because they are not dischargeable). Medical debt can at least be discharged in bankruptcy.
by cmpalmer52 | 2025-12-15 20:44:32+00:00
I just moved to a house with a barely finished basement. White walls, white painted floor, exposed ceiling joists and ductwork painted black. I’m experimenting with cheap projectors and lighting effects (using clamps to attach to the joists as if they were a truss) and furniture on wheels to create a configurable virtual space with full wall projections, sound, and lighting to match (but not overpower) the video. My plan is to make a camera/light platform with a cheap projector, and Raspberry Pi, and directional LED lighting so that I can coordinate all of them over the network. It’s also my office, library, game room and I have some awesome ideas on how to use the space to augment D&D games. But the white concrete floor has got to go - too bright, too cold, too hard, and too loud.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-15 20:44:39+00:00
Oops yes :) That's what I meant of course.

But my point was, even the fuel tubes themselves will have more than adequate shielding against the alpha particles emitted. So it's not even that dangerous that the Sherpas were using them to heat their beds :)

By the way I have since looked it up and Plutonium 238 decays to Uranium 234 which is also an alpha emitter but with a huge half-life (235.000 years). So it looks lke it does not actually produce more penetrating radiation as it decays. The uranium will degrade to an unstable thorium isotope eventually too but this will be quite minimal due to the long half-life.
by pandaman | 2025-12-15 20:44:47+00:00
A "whataboutism" defense only works in an argument that goes like this:

A:"You should stop doing X because X is wrong and evil and you are wrong and evil if you continue doing X!"

B:"But you beat your wife."

Where X != "beating one's wife".

Here the B's argument is: "But you do X yourself!". This is not an attack on moral character but a direct refutation of A's argument. If A really thought X is wrong and evil then A would not be doing X. And if A really considers itself wrong and evil then it should be figuring a way to stop doing X first, or, at least, concurrently with demanding that from B. Either way, A is not very persuasive.
by the_af | 2025-12-15 20:44:57+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think we're in agreement.

I too think the situation is probably mirrored from China's side. I hope there are some people over there who can also understand there's some middle ground, that neither side is totally right or wrong, and that we both perceive the world in half-truths and thought-terminating cliches.

And yes, because I live in the West (well, Latin America, anyway) I'm more upset about the distortions from "our" side. I don't really get to witness the Chinese side. I'm very skeptical even of what "our" side claims the distortions on the Chinese side are, since I don't get to witness them directly and I have reason to be skeptical of my side's narrative.
by alexgotoi | 2025-12-15 20:45:12+00:00
Same thing that happened to blogs and SEO, now hitting podcasts. AI can churn out mediocre content faster than humans can produce good stuff, platforms haven't figured out filtering yet.

We're probably 2-3 years away from decent AI content detection/filtering. Until then it's just noise. The long-term play is building actual audience relationships so people come directly to you instead of through discovery platforms full of slop.

I will include this thread in the next issue of https://hackernewsai.com/
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-12-15 20:45:55+00:00
You can already hire Indians to make your own HR system. People still choose SAAS, because the system already works.

You do not want to have to plan out a system with 800 unique requirements yourself. It takes a ridiculous amount of work, and you are then stuck maintaining it.

It’s never been about the difficulty of programming, it’s been about the pain of designing and maintaining.
by phkahler | 2025-12-15 20:46:28+00:00
Why is it said that it takes a supernova to make elements heavier than iron? You're not going to get iron-iron fusion, but what about proton-iron fusion or similar? Also, we can make reactors here on earth that convert Thorium into Uranium, and we can also make plutonium in a proper reactor. We mustn't confuse reactions useful for power production with reactions for element production right? Why can't a regular star produce some heavy elements?
by monkeywork | 2025-12-15 20:46:35+00:00
for my use case I think the docker container is better solution. I listen on several different devices so having plexamp send everything to last.fm and use that as the "source of truth" and then the docker container monitors last.fm and resends that info to other targets makes a bit more sense - this way I never have to make sure I have something running on my listening device.